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JLopezMolina: let's go ahead and get started so um I call the meeting to order at 630 for.

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JLopezMolina: The first order of business is the public comments, so I will a moment of silence here for the public comments.

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JLopezMolina: Alright, if there are no public comments i'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is the first step presentation i'll turn it over to Mr Brown, to do productions.

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travisbrown: Good evening everyone.

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travisbrown: Hope everyone is well, I have the pleasure tonight to introduce someone who's been with us for a number of years of very long time i've known this woman for a very long time and um.

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travisbrown: it's it's amazing to watch mariska lindo grow in such in such ways as an educator.

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travisbrown: And she really supports and teaches our youngest scholars So you see can really give the board perspective from 10 years about about six years now right.

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travisbrown: So she she's been here pretty much for my whole tenure as principal, and so I think she has a really unique perspective of.

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travisbrown: When we were bronx lighthouse years ago and now as actually transition to fire us, so I think she's just an amazing person to talk to to really get perspective, but one thing I could say about mischka lindo.

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travisbrown: she's one of our most kindness educators, that you ever made, and she really cares about our young people, so I would um without further ado just want to introduce the boards and fiscal and go.

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travisbrown: Good evening everyone how are you how's everyone doing today.

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Paola Galindo: Well, I love working at Ferris I can't say much it's like a family to me i've been here for six years um.

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Paola Galindo: You know transitioning from kindergarten I started and then transitioning to first grade, it was a big milestone and honestly I feel like as an educator i've grown so much, especially from my coaches.

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Paola Galindo: I came from really doubting my craft of not knowing exactly what I was doing to really being able to.

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Paola Galindo: forte it even stronger and get better at it and just by seeing the growth in my students I i'm just amazed by really taking everything i've learned and.

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Paola Galindo: You know i'm not gonna lie some times I wouldn't cry but it's it's like 30 years because it's like you know you want to grow and get better at it and, when it was people that really want to get better at things.

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Paola Galindo: it's just been a real pleasure just working.

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Paola Galindo: these past few years at pharaoh so.

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Paola Galindo: guys have any questions.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: I can kick it off, and so one thing that we talked about quite a lot as a board is about teacher retention and you are one of those success stories, where you have stayed for six years we'd love to get your thoughts on how can we encourage or.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: create the right environment to keep other teachers prolonged periods of time.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: um I think it's more of like feeling supported I think that's how you keep the teachers like having the teachers feel like you have their back on like anything that they need of like learning aspect.

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Paola Galindo: Like I went on maternity leave and I felt very supported from you know leadership leadership was really very supportive online maternity leave and everything, so I feel like it's feeling that sense of like support and feeling like you belong here, this is part of a family.

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Thank you.

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Sharon Beier: I have a question.

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Sharon Beier: How has it been for you in your class teaching during quote.

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Paola Galindo: challenge, I cannot lie about that.

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Sharon Beier: In a challenge.

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Paola Galindo: But you know it's a.

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Paola Galindo: challenge, but yet at the same time, you make it work if you love, I guess, like, for the fact of loving, the fact of teaching in general.

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Paola Galindo: As a teacher you just go ahead and just go into your mindset of making sure that this classroom it's online it's going to be like, as if you were in person.

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Paola Galindo: So it has been it was challenging but I have to give it to my parents my parents, I had 100% success rate with my parents 24 seven communication.

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Paola Galindo: Always logging on anything I needed they were right, on top of it, they were I they already knew everything I needed ahead of time, and he always asked me like it was just a really nice combination like it, they made it so smooth I cannot lie like my parents were amazing.

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JLopezMolina: are covered related question as well.

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JLopezMolina: What is one of the things that you think has been the biggest learning gap caused by the pandemic and how would you suggest we sort of think about it, supporting closing that gap as a board.

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JLopezMolina: I think.

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Paola Galindo: In present time.

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JLopezMolina: I think more amongst the lines of like the kids.

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Paola Galindo: That are testing positive tend to be out of school for a while and sometimes they have to like quarantine and everything.

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Paola Galindo: And I feel like some there's like that's where like the big gap happened because we don't we don't see them online anymore and it's more of like.

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Paola Galindo: we're teaching and if they're not they're like how much do they are they really getting at home, even if it's a packet Do you know what I mean like there is no.

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Paola Galindo: Miss Linda was right there talking to you through it and explaining to you, like the steps and everything to like be successful in what you're trying to learn so.

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Paola Galindo: I feel like once their home and their their quarantine it's like.

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Paola Galindo: what's The next thing to do, you get a packet and they're like watching TV.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: We have lots of scholars who end up quarantining because there are the fake would have been exposed or whatever reason, and are they getting some packets of.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Like printed material worksheets that they would work through at home to try and keep pace with the class but they're not able to join what frightening live because there's just it's hard to juggle both at the same time right.

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Paola Galindo: yeah so they don't have like so if they're not on like the camera or like even on zoom and they're just home quarantine like my point is more amongst the lines like.

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Paola Galindo: We give them like the materials that they need to keep up with in the classroom, but in reality they're home and they're either.

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Paola Galindo: A watching TV the just playing around and just once in a while like figuring out the packet or just figuring out to get it done so they could just move on and do what they want, what I mean so like is there really any like aspect of them sitting and really.

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Paola Galindo: centering their focus on what they're learning like is there really any.

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Paola Galindo: Like I feel like that's where it starts to get for them, because when they come back, they have their last.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: I missed the window, I know you already spoke about this a little bit, and I think I just would love to hear a little bit more I know.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: You know, you talked about like just some of the stress of doing this work in this time and a total it is taking on the kids.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: And just knowing that you've been here for so long, and so you have just such strong roots, what do you feel like is the mental health even have like the teaching staff right now.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: And I asked you know we're focusing we're focusing a lot on kids which is right, and I also know that, like as the adults in the room.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Like your primary job is to hold the children right and be that leader, what would you say is like just the mental health or the stress levels of teachers and.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: If you even have any ideas around what you know adults in the building might need or teachers might need to also attend to their well being physically and mentally as well, I think.

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That our emotional toll is like we feel that we can't reach our kids it's kind of like our scholars.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: So, knowing that we can't reach them at that point, because they're either you know, out of school for that long and we're trying to figure out how to make sure that they're still getting like you know a good education.

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It takes a toll on us because it's so emotional like we we strive to make them better in learning and get them to where they need to be, and you know, make sure that they are learning.

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I honestly speaking for myself it's i've had moments where i've like I start crying because i'm like I really hope that they that I can do something for them, because when they come back it's like Oh, my goodness.

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Paola Galindo: You really have no clue what happened, even though it's in the packet so.

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Paola Galindo: A lot of us have also said we've talked about it, like it's it's so heart wrenching to see that because it's like you those few days at your home it's like what did you gain from that.

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Paola Galindo: Except for like a game.

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JLopezMolina: All right, well with that I want to thank you very much for attending the meeting and sharing your perspective with us, we really value your your leadership at the school and.

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JLopezMolina: You taking the time to be here with us.

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JLopezMolina: tonight.

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JLopezMolina: alright.

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JLopezMolina: The next item on the agenda is the Minutes from last minute, so they won't have a chance to look at the Minutes from last week's meeting or last month, meaning.

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JLopezMolina: It has been one of those days alright great so i'm going to assume that silence is consensus i'm going to motion to approve the meeting minutes from the last meeting.

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Robb: Second.

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JLopezMolina: All in favor.

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Robb: Aye Aye.

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JLopezMolina: Aye let the record show the meeting Minutes have been mostly approved.

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JLopezMolina: The next item on the agenda is New York City do we have charter renewal so we'd like to take some time and have a bit of a debrief on the call that we had this past Tuesday.

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JLopezMolina: Hopefully everyone's had enough time to recover psychologically from the call and have a little perspective on it would love to get what people thought about the conversation so awesome have stopped and and let people just freestyle and we can go from there.

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jarrodsowell: I think the conversation went well in terms of.

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jarrodsowell: She she she done a good scene, where she done our homework and she was just you know she was just there to ask questions that you just want a little bit more clarity on.

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jarrodsowell: So I can't I walked away from the.

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jarrodsowell: interaction feeling good about it.

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Alissa Nann: The same view and having never been through the process before I mean, I think I don't know if we like skated by a little bit more, because of the trials.

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Alissa Nann: That was.

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Alissa Nann: distracting her a little bit maybe that was to our benefit, but um I definitely agree that it seemed like she you know she was familiar she knew it was going on.

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Alissa Nann: She you know kind of sound like the schools, you know result of spoken for themselves, and we were in good stead and was just kind of more than like pro forma box checking but I felt like she was.

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Alissa Nann: saying very positive things and that it was overall a good, you know good interview.

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Robb: yeah I agree, I if I think back to the last session a few years ago.

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Robb: She was pretty candid in sharing out would be a big challenge for us to get a five year term exposure basically said kind of lower your expectations.

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Robb: And this year, there was none of that in fact that it was a good question.

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Robb: I came in for Sarah Sarah said any any reason or maybe with Stacey any reason why we.

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Robb: Might not prior prior okay.

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Robb: Good question so anyway, she she she can't say anything obviously until the process goes through, but didn't limit didn't manage your expectations down, which was great.

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Robb: And then she was even asking if she can use us for best practices communication to to other other schools, which is great.

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JLopezMolina: I really liked the book she was like can you as a reference to other schools, who might be thinking about leaving their charter management organizations were like yes absolutely and the Charter new all treader on the new Charter that we're writing she was very curious to see the different.

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JLopezMolina: boredom involvement.

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JLopezMolina: edits that we had made there around like finance and other things, so I came I came having reflected on the last one.

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JLopezMolina: That we went through and this one I i'm with you rob last one I remember her saying something like about managing expectations, because we did have like she did ask us about.

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JLopezMolina: A particular failure rate in the high school where there was, like, I think it was like the chemistry, or I forget which one, but I know it was such a traumatic.

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JLopezMolina: set of scores that I don't remember the details, exactly, but it was it was like a big mark on the school and.

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JLopezMolina: I do remember her sort of asking around that.

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JLopezMolina: And this time around, there was none of that it was it was much more.

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JLopezMolina: Much more like checking checking boxes dotting i's and crossing t's and I felt really good about it.

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Stacy S: Agreed, though, there was the childcare issues, of course, but um it seemed very reminiscent of the.

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Stacy S: last meeting she.

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Stacy S: Last time came with questions as well just meeting clarity it didn't seem as if there was I gotcha kind of moment, it was really just centering around clarity and getting.

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Stacy S: answers to some of those questions, but, as you said, for her to be asking about sharing best practices and things along those lines, I think that's very positive.

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JLopezMolina: But I also wanted to come in it to like congratulate the board on how well prepared, I think we found that and I know i'm biased because i'm on the board, but like really we had a lot of good concrete examples, and I feel like the air, the air time was was.

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JLopezMolina: packed with examples of how close we are in our knowledge of the school and the practices, and I feel like that.

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JLopezMolina: You know, we had really concise answers and examples to basically all of her questions, so I feel like we were we were very well prepared and critical to us, but also to Courtney, and Mr Brown, for helping to prepare us.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: similar vein, I thought it was really interesting that she raised that before the last renewal, the previous I Sir had asked internally at do we about whether we had thought about.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Changing out Management Organization, but they hadn't said that to us, but it almost seemed like there was thrilled that we had.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Like moment to be hearing the different boardman this recount our process to get there.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: To think I actually have done quite a lot of change in the last few years, and I just felt really proud that we had had the courage and the sort of follow through to get to where we are, I think another thing to celebrate.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: And then, also in terms of her preparedness, but also, I know what she's looking at like she proactively brought up the enrollment.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Clearly, and she didn't need much crawfish like I see y'all close the gap, this is really great and amazing, and so I think, like everybody else I actually really think that she's going to recommend five years to.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: The deal we to the Chancellor, and that will be his recommendation to the board of regents like I mean I don't know I hope it's also going well in her observations.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: When she's coming into the school, but she knew what she was looking at that I think held us back last time, and like proactively said some of that stuff and the Games, without even asking anything else, she was like amazing great job there.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: I thought her tone was totally different from the last meeting we had with her like.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: I think the last meeting it about interview it felt very much like we want you to understand how serious this is we want you to understand has has how much we think the board needs to do here and I just didn't get that.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: That feeling at all and travis and Courtney, I want you guys, to know that she also shouted both of you out as being exceptionally strong leaders, and I think that made us all feel a great amount of pride.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: Because we know how hard you work and how dedicated you been under such difficult circumstances, and I think especially.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: Just the transition from lighthouse how seamlessly it was Courtney, I know you had your bb like.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: You guys just number dropped the ball, so I even get a little I get a little emotional talking about it because I think you guys really do just put in so much work and we're so grateful for it.

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JLopezMolina: Absolutely, I think, her exact words were Courtney and travis.

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JLopezMolina: yeah we know how special does are so thank you.

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Sharon Beier: Yes, I just wanted to say, I learned a real lot about the history of the school and I thought everyone spoke really well and we're very well prepared and thank you Courtney, and thank you travis for that.

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Sharon Beier: And the other thing that she said was, I want to encourage all of you just celebrate all that the school has done and I thought that was very.

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Sharon Beier: I think.

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Sharon Beier: Like we should you should you guys did a great job so.

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JLopezMolina: Remember.

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JLopezMolina: Her saying that I think I was.

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JLopezMolina: You know.

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JLopezMolina: Any other any other comments.

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JLopezMolina: Alright, so I think it sounds like we had.

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JLopezMolina: Some good reflections.

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JLopezMolina: I hope you guys port me and Mr Brown and he had a site visit hope that went well I don't know if we have something on the agenda to discuss that in detail, but if you want to.

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JLopezMolina: Say like two seconds on it now I think we're all eager to now.

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travisbrown: But.

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travisbrown: I can share, about the the observation.

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travisbrown: think we started it started out in the morning, where they just set us up the authorization team was about four of them lori led the team.

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travisbrown: She came in and she had a meeting with our instructional leadership team and Courtney as well, so the full leadership team on the ground at the school.

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travisbrown: And just clarify that the tone was really almost like tell me tell me what you're doing well and what you're proud of, and what will I see throughout the day so that's kind of what.

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travisbrown: What the kind of the tone of the meeting is again they don't they don't try to tell you what to do.

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travisbrown: they're trying to understand what you've what you feel your school does well, and then they want to see if they see it throughout the school, so they were just.

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travisbrown: asking a lot of questions around what are we doing well, what are the areas that we're strong in and then also what are some of our challenges, so we were talking through a lot of that, and then the remainder of the day was spent in classrooms and.

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travisbrown: On the plus side.

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travisbrown: They saw a lot of the things that we spoke about in our instructional tactics to varying degrees, because we do have a lot of new teachers, so we we identify that and spoke to them.

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travisbrown: Really quickly, so they saw a lot of the things that we said they were going to see that are aligned with our instructional tactics and our key design elements.

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travisbrown: On the end that i'm with will come up that the team felt that we have to get stronger in is around.

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travisbrown: special education in terms of individualized instruction to the child, so we had a special education practices that we do in all of our classrooms but what they what they saw and what they identified was.

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travisbrown: Teachers are not modifying the lesson to the individual child's needs so if there's seven students with ips in a class they wanted to see specially what they call specially designed instruction for each and every kid.

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travisbrown: So that was something new that they added that wasn't there last, the last time we went through a renewal, they acknowledged that it was a new set of questions and a new focus, so they said, we have to get strong in that area around.

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travisbrown: When they go in a classroom if there's 10 kids and ips every kid in there, the teacher has modified instruction, but every single kid with their particular.

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travisbrown: to their particular needs, so we see that there's a really big focus on special education, but also.

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travisbrown: down to the specific kid and in the classroom, which is something that you know we took and we reflected and we started thinking about how we're going to tackle that but, overall I think they were pleasantly.

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travisbrown: I think they were pleased with the overall instructional program the culture of the school the kids came out and greeted them and welcome them they spun into a crew they got the full treatment, I think.

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travisbrown: The culture of the school the instruction overall they were really pleased with, and I just highlighted that one area to foster really think about it and and continue to improve on.

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travisbrown: Courtney i'll pause there for you to add.

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Courtney Russell: I think you covered it well travis there are a couple of scheduling things they needed to work out today, so we likely have another meeting tomorrow.

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Courtney Russell: And then another one next week so it's still continuing, but I echo everything travis said and think it been some some early well to have the board meeting went.

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JLopezMolina: Excellent.

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JLopezMolina: Questions before we move on to the next section.

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JLopezMolina: Alright next item on the agenda is the board recruitment and that is board strengths areas of opportunity I have Sarah tag to this, I think this was if I recall thinking about where we focus on recruitment strategy for the for.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: The written it has Coco melon playing in the background.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: The quality of my parents got Thursday anyway, I have to apologize, because I have to be honest, I haven't connected with Courtney to get the data that we need to do this analysis, so.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: Courtney, maybe you and I can connect after this meeting, and then I can circulate it the information to the board before our next meetings that we can have a serious discussion about it, I apologize for that.

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JLopezMolina: No problem, no need to apologize, we are a volunteer board and life happens and I forget about stuff all the time, too, so no need to apologize.

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JLopezMolina: next item on the agenda is the scholarships so Courtney, I have this is this from the cadence calendar is this why this is an update Okay, so I have here to review the process Courtney, do you mind pulling up the process, it sounds like it's time for us to.

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JLopezMolina: send out a a email notification to the school is that right is that what we've got here on the process.

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Courtney Russell: I think we wanted to review the overall process this month and see if we were ready to launch in the coming months, see if there was anything you wanted to modify.

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Courtney Russell: We have a very long runway here last year we didn't start till March, so I think if we look at it, this month and next month will be in great shape, but overall we want to review this document and see.

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Courtney Russell: If this is all still true and whether you want to do that now, or have it as an action item for next month, whatever you prefer, but we are we're way ahead of schedule here.

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JLopezMolina: yeah I mean I think what happened last year was we didn't have a lot of.

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JLopezMolina: We were sort of little shy on applicants and I think we were at least leading up to the to the sort of deadline and so maybe what we do is a little bit more promotional and nature, this time around.

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JLopezMolina: I don't I mean i'm i'm i'm obviously open to feedback on how we shape this.

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JLopezMolina: But I think in terms of like the content that we got last year I was happy with it, I think we just you know more is better, so the more people, we can get involved and excited about it, I think.

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JLopezMolina: The better will be so I think it's about promoting and the sooner the sooner we can promote it, the better.

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JLopezMolina: One thought rob and here actually.

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JLopezMolina: Actually, this is more for here now that I think about it, are we okay from a budget standpoint for.

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Keyur Shah: I believe so yeah I think we are because we had the money that come in from the contribution as well as.

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Keyur Shah: I think we are okay from an overall budget template.

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Robb: Right yeah any scholarships are going to.

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Robb: knock them out of the.

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Robb: Out of the revenues and budgets that we've got on the balance sheet unrestricted funds that we can use.

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JLopezMolina: Okay, great.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: about the process, so the second bullet underneath award to.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: career guidance and mentoring, to the recipients by a board member, so why see recipient so should, that is, that also the case for.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: An award one in socially make sure that that's listed there or is that truly just for award two and then rob Robert are you doing the mentoring, or is that a new thing is that was that part of the application, last year I guess is the question i'm asking.

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Robb: For sure so.

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Robb: able to get in touch with the scholarship um hasn't hasn't been as responsive as of it would like so out of that we've been able to.

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Robb: As a board and or as an individual able to provide any of the any mentoring or guidance, in fact, one of the questions I was going going to have is if if there's some way, we could maintain some connectivity better connectivity with the scholarship recipients.

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Robb: Perhaps, as a part of this year to award process.

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Robb: That that's one thing I was a little disappointed in personally just my ability to make contact them and generally wasn't able to follow through on some of the aspirations here.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: yeah I wonder if, maybe it's a question to Mr Brown that resonates quite a bit with some previous years experience, where I know we've had some students who.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: went to schools that we knew well or like I I had got tried to get in touch with.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: A few students who ended up at nyu because I looked right next to it and I had offered to take them all out for dinner and just no one responded and I made me they're like.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Who is this old fuddy duddy who wants to like ruin my dinner plans, but I did, I hope that they know that like with genuine about that outreach and it's totally fine if they don't want to do it, but I do you have any advice on like is there a way, we can do that in a more.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Appealing way that might mean that they're like oh yeah that sounds like a great opportunity that would be nice to have dinner with my peers I don't know.

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travisbrown: he's only.

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JLopezMolina: Sorry, there is a like I have to be in good standing as a scholar, so there is like a check in, but they have to have in order to.

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JLopezMolina: In order to keep to keep getting the money every year, so I feel like maybe I mean that feels like a forced thing but it couldn't be like a way we engage with them.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Yes, would you like to share your transcript over a company.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: We didn't define what good standing man it's actually do you think that we probably could.

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JLopezMolina: Another see I thought it was later in the document.

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JLopezMolina: yeah like GPA something something, something I think I think what I thought we had a no Okay, well, we should definitely.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: restroom that'd be great average but that might have been earlier in the discussion before we landed somebody I don't know.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: Every passing right.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: I don't remember the pronunciation actually just remember that they just have to be in the world.

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Robb: award.

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Courtney Russell: follow up and on my end and Maria end.

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Courtney Russell: To communicate with the students to.

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Courtney Russell: Get invoices to get the information so that would be the plan again that we would you know begin that outreach and attempt to secure you know, a proof of enrollment that bill, and all of that so Maria and I would be engaging that and that was within the next couple of months.

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JLopezMolina: Maybe we could use that as an.

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JLopezMolina: opportunity to like I know I know the way that I positioned that prior minutes i'm like.

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JLopezMolina: Your transcript over coffee, which does sound super creepy but maybe we position instead it's like.

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JLopezMolina: hey, can you please provide your transcript in order to you know Courtney or or Maria in order to get the disbursement oh and, by the way here here's the resource here or resources from the board we'd love to schedule a you know, a.

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JLopezMolina: mentorship session over a Su or whatever.

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JLopezMolina: That, if that would work just to give catch up and see how you're doing it, you know do some sort of communication around that, because that is a sort of forced a moment of.

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JLopezMolina: engagement and we have.

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travisbrown: So obviously you said that they.

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travisbrown: They have to sit down and.

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travisbrown: Over zoom.

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JLopezMolina: No, no, no i'm saying that they need to at some point, give their transcripts to a or to Maria whoever's going to do the logistics of the second disbursement and that's our opportunity to like it when we send them that check or you know, whatever.

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JLopezMolina: We also include like a note that says something like hey as part of the scholarship we want to connect you with.

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JLopezMolina: IRA, we want to connect you with raw one of our board members, please feel free to send them an email.

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JLopezMolina: they're open they're open to discussing things with you job opportunities, I don't know what what what happy mentorship opportunities, like some we could write something to like get them excited about above encouraging us.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: One other thing that I think this is a long term long runway idea and I think Mr Brown, probably is more think that until like your vision around strategy here but.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Just like given a lot of the innovative places in the way that you've worked with students, if you might have like a moment to also think about like.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: and almost like build out that team in a way that like, then you have another arm that's like following and tracking students.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: To ensure that they you know graduate within I don't know if you want to say, like five years you know what I mean and so there's like a there's like a level of support, so when I think.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: it'll help us because the kids will respond to us, they don't know us and we're going to be awkward in your for them, but I do think like that I don't know what was her name the guidance counselor the one.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Miss areas like Dave seem to love her like love her love her and so it's almost like she's built that credibility and that trust with them and then I think for you, it also just shows.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Like you, just so much around like the holding the whole family right in the way that you orient towards a school and I think that this is another thing of like not only.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Are we getting our kids to graduate and like we are doing so in a very rigorous way like watch us hold them on some level through their college experience or.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: A different way, and then I think that's something you can track that's something that can continue to be just like an amazing proof point of what's possible and the now you have this arm.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: has really done a lot of work and has a lot of data and collection around how it is schools might think about building something like this, and so I think this is actually like this can be part of that teams work.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: And so, then the board, then folds into the mentorship I think in dovetails with like miss Arias, if she would be the one to build this out for whomever else, so that we feel less of a.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Blank piece on our own, but we actually are more built into the fabric of you know people who the kids trust the most already.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: And i'm happy to you know make some calls I know the woman who was running it for all of.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: kips in Boston so you know if we want to talk to her and be like what did that look like or you know I can talk to the people who did it in Newark if that's something that you want to explore would be interested in on a longer runway.

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travisbrown: Definitely i'm building out you bring up a great point around building out that that on to reach after after they leave the K 12 system of it, because one of the things that we we've done is to strategically kind of group them to colleges, just so that we can do that.

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Alissa Nann: You guys have thought about before and maybe it's like a line that we don't want to cross but I mean just I was just thinking about even just look up like.

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Alissa Nann: Maybe for one being the starting with the junior class or and sophomore class or even the senior class like at the beginning of the school year like get to know your board members and did you even like a virtual.

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Alissa Nann: lunch and like introduce ourselves to them and, just like say what we do so that they know.

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Alissa Nann: we're here as a resource to them for like mentorship or for interested in going to business school or law school or education or whatever, so that they know.

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Alissa Nann: I was thinking of like the fully career day panel, you know, like something easy that we do, one day, so that we can just say who we are, so that it doesn't feel like a total stranger being like come talk to me.

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travisbrown: yeah I like that I did that got me to think if we can award the scholarship early also so mentor it can start.

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travisbrown: kind of before they graduate if you will.

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travisbrown: Right, so there could be a couple of touch points.

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travisbrown: Before they actually leave so that they they know the board member on the board members who will be mentoring or supporting the one who they can reach out to as a resource, so how can we.

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travisbrown: see your point alyssa, how do we, how do we start the touch points earlier because we can identify the finalists.

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travisbrown: Depending on whatever criteria and have those touch points with them so that there's some connective tissue before they before they leave and go to go off into the world, so to speak.

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JLopezMolina: Alright, so do we have a next steps here on what we need to do in order to get this going it sounded like.

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JLopezMolina: summarize what i've heard it's something we need to.

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JLopezMolina: Close a loop around.

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JLopezMolina: sort of what it means to be standing that's one thing we need to do, we can probably do that offline.

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JLopezMolina: And then, it sounds like.

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JLopezMolina: We need to start earlier was else.

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Tamara S.: I think we were talking a little bit about like GPA i'm doing need like you know at least like a 2.5 3.0 in order to continue we receive that.

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JLopezMolina: So yeah That was the That was what is it good standing man So what does it mean to be a good academic standing is that a GPS to is a GPS free, I think we can sort of resolve that became not we don't really need to take our time in the call to do that.

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JLopezMolina: And then we can add that to the details of the flyer that is like.

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JLopezMolina: Any other document or any other comments before we move on to the next item.

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JLopezMolina: Alright, well, the next item on the agenda is the Finance Committee report, and I will turn it over to hear.

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Keyur Shah: Great.

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Keyur Shah: Hopefully everyone's had a chance to take a look at the financial statements and just as one point here that we were just looking up just to make sure everyone's aware of.

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Keyur Shah: So in the financial statements, I think this is what rob rob was talking about right, so we have been set aside for scholarships here, so the funds that were talking about.

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Keyur Shah: The wording would come out of his designs.

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JLopezMolina: About that retained earnings is not part of the funds right that's.

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Keyur Shah: yeah the restrict we have the the the scholarship funds and then.

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Keyur Shah: I think wasn't it the 12,000 as well, and then we also had the 400,000, but that was part of our operating budget.

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JLopezMolina: let's take care of this part of the operating budget we we don't think we can use it for this, because that's revenue that potentially comes from the theory right.

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Keyur Shah: Right.

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Keyur Shah: It was definitely these two lines, and I was going to make sure.

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Keyur Shah: There was another line that I didn't see.

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Robb: It think it might be in cash.

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Robb: yeah.

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Keyur Shah: Okay.

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got it.

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Robb: yeah it's just gonna be in that cash.

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JLopezMolina: All right, I remember, I just want to again with the scholarship it's 1500 every year, so it's it's not like if we have three 1500 it's.

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JLopezMolina: 4500 the first year 4500 the second year and 40 530 yes, we want to make sure we we have that worked into the budget, I know it's like hits the brain the wrong way when we have.

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JLopezMolina: The way that we look at it on the sheets it's actually a big budget impact.

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JLopezMolina: And then, just the.

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Keyur Shah: 1500 yeah.

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Keyur Shah: i'm good.

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Keyur Shah: I will um.

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Keyur Shah: So with that anyone have any questions on the financial statement, or are we.

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Keyur Shah: So then, with that I will move to approve the financials.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: hi.

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Keyur Shah: i'm.

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Keyur Shah: Great but then I think the other item that we wanted to discuss was the budget amendment so that was because.

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Keyur Shah: We had certain areas that we were over lunch, we had spent.

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Keyur Shah: You know, due to a lot of the the initiatives we had to the covert and some of the learning loss mitigation and that we had.

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Keyur Shah: So we spent overspend in certain areas, and on that was to be covered by some of the grant revenue that we're receiving this this year.

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Keyur Shah: And so we've done an amendment to kind of reflect the additional revenue, as well as you know, to kind of offset expand expenses, so that the budget still at a balanced budget, so I don't know if everyone had a chance to look at the the amendment.

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Keyur Shah: And then they won't have any questions on that.

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Keyur Shah: We can, I think Courtney correct me if i'm wrong, but we do need to vote on the amendment right Okay, so no one has any questions on the environment, I moved that we thought to approve the budget amendment.

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JLopezMolina: I can.

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Keyur Shah: On paper.

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Keyur Shah: I.

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Keyur Shah: think that was all we had from the Finance Committee there's nothing else really up note.

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Keyur Shah: The main thing was the budget amendment that we discussed during our meeting.

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JLopezMolina: Great next item on the agenda is the cover 19 update, I will turn it over to Mr Brown.

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travisbrown: Right.

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travisbrown: Good evening again so um quick update as the Board is aware coming off to the break we we decided to go to go remote.

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travisbrown: For the first couple weeks coming up from break due to the fact that a large number of our teachers tested positive for the coven 19 virus, we came back, we actually came back in person, that we are this week, so it was a pretty risky move with.

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travisbrown: The authorizes coming in and going through the entire tire renewal process but, again, we did it for the safety of the Community and just because of the teacher shortage.

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travisbrown: Courtney, a lot of the work that was done in terms of getting getting testing on site getting multiple vendors on site, the test our teachers and also our students was really orchestrated arm really well by by Courtney.

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travisbrown: Because I agree with authorizes she is the gym so she really she really supported that so our students started to come back come back this week and everyone that comes back, they have to get it, they have to produce a negative colby test those students are are coming back.

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travisbrown: Teachers tested last week of strategically last week, Tuesday, so all the teachers came in last week Tuesday.

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travisbrown: got the negative testing about 98% of the teachers tested negative last week only 2% tested positive, so we work with those teachers so where we're fully where where we're back in the swing of things back in person, right now, and still the testing will remain.

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travisbrown: up and running and but it's just great to coming off for the break being back in person, so that that and whisker lindo spoke about it there's just a difference between online and being in person, so our babies, the back end and.

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travisbrown: Back in their seats and learning and we're just going to keep testing and keep monitoring.

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travisbrown: The Cobra rates in our Community school district, but also went to school, but I think we're in a good place right now to continue.

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Tamara S.: If I can just interject as a parent, I just want to thank you guys for making an easiest parents to be able to come into the school and do the testing for the kids because those lines along.

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Tamara S.: So thank you.

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Tamara S.: you're welcome.

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travisbrown: Yes, what and so, while we, we tried to really locate a number of vendors because yeah we sort of lives out there, so.

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travisbrown: appreciate the kind words yeah we we wanted to make sure it was easy for our staff and students to really get something as simple as a test now so we don't have was hard so we tried to take some of that burden off of our Community.

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travisbrown: But that's all courtney's hard work, I wish I could take some credit for that, but courtney's really crushing it in that area.

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JLopezMolina: Any questions.

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JLopezMolina: Alright, so, then I will turn it over to Courtney for a BP HC to solution update.

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Courtney Russell: Thank you so much alyssa.

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Courtney Russell: Are you available, do you want to grab that.

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Alissa Nann: we're sure we're done.

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Alissa Nann: um we successfully dissolved in Delaware you know everything was stopped signed and documented that we needed a certificate of dissolution was filed in Delaware.

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Alissa Nann: Think in December, I think it was around November, we have a signed copy back in December, and then we spoke with allison at orrick about taking care of we were also the entity was also registered to do business in New York, so it had to also be.

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Alissa Nann: cancelled and the New York and so she just needed the sign copies of things from Delaware we sent her those and she took care of what she needed to do on our end in New York, so it is, it is done, it is no longer.

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JLopezMolina: works any questions on that i'm assuming no it's not.

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JLopezMolina: As many questions related to.

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JLopezMolina: The next item on the agenda is the Culture Committee report did we have an opportunity to have a Culture Committee with me over the last month.

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Sara  Jean-Jacques: We didn't meet this month.

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JLopezMolina: Okay.

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JLopezMolina: All right, so then we'll push that the next item is the academic committee report i'll turn it over to prior to.

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Briar Thompson [she|her]: We actually used our time, as a committee, this week to prep for the boy very helpful and spend some time in particular to graduation rates but I don't think anything we need to relate, because we all feature that earlier this week.

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JLopezMolina: Right so, then the next item on the agenda is the executive director support alter or shoot Mr Brown.

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travisbrown: Good evening everyone.

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travisbrown: i'm wanting to spend this time tonight sharing a couple of exciting opportunities with the board and really teasing this up for the board, because I think it could be a game changing opportunity our.

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travisbrown: Attendance rates of coming back to normal no suspension so we're in terms of the day to day.

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travisbrown: pieces of the school, everything is up and running fine at the next board meeting will have a lot of data, because it's become it's interim assessments our next week and we're coming to the end of the term so we'll have data on health of the school.

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travisbrown: During february's of february's board meeting, but one of the things I want to share tonight is we recently took a trip down to hbc you Delaware State University and.

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travisbrown: Delaware State University, this is where I spoke with the academic committee meeting a little bit acted with the academic committee a little bit about this.

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travisbrown: On Tuesday, one of the things we went down, we went down to Delaware state they invited us down there, because they actually came to the school and awarded 21 of our scholars with.

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travisbrown: With acceptance letters, so we went down there to check out Delaware State University again as a historically black college.

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travisbrown: And just to see what it's all about, and one of the big initiatives that they've been doing is they've been partnering with schools.

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travisbrown: To create early college programs, and they have one school in brooklyn and they actually have a site that's on their campus is called early college at Delaware State University.

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travisbrown: And what that allows students to do is take college level classes and many of the student it gives the students, the opportunity to actually get get an associates degree, but that by the time they step out of high school.

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travisbrown: And they want to enter in a partnership with us to do the same thing to be their second school in New York, that that that is inserted a full partnership to create an early college program for students who.

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travisbrown: who choose to go that route and the way they the way they would do it because, as you know, they're in Delaware so it's not like they bring up professors.

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travisbrown: On the ground here, but they have a pretty robust.

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travisbrown: Virtual learning platform and they want to do it, where a teacher would be in a classroom What about teachers will be in a classroom and the Professor would be on a screen like this.

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travisbrown: And it will be a tag team effort so they want to bring rigor to the high school so that students and high school taking college.

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travisbrown: college level courses, the students that can actually.

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travisbrown: handle it at the time and gain credits so by the time they graduate from high school they're actually many of them get an associates degree from Delaware State University.

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travisbrown: And they want to insert a full partnership so they want to bring they are they offering camp at summer camp opportunities to our students and.

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travisbrown: Just a lot of a lot of different things, because they really love our school they think it's a really good partnership for them, and I wanted to bring it to the board to.

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travisbrown: to really get thoughts around Is this something that we should fully you know investigate further or the board like like let's slow down here.

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travisbrown: So i'll pause there for some initial reactions in and coming on board meetings out get more information if the board feels like this is a good route to go now.

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Tamara S.: I don't know if i'm able to speak because I think voting yet efficiently, but i'm gonna say I do love that idea and just So the first thing that came to my mind was student loans and so many students come to college with so much debt, and I think the fact that they can.

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Tamara S.: come out with an associate's degree.

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Tamara S.: And I have to take out student loans is a great idea.

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Tamara S.: Is.

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travisbrown: going to.

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travisbrown: tell you them, sir.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: No my my audio dropped for a second when you're talking citing is there a cost to us to implement this.

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travisbrown: Yes, so it's it's about $3,000, of course.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: And we would absorb that or that the students would or both.

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travisbrown: We will absorb it.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: You would absorb it okay.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: I mean i'll say I should probably leave with I love this idea and given my statement earlier about getting kids not only to college with through college, this is, I think a nother strategy to do so.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: So this really appeals to me and i'm like I can't wait to learn more like I do have more specific questions like how many.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: In like the inaugural class when you thinking, what is the requirement GPA or, like previous coursework children will have had students and young adults will have had to take.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: Is it automatically then like really more setup for the seniors or the juniors and again, you may have said all that my audio is cutting in and out.

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travisbrown: Oh no I didn't this was really just throw an idea out there, but we are talking.

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travisbrown: Is a couple of early college schools out there.

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travisbrown: So there's the one that Dell state um you know that's the one that's on downstate campus so we started to engage.

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travisbrown: The principal and the executive team is also bar that has a number of school some in New York and other were early college.

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travisbrown: we've just spoken to the executive director and there's different early college models so in some models it's open to.

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travisbrown: Some models it's the students, due to their freshman and sophomore year as a high school they finished all the high school requirements and then 11th and 12th grade.

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travisbrown: They just do college some models they start you know, over time, so they take some in ninth grade 10th grade 11th grade to 12th grade so there's different models out there.

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travisbrown: That we haven't really you know fully fleshed out yet if this is still in Cohen, in terms of we still in the idea phase and and.

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travisbrown: trying to figure out if this is something that will work for the school I share with them, this is a, this is a big decision for us and has to be something that the Board is on board with us to fully.

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travisbrown: To fully go down and become an early college school because there's one thing to take a couple of dual credit courses that we already do.

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travisbrown: it's another thing to say let's sit freshman in college classes let's sit sophomores in college classes and get an associate's degree, but there's a there's a benefit to graduating with.

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travisbrown: college, a number of college credits this the stats shown as students are more likely to graduate from college if they finish high school, what about 20 college credits.

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travisbrown: And there's this data, this data on that number and there's also a debt is like a dead issue 60 college credits that trait that are transferable you can spend you'll spend less money going to college so there's some there's some big.

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travisbrown: there's some big benefits to it if done.

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Alissa Nann: I think it's a great I think it's a great idea certainly worth talking about more and exploring I think it's a great idea I was able to take advantage of something similar in high school and graduate early and I know that was a big.

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Alissa Nann: You know, financial benefit for my parents um, so I think it's definitely worth worth getting more information and talking about.

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JLopezMolina: Right.

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Tahina (Ty-ee-nah) Perez: I agree, I think it.

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JLopezMolina: sounds like a really.

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JLopezMolina: Good program and.

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JLopezMolina: My, the only thing I want a little bit more information on this what's the cost of like budget impact to us.

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JLopezMolina: And how many classes, can we offer and how do we balance that that's, the only thing that i'm sort of thinking about.

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travisbrown: So, and I could bring that information to.

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travisbrown: To the board around cost and just the numbers and how many kids can be included, and also, I want to what just so the board knows where.

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travisbrown: we're going to pilot one or two classes with them in the spring, that makes sense electives just to see.

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travisbrown: How the format, the online format makes sense, so we're trying to dip our toe in a little bit to see if it because we don't want to go in something.

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travisbrown: full speed ahead and get excited about it, if it doesn't make sense that the Professor on zoom or whatever with the with the teacher in the classroom so where we're going to choose some an elective course of whatever because they open up the entire catalog to us.

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travisbrown: And, except for some things that they can that they can't like aviation.

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travisbrown: Because they are big time aviation school, but they actually want to bring our kids to aviation camp.

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travisbrown: In the summer, because they want pilots, which is a very you know Delaware state i'm learning is a very interesting school.

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travisbrown: it's a very interesting hbc you like they have an equestrian team it's a weird it's a weird.

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travisbrown: A good way or place really but they want our kids around exposure and rigor and things like that, so you not only want to partner with us, with the class, they also want to bring kids to the campus to to to yeah good way Brian that's right but on a campus to get exposure to aviation.

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travisbrown: A question or type stuff that they're that they're doing that they're involved in so um so yeah i'll get all a little bit more information, as we, as we go along and see if this is just a good a good fit for both sides.

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Stacy S: Definitely sounds good, I, like the good weird as well.

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Stacy S: And I guess i'm i'm thinking i'm hoping it's going to work out and the fact that we have soon as that will be attending.

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Stacy S: As freshmen is they can do some sort of alum type of connection with the students back at home with them being on campus and are rising students taking on.

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Stacy S: A few classes there, so I think obviously any instance in which you're not going to be in in depth, as I am currently and I don't know who else is here, but um it would have been wonderful for me to be able to.

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Stacy S: Take a few courses prior and high school and know that I have half half of that to go and half the expense and also taking away the stigma of you know.

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Stacy S: graduating high school and going to college and it's this whole new world it's like both of those worlds would be merged at a early age in which they can kind of combat those types of fears that you go into going into college.

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Tamara S.: You have.

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Tamara S.: One quick question.

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Tamara S.: um now once they come out of the early program you know with us, or they like contract binding to continue at Delaware state.

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travisbrown: So um so know the way the way it would work is if we partner with it, they will be accepted, to Delaware state as ninth graders that will be the first college acceptance there'll be.

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travisbrown: there'll be actually Delaware state students also.

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travisbrown: And then, once they graduate from high school, some of them let's say if you you do the 60 credits they'll get it they'll get an actual degree from Delaware state David and associates degree.

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travisbrown: If you get if you meet the associate degree requirements, then at that time you could take your credits and they.

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travisbrown: And they make sure the credits that you take a transferable to a number of school, you can take those credits and go anywhere you want.

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travisbrown: But what Dell Dell state is saying that they want to make a commitment we get into this, they want kids to have access to actually go to del state, if they so choose after they graduate so Dell state is about $30,000 out of state a year so.

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travisbrown: Those two years it really shrinks the number of course in us and they're willing to work with us to figure out how that third year can get paid also.

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travisbrown: So it's figuring out figuring out that third year because they want to make it accessible to students after they get out to continue to drink if they like Dale state but they're not bound to del State University.

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Alissa Nann: and try as hard trap, so you said there it's it's basically like accredited college credits that they've earned that can transfer to whoever will accept the credits from downstate which should be well.

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travisbrown: yeah and then they showed us the website where you can go to see which colleges have stepped their credits and.

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travisbrown: and go from there yep.

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01:17:32.250 --> 01:17:39.360
Briar Thompson [she|her]: Because it was travis floating that idea, regardless of the details with laurie while she's around.

476
01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:43.680
travisbrown: yeah I think I don't think it would hurt yeah.

477
01:17:44.670 --> 01:17:50.010
Briar Thompson [she|her]: Just to get it like a few was like oh my God no that would be helpful for him, I doubt it will be, but.

478
01:17:50.730 --> 01:18:02.490
travisbrown: yeah, I think, so I think she's a good sounding board for a lot of things and and i'm pretty sure she also could have potential connection with these other schools that have done it because there's a number of schools that.

479
01:18:03.690 --> 01:18:05.010
travisbrown: got involved in this way.

480
01:18:06.300 --> 01:18:07.080
Sharon Beier: With colleges.

481
01:18:08.580 --> 01:18:21.150
Alissa Nann: And they just it just made me think of something when he said in the spring, the pilot program not flying pilots, but testing the program pilot will be electives I was just thinking about.

482
01:18:21.180 --> 01:18:33.600
Alissa Nann: Are there resources, either at pharaoh start at delta state or bullets that will talk about like maybe prioritize these types of classes, because they're more transferable like the core you know, like the core classes, do you.

483
01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:35.040
Alissa Nann: Take in your first two years of college.

484
01:18:35.070 --> 01:18:44.010
Alissa Nann: Anyway, kind of anywhere, as opposed to like something like um what maybe more fun and interesting elective just to make it, you know, like maybe.

485
01:18:44.610 --> 01:18:48.060
Alissa Nann: Aviation doesn't transfer to like nyu or something like.

486
01:18:48.060 --> 01:18:57.360
travisbrown: That or less well we're so that's a great point we're talking to Dale state and they're helping us look at those those core selections and we're also talking to.

487
01:18:58.590 --> 01:19:07.890
travisbrown: Early college at Dell state to see which one is transfer and that their challenges or opportunities that came up because of this program so.

488
01:19:08.490 --> 01:19:20.940
travisbrown: So we're so we're you know we're trying to cover our bases and do a lot of research on those things but we're seeing that Dell state is looking at it like there's a lot of entry level college classes.

489
01:19:21.390 --> 01:19:21.870
travisbrown: That we.

490
01:19:21.990 --> 01:19:25.020
travisbrown: Could that we could expose kids to in high school.

491
01:19:25.260 --> 01:19:27.090
travisbrown: So, like English composition one.

492
01:19:28.560 --> 01:19:29.010
Alissa Nann: Like.

493
01:19:29.160 --> 01:19:37.680
travisbrown: Opposition to college algebra and because one thing that they'll stay stands on they don't offer remediation classes.

494
01:19:38.130 --> 01:19:44.460
travisbrown: Like they're like kids don't need remediation classes, they need better teachers from the entry level math the 100 level math.

495
01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:51.690
travisbrown: mathematics and English classes so classes like that they believe that, because these are common all across our country.

496
01:19:51.930 --> 01:19:59.010
travisbrown: But they believe that they can bring that down to high school and increase the River so kids have those foundational courses, some of which.

497
01:19:59.610 --> 01:20:09.600
travisbrown: kids have to take, but they don't earn credits for and they pay for so they want to do a lot of that work at the high school level, but to answer your question we're doing a research to make sure that.

498
01:20:10.200 --> 01:20:14.280
travisbrown: we're smart about the credits kids get so they're just not empty credits that they can use.

499
01:20:22.350 --> 01:20:23.700
travisbrown: So it sounds like.

500
01:20:24.060 --> 01:20:36.300
travisbrown: We can keep going down this road, a little bit and i'll bring more information, more details to the board i'll push it first through the academic committee if that's okay academic committee members, so that we can.

501
01:20:37.350 --> 01:20:39.720
travisbrown: kick the tires on it then bring it to the full board.

502
01:20:41.280 --> 01:20:42.480
JLopezMolina: yeah I like that strategy.

503
01:20:48.090 --> 01:20:50.430
JLopezMolina: Anything else for the executive directors report.

504
01:20:51.060 --> 01:20:51.930
travisbrown: No that's all I had.

505
01:20:51.960 --> 01:20:52.350
Net.

506
01:20:54.420 --> 01:20:56.910
JLopezMolina: Alright, so, then I will.

507
01:20:58.470 --> 01:20:59.910
JLopezMolina: Talk about gas.

508
01:21:02.250 --> 01:21:11.910
Courtney Russell: Alright, how they exciting stuff covert and gas, here we go so great news, yes, we have heat the building is feeling, really, really good even better news.

509
01:21:12.270 --> 01:21:16.680
Courtney Russell: I think I had warned you all, in particular the Finance Committee that we were worried about the booster.

510
01:21:17.340 --> 01:21:29.430
Courtney Russell: We thought that there might have been some damage caused by the initial plumbers and I think it was yesterday, we found out that the booster is not damaged, which is about a $70,000 win for us.

511
01:21:30.450 --> 01:21:43.500
Courtney Russell: So that's great news, the company that works and knows about that came in, they were able to reset things so we're probably not 100% functional but probably 90% i'm still a little bit chilly in certain rooms, but overall.

512
01:21:44.580 --> 01:21:50.730
Courtney Russell: much, much better than it was you know over the winter break, so the only major outstanding thing is.

513
01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:59.670
Courtney Russell: We met with an insurance adjuster who came out to the school to inspect the site i've given him all the invoices and we're waiting to see.

514
01:22:00.750 --> 01:22:10.230
Courtney Russell: You know if they're able to pursue a claim there one other thing I did just think about, we also had a conversation about a week ago with the old plumber.

515
01:22:11.010 --> 01:22:14.910
Courtney Russell: To really plead our case in terms of you know, being a public charter school and.

516
01:22:15.660 --> 01:22:20.910
Courtney Russell: Having limited funds and seeing if they're willing to work with us, we still have a few invoices that need to be paid.

517
01:22:21.420 --> 01:22:32.310
Courtney Russell: And we just want to see if there's any way we can kind of come to a meeting of the minds, even though that they know that they did not complete the job we want to see if, hopefully, they can make right on behalf of kids.

518
01:22:33.390 --> 01:22:45.900
Courtney Russell: funny story they told me that the reason the new plumber was able to finish the job in two weeks was because they did so much work leading up to that, but that's why they fixed it in two weeks, and I said Okay, so I just kind of let that comment be.

519
01:22:47.130 --> 01:22:53.760
Courtney Russell: But overall we're in great shape and really, really happy and grateful to have the the heat back, first and foremost for the children and the.

520
01:22:54.300 --> 01:23:01.620
Courtney Russell: staff, but I also think going into the daily renewal visit it was really great to have heat we had lot more and lori because it was like down to the wire.

521
01:23:02.700 --> 01:23:07.440
Courtney Russell: But secondarily it was it was really good to have it for for them as well, so all is good.

522
01:23:08.790 --> 01:23:09.270
Courtney Russell: that's good.

523
01:23:10.770 --> 01:23:11.220
Courtney Russell: Thank you.

524
01:23:17.250 --> 01:23:17.850
JLopezMolina: For your.

525
01:23:20.610 --> 01:23:23.730
Alissa Nann: renovation here and I feel like I heard that from everyone, we had to replace.

526
01:23:26.130 --> 01:23:37.350
Alissa Nann: I just had a question I just was remembering, I think the one board meeting I actually ended up attending in person, did we talk about starting a facilities committee or am I, making that up.

527
01:23:42.510 --> 01:23:47.040
Courtney Russell: I think we have talked about like if something came up that was needed, and so, when.

528
01:23:47.610 --> 01:23:48.180
Courtney Russell: We give.

529
01:23:48.690 --> 01:23:55.620
Courtney Russell: yeah exactly and one of the things we did either last month or the month before when we find ourselves getting kind of in that position, the board had nominated rob.

530
01:23:56.460 --> 01:24:05.010
Courtney Russell: If any quick decisions made it to me, we made fortunately we didn't have anything else that came up, but I think that was how we worked on resolving a potential issue there.

531
01:24:08.730 --> 01:24:10.020
JLopezMolina: Alright, well, thank you Courtney.

532
01:24:10.950 --> 01:24:25.680
JLopezMolina: It was a great update have that ends the structured section of the evening, and now we move into our less structured executive session, I think, basically we're taking everyone who is a board member out, except for Courtney.

533
01:24:28.260 --> 01:24:29.040
JLopezMolina: I think that's right.

534
01:24:29.670 --> 01:24:30.870
Alissa Nann: And I asked one more question.

535
01:24:30.930 --> 01:24:39.060
Alissa Nann: Before yes absolutely since we've had the meetings, since we started this hasn't been any more update for me on getting.

536
01:24:40.410 --> 01:24:41.700
Alissa Nann: New board members approved.

537
01:24:43.650 --> 01:24:54.810
Courtney Russell: I was surprised I thought it might have come up you know, in your conversation or otherwise, so one thing is, we we haven't, in my opinion, really touched on much for organizational health.

538
01:24:55.620 --> 01:25:03.810
Courtney Russell: which encompasses board governance, nor have we talked about finance it's been very heavily academically focused so they're also hasn't been an opportunity for me to.

539
01:25:04.710 --> 01:25:15.150
Courtney Russell: kind of dig a little bit so i'll see how the meetings go in the next couple of days, and if for any reason, we don't go there i'll put in another ticket and with the dmv because it's been a few months since I put the first one in.

540
01:25:15.930 --> 01:25:22.710
Courtney Russell: inquiring not since we submitted applications, but since I put a ticket in trying to push a little bit so i'll see how things go in the next couple of days.

541
01:25:23.820 --> 01:25:25.380
Courtney Russell: Thanks yeah Thank you.

542
01:25:28.980 --> 01:25:29.760
Sharon Beier: hi everyone.

543
01:25:30.750 --> 01:25:38.580
JLopezMolina: So yes, everyone stays except for for Mr Brown and Maria you're free to go.

544
01:25:40.680 --> 01:25:41.790
Tamara S.: Do I stay as well.

545
01:25:42.750 --> 01:25:49.170
JLopezMolina: Oh yeah you can say absolutely I think that's you know if you if you haven't been confirmed as a board member, you can stay here.

546
01:25:50.040 --> 01:25:51.630
jarrodsowell: So am I staying where, am I going.

547
01:25:51.990 --> 01:25:52.560
JLopezMolina: you're staying.

548
01:25:52.830 --> 01:25:54.810
jarrodsowell: Okay, just just checking yeah.

549
01:25:54.870 --> 01:25:56.790
travisbrown: i'd be my last day know my goal.

550
01:25:57.210 --> 01:26:00.150
JLopezMolina: you're going, you can go you're free to go God.

551
01:26:04.350 --> 01:26:05.880
JLopezMolina: All right, and I know we're recording.