Notes from Presentation:

• 231 students 99% retention
• Attendance 91.7% ADA
• NWEA Percentiles Shared BOY

Accountability Document is being created.

100% staff retention

Facilities search: 

• Lindsey (who worked on Atlas' expansion) is starting a search in order to start canvassing for new property

Team: 

• Drawing out blueprints to show what is possible, including renovations, pricing and timelines of projects

Jesse B's is interested in partnering in the space of preschool compliance 

Krysta Grangeno: Limitless Horizons, Preschool Family Engagement, Early Childhood-Compliance and DESE experience

Tanisha Montgomery: Synchrony Bank, Strategic Management and Innovation, Chief of Staff employee engagement

• Current Board Members should complete their financial disclosures for 2023 with MEC; those will be valid through the end of this year. 
• Deadline for 2024 disclosures is May 1, 2025.

Current Board Members who have not yet done so, please sign and return your Board Member Agreements:

• Always think about how we show up for the school
• Always be in the space of networking in personal and professional communities
• Accept a financial obligation to support at least one financial opportunity
• Stay in the know by checking in several times a week with your TLS email.

There are notes being taken with each committee

Courtney will create a protocol for how to collect committee reports to put on the website

Website will launch October 15, 2024

• To help orient Board members to the work of each Committee, the Chair proposed each committee take 20 minutes at subsequent Board meetings to describe the content of their charters.
• Suggest that Oct. 29th Board Meeting have presentations by the Development and Finance Committees as they both deal with resources.
• In thinking about the School Performance charter, could identify when School Performance Board members could come in and observe what the Individualized Learning Block experience looks like in real time as part of understanding their role in monitoring student progress toward Academic targets and helping the Board better understand school performance.

Goals are available here.

Key Points: 

Development Committee: Board Giving Goal of $10K; recognize the staff at all events; always engaging families in the work

Executive Committee:  Coordinates information between EDs and the Board; supports compliance with deadlines, operations.

Facilities & Finance: Monitors financial health of TLS; intent to coordinate with Development Committee and EDs to develop a long term financial plan; explore potential for an endowment.

Governance: Studys the Bylaws and Charter to help support Board's understanding; is developing evaluation protocols for Board and EDs; locating PD materials for the Board's development.

School Performance:  Will present goals in October.

Board Professional Development 

Shared key points from the Sept. 17 Board on Track Presentation "Unlock Academic Excellence through Effective Governance."

The Development Committee and the Board Chair will create an Events Calendar so that the Board can plan where to show up for learning, for representing the Board, at community events, school fundraisers and other school activities. 

Send bio and headshot to Courtney

Sign Board Agreement