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1. Start Time: 10:40 a.m.
2. Pledge of Allegiance: J.F.K. Charter School Safety Patrols
3. Board Goals/SWOT
   Minutes: Chuck Shaw, Principal of J.F.K. Charter School, welcomed Board Members to his school and introduced the following people who briefly addressed the Board:
   Beth Brill, J.F.K. Charter School Board Chair
   Gena Melby, J.F.K. Medical Center CEO
   Dr. Susan Brenner, Senior VP of Bright Horizons Family Solutions
   
   Mr. Lynch provided a brief history of the Board's accomplishments in the past few years and summarized the SWOT format they will follow today, which consists of:
   Strength
   Weakness
   Opportunities
   Threats
   
   Board Members discussed their ideas and produced the following SWOT analysis:
   
   Strengths - Leadership:
   * School Board team and leadership
   * Administration leadership team
   * Continuity of School Board and administration
   * School Board - cooperative relationship
   * Cooperative relationship with County Commission & municipality
   * Cooperation with agencies (CSC, CJC, WA, EC)
   * Working relationship with employee unions (CTA)
   * Academic Business Plan
   * 5-10-15 Year Capital Plan
   * Legal Department efficiency and cooperation
   
   Strengths - Academics:
   * Focus on reading
   * Emphasis on mathematics (algebra)
   * Focus on classroom and students who need support
   * Complex solution to curricular problems
   * Accelerating Academic Achievement (AAA) Plan
   * NCLB
   * Single School Culture (Academic, Climate, Discipline)
   * Mandatory implementation of programs
   * Early detection - child needs (behavioral health professionals)
   * Choice Programs (career academies, magnets, etc.)
   
   Strengths - Personnel:
   * Principals & teachers as strength to student achievement
   * Staff development as a strength and primary variable in student
   
   Strengths - Technology:
   * Data driven system (data warehouse) - willingness face issues
   
   Strengths - Business:
   * Construction Department
   * Affluent county
   * Supportive community (e.g. sales tax referendum)
   * Independent oversite committees (e.g. CORC, Finance, Audit)
   * Transportation Department
   
   Weakness - Leadership:
   * State legislature not providing adequate funding
   * Enticing other publics to become more involved in public education
   * Lobbying effort for university teacher internships earlier in college
   * Political interference for best for students
   * Policy lagging (choice vs. neighborhood schools)
   
   Weakness - Academics:
   * Alternative Education
   * Curriculum overload (too many things going on)
   * Unwillingness to centralize all curriculum and instruction
   * Communication of the classroom syllabus to students/parents
   * Too much paper-work for schools
   * Wellness for students
   * CPR
   * Intramural sports
   * Elimination/reduction of art, music and physical education
   * Lack of transition programs
   * Belief system shared “all students can learn" (remove sorting)
   * Clarification of FCAT black out
   
   Weakness - Personnel:
   * Recruitment of high needs teachers/principals and high risk areas:
   A. housing
   B. salary
   C. internal process
   D. external process
   E. turnover
   F. mentoring
   G. identification of potential teacher candidates
   H. recruitment with specificity (colleges with successful graduates)
   I. upgrade the on-line application with red flag system
   * Previous lack of ERP to track
   * Counseling programs need to be further upgraded
   * Selection of leadership
   * Cultural/Diversity Competence
   
   Weakness - Technology:
   * Technology support
   * ITV for teaching, tutoring, and parent communication
   * Technology and science lagging behind
   * Do not have full utilization of Ed-line technology to parents
   * New schools vs. old schools in technology
   * Digital divide
   * Follow-up statistics on students:
   A. FCAT
   B. Career Academies
   C. ESE students
   
   Weakness - Business:
   * Unfunded mandates
   * Federal government failure to fund
   * Wellness for employees
   
   Opportunities - Leadership:
   * Student assignment (boundary, choice, etc)
   * Interlocals w/other publics for transition
   * Interlocals w/ bus/ind/high ed: art/music/PE
   
   Opportunities - Academics:
   * Pre-K Programs
   * CAO/COO model for high schools
   * Wellness education and food services (Commit to Fit)
   * Career academies for alternative students
   * Transition from middle school to junior high school
   * Best practices - standard course of studies (SCS)
   * Curriculum guides
   * Data warehouse/ERP to find independent variables
   * Engaging parents with SCS, Ed-line, ITV, syllabus
   * Increase/improve field trip opportunities (centralize)
   * Take advantage of charter district status
   
   Opportunities - Personnel:
   * Wellness program interlocal agreements
   * Training of charter school personnel/board of directors
   * Teacher orientation for district philosophy
   * Belief system shared “all students can learn"
   * Accountability, responsibility, empowerment
   * Competency models replace job description
   * Cultural/diversity as a competency model
   
   Opportunities - Technology:
   * ITV for reinforcement (e.g. tutoring)
   * Model classrooms (e.g. Don Estridge)
   
   Opportunities - Business:
   * Teacher housing
   * Financial grants
   * Incorporate wellness and weather components
   * Expanded use of concrete portables
   
   Threats - Leadership:
   * Teacher housing
   * Financial grants
   * Incorporate wellness and weather components
   * Expanded use of concrete portables
   
   Threats - Academics:
   * Unfunded mandates:
   A. CSR
   B. A+ plan
   C. Hurricane shelters
   D. 94-142 funding cap
   E. District Cost Differential
   F. E-Comp plan
   
   Threats - Personnel:
   * Cost of living
   * Teacher shortage
   * Employee housing cost
   * Obesity
   * Teacher movement from SES schools
   * Salary complexity: get high performers; not focus on money
   * Principals raiding school personnel when transferred
   
   Threats - Business:
   *Cost of construction
   * Hurricane
   * Student enrollment projections
   * Proposition 103 - financial stability
   * Strengthening HELP desk
   * Engage the business community (human capital)
   
   Dr. Johnson announced that he would provide Board Members with a list of their SWOT analysis and would schedule a meeting next week to discuss which topics they feel are the most important.
   
   
4. Adjourn: 3:40 p.m.