Veritas Preparatory Charter School

Minutes

Academic Achievement Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday October 11, 2018 at 8:00 AM

Location

Veritas Prep Charter School 1st Floor Conference Room or Dial-In Number: 866-848-2216, Conference Code: 7783935205, Leader Code: 2356

Committee Members Present

A. Clark, A. Martin, D. Janes (remote), J. Crowell (remote), R. Sela

Committee Members Absent

G. Moody, M. Sweet, R. Romano

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

R. Sela called a meeting of the Academic Achievement Committee of Veritas Preparatory Charter School to order on Thursday Oct 11, 2018 at 8:09 AM.

C.

Approve September Minutes

D.

Approve August Minutes

II. Principal's Report

A.

Update on Accountability Goals

Ms. Clark discussed the HW goal and the patterns she was seeing across the school with this. Homework Center is a key system for supporting students who are not getting their homework done. We then talked about our work towards our attendance goal, though that is a not a personalized accountability goal, chronic absenteeism is a state-wide accountability goal. Ms. Clark described how the operations team and teaching team is working closely together to address absenteeism. In terms of our out of class reflections goal, Ms. Clark described how we have significantly fewer out of class reflections than we had this time last year. We also have no suspensions at this point in the year. The last goal is around teacher belief that coaching and professional development is helping them drive student achievement. Ms. Clark described how the team uses a platform to monitor who has and hasn't received feedback. Next time we will talk about our other two accountability goals around ANet and standards-based grading.

III. Other Business

A.

Data for Charters in MA from MCSA

Ms. Clark briefly shared some headlines from the MA Charter School Association about how our school is outperforming our sending district at every grade level and each subject area. 

B.

Special Ed and ELL Program Update

The committee discussed what data and context would be most helpful to present to the board in October.

IV. 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 8:56 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
A. Martin