Download Board Meeting Minutes 3-29-16

BOARD MEETING MINUTES
3-29-16 @ 7:30 AM
Meeting called to order at 7:33 AM via a conference call
On the Phone:
Dan Weber, Pam Tallmadge, Emily Lembeck, Allen McCannon, Michele Taylor, Carol Jean Carey, Howard Hensley,
Fred Williams, and Tiffany Taylor
Minutes reviewed: Michele moved to approve – Howard second – All in Favor
Budget Review from Dan Weber:
 Dan’s compensation - 20 hours a week to 30 hours a week (90 dollars an hour)
o Continued advocacy for our charter systems. Dan made the request two weeks ago with the
executive committee.
 Accounting year to match the charter system fiscal year
 See attached budget that includes Dan’s salary increase*.
o *Dan’s salary increase was approved with the budget
 Rent will go away
 Contribution review
 DOE grant will be able ($100,000) and also for FY17 ($100,000)
o Monies to go to Martha’s research and Title 1 research/consultants
o Workshops
Comments: Board gave thanks to Dan and those involved in the pilot
Motion to approve – Allen made the motion to accept the budget and Carol Jean second – All in Favor
Title 1 Pilot:
 Dan gave everyone an update. Everyone is on the same page on how the pilot would work.
 Issues:
o Will the DOE staff allow the flexibility needed?
o Will the financial review staff allow the flexible accounting?
 Survey that came out yesterday (3-28-16) from the DOE.
 Comments: Thank you to Dan for pulling this together in the long run this benefits children
LSGT Workshop Review:
 Pam gave an overview of the past 5 workshops. one more to go in Coffee County on April 12th
Awards Luncheon Review:
 Pam gave an overview of the awards luncheon to be held again at Hyatt Atlanta Perimeter @ Villa
Christina.
o We have the larger ballroom.
 New sponsor consultant Caitlyn Cooper and Jaillene will be an advisor. Awards Applications are due May
6th.
 Martha’s Research will help in fundraising efforts
New Business:
 Deb Page Consulting:
o Deb Page and Jean Quigg – Deb and Jean joined the conference call meeting.
 Dan gave an overview: Needs Assessment and School Improvement training for
Principals and Governance Team leaders
 Deb & Jean: Gave an overview. They would like to train one or two from each charter
system. Superintendents tend to believe their schools are getting the assessments and
school improvement plans underway, as well as interventions are getting done. But skill
sets are still lacking, even in high achieving school districts.
 Would help districts with their ESSA application for successful implementation.
 Dan said this complements are workshop training as well as our title 1 pilot program –
this would be a good direction for differential training for our systems.
 Cohort of 24 people representing 24 charter foundation systems.
 4 to 6 days of training as well as consistent support
 Concern for the smaller systems to be able to pay and would we get all 24
systems to participate
 Comments:
 Send the board something in writing
 We need to know the how and the solution of how to implement
 Deb and Jean said they could use this group as a steering committee for future
work and the DOE can use the outcome
 This work is highly complimented to the work of GLISI
o Framework is a little different – this focuses on the workplace. Human
performance and to show correlation to student achievement.
Evidence based
 Money from ESSA? Yes
 Timeline:
 Deb would like to start the end of May 2016
 24 people – 24 systems – the person who is managing the ESSA application
 Work forward to the end of the calendar year
 Second part of the school calendar year they would be ready to expand their
teams.
 Board needs to see the write-up before they commit to Deb’s program
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Future LSGT Workshops
o 6 LSGT Workshops to spread out in our fiscal year
o Coffee Pot workshops will continue as well as the Legislative Workshop
o SACs Workshops
o Title 1 Pilot Workshops
Coffee Pot Workshop on June 22, 2016
o Pam will ask some of our new systems what they would like to see in a workshop
o Waivers and Innovations
Meeting adjourned at 8:35
Next Board Meeting: June 22, 2016 Following the Awards Luncheon at Villa Christina
Minutes respectfully submitted: Pam Tallmadge