Aurum Preparatory Academy

Minutes

Academic Committee - Test Scores deep dive

Date and Time

Thursday February 21, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Location

Aurum Prep

Committee Members Present

A. Benedetto, D. Hardin, K. Fliss, L. Garcia Giacomo

Committee Members Absent

None

Committee Members who left before the meeting adjourned

D. Hardin

Guests Present

J. Weinstein-Carnes, Swati Samant

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

K. Fliss called a meeting of the Academic Committee of Aurum Preparatory Academy to order on Thursday Feb 21, 2019 at 4:15 PM.

C.

Vote to approve minutes from Nov meeting

II. Academic

A.

Deep dive on student test data

Committee members shared their experiences with data.  Group talked about biases in standardized testing.
Reviewed data from NWEA for ELA and Math.
Made observations and asked questions around how the data correlates to which cohorts students are in, attendance, gender, ethnicity, ELL's and IEP's.

Next stesp:
- Committee to separate data according to categories listed above
- Committee to recommend what metrics we want to focus on going forward

 
D. Hardin left.

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

L. Garcia Giacomo made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
K. Fliss seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:10 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
K. Fliss