The meeting was called together by verifying all participants could hear and respond over the virtual platform.

The school was excited to report our class of 2020 Co-Valedictorian's, Ms Catherine Fandel and Ms Katya Lammey, and their stories. Our salutatorian is Ms Lydia Chubet.  The three ladies participated in a meeting to discuss the exciting news and share their experiences over the past four years with staff from the school. Plans for their participation in the upcoming graduation ceremonies are underway.

Mark Logan highlighted a letter from a high school senior featuring Mike Cournoyer's work over the past school year.  This is his first year with us and already making a great impact.

This week has been teacher appreciation week and we say a number of families, student and staff participating in a shout out to teachers in weekly newsletter. 

We have postponed the graduation to June 19th in order to get more guidance from the state. Seniors last day of classes is next Friday but it should be noted they are the only grade in high school that is not receiving a numerical grade for term 3.

The board reviewed a draft of the graduation modifications to the plan which includes using pre-recorded speeches and an outdoor graduation.  The graduation plan will be released by June 1st to families.

The guidance department is working with seniors on their college acceptances which was already an electronic system.  Fortunately this has not been impacted by virtual learning.  Seniors are on track to meet previous years acceptance goals for acceptance into higher learning opportunities.

Annie Azarloza updated the board with the news that the elementary and middle school are seeing close to 100% participation in remote learning.  The high school is lower and we are working on different ways to engage them.  The focus is on quality and not quantity.  

The school is able to look at the analytics of using the on line tools and using that information to make changes.  For example the school found that instructional videos that are longer than 15 minutes are not watched by students but shorter videos are sometimes watched multiple times buy the same person and get more individuals to watch them.

Annie thanked the school principals: Christiana Benson, Kayla Leary, Ben Dyer and Mike Cournoyer as well as the head of Special Education, Lori Obenchain, for their unwavering support.

Lori Obenchain gave an update on special education.  Students on an IEP are meeting is small groups or individually with staff to support their IEPs. All IEP students have had a written learning plan created for virtual learning. Students who are in substantially separate classrooms meet with staff every day and sometimes more than once. This is a challenge for us to continue to work through.  Progress on a student's IEP plan will be difficult to assess this year.

We are expecting more students to need summer school this summer and will be looking into increase staff for this year.

Elementary and middle school grading will be based on Term 1 & 2.  Term 3 will be a Credit/No-Credit reporting to records.  High school will be getting a numerical grade for term 3 as it will need to be reported on their transcripts. Kayla Leary shared with us that the items called on by the state for the students to cover have already been covered in terms 1 & 2 making term 3 easier to execute virtually.

Some teachers have requested technology to complete their jobs while at home and the school has been able to support them with those requests.  There have not been requests for paper or ink as there is no need to print work while using google classroom as items are electronic.  Teacher have been working together as they learn new ways of working and have become the best resource for one another.  Their collaboration has been a highlight of this situation.
 

The school cap is 1700 students
The current goal is to enroll 1672 students. This is up 12 student from last years goal
We currently have 1861 Students enrolled for next year of which 174 are enrolled for kindergarten.

We are postponing capital spend until we have more guidance from the state and federal governments on the expectations and support that will be required for the 2021/2020 school year to make adjustments for public health concerns.  We may need to buy more equipment or disposables to support the schools "new normal".

Cathy Alix, RN. has been working with the state department to see what support they will be providing to public school for needed supplies. We are waiting on details.

Year to year is on track.

FY2021 has several drafts in progress as we learn more information from the state and federal governments.  We are required as a charter school to have a full year balanced budget by July 1st.  

Board on track would like to support the school in moving to posting the meeting agenda's and minutes by linking them to the school web site.  Susie Girard and Kathleen Crawford  will continue to work with them.

The 2020 Golf tournament and carnival have been cancelled.

Nothing to report

Nothing to report

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Mark Logan thanked both Kayla Leary and Ben Dyer for their amazing job for the middle school in a school year that would be difficult for anyone.  They rose to the occasion and surpassed all expectations.  The school interviewed a number of potential candidates for the 2020/2021 school year.  The decision has been made to have Ben Dyer continue into the next school year as our middle school principal to maintain consistency for students and staff.

Nothing to report

Tabled 

The motion to adjourn was made by Susanna Girard and seconded by Badawi Dweik which passed unanimously by a roll call vote.