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• Chair Report

Board Engagement  

• Board will move from 7 to 6 members at the end of this month
• Committee attendance for Governance was strong last month.  Need to maintain commitment for School Performance (50%) and Finance (50%)
• Encouragement to document giving of all kinds - can be supplies, money, donate in other ways
• Reviewed tabs in the Board Engagement tracker.
• Encouraged attendance at PTO - next meeting on 9.20.26
• Encouraged attendance at Family U in September and November

Board Professional Development - Presentation on MCPSC Performance Based Policy 3.01 by Whitni Perry

• Has a model to balance school autonomy vs accountability
• Schools are placed on different Tiers of oversight depending on school age and performance.
• Evaluations include Academics, Finance, Learning Environment, Operations, Governance
• TLS is on Tier 3 -  a standard operating plan in addition to further documentation.  
• Need to ensure we understand the indicators we are being reported on.  Need to think about how do we get to a Tier 2.  
• Need to be more intentional about to proactively monitoring areas that will allow this to happen.
• Our areas for improvement:  Academic achievement and some of our school-specific goals: 

Discussion

Google Workspace

• Aligned with the Sunshine Law.  Use G-suite tools.  Use the platform for work documents to allow easy access to foster collaboration and respond to Sunshine Laws.
• Make sure to report lost devices immediately.
• Relates to the Board Records Retention Policy

Board Bio Guidelines

• Created consistency with photos and bios to update the Governance page on the TLS website.
• Still need these from one board member

Tracker Directory - Can be found at top of every committee work doc and on the splash page of the TLS Board drive

Emergency/Regular ED Succession Plan - reviewed updates based on feedback.

• Suggested revision: "Upon confirmation of an emergency executive transition, the Board shall appoint one individual to serve as Interim Executive Director. The Board may also establish an Interim Executive Leadership Team to support the Interim Executive Director. The Interim Executive Director shall hold final operational decision-making authority and serve as the primary liaison to the Board."
• Discussed adding clarifying language in Part B and Part E.
• Will hold on approving this until next month and bring back to the Governance Committee for further review on 9.2.26.

Reviewed Sunshine Laws

Reviewed the School Performance Committee charter

• Added specific references to board policy.
• Feedback requested on the month-to-month calendar at the next meeting on 9.9.26. 

Reviewed the Restorative Justice Policy

• Information about manifestation and expulsions/discipline hearings training is requested. (Timelines are critical in this area).
• Question about the use of the word "justice."

Student Leadership Policy (Student Agency Inquiry and Leadership - SAIL)

• Aligns with ED job description
• Progress on this will become a standing agenda item in SP Comms and ED monthly report
• Goals are K - 8 (eventually)
• Discussed evaluation criteria and rec of a pilot in AY 27
• Recommend a need for a specific staff person to lead this.
• Consider ways to support leadership development among staff, families, not just how to train students and train teachers to support students' leadership development..

Reviewed the KPIs.  School is in a stable position financially.

EA will take over CSP spend down activity. Began in her role yesterday.

ED shared

Student Enrollment

• Will be removing students who were enrolled but did not show up and move in Wait List students
• 60 Kinder, 69 in Gr. 1, 56 in Gr. 2, 59 Gr. 4, 51 in Gr. 5, and 55  in Gr. 6 = 401 and 14 WL students

Fully Staffed

Goals 5 &  6 Baseline data on discipline and attendance will be available for the next SP Comm meeting

Goal 8 - Student Retention data for next month.  Need to check re-enrollment rates.

Goal 9  - Teaching staff return rate 89%; non-teaching 100%.

Goal 11 - CSP spend down will be reported on at the end of September.

Honored the need to be strategic by reviewing the Succession Plan, the Leadership Policy, and the Restorative Justice policy for alignment to our values and vision.

Accomplished a lot and learned new knowledge thanks to WP sharing information about how our Tier status with the Commission was produced.  

Thinking intentionally about the areas we need to address so that we can move to Tier 2 showed that we were thinking strategically.

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All learned from WP tonight.  Can add this session to the Board PD tracker.