J. McGill read the WIHS Land Acknowledgement.

Nasreen Mughal-Barrows read the WIHS Mission and Vision

Guests in attendance

• Bill John, Lummi elder and prospective board member
• Shirley Williams, Whiteswan Environmental ED and WIHS co-founder
• Amber Porter, prospective board member
• Katherine Brossard, prospective board member
• Xyan Neider, prospective board member
• AJ Gammons-Reese, WIHS student 
• Tehya Moberg, WIHS student
• ArinNaia Olson, WIHS parent
• Corey Baron, Joule Growth Partners
• Mitch Price, WA Charters Association
• Italiana Hughes, CSC
• Jess Saven Barton, CSC

• Mr. Bill John would like to be a prospective board member. 
• Tehya M. brought concerns about the service animal policy and requested full removal of another animal.
• AJ Gammons-Reese asked about having a student representative on the board, asked about expanding world languages (including Lummi language), police presence on campus, Indigenous students who left WIHS, requesting indigenizing curriculum, increasing the number of after-school programs, teachers and staff talking down to students, co-leading initiatives, supporting students and goals through fundraisers, topics involving communities. One question raised was how we might get transportation to make it easier and safer to increase access to community work?
• Shirley Williams shared opportunities for WIHS to partner with Whiteswan Environmental.

• Signed letter to Bernie Thomas will be sent to invite him to visit WIHS campus. Dawn made contact with Bernie Thomas and he plans to visit after spring break to build partnership with the Lummi Tribe and WE.
• Action item: We need to have a closed meeting within the next 2 weeks to have a sub-set of board members, so we do not have a quorum to create a plan that works for everyone. How to move forward on compensating WE to indigenize the curriculum? 
  • Attendees at the closed meeting: Rachel Rodriguez, Dawn Walker, Whiteswan Environmental, Commission (Jessica de Barros), WA Charters Association reps, Gail Goulet, Corey Baron, Jason McGill

Board recruitment: we are now at five board members, and we are still actively recruiting board members.

PE and Health (Wednesday Wellness): Focuses on mental health and physical well-being to receive all the credits for graduation. 

We are now working with the Commission to work on a Corrective Action Plan, the next step after a Notice of Perceived Problem.

Discussion and clarification of how we receive funding and pay for WIHS students who are in Running Start. Dawn is following up with our registrar to see how WIHS is tracking this because Skyward does not communicate with Cedars, OSPI's electronic tracking system. The school has not received the funds for the Running Start students and WIHS has already paid BTC and WCC for the Running Start students.

1. Background/How did we get here?

Original charter was written at 300 students. Move forward with a small high school model with a supported amendment. Drawback: model presents for little margin for error.

2. Core priorities for SY23-24 budget

Action item: Look at different mental health grants to cover Jordan's salary. Kira is willing to assist with writing any MH grants.

3. Hilltop catering setup last year. $8.50/student/meal - use 3 days/week. We need to investigate ways to decrease food costs. Discussed the option to pull in other smaller, local restaurants and caterers, and partnering with faith-based communities to assist with providing food.

Discussed the importance of partnering through grant writing, using the Grant Tracker, and hiring a grant writer as a staff. 

Action item: We aim to launch the finance committee soon and meet with Bely Luu to discuss fundraising strategies.

Will discuss this at next board meeting.

Dawn shared the School Update and Academic Update

Action items for the April 2023 School Update:

• Dawn will present new enrollment and unenrollment by race
• Add data for ongoing and trends on enrollment and unenrollment. 

Maia Raeder, Art Teacher, shared about students' community service and Phenomenon Based Learning. 

• NWYS Healing Pages book club is choosing another book to read. Jason will extend announcement to WIHS students.
• Get students activated on local events - No New Jail initiative. Jason will connect the NWYS staff with WIHS.

Past Events

• Winter Formal - February 24th
• WIHS Rally for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - March 25th 

Upcoming School Events

• Student Showcase will be April 21st from 2:15-3:30 pm
• Final Student Showcase will be June 9th 

For board members who started board membership after Jan 2022, they have two years to complete the two required equity trainings (one intro and one elective).

For board members who started before Jan 2022, they have four years to complete the two equity trainings (one intro and one elective).

• WA Charters Annual Conference "Reunited, Resilient, and Ready to Rally" - Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center, SeaTac, May 6th 
  • Staff and board member discount $50/person
  • Current/Prospective parent discount $25/person
  • free childcare available

At the conclusion of each meeting, the board will evaluate its success against its norms.

Norms

(Y) or (N) Board members should understand the Mission and Vision of the school

(Y) or (N) Board Agenda should be sent out 24hours to the board.

(Y) or (N) Responding to emails in a 24hr time span

(Y) or (N) All board members should RSVP to meetings through Board on Track