FISCAL OVERSIGHT
ACADEMIC OVERSIGHT
GOVERNANCE 101
STRATEGIC DIRECTION
EFC 101
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The role of the financial committee
What is oversees cash flow, approves budgets, ensures the overall fiscal health of the organization
100
How we measure academic success for our schools
What are academic targets based on the CELDT, API and CST performance; disaggregated student performance by race, FRL, and ELL status; benchmark data
100
Term of an EFC board member
What is 3 years with the exception of EFC Family Leadership Council representatives who serve 1 year terms?
100
Alignment between EFC and these two schools
What is 1) a theory of action that believes that improving instruction is the primary means by which you move student outcomes (a laserlike focus on instruction) 2) geographic proximity (serve same neighborhood and demographics) 3) staff and family leadership as a priority
100
Our mission statement
What is - We will provide a superior public education to Oakland's most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on our students' academic achievement. We believe that high quality instruction, and its continuous refinement, will lead to success for our students. When our students succeed, they will be prepared to make thoughtful and informed choices that will set them on a path for a successful life.
200
Financial reports to review
What is quarterly budget to actuals report, proposed budget in May, audit in December, cash flow twice a year?
200
What the board approves to ensure schools implementing research-based strategic actions to achieve targets
What is the site plan
200
Annual board training topics
What is the Brown Act, a review of the EFC Conflict of Interest Policy, the EFC Whistleblower Policy?
200
How the schools benefit from joining EFC
What is agility and autonomy over critical conditions for running effective schools - staffing, professional development and PD calendars, scheduling, budget, position control AND being part of a professional learning community of schools in the same neighborhood
200
Who at Home Office has an EBAY store?
Who is Fabiola Harvey
300
3 board policies important to the finance committee
What is contracts, conflict of interest, and school cash
300
Your evaluation of how EFC is doing and why
What is the three schools under EFC's management were two schools operating at under 581 and 603 API when they converted to EFC; the schools are now operating at 783, 819, 822 respectively
300
How families and teachers know who is on the board and how they access the board
What is through our website; each school site has a visible bulletin board with board members' photos, bios and contact information; through our newsletter; and through publicly noticed monthly board meetings that take place at school sites?
300
How EFC benefits from adding these two schools
What is that ASCEND and LWL has instructional models that are close in alignment with the EFCPSv2 instructional model; we will learn a lot from these schools' implementation of more student-directed instructional strategies.
300
The number of HO employees with Montessori-educated children
What is 3?
400
Main guidelines for building a budget
What is determining enrollment projections, predicting state revenues, evaluating potential increases in fixed or ongoing expenditures, and then aligning resources with the strategic plan?
400
How EFC has achieved these gains
What is a laser-like focus on improving instruction and on math and ELA instruction - specifically strict implementation of a research-based curriculum, extensive professional development, and data-based inquiry to inform instructional planning
400
The role of an EFC board member
What is the legal and fiscal well-being and compliance of the organization and each EFC school, hiring and evaluating the EFC Chief Executive Officer, approving and monitoring the implementation of the organization’s policies and ensuring the terms of the charter are met, approving and monitoring the organization’s annual budget and fiscal policies, contracting with an external auditor to produce an independent annual financial audit according to generally accepted accounting practices, regularly measuring both student and staff performance against targets, performing all of the responsibilities provided for in the California Corporations code, the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, and this charter as required to ensure the proper operation of the organization and member schools.
400
Organization-wide priorities that will remain consistent across all schools at EFC
See slide
400
The number of HO staff who worked for Edison
What is 3?
500
The audit process
What is the pre-audit during the spring to test payroll, attendance, ASES, and misc other documents AND an October audit where all the financials (incomes and expenses) and all of the federal grants are tested and findings are generated
500
EFC's biggest academic challenges today
What is serving special education students effectively, ensuring ELL students are being redesignated FEP before they move on, and addressing the achievement gap between AfAm and Latino students organization-wide
500
How we ensure parent voice in governance
What is the formation of the EFC Family Leadership Council which has representatives from each site's Family Leadership Councils and the selection of two EFC Family Leadership Council members to the EFC Board of Directors?
500
How these two schools align with the existing EFC schools and vision
What is that we are visioning EFCPSv2 and have been developing a strategic plan that is clearly moving us towards adding new schools in our existing neighborhoods and enabling more site-level autonomy for accountability in alignment with organization-wide priorities.
500
The home office employees who are related
Hae-Sin and Fabi
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