Superintendent's Student Advisory Council (SSAC)

During the 2024-2025 school year, SSAC focused on understanding the unique needs of  neurodivergent learners and worked on developing mental health resources and outreach opportunities for students. 

During the 2023-2024 school year, SSAC worked on identifying challenges our newcomer and English Learner students may be facing. They focused on identifying ways to implement peer tutoring, peer mentoring, and culture clubs at their schools. 

During the 2022-2023 school year, SSAC worked on making college and career resources more student accessible as well as provided input on multiple district wide initiatives. 

During the 2021-2022 school year, SSAC focused on taking a closer look at the district dress code and the potential for an updated version.

During the 2020-2021 school year, SSAC established a San Juan Student podcast, a SSAC scholarship for graduating seniors, and offered a Student Speakers Series on how students were dealing with the impact of COVID.

During the 2019-2020 school year, SSAC focused on supporting the social-emotional needs of teens by creating a "Find Your Trusted Adult" campaign. Unfortunately, due to COVID, they were unable to complete that campaign. Many students have also participated in youth voice listening sessions for the purpose of gaining student perspectives on various topics.

During the 2018-2019 school year, SSAC focused on identifying barriers to communication on our campuses and potential solutions such as a school specific branded student app. All of our high schools now have their own app! 

During the 2017-2018 school year, SSAC focused on identifying the social-emotional and academic needs of high school students in San Juan Unified through a SSAC created Survey.