In light of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Governor Baker issued an emergency Order on March 12, 2020, 
allowing public bodies greater flexibility in utilizing technology in the conduct of meetings under the Open Meeting Law.

1) Top priority: Effective Evaluation & Feedback of Teachers  This is a multi-year goal from last year, and will be a greater focus with more opportunity with full in-person learning this year.  Teaching Force will be imbedded into this goal. Matt and Andrea will also be helping to evaluate the teachers.

2) Criteria of Excellence: Portfolios  Focus of work this year will be on getting skills assessed and self-assessments done and projects to be part of a portfolio within a standard system across all 5 grade levels.  There will be increasing rigor across the grade levels.

3) Communication:  Feedback from all surveys indicate that it is essential to establish and maintain more productive relationships with people and they need to be two-way.  With almost a third of the staff being new, it is more important than ever.  

16 new staff members participated in orientation yesterday, including a few from last spring.
Full enrollment has necessitated an inclusion specialist at each grade level

The HR firm HR Knowledge has conducted an audit of MCCPS's overall Human Resources over the course of this summer, reviewing all documents and asking many questions.  They have identified areas of need included in a lengthy document with an executive summary.  This was to assess the potential necessity of having a part-time HR person, given that the school has 50 employees at this stage.  The salary that the school is able to offer may be prohibitive to finding someone, but they are continuing to work with Peter and Jeff Barry on the job description and taking care of a few recommended adjustments. 

HR Knowledge is taking a look at the Staff & Student Handbooks so we will circle back to this in a future meeting.

We will be discussing adding the University of Kansas survey this year, or one like it that is more custom to the needs of MCCPS similar to what has been used in previous years.  John will send information to members and we will begin discussing at the next meeting.  John does not recommend we discontinue the use of Val-Ed or Board on Track yet, so that we may have some year to year consistent information for Peter.

November will be the month for conducting Part 1 of Board Training for HOS Evaluation.
Next meeting date:  Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021