Mr. Burke reviewed the Dashboard and mentioned that the Academic Committee would be going into details. Mr. Burke spoke of the end of the Semester and that the first week in March will be a recovery week, trying to et scholars to catch up. 

Mr. Burke spoke about the efforts to get everyone vaccinated and talked about the small group of scholars coming in each day to do remote learning with our staff present. 

Mr. Callahan went into some of the Friend of items, and discussed budgeting for proposed construction next year in the back yard and basement, and said he and Architect Charlotte Dewald would visit the school in March. 

Mr. Burke began reviewing the financials and shared his screen. He reviewed the additional report with charts and graphs. Mr. Burke reported that our finances are in good shape. Mr. Burke mentioned that there had been a finance Committee phone call earlier in the week that went into great detail on the financials. 

Mr. Saunders spoke of what the Academic Committee should be doing and then turned it over to Ms. Fuentes, who presented an outline of the information process used to measure academic progress at the school. She went over the types of information on the Dashboard and shared her screen. 

Ms. Fuentes spoke of the SED framework we use to evaluate the school and particularly student performance. There was then a discussion of determining results with out Regetns exams and what we can do. Ms. Fuentes states from past data she sees the improvement made in the last years. 

Mr. Burke reported he was still working on a brochure and annual report draft/mockup, which the board will be reviewed in February/March.

Mr. Callahan reported the Governance Committee meeting and Mr. Saunders added about the BOT info and training we are using. The committee will look into Board training and a retreat this summer, and looking for new board members. 

Mr. Callahn stated there were no public members to make a statement.