Ms. Clark shared the two focus areas that our team of teachers has been working on in terms of PD. One focus is on one student who is struggling and setting a goal and monitoring progress towards that every week. The purpose here is to problem-solve together about individual students and to share strategies that work that teachers could use with more students in their classes. The second focus area is on the "technique" of the week around collecting and using data in the classroom every day. One of our accountability goals for our charter is around ensuring that 90% of teachers agree that coaching and PD are driving towards student's academic achievement.

Ms. Clark also discussed the school's academic priorities between now and the end of the year.

Ms. Martin and Ms. Romano shared information about our ELL program, a sheltered English instructional approach. We also discussed how students are assigned into different English language development areas with the ACCESS test. We reviewed our publicly available data from MCAS and from ACCESS about how our ELLs performed this past year. They exceeded their targets last year.

Ms. Clark shared where we are in terms of hiring and the positions we have available.