Group shared what we are looking forward to in November.

Brian and Pam lead discussion on Enrollment; our intent is to have a student body and faculty/staff that is racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse.  Last routine lottery yielded us the most diverse class - 13.5% not white student popultion.

Many efforts ongoing to improve enrollment

-outreach and intelligence gathering on students that apply, accept, and withdraw

-Luciana is likley going to join the enrollment committee

-continuing to establish parent ambassadors from key sending towns

-starting to curate Parker's online presence via Google ratings and Niche.com

-aim is to have diverse alumni tell their Parker stories in an outcomes focused manner

-use our December DEI meeting to focus on messaging we want included in the Parker narrative; also use Dec meeting to learn from enrollment committee what DEI committee can do to support enrollment for remainder of this school year.

What are graduation speeches asking of us - focus on next elegant step/emergent strategies

-collect data to understand the current state of what it's like to be a POC at Parker; focus on recent grads, Juniors, and 7/8th graders

-establish a safe space/affinity space for POC students at Parker; potentially leverage lunch group; be intentional with adult leader of lunch group

-what can BoT do to support POC students, discussion will continue in December meeting on this question