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C.
Record Board Member Attendance (Roll Call)
D.
Public Comments
E.
The Board Reviews The Academy of Alameda's Mission and Envisioned Future Statements
Mission: The Academy of Alameda equitably develops students into critical thinkers
and life-long learners who navigate the world with integrity, and who apply their learning
to empower themselves and their communities.
Envisioned Future:
We envision a future where all of our students are successful,
and their destinies are not determined by their demographics.
II.
Consent Agenda
A.
Draft Meeting Minutes
Minutes from the September 22 Public Hearing on the Local Continuity and Attendance Plan and the August 27 Board Meeting.
Review and approve the credit card statements and check registers that show all purchases made using a credit card and vendors paid during the month of July.
Local school board are provided the authority to grant teachers who have multiple subject credentials the ability to teach secondary single subject course if they have fulfilled the requirements including the criteria mentioned below. All three teachers have met that criteria and have strong subject matter knowledge in the areas that they teach.
WHEREAS, when necessary, EC 44256(b) and 44258.2 allow, by resolution of the governing board, the holder of a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential or Single Subject Teaching Credential to teach, with his or her consent, any subject in departmentalized classes below grade 9 if the teacher has completed twelve semester units, or six upper division or graduate semester units of course work at an accredited institution, in the subject to be taught.
Executive Director Recommendation to Board On AoA's Reopening Plan Timeline
Executive Director, Matt Huxley, recommends to the Board of Directors that
Elementary kindergarten students ro be phased in for onsite learning (half-days utilizing an AM/PM schedule) beginning Tuesday, November 30 and 1st grade students to begin on Monday, December 7 (most likely half days as well).
Grades 2 through 5 would be phased in to a blended environment (Onsite and distance learning) beginning in January.
Middle school students would continue to learn through our distance learning delivery model through December with a possible phase in to onsite learning beginning in January.
Families who want their child to remain in a distance learning only environment can make that decision throughout the 2020/21 school year.
