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• Reminder for Board Members to check their Wesley Emails.  
• Going forward board meetings will be in person and committee meetings will be virtual
• Please review the bylaws, specifically the section on attendance
• Chairs & Committee Chairs, please review the calendar and schedule out your meetings for the remainder of the year. 
• Meeting Agendas must be published 1 week prior to the meeting.
• Please reach out to fellow board members for assistance. 
• Since some of the board members have joined the board while being remote and the board has been meeting virtually for the past 2,5 yrs, Kate Boyer will host a social gathering to enhance the engagement. Date TBD

• All  existing board members need 9 hours of board training.  6 of the 9 hours are set up and 3 hours  are up to each board member. New board members require 15 hours of training.  
•  Training resources are availalble on Canvas and for assistance reach out to Ayana Clarke

• Secretary of Board will over see  Administrative Support Position responsiblities. 
• Committee Chairs will schedule meetings and will submit agenda
• Board Meetings going forward will be recorder.   

• Introductions of alll Board Members and attendees

• Ms. Carolyn Griffin and  Ms. Rita Alexander retiring on Friday Dec 16
• Wesley is moving in the right directions in academics and very proud of team and Rachel Goodman's leadership
• Instruction is going very well in all classrooms
• Recognizing Chip Hill and Lisa Price for a flawless audit
• Donica Johnson and Rachel Goodman did a great job with Charter Renewal
• New challenges for next year, adding Stem and Foreign Language
• State renewal will be in January
• Charter goal is to reduce absences to 8% not there yet but still a goal
• Rachel Goodman presents map scores and behavior data. Wesley is outperforming APS
• APS provides schools of same demographic for Wesley to compare test scores 
• Ms. Goodman talked about the stamina of students, was very difficult last year.  Had to take half of math instruction away due to students' attention span
• Attendance rate 94% for December.  Board Member has requested attendance of students for last year
• Crystal Hudson and Ray Edwards presented updates for PYP
• PBIS is working well for Wesley and Families
• Asking both sets of parents to help resolve disputes have been very helpful for both PYP and MYP
• Richard Pavone and Sean Finney presented updates for MYP
• Strategies for discipline have been successful. Cell phones are taken up until the end of each school day

A.Governance Committee Updadte

•   Divisive Concepts Policy for WIA and Enrollment Data Discussion with Jarod Apperson
• Enrolllment is down for all schools in APS.  Jarod had suggested we start to over accept to prevent late notice of acceptance

• Virtual meetings for Committee Meetings.
• Board Meetings will be in person

•  Subcommittee of Governance, provides reports every other month in Governance meeting.
  Meetings not open to the public, as they are personnel related.
   
• Members this year include Doug Hrabe, Ewa Cater, and Kwende Jones.
   First meeting was on Thursday, December 1st to set goals for the year.

D.Approve Executive Director SY 22-23 Goals

1. Teacher retention of 85% for 22-23 school yr. Stretch 90% cut off June 1, 2023
2. Fundraising for the 22-23 school yr $110 with a stretch of $125
3. Student growth will increase by 3% as measured by baseline data from the MAPP assessment in August through the end of the school yr, specifically measuring ELA and Math growth scores. Stretch 5%
4. Student attendance-Decrease by at least 2 percentage points the percentage of students absent 6days or more from 18% to 16%. Stretch 14%
5. Surveys-Establish baseline data by issuing end of the year parent survey. Establish baseline data by issuing end of the year teacher survey. Both administered in May. 

• All data was discussed in Executive Director Comments 
•   Our goal is to be one of the highest academic schools in the state 
• Morning meetings work best for teachers.

• Movember:$19,403
• $13,000 from Vendors
• Board Pledges Forms have been changed and should be completed by end of school year
• Board Members are ask to help network to connect organizations with Wesley.
•  Meet with new fundraising consultant on stratgeies to connect Wesley with Foundations and  the community.  This meeting will only include Committee Chair, ED and Consultant.
• Board Pledge Form approved

• Unaudited funds (July-December) We will have a more balanced budget when we receive Cares and Federal payments

• Congrats to Lisa, Chip and Erline!  We had a clean (perfect)  audit .

• Mid year revision takes in enrollment counts, school leadership is working on expense patterns of declining enrollments for this year 
• Leadership will draft a mid year budget revision for the January Finance Meeting.
• Budget will be voted on in February Board Meeting

No other business was presented. 

Discussed new contracts and resignations.