February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM - Regular Business Meeting

Call to Order: Chair

Pledge of Allegiance

Introductions

Statement of Mission
Our mission is to become a justice-centered school community who fuels the unique genius of each student. 

Land Acknowledgement
Brooklyn Center Community Schools acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral and contemporary lands of the Dakota (Dah-koh-tah) people. We also recognize the Anishinaabeg/Ojibwe (Ah-nee-shah-nah-bayg / Oh-jib-way) whose lands were colonized by the United States and are currently occupied by the State of Minnesota. Our community sits upriver from Bdoté (Buh-doh-tay), the place where two rivers meet and most importantly, the center of Dakota (Dah-koh-tah) spirituality and history. We commit to the work of being a justice-centered school community. Together, we will work to decolonize our minds and spaces, and to be good stewards to Mni Sota Makoce (Mini Soh-tah Mah-koh-chay) and good relatives to each other.
 

Approve Agenda for Regular Business Meeting

Approve Minutes 

January 12, 2026 -Organizational Regular Business Meeting

January 26, 2026, Work Session Meeting

Open Forum:  See procedures that apply to the public comment at Brooklyn Center Schools regular board meetings on the back of the request card. The request card available at the sign-in table.

Monthly Financial Update

Presentations

Goal 2 Update by Jena Carlson

Key impacts of the proposed calendars by Michelle Ford

Consent Agenda

Personnel, Non Resident Students and Donations

Approval of the Consent Agenda

Discussion Items

Action Items

Approve district calendar proposals for the 2026 - 2027 and 2027 - 2028 school year

Non-Substantive Review/Revision - (Policy review/revisions where revisions do not change the substance of the policy.

• Policy 203 - Operation of the School Board - Governing Rules

• Policy 203.2 - Order of the Regular School Board Meeting (see next page)

• Policy 203.5 - School Board Meeting Agenda

• Policy 205 - Open Meetings/Closed Meetings

• Policy 415 - Mandated Reporting of Maltreatment of Vulnerable Adults

• Policy 506 Student Discipline (Legally required yearly review)

• Policy 801 Equal Access to Facilities

• Policy 904 Distribution of Materials on School District Property by Non School Person 

First Read Board Policy Revisions/Updates:

• Policy 307 - Emergency Closure

Reports/Information

Student School Board Representative Report

School Board Member Reports

Superintendent Report

Leadership Reports

Director of Human Resources - Tammy Albers

Director of Data and Accountability - Michelle Ford

Director of Special Services - Deirdra Yarbro

Director of Community Engagement - Seth Ryan

Director of Educational Equity - Josh Fraser

Director of Curriculum and Instruction - Jena Carlson

Director of Operations - Guttu Meleka

Communications Coordinator - Olivia Doeden

Principal, Brooklyn Center Secondary - Arslan Aziz

Principal, Brooklyn Center Elementary - Keisha Davis

 Principal, Alternative Programs- Michael Miller

Principal on Special Assignment- John Huber

Upcoming Events

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Adjournment