Ms. Fisher-Rollins shared updates to the certification data chart.  She updated the committee on the status of those staff in a program and when they should be complete.  She also shared the interim assessment data for each teacher in those grade levels.

Ms. Tate shared an overview of the updates to the new hire onboarding plan.  She shared that the mid-year plan was still on hold pending the finalization of the new hire plan.  The change includes significant automation to simply paperwork processing.  The goal is to have a touch point with new staff every 2 weeks.

The committee discussed the background check timeframe and options to reduce that.

The committee discussed the mid-year hire timeframe and # of days until they are in the classroom.  Currently it is 8-15 days.

The committee discussed potential reasons behind the significant staff absences.

Some ideas:

• Give 4 favors per staff member where they can take a roughly 1-hour absence when needed as long as they get their own sub.
• Consider additional exceptions to blackout days:  doctors note, program showing their child's events, etc.  Consider adding 1 "family day" with evidence for absence to attend an event.
• Review blackout days for year-round staff to see if we can do less.
• Consider amending some around the holidays.

Future meetings - collect data on:

• The reasons for the absences.
• The # of absences per grade level.