Board Retreat: August 19-20 at Canal Street Inn. Confirmation was received only from 2 members. Please confirm.

Next Board Meeting will be in August 17, 2022. 

Graduation: Graduation was very nice. 100% of students graduated. A diverse group of students participated. Good job to the staff for hard work. 

The month of May marked the beginning of the closing of the school year, final exams, graduation, and promotion of the underclasses. 

All students in the class of 2022 successfully completed the requirements for graduation. At the end of the month, the second annual Summer Learning Program began with a variety of course offerings and tracks for students.  

With the resignation of Mr. Wilson as the CEO and the appointment of Dr. Berger as the new CEO, Ms. J. Carreno was appointed as the principal.  

Final Exams occurred for all students during the month of May. 

Baccalaureate Awards ceremonies were held in May. Multiple students were awarded in academics and athletics during these ceremonies. The categories were most outstanding in a course and greatest perseverance in the same course.

Academic staff is working with 11 and 12-month academic staff, facilities, and technology to plan for the beginning of the year.  Based on a document with different areas for team members to identify areas that need close attention during BOY like PD, first weeks of school, technology for students, schedule day, IB, Student support services, facilities, etc.

IHSNO was awarded a $20,000 grant by the Selley Foundation grant at $20,000 to create a Broadcast and Film Center. Students in the film and creative writing classes can experience hands-on learning as they learn to run broadcasted programs throughout the year. 

IHSNO secured a grant through Jazz Empowers to create a student jazz band in 2022-2023. Jazz Empowers will provide the instructor, instruments, and curriculum to the school. 

To build the IHSNO Alumni Association, the Development team created exit surveys for seniors to capture personal contact information to add them to the alumni group. The number of alumni within the association increased to 202 students. 

IT is working on technology collection and repairing broken Chromebooks. Most are still under the 1-year warranty which expires in August. They will be sent to the warranty company for repair. Others will be repaired in-house.

Members of Academic administration are actively conducting interviews to fill vacancies before July. We interviewed for Social Studies, PE, Film, English, Science, and Remediation.   

Treasurer is usually Chair of Finance. Since there is no other member who wants to be Chair of Finance, the suggestion is for Karen Dwyer to continue as treasurer new board member is ready to take on the role by January.

There may be changes in meeting days/times for the upcoming school year. There is a challenge with time commitment of board members. 

Every other month worked well for AC committee. Discussions and reports were more fruitful.

Every other month could work for Facilities Meeting.

Suggestion is to have August board meeting during the Retreat. August 20th Board meeting; No sub-committee meetings in August.

Committee met on June 1 at 6:30 to interview potential members: D. Barnes, T. Winfield, C. Jones.

As of June 15, only 5 board members completed board evaluation. Information gathered from the evaluation will be presented at the retreat.

There are no concerns about the financials for May.

Cudos to Mrs. Smith. Board members need to continue supporting Mrs. Smith to continue to get the job done. 

Summer Learning program has just over 150 students

Recruitment is underway.

Reimagine - 2nd Advisory Committee Meeting was held

ACT - Will use ACT Mastery Prep for ACT Prep program. Still awaiting ACT scores.

9th Grade. Will work with Link Crew mentoring program to retain students.

Student Government has been very active.

PBIS training is underway for staff.

IB projection is 5. Six students took the assessment.

Smartboards are needed. There are 7 and 25 more are needed at a cost of board and installation at $3000 each. 

How can the board help? More visibility from the board, speak positively about IHSNO, visit the IHSNO store.

Grants:

Selley Foundation for media program

Jazz Empowers for jazz music program.

Leslie Scott Porter will no longer be serving on the IHSNO board. The reason is Porter believes that Academics is not a focus and a lack of transparency with data. 

Gail Medford will no longer be serving on the IHSNO board.  Believes there is a lack of transparency on the board. Does not like finding out things after others know. Does not think there was enough of a CEO search. Believes the board is fine with the school being a C school. Thinks there is a different "agenda" for certain board members. 

Today is Amer's final day. Hopes we can get the students to come and speak to the board. Thank you, Shontell, for everything. Appreciate Amer for his service.

Today is Shontell's last day. Thank you for your service, for serving an extra year. We hope to see you at future events. You are still part of the family. Shontell thoroughly enjoyed being on the board.