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Seaside School, Inc

September 2024 Academic Excellence Committee

Published on September 13, 2024 at 8:17 AM CDT
Amended on September 16, 2024 at 3:18 PM CDT

Date and Time

Monday September 16, 2024 at 4:00 PM CDT

Location

Seacoast Collegiate High School Conference Room

 

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Founded in 1996
Serving Students in Grades 5 - 12

 

Our Mission: 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. 

 

 

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Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 4:00 PM
  A. Record Attendance   1 m
  B. Call the Meeting to Order   Megan Harrison
  C. Approve Minutes Approve Minutes 1 m
II. Academic Excellence 4:02 PM
  A. Academic Results Updates and Goals/Objectives for 2024-2025 FYI Thomas Miller 10 m
   

Raise overall college and career academic proficiency scores:

  • English Language Arts (>90% proficiency & >80% college and career readiness)
  • Math ( >90% college and career readiness)
  • Science (>90% proficiency & >75% college and career readiness)
  • History (>90% college and career readiness)
     

Identified changes to the plan to achieve the goals (new interventions, professional development, etc.)

  • Review syllabi for each class to ensure standards alignment and grading scales
  • Implementation Year 2 Common Lit
     

Raise Overall Seaside Neighborhood School Acceleration Score to greater than 90 points.


 

Implement school wide durable life skills curriculum and experiential learning programs in all content areas for all grades.


 

Develop The Seaside School mastery level assessment tools in all electives and durable life skills. 

 

Raise overall  ACT average score to >27.

Raise overall SAT average score to >1250.

  • Providing IXL online and on-demand classes
  • Working with teachers to create and execute a monthly test taking strategies class

 

Provide intervention and tutoring programs school wide to ensure Over 75% of students meet Bright Futures eligibility. 


 

>95% of students meet academic proficiency goals and reduce SCHS upperclassmen summer attrition <


 

Over 90% of our eligible students earn 1 Industry Certificate 


 

Develop and publish The Seaside School Portrait of a Graduate.


 

Launch the Associated of Science Degree Program for cohort 1 fall 2025.

  • Parent information sessions scheduled (9.24, 9.26 and late October)

 

Secure and launch key tenets Phase I of Dream Big Program.

  • Monthly Senior Workshops
    • College Application (8/16)
    • College Essay (9/20)
    • College and Career Report (10/18)
    • SAT and ACT Support
    • Mentor/Ambassadors Collection
  
  B. Middle School Media Approval Vote Kim Mixson 5 m
   

Please see the attached request for a book purchase for the 6th grade classroom library.  The highlighted books will be new books to the collection where the unhighlighted books will be replacement books and have already been through the vetting process.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

 

 

  
  C. Teacher Certification and Development FYI Courtney Fail 10 m
   

Certification requirements/expectations for our teachers at the middle school and high school and how those relate to our AS degree programs.
 

Communication of teachers out of field and teachers without public or private school teaching experience or education degrees to parents.

 

See attached for the current hiring and certification process at Seaside School.

 

Out of Field Teachers

 

Out of Field:

Catherine Ensch (has SS temporary cert - teaches math)

Kelly Trafton (has her license but it's showing Drama over English)

Balder Sanders (working towards degree)

Liza Snyder (Had degree, applied for temporary cert)

  
  D. Gifted Program Updates FYI Kim Mixson 10 m
   

See the draft of the plan we are currently working towards. 

 

According to the WCSD EP case manager: The board games that I choose to bring each week varies.   Sometimes the games focus on specific skills and other times - the students themselves request a certain game be brought back because it is/was one of their favorites. Attached is a list of games that I have played at Seaside and the skill(s) it covers.

 

  
III. Other Business
IV. Closing Items
  A. Adjourn Meeting Vote