Vision, Mission and Core Values read

Emily Cartwright was not present but did request to speak at the meeting.  Will request her comment via email and administration will respond.

C. Elliott presented:

5 strategies, each one has 3-4 sub-strategies

1A - Publish definition of ELM; Leadership working on publishing 3 levels of DLI

1B - Leadership working with teachers and coaches 

1C - Looking at closing CCRPI gaps

2A - fundraising training attended, working on categorizing donors, creating database

2B - organizing committees; launching Capital 

2C - solidify giving goals for remainder of the years, CFO working with Development 

2D - unqualified audit

3A - working on documents to use and comms protocol; access on google drive

3B - staff training on comms

3C - new ideas for training and volunteering; PTTC still meeting monthly to engage more volunteers; leadership looking at events to bring students to school

4A - create database for data, staff working on testing; want everything in one place; Denise is testing a database

4B - leadership analyzing data and use it to drive instruction; collecting math and ELA data to put in same location as MAP, STAMP, Dibels so all is in one place

4C - leadership will present data in the spring on MAP and looking toward STAMP

5A - retaining staff; attend DLI conferences- send teams for both to hear experts on working together

5B - create mentorship program to mentor staff; hoping to have program fleshed out

5C - RACI model implementing 

6A - transportation program, looking at shuttle from LC to UP and using staff children to test feasibility 

6B - create strategy for UC improvements; Jen and N. Cowan toured campus to look into projects (exterior painting, checking equipment installed recently; look at terminal units, etc., future project list, storm watch review on back end of building)

fence mentioned but will be getting fixed 

6C - working with Winter to create maintenance schedule 

C. Elliott got school chosen for a program to review our strategic plan from organization that looks at schools across the country.  Said we are in a good spot for growth.  It looked at our strengths - commitment to DLI model, school community, organizational effectiveness, continuous improvement; weaknesses - DLI curriculum (may need to view curriculum separately for each track), adult culture, data informed student support (looking at data)

2 consultants looked at our Strategic Plan and provided feedback based upon our Plan goals and weaknesses.  Growth opportunities - noted that with our waitlist we are wanted and want to support growth

D. Gibney asked about next steps and how to integrate it to staff.  C. Elliott answered that the team is working to see what is realistic with staff as far as timing for integrating.  

A. McMillion asked about communicating and feedback from community.  A. McMillion asked about communication and is it to formalize procedures for certain communications and C. Elliott answered that is the plan.  

C. Elliott said teacher culture testing results will come out soon and she will use that for the adult culture goal. 

D. Gibney asked about if the Bellweather project was surprising.  C. Elliott answered no but helpful and confirming.

A. McMillion asked about whether the assessment looked at financials.  A consultant said we are in top 1% of financial stability for charter schools.

Lottery data presented by T. Jones 

Lottery was 2/28/25

Total of 700 applicants across grade levels.  Highest numbers in K, 1st and 6th grade.

Had budgeted number of 1,138

First week of school, hitting projected numbers; confirmed max of 1,145; were above projected numbers

Maintained above projected numbers throughout school year as allocated by CFO

510 waitlist applicants after start of school year; filling those as seats became available 

Enrollment Data (FTE) - maintained above budgeted seats; want to meet or be above the budgeted number for finance purposes

Have had some withdrawals with some families moving; for Middle School stop offering seats until start of school year

For Elementary School, can fill seats in January (all but one of the seven offered; will have six new students starting in January) 

 Numbers will go up as long as no more withdrawals

After January, no more offers for SY25-26

Will prepare for February Lottery for SY26-27

A. McMillion asked about track and seats available and T. Walker-Jones answered that 0 seats are available in Spanish for all grade levels.  

Higher retention rate tracks for Spanish

T. Walker-Jones answered that is consistent

C. Elliott stated that Spanish is more able to fill than other language tracks due to STAMP requirements

S. Ellis asked if we could expand Spanish

C. Elliott says there is no room to expand - no physical space for additional classrooms

S. Ellis asked about enrollment numbers, 1140 students and asked about growth trends

T. Walker-Jones answered that past two years, able to add more students because of increasing sixth grade; adding an additional homeroom adds students/increase; last few years numbers tend to increase and Dekalb County changed its open enrollment dates from January to October

GLOBE does not change its lottery process and start looking at numbers and to see a dip in enrollment numbers; last year numbers were consistent with prior years even though county did lottery ahead of time

Numbers are consistent as far as applicants

S. Ellis asked about why our lottery is different than school choice

C. Elliott met with school choice office for Dekalb and it was disorganized; had siblings not put in the list.  C. Elliott likes us having control over our lottery procedure.

D. Torey-Gibney asked about strategy for retaining French and Mandarin and withdrawal numbers.  C. Elliott answered that there is not a strategy.  C. Elliott further answered that some grades have more withdrawals than others.  C. Elliott answered it is not language specific and harder to fill French and Mandarian than Spanish.  

D. Gibney discussed more transportation options.  C. Elliott answered that there are not a lot of native French or Mandarin speakers in Dekalb County.

D. Gibney asked about inter choice allowed and C. Elliott answered no.

Marketing:

 - go to school choice expo, flyers, yard signage, local preschool visits, word of mouth, made sure families are aware of STAMP testing; re-communicates with families on waitlist about STAMP testing

Challenging to promote and fill seats in French and Mandarin

Comments about difficulty with being able to continue Mandarin beyond MS.  Sandra is trying to convince High Schools to teach Mandarin.  

D. Gibney asked about pre-K and C. Elliott answered that there is not the physical space and not sure if the State would approve an immersion pre-k.  

T. Walker-Jones explained that she offered STAMP testing earlier in the year and majority of the 34 that passed are enrolled students at GLOBE.

Lottery acceptance timeline, give 7 days to confirm and provider paperwork after the lottery to move things along quicker

GLOBE Trot stats - overall good feedback from parents and volunteers

Annual Fund - 59% of our goal; a number of parent contributors do 12 month contribution 

GLOBE Trot - raised $116,000 but have about $2,000 plus to hit the books; had 62% student participation, 716 students had more than $5.00 raised; 4 homerooms with 100% participation, 25 homerooms with 60% and above

71 parent volunteers; had good volunteers 

2 big conversations coming up to improve on next year 

outreach to sponsors 

Over $200,000 raised toward our $300,000 goal 

A. McMillion suggested year end notification. 

T. Russell explained that this committee took a different route.  

In July IDI was administered.  Debrief allowed for team to see where they are on continuum - IDI measures abilities to navigate across cultural difference.  Initially, on the minimization scale but able to come up with common language regarding strengths about misconceptions 

15 individual debrief with administrator - 45 minutes to an hour - walking participant through group and score

Individuals set goals to increase inter cultural competency.  

Spent time to bolster leadership team to move to larger goals to create safety and belonging 

Emerging themes - excitement with participants and request for resources 

Aligns with strategic plan and cultural survey

Understand that parents and other people are missing from committee but working on getting data and goals first and then expansion

A. McMillion appreciated re-engaging GLOBE community to this committee and tactical asks for committee.  

T. Russell commented that using this tool is very versatile.  

D. Gibney asked about school climate survey.  C. Elliott answered that was part of the teacher climate survey.  still waiting on results.