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Board Goals/Norms for this year

Aspirations – first 3 from Andria

1. Always to keep GGA and the students center to commitments and conversations and all we do in this space
2. Jesuit presupposition: give everyone the benefit of the doubt
3. Presence – mind and body
4. Keep the main thing the main thing (Nia)
5. Take our own temperature: how we’re performing against our expectations/aspirations (Nia)
6. Grows and glows (Nia)
7. Bring your whole self (Maria)
8. Get to know the team – board, staff, teachers, students, parents (Ricardo)

We’ll revisit during our year together

• Executive Director position description is incomplete and needs our attention
• Board on track historical files
  • Organize from the beginning of the school
  • Telling the history of the school
• Read up (all the PDFs) about ASPIRE
  • New framework
• Learn about DC CAPE 2.0
• Last week attended DCPCS Board for leaders and board chairs
  • Get clarity on DC budget impacting education
• Bellweather governance training
  • Pop quiz: this is what everyone should know about your school
    • The school’s mission

Will be provided by Andria. More to come.

• See attachment for details
• 200 enrolled at the moment
  • We did a budget for 170 students
  • Will update budget to reflect enrollment
  • Count date is Monday, October 6th 
    • will determine Per-Pupil Allotment revenue amount
• ASPIRE
  • School Progress
  • School Achievement
  • School Environment
  • School-Specific Performance
  • 18 different categories (green shows improvement)
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bbJqwImcnzYu8xtpQQjqc1LjFwSbZTc6kIjAatkUQLM/edit?usp=sharing 
• Conditions as prescribed by the PCSB
  • Improvement has happened
• ASPIRE Key Metrics Now
  • Chronic Absenteeism
  • 9th Grade on Track
  • Re-enrollment
  • College and Career Acceptance
  • MAP Growth
  • How can the board support on tracking this?
• Lessons learned from enrollment process to get to 200 students
  • Solid plan
  • Positive phone calls home to current students
  • Additional support to Julie
  • Started outreach earlier
  • Students sharing information with prospective students
• Make Dashboard an agenda item for each Board meeting

200 students enrolled

We've all received calendar of GGA events.

Please commit to at least 2 events during the course of the year. 

Just the highlighted events.

Board Events~Global Gathering_Recruitment & Retention SY25-26 - Google Sheets

The year before last we had 15% board giving.

Last year we got to 86%. 

Our GOAL is 100%. Please commit to giving whatever you can. It doesn't have to be high level.

Campaign is coming up - October 2025 with official launch in December with Giving Tuesday.

Board giving is calculated by school year, not calendar year.

Key Performance Indicators - forecast for end of year as of August accounting closing.

Key issues here

• With new enrollment, budget will need to be updated. Current budget planned with 170 students.
• Payment of OSSE loan $150,000. Will be revisited.
• City Bank - spoke about investing excess cash

Need to revisit with landlord and keep this at top-of-mind throughout this year.

Purchases that are not paid via invoice or recurring expense.

Want to get approved up to a certain number of declining balance cards (PEX - pre-paid debit card that's reloadable; each card with different limits). Approval process would not change, and no policies need to be updated. The impact is not everyone needs to come to Karen to get the 1 card that Karen holds.

Names for potential parent board members next week.

Ivory and Wilnie have stepped down in addition to Jessica.

Need to have an odd number of board members. 

Included in Executive Session minutes