Boston Preparatory Charter Public School
Minutes
SY26 Additional Governance Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Location
https://bostonprep-org.zoom.us/j/7171526696
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Committee Members Present
B. Jones (remote), C. Newton (remote), J. Johnson (remote), K. Borchert (remote), M. Gametchu (remote), S. James (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
L. Jewell, M. Sanon (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
D.
Public Comment
E.
Icebreaker
II. Governance
A.
Board ED Evaluation
Governance presented a summary of the ED evaluation. Board is going to amend ED eval using the MCAS results. There was questions about staff retention and student retention. And the commitment was to have the Chief People Officer present these trends in the following governance meeting. There were questions about the retention of veteran teachers.
B.
ED Self Reflection
Meekerley presented what she was most proud of specifically the implementation of systems in the schools and the creation of academic outcomes implementation strategy. This takes time and happens with commitment to systems.
C.
SY26 Looking Forward
Ran out of time. Bumping to future meeting.
D.
ED Strategic Questions
Ran out of time. Bumped to future meetings.
Conducted icebreaker to create warm tone