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 upcoming school events, information on literacy curriculum shifts and reasoning, data on different reading skills and how it is collected school wide, what the data is used for in different areas, and school celebrations.

Executive Director's Report

Executive Director Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh provided a report to board members present including a summary of the QSR report from DCSD, school tours for other school leadership to share the "Museum School experience," a new policy recommendation, lottery results and application data, future projects that Dr. Kelbaugh is working on for the school, Literacy curriculum updates, transition for our norm referenced standardized testing, and TMS Foundation Updates.

Finance Committee Update

Finance Committee Chair Ashley Rowland provided a report on behalf of Committee including last month's financials for the school, working on the tax return, and updated financial policies that the board members need to review and vote on at next month's board meeting.

Facilities Committee Update

Facilities Committee Chair Trisha Cuda provided a report to board members present including updates on the Landscaping projects and timing of that.

Governance Committee Update

Governance Committee Chair Jamie Carroll provided a report to board members present including updates on the Strategic Plan for Governance Committee, recruitment process changes, outreach to other charter schools and partners, performance rubric evaluations for board members, and google drive resource re-organization.

Diversity Committee Update

Diversity Committee Co-Chair Nupur Dalal provided a report to board members including understanding the impact of federal guidance on this committee, and policies, etc.

Board Chair Update

Board Chair Robin Reese made remarks.

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:44 pm