Delta STEAM Academy
Minutes
Academics Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday January 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Location
Academics Committee Meeting
Monday, August 19 · 6:00 – 7:00pm
Time zone: America/New_York
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Committee Members Present
Kyera Perry, Nikki Grier
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
Erinn Cottman, ddaniel@deltasteamacademy.org, dlesure@deltasteamacademy.org, rwhigham@deltasteamacademy.org
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Kyera Perry called a meeting of the Academics Committee of Delta STEAM Academy to order on Tuesday Jan 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM.
II. Academics
A.
Recap of Old Buisness
- Recap of Old Business
- School visit plan
- Which area of the arts is best for partnerships?
- Visual arts
- 1st grade
- 2nd grade- bee/ butterfly garden
- 3rd- Education conservation personnel
- Project Learning Tree- deforestation/echosystems
- 4th- Ecosystems
- Need partnership
- 5th- Parent in medical writing
- Johnson and Johnson
- Testing cultures
- Douglas County Health Department- community partnership
- Trip to water treatment facility
- 7th grade- need to figure out
- Robotics as extracurricular?
- How to offer CTAE pathways
- ED Grier’s vision for partnerships
- Professional landscaper contact to share patterns
B.
New Business
- Creating a timeline on STEAM
- Sent in intent to certify to DOE
- Certification cohort placement
- Integration of the arts still biggest piece
- 2025-2026 School Year
- Design process
- Redesigning PBL’s
- Standards based lesson planning
- Reflective journaling based on grade level
- 5th grade community partner
- BeeKeeper update
- Youngest black bee keeper in UGA to get us started
- 6th grade focus
- Human energy
- Homelessness
- Seeking community partner
- Human energy
- Last Wednesday-New Method introduced to teachers
- From Curriculum to standards
- Tactics
- Lesson Planning clinics
- Disecting the standard
- New robust coaching rubric to separate coaching and evaluations
- Tool to help teachers grow
- Tool to train admin
- Feedback requested from Board members
- Completion by February Academics meeting
C.
OnGoing
- STEAM Partnerships- ARTS
- STEAM Timeline
- 2-7 years for STEAM certification
D.
Next Steps
- Provide feedback for rubric
- Draft STEAM certification timeline
III. Other Business
A.
Next Meeting
- February 17, 2025 at 5 pm
IV. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 5:39 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kyera Perry