Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order at 6:34pm

Approval of the evening's agenda by Shabazz, second by Walker

Approve last meeting minutes by Walker, second by Vassell

Head of School Report

Ms. Pettis shared the Head of School Report. Key points are as follows:

Staff received in-service training in guided reading, math, PBL and MAP testing.

Re-enrollment intent forms are due March 1

Open Enrollment March 8

Mid year TKES to be completed by the end of January

COVID19 DPA response includes HVAC modifications, plexiglass installed at each student's desk, PPE in place in school for staff usage

Action Items: Board requests adoption of school calendar for SY 2021-22

Report from Governance Committee

The Governance Committee met on Thursday December 17th, 2020 @6:00 PM for what was scheduled to be a 1 hours and 2 minutes long meeting. Present: Janelle Wilhite, Suzette Arnold, Karen Shabazz, Wanda McKay, Roberta Walker, Tamseel Syed Not Present: none The members considered the following items: 1. Welcome and Call to Order 2. In Attendance 3. Action Steps 4. Other Topic Discussions The committee considered 0 motions, of which 0 passed, and 0 failed: The meeting adjourned at 5:29PM

Strategic Planning-

The committee is awaiting feedback from the school on the plan. A portion of the data will be submitted on Wed. Jan. 27

School leadership now has a communications team headed by Ms. Rodgers. The team will work to ensure the website is updated with all board-related information.

Report from Development

The Development met on Friday January 14th, 2021 @10:00 AM for what was scheduled to be a 0 hours and 56 minutes long meeting. Present: Tanya Watkins, Wanda McKay, Marcus Vassell, Tamseel Syed Not Present: none The members considered the following items: 1. Adjourn 2. Resource Development Monthly Report 3. Board Action Items 4. Campaign/Project Planning 5. Welcome and Call to Order The committee considered 0 motions, of which 0 passed, and 0 failed: The meeting adjourned at 11:00AM

The committee plans to write grants to Home Depot, Walmart, Aldi Smart Kids

Resonate Church has asked to volunteer with DPA

Ms. Watkins is seeking to join a committee as a member of the local Chamber of Commerce as part of her role to develop relationships with community stakeholders.

Report from Academic Committee

The Academic Committee met on Friday January 22nd, 2021 @2:00 PM for what was scheduled to be a 1 hours and 28 minutes long meeting. Present: Roberta Walker, Veronica Grant, Carla Pettis, Atiya Hollis Not Present: Melba Smith, Lakeisha Strickland, Karen Shabazz The members considered the following items: 1. Welcome and Call to Order 2. Principal's Report 3. EDCD Report 4. Professional Development 5. Strategic Plan 6. Next Meeting Date and Time 7. Adjournment The committee considered 1 motions, of which 1 passed, and 0 failed: 1. Meeting adjoined (passed) The meeting adjourned at 3:03PM

School leadership would like to implement a Saturday School program. Leadership proposes to hire 16 teachers to teach every Saturday from Feb. 6 through May 15 (skipping the month of April)

Summer programs are being planned

DP3 for K-3

Math teachers in grades 4-8 will received math training from Ms. Scoggins of Math 911. Instructor to provide five workshops.

Dashbord to include student demographics, interim assessments, and CCRPI data, among other data points.

Leadership will come back to the board concerning a plan to address academic deficiencies as determined by latest data.

Leadership to send a copy of 18 week assessment to the Board before it is submitted.

Leadership will present data to math and science to support what they believe should be improvements to the math and science achievement levels based on the resources they are using.

Finance Committee

The February meeting will include preliminary plans for the next budget.

Ms. Wright shared key financial data ratios.

Public Comment

Our Public Comment period is for members of the public to address the board. Each member of the public may sign up to comment at the meeting, and will be allotted two minutes. The board will listen, but may not directly respond to any comments. Our meetings are open to the public and public record. As such, if your comment is about a private matter, please contact the board via email, or speak to the board chair privately.

NO Public Comments were offered.

Other Business

Motion to move to executive session at 8:37pm made by Walker, second by Syed

Executive session discussion pertained to human resources matters.

Motion to end executive session and return to regular meeting at 9:11pm

Adjournment

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 7:45 pm