Rachel shared an overview of the process to get to the draft being presented today. 12 staff members including school leaders, teachers with an intentional diversity of content, grade and position contributed to the draft. A parent from each the middle school and the high school reviewed and gave feedback to the draft. The governance committee will discuss and provide input today and the full board will review in the July 28th meeting. Then the plan will go to DESE for their review and feedback, there will likely be some revisions made in that process which goes back and forth until both the school and DESE land on a final draft which DESE will approve. Then the plan will come back to the board for their approval before it is final.

Rachel shared the accountability plan (AP) with the committee. The three key design principles (KDP) come from our original charter application and page references to the original charter are next to each KDP. These KDP's are still relevant now as we look forward to the third charter term and expand into high school. Each of the the three align with our portrait of a graduate (POG) and high school model and program. The objectives below each align with the KDP's and the measures for each are written for the distinct differences within the middle and high school programs. 

The objectives remain consistent from the previous charter term and AP. Some of the measures remain the same, some have been revised to reflect work we are doing now and in the next charter term and some are new based on the plans for the new high school program and accelerated learning plans. All of these measures reflect practices and disciplines we want to hold ourselves accountable to in the next charter terms. These are the things that demonstrate our faithfulness to our charter and are above and beyond the common criteria for charter school success.

Rachel described how the measures related to college course completion align with our program of study in the high school. The committee discussed using surveys as a measure and Rachel described some of the discussions the team had around the student survey and the questions in the related measure. These statements all align with the habits of success which are an integral part of the high school program and something the team wants to be accountable to over the next charter term. Rachel will be linking a description of the Habits of Success grading into the AP for more context around those habits and how the team will grade them.