Summer can be the only stretch where a board can think. Summer can be the only stretch of the calendar where a charter school board can actually think. No emergency board meetings. No mid-year budget revisions. No personnel files landing on the agenda the night before. Just a few quiet weeks where the right group of people can sit down and ask: what is this school actually for, and are we doing the work to get there? It’s also when most strategic planning happens — and many s