Seaside School, Inc
March Board Meeting
Date and Time
Location
Seacoast Collegiate High School (Learning Cottages)
109 Greenway Trail
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459
Founded in 1996
Serving Students in Grades 5 - 12
We seek to sustain an educational community where an emphasis on academic excellence is complemented by our concern for each learner’s personal growth and intellectual, aesthetic, and psychological development. The curriculum is developmentally responsive – actively engaging students in learning skills in context, integrative – directing students to connect learning to daily lives, and exploratory – enabling students to discover their abilities, interests, learning styles, and ways that they can make contributions to society.
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All public comments will be taken under advisement by the Board, but will not elicit a written or spoken response. The names of persons providing public comment and a brief summary of topics or input will be included in the meeting minutes published. A response will be provided to the stakeholder within seven (7) days.
Agenda
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I. | Opening Items | 5:30 PM | |||
A. | Record Attendance | Melissa Wilcox | 1 m | ||
B. | Call the Meeting to Order | Kav Tucker | 1 m | ||
C. | Approve Minutes | Approve Minutes | Kav Tucker | 1 m | |
Approve minutes for January Board Meeting on January 18, 2024 | |||||
D. | Consent Agenda | Vote | Kav Tucker | 5 m | |
New employee: Annie Sheets: High School Intervention 2024-2025 School Calendar February Finances |
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II. | Development | 5:38 PM | |||
A. | High School Expansion | Discuss | Mike Kerrigan | 3 m | |
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B. | Brand Standard Adoption | Vote | Mike Kerrigan | 5 m | |
Adoption of brand standard for The Seaside School, Inc., Seaside Neighborhood School and Seacoast Collegiate High School. Supporting document attached. |
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C. | Updates | FYI | Mike Kerrigan | 5 m | |
III. | Executive Committee | 5:51 PM | |||
A. | Triumph Grant | Discuss | Kav Tucker | 10 m | |
IV. | Finance | 6:01 PM | |||
February Financials SCHS Expansion |
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A. | Financials | FYI | Thomas Miller | 5 m | |
Highlights:
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B. | SCHS Expansion | Discuss | Kav Tucker | 10 m | |
V. | Governance | 6:16 PM | |||
A. | Bylaws Review and Vote | Vote | Robert Kauffman | 5 m | |
Review proposed amendments for recommendation to Board |
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B. | Selection Subcommittee: Board of Directors Nominations | Vote | Carey Lewis | 10 m | |
C. | SCHS Lease Assignment | Discuss | Kav Tucker | 10 m | |
VI. | School Leadership Team | 6:41 PM | |||
A. | Executive Director Updates | FYI | Thomas Miller | 5 m | |
B. | Principal Updates | FYI | Kim Mixson | 10 m | |
Middle School
Congratulations to Mr. Sink and his Lego League team for making it to the state tournament. Mr. Sink, Ms. Wallace, and the team will travel to the tournament this weekend to represent Seaside!
Congratulations to Mrs. Wallace for being awarded another grant from the Ms. Fail and Ms. Mitchell traveled to the Fresh Take conference and learned so much to bring back and share the Seaside and Seacoast staff. In addition to attending the conference the team toured Davidson Day School where Ms. Mitchell had previously thought Ms. Richard and Ms. Akridge are getting excited to take our final four Amazing Shake students to the Global Amazing Shake at the Ron Clark Academy over Spring Break. A big shout out to Mr. Saunders who did an amazing job with his band students and their performances on all three days of the race weekend.
Ms. Martin worked hard with her culinary students to prepare and serve deviled eggs and bruschetta for the VIP portion of The Taste of the Race.
All students have completed the PM2 testing, the 2nd Seaside Writes, and are working toward taking the BEST Writing Test in early April.
Initial discussions on the master schedule for next year are under way.
Work on the incoming 5th grade bags and information is almost complete. We will welcome all new students to Seaside in early April.
The final 9 weeks of this year will be used to continue toward mastery of the state standards in all classes.
Work has also begun on this year's 8th grade graduation. |
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C. | High School | FYI | Drew Ward | 5 m | |
Academic Celebrations! Mikaela Pierce received the DAR Good Citizens award and will be recognized 3/12 at a reception. We have 9 cum laude graduates, 13 magna cum laude graduates, and 11 summa cum laude graduates. We have 41 graduates who are members of the National Honors Society. The induction for the new members is next Thursday, 3/14. We have 33 seniors who will have an industry certification on their diplomas. We have 31 seniors who will receive the Scholar Designation on their diplomas. We have 6 seniors who will graduate with a bi-literacy seal (5 gold and 1 silver). We have 8 AP Scholars (1 with Honors and 5 with Distinction). 2 students received the No ordinary Joe Scholarships for $500 a piece.
Staff We hired a new instructor to target our ELA students. We are using data to identify students' needs in subtest areas. We have also contacted all families of students that are below the state passing rate to give them our recommendations for attending our Class 0 and Class 8 offerings. We have interviewed 2 candidates this week. 1 for the science opening and 1 for the CTE opening. We are still looking for more ELA and Social Studies applicants.
Ms. Val received her grant and the books for the first SCHS Spanish library.
Mrs. Robbins has over 90% pass rate for her 3 Entrepreneurship class certification exams. Discipline February: 2 referrals for class disruption March: 2 referrals for tardies, 1 referral for profane/abusive language, 1 referral for substitute teacher disruption
Registration and Enrollment Students are meting with counselors to enroll in next grade New students are scheduling meetings with the counselors to prepare for next grade and college
Graduation: Plans being set. Drew Ward is the Keynote Date is May 16 |
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VII. | Foundation | 7:01 PM | |||
A. | Foundation Report | FYI | Teresa Horton | 5 m | |
VIII. | Student Excellence | 7:06 PM | |||
A. | Digital/Print Item Request | Vote | Jenna O’Donoghue | 2 m | |
The following webpage is being requested to be added to the list of approved Digital Tools: https://readtheory.org/ The linked document contains Dr. Seuss Books for review. These are to be purchased for graduating 8th Grade Students. Dr. Seuss Books |
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B. | Articulation Agreement | Vote | Thomas Miller | 5 m | |
IX. | Other Business | ||||
X. | Closing Items | ||||
A. | Adjourn Meeting | Vote |