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Academic Excellence

• Fall progress Reports went out in November
• 2nd round proficiency (math/literacy) testing to begin in January.  Using Easy CBM.
• Semester 2, starting Feb 6 (2023) (Report Cards)

Staff Training and Retention

• Long-term PE sub position (Jan-March) was filled!  Offered a $500 bonus.  Also working on getting a parent qualified to sub. (youth coach and community advocate experience)
• Likely will not fill Elizabeth’s position this year.  She will continue on part time for a few more months (see contract below).
• 11/23 Inservice staff PD  included 3 hrs. of equity training.  The equity session was led by a 3rd party, Community Connection Consulting, and included:
  • Identifying implicit bias
  • Engaging authentic and meaningful dialogue around race
  • No surveys completed per feedback from Josh at last board meeting
  • Parents from Equity Council (Lea Villalez and Crystal Badillo) presented results from October classroom equity audit at staff meeting 

Community Engagement and Positive School Culture

• Parent conferences went well (reported by teachers)
• Staff Leadership Team
  • Working on a visual representation of the cultural diversity of staff.  Probably will go into the lobby.   (data from Fund of Knowledge)
  • This will serve as a model to follow for the student/culture showcase (spring family event). 
• BSD 6th grade Pathways- networked with BSD for an info/resource gathering tool.  Will share with 5th grade families as needed.  Includes contact information at each district.
• 12/3 Juntos PDX (Latino experience night).  Perla, Michelle and Chris attended.  About 4 potential enrollments, 1 potential bilingual teacher, 2 potential subs!
• Two students from Jesuit volunteer once a week for a few hours. Spanish proficient. Work with grades 2-5, and then support Spanish tutoring in Buenas Tardes.  

Financial Stability

• Chris is working on a report for year-to-year trends for building/operational costs.  Will report at the January meeting.
•  Update on Aligning for Student Success.  Community feedback nights in January.  (Michelle)
• Charter School Capital update (Michelle)

Seeking Input - 

• 36th Annual Oregon Professional Educator Fair (OPEF) on April 11th @ Oregon Convention Center.   Facilitated by Oregon School Personnel Association (OSPA). $750.    Booth for 6 hours to recruit.   Board members to run the booth.  Worth it?
  • Board discussed pros and cons

Decisions Needed-

• ** $500 Winter bonus (40 staff total staff members) for appreciation of their dedication.  Total cost: $28,000 It will be taken from SSF and reserves.  $10,395 additional revenue in increase in SSF and the remaining $18,000 from reserves/or cost savings on our budget.    Funded to employees on Monday, 12/19/22.

Employment Contracts:   

• Elizabeth Wiley $30hr    (26 hrs a week)  .6 FTE Intervention support and Substitute

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No report today

• Final Move-a-thon numbers reported out to community this week.  Raised $76,500!
• Upcoming sock fundraiser in January.  Partnering with OHSU on this project
• Successful Book Fair last week.  Appreciate all the parent volunteers
• Art Literacy project will start in January. 3 artists.
• Room parent program is up and running
• PTO raised $100 per staff member for Winter Gift program.
• Raised $571 for holiday breakfast on Friday, 12/16
• Got around 30 bags at last bottle drop event
• Uniform exchange tentatively planned for January
• Program coordinators working hard to make sure all parent volunteers have met requirements to work in the building.

• Chris, Yessenia and Tonya(accountant) met this month to review and learn about the budget
• Tonya created a new revenue funding tracker.  Will be shared with the board each month.  Reviewed current tracker.
• Also created Income by Project spreadsheet

• Next meeting in January.  Working to update grant spreadsheet.
• Josh provided playground update.  Gave overview of what the review process will look like with the City of Beaverton.  Likely will need to go through the Land Review process.
• Josh provided some ideas for update signage at the school

• Michelle to share equity audit info with board
• Board members to review "Arco Community Survey" and "Empathy Interview" (pdfs part of today's agenda).  Provide any feedback to Michelle by January 6th.
• Michelle to add board members to 'Aligning Student Success' Document (view only access)
• Yessenia to send Sarah Z. monthly revenue tracker document prior to Board meetings so it can be included in the packet.
• Josh/Christa to schedule monthly playground workgroup meetings to flush possible details
• Josh to get some cost estimates on signage.