On August 6th, the school will turn 10 years old. We have shared many experiences over the past decade. Breakfast will be a time to reflect on some of these experiences before we analyze where we are and strategize for the future.  

Breakfast will be provided by the school's staff.

Senior Management Team will share the progress of the school relative to the FY22 goals with context from the FY20 projections (Spring before COVID) and FY21, including performance on state assessments, graduation and college-going rates, enrollment, student and staff stability, net income, DSCR, and days cash on hand. 

Goals and strategies for FY23 are being developed through mid-July and will not be part of the presentation, although Board members are invited to contribute ideas and recommendations related to these. 

The Executive Director will facilitate the Board reflecting on the organization's progress relative to the Strategic Plan it developed in January of 2020, including the areas of Scholar Development, Teacher Development, Family Engagement, and Recruitment/Marketing. The Board identified as an area of strategic focus but did not set goals around Board development. This will be allocated significant time in the following parts of the Board retreat. 

The Executive Director will facilitate a conversation regarding the current priorities of the school for the upcoming 1-3 years and other factors that may affect these priorities. 

The organization intends to open a preschool in this fiscal year and is preparing to open additional campuses in the next 3 years. The current governance structure is inadequate to support these organizational goals. The Director of Finance and Operations will lead the group through a strategic conversation intended to culminate in a recommendation for the governance structure to build during FY23.

Lunch will be provided by school staff. 

HB2862 permits schools to utilize flexibility in tracking and reporting attendance beyond traditional seat time for up to 40% of the total instructional time the school provides. "In designing attendance tracking procedures, districts and charters should consider which activities best represent student participation/engagement in remote instruction, independent learning, mastery-based learning, or project-based learning," per the ADE guidance document provided in July of 2021. The plan is required to be shared at 2 public meetings.

Empower College Prep's Instructional Time Model for students learning outside of the brick and mortar campus is designed to mirror the model in place at the brick and mortar campus. All students will be assigned 4 periods each day. Just as students on the campus are marked as present in each period, students learning remotely will be marked present based on their observable participation in each of their courses. This may be observed through logs provided by the Learning Management System, live screen monitoring through Go Guardian, and/or in-person observations by the Learning Guide on the Extended Campus.