S. Wilson-Jones welcomed the trustees and guests and moved the meeting to the CEO report.

N. Wiltshire shared that the KDCA football team won their division. Hersh asked where the team plays and N. Wiltshire shared that the team plays at one of the super sites around the city. Natalie then shared updates about family engagement and advocacy. H. Richman asked if S. Wilson-Jones should join tours with members of the School Board of Philadelphia. N. Wiltshire replied that S. Wilson-Jones could join conversations about our governance. A. Fullard shared that he knows some of the school board members and that N. Wiltshire is taking the right approach to building a partnership with the school board.   

A. Aerts updated the board governance committee goals and opportunities. 

H. Richman asked about goals related to Leadership Council and Young Friends. 

A. Aerts shared that at this time, an expressed goal was not discussed by the committee. N. Wiltshire added that they are not staff priorities, but the board can think through a strategy to revive them down the line. S. Wilson-Jones noted that there is an opportunity to think about how to leverage Leadership Council and Young Friends through the board pipeline work but adding a specific goal is not necessary at this time.

K. Jones shared his excitement about co-chairing the committee and passed the presentation to M. Eigen.

M. Eigen updated the board on changing the committee name from Academics Committee to School Health Committee to better reflect our holistic approach to operating healthy schools. M. Eigen then updated the board on academic achievement and attendance data. 

A. Fullard asked about the strategies we use to catch up students who are not on grade level.

M. Eigen shared that our philosophy is an accelerated learning approach, which allows students to receive grade-level exposure while also receiving targeted support.

T. Llopiz asked about the achievement of students with IEPs and M. Eigen affirmed that students with IEPs are factored into our achievement numbers. 

T. Llopiz then asked about our approach to goal setting. M. Eigen shared that we hold ourselves accountable for moving all students academically and that we set individual student goals. 

M. Eigen then updated the board on attendance trends and T. Algarin asked about our attendance incentives and M. Eigen shared that we implement grade-level appropriate incentives across all of our schools. 

T. Eigen then asked about truancy and M. Eigen shared that there is a structure to support truant families in the District Attorney's Office but we don't leverage it because of their capacity challenges.

A. Fullard asked how we measure attendance of sick students and M. Eigen shared that illness still counts as an absence. 

M. Eigen then updated the board on our social emotional learning (SEL) program. 

T. Llopiz asked how teachers receive training and M. Eigen shared that we have a regional leader who is a social worker by trade who trains principals and assistant principals who then train teachers and we also implement adult SEL work with our staff.

C. Hardie Langston asked about how we observe SEL.

M. Eigen shared that we use rubrics with SEL components for observations.

A. Fullard asked how families are involved.

M. Eigen shared that we've been doing informal communication about SEL but we want to move towards more formal communication structures.

I. Gasiorowski shared a story about an interaction with a family who shared that he is learning SEL skills along with his child because of the work happening in the building.  

A. Sinha updated the board on the committee goals and the fundraising progress-to-goals.

H. Richmond asked a question about how the fundraising pledges and the revised fundraising goal impact the overall budget. B. Cummings shared that will be discussed in the finance presentation. 

H. Richman asked if we could expect an increased number of solicitations by the year-end.

A. Sinha shared that we are spending our efforts in the cultivation space, and there's an opportunity to build our pipeline.

C. Hardie Langston if we know why some donors lapsed and A. Sinha shared that we don't currently have that level of insight. C. Benson added that we didn't have the capacity to do that work and it was the right time to implement this strategy. 

A. Fullard asked if the board had a give/get goal and S. Wilson-Jones stated that the board takes a personalized approach and ended by complimenting A. Sinha on her strategy.

A. Fullard agreed that support starts at the board level and there are other relationships we can leverage in support of our fundraising goals. 

There was no public comment.

There was no new business.

There was no old business.