Board hears new 'Let’s Talk' portal and schoolsite reports from Sellers and Wickham

District staff and site leaders used the meeting to highlight new tools and school progress.

Christy Espino demonstrated a new district website feature: a yellow "Let's Talk" button that opens a topic‑specific contact form routed to the staff member best able to respond. Espino said the platform directs messages to the correct team, supports embedded translation (including Arabic, Mandarin and Spanish) and aims for a two‑business‑day response window; she added that the district can tag additional staff on the back end and collect metrics on common topics and response satisfaction.

Sellers Elementary Principal Shauna Trent reported the campus serves about 556 students, noted subgroup outcomes and described intervention staffing that produced measurable gains: she said math intervention students showed a high percentage of STAR score increases and reading intervention participants improved after use of the SPIRE phonics program. Trent also described attendance and positive behavior initiatives, including a blue‑ticket incentive program and PTA volunteer contributions.

Valentina Shabata, principal of Wickham alternative programs, described the campus's role serving credit‑deficient and students with emotional/behavioral needs. Wickham reported enrollment increases (to 97 students), high proportions of students with disabilities, ongoing work on attendance and credit recovery, and a rise in the graduation rate. Shabata described a 10th‑grade opportunity cohort to intervene earlier for students behind credits and said staff are tracking outcomes to determine whether students return to their home schools.

Trustees thanked presenters and asked for follow‑up data on the 10th‑grade cohort and the Let's Talk usage metrics after several months of operation.