The Board will determine which ‌of two academic dashboards the school will move forward with to capture academic milestones, proficiency scores, and demographics for the 2024–2025 school year. 

• The group prefers the Excel version. Emily’s thoughts on additions: 
  • Break out the four MAP proficiency areas (don’t capture proficiency only) 
  • Add a separate year-over-year milestones tab
  • New area to see weekly or monthly assessments and progress

Other testing opportunities:

• Having both D.R.C. Beacon  (or another standards aligned testing platform) and MAP would give us a stronger indicator of milestones and proficiency
• TAS staff have experience with U.S.A. Test Prep and Illuminate (which is more rigorous than milestone testing) 
• Dr. PT is getting a recommendation from Ms. Andrews in the next week — will have more clarity about the best approach for platform then
• Dr. PT: desire to have an assessment tool to run weekly assessments 

Board and TAS staff feel aligned to running both quarterly and weekly assessments in the 2024–2025 school year.

Three important revisions for the 2024–2025 school year:

• Attendance policy: more data that’s considered for retention conversations 
• Uniform policy: adding clarity on belts and tucked-in shirts; outwear
• Progressive discipline: clearer guidelines for leveled consequences and disciplinary actions (including detailed guidelines on escalation to expulsion) 

More additions to the handbook: 

• The Board-approved grievance policy has been added to the handbook. 
• Community access to the school

Emily’s notes on revisions: 

• Making sure 2024 dates are added to handbook (making sure dates are accurate) 
• Cell phone policy should be added to technology policies 
• Grading scales and language that are the Employee Handbook are usually added to Family Handbook 
• (non-urgent) consolidating media releases into the Family Handbook 

Academic committee is aligned to updates and revisions. Board will come to a vote on updated Family Handbook in the June board meeting. 

• Dr. Pinto-Taylor had an initial conversation with an accreditation organization, Cognia
• Important to gain accreditation by start of 8th grade at TAS 
• Process takes 12–24 months — will need a working group comprised of TAS staff and board members 
• One of the first decisions: which accreditation strand TAS is interested in (STEM or competency-based learning) 

No Board actions at this time. Anticipating a fall vote on which strand we want to choose. 

• No Milestones results at this time