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Meeting Agenda Long - Final

Monday, August 18, 2025

6:00 PM

INTERNET STREAMED (VIA ZOOM) - LIVE

Community Advisory Committee-Programs for Exceptional

Children

Alan Pursell, Sheila Haynes, Inga Wagar, Kristen Zimmerman, Patty Juergens, Carol

Delton, Sayuri Valenza, Jonah Zimmerman-Bloch, Ashley Demelo, Lateefa Ali,

Corvetta Kirtman, Coriander Melious, Joe Manekin, JD Woloshyn, Tiffany Stewart,

Lena Anthony, Anna Realini, Mike Beebe, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Denise Huffstutler,

Jennifer Blake

NOTICE - MEDIA/MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY

PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY

Members of the media and the public may attend and

participate in the Committee meeting Virtually via ZOOM.

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and public interested in viewing or listening to the

Committee meeting virtually.

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selecting Community Advisory Committee Agenda

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follows:

• If before Sunday, click Calendar Tab>Next

Week>Community Advisory Committee>eComment

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Calendar Tab>This Week>Community Advisory

Committee>eComment

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Or “eComment” in bold on the cover page of the Agenda

MEETING PROCEDURES

All Committee meetings shall begin on time and shall be

guided by an Agenda prepared in accordance with Board

Bylaws and posted and distributed in accordance with the

Green Act (open meeting requirements) and other

applicable laws

A. Call to Order

B. Roll Call

C. Speaker Request Cards/Modification(s) To Agenda

A request to speak at this Committee Meeting, may be made

in-person or virtually as stated in this Agenda.

Modification(s) to the Agenda, by the e Community

Advisory Committee, allows for any change in the printed

Order of Business including, but not limited to, an

announcement that an Item or Legislative File will be

considered out of Agenda printed order, that consideration

of an Item has been withdrawn, postponed, rescheduled or

"pulled" or taken off of the Committee General Consent

Report for separate discussion and/or possible action.

D. Adoption of Committee Minutes

None

E. Adoption of the Committee General Consent Report

"Adoption of the Committee General Consent Report"

"means that all items appearing under this topic are

approved in one motion unless a Member of the Committee

requests that an item be removed and voted on separately or

otherwise acted upon. Generally, these items are routine in

nature, and are acted upon in one motion to conserve time

and permit focus on other-than-routine legislative items on

the agenda.

None

Unfinished Business

None

G. New Business

25-2017

Community Advisory Committee - Welcome -

Introductions - Election of New Member - Goals -

Agreements

Community Advisory Committee - Welcome - Introductions

- Election of New Member - Goals - Agreements.

Attachments:

25-2017 Slides for the 8.18.25 Meeting of the CAC for Special

Education

25-2018

Community Advisory Committee - Special Education

Updates - Highlights

Discussion by the Community Advisory Committee regarding

Special Education Updates and Highlights:

Common Start of the Year Questions and Answers

How We Are Doing with Staffing: Celebrations

Our Key Investments in Teaching and Learning

Celebrating Student Literacy Outcomes and the Work

Ahead

Attachments:

25-2018 Slides for the 8.18.25 Meeting of the CAC for Special

Education

Recess (Break)

Reconvene

Roll Call

New Business (Continued)

25-2019

Community Advisory Committee - Member Updates

Discussion by the Community Advisory Committee of

Member Updates:

Who We Are and What We Do

Our Priorities for the 2025-26 School Year

How to Communicate and Collaborate with Us

Attachments:

25-2019 Slides for the 8.18.25 Meeting of the CAC for Special

Education

25-2020

Community Advisory Committee - Breakout - Listening

Sessions - Grade Level

Community Advisory Committee - Breakout - Listening

Sessions - Grade Level:

We will break out into the following small groups:

Multilingual Group (with Spanish, Arabic, and Cantonese

Interpretation)

Early Childhood Education

Resource Program--Tk to 5th Grade

Resource Program-6th Grade to 12th Grade

Special Day Class-Pk to 5th Grade

Special Day Class-6th Grade to Young Adult

Participants will share about their hopes and dreams for

2025-26.

CAC members and Special Education administrators will

support the listening sessions.

Attachments:

25-2020 Slides for the 8.18.25 Meeting of the CAC for Special

Education

H. Public Comments on All Non-Agenda Items Within the Subject

Matter Jurisdiction of the Committee

This section of the agenda provides an opportunity for a

member of the Public, for three minutes per person, or less,

depending on the number of speakers, to directly address

the Committee on any item of interest to a member of the

Public that is not on the current agenda, but is within the

subject matter jurisdiction of the Committee. Minutes are

not transferrable from speaker to speaker. This item is

limited to a total of thirty (30) minutes. The Committee may

not discuss or take any action on a non-agenda item not

appearing on the posted agenda for this meeting, except the

Committee or staff may briefly respond to a statement made

or questions posed by a member of the public, as authorized

by law. In addition, on their own initiative or in response to

questions posed by the public, a member of the Committee

or its staff may ask a question for clarification, make a brief

announcement, or make a brief report of his or her own

activities.

25-2021

Public Comment on All Non-Agenda Items Within the

Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the Community Advisory

Committee –Up to 30 Minutes - Announcements -

Appreciations - August 18, 2025

Public Comment on All Non-Agenda Items Within the

Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the Community Advisory

Committee -Up to 30 Minutes - Announcements -

Appreciations - August 18, 2025.

Introduction of New Legislative Matter

This section of the Agenda is devoted to the introduction of

new legislative matter within the subject matter jurisdiction

of the committee by a Committee member or Members of the

Public.

Adjournment