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• May 20 Board Meeting
• June 3 Board Meeting
• June 17 Board meeting

The Consolidated Application (ConApp) is used by the California Department of Education (CDE) to distribute categorical funds (Title I-V) from various federal programs to county offices, school districts, and direct-funded charter schools throughout California. The Academy of Alameda Middle and Elementary School will be applying for Title I, Title II, Title III, and Title IV funding during the 2021-22 school year.

As part of our continued receipt of Title funding from the federal government, we are obligated to approve our Consolidated Application Assurances, and to approve the accompanying three policies on an annual basis.  They are complementary to other policies on record, and are intended to make our compliance for federal funding explicit.  No changes have been made since the last annual update on the following: 
1) Protected Prayer Certification;
2) Parent Involvement Policy;
3) Support for Education of Homeless Students

School Boards need to approve a school or district's ESSER III Assurances in order to receive ESSER III funding.  Thirty days after Board approval of the Assurances, the "Safe Return to In-Person Instruction" Plan needs to be completed and posted on the website. LEAs that receive ESSER III funds must submit an expenditure plan to the CDE by September 30th, 2021. 

 

Education Protect Account (EPA) funds must be board approved and designated for eligible expense purposes. The Academy of Alameda will use these funds for teacher salaries during the 2021-22 school year.

We are proposing the addition of a new step and column salary structure for the mental clinician position. Our salary schedule for that position was compared to surrounding districts and it is competitive.

 

• Student Success Committee (6/10 meeting)
• Marketing Committee (6/1 meeting)
• Finance Committee (6/10 meeting)
• Governance Committee (6/8 meeting)

Board and staff acknowledgement of employees Michele Sloan and Chris Peterson who just finished their 10th year of serving the AoA middle school community.

The local California Dashboard Indicators (for the 2020/21 school year) are not due until next November but the California Department of Education (CDE) required LEAs to go through a self reflection process this year to help support their LCAP efforts. The official CA. Local Indicators will be brought back to  the Board to be voted on at its October meeting.

By submitting this annual declaration, the district is certifying that despite efforts to recruit certificated personnel that include the following strategies below, there is a need to use alternative credentialing processes including internships and emergency permits to secure qualified personnel in a few positions.

EFFORTS  TO  RECRUIT  CERTIFIED  PERSONNEL: The  employing  agency  declares  that  it  has  implemented  in  policy  and  practices  a  process  for  conducting  a  diligent  search that  includes,  but  is  not  limited  to,  distributing job  announcements,  contacting college  and  university  placement  centers, advertising  in  local newspapers,  exploring  incentives  included  in  the  Teaching  as  a Priority  Block  Grant  (refer to www.cde.ca.gov  for  details),  participating  in  state  and  regional recruitment  centers  and  participating  in  job  fairs  in California. 

The governing board/body of the school district or charter school specified above adopted a declaration at a regularly scheduled public meeting held on 6/24/21 certifying that there is an insufficient number of certificated persons who meet the district's specified employment criteria for the position(s) listed on the attached form.  The attached form was part of the agenda, and the declaration did NOT appear as part of a consent calendar.   

Elementary School Principal Leah Rubin is proposing to change the ending time of the elementary school's Wednesday minimum day from 2:00pm to 1:10 pm so that teachers and other select staff have additional professional development time to collaborate as a whole staff and in grade level and subject specific teams (in grades 3-5). Teachers in elementary school do not have as much time as secondary teachers for professional development as most middle school teachers have common prep periods during the week. The Academy of Alameda Elementary School schedule provides substantially more instructional time for students in comparison to the state requirement, as well as surrounding districts including AUSD. 

The Academy of Alameda has had a uniform policy since its inception. The elementary and middle school administration and staff are proposing a change to the current one that will be easier for staff to enforce, allows students more flexibility in terms of what they wear, and continues to build school unity and pride and differentiates AoA from most surrounding school districts which do not require school uniforms.

The Board is voting on new three-year terms for the following Board members:

• Bill Schaff
• Ron Whittaker
• Karen Zimmerman

The Board of Directors will vote on the following nominee for Board President: David Forbes

The Board of Directors will vote on the following nominee for Board Vice President: Bill Schaff

The Board  of Directors will vote on the following nominee for Board Secretary: Carole Robie

Executive Director Matt Huxley is proposing a $2,500 stipend for Organizational Leadership Team members including the Elementary and Middle School Principals, the Director of Special Education, the Director of Finance, and the Director of HR for the significant additional work that they performed this past year supporting the AoA community as a result of the global pandemic. 

Each year the Board needs to approve, in open session, the compensation for the Executive Director for the following school year.

Possible Agenda Items Include:

• Planning for how to return to normal and "not normal" to move us closer to our mission and envisioned future.
• Reviewing student and family evidence from the 2021/22school year and discussing different ways to measure student success
• Discussing how to make Board committees even more effective in 2021/22