Seaside School, Inc

Academic Excellence Committee Meeting

Published on June 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM CDT

Date and Time

Thursday June 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM CDT

Location

Seacoast Collegiate High School

Founded in 1996
Serving Students in Grades 5 - 12

 

As an arm of the Board, we seek to sustain an educational community where an emphasis on academic excellence is complemented by our concern for each learner’s personal growth and intellectual, aesthetic, and psychological development. The curriculum is developmentally responsive – actively engaging students in learning skills in context; integrative – directing students to connect learning to daily lives; and exploratory – enabling students to discover their abilities, interests, learning styles, and ways that they can make contributions to society.

 

The Academic Excellence Committee's role is strategic oversight of academic outcomes — student proficiency, intervention effectiveness, and goal achievement. We do not exercise operational authority over curriculum, instructional materials, or day-to-day educational decisions. Those responsibilities rest with the Executive Director and the administration, within the framework of state, county, and board-approved guidelines. 

 

Information on procedures for public comment can be found on our Governance Page.  (Click Here)

 

If anyone needs special assistance to participate in the public input session, every effort will be made to provide appropriate accommodation. When requesting accommodations for public input, please allow no less than 1 business day notice prior to the scheduled meeting.

 

Specific issues about a particular student should only be addressed to the school’s Director of Student Services, rather than the Board of Directors.

 

Link for online participation: https://meet.google.com/xmf-igfk-gkj

Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 4:00 PM
  A. Record Attendance   Caitie Cerise
  B. Call the Meeting to Order   Kevin Sandoe 1 m
  C. Approve Minutes Approve Minutes Caitie Cerise 1 m
II. Academic Excellence Committee 4:02 PM
  A. Year-end Review FYI Kevin Sandoe 3 m
   

Year in review: reconnecting to why the committee shifted to an outcomes focus, and the goals set for 2025–26.

 
  B. Administrative Update Discuss Kim Mixson and Drew Ward 30 m
   
  • Year-end results vs. targets: ELA, Math, Science, History, and Learning Gains, by school and grade, against the year's targets.
  • Leading indicators & intervention effectiveness: Lexia, full-time ESE/interventionists, intensive academic classes, the universal 5th-grade screener, IXL.

 

 
  C. Strategic Opportunities Discuss Committee 15 m
   

Strategic opportunities for 2026–27:

  • 2–3 leverage points to carry forward (e.g., the 5th-grade entry-point gap, math CCR, Learning Gains).
  • What we scale; what we change.
 
  D. Vote Items Vote 5 m
   

Vote items (Chair calls for a motion from the floor).

 
III. Closing Items 4:55 PM
  A. Adjourn Meeting FYI Kevin Sandoe 2 m
   

A. Action Items Summary

 

B. Public Comments: All public comments should be factual and should not include personally identifiable information of students or personnel in order to maintain confidentiality and privacy standards. 

 

C. Adjourn Meeting