San Rafael City Schools is comprised of two distinct and separate school districts, the San Rafael Elementary City School District and the San Rafael City High School District. SRCS is governed by a common Board of Education and common central support services. Over the past nine years, SRCS continues to grow, evolve and change. The districts’ enrollment has increased by over 2,000 students in the past eight years. Certificated, classified support and management staff has grown as we welcome new students and families. Programatically we have seen the most significant changes in teaching and learning in over 100 years with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, integration of 21st century skills and the goal of preparing every student for college, career and community/ civic engagement. In addition, California’s funding for public education has been restructured to the greatest degree in the past 40 years, shifting to the Local Control Funding Formula, using a weighted student formula that generates funding for our districts. These combined shifts and changes require the organization to be agile, flexible, innovative and creative, able to respond to these and future shifts. The traditional ‘district office’ must dramatically shift from that of monitoring compliance to ensuring schools have the support and expertise available to support student learning in every classroom at every school in the district.
CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS The following revised job descriptions are presented for approval. The roles, responsibilities reflect the essential functions of these support positions to better support students, staff, families and the greater school community. The revisions reflect some title changes and revised duties. These changes are cost neutral to the General Fund of SRESD and SRHSD. As San Rafael City Schools District Leadership transitions, the Superintendent is making recommendations to develop the following positions to support increased accountability and support in areas related to the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP): Deputy Superintendent; Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources; Director of Communications, and a Data Analyst.
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Trustees discussed the timeline for approval of the job descriptions and the need for collaboration with union leadership.
Trustee Tuatagaloa made a first motion to approve the job descriptions to expedite posting of jobs, with the caveat that union leadership can provide feedback on the job descriptions which can come back for amendments, if needed.
Trustee Knell seconded the motion, as amended.
In response to a question from Trustee Llorens Gulati regarding the Director of Communications, Dr. Zaich provided clarification and noted that this job description is partly a result of the capital facilities program work that is expanding the role. He noted additional information will be provided.
Ms. Puga requested a copy of the current Chief Human Resources Officer job description for comparison. CHRO Pasley noted he would send the current description to Ms. Puga.
M/S/C (Tuatagaloa, Knell) the Board voted 4-0-1 to approve the job descriptions with the caveat that union leadership can provide feedback for amendments to the job descriptions, if needed, by the following vote:
Rachel Kertz - YES
Greg Knell - YES
Maika Llorens Gulati - YES
Natu Tuatagaloa - YES
Linda M. Jackson - ABSENT |