1. Conference with Legal Counsel – Anticipated Litigation: Significant exposure as litigation filed pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (d) of section 54956.9: One case

2. Executive Director's Goals and Evaluation

This is a meeting of the Board. The Board is composed of 8 voting members and 1 non-voting member, the Executive Director. We are using the following protocols to guide our meeting:
 

• This meeting is being recorded
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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.

• Approve Board Meeting Minutes from June 23, 2022 Board Meeting
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• Approve Board Meeting Minutes from August 7, 2022 Board Retreat Meeting

• Approve Board Meeting Minutes from August 25, 2022 Board Meeting

Check Registers & Credit Card Statement

Acknowledging Amy McGeorge, Middle School Instructional Coach and Miranda Thorman, Middle School Principal. Amy was asked to lead a professional development session for teachers in Chicago on backwards planning and instructional design and asked Miranda to join her in presenting. They did so, via Zoom, on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. 

Congratulations on the honor of being asked to deliver a professional development to other educators across the country, Amy and Miranda. The Academy of Alameda is proud and honored to have you represent us in this manner and to showcase your educational skills and knowledge so others may benefit.

Presentation by Jean Yang from EdTec

Unaudited Actuals are an annual statement reporting the financial activities of the District/LEA in which the data are not yet formally audited. Unaudited Actuals are presented to the Board each September, reflecting the District's final year end closing from the previous June.

Draft Motion: The Academy of Alameda Board of Directors approves the unaudited actuals for fiscal year 21-22.

Draft Motion: The Academy of Alameda Board of Directors votes to apply for Title I, II, and IV funding for the fiscal year 22-23.

General Update and Presentation

Reports from the following committees:
 

• Finance Committee
• Marketing Committee
• Student Success Committee
• Governance Committee 
• Facilities Ad Hoc Committee

An update from the facilities walkthrough which took place on Tuesday September 6, 2022 and the academic walkthrough which took place on Friday, September 16, 2022.

California's accountability system is based on a multiple measures system that assesses how local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools are meeting the needs of their students. Performance on these measures is reported through the California School Dashboard (Dashboard). 

The Dashboard includes a concise set of state indicators and local indicators that are founded on the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) priorities but are also aligned to the measures required under Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Those LCFF priorities for which there is no state level data collected are referred to as local indicators. There are seven local indicators, with two that only pertain to the County of of Education. The five we focus on are:

• Basic Services and Conditions (Priority 1)
• Implementation of State Academic Standards (Priority 2)
• Parent and Family Engagement (Priority 3)
• School Climate (Priority 6)
• Access to a Broad Course of Study (Priority 7)

Draft Motion: The Academy of Alameda Board of Directors votes to approve The Academy of Alameda's California Dashboard Local Indicators as presented.

As our four Title IX coordinators (the two principals and the two deans), afterschool director, and Human Resources Director underwent Title IX training in August 2022, it has been decided that it makes better sense for the school principals and the Human Resources Director to be the Title IX Coordinators instead of the deans as it is currently listed in our Title IX policy.

Draft Motion: The Academy of Alameda Board of Directors votes to amend the current Title IX policy to approve the Elementary School Principal, the Middle School Principal, and the Human Resources Director, to be The Academy of Alameda's Title IX Coordinators.

Background: The passage of AB 361 allows public bodies to dispense with certain normally applicable Brown Act teleconferencing requirements wherever a public body holds a meeting during a proclaimed state of emergency and one of three conditions are met: 

1. State or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing; or
 
2. The meeting is for the purpose of determining, by a majority vote, whether as a result of the state of emergency, meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees; or 

3. The body has determined, by a majority vote, that, as a result of the state of emergency, meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees. 

AB 361 provides that if a state of emergency remains in place, a local agency must make the following findings by majority vote every 30 days, in order to continue using the bill’s exemption to the Brown Act teleconferencing rules:

(A) The legislative body has reconsidered the circumstances of the emergency; and 
(B) Either of the following circumstances exists: 
(1) the state of emergency continues to directly impact the ability of board members to meet safely in person, or 
(2) State or local officials continue to impose or recommend social distancing measures.

Draft Motion: The Academy of Alameda Board of Directors approves continuing to hold Board meetings and Board committee meetings virtually through October 2022 due to the state of emergency related to COVID-19 that continues to directly impact the ability of board members and attendees to meet safely in person pursuant to AB 361.

October 27 Meeting Board Meeting Key Topics Include:

• Board Committee Goals For the 22-23 Year
• California Local Dashboard Indicators