Voices for International Business and Education
Minutes
Academic Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday May 8, 2018 at 6:00 PM
Location
727 Carondelet St. New Orleans, LA 70130
Voices for International Business and Education http://public.boardontrack.com/VIBE_1
Committee Members Present
C. Allen, G. Lazard, S. Retzlaff, S. Thomas
Committee Members Absent
J. Carter
Guests Present
A. Berger, Charles Young, Jenny Carreno, L. Lopez, Nadia Brual, R. McGee, S. Wilson
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
S. Retzlaff called a meeting of the Academic Committee of Voices for International Business and Education to order on Tuesday May 8, 2018 at 6:15 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
S. Retzlaff made a motion to approve minutes from the Academic Committee Meeting on 04-10-18 Academic Committee Meeting on 04-10-18.
G. Lazard seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Academic
A.
Dashboard
III. Other Business
A.
Other Business
Next meeting is on June 12
IV. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
S. Retzlaff made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
S. Thomas seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:52 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
L. Lopez
GL would like to add the following list of items that the LDOE has identified as key information that will compose the SPS for next year on the dashboard:
- Work Keys
- CLEP - college level exam program
- ELPT - English Language Proficiency
- EOC and LEAP are already on the dashboard
- AP - IHSNO does not offer AP, but currently considering having IB students seating for AP testing as well to take advantage of the testing.
At the next committee meeting we will have more information to populate the dashboard.The charter application has been uploaded to BOT as it was an item of interest during the last committee meeting.
ST suggested that the focus of next year for the committees is the renewal that will come around on 2020.
SW suggested that we should go into the renewal process with a clean charter since the old one states expectations out of the vision of the group of people who created it. However, they did not have the information, nor constraints we now know our school is facing.
CA asked, what are the thoughts of administration on the new scoring system takes effect?
The LDOE increase the mastery level to increase the rigor of instruction and "raise the bar" for students.
Schools who have traditionally been high performing will be the ones impacted the most.
The old and new scoring algorithm will be presented together when the new scores come out.
The new SPS will be available in October next school year.
ST asked if there is any foreseeable change in the OneApp process.
SW stated that there is an initiative to track OneApp application status to reflect a true lottery process.
GL brought up that there is a current parent-initiated lawsuit against OneApp for the lack of placement for students that applied during the first Round.
Great News:
We have been invited by the Walton Foundation to submit a full application to Walton Family Foundation School Startup Grant Program. This fits very well the desires of the board to expand to lower grades.
J. Hopkins is another grant opportunity that sits out there for us to take advantage supporting expansion. We are currently working on applying. - Support and training
A third option is through New Schools of New Orleans - Instruction Quality grant for teacher training. - Support for instructional staff
We have Jr and Sr Baccalaureate coming up, graduation.
We met our goal for GiveNOLA, iStudio was a great success. It was the result of great work put behind.
We had a great turnout at prom, no one got turned around for improper outfits.
We started this year the "million dollar club" for seniors that have been awarded about a million dollars in scholarships.