Opening Items

Charter App Committee

GOAL 1: Conduct a comprehensive & effective end-of-the-year CEO evaluation
- Task 1.1: Conduct baseline CEO evaluation (8/30/19).
- Task 1.2: Develop a way to incorporate student & family feedback into the CEO evaluation (4/1/20).
- Task 1.3: Conduct Year 1 CEO evaluation (6/30/20).

GOAL 2: Develop annual evaluation tools, processes, and metrics for academics & culture
- Task 2.1: Develop Academic & Culture dashboard to track data at monthly meetings (8/31/19).
- Task 2.2: Align Graduate Profile, Staff Development Rubric, & Academic/Culture dashboard to the mission (10/31/19).

Due to Stefin's stepping in to lead Civics starting early November, he's been unable to provide the type of consistent instructional coaching we had originally envisioned.

In response, we've pursued a number of different instructional coaching supports (for which New Schools Venture Fund has offered $5k for instructional coaching support):

For Jesse Jones (Humanities Lead) & Ceci Givens (Arts & Languages Lead), we've been working with Kristen Ward (DSS) and Keith Hart (Design Team Member) to provide weekly co-planning, observation, and debrief cycles improve planning and instruction.  The projected cost of this is $2K for the year.

For Antoinnette Majors (STEM Lead), Ross Harmon (CTE Lead), and Jacobe Majors (Special Educator), we've contracted with Conscious Roots LLC (Nady Persons & Porscha Williams) to provide weekly observation, debrief, and co-planning cycles to improve planning and instruction.  We anticipate the cost of this to be about $6K for the year.

Stefin, Charm, and Kristen continue to work together to offer in-school development sessions both after school once a week and during Odyssey weeks.  We've hired Journey Allen to lead Humanities next semester, so we anticipate Stefin being able to resume his instructional coaching duties.

New Schools for New Orleans expressed concerns about the coaches hired because neither is rated by the state to be approved PD vendors around Tier 1 curriculum.  Since we've received money from NSNO through both their Instructional Quality Initiative and their New Seat funds, they are encouraging us to work with an approved vendor like The New Teacher Project, whose estimated cost is about $30k.  NSNO has offered an additional $15k to help pay for NSNO's coaching.

The question is how to invest in the development of our Instructional Team most effectively given the funds available and our unique model.

Refer to LDE's powerpoint & spreadsheet on SPS & Growth Index calcluations.

Refer to CEO Report