M. Russell gave his monthly update for December. 

• Attendance Update- For December we are at 92% in the lower school and high school 91.07%. Some of our absences has to do with COVID and other outside constructs that are impacting us. We are seeing an increase in that in our 9-12 as well.
• From a staff standpoint, we are doing better with teacher attendance.
• IA's- There has been some significant growth on multiple grades for ELA and Math IA scores. The averages range from 44% to 64%. Our pass rates range from 10% to 51%. You'll see some of the lowest numbers in third grade. It's not alarming that the third grade numbers are that low because they're newer to the system. Especially given COVID, you're going to see a lot of very new constructs in there. You're going to see a lot of kids really struggling with just the IA and assessment concept. That's something we're thinking about. 

K. Davidson shared that the drama took place this week and showed some pictures from our show!

• We had a couple of, approaching a couple dozen, families sign up to speak. Melissa and her team, Claudia and her team did an amazing job of reaching out to families, getting hooked up with Zoom. It was a very nice feeling where there were two renewal hearings. We were the second one. The first school had a couple of parents. It was very prescriptive where ours was very authentic and true. We had a diverse subsection of families. From families who have only been with us for a year to families who've been with us approaching six, seven, eight years. Really nice to have the broad spectrum representing the entirety of the school, and feel like they did a really great job of showcasing the community aspect of our three pillars. Overall felt like it went well, and it was a good supplement to all the work that we did in the prior weeks with the renewal visit and the interviews with staff and the board.
• IA's annotation- The team is doing intensive work on the scholar annotations from the IA exams, to see where their minds are before answering the question. 
• 8th grade scores have seen a lot of growth in reading scores and would like to roll out these growths with other grades. 
• What we're trying to emphasize with teachers, specifically, is even students who are in 8th grade and even students who are reading above grade level, when they annotate, when they are really going through our process of deep understanding of the text. We really want to leverage that success in 8th grade to trickle downward to lower grades.

• One available position for our staff- Data Manager
• New updates for marketing our school: a billboard close to the school, a 3D tour and enforcing a student ambassador program to see the school through the scholars point of view. 
• Wellness Program- Calm sessions that leaders hold. Also, having wellness days where staff members get dismissed earlier. 
• Promethean boards are finally up. Teachers have been trained and are able to use now. 
• Nuasin has increased the 401k match.

E. Mew shared:

We can see through November 30th, cash on hand is really strong. Our year to day metrics, including the current ratio, is great as always because we keep low liabilities our current ratio remains very high. We see as well as our debt service ratio is in great shape also because we keep a very low current liability line in the balance sheet, we pay bills immediately, always timely as we also see that we have enrollment. We see our net surplus year to date is significantly higher than our forecasted surplus.

Last month we announced that we had a individual goal setting table set up it's available for everyone. It was an interesting experience for J. Boulet because you just go ahead and just pick one of these ideas and just be like, "okay, let me work on this." It's a great tool for development.
 

Open meeting law audit- We will be conducting audits of our meetings and documents.