How are the students doing?
- Board reviewed student performance factors document and discussed the importance of collecting the data and using the data to ensure we are constantly improving.
- Board reviewed the International Baccalaureate Action Plan noting the strong overlap between IB goals and Montessori goals.
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| Fall Experiences by the Numbers |
- Finance Report was reviewed noting the good news that GRS' lease aid was approved to get retroactive payments owed to GRS earlier than anticipated which will benefit our cash flow.
- Wendy Swanson-Choi of NEO, GRS' authorizer, presented to Board and answered questions on GRS's charter renewal process. NEO's evaluation process will assure GRS meets MDE standards and we will know term length of our charter renewal by April 2015.
- The Search for a Pedagogy Leader was discussed noting there is one highly qualified candidate who has applied.
- Charter compliance was reviewed in conjunction with the World's Best Workforce work; World's Best Workforce is a Minnesota Department of Education program with the goal of making sure all schools are meeting these goals: All children are ready for school.
- Consent agenda was approved; a consent agenda is a list of documents reviewed by the board before the meeting and that do not require discussion.
All third-graders can read at grade level.
All racial and economic achievement gaps between students are closed.
All students are ready for career and college.
All students graduate from high school.
- Two committee mandates were approved to continue the work already started: Student Achievement Committee and Strategic Plan Committee.
- Board reflected on the meeting noting how helpful it was to meet with Wendy Swanson-Choi.
