Voices for International Business and Education

Minutes

Academic Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 5:30 PM

Location

IHS Community Room
Voices for International Business and Education http://public.boardontrack.com/VIBE_1

Committee Members Present

C. Allen, L. Hughes, M. Garcia, S. Retzlaff, S. Wilson

Committee Members Absent

None

Guests Present

Allison Anderson, Bunn Holly, E. Graf, H. Blumenthal, L. Johnson (remote), Ryan Nan, Thibodeaux Betty

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

C. Allen called a meeting of the Academic Committee of Voices for International Business and Education to order on Tuesday Mar 10, 2015 at 5:40 PM.

II. Academic

A.

Indicators of academic achievement as outlined by school administration

Nan Ryan submitted a document for review concerning the Academics Dashboard. (copy to be provided to all board members by next board meeting.) Quarterly the HOS will issue a progress monitoring dashboard to the AC. Board members will be able to track student performance from one grade level to the next. Note: Add Foreign Exchange Students to the sub-groups.

B.

Identify measures for determining improvement in appropriate indicators

See above.

C.

Assign topic for review for next meeting re enrollment/academic achievement.

Discussion of OneApp and how that negatively affects student achievement. For April meeting: Be prepared to discuss strategies for improving or changing the OneApp process to better address the needs of IHS, the only Type 2 Charter affected by this process.

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:30 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
A. Anderson