Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday February 16, 2021 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 MARCH 16, 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 Feb 16, 2021 at 5:06 PM.
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Minutes from January 12th, 2021 Regular Meeting
O. Couch made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting on 01-12-21.
J. Faraguna seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Academic Oversight
A.
UMCS Renewal Planning
- Reviewed CSCE charter renewal. Was approved by board 7-0.
- Positive growth and trajectory from 2017 to 2019.
- Future step - a) apply our data to this report, especially Table 4; 2) use projected proficiency from NWEA MAP
- Talk with ACOE Juwen to understand how think they will approach renewals next year given data limitations. Krishna has an upcoming meeting.
- Jan: Are there student survey data .
- Hae-Sin: OUSD has been tracking 3 distance learning questions. If we could collect similar data, that would be a helpful data point.
- Krishna: Haven't surveyed families specifically on distance learning since the very beginning of the year. Will work to create. Response rate is always the hard part.
- Jan: Suggested linking with parent-teacher conferences.
B.
Monthly Data Review
- Would like to look at winter-to-winter growth.
- Hae-Sin: We're seeing growth and that's counter what distance learning narrative has been.
- Have struggled with AA students and promising to see results. Krishna: more synchronous instruction; more targeted
- Anna: ST Math, individualized instruction. Opaqueness of the model in the past has been challenging. With distance learning easier for parents to understand where student struggling. Think getting more consistent practice.
- Small, shorter data cycles. Harder to collect data and have been very purposeful with this. Want to continue this.
- Note: 5:49: Hae-Sin left the meeting.
- Olivia: Happy, promising to see growth from Black students. Digital competence
- Thoughts on lower growth for Latinx? This group has stronger attendance than last year and AA students. Daniel: A bit surprised.
C.
Distance to In-Person Learning Update
- Moving to Phase II.
- About 20 students. Majority of students are Latinx.
- Expecting instruction to start on 2/25.
- 2 support teachers with assist with guided distance learning and still working on lead teacher involvement.
- Vaccination: submitted list of staff working onsite to county; timeline for appointments very unclear. Will need to discuss mandating vaccines in the future.
- Testing procedure is still getting set up. Going through county. Paid through insurance. 1x/week.
- Jan: How is operational readiness for phase III preparation going? Krishna: Much of preparation for Phase II helps Phase III as well and have been working on behind the scenes all year.
III. Other Business
A.
Discuss DRAFT School Plan for Student Achievement
- Not much change since last month. No major changes.
- Working on updating some baseline metrics.
- Will vote at full board meeting next Thursday.
IV. 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 6:15 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
J. Faraguna