Bridges Charter School
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Monday March 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM
ONSITE MEETING LOCATION
Bridges Charter School
1335 Calle Bouganvilla, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
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Directors Present
K. Yevmenkina, N. Hashemi, N. Taylor (remote), O. Gunday Heerma
Directors Absent
H. Kruse
Guests Present
C. McCarthy, I. Rhode, K. Brown, K. Simon, R. Calasin
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approval of Agenda
D.
Approval of Minutes
II. Presentations
A.
Reports from PAC
B.
Report from Marlo Hartsuyker, VCOE Director of Charter School Support and Oversite
III. Reports
A.
Report from the Directors
- Westlake Village Symphony- The performance was amazing and all the students were super engaged.
- Dr. Kelly and Khahn will be meeting with Justin and Paul from Growing Minds on March 26th to talk about an agricultural curriculum, a farm to table program, and to provide feedback on garden designs, and to potentially help us with grant funding. https://growing-minds.org
- Nicole Taylor, board member, has connected us with Oxnard Arts in Schools program. A teaching artist will be coming to Marsi's classroom to help the kids create a classroom mural over an 8 week period! Nicole will be featuring the work on the Arts in Schools social media channel.
- Lottery and Enrollment: Erin now has all the passwords needed for social media sites, and we have created a yelp account and a Nextdoor account. She has gathered a list of all the local preschools which see plans to begin contacting and developing an email campaign specifically for preschool programs. She also is beginning to identify local advertising opportunities.
- Our enrollment is currently at 382. We have been tracking classroom attendance with our community for the past four weeks, the following have been the trends; with non classroom based attendance at 100% daily, we will be closer to our goal of 95% if we continue with these trends:
Week 1: 91.2%
Week 2: 93.4%
Week 3: 92%
Week 4: 93.2%
- Our lottery is being held on Thursday. Our goal was to reach 200 students on the lottery list by March 1. We are currently at 177 in our classroom lottery and 98 in our homeschool lottery. Some students are duplicates and have entered both lotteries.
- Our goal for our TK/Kinder lottery was 100 TK/Kinder students by March 1st. We have a total of 89 in our TK/Kinder classroom lottery. Because of lottery numbers for TK and Kinder, and because of our desire to maximize enrollment for CVUSD residents, we will be having a TK/K combination class, a straight TK, and a straight K class. The TK/K split classroom will need an aide for the full school day.
- Mid-Year WASC Visit. The teachers spent a half day of our staff development day on March 4th revisiting our action steps from our WASC visit. We will be hosting a mid-year visit next school year to present on our progress toward our action steps and goals. The action steps identified as us to work on during our last WASC visit were:
- Open House and Art Night. Please mark your calendars for May 15th from 5-6:30 for an open house and art night at our school! We will be showcasing student art, and all of our classrooms will be open for visits from new and current families with our Service Learning Projects on display.
IV. Consent Items
A.
Consent Items
V. Business and Operations
A.
2nd Interim Budget
VI. Special Projects/Programs
A.
Annual Contract with Parsec, NTE $7,500
B.
Verkada Contract, NTE $13,000
This agenda item is being tabled for next month.
VII. Governing Board
A.
Consideration of Changing Board Meeting Times
This agenda item is being tabled for next month.
VIII. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
7:17
3/22 at 6pm
3/23 at 1pm and 6pm
3/24 at 6pm