Wesley International Academy
Minutes
Academic Excellence Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday November 17, 2020 at 4:45 PM
Location
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Committee Members Present
A. Pullen (remote), D. Mason (remote), D. Satterfield (remote), J. Hansen (remote), J. Marshall (remote)
Committee Members Absent
J. Wright
Guests Present
D. Johnson (remote), Danica Johnson (remote), E. Cater (remote), Jatoyia Armour (remote), Michelle Fogelson (remote), Richard Pavone (remote), T. Ryan-Lawrence, Thomas (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
J. Hansen called a meeting of the Academic Excellence Committee of Wesley International Academy to order on Tuesday Nov 17, 2020 at 4:45 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes from September 2019
A. Pullen made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Excellence Committee Meeting on 09-15-20.
J. Hansen seconded the motion.
John Wright was absent from the meeting.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
II. Academic Excellence
A.
Discipline Data
B.
Virtual Learning Update
What wrap around services can we offer and what interventions are we offering?
How to implement those?
How to implement those?
C.
Data Update
I Ready Diagnostic Testing:
What is it? 1- all students given the diagnostic (similar to MAPP); virtual - really tells what the gaps are for students. Offers personalized instruction for students. Some gaps exist - students who missed a quarter of the year last year and may not be doing well under virtual environment might fall further behind.
Personalized instruction: addressing gaps based on student scores.
How well did student groups meet improvement targets?
Demographic data:
Some racial gaps exist as do gender gaps in reading. The measures don't show growth (SPED students have larger growth numbers)
Areas of improvement - reading
Racial disparities across grade levels - clear it's school wide -
ELA - strength is phonics
Equity - socioeconomics is a factor -
Currently in talks with teachers - reading is hard in virtual learning - k-2 specifically
academic -
SEL -
Engagement -
Target intervention - for students falling behind; and for student well being
MYP - additional data sessions - working on interdisciplinary conversations; science and social studies teachers working on lessons together. conferences with students
social life in MYP - struggling with that so in Dec groups will meet in person at the school to engage and talk about coping lower socioeconomic students are struggling especially
What is it? 1- all students given the diagnostic (similar to MAPP); virtual - really tells what the gaps are for students. Offers personalized instruction for students. Some gaps exist - students who missed a quarter of the year last year and may not be doing well under virtual environment might fall further behind.
Personalized instruction: addressing gaps based on student scores.
How well did student groups meet improvement targets?
Demographic data:
Some racial gaps exist as do gender gaps in reading. The measures don't show growth (SPED students have larger growth numbers)
Areas of improvement - reading
Racial disparities across grade levels - clear it's school wide -
ELA - strength is phonics
Equity - socioeconomics is a factor -
Currently in talks with teachers - reading is hard in virtual learning - k-2 specifically
academic -
SEL -
Engagement -
Target intervention - for students falling behind; and for student well being
MYP - additional data sessions - working on interdisciplinary conversations; science and social studies teachers working on lessons together. conferences with students
social life in MYP - struggling with that so in Dec groups will meet in person at the school to engage and talk about coping lower socioeconomic students are struggling especially
D.
IB Update
Mr Pavone to discuss IB: efficacy survey - to decide how to coach teachers on getting the certifications - half of teachers do not have IB training - concept (macro level) curricula - teacher training on teaching conceptual understandings - more in MYP need more training on the IB program. Will do the survey again at the end of the year. Goal is to have PYP trained before the evaluation in the fall of 2021 - goal is to get more teachers trained
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 5:44 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
J. Hansen
23 had 1; 7 had 2; 3 had 3; 4 had 2; 1 students had 7; 1 student had 8.