The ED survey was distributed to Board Members and School Leadership Team. ED will seek to meet again in July to discuss the final details. 

Fun Czar: A Board Member that coordinates gestures of appreciation, and gratitude, engage at school functions, retreat planning, etc. In the past, Shalini has worked on these engagements.

Please complete the Board documents (Code of Interest, Confidentiality Agreement & Code of Ethics) for SY22 & SY23.

GGA "World Recognition" Globe: 

Shalini Benson was the holder of the globe. Laura Bartos was the recipient of the "World Recognition" globe.

Recognizing Marilyn Bowser's impact upon GGA as she departs the GGA Board as one of GGA's founding Board members.

• End of the Year Ceremony:
  • Proud Sisterhood Awardee: Niya Pollard
  • 27 Students with 95% or higher
  • 10 Students with outstanding growth in Math
  • 36 Students for Content Area
    • Set their goals and achieve them
  • 4 Students and 4 Staff Members
    • Scholarship, Sisterhood, Service, and Safety
  • Changemaker Award
    • Voted by the Staff
    • Scholarship, Sisterhood, Service, and Safety
  • Ultimate Recognition of being a Trailblazer
    • 2 Students, 1 Teacher
  • 10 Parents Award
    • Recognizing their Service!
• End of the Year Recognitions: 
  • More than 30% of our students earned honor roll status
  • Over 50% of our students show growth
  • IB verification status was completed in June. 
  • One thousand seven hundred sixty-two hours of service completed!!
  • Fantastic Father-Daughter Brunch!!
  • Students are writing notes to penpals in Uganda. 
  • Juneteenth Celebration with Vital Voices!

The below information pertains to the Communication, Recruiting, & Facility documentation.

• Deploy sustainable communication methods throughout the school year and summer to improve overall branding, reputation, retention rates, and interpersonal relationships with students, staff, and families. 
• Highlights upon:
  • Social media content and participation growth
  • Examines Google reviews & shares opportunities for positive socialization from on-campus onto the reviews
    • A process of working on our reviews by having parents/students write reviews. 
• The summer steps have been included in the Communication, Recruiting, & Facility documentation (pg.4): 
  • redesign website home page, marketing messages for recruitment, increase # of positive reviews, calendar of communication activity, video productions, and summer socials.

Enrollment (pg. 5): 

• The chart discusses the target for SY22-23, the current enrollment as of June 23rd of students for SY22-23, and students who decide not to re-enroll. 
• Celebration for higher enrollment percentage for SY22-23 of 62% in comparison to SY21-22 of 22%!!!

Summer Next Steps for Enrollment: 

• Activities have been scheduled for the summer for our current and future students. 
• Wellness Back Delivery: Staff and Faculty members will visit families during August to deliver goodie bags to current students.
  • Consider putting Calvena's book within the goodie bags!

Summer Next Steps for Recruitment:

• Metro advertisement
• Tabling

Facility Update has been included in the Communication, Recruiting, & Facility documentation (pg.8 & 9):

• Closed on the OSSE loan
• No schedule changes. Demolition begins the week of June 27th
  • We need to ensure that destruction will not have an impact on working.
• Received approval of the permit!
• Facility Updates Document (As of June 20th)

We hope for our vision to be operational and practical. Seeking to elevate and operationalize our sisterhood culture, we hope it will lead to unification amongst parents and students in GGA's belief. We are hoping to have actionable information to share comprehensive, timely, shared items among the leadership team. 

Questions to Consider: 

• Do we believe, as a board, that these are the right focuses?
• Are these the right focuses?
  • They feel right. While there's an internal aspect of the sisterhood culture, we should also consider modeling the external presentation of sisterhood. 
  • A lot of activity can be encompassed within these four leadership focuses. By having a better idea of what's included, we can determine what is not included as an organization. 
  • Actionable Information: Ensuring that we have a systemic way of contributing information such as databases
  • #1, #3, and #4 are foundational support that needs to be in place and robust for #2 to shine through. 
• By focusing on these things, what are we deprioritizing?
• What is the downside risk in prioritizing?
• What should we be monitoring in our monthly dashboard? 
  • Recruitment and retention

By the end of August, we should have KPIs (Key Performer Indicators).

• We designate each focus with differing committees.