In the spirit of the Olympics, we are celebrating what we would participate in if we could. 

Amanda presents the director's report. Refer to slide deck. 

Operations

• Successful school wide event turn outs and a handful of opportunities to participate coming up
• Lauren & Amanda headed to Dallas for Charter School Growth Fun connections
• Actively recruiting for Fall Lottery. Organic movement, but will scheduling more direct marketing for beginning of March
• Need a non-conflict of interest third party to be present during lottery process
• Making movements regarding staff hiring and making offers
• Will survey families, staff, and consult CDH on mask requirements for after spring brea
• Public Charter School Commission visited with no concerns to note 
• Drafting SY23 school year calendar - official vote will be needed at next meeting. Will provide draft ahead of time. Keith Darnisha, and Tracy interested in helping. 

Academics

• Wins: Our growth is outpacing area, and national peers
• Challenges: Capacity to support all learning subgroups
• Numbers: Meeting or on track to meeting EOY goals. Majority of our grade levels are exceeding national growth trends. 
• National trends: Pandemic hit K-2 literacy the hardest and hit 4-6 math the hardest, our students also reflect this trend. 

Lauren presents on Safety Bussing. See memo. 

Context: The state reimburses the school for busing outside a 1.5 radius thinking that any student within 1.5 has the ability to walk. However, in the case that within a 1.5 mile radius there are hazards making the walking route not safe the board can approve "safety stops" that can help us get reimbursement for those stops that the state would not traditionally reimburse us for. 

Emergency has been declared by Tracy. 

Declaration: The Board declares that an emergency exists in our charter for the position of PE teacher and is recording this declaration through the end of the 2021-2022 school year.

Vote: I motion to approve the hire of Brandon McGurkin in a credentialed position through the pathway of the Emergency Provisional Certificate

Make sure to update profile and sync calendars. 

Will send out info people provided after. 

Keith discussed brief refinance update. Annual savings of about $120k thanks to securing refinance rate a the time we did. 

Mark discusses finances. 

• Future has been lucky to be able to qualify for the rates that we have. 
• As of Feb 15th state reporting we are on point with projections. The March and May enrollment reporting can also impact the final budgeting numbers. 

Gratitude to all!