East Side Learning Center

“Line 11b explanation - the finance committee will review the draft before filing and will present the results to the board”

“At the fall board meeting board members and full-time staff members acknowledge through signature and date that the conflict of interest & disclosure of certain interest policy has been reviewed, and they agree to abide by it. The signed documents are archived with the official board documents.”

“The finance committee uses the minnesota council of nonprofits salary & benefits survey for comparable data before determining compensation. The finance committee makes compensation recommendations to the board during the budgeting process. The finance committee uses the minnesota council of nonprofits salary & benefits survey for comparable data before determining compensation. The finance committee makes compensation recommendations to the board during the budgeting process.”

“Dependent on the document, they are available upon request, or in annual report, or on website”

“Because data is clear that parents attitudes and what they do with young children in the early years are the key predictors of student success in school, eslc leveraged the fact that tutoring was occuring at home in partnership with caregivers via virtual learning platforms, including google classroom and zoom. Thus, eslc staff communicated regularly with parents to train them in the virtual platforms, provide emotional support, and ultimately, responded to requests for how to access local programs for food, clothing, rent assistance, and other items. Additionally, as trust grew, parents asked how they could best support their child's learning. Eslc developed a family empowerment program that is being expanded to better serve the needs of each child's family so parents feel empowered to be their child's first and foremost teacher. To be counted for outcomes,”

“Due to the pandemic, a new, online, tutoring and mentoring model was created and is being refined to continue as a core service delivery model in future years. Because learning is different for preschool children, the prek tutoring program was also suspended until volunteers and eslc staff can enter schools to work with children. Eslc also changed how it measures reading growth during the pandemic. It wasn't possible to perform the nationally normed assessment in a consistent manner, so staff reverted to using the child's independent reading level, which correlates with the developmental reading assessment. Eslc used this measure through 2018, until it moved twhat schools were using. Which was primarily fastbridge learning. Finally, eslc historically required 30 hours of tutoring per student, but the pandemic made it impossible for all but a few students to participate in 60 sessions over the last year due to constant schedule changes related to hybrid, virtual, and in-class learning. For kindergarten students, 10 hours or five sessions was used as the minimim requirement. For elementary students, 15 hours or 30 sessions was used as the baseline to measure overall growth.”