J. Sparks opened the floor to public input. No public input was given.

J.Brown announced that we needed to discuss whether or not the board wanted to keep the Director of Curriculum and Instruction position.  M. Dunn, them shared that he was leaving IMSA and taking a Principalship in Michigan.  The board discussed the need to keep that position, D. Pierson said he felt it was important that we keep it.   B. Valentine -Watts agreed as well. L. Danielson was in agreement as well.  O. Secen, we have a good idea of what we need. The board supported filing the position.

The board reviewed the 2019-20 Board Meeting Schedule.  J. Brown shared that it was suggested that two meetings a year should be held at IMSA West.   All members agreed that it should be the October and April meetings.

M. Dunn shared that the DOE hade made some law changes to the Kindergarten enrollment age.  The date was moved to Sept. 1 for 2019-2020 school year and then the 20-21 school year it will be October 1.  The students can be waived in now based on the timelines.

J. Sparks shared that we had sent out the Board Assessment and the Superintendents Assessment. He asked that everyone take the time to complete it as soon as possible.  It is due to the OEI by August 1, 2019.

B. Valentine stated that the committee had gone over the data and that we are trending upwards, we are where we need to be in terms of North. There is a lot of green where we used to see yellow and red.  Airways seems to be working with the teachers and students.  C. Frasier felt that we saw a change in the growth and the students are more on grade level now.

J. Sparks, shred that the Financial Statement Summary now had some color codes on it.  This will help in distinguishing the important items.  There are a few differences however, they cancel each other out.  YTD revenue is down a little but it will change when the grant money comes in.  There were no concerns with the vouchers.

J. Sparks, shred that the Financial Statement Summary now had some color codes on it.  This will help in distinguishing the important items.  There are a few differences however, they cancel each other out.  YTD revenue is down a little but it will change when the grant money comes in.  There were no concerns with the vouchers.

Tables until next meeting.

No information to report.

Retreat is still in process.

No information to report.

M. Dunn shared that there will be no Dashboard until September.  M. Atlihan we had summer school and a summer camp _ about 100 kids each day at summer school.  We have finally received our mobile classrooms and they are installed now.    Pre K enrollment is up to 17 now.  We are doing well. We are excited about the ILEARN numbers we should receive this week.   

O. Secen we also had summer school, we are excited about school the items that brought us teacher buy-in,   we are going to continue with those items.  One thing I felt that was missing was a good quality of lesson plans.  Now, through the relay training and talking to other principals, the trend is to provide lesson plans to the teachers.  We have received the okay from Concept to pilot a new English curriculum.   We have scheduled the training and we are also going to use Eureka Math.  The big thing is providing the lesson plans and the teachers internalizing and using it in the classroom.  We want to use things better and wiser. 

Dunn – We are ready to launch the new items, Mr. Secen saved about $15,000 in materials and we are pretty much ready to go with pacing guides and training.  We have an idea of what needs to be done. West is going to do a few targeted rooms and see how it goes. 

 

Attendance Survey for August 17, meeting

J. Sparks - Yes
D. Pierson - Yes
L. Danielson - Traveling
C. Frasier - Yes
B. Valentine-Watts - Yes
 

J. Sparks suggested that maybe WFYI do a special on a "day in the life of a charter school"  L. Danielson may be able to get an introduction.

Back to School Night - August 2nd 5:30 to 7 pm

Dunn – CORE 4 review - put on your agenda the CORE 4 site visit (Nov 11th – West for both buildings) Board member focus group
Dunn – Also shared his research on the marketing of charter schools.   He will send some 1 pagers to the Principals.

J. Sparks, I feel proud to be apart of the board and we want the parents and students to feel this way too.  O. Secen – I had a committee last year and we discussed these things with the students.  Now we are going to roll it out this year.  There will be times during lunch that we will recognize students and have some academic piece as well.  We also have something for the teachers