Mission Moment

• Ezkenazi and Enlace Health Equity Zone
  • Megan Singh has been at Enlace for four years. She supports 1st-grade EL students, leads English classes, and conducts home literacy visits. 
  • Sabine Augustin works at Ezkenazi and is a project and lead manager. She shared that Ezkenazi has been working and helping people outside of the clinic walls. They have been meeting with neighbors, listening with humility, and planning priorities with the neighborhood and the health care system, reviewing data, developing actions, and establishing partnerships. The measure of success would be in the health equity zones. 
  • Katie is part of the steering committee with Ezkenazi. Megan has been working on the life bounds CASAS curriculum in English classes to support. Ezkenazi partners with Enlace because Enlace is very close to the community. 

Academic Updates

Jamie gave the board an academic update. Enlace's mission is to expand data access for all students. The focus is on the growth of iLearn and iRead performance, especially from last year, and comparing proficiency levels. 

• The iLearn growth was presented by subgroups, and there was double-digit growth across all the subgroups. When comparing 24 to 25 iLearn proficiency across subgroups, there was a growth in proficiency across all subgroups for both math and ELA. 
• In the iRead comparisons of 2024 to 2025, there was also double-digit growth for every subgroup. When comparing BOY grade level proficiency on iReady, the % of students early on above grade level grew from 7.6% to 12.5% and the % of students two or more grade levels below fell from 57% to 48%. 
• The 24-25 BOY ELA projected proficiency was 10.2% (the actual ILearn summative was 18%). This year, the projected proficiency was 6% higher at 16%. Level 2 students" approaching proficiency increased from 23% to 27%, an increase of 4%. 
• The schoolwide goals for this year:
  • less than 12% exclusionary discipline
  • 60% or greater on key belonging measures as surveyed in the panorama survey. 
• 25-26 Focus areas
  • Katie reported Enlace's 25-26 focus areas. 
  • Positive of having the same growth, if not higher. 

Brian Anderson reported that his organization has split from the CIES nonprofit. The split was amicable, and are now AT Financial. AT Financial is comprised of the same finance people. 

Shared the 6/30 financials with the board. Total expenses are 1.3 million ahead of total revenue. The budget is done very conservatively; the second revenue line is additional grants that were not budgeted for with new expenditures. Overall, financials are very strong with a surplus of 541k ahead of budget. The financial performance indicators meet the standard. Net assets will increase by 200k due to the Lilly grant. 

Our fiscal year-end takes longer to close. July and August aren't completely reconciled yet, but there will be no surprises. The charter innovation grant was received earlier than is typically. 

Grant & Agreement Timeline

• ESSER II lapsed. 
• IPS 5-year innovation agreement ends 29-30
• OEI will visit for CQ4 on 10/2025. 
• NEXT Gen SIG ends 26-27. 
  • NEXT GEN SIG will pay for the strategy of leadership, additional ML instructors, 1 new BIA, and 1 new reading interventionist. 
• Lilly Grant Phase II and III TBD
  • Phase 1 & Phase II have been received. Phase III will be awarded in December.  If awarded, Phase III will be used for investment in teacher recruitment, retention, and development. Along with the Patchou Project.

The vision is to revamp the kitchen so that food may be cooked and served from scratch. Phase 1, which was the design of the kitchen, has been completed. Right now is the end of Phase 2, and will begin Phase 3, which is bidding and construction. The cost will be approximately 875k in materials and construction. The funding is to be determined based on the outcome of Lilly Phase III awards. Or if that doesn't go through, the rainy day funds could be used. 

Joan presented the 25-26 school year board dashboard, which includes academics, culture, financial, and governance goals. 

Fall Retreat for NCN Board

• Location will be in the International District Community Center on Tuesday, November 18, from 12-4 pm. 
• The goals are to ground ourselves in the history and the mission of Enlace/NCN. 
• Opportunity to build relationships
• Engage in professional learning as a team regarding the qualities of a high-quality board and school. 
• Larger strategic planning for spring or summer. 

Committee Meetings need to comply with open open-door law. 

• Emma reported the different requirements, first option if the committee has more than one board member, if the committee has two board members and two staff. Only if 0-1 board. No final action in committees. 

9/25 at 5:30 pm Hispanic Heritage Nights

10/30 at 5:30 pm Fall Festival

12/4 at 5:30 pm K-2nd Music Performance