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Board Training Required for all Board Members

Reminders:  New Board Members must complete 15hours

Existing Board members  require 9 hours.

Traininng for existing board members have 3 hours remaining for this year.

Jan 15 board training remotely this  will account for 3 hours.

All training must be done by June 30.

Some Training is self based.

3 hours are left for existing board members.

New board members will need  6  more hours after January 15.

ED highlights   Superintendent Dr. Johnson came to visit   Very nice to have him

visit and he viewed classes that were not  testing. He visited the whole school and had lot of good things to say about Wesley 

We have made big gains in Lteracy Program by State.

Wesley  received an award for PBIS.  Award represents our school climit and 2nd highest reward for PBIS.

We had a clean audit, and have  for 9 years.

 Literacy night  largest we've had.  

Move update:  Teachers  went to visit on November 5.

Coan has 48 classes but 100,000 more square feet but only 4 more classrooms.

Scope of work will include plumbing, HVAC, Led Lights, Generator, Elevator and Plumbing Fixtures.

Goals: 

Innovative Leaders

Language : 

STEM

2 Academic Goals:

increase CCRPI 4%  

Content MAP  we made progress but did not meet goal.

ELA was 10th highest in district

Math was 9th highest in district

Increase progress 10%  in MYP 94  focus on Science and  PYP  meet progress  goals

Meet goal for targeted outside support

Finance goals: 

 Prevent default on loans or debt

Timely audit  by November 

Goverance:

Complete training

Attend 7 meetings

Legal goals 

Reflect diversity 

Consent Agenda has been introduced to board.  Consent Agenda  will move voting process

to the end or beginning of meeting.  This is a work in progress and a learning

curve for board.  

Consent Agenda pros:

 Vote on everything all together.

 Deep dive into items that need discussion

ED suggest leadership talk about each area.  Hoping to create more discussion on

school now and moving forward. Spend more time with issues. Could create 15 more minutes to dicuss more pressing issues. 

Con:

 Board members will have to look at agenda before meeting.  

Consent Agenda will be voted on at April Board Meeting.

Pavone presents STEM progress:

PD  for STEM sent 12 people to conference .   2 Teachers  are working on certification 

for STEM.

STEM engagements:  

Industrial designer from Chickk Fil A 

GSU and Georgia Tech about 2 different astrology discussions.

Zoo designer for habait 

Engineer for Georgia Transportation to explain runway roads for trucks.

Took 6th grade tour of Water shed  

Speaker on trends,  rise and fall of trends, example social media

Stem Advisory Counsel  ( Adrian Hunter Board Represntaive)

Focus areas for the next semisters, STEM Night

In ACE meeting  Delta Credit Union  (thanks to Donica Johnson).

Will Fund PYP field trip and donated project kits 

Robotics competition next week.  

Federal Cares money has been spent!

We will not continue with a single audit.

Audit can be seen in documents on Board on Track. 

CARES money 480K  we have spent this money and we have received the funding .

All funding comes from FTE

Review,  our revenue is right on track.

Most expenses are compensations and pension.

Clean audit is very hard  to acheive .

Seneca explains the difficulty it takes to have a clean audit.