The New American Academy Charter School

Minutes

Academic Excellence Monthly Committee meeting

Date and Time

Tuesday October 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM

Committee Members Present

C. C​uellar-Lezcano (remote), E. DeAngelis (remote)

Committee Members Absent

None

Guests Present

D. Dula (remote), J. Trani (remote), O. Gibson (remote), S. Osnes (remote)

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

C. C​uellar-Lezcano called a meeting of the Academic Committee Committee of The New American Academy Charter School to order on Tuesday Oct 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM.

II. Academic Committee

A.

Connection

B.

Goal setting for 2024-2025 school year

Monthly focus for Academic Committee meetings:

November 12 - BOY data (ALL DATA)-ELA 3pm
December 10 - Math renewal visit
January 14 -  ELA
Feb 11 - MOY data-Math
Mar 11 -ELA
Apr 8- Math 
May 13- ELA
June 10 - should we make later so we can review EOY data?

 

ELA Data on Nov 12- DTLs present how they unpacked the data
-grade level bands 
- what is being worked on with lavinia
-what is everyone working on 
-high leverage talking points 
-strengths- and what we are doing to sure up the weakness in Reading & Math 
- currently we have been focusing on skills 
- working on tracking skills and intervening earlier  K-3
-tracking writing response (2nd-5th grade)
-progress monitoring- using i-Reading instruction
-K-1- How do we get kids to be readers? What does the data tell us?
Mclass-certain grade are using progress monitoring-form small groups
Mclass instructions are groups 
Start small to dig deeper which assessments will be used consistently 
-Sheila will email Paloma to use our virtual meeting to solidify rubric for writing assessment/tracker
-Paloma-guidance on transference

Trends- newer teacher, too much teacher talk- working on clear objectives and pacing

Using Kim Marshall SOTEL rubric- making sure a level of mastery is areas already studied

Working on intellectual prep; what does productive struggle look like; what do student strategies look like

Lesson Planning- is collected from teachers who have received ineffective, no lesson plans- for people who have their own process, teachers have TP and pacing calendars

Work with Paloma on how we differentiate for teachers, how do we hold ourselves accountable to hold teachers accountable

 

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 4:00 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
C. C​uellar-Lezcano