Celebration of Black History Month

• Spirit Days
• Led by an employee working group

January + February

• Basketball Season
  • The girls' team has made it to the final four
• 8th Grade Statehouse Visit
• Emma Donnan's Birthday
• High School Match Day Celebration
  • 8th Grade Celebration
  • Adelante worked with 8th graders to explore different high school options and how it ties to long-term planning
  • 76% of our 8th graders matched to a high school of their choosing
  • High schools from around the area came to see their new scholars

Strategic Planning

• At year five, a view forward to see where we are going to be heading in the future
• ADVISA's work is what we call our Strategic People Planning, not "Strategic Planning"

Our Path

• Closed RFP
• Engaged with partners
• Feedback and Funding
  • Kristy and Rachel worked with Eddie and Bellweather to ensure that the agreement is what we're looking for. Added to the budget. 
• Agreement
• Adelante

Bellwether

• National reputation with various sizes of schools
• Approach: Decide, Define, Communicate
  • Illuminate the decisions that we will be leaning into and what we won't be
  • Codify what the key actions/initiatives are through our team
  • How we communicate this to all stakeholders
• Phases
  • Phase 0 in March
  • Phase 1 April
  • Phase 2 May
    • Looks at financial health and the local landscape
  • Phase 3 June
  • Implementation Ready by July 1
    • August Board Meeting Update on the Path Forward
• Stakeholders
  • Leaders, Teachers, Students, Families
  • Steering Committee
  • Project Lead
  • Board

• CSP - School received a 2 million dollar grant due to getting a high score on the application. An additional request for 1 million dollar will be filed this week.
• Lilly - 220,000 Phase 2 grant to focus on science, social studies, development, and the arts. This has been submitted. Phase 3 is currently in development.

There has been an updated budget in front of the Finance Committee in January based upon an enrollment increase and a significant increase in funding. The Finance Committee is seeking a Full Board of Directors vote.

N. Frech had a question regarding a line item that demonstrated an increase. J. Habayeb stated that was due to the initial $50,000 LIlly phase one grant.

SY25-26 & SY26-27 calendars have been proposed in line with IPS's push to schedule out calendars in two-year, as opposed to one-year, increments.

To propose & adjust the calendar for IPS, the Executive Leadership team met to discuss. Feedback was solicited from teachers and families via a survey.

Only minor changes from the IPS calendar:

- SY 26-27 begins in mid-,as opposed to the beginning, of August.

School receives additional funding for K-3 teachers based upon our IREAD-3 scores. Funding is equally divided between instructional staff members.

Vote is requested to review the policy which is a template from the IDOE. It states that once the money is received, it is directly forwarded to teachers.

M. Staten asked if the amount shifted this year. J. Habayeb confirmed that the funding increased this year.

Overall Goals

• Review and update of finance policies
  • Presented in the June meeting
  • Approval in June
• Setting Process and view of Boosting benefits using investments

Goals:

• Board Succession Planning
  • Board members are nearing the end of their terms
  • What key elements are needed to ensure we have a strong board
• Development Plans for Board Members
  • Board structure that aligns with the direction of the school
• Action Steps for Recruitment
  • Recruitment profiles
  • More targeted outreach
  • Recruitment materials
• Succession
  • More of a call it "training" process/hand-off process to ensure that knowledge is transferred 
• Creating a Governance Dashboard

Goals

• Yearly approve the annual goals of achievement goals
• Each of the board meetings ensures that data is there
• Annually review the school's handbook

Checkpoint Two Data:

• Checkpoints are new this year and are a pilot

Oral Reading Fluency Data

See the attached deck from the Academic Committee to review the data presented.

KK: Is there a difference between the two checkpoints?

Franz: The checkpoints assess different skills 

Oral Fluency BOY Breakdowns

• See slide "Oral Reading Fluency BOY Breakdowns"

Math Checkpoint

• Increase in approaching proficient
• Similar to ELA - Different Standards

NF: How do we ensure that the standards addressed in one CP is still being tracked

Rooney: We spiral in using daily assessments after Q3 so that all standards from the whole year are covered. 

Data Celebrations

5th Grade - Doubled % of scholars proficient compared to the 2024 Spring ILEARN

7th Grade - Similar trend

Progress Towards OEI Goals

1: Approaching

2: On Track

ELA Response to Data

- Friday Reteaches

- Building Fluency and Written Expression 

Math Response to Data

- Friday Reteach

- Explicit Concept Explorations

Foundational Literacy Data

- Total At/Above 33.7%

Response to Data:

- Data Responsive Instruction

- EOY Proficiency Goals