I'd like to call the order the charter school review committee meeting for Thursday, March 26th at 5 p.m.

And I'll start with the roll call with myself as chair.

Bill Christensen.

Here.

Oh, Dr.

Chair Terry Brookshire.

Yeah.

Okay.

Tracy Sparrow.

And Tyana Davis.

Hopefully we'll join us later.

Okay.

Second item on the agenda.

Review and approval of the minutes from November 3rd, 2025.

Have you had a chance to review the minutes?

And if so, I will entertain a motion to accept the minutes from November 3rd, 2025.

This is a bill, I'll make that motion.

Is there a second?

Um any questions or comments on the minutes.

Seeing none, I'll move for approval.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All right.

Okay, the minutes have been accepted.

Next item on the agenda is communication related to the administrative matters of the Charter School Review Committee for 2025-2027 school year.

Sponsored by the chair.

And those items for discussion will include will be limited to the following.

A vote may be taken either on either of these items.

The first item we're going to discuss is the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, one-year contract renewal.

Gail.

Okay, thank you.

I'm gonna pass it along to the director of the Institute of the Transformation of Learning, and she's just going to um briefly share with you ITL and the services that we offer and what we've been doing lately.

Thank you.

Thank you, Judith.

Hey everybody.

Um Judith Romless here for those I have had not had the opportunity to meet.

Um hi, hello.

Um enjoying this wonderful Thursday.

Um enjoying your background of the nice wonderful be setting.

Um just wanted to kind of just send my greetings to you guys.

But um again, Judith Romulus with the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, and um I'm the director.

And the institute for the past, I don't know, 20 something plus years have been providing the administrative oversight uh for the uh CRSC.

Um pretty much we do a lot of the stuff from administration to serving as a liaison to the financial pieces in terms of matching the budget and just overall really anything that you can think of that would require for us to be a functioning uh organization.

So we do all the administrative pieces.

One of the things that we try to do every year is we try to um almost uh not almost, we actually try to find a way in which we can complement the work that RuPas and Dr.

Baylor is kind of already doing.

Uh this year, last year, for example, we did something with uh providing the schools with some stakeholder engagement training where we work with our student uh schools to learn how to work with their parents, learn how to work with local business leaders, engage their aldermanic automatic people.

The whole idea is that it takes more than just the people inside your school to make your school successful.

You really need the whole community working with you to advance your missions of your school.

So we provide a lot of focus work on that.

This year we did a um did more training on working with teachers and how to work with their students and supporting and strengthening school culture, as you know, we serve a lot of students of color, and a lot of our staff members don't necessarily come from their communities.

This was a training that allowed our staff members to get more foundational sense about the needs of our students and how to best support them.

In the next coming month, uh we're going to be doing something with the board members.

Um we're asking all the school leaders to have their board members come to a workshop where we're talking about how can board members support their schools.

It's more than just sitting in around a room and voting on things.

There are things outside the school building, inside the school building that the board members can support.

We want to make sure that the board members not only know how to support the school, but understand their role in making the school stronger, uh, not only in terms of you know uh legislation, but also just in terms of even the community.

Um I'm not quite sure what else it is.

I'm pretty sure you receive the memo that um Gail has written up as a director of um policy.

Uh we have also on staff, uh uh Cheryl Oak, who was the director of operations and myself.