Committee discussed what was the highlight of everyones summer

Opened to public comment

Discussed the progress with creating a Board dashboard. And highlighted that MCAS data is slowly being released. It is not public information yet and will not be in the first board meeting. But there are other data points that are important to highlight how students are doing.

Framed we want to use this committee to discuss how can we use Data to present to the Board to truly understand how students are progressing

School team presented the State of the School Slides to recap what will be presented to Board. The overview question for this Board meeting will be: Are we ensuring every students has the literacy skills needed for college and beyond.  The data for how students did for MCAS, interim assessments to see how students were doing against the benchmarks.

Recapped how students are doing in Ethics, and then the third organizational priority was to see how we are doing in relation to organizational stability. Additionally, discussed at persistence goals.

Took time to look at some of the individual results that led to the results in the strategic plan. 

Discussed some highlights. AP scores increased last year which shows our dedication to college level rigor.  We had 80% of students pass with a 3 or higher. And even students who were not passing, were achieving high 2s, although they do not get the college credit, these scores indicate they are better prepared to persist in college. This was our best AP results since before the pandemic. We are framing APs as a good signifier of how prepared you are for college level courses, and looking at the correlation between how alumni do in these similar college level classes.

With MCAS results, we see a lot of correlation between how students do on MCAS to  SAT performance.

iReady assessments last year we did see growth. We saw four grades make growth in readying

Reviewed the strategic response to data and results: To address the achievement gap challenge we have developed a comprehensive four-pillar strategy that targets curriculum, instruction, assessment, and programing. To start we have a new curriculum with Novel Education partners, focused on professional development, redesigned, drop everything and read four times a week, and with systems we have launched a Multi-tiered systems of supports framework.

Opened up a Discussion: Based on the student work samples, lesson plan, and our current data, what questions or suggestion do you have about our literacy strategy?

Committee looked at writing samples to assess the state of writing in 9th grade students. Committee had engaging conversation centered around what is showing up in the work product.