Note: Walker Morrow is in attendance. Recently toured NP with Jon. Interested in the intersection of tech/ed.

• Jon shared (72,68 in the past) that 70% of staff members are returning for next year. We'd like to be in the range of 70-80%. 
• School based leadership teams are the crux of our school's success. Next year, 6/7 principals are returning, and 7/7 are current staff members of RePublic. 
  • Lessons learned: external principal hires struggle. This is consistent with others in this practice. Double down on internal talent. 49/54 school based leaders are returning--our pipeline is growing. Intentional diversification of our staff, board, teachers which we're seeing in early leadership promotion/growth.

Clarifying question: is the 70% overall staff, teachers, who we have asked back/versus not? Request to move to quarterly staff culture surveys. 

Abigail Rockey--Leaving in June
Liz Friedland--Leaving in June, named Ashley Davis Gallimore as Interim CTO
Laurie Brown--joining the team as Director of Strategic Initiatives (hoping to move into COS)
Catherine Olson--transitioning to managing the work of grants + finance

On draft #3 for this round of priorities for 19-20. What will be on it? 

• Shared curriculum 
• RePublic high school​​​​

Governance: 

• First priority: CEO evaluation
  • Had a kick off meeting--worked with BOT to determine how to use the software for governance. 
  • Had a demo call to determine how to use CEO evaluation tool (Jon reflects, modified 360). 
  • Need to set a date for evaluation to backwards plan from--probably July timeframe with a May commencement. 
  • Recommends a certain CEO evaluation committee that is comprised of different talent (plus Stewart). 
• Second: board and organizational culture
• Third: board structure
• Board retreat: opportunity to gather in July around the all network day on July 26 (board gathers on July 25 + 26). 

Finance: 

• Operating surplus better than expected; Nashville has paid enrollment shortfall
• Cash is similar to last year. YTD surplus is looking good. 
• Solidified our working capital line--went from 800k to 2 million
• Budget process is moving along--have a first draft. Will pass next meeting. 
• Currently working with Afton partners on LTP

Academics: 

• Kevin should be the representative of RePublic on the is committee. 

Development:

• Drake + Stewart met to talk about 2 major requests/pushes. Do we need a Chief of Staff and a Director of Development? 
  • Development officer with large events or program officers/institutional 
  • Going institutional route- Catherine Olson will focus on this in her new role
  • There are enough institutional investors where it feels like this is the place to double down
  • If we decide to go the event based and individual giving route, it will take a while to build the program out

Tabled for next meeting. 

See presentation. 

Questions: 

• How does high school environment relate to performance?