No changes needed.

Board and community members shared appreciations.

No board member comments on items not on the agenda.

One member of the public on Zoom commented to please be sure speakers speak into the microphone.

The Head of School report on BoardOnTrack public portal by clicking on this meeting, then scrolling down and clicking Documents.

Daniel shared the Head of School report, including recent and upcoming events. Moveathon was great fun! SBAC wraps up this week, and also this week, students moving up a level into new classrooms got to visit those classrooms. No school Monday, and 6th grade graduation and 8th grade promotion are next week. Last day of school is Friday and ELOP ends that day at 4:30p. Later in June the second cohort of Montessori training starts, and in July Cohort 1 begins their final summer of training.

Daniel the most up to date enrollment projections for next year, at just over 360 enrollment, slightly larger this year. Room in TK enrollment if families have four year olds, or current three year olds who turn 4 by June 1, 2024.

Daniel shared budget updates clarifying that latest documents show a worst-case scenario operating deficit for next year. There is additional revenue that hasn't been secured that is not included, and the deficit represents the additional investments to support teacher training, credentialing, and fundraising. Daniel shared that he hired Jori Martinez-Woods to be our new Montessori Trainer and also hired Krishna Feeney as Executive Director of Public Montessori In Oakland.

On Montessori Training, four staff members confirmed for Cohort 2, two others maybes, others from other schools. Cohort participants will receive a summer stipend in addition to training at no-cost, and planning to open up 1-2 spots in UMCS community members to join the training cohort, and an auditing experience for broader number of UMCS members and staff who are curious. Our current lease does not allow earning revenue from other schools who want to send their teachers to training, but Krishna shared that there are ways to share costs and reduce the share of expenses coming out of UMCS's budget. Krishna reiterated that she has made it clear to OUSD that UMCS would love to train OUSD teachers if that's ever something that OUSD needs and wants.

There were no public comments on this item.

Kara opened the public hearing at 5:51p. Krishna shared the draft LCAP and reviewed the local indicators. These documents are linked on the agenda and also here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GzrUcDof8_WfpN0lpZ3eggANMSjFuGtA?usp=share_link. The accompanying slides are on the BoardOnTrack public portal by clicking on this meeting, then scrolling down and clicking Documents.

Proposing one overall goal: Between the Fall 2023 Dashboard and the Fall 2026 Dashboard, the school will improve to eventually perform at Yellow or above across Dashboard indicators. Progress would measured by overall on each indicator, and also subgroups. The board discussed how Yellow across the board is a step in the longer journey of Greens across the board, and then finally Blue across the board. The school already has some subgroups meeting or out performing this goal, but that this goal is about getting the entire school community to the baseline of Yellow.

Key aligned actions include: Instructional Coaching, New teacher Professional development, IXL, School Leadership Team, Reading Intervention, Targeted Professional Development, additional support for RTI team in support of students with IEPs, Student Wellness, Attendance tracking and communications, and Attendance support.

Krishna shared all the ways that the LCAP remains open to feedback from all, including emailing, at this meeting and June meetings, working on the document itself. Greg asked and Krishna clarified that IXL is new. Krishna shared that the school Met all five local indicators. Sarah shared about how Yellow can be earned in multiple ways on a five-by-five. Amy asked about progress monitoring internally during the year before Dashboards are released. Daniel shared yes, the school has the tools it needs to share mid year progress reporting.

No other public comments. Sarah closed the public hearing at 6:11p.

Greg shared about Effective Goal Monitoring in the context of the Student Outcomes Focused Governance framework, working from this document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lPLsB8-nNMQw-ygzeQUvyMWF8ZgBtruEI1sq8vovGo/edit  Kara asked about getting started and Greg offered that one starting place is to take current academic goals and structure them grammatically as SMART goals as defined by the SOFG Framework, and then also adopting a calendar of monitoring. Sarah asked to see examples of taking existing goals aligned to the SOFG framework.

No public comments on this item.

Evan shared about the success of the recent Moveathon and welcoming new families to the school community over the summer, Kara shared that there is one more FAC Zoom meeting on the calendar for this coming Wednesday, and Ann shared about setting up Buddy Families. 

The public asked for more screen sharing, and Greg adjusted the settings.

Sarah asked the board and there was no need to make any changes in officer or committee roles for the remainder of this school year. Sarah shared that the board would approve new officer roles in June for SY 2024-2025. Sarah shared that he intends to pass on the role of chair to a new person. Greg shared that he's ready for other folks to take on the role of Secretary, Treasurer, or both.

The board discussed its draft calendar of Regular Meetings, and made a few adjustments, and that new committee chairs will need to set their committee calendar times.

Sarah reviewed the Board Assessment results. The main area the board wanted to make improvement was in recruiting additional board members, and sharing again our brief job description. Amy asked and the board brainstormed areas of support that would be helpful, including real estate and facilities experience, legal experience, a Montessorian, recruitment and marketing experience, and fund development. Amy also agreed to codify the recruitment and pre-service process that she herself recently went through. The Board then talked about the need to clarify board goals. Sarah asked and Greg responded that he would like to see the board begin to quarterly self evaluate against the SOFG framework in addition to the annual BoardOnTrack board assessment. Greg shared that a new chair could offer the board a direction to aim for in one or two areas of improvement aligned to the results of this recent assessment. Lastly, Sarah shared about the finance area, and reiterated it's ok to ask questions of the Treasurer, Edtec, or come to finance committee. Sarah asked if there were concerns about financial oversight and there were none.

There were no public comments on this item.

Greg shared that today is the last day of school for OUSD and briefly about the Governor's May Revise and also that President Davis of the OUSD Board announced his intention to not seek reelection in November to the OUSD Board.

There were no public comments on this item.

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At 7:09p, Sarah shared that the Board would go into closed session on Public Employee Performance Evaluation - Head of School. There were no public comments on this item.

At 7:34p, Krishna and Daniel entered the closed session.

At 7:43p, the Board returned to open session. Sarah shared that no actions were taken.