Welcome and Call to Order

The Meeting will be called to order by the Chair.

Mission: The mission of The Museum School of Avondale Estates is to inspire students, teachers and the community to collaborate to develop strong critical thinking, interpersonal and academic skills in our students, which will prepare them for real-world success.

 

Core Values: Responsibility, Respect, Cooperation, Sustainability, Creativity, Kindness

Public Comment

Our Public Comment period is for members of the public to address the board. The board will listen, but may not directly respond to any comments. Please do not use specific student, teacher or administrator names in your comments as 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.

Email Executive Director, Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh at Katherine.kelbaugh@themuseumschool.org for Zoom access to the meeting.

Public comment (no longer than one page) should be submitted via email to Katherine.kelbaugh@themuseumschool.org. Your comments must be received by 10:00 am on the day of the meeting. Only those emails received during the allotted time will be read aloud and broadcast. Emails received outside of the allotted time will be included in the Public Comments record for the next meeting.

There were no public comments.

Approval of Agenda

So that there is agreement between board members on the agenda, and the amount of time spent on the meeting, the board shall vote to approve an agenda for the meeting. To the best of its ability, it will follow that agenda, and allow for the chair to move the board through the agenda as specified.

Board Chair Update

Board of Directors Chair Dr. Kelly Swinks notified the board that there was new information from DeKalb County School District (DCSD) regarding school reopenings. Dr. Swinks asked Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh to review the highlights of what TMS understands about directives from DCSD at this time.

Dr. Kelbaugh revisited the timeline of communications from DCSD regarding TMS plans to reopen, including communication from July 2020 stating charters have flexibility to set their own plans. She stated that follow-up communications to DCSD in December met with responses that she and Principal Mike Stewart attend a principals meeting for more information. Currently, TMS understands from DCSD that the District will determine school opening dates, including for charters, and that more information on opening dates is likely to be shared at a DCSD Board meeting on January 11, 2021.

TMS board then voted to move to Executive Session.

Following return to Regular Session, TMS Board discussed how to best share the new information from DCSD pertaining to opening dates to TMS families. It was agreed that TMS will follow the opening date guidance from DCSD, as the governing authority of TMS, implementing TMS Board-approved reopening plan once a date is established by DCSD. This is to be communicated to TMS families via an email and also during a town hall meeting the evening of January 7, 2021. TMS staff are also being updated.

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:13 pm