River Valley Charter School
Minutes
Accountability Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Monday March 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Location
River Valley Charter School Middle School Humanities Room
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Committee Members Present
A. Godino (remote), C. Irose, E. Simone, J. Patterson, K. Kuse, N. Durkee, P. Ganley (remote), T. Murdy
Committee Members Absent
D. Herrera, M. Mitchell-Daniels
survey analysis:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YgQerugSiUwVu7xB91lwTe25zSiofY6ArI6Lar3FHbM/edit#slide=id.g2d8f88e45e2_0_31
areas to potentially look into
-challenge
-individual instruction
Q8 - are there really a few without a strong adult school connection? Something to follow up on
Q10 - BoT has some awareness work to do
slide 15 - Montessori aspect was most appreciated "thing" about RVCS
slide 16 - transportation (convenience or necessity) , diversity, foreign language and math towards bottom, but something to keep an eye on. Communication was biggest (awareness of caregivers what their children are doing daily, in general? Mostly staff communication - something we could take advantage of Google Classroom? Transparent Classroom is another platform that could be considered, already under discussion internally. RoboCall idea, used currently at NBPT HS.).
Common themes among what they'd like to learn this year: Montessori and BOT were top of the list.
HIghlights: children are happy to be here, performances/presentations, Middle School.
Lowlights: communication, schedule, friendships, MCAS, carline.
Goal areas: Communication, curriculum, math, caregiver education, special edu, scheduling.
This deck will be distributed publicly, perhaps with the CURRENT. Karen to have a direct follow up discussion with the RVCS community, could even be in the CURRENT.
Nancy, Ach and Patti will be looking at unblinded data from survey after Jane cleans some of the names "dropped" from/in the responses.
Winter Assessment data
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RA_3b4Oh8CzbOHqXGZI6Plt4AjDLKXxTNo5Yc7s9nZ4/edit?gid=2077831061#gid=2077831061
Dibels (language) and Acadience (Math) scores, Fall and Winter, E1 and E2. Students on IEP's are flagged to help understand the scoring, and in general track/explain most results seen (in areas needing improvement).
Results highlight the need for consistency across classrooms.
We were a Title I school, not any more, which means we don't have funding/support for special needs tier 2 support.
MAP testing brought up as an alternative to MCAS. Is there a way to do just MAP? Seems you may still have to do MCAS, state mandated. MAP does take less time away from classroom/learning time as it's a shorter test. MAP can provide much better data vs. MCAS.