Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Rescheduled Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday September 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM
Location
Rescheduled from prior week, September 15th, 2020.
Virtual
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, July 15, 2020, and August 20, 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
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 Sep 22, 2020 at 4:05 PM.
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Minutes from August 18, 2020, Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting
O. Couch made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting on 08-18-20.
J. Faraguna seconded the motion.
3-0
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
II. Academic Oversight
A.
Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan
- Just about final. No major changes since shared in August.
- Had a lot of community engagement in summer in plans.
- NWEA MAP and Dibels testing happening now.
- Will be reviewing data on engagement and attendance this Friday during staff time.
- Krishna working on getting attendance and engagement disaggregated (race/ethnicity, EL, SPED).
- Committee wants to review data in October and see if we have recommendations for changes to approach or new investments.
- Will vote as a board on Thursday.
B.
Elementary School Waiver Process and Timeline
- Deadline for waiver from county is October 2nd. Only need waiver if on the watch-list.
- Interested in doing zip code analysis for our students. What are the COVID-19 rates in areas where our students live?
- Very disruptive if open and have to shut down again. Desire to avoid this situation.
- Waiver requires a lot of community and staff engagement.
- Hae-Sin: Recommend laying out different phases for in-person instruction and conditions to progress to each stage.
- Create a document to clarify criteria to move from stage to stage. Criteria based on health data, community will/desire, staff will/desire, operational safety. Will also need transition time before can open in-person because new building and need transition time.
- Hae-Sin will coordinate an HVAC evaluation.
- Jan will research how other schools who are re-opening via waiver have approached it.
C.
Discussion on Renewal Strategy and AB 1505
- Committee review data and come back to discuss in October.
- Review internal assessment data in October.
- Jan and Hae-Sin researching organizations/consultants to support with renewal analysis.
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 5:02 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
H. Thomas