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.

Approve Previous Meeting Minutes

Approve previous meeting minutes.

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.

Principal's Report

Principal Hope Black provided a report to board members present including updated student demographics, upcoming school events, instructional updates, professional development opportunities with staff, and general school updates.

Executive Director's Report

Executive Director Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh provided a report to board members present including compliance updates with Dekalb County School district, community partnership updates, new ideas concerning education for board members and the TMS community on school data and curriculum and how this can be shared on an ongoing basis, school events. Courtney Swafford, TMS Foundation Chair gave an update on the Foundation budget, upcoming events and fundraisers.

Finance Committee Update

Finance Committee Chair Ashley Rowland provided a report on behalf of Committee including a report on the monthly financials from October and any variances to budget.

Facilities Committee Update

Facilities Committee Chair Trisha Cuda provided a report to board members present including updates on Phase 1 of the Outdoor Classroom, Phase 2 of the outdoor classroom planning starting, updates from Facilities Strategic Plan Monitoring and where the committee is on the various tasks related to the strategic plan including the Security Master Plan.

Governance Committee Update

Governance Committee Chair Jamie Carroll provided a report to board members present on board nomination cycle updates and parent recruitment efforts for board committees.

Diversity Committee Update

Diversity Committee Chair Monique Dukes provided a report to board members present including updates to a report concerning recommendations on upcoming weighted lotteries for Economically Disadvantaged families.

Board Chair Update

Board Chair Robin Reese made remarks to the board members present.

Adjourn

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:21 pm