Note : The language in future minutes should be past tense .

Kari Diamond  Kayiatos- Happy to be here! 

Tiffani Curtis reported on AAC October meeting.   MCAs results were main focus during Oct meeting.  Modesto will get more into the details of these results during his management report.  A lot of work has been done to understand this report and the significance of the indicators in the MCAs report.   Tiffani stated that the AAC continues to work on updating the academic dashboard which MM will report on monthly at the board meetings.  Enrollment numbers , discipline numbers, attendance and student/ staff retention will be looked at monthly while achievement data will be looked at when available.  Strategic planning is placed on hold for now as there are other priorities to tackle.

Dana Barrows reported that the development committee is continually working on how to achieve its goal of 350k fundraising this year.  There will be a fall and spring campaign.  The first launch of solicitation letters are set to go out in the next couple of weeks.  Katie Frett is also working to get tour dates together in an effort to bring more people into the school.

Tony Surrette reported on year end audit .  Nothing big and/or surprising came up.  It was a smooth process.  

July and August financials were also highlighted for the group.  

 

Governance Committee will report out in November however as a reminder - still looking to onboard 1 to 2 more trustees ; (finance and marketing/communications expertise being the priority) 

Modesto Montero reported on the recently released MCAs data :  ELA performed at district level ; this needs to be a bigger area of focus.   Math : outperformed district - this is a glow .   Libertas' internal assessments are accurately predicting these MCAs results.   For a year 2 school there are things to be excited about but going into year 3, there needs to be more substantial growth across the board.  Certain areas are being significantly focused and adjusted in response to MCAs results (ie attendance ,  growth of students who need the most support ... ) .  

Students who need the most support have grown the least.  This is a big takeaway and supporting this populations needs to be a bigger priority.  LACS has a large population of these students  (25%) ; more structures need to be put in place and/or a substantial change in directions needs to occur so that this population is better supported.  A reading specialist/ interventionist and having the teaching team delegate certain work so they can better focus on the most important tasks to teach these students, are two thoughts .

Modesto concluded that while there are things to be proud of, there is a lot that needs to happen to not just grow but to make significant growth going forward.