• Review of the Growth Dashboard 
• Most are still in the green; a few areas yellow (stakeholder engagement, facilities, advocacy)

Recent School Events

• Successful beginning to Dialogues Across Difference
• Speaker Series Event with our own teacher, Brittany Lee-Bey, on etymology 
• One lockdown due to an incident in the neighborhood which happened in the midst of emergency preparedness planning 

COVID Update

• 97% of the faculty is vaccinated; 90% of students are vaccinated; 137 cases since August, but only 1 case in the last 14 days
   

DC PCSB Mid-Year Report

• Have not had a PMF since 2019
• We were compliant in all areas except three including Board meeting minutes submission on time, so encouragement to submit email approval of Board meeting minutes 
• We have had 29 contracts, 7 bids were submitted, and we have been compliant with contracts
• Middle School attendance: 96%
• Upper School attendance: 94.7% 
• Students with a suspension: 2.4% (higher than sector average but lower than high school averages in the city)
• Out of School Suspension Data: we do see disproportionailty within our data with at-risk students and special education students. 
• 14.5% of at-risk upper school students have been suspended at least one time 
• Although we have seen improvement in these numbers since the 2019-2020 school year, we do still see disproportionate numbers of at-risk students suspended
• We are continuing to address this and do not take it lightly. 
• We are working on filling a vacancy for the Assistant Principal for Student Life role. 

Assistant Principal Bill Clausen presented on the four key elements of the curriculum

• Moral issues
  • Seminars 
  • Importance of discussion of issues
• Common Core Standards
• Teacher Choice
• Academic Indices 
  • The most crucial content students should know when they leave a class
  • Each department agrees on key academic indices

• Lottery deadline has closed
• 666 applications for Cooper Campus
• Important is when a school is ranked in the top 3
• Applications dipped last year and is now above 3000 with the new campus opening 

• Encouragement to be a "super host" for the Sweet 16 Gala
• Let Cynthia know so she can start to schedule 
• We think funding from the city will be higher than anticipated

• Excited to fast track Josiah Osgood, current chair of the Classics Department at Georgetown University 

• Education Board Partners talked with members of the Governance Committee to talk about Board member recruitment
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• Update on renovations progress at Edgewood Street
• Update on traffic and parking challenges at Edgewood Street 

• In Executive Session, Board members discussed ongoing real estate negotiations for a permanent site for the Cooper Campus