Whatcom Intergenerational High School
Minutes
Academic Excellence Committee
Date and Time
Monday March 27, 2023 at 3:15 PM
Location
WIHS Board is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Academic Excellence Committee
Time: Mar 27, 2023 03:15 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Committee Members Present
C. Espina (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
D. Walker (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
- Kesia Micheletti
- Cate Boyce
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Call to order by Christine Espina on March 27, 2023 at 3:15 pm.
II. 1. Academic Excellence
A.
General orientation to the Academic Committee
Committee goals/areas of focus
- Grow curriculum and ensure academic assessments per standards
- Need to start looking at 4-year cycle for graduation class
- Look at the school-wide plan
- School reform strategies specific to academics
- Brainstorming activities to ensure mastery
- Integration and coordination of different concepts
- Areas of need for staff PD
School-based committees
- Curriculum, Evaluation, and Development Committee - Dawn will invite instructors who serve on this committee to join the Academic Excellence Committee.
B.
Academic Dashboard Review
- Attendance and enrollment: SkyWard
- Assessment data from different sources
- Grading system will be in SkyWard fully by fall 2023 - Staff have had training in December and January. Families are being trained to use SkyWard.
- Dawn reviewed the January and February 2023 Academic Dashboard.
- Interim assessments discussed - purpose, results, etc.
- Ninth Grade Fall 2021 ELA & Math assessment reviewed: Level 3 is considered passing at the high school level.
- Several 10th-grade students opted out to take assessment tests in spring 2022. Team will be thinking about how to "re-brand" the tests. Dawn to double check the math on statement that "25% of students [among those tested] met the graduation cut score for math" in the January 2023 Academic Dashboard report.
- SBA Benchmark Assessment is scheduled for mid-late May.
- One interim assessment (progress monitoring) then SBAC for 10th graders in spring 2022.
Plan of Improvement for Math
- IXL online curriculum for students purchased for math and ELA. This is an interim solution.
- Dawn is investigating whether to switch to different interim assessments besides Smarter Balance interim assessments. Other charter schools are using NWEA or I-Ready, though i-ready is more suited for elementary and middle school students, not high school. Can do an interim assessment before teaching (pre-test). The team focused on reading texts and algebra equations. Caution not to use General interim assessments as it's assessing content not recently taught.
- Overlay of SPED and math--how many SPED students are scoring level 1 math?
- If/when hired, the para-educator could support students in math