Dave read the ERA mission statement

Dave Nagel read the conflict of interest and ethics statement- no conflicts brought forward

Dave Nagel went over the agenda.

No public comments brought forward

Margaret Barr- Presented School Testing Data reports and numbers

• Areas of strengths, areas to grow, and steps to support and help.
• Discussion around the numbers- Comments made by Jeremy, Dave, Lindsey on the data.
• Dave made point of looking at the kids at the 4-5 level and saw them go down, how do we still teach to the highly proficient 4-5's. Differentiate instruction. Discussion on % of disadvantage and comparable numbers. When you segment the tier of over achievers to set that tier. 

Lindsey went over 2025-26 School Goals

See document

Discussion around the goals.

• Jeremy questioned whether these goals are attainable and is it too much? Lindsey responded she thinks they are attainable but a lot.
• Board can help to support these goals
• Discussion around #2, under goal 1

Jeremy representing governance committee went over the ED evaluation process. It was sent as pre-read. 

Dave went over 2025-26 board goals: holistically grouped all committee goals. 

Elliot-Discussed branding pre-read 

• Taking this and out-sourcing to help with ERA identify opportunities within STREAM and work with someone on ways to advise us for branding.
• Presented two firms and details around each one.
• Request to designate up to $50,000 budget for this job
• Recommendation to proceed and hire for a branding project
• Questions and comments made around what the end product hopes of this information end up being. Especially giving STREAM narrative, development of our STREAM visual, how is that integrated into our marketing, giving a brand to community partners and teachers. 

Lindsey update on land acquisition task force

• If board has desire to acquire land doesn't make financial sense to just buy land and sit on it. Lindsey proposes make a change from land acquisition task force to a school-expansion task force. 
• Need a vote to change that title and remit of what that task force would be tasked to do. 

Adam Haber- Went over cash on hand, interest going down because of interest rates, strong position, good spot but what are goals for that money

• Potential support for administration team-donor piece, marketing piece, need help to manage this possibly full time. 
• Trish discussed points from the call to branding firm 

Dave-

•  Committee meetings need to be sure we are doing open meeting. 
• Document storage on board on track
• On Board on track- board member profiles under Directory category

Celebrations:

• Fully staffed after this board meeting!
• We had our first-ever Bobcat Beacons in Middle School. These are students who have demonstrated themselves to be positive members of our ERA Community. 

Testing:

• WIDA Screeners have been given to all learners who have a primary language other than English spoken at home to identify students who may need English Language support. Mrs. Lopez has been AMAZING during this process! 

Personnel Report: 

• Fully staffed after this board meeting.

Curriculum:

• Adjusting some purchases to align with focus areas after looking at our data. For example, using Exact Path with middle school students as well as Wordly Wise. 

General:

• Capturing Kids Hearts visit.
• Looking forward to the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, Book Fair, and Trunk or Treat next month.

Send any evaluations to Dave Nagel for any post-meeting evaluations