Kaitlin grounded the board in the school's mission and vision:

Rooted School’s vision is to rapidly close America’s inequality gap by providing its graduates with a college acceptance in one hand and a job offer in the other.

Rooted School’s program is innovative, one-of-a-kind and proven to deliver success for its students and families.

Rooted School gives students an active role in their future careers by teaching skills that are in demand for today’s most successful job sectors.

UPDATES:

• Partnerships: 
  • SUNO: branding, chancellor visit,  
  • REACH 
  • Berkeley 
  • Junior Achievement 
  • Youth Force NOLA RFA for $21K 
  • TFA computer science grant for $10K 
• Programming: 
  • Dual enrollment 
  • Cash Transfer Pilot- the $50 study 
  • 4-day work week (with a 5th day of quality programming for our young people!) 
• Academic Shifts:  
  • 92% grad rate to 96% (two more graduates), with 100% cohort sped graduation rate 
  • Director of Curriculum and Instruction, MTSS Coordinator

Areas of Focus:

• Enrollment: 
  • Currently at 138 
  • Impact if no change: $130K deficit 
  • Possible root causes: location, OneApp shift, 
  • Moves in place to ensure for different future 
  • Junior Achievement 
  • Youth Force NOLA RFA for $21K 
  • TFA computer science grant for $10K 
• Academics:
  • NSNO data collaborative 
  • Academics staffing shifts in place 
  • In addition to JJ/RSF support, I have an executive coach, emphasis on leadership accountability and data  
  • Suggestion for committee

Quantitative Areas of Growth:  

• Lexile data: 10th grade growth is currently averaging at less than 1 year’s growth   
• Certification data: We’re projecting rates of 30%
• English LEAP data: Increase in numbers of unsatisfactory scores:

Root Cause Analysis: low investment, 9th/10th graders and teammates needing additional practice in testing environments due to pandemic, lack of consistency in instructional coaching   

Our Response: 

• June School interventions in place to close the year in a stronger place 
• Hired Director of Curriculum and Instruction with extensive experience in culturally relevant pedagogy, curriculum design, and instructional coaching 
• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Coordinator position created 
• More structured intervention processes - Dedicated individual to focus efforts on improvement 
• Certification data: Requiring students to pass one  
• Certification exam before shifting to a new certification 

• Sherah LeBoeuf presented an executive summary on the budget.
• The presentation included key performance indicators.
• Sherah presented a forecast overview that  included any budget variances.
• Board members had some additional questions regarding the close out of the Foundation from school year 2021 - 2022.

• Committees were formed and board members will be announced prior to the October meeting.
• Current committees are:

1. Finance & Sustainability
2. Educational Accountability
3. Governance

• An overview of the Pupil Progression Plan was presented by Kaitlin Karpinski.
• Board members requested additional objective measures to be added to the plan.
• There was a discussion about cohort graduation requirements and retention.
• Additional recommendations were made to amend some of the language in the PPP.

This discussion was tabled for the October meeting.

This vote was tabled for the October board meeting.