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R . Wray provided updates on the high school instructional design.

• R. Wray provided updates about the ongoing negotiation with Wenatchee Valley College regarding school's future high school campus location
• Rick provided a broad draft overview of how Pinnacles plans to potentially differentiate itself while also ensuring that all high schoolers receive the necessary state credits to graduate.

A board wide discussion ensued discussion differentiation, signature program ideas and potential elective offerings. Rick share a list of elective ideas that had previously been recommended by students and families.

Differentiates Pinnacles Prep.

• Partner with Educurious to design multidisciplinary core curriculum project

Possible Ideas for Pinnacles Prep signature programs:

• Mandatory Senior Capstone
• Community Internships
• Require Civics course
• Ethnic Studies requirement 
• Entrepreneurship program 

T. Treat & K. Rutherford really liked the idea of service learning, particularly those that can connect scholars to places and people and reinforce our place based education philosophy.

Rick encouraged the board to continue to think and share differentiation and programmatic ideas to contribute to the high school's four year vision. A high school design task force meets weekly to pursue high school planning in case any additional board members want to participate or feel free to send ideas to R. Wray or J. Fineis at any time.

T. Treat introduced having High school students do Service learning.

S. Koester Shares finance Dashboard

• Most critical financial indicators are in good condition and tracking well for the fiscal year which is now 25% complete. A couple of items that school needs to keep a close eye on are:
  • Enrollment - currently at 167 students, approximately 93% of what was budgeted. At current level this shortage will absorb our budget contingency
  • 30 day cash flow is slightly low, but Sean mentioned a large grant reimbursement was just submitted which should rectify the situation.
  • This discussion about possibly amending the school's loan agreement with Cashmere Valley Bank has been tabled for a future meeting.

The development committee have raised $2910 towards the annual fundraising goal as well as substantial in-kind support for the year.

The annual giving campaign recently launched and Xaxira solicited the board to see if anyone know of any prospects that might be willing to put up a matching gift to help motivate our donor base. Matching gifts have been helpful in the past with your fundraising. No one had any immediate matching ideas.

No updates from the Academic Excellence committee this month but they'd like to focus a longer conversation regarding student achievement and MAPS scores for January's meeting.

Multiple Governance committees updates were provided by Rick Wray:

• Rick checked in on new format of board meeting agenda, and everyone expressed satisfaction with the changes that were made following the fall board retreat
• Nearly all committee goals have been added to BoardonTrack "Goals" portal. All board members are encouraged to track progress of these goals within the online platform.
• New board member prospect Lisa Foster plans to come to observe January board meeting
• Conversation to address more ways to master content within charter contract tabled until next meeting.
• Rick distributed new Board Member Expectations Agreement and had all members sign a copy.

Rick reminded the board about the spring 8th grade community internship opportunity and encouraged the board to continue to solicit interested businesses. Jill reported that nearly 20 businesses have already expressed interest.

Rick also encouraged board members to save the date and attend the annual Washington State Charter School Conference that will be taking place in May in Seattle.