Herinder Pegany

25-26 Opening August 7 (Year 5!)

• 166 enrollment
• All teaching and support staff returned, one new humanities teacher
• Several repeat families (siblings of promoted NHCS scholars)

Presentation Data Driven Instruction: Beginning of Year Action Planning

• 24-27 LCAP Goals: academic performance, school climate, parent involvement (growth especially this school year)
• Actions and Metrics for each goal

Dashboard Refresh - 2025 Predicted Results

• Growth anticipated for ELA, Math, ELPI. Out of the red!
• Decreases in Chronic Absenteeism and Suspension

LF - Lots of celebrations for staff, their recognition of what has been in place, to what we can attribute growth

RR - Data confirms the work being done, trajectories leading up to assessment

ELA Student Groups, Results over Time

• Significant: All, H/L, EL, SD
  • Hispanic Latino, English Learner, Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
• Additional: All, Asian, Black, LTEL, SWD (most significant growth)
  • Long Term English Learner, Students with Disabilities

Data-Driven Instruction: Backward Mapping

• Updates to staff presentation from June 5, 2025
• Staff PD days prior to end of trimester
• 25-26 Internal Assessment Windows: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Data from 7th Grade Initial Assessment

• Examine needs for foundational skills in ELA and Math
• Analysis of student writing samples
• Individual student conferences with teachers, set growth goal

RR - Data analysis discussions, is there a protocol/structure?

HP - What, So What, Now What

Training teachers, mindset of looking at data, then data informs the planning

Normalize: data is shared with whole group

AK - Students take ownership of own data (beginning of year assessments, CAASPP, current work), recognition of own effort

RR - Healthy culture, both teachers and students taking responsibility for data.

What data is being shared from NHCS students from other districts?

HP - Discussion with Robla Director of Curriculum, TOMS, state level. Eileen would like NHCS data to be shared with Robla Board and Cabinet

AK - There is a lag with data, which is part of why we want our own data, local/interim assessments, NHCS system. 25-26 data was already current for promoting 8th grade students that were present the year prior, 24-25.

Casey Jower

2024-25 Charter School Unaudited Actuals

• Expenditures 3.2M
• Deficit 396K
• Ending fund balance 551K, 6/30/25

• NHCDC - Did not receive loan forgiveness
• Deferred Prop 28 Arts Funding, most came from after school program, will use Prop 28 in 25-26
• Custodial fee from prior year

HP - Transparent, accurate

LF -  Update from Jeff Kreiser, community partnerships

HP - Jeff is volunteering and will further develop relationships with potential funding sources, connect

KH - Revenue sources

HP - 2.8M average revenue, but lots of needs with SpEd (El Dorado SELPA helps)

K-6 online enrollment, we still want to boost, can be up to 20% of middle school population. Currently have one Kindergarten student.

Need about 200 total students

KH - How long can we sustain carrying over the deficit?

CJ - We have been really lean, without cutting program expenses

Can sustain through fundraising, grants

Online enrollment is most reasonable solution

RR - It is about enrollment, but also maximizing attendance

CJ - Attendance Recovery, take advantage to recapture learning and ADA funds

HP - 20 additional half days, multiplies student learning

Public Charter Schools Grant, expansion. We now have the data to qualify. (Start up from them had been 700K)

CJ - funds carried over from 24-25

Board to vote on approval for 24-25 Annual Report

HP - Want to resume guitar, piano, theater, drawing, painting

Expenditure Plan details estimated costs for equipment, supplies, training, materials, and independent contractors.

25-26 NHCS Board Meeting Dates document

Next meeting is December 8, 2025