A team of elementary school leaders presented the district's midyear "legacy plans" to the Board of Education on March 6, highlighting programs intended to boost attendance, early literacy, student engagement and family involvement across the district's K'5 schools.

The presenters said the legacy plans align to board and superintendent goals and incorporate feedback from community surveys and staff "7 C" surveys. "Our plans were intended to align all of your goals and all of the feedback from the community and bring those together into actions that we would implement in the school," an elementary team presenter told the board.

Programs and classroom supports described
- Attendance incentives: a weekly "wheel" that enters students who attended every day; winners are recognized on morning announcements and receive small prizes, plus monthly awards for classrooms with 95 percent or better attendance.
- Early literacy and reading curricula: the district highlighted Foundations (phonics), Heggerty (phonological awareness), CKLA (integrated literacy and content), and Caminos (a K'5 Spanish-language arts curriculum) to support bilingual students and build background knowledge.
- Assistive technology: the presenters described AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) devices used by nonverbal scholars and said some students who began nonverbal gained verbal language after intensive device use.
- Enrichment and engagement: StarLab (a mobile planetarium), World Read Aloud Day mystery readers, multicultural events, intramurals and student recognition assemblies were cited as examples of programming to strengthen school culture.

Board members asked about measurable effects. Presenters said schools using these programs have seen reductions in disciplinary referrals and increased engagement; they cautioned that some literacy programs take multiple years to yield measurable assessment gains as cohorts move into tested grades.

The presentation included a short video of classroom activities and an extended Q&A. Board members thanked the elementary team for the presentation and asked staff to continue reporting outcomes as programs mature.