Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School

Minutes

Education Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Monday March 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Location

This meeting will be held via remote participation.

Education Committee will be meeting virtually 

Committee Members Present

Dwayne Stanley (remote), Evan Przyborowski (remote), Gregory Theos (remote), Mike Nawrocki (remote), Stephan Richter (remote)

Committee Members Absent

Kristin Laird, Maura Webster

Guests Present

Anisha Peri (remote), Anton Richter (remote), Cathy Schoenleber (remote), Christine Tridente Fahey, Padmaja Bandaru (remote)

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

Stephan Richter called a meeting of the Education Committee of Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School to order on Monday Mar 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes February

Need to approve Feb  and March minutes at the April meeting. 

II. Rigor

A.

Maintaining High Standards

  • Stephan shared a slide deck with the committee. 
    • How do we ensure that all students today receive the same high level education as the alpha class?
      • Advance Geometry Problem sets - Gone
      • Electron Scanning Microscope - Unused
      • AP Computer Science Level - Lowered
    • How do we hold ourselves accountable? Do we hold the line intrinsically?
    • We can use the information Lisa presented as baseline and hold ourselves to always wanting to improve
    • AMSA is above most public schools when it come to MCAST scopes
    • Do we hold the line on courses? 
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B.

Courses Unique to AMSA

  • Greg presented slides that show comparisons to other high-schools
    • Focused on AP courses
    • Compared graduation requirements
    • Takeaways:
      • AMSA is less flexible then other sending districts (more mandatory classes)
        • Student members feel they still have choices/options for offered classes; but find it hard to fit all courses they want to take into their schedules.
      • Need to do a better job of communicating the available courses to students
        • Maybe give a guide to parents to help students with course selection (create a template for parents and students)
        • Also think about students the do not have English as a first language 
        • Discuss course selection at future education committee meetings
      • AMSA requires students to take more Science & computer classes
      • Broadly, AMSA's graduation requirements are in line with sending towns
  • Conversation will continue at future meetings

III. Surveys

A.

Surveys (Parent and Faculty)

  • 2025 Family Survey  - April 14 to May 5th
  • 2025 Staff Survey - May 5th to 18th

IV. Closing Items

A.

Agenda topics for the next Education Committee Meeting

The committee should start thinking about future agenda topics for 2025 - 2026 school year.

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:57 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Evan Przyborowski