Wesley International Academy
Minutes
November Academic Excellence
Date and Time
Tuesday November 19, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Location
Committee Members Present
A. Hunter, K. Boyer (remote), O. Okwara (remote), R. Goodman
Committee Members Absent
C. Hudson, D. Hrabe, E. Cater, J. Marshall, J. Ziemann, R. Edwards, R. Pavone, S. Chatman, S. Finney
Guests Present
C. Wyatt (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
D.
Approve Agenda
II. Academic Excellence
A.
Charter Goals
B.
Stem Implementation
Pavone presents updates on STEM program.
Progress of stem implentation.
PD for STEM:
Project lead 3 teacher attended conference
Stem Forum 7 teachers 1 AP and 1 coach
Eduply PD in house for 4th and 8th grade
MERSA Stem 2 teachers
Monthly State Stem certifying cohorwt learning (Pavone)
Upcoming :
Community engagement: Chic fil :a Industrial Designer and NOMA Architect visit Kindergarten to share importance of shapes.
Georgia Tech Astronomer and GSU Astronomy Student.
Zoo design architect and communications for 1st grade about the needs of animals in their habitats.
Engineers from the Georgia Department of Transportation spoke to 8th graders about
City water shed 6th grade learned more about clean water sources.
Atlanta Creative Media Co founder talked with 8th graders enrolled in Design about influencers marketing and how to push a trend.
Stem Council and Development:
STEM advisory council met for Q1 and detetmined that a goal should be set for establishing several long term community partnerships in support of STEM opportunities for students.
Focus on 11 teachers for STEM
Doug Hrabe commends Projects and a good job of getting hands on for students and getting community involved.
Donation from a vendor (check or inkind gift)
Ms. Chapman compliments team on great job.
C.
Attendance and Discipline Updates
This section was canceled
D.
Overview of academics in PYP and MYP
This was presented in charter goals.
E.
Student schedules in PYP and MYP
This section was canceled
IB and Chinese instruction have met their goals for the past 2 years
STEM and 2nd Lanugage are making progress.
Academic Goals:
Goal 1. CCRPI Increase in score: for PYP progress was made, there was not a score for MYP
CCRPI for Content MYP and PYP met their goals
Increase in Proficiency as a school was 6% for ELA and 8% for math. ELA increases was tenth highest in district and Math was 9th highest in district.
Goal 2 . Charter School will perform at the level required to stay off list of target support and improvement and comprehensive support .
We are not on needs improvement list.
Wesley out performs like school, in student growth.
All school climate goals for Finance and Governance were met.
.
Congrats to team from ED .
Board Member (obi) ask do scores always go up; incease will become harder as our scores improve.
Next focus is science.
Board member (Adrian) ask if during breaks students can be given work
or give parents resources.
Legal Goals were met.
Ms.Goodman's presentation is added to BOT.