Approval of January 2023 minutes postponed.

The Executive Director shared these highlights:

• The celebrations of learning with expeditions occurred across both campuses.
• Both campuses are preparing for student led conferences where students share their learning with a parent/caregiver.
• There are in person coffee's with the principal happening.
• There are in person Parent Association in meetings.
• Both campuses are hosting in-person Open House Enrollment Information Sessions. 
• Cook Campus continues planning for the 5th Grade Capstone Puerto Rico. 
• We continue to work to strengthen systems by doing the following:
  • publishing the SY23-24 school calendar with staff and planning send it out to families soon.
  • piloting staff intranet
  • fully launching a platform to support staff engagement, goal setting, and performance management
  • completing the manager school culture survey
  • surveying the parent/caregivers that have not participated in surveys this year
• Calle Ocho architecture team is considering the design for the space and how the property will be used. A plan in the works to organize a time to have staff and families provide a 2nd round of feedback (first round was in May 2022)
• Equitable Access Enrollment Preference details will be finalized between now and early March.
• The school leadership and board received notice of  Padres (J.F. Cook Campus parent association initiation of 501(c)(3) incorporation. The school leadership team is finalizing guidelines for parent volunteers engaging in fundraising and events planning this month. School leaders are working on scheduling a planned Board meet and greet with the community.

Rodrigo Salgado presented preliminary Winter MAP results for both Cook and Calle Ocho campuses. The MAP results for Mathematics, English Reading, and Spanish Reading were presented.

• The results have been shared with teachers. Teachers were introduced to the tools to maximize the impact of differentiation in the classroom.
• Individual student results are being shared with parent/caregivers. Conferences take place in March 10. A summary of results will be shared with the community in the coming month(s).

The committee is actively looking for new board members and reviewing what the process for nominating new parent board members will look like. The committee has been reviewing some candidates for board membership through Education Board Partners. Board members will engage in person for the first time at a retreat  scheduled for March 16.

After a robust biweekly meeting cadence over the last six months, this committee is going back to a monthly cycle. Financials for the month of January will be available in late February.