Presentation from Edgility Consulting
Allison Wyatt & Ila Shah walked through their presentation about how they conduct searches for Executive Leaders.

• Their recommendations for developing a diverse search committee and structure of the team.
• Ideally a team of 7-8 people form our committee including the Board of Trustees, administration, teachers, and parents. It will be chaired by a member of the Board of Trustees.
• They reviewed a timeline for beginning a search and conducting several surveys to better understand what the needs of the school are.
• It is recommended that the search committee be identified prior to the winter break.
• They estimate the time commitment for the search committee members would be on a bi-weekly meeting from January to about the end of February.  The chair of the committee would meet with Edgility Consulting on off weeks.

2020 Chrome Book Update
Arrived today 03DEC2020 and they are working on getting them ready for distribution.

UV Light Installation
Air Scrubbers are planned to install in the next few weeks
UV Lights do not have a current date.

Fiber for Elementary
Installed and testing it out now.

10gb Circuit
Verizon needs to do peak testing and assign IP addresses. They have not given a date for a go live date. Mark Logan has reached out to see if we can get this back on track.

2021/2022 Tech needs
Hinges on the Chrome book distribution and iPAD return.

Health: Rates are rising across the state and our district. High School windows do open however the Middle School and Elementary School do not.

• We do have merv 19 filters installed which clean the air of viruses. We are also increasing the number of full air exchanges for the school as well.
• It was requested that the administration look at what our sending districts are currently doing with hybrid/virtual learning plans.
• Discussed the decision to set up the hybrid program 2 days on campus and 3 days off campus vs 1 week on and 1 week off campus.
• We are still planning on having students sit at a 6 foot distance in the classroom.
• FRCS students and staff all must adhere to the travel advisories and have clearance through the nurse’s office to return to school after any travel outside of Massachusetts. It should be noted that the staff have a better adherence rate to notifying the school than families do. 

Technology: We need the 10gb circuit to support students on both the hybrid and full remote learning plans for them to occur at the same time.
 
Quality: Without 10gb circuit all students learning at home will not have any live/video instruction from teachers.  This is true for both the hybrid and remote learners as all students will have some learning from home days. This would cause a drop in quality of education for all students. We would not be able to support IEP/504 plans for special education students.

Resources: We currently have 23 teachers in self quarantining with 4 testing positive for COVID19. We do not have enough substitutes to support 23 teachers. We continue to try to recruit additional teachers and substitutes however this is a statewide shortage.  States near us, like Rhode Island, are also experiencing a shortage of teachers and substitute teachers during the pandemic.

Recommendation to return 11JAN2021 starting with the Elementary School first followed by the Middle School and finally the High School. K and 1st grade would return first then grades 2-4 the second week.  Teachers would return to campus on 04JAN2021.  This is dependent on the technology being able to support the hybrid plan.

Substitute Teachers
There was discussion about the need for substitute teachers and if we can incentivize the opportunities at FRCS to recruit college graduates or college students on break. The school did change the pay rates last year to account for long term substitute teachers being paid at a higher rate than short term.

Krisan Pope took an action to look into a COVID rate for substitute teachers for during the pandemic and make a recommendation.

• Foxborough Regional Charter School By-Laws
• Board representation on the selection committee to search for a new executive director

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