Pullman Community Montessori
Minutes
Annual Board Retreat
Date and Time
Sunday August 27, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Location
Gladish View Room
115 NW State Street
Pullman
WA 99163
Trustees Present
A. Guyton, B. Wolff, D. Main
Trustees Absent
K. Torres
Ex Officio Members Present
L. Sullivan
Non Voting Members Present
L. Sullivan
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
II. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion session
A.
LaTysa Flowers will lead a DEI session 'GPS to Belonging From social Oppression to Social Justice'
III. Tour of the School Facility
A.
Tour
The board engaged in a school tour from 10:50 to 11:50 AM
IV. Board member goals and commitments
A.
Individual board members goals and commitments
Individual board members shared draft goals. Draft goals will be presented and approved at the September board meeting.
B.
HOS Goals (move here)
C.
2023-24 SY Meeting Schedule
The board members discussed the board meeting schedule (regular and working) for the 2023-24 SY. Effort was made to respect work life balance while accommodating different times for attendants to meet with the board.
Regular board meetings were moved to the fourth Thursday of each month (unless a holiday interfered) and slotted to begin at 11:00 AM. Working meetings were tentatively scheduled for the second Thursday of each month slotted to begin at 5:15 PM.
V. It's a Wrap
A.
Reflections and forward planning
The board reflected on the retreat and created a list of Grow's and Glow's. All agreed the retreat should be held in September going forward.
The board engaged in the DEI session led by LaTysa Flowers