Mission: The Leadership School exists to grow our students’ leadership capacity through earnest engagement in an academically rigorous, culturally relevant, and relationship-oriented environment.

Roll Call Vote

Status: Goal #10 - Board Engagement

• Average meeting attendance YTD: 75%
• Giving YTD: $1385
• Next Event, Skating for Change on 11/29
• PTO  meeting: "Meet the Board"

Winter Retreat

• Jan 24 with Greenhouse E3 facilitator: Foundation Building for Charter Renewal. Please RSVP.
• Jan 31 with Kent Peterson: Strategic Plan Development for Charter Renewal. Please RSVP.
• Both sessions at TLS from 9 - 4 PM

 Board Conduct Policy

• Sign last page.

Committees Report on Monthly Activity

Updates

• Courtney has set a goal of $100K for a capital campaign during the 2025 - 2026 school year  to raise funds for a Naturescape and Outdoor Classroom.
• Courtney will create a one-pager with components needed and costs for each project.
• By end of November, Courtney will identify a grant writer who could assist.
• Becky has compiled grants that TLS has identified in the past, some of which may work as funding sources.
• Courtney will begin reporting monthly on Goal 7: Family Involvement in TLS events, such as Famiy University and the PTO
• Courtney will begin reporting monthly on Goal 9: Staff Satisfaction/Involvement in TLS events such as Trunk or Treat and Skating for Change, as well as various teacher committees
• The data will help build a semi-annual and annual report that the board compiles into a report for the TLS community and stakeholders
• The first TLS PTO was scheduled for 10/17, but had to be rescheduled due to the smoke damage from a car that crashed into the HVAC system on 10/13.  Once this is known, the Board will be invited to introduce itself.
• Working on setting up a quarterly coffee with the community and board members for information sharing.

• Reviewed September financials
• Discussed possible revisions to the Signature Policy
• Discussed facilities expansion planning timeline 

Goal 1 MAP: Reviewed State African American ELA and math MAP proficiency data for Grades 3 and 4 compared to TLS:

                   State             TLS

ELA

Grade 3:      19.7%           8.7%

Grade 4:      19.5%           29.4%

Math

Grade 3:       17%             5.8%

Grade 4;       17.6%          15.8%

• Discussed what was needed to complete reports overdue in Report Well (Food Vendor, School Safety, Fire Inspection, dis-aggregated discipline data)
• Reviewed the weekly instructional coaching cadence for math, ELA, and science
• Discussed how progress monitoring data were being used to inform student support during the individualized learning block for math.  ELA progress monitoring is needed. Taking longer because the quizzes have to be teacher generated unlike in math where they are supplied by the curriculum.

Goal 5 - Attendance: Will be incentivizing attendance with a wrist band reward and class competitions/recognition.

Goal 6  Student Leadership. - Plan is still needed.

Goal 7  Family Satisfaction - Courtney will report on family involvement in TLS monthly events as a proxy for family satisfaction.  Keisha will conduct a family satisfaction survey in November and March, so the first set of results should be available at the Dec. 2 Board meeting.

Goal 9 Staff Retention - Courtney will report on staff involvement in TLS events/fund raising/ teacher committees/ PTO as a proxy for staff satisfaction.  Keisha will conduct a staff satisfaction survey in November and March, so the first set of results should be available at the Dec. 2 Board meeting.

School Quality Review Site Visit Preparation

• Reviewed the School Performance Accountability graphic as a way to display the parts of the school's strategy to reach mission, including the Strategic Monitoring Framework.
• Discussed whether committees could generate 1-pagers to synthesize responses to the SQR questions for the board

Policy Review

• Examined policies needing annual review and which had already been reviewed (Conflict of Interest, Board Conduct, Personnel Evaluation)
• Will feature several at each board meeting beginning this month with Sunshine Policy, and  Board Member Development Opportunities Policy.
• See Slides 1 - 31 for more detailed information about the Sunshine Law.

ED Evaluation Summary - Committee Recommendation:

• Will have a mid and end-of- year evaluation
• EOY will be 20% based on survey feedback and 80% based on charter goal data.
• Will use Board on Track for the survey platform and a combination of questions from BOT and The Opportunity Trust
• MOY Data Collection: Dec 1 - 5, with a report presented to the ED at the  Jan. 6. Board meeting
• EOY Data Collection:  Apr 27 - May 1 with a report available to the Board on May 26 in Closed Session to align on messaging
• EOY Discussion with the ED at June 30 Board meeting

Retreat Planning - will meet in January to accommodate everyone's availability.

Upcoming:  PTO Attendance - "Meet the Board"

Motion needed: "I move that this meeting be closed, and that all records and votes, to the extent permitted by law, pertaining to and/or resulting from this closed meeting be closed under Section 610.021.2 "Leasing, purchase or sale of real estate by a public governmental body where knowledge of the transaction might adversely affect the legal consideration therefor."

1. Board Conduct Policy

2. October Board Committee Meeting Reports

3. September 2025 Financials 

4. Strategic Monitoring Framework (SMF)

5 Updated Sunshine Policy

Respond by sharing your response to one or more of the following: (*include evidence, practical examples)

The TLS Board furthered our school mission tonight by ...

* spent____ of our time in the here & now, and ____ planning for the future by... 

* was engaged and stayed on track by ...

* participated in the meeting by ... 

* demonstrated examples of strength during our meeting by ...

* demonstrated opportunities for growth during our meeting by ...

1. If not already done, please consider making a monthly donation to TLS via GiveButter. 

2. To promote enrollment and fundraising, if you haven't yet, please post this TLS promotional flyer on your social media and share within your personal networks.

3. TLS Board Professional Development:

• Professional Development Opportunities for Board Committees 
• Professional Development Tracker for TLS ED & Board Members 

Upcoming Board Meetings:

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025  - *Special Online Meeting

 Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - Regular Board Meeting