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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and School Solutions Collaborative, LLC, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide 174 hours for technical and relational support in building a robust professional learning community; to work with the principal to support teachers to collaborate and build a student achievement plan using the cycle of inquiry, including but is not limited to the following: 1) identifying the achievement challenge through data analysis; 2) choosing an English Language Arts (ELA) and math student achievement priority aligned against district priorities; 3) identifying root causes; 4) developing a theory of action; 5) identifying goals, 6) designing an action plan, and 7) reflecting and learning; to complete a mini-cycle by June, and implement a more robust cycle during the summer, at Claremont Middle School, for the period March 20, 2012 through June 30, 2012, in an amount not to exceed $20,000.00.