River Valley Charter School
Minutes
Accountability Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Monday February 5, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Location
River Valley Charter School. 2 Perry Way, Newburyport. Middle School Great Room
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Committee Members Present
C. Irose, D. Seaton, E. Seaton, E. Simone, J. Evans, J. Patterson, N. Durkee, T. Murdy
Committee Members Absent
M. Mitchell-Daniels
Guests Present
A. Ting, D. Herrera
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
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II. Dashboard
A.
BoT Dashboard concept draft discussion
III. AC Description Updates
A.
Discussion
everyone to upload changes via track changes version, upload to BoardOnTrack >> Documents>>Committee folders>>Accountability
IV. Other Business
A.
Parent survey to get on radar for next AC. Goal to send out early in March.
copy of prior/last year's parent survey
to distribute to team for discussion at next AC meeting in March
Add Teacher Retention, Student enrollment (% of target or absolute #)
Clarification: for stage 1 rollout of dashboard, there should not be any targets. Need to see what the data is saying first.
Ideally, would be good to also collect reason for any student attrition.
DESE is partnering with "Open Architects" company to make a dashboard for K-12
leveraging options with BoardOnTrack
initial launching platform: Excel or similar
Who will populate data
Public comment: how does the Director and BoT want to use this dashboard? Does it serve primarily as a current "health check" of the school and what we need to do? Could be part of Executive committee.
Could break up Dashboard into 3 buckets from DESE? (faithfulness to charter School mission, organizational viability, academic program success.) Something for this already drawn up by JLE.
**AI - JLE to forward to group
Future proposals, phase 2:
Student feeling involved, student voice
Student mental health, there exists a metric from MCAS?
Humanities metric
Student voice metric
Staff satisfaction
Discipline, suspension, expulsion
High Needs population, DEI
Applications segregated by sending districts
Student:teacher ratio
Policy reviews, complete %: perhaps could be goal