The Main Street Academy

Communications Committee

Regular Meeting - Monday April 9th, 2018 @6:00 PM

Meeting Minutes

Attendance Summary

Name Status Arrival Time Departure Time
Tha Vin present On Time At Adjournment
Tequila Douglas present On Time At Adjournment
Clennette Reid not present
Chandra Graves present On Time At Adjournment
Alicia Jones Hicks not present
Stacy Kerber present On Time At Adjournment
Nailah Worthams not present
Jamila Jackson present On Time At Adjournment
Anne H Goehring present On Time At Adjournment
Karin Smppt not present

Discuss key communication goals from Governing Board Strategic Plan

Approve 3 goals from strategic plan

By: Tha Vin Seconded by: Chandra Graves

The members discussed all 5 strategics initiatives (Resource Development, Teacher Development, Technology, Curricular Enhancement and Student Safety). Though communication is not explicitly stated as a strategic initiative, communication is key to all of the strategic initiatives. The members then identified, aligned and assigned communication goals and subcommittee leads.


Here's the breakdown:

Goal 1: Facilitate discovery workshop/roundtable discussion with stakeholders with different perspectives that represent a spectrum of parent/staff satisfaction levels.
  • Team Lead: Tha Vin
  • Strategic Alignment: Resource Development
  • Timing: Early May
  • Deliverable: Workshop and report on challenges/barriers of communication and recommendations
Goal 2: Inventory current communication platforms and channels (may potentially be a component of Goal 3)
  • Subcommittee Lead: Digital Social Technology 
  • Strategic Alignment: Teacher Development, Technology
  • Timing: Wave 1 (Parents - Late May); Wave 2 (Teachers - Early June); Wave 3 (IDI throughout the summer)
  • Deliverable: Surveys, in depth interviews and a report on a communication path forward
Goal 3: Launch relationship survey for parents, teachers and students
  • Subcommittee Leads: Research and Analytics in conjunction with Academic School Performance Committee 
  • Strategic Alignment: Resource Development, Teacher Development, Technology, Curricular Enhancement, Student Safety
  • Timing: June - August (Tentative)
  • Deliverable: Annual survey to measure parent/teacher satisfaction

Discussion of discovery planning update

Approved discovery workshop pre-planning and stakeholder types

By: Tha Vin Seconded by: Chandra Graves

Ariana Santiago from Flight Creative will facilitate a discovery workshop with 10 parents, teachers, administrators and board members. The goal of the workshop is to identify the challenges to increasing parent and teacher satisfaction. Once the the challenges have been identified through various tactics (empathy mapping, ideation, etc), Ariana will submit a report with recommendations.


Deliverable: A report with recommendations to address capacity, culture and collateral challenges will be presented to the Communications Committee

Timing: Early May 

Next Steps: Communications Committee will initiate two work streams: engage a communications professional with charter school experience to execute the recommendations and another to launch advancement/development efforts in FY 2018-2019.

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:53 pm

Motion to adjourn

By: Tha Vin Seconded by: Clennette Reid

There was no notable discussion on the motion.