CSC 2025-2026

Want to know what is happening on the CSC?  Here are the current agendas and minutes! Check back here often to see what is happening at Maxwell.

The Collaborative School Committee (CSC) brings together families, staff and community members to create and implement a plan to promote high achievement within a school. The committee meets on the last  Wednesday of every month at 3:15 p.m. and is an opportunity for key stakeholders to have a voice in their school. Colorado law requires all schools to have a CSC to increase the amount of accountability and family involvement in our schools. The group works with school leaders to provide feedback on important school decisions. These decisions may include ways to improve academic performance, budgets, and the school’s program. CSC meetings are open to the school community, so we’d love to invite you to join us!

The Maxwell Elementary School Committee (CSC) is comprised of:

• Elizabeth Yates, Principal
• Gladys Gonzalez, Parent
• Amanda Gruebel, Parent
• Yoselin Gracia, Parent
• Gemma Aguayo Murphy, Parent 
• Maria Covarrubias, Paraprofessional
• Rocio Cazares, Social Worker
• D. Sevits, Teacher

Our role as a committee is to provide guidance, strategic support, and recommendations to the principal regarding resources to support the Unified Improvement Plan (UIP) and school programs.

Our meetings are planned to be held on the following dates: 

September 24th – Intro to CSC
October 22nd
December 3rd
January 6th – CSC Budget Training
January 21st – Budget
February 25th
March 25th
April 22nd
May 27th

We ask that CSC members participate in the meetings and commit to being a member for two years, or one year where it applies.

In accordance with state statute, the CSC shall:

Act as the School Accountability Committee (SAC) for the building.

Provide guidance, evaluation, and recommendations to the Principal and/or the Instructional Superintendent as to the following:

• priorities for spending school moneys;
• preparation of a school improvement plan;
• preparation of a school priority improvement or turnaround plan, if either is required;
• discuss whether school leadership, personnel, and infrastructure are advancing or impeding the implementation of the public school’s improvement, priority improvement, or turnaround plan, whichever is applicable, or other progress pertinent to the public school’s accreditation contract with the Board or the institute;
• provision of feedback for principal evaluations;
• Increase the level of parent engagement in the school, especially the engagement of parents of students in the populations described in C.R.S. 22-11-401 (1) (d). The committee’s activities to increase parent engagement must include, but need not be limited to:
  • Publicizing opportunities to serve and soliciting parents to serve on the CSC. In soliciting parents to serve on the CSC, the CSC shall direct the outreach efforts to help ensure that the parents who serve on the CSC reflect the student populations that are significantly represented within the school.
  • Assisting the school district in implementing at the school the parent engagement policy; and
  • Assisting school personnel to increase parents’ engagement with teachers.

The CSC will not:

• participate in the day-to-day operations of the school;
• be involved in issues relating to individuals (staff, students, or parents) within the school;
• be involved in personnel issues (the School Personnel Committee will stand alone according to the current DPS/DCTA contract).