Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday August 18, 2020 at 4:45 PM
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PER GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S SHELTER IN PLACE EXECUTIVE ORDER DATED MARCH 19, 2020 (WHICH IS HERE IN ITS ENTIRETY) AND BY ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA DATED JUNE 5, 2020 (Revised June 18, 2020 and July 19, 2020) (WHICH IS HERE IN ITS ENTIRETY):
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Members: Olivia Couch, Jan Faraguna, Hae-Sin Thomas (chair)
Urban Montessori Charter School welcomes your participation at Board meetings. The purpose of a public meeting of the Board of Directors (“Board”) is to conduct the affairs of the organization in public. Your participation assures us of continuing community interest in our school and assists the Board in making the best decisions for our school. To assist you in the ease of speaking/participating in our meetings, guidelines are provided at the bottom of this agenda. All materials for all board and committee meetings, including audio recordings of Regular Board Meetings, are available via http://www.urbanmontessori.org/board_of_directors.
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Members: Olivia Couch, Jan Faraguna, Hae-Sin Thomas (chair)
Urban Montessori Charter School welcomes your participation at Board meetings. The purpose of a public meeting of the Board of Directors (“Board”) is to conduct the affairs of the organization in public. Your participation assures us of continuing community interest in our school and assists the Board in making the best decisions for our school. To assist you in the ease of speaking/participating in our meetings, guidelines are provided at the bottom of this agenda. All materials for all board and committee meetings, including audio recordings of Regular Board Meetings, are available via http://www.urbanmontessori.org/board_of_directors.
Committee Members Present
H. Thomas (remote), J. Faraguna (remote), O. Couch (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
D. Bissonnette (remote), K. Feeney (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
H. Thomas called a meeting of the Academic Oversight Committee of Urban Montessori Charter School to order on Tuesday Aug 18, 2020 at 4:46 PM.
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Minutes
J. Faraguna made a motion to approve the minutes from.
O. Couch seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
| Roll Call | |
|---|---|
| O. Couch |
Aye
|
| H. Thomas |
Aye
|
| J. Faraguna |
Aye
|
II. Academic Oversight
A.
"Learning Everywhere" overview
- Launched Learning Everywhere yesterday (8/17)! A few technology hiccups but nothing major.
- Schedule TK-6th:
- whole class meeting
- lead teacher banded lessons by grade level and support teacher offers support
- read aloud, electives, weekly conferences
- weekly conference for parents available
- data tracking
- attendance and engagement tracker
- Today 97.5% attendance
- After few weeks going to administer NWEA MAP and DIBELS
- What are measures of student ownership or agency that we could track? Seesaw very helpful - portfolio, student work.
- Curriculum pacing guide - adapted from Public Montessori in Action; aligned with Skills Inventory from the playbook that they rolled out last year
- Is there Montessori guide for technology skills? No.
- Assessments - what measures taking to ensure valid?
- DIBELS will be 1:1 with teacher
- NWEA has guidelines for remote administration; teacher will be monitoring via zoom
- If/how materials being used? Focusing on concept, not materials right now.
- Is there an opportunity to build digital Montessori tools (e.g., division board)
B.
Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan
- Will have draft done next week for public hearing (during our board meeting).
- Community engagement planned for early Sept, multiple ways.
C.
Discussion on Renewal Strategy and AB 1505
- In order to be renewed, we will need to prove: 2 years of state dashboard data
- Outperforming or underperforming on state indicators? High, medium, low tracks. If underperforming, then on low track. Positive achievement gap data - positive data for 2 subgroups.
- For medium track, academic measures matter the most.
- Have opportunity to present alternative data since state data will be 2 years old and given our model.
- Really want to focus on growth for African American and English Language Learners subgroups.
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 6:03 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
J. Faraguna