2024-25 Funds in Action

Attendance -Guidance Assistant

Ballet Folklorico

Funds will be used to purchase traditional Mexican folk-dance attire for the Ballet Folklorico dance team, which has been using the same outfits for over seven years during school-wide performances at attendance assemblies. The new attire will allow students to perform different regional dances using the appropriate attire, enhancing their learning experience. This initiative provides expanded, enriched learning opportunities, promoting access to broad, challenging, and accelerated learning with high expectations for all. Ballet Folklorico also gives students, particularly those who don't always excel academically, another way to shine and showcase their talents.

Community Care Closet

Our Parent Volunteers have been busy setting up our Community Care Closet, where we keep food, clothing basics, shoes, uniforms and hygiene items for when our families are in need.

Encanto Cheer Team

Student Leadership & School Culture Program

📌 Fund Use:
Funds are requested to support hourly staffing, along with uniforms that will be used annually, to build and sustain student leadership and school culture initiatives.

🎯 Purpose:
To foster a safe, inclusive, and collaborative culture while giving students access to challenging learning opportunities through leadership roles and structured responsibilities—upholding high expectations for all.

🏛 Community School Pillars:

Expanded Enriched Learning Time and Opportunity

Translation Headsets

Coming Soon

Stage

Coming Soon

Book Study

Science of Reading Professional Learning Series

📌 Fund Use:
Teachers will be compensated for 8 hours at the workshop rate to participate in after-hours professional learning with professors from UC San Diego and the California Reading and Literacy Project.
The training focuses on the Science of Reading and uses the book “Big Words for Young Readers” to deepen instructional strategies for literacy development.

🎯 Purpose:
To enhance educator knowledge and practice in literacy, and to ensure access to broad, challenging, and accelerated student learning with high expectations for all students.

🏛 Community School Pillars:

Integrated School Supports

MTSS

Investing in Our Future: Ongoing MTSS Training Strengthens Community Schools

Thanks to generous grant funding, a team of six dedicated educators from our Community Schools initiative is currently participating in an ongoing Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) training. This professional development is a key part of our work to build safe, inclusive, and collaborative learning environments where every student can succeed.

MTSS provides a structured, data-informed framework that helps schools meet the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of all students through tiered levels of support. The training emphasizes how to use MTSS to ensure equity, high expectations, and accelerated learning opportunities for every learner.

To support participation, the grant is covering the cost of substitute teachers, allowing classroom instruction to continue smoothly while the team attends training sessions. This thoughtful investment ensures that our educators can fully engage in the learning process and bring back practical, research-based strategies to implement in their schools.

Aligned with the pillars of our community school model, the training is also strengthening our efforts around:

Access to a broad and challenging curriculum
Family and community engagement
Highly regarded neighborhood schools
Quality leadership and effective teaching

As the training continues, our team is building capacity to lead this important work across our school community. We look forward to the long-term impact it will have on improving outcomes for all students and deepening partnerships between schools, families, and the broader community.

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