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Equitas Academy Charter School

Minutes

Academic Accountability Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Monday December 5, 2016 at 6:00 PM

Location

1700 Pico, Los Angeles, CA
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Committee Members Present

K. Hampton, K. Kilty, S. Chandler

Committee Members Absent

None

Guests Present

M. Wilhite

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 Monday Dec 5, 2016 at 6:00 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes from Previous Meeting

M. Wilhite made a motion to approve minutes from the Academic Accountability Committee Meeting on 02-25-16 Academic Accountability Committee Meeting on 02-25-16.
K. Hampton seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Academic Accountability

A.

Goals for the Committee


Goals for the Committee/Overall Committee Purpose
  • Providing an accountability measure for reaching academic goals.
    • Goals:
      • Keeping up to date metrics and dashboard
  • Building a connection between principals, CAO and the board, connection between academic life of the school and the board.
    • Goals:
      • Providing the context and color of our model
  • Increasing communication around alignment between compliance related academic goals and mission-driven academic goals

B.

Academic Metrics

  • Culture Data
    • Present the last year to this year comparison of the culture data 1:1 to 6:1
    • April could add color to this by talking about the celebrations that they have created. Idea of the Not Yet room.
    • EQ 1:1 – consistency – if the system is working, this is ok.
  • Highlight Attendance
  • Academic Data
    • Share the story about the interims – or just share the MAP data and the subgroup
    • Answers to the key questions the board will ask
  • SPED Compliance
    • 310 report – should we pull something else?
    • 200 Report – for IEP completion

III. Other Business

A.

Evaluation of the Meeting

  • Who else should be sitting on the committee?
    • Jessica – Ask her to join
    • Kara McGuire as potential board member
    • School Calendar
    • School Dashboard for discussion
    • Evaluation of this meeting
    • -Effective and efficient
    • -Growing group

IV. 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