Three Rivers Charter School
Minutes
Regular Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday January 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Location
This Board Meeting is being held in person at Three Rivers Charter School 1211 Del Mar Dr., Fort Bragg, CA, in the Jr. High Classroom.
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Directors Present
D. Vogele, J. Ries, L. Norman, R. Coy
Directors Absent
A. Dominguez, J. Hoyt
Guests Present
Joe Aldrich, K. Morgan, Mike Lang
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Community Comment
II. Reports
A.
Student Representative Report
B.
Teacher Reports
Reports are attached to the agenda.
Mrs. Krebs was unable to submit her report due to personal and family illness. K. Morgan updated on what has been happening in the 5/6 class.
Mr. Lang is present and gave an update on his paternity leave starting later this month. He is preparing his class to seamlessly continue their learning while he is out.
C.
Director's Report
CA Dashboard Release: the dashboard compares last year to the year before. The dashboard is available publicly online.
Facility Improvement Project Update:
Request for proposals will go out this week. K. Morgan is working out whether or not there should be a bid bond. J. Aldrich recommends a bid bond if it will fit into the budget.
Enrollment: 81, Lost 2 Gained 3
Semester 1 Report Cards end of January
Winter Survey
19 have responded so far. So far there has been good feedback.
Teacher Evaluations are currently underway. The evaluation system has been revised to allow for more streamlining and feedback.
NWEA MAP testing:
The teachers have met to go over the data from the testing. K. Morgan has a call upcoming with an NWEA professional. Testing will happen one more time this year in the spring.
Programs Update
Meal Program: lunch menu changes: Amber is working on changing things up based on some meals that are not so popular.
Tides After School: Successes: K. Morgan is working with Beth Pine to do some after school staff training. Staffing: Sue Magoo is coming to Tides on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Events and Activities:
January First Friday: Expectation Stations
Science fair is Wed 1/24/24 at 5:30pm. Winners of the science fair will go to the County Fair.
Spring Electives: Student Council(Mr. Dowling), Silent Art Videos(Ms. Natalie), Improv (Ms. Balentine), Mindfulness (Ms. Bart), Crochet (Ms. Krebs), Middle School Art (Sue Magoo)
D.
Financial Report
Report is attached to the agenda.
III. Discussion and Action Items
A.
Approve Minutes
B.
Approve Minutes
C.
Consider Approval of 2024-25 Academic Calendar
Staff Development Days have been added after winter break and spring break.
This would not affect the instructional days but will affect the instructional minutes. It is proposed to move pick up time from 3:05 to 3:11 on Mon-Thurs and 12:05 to 12:11.
J. Aldrich recommended submitting a request to amend the required instructional minutes.
R. Coy asked if parents have been notified, and that it may cause childcare issues. M. Lang advocated for the teachers to have these days to decrease the need to use their personal time for professional development and getting the classroom ready for coming back from break. M. Lang mentioned that the Jan 6 and April 14 Staff development days line up well with the NWEA testing cycles so will give teachers a good opportunity to discuss/analyze this data.
J. Aldrich suggested moving the Emergency Make-up Day from March 17 to April 14 as a Staff Development day and Emergency Make-up Day combined.
D.
Review and Approve 2023 SARC
R. Coy asked page 2 the District be changed to FBUSD. The data for teacher credentials is confusing, with number of teacher credentials showing up as 1.9 teachers. K. Morgan mentioned that the confusion is due to the 2021/2022 school year having a teacher leaving unexpectedly and an non-credentialed staff stepping in partway through the year.
Student Council is on a break for January, so there is no student report today.