Patience Brown updated on our return to remote instruction on Monday, now also using live instruction using Google Hangouts so students receive daily instruction in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies. Still doing pre-recorded videos and printed packets to support remote learning. 
We began giving out chrome books this week to families who have access to wifi.
What internal assessments are we using for student progress tracking? We will make slight shifts to our promotional criteria - it is almost impossible to have effective assessments, we will have extensive assessments when we return. We do not have the expectation that students will be able to master new standards from March to June - we are holding students accountable for mastery of concepts up to March. We always address "summer slide" in the first 6 weeks, we are working on adapting scope and sequence to both address that and include the materials from March to June, so this remediation period may take 12 weeks. 
For students who do not have internet and/or computer access, they receive daily calls from their teachers to work through their packets. Families appreciate the packets more than the online resources because they are more capable of monitoring their kids' progress.
Update on SpEd: all related services provided via tele-therapy. Differentiation led by SpEd teachers through remote instruction. There have been slight modifications, all meetings and re-evals are happening virtually, but all services are provided.

Financial situation is unchanged since the last meeting. We reviewed banking activity and everything appears as it should.

Several very preliminary budget revenue scenarios for FY21 were reviewed. 

The Finance Committee has a proposed resolution to take a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program. The school has applied for the first round, we have submitted our application for the second round to Capital One. The proposed resolution considered today provides the authority to the school to borrow money and provides authority for the officers and senior management team to provide information and execute documents to receive this loan.

 

Everyone should have received a link to complete the annual virtual Board Assessment. Encouraging everyone to complete it to see where we are as we develop as a Board. 
On recruitment, the committee will review a list of candidates identified to confirm interest prior to sending out an inquiry email.

No update at this point, will re-engage the board in late-May or early June. Do keep contacts warm - at this point there is no point to reschedule again but we will see where we are at in July/August.

Patience and her team have an excellent relationship with families, there hasn't been the same need for the committee to actively build relationships because the staff has established them.

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