River Valley Charter School
Minutes
Accountability Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Monday December 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Location
River Valley Charter School Middle School Great Room
River Valley Charter School welcomes your participation at Board meetings. The purpose of a public meeting of the Board of Trustees (“Board”) is to conduct the affairs of the organization in public. Your participation assures us of continuing community interest in our school and assists the Board in making the best decisions for our school. To assist you in the ease of speaking/participating in our meetings, guidelines are provided at the bottom of this agenda. All materials for all board and committee meetings, are available on our Board on track public portal found at rivervalleycharter.org.
Committee Members Present
C. Irose, D. Herrera, E. Simone, J. Patterson, K. Kuse, M. Mitchell-Daniels, P. Ganley (remote), T. Murdy
Committee Members Absent
A. Godino, N. Durkee, R. Waterson
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
| Roll Call | |
|---|---|
| N. Durkee |
Absent
|
| E. Simone |
Aye
|
| C. Irose |
Abstain
|
| A. Godino |
Absent
|
| D. Herrera |
Abstain
|
| J. Patterson |
Abstain
|
| R. Waterson |
Absent
|
| M. Mitchell-Daniels |
Aye
|
| K. Kuse |
Abstain
|
| T. Murdy |
Aye
|
| P. Ganley |
Aye
|
II. Proposed agenda
A.
Criterion 4: Dissemination
Two ways of achieving this in goals:
1. Presentations with sending districts.
2. Sending Newletters to sending districts. Planned.
Also planned, working on logistics to host educators (Principals and EDs) from sending districts, mutual learning from them and vice versa. Special education will be an area of focus. Want to discuss the Montessori method with sending districts.
Mural project is a community collaboration with Amesbury, mentioned as an example.
Question around overlap of sending district professional sending district PD days with RVCS's.
B.
Annual caregiver survey
Needs to be shorter.
Need quantifiable questions, not all open ended questions.
Point on how to analyze open ended responses.
Karen and Jane want to make sure the survey results are clearly communicated back to the caregivers.
Goal to send out by Feb to caregivers. Will email out to Accountability/BoT by mid-Jan.
Points Accountability would like to see included:
1. Awareness of caregivers of the BoT and Committee's, roles and responsibilities, and are they effective? Do you understand the governance structure of RVCS, a public charter Montessori school?
III. Other Business
A.
for follow up at next Accountability Meeting
Communication of MCAS scores to teachers vs. administration.
comments sent by Nancy per BoT monthly two weeks ago, Eric to incorporate after vote.
-Main
Link to prior Accountability committee (AC) meeting was missing, Denise added to agenda for today's meeting during the discussion.
Remove reference to PBE and Spelectives in minutes (#2 and #3).
Remove "goals" and replace with "investigate potential root causes".