Rachel referred to the executive director succession plan and the commitment she had made to recommend a successor each year in June. She explained to the board that she will be providing a progress update at our next meeting on her goals for this year and those that will continue on into next year. 

Rachel thanked Greg Moody for his service on the board, it is Greg's final meeting after six years of service.

Report of the Governance Committee to the Full Board for action at the Annual Meeting.

1. Trustees.  The Governance Committee moves that the following Trustees be elected for an additional three year terms beginning 7/1/21:

• Lisa Doherty (completing 4th term);
•  Annmarie Errichetti (completing 1st term);
• David Fuller (completing 2nd term). 

2. Officers.  the Governance Committee moves that the following Trustees be elected to the respective Board positions for a one (1) year term beginning 7/1/21:  

• Chairman: Dale Janes ( completing a 2nd term)
• Vice Chairman: Annmarie Errichetti (completing a first term)
• Treasurer: Denise Ford (completing a first term)
• Secretary: Robbie Martin ( completing a first term)

3. The third category to be voted on at the Annual Meeting are the assignments to Committees.  The Governance Committee moves that following Trustees be elected to serve on respective Board Committees for the year beginning on 7/1/21:

• Finance: Ford (Chair); Landon; Maxey; Fuller; Gabinetti; Martin.
• Academic Achievement: Sela (Chair); Janes; Errichetti; Doherty; Delobato; Crowell.
• Governance: Fuller (Chair): Mendelson; Moran (Trustee Emeritus). 

Rachel explained the team has create this dashboard for the board and committee to use moving forward to keep student achievement data a top priority pos-pandemic. We anticipated it but the data is suggesting serious learning loss for our students and we need to accelerate their learning as fast as we can. Big takeaways form the data are that student performance of students meeting expectations, those who we expect to meet expectations 2. on MCAS are behind where we've been in the past. We need to put strong ELA and Math interventions in place. Our older students performed better than our younger students, this has been true all year. 

Ashley asked everyone to look at the historical MCAS data, pointed out that in previous years at least 50% of our students were meeting expectations on MCAS. We are now projecting that only 38% of our students will be meeting expectations. This is concerning to us, the data from MAP and ANet tests are similar. 

Some of the things we are doing at the start of the school year to address student needs:
1. We've adopted a new math curriculum which has pre-assessments built in so that teachers and leaders can see where kids are at the start and plan to spend our time in the most impactful ways.
2. In terms of literacy, Emily Baecher has been planning interventions all spring to be ready to meet our students reading needs. 
3. We are working with Meredith and David Liben, nationally known reading experts, to help us use effective reading interventions for older students.

SGP is the most important metric to us, historically we have been in the 50-80 range. The data point that helps us predict SGP is MAP growth percentile. The growth percentile on this is much lower than where we've historically landed on the MCAS. 

Trustees asked about MAP and how we know it is valid and with who we are compared. All this data is directional and points to significant need for acceleration of learning. The board needs to be focused on academics over the next several years to provide strong oversight around acceleration.

Denise asked about students with IEPs and how we were supporting them upon return and if we we. Ashley talked about some of the supports and the structures that are in place. We will continue to monitor progress of the special ed sub-group.