E. Zamora read the WIHS land acknowledgement.

J. McGill read the WIHS Mission and Vision.

Also in attendance:

• Italiana Hughes, CSC (remote)
• Mitch Price, WA Charters (remote)
• Jessica de Barros, CSC (remote)

No public comment.

New LOI from CSC. Our responses are due August 7th: 

• Attendance. Dawn is working on updating reports and will send it in to Commission when due.

1. Evidence of attendance and truancy compliance;
   1. Some students marked absent were physically in building (mental health counselor, nurse, tardy) but not in classroom. Dawn will lead in re-examining the attendance policy and how we're marking attendance in Skyward.
2. Evidence of accurate transcripts;
   1. Transcripts sent to the CSC recently. Dawn has been working with WA Charters to ensure we're getting everything updated and accurate, including previous schools and homeschools. Graduation tracker will be examined and updated. 
   2. A. Lindgren and team will support efforts with Skyward and Qmulative. They will review, update, and organize reporting and documentation systems before SY 23-24.
   3. Deadline to update Skyward is August so scheduling is correctly done for all students. 
3. Documentation:
   1. Academic growth summaries: Uploading documents into Base Camp and EpiCenter including items from the end of last school year. 
   2. Annual school calendar - Approved today by Board.
   3. School-specific goal results - School Specific Goals - Dawn will review the SSGs and update those. We need the goals to be much clearer. Dawn does not have the SSGs yet and will have those ready for August meeting.
   4. Student transfers and exits - have not done overall transfers and exits. Dawn will produce reports from the whole year of student transfers and exits broken down by grade level, race, ethnicity, gender, Special Ed
   5. Annual School Leader Performance - to be discussed further today.
   6. Draft School Specific Goal - New SSGs to be drafted in the near future after we review the School specific goal results for SY 22-23.

• Corrective Action Plan update:
  • Monitor student learning through interim assessments
    • June CAP report new assessment calendar for upcoming school year sent to CSC including benchmark and state-required testing. July CAP will be sent actual dates for when teachers and staff for days to review the assessment data. 
  • Ensure high student participation in interim and summative assessments
    • Higher participation rates from the previous year.
  • Ensure that WIHS daily schedule meets instructional minutes specified in the charter contract and state law
    • Sent to CSC: Questions regarding Instructional minutes including lunch time. 
    • Graduation Tracker and HS and Beyond plan - template showing all students by grade level - Dawn is working on this through two different ideas about the best way to incorporate for students. Staff members to offer Career Explorations class for 9th graders writing initial HS and Beyond plan. 
• Enrollment
  • Current enrollment numbers by grade:
    • Grade 9: Nine students
    • Grade 10: 21 students
    • Grade 11: 28 students
    • Grade 12: 24 students 
  • See the link to the Enrollment dashboard.
    • The reason for two BIPOC students not returning to WIHS is due to moving out of the area.
    • Students who had expressed concerns at previous board meetings are all returning.
  • Fully enrolled at 81 students to date. There are 13-14 prospective students as of today. 
  • WIHS had an Open House yesterday, 10 people attended, and a few more families will do individualized tours. 

Documentation to CSC:

• Course catalog is almost done - to be submitted to CSC.
• CAP monthly update due Jul 31st.
• August LOI due August 7th. 

25 applicants for three teaching positions. Last week, the search committee interviewed 8 candidates, and 6 final candidates.

Two final candidates for two positions, third position still piecing together the Art teacher position. 

Hired a paraeducator at the end of June. 

Goals for the school leader for next school year: Currently discussing and finalizing school leader goals and professional development, including an accountability plan, and evaluation. The report was sent out to board members. 

Report was generated using objective data of CAP responsiveness, budgetary constraints, and Principal/CEO evaluation. Issues and concerns were raised. As a board developed a system that is responsive, and we have begun exploring restructuring to a co-leadership model. We discussed restructuring before meeting with D. Walker's Principal/CEO Evaluation to have a collaborative process, and we were able to meet over the weekend around the concerns and intentions of the board and alignment of mission and vision. The goal is to emphasize accountability for equity.

No racial demographics for incoming students (paperwork not yet completed). 

• Even mix of students over the last two recruitment events held.
• New staff members are not part of global majority (neurodiverse, LGBTQ). Prospective staff member is BIPOC.
• D. Walker has made contacts with WWU, and hope to make connections with NWIC and other local institutions.

C. Espina gave an update on board member recruitment. We met recently with two prospective board members who are mission-aligned. One expressed interest in applying, and the other member does not have capacity to serve and is awaiting for WIHS to have paid Indigenous leadership.

G. Goulet will hold a Zoom info session for prospective board members tomorrow, Friday, Jul 28th. 

K. Lieberman and J. McGill are ending their term as board members this month, July 2023. 

C. Espina shared about August board tasks including School Leader contract review and renewal and the annual board retreat scheduled for August or September. 

Still waiting on SAO audit next steps. 

Stories and reminders were shared.

Upcoming Events

• Since Time Immemorial training curriculum on Mon, Aug 28th full day
• Engaging Muslim students in public schools: What Educators need to understand. Event will be in Seattle on Friday, Aug 25th or Saturday, Aug 26th 
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/engaging-muslim-students-in-washington-public-schools-seminar-tickets-618366981287 
• WE events, D. Walker will pass along those opportunities to board
• Board Member Lunch and Learn sponsored by WA Charters and CSC on Sept 8th. Emails with Zoom RSVP will be sent out to board members.

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