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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2024-2025 by and between the District and Northeastern University - Mills College, Lead by Learning, Boston, MA, for the latter to provide a community of practice for all the District's Expanded Learning site coordinators, agency directors, and quality support coaches, through develop of multiple teams of Expanded Learning leaders’ capacity to confront equity issues and lead programmatic change by engaging in equity-driven collaborative inquiry that builds upon existing structures, aligns vision with action, and leverage local expertise, including four 2.5-hour in-person sessions for agency directors at the Mills College at Northeastern campus in September, November, February, and April and four 2.5-hour in-person sessions at the Mills College at Northeastern campus in September, November, February, and May for the "All Leaders" group which includes both agency directors and all site coordinators; provide three 2.5-hour in-person sessions at the Mills College at Northeastern campus in September, November, and February for new site coordinators; provide for quality support coaches, two 2-hour sessions in-person at the Mills College at Northeastern campus in September and May, plus two additional 2-hour Zoom meetings in October and March, including two agency directors meetings in the spring that will work to support leadership building and capacity; provide four 2-hour in-person meetings (September, November, February, & May) with both agency directors and site coordinators to review program data to monitor program quality; provide four Design Team meetings with the Expanded Learning Office Team, to support work, to align vision and goals for each the all leaders meetings; provide a series of equity-driven collaborative inquiry meetings for after school site coordinators, agency directors, and quality support coaches as well as alignment meeting with the Expanded Learning Office, via Community Schools and Student Services Department, for the period of September 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $96,300.00.