F.W. Parker Charter Essential School
Minutes
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion October Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday October 19, 2022 at 7:00 PM
This meeting is hosted online. http://parker.school/deicommittee
Committee Members Present
B. Harrigan (remote), G. Penna (remote), J. Green (remote), L. Hayner (remote), P. Gordon (remote), R. Whalen Crockett (remote), S. Razzetti (remote), T. Testa (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
A.
Welcome
B.
Generation of Sub-Committee SMART GOAL 2022-2023
Discussion of how SMART GOALS of 2022-2023 can coincide with student enrollment and staff compensation/retention goals of the board. Brian shared about the brainstorming session he hosted earlier in the month to grow student applications for the January 2023 lottery. He also spoke about efforts to increase teacher compensation and how this is directly affected to enrollment. We are currently short on enrollment and understand that increasing enrollment presents us with an opportunity to further diversity our school.
Discussion evolved into discussing a variety of approaches from attending athletic events, church services, cultural festivals, coffee chats, etc. The goal is to target Leominster, Fitchburg and Ayer. We also discussed how we assess our efforts as we may not collect demographic information on application submissions.
There will be efforts to general list of families to personally reach out to in order to support our efforts.
While we worked to articulate our SMART goals, they were not finalized during the meeting.
III. Other Business
A.
Calendar next meeting.
Next meeting will be held remotely on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 7:00.
Greetings. Everyone shared something they are enjoying about fall.