Academic Excellence Committee Members
Danielle Kelsick - Chair 
Kami Cotler - Co-chair 
Ken Deemer 
Jenni Owen 
Cathy Creasia
Zena Fong

Academic Excellence Charter 

• Supports organizational focus on the key ECS school charter petitions’ promises we have made to our community and to our authorizer, and continues to regularly revisit and reinvigorate these promises.
• Considers student outcomes which are not strictly academic, but may be crucial for achieving our mission and which directly support academic excellence.
• Work with the school leadership to continue to devise and refine clear and consistent ways to measure progress towards stated goals, such as those within the ECS mission, ECS school charters, Local Control Accountability Plans, WASC Action Plans, etc.
• Work with school leadership to share with the board annual successes, barriers to reaching academic excellence, and strategies to overcome these barriers.
• Arrange for Board training on issues related to academic oversight and academic achievement, as needed.
• Provide insight to the board during the strategic planning process.
• Annually evaluate its work as a committee and the objectives it has committed itself to and report on same to the Board of Directors.

Proposed Goals for 2016-2017

1. Participate in the development of the LCAPs by reviewing data, identified needs, actions and resource allocation and provide feedback to site leaders.
2. Improve the flow of meaningful information about academic priorities and progress from the school sites to the board.
3. Generate a list of goals for 2017-18.

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The public should be aware that the Committee is unable by law to deliberate or take action on items raised during the Presentations from the Floor section.

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