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Equitas Academy Charter School

Minutes

Academic Accountability Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday April 28, 2016 at 6:00 PM

Location

1700 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90015
PUBLIC COMMENT AT EQUITAS ACADEMY BOARD MEETINGS – An opportunity for the public to address the Board will be provided at the conclusion of the agenda. Members of the public who wish to speak on any item are requested to identify themselves and indicate on which agenda item they wish to speak. The Board will provide an opportunity for the public to speak for a maximum of three (3) minutes, unless granted additional time at the discretion of the Board. Testimony shall be limited in content to matters pertaining to Equitas Academy. The Board may not take any action on matters discussed during the public testimony period that are not listed on the agenda. Brown Act Compliance: Agenda posted at School

Committee Members Present

C. Lowry, K. Hampton, K. Kilty, S. Chandler

Committee Members Absent

None

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

S. Chandler called a meeting of the Academic Accountability Committee Committee of Equitas Academy Charter School to order on Thursday Apr 28, 2016 at 6:00 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes from Previous Meeting

S. Chandler made a motion to approve minutes.
C. Lowry seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Other Business

A.

Evaluation of the Meeting

Meeting Notes: 

Reviewed Committee Purpose
  • Providing an accountability measure for reaching academic goals.
  • Building a connection between principles and the board.
 
Discussed Committee Members:
  • Who else should be sitting on the committee? 
  • Would like to identify one additional person
    • Background in academics, has high school experience to help us track what might be important later on.
    • Someone from a CMO that has middle and high school experience.
    • Action Step: each person come up with a list of people and list out what they do (bio). List of what we are looking for i.e. skills and background and bring to the next committee meeting for discussion.
 
New/Old Committee Projects:
  • Discussed the School Calendar
    • Moved PD from Feb to April for next year.
    • Kelli Kilty is going to ask at BES in Boston what other schools do for # of PD days. Kelli will email the committee once back.
  • School Dashboard for discussion
    • Kelley is working w/ Illuminate to automate our dashboards to include growth data by kid, whole class, track EL’s and SPED, (attendance, academic in illuminate and kickboard).
  • Data Review/Integrity
    • We will do out academic data audit after SBAC.
  • AAC calendar:
    • Kelley will email the dashboard out the Monday the week of the Board meeting monthly for AAC to review.
 
 
 

III. Closing Items

A.

Public Comment

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 7:00 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
S. Chandler