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Urban Montessori Charter School

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Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting

Date and Time

Tuesday September 14, 2021 at 4:15 PM

Location

The committee will meet at school 4551 Steele Street, Oakland, CA 94611

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AS ALLOWED BY GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S EXECUTIVE ORDER N-08-21 DATED JUNE 11, 2021 (WHICH IS HERE IN ITS ENTIRETY), AND FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: THE COMMITTEE WILL MEET IN PERSON AT 4551 STEELE STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94619 AND THE PUBLIC MAY JOIN VIA ZOOM.

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Members: Olivia Couch, Jan Faraguna, Hae-Sin Thomas (Chair)

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Committee Members Present

J. Faraguna (remote), L. Bentley Tammero (remote)

Committee Members Absent

H. Thomas

Guests Present

D. Bissonnette (remote)

I. Opening Items

A.

Call the Meeting to Order

J. Faraguna called a meeting of the Academic Oversight Committee of Urban Montessori Charter School to order on Tuesday Sep 14, 2021 at 4:19 PM.

B.

Record Attendance

C.

Approve Minutes from Prior Meeting

J. Faraguna made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting on 08-10-21.
L. Bentley Tammero seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Academic Oversight

A.

Instructional Updates

  • Coaching cycles & classroom systems
    • coaching meeting scheduled with lead teachers. lots of informal meetings but haven't gotten full schedule up and running yet. been in the classroom a fair amount.
    • met with all support teachers already. trying to meet individually a few times a year. monthly group meetings. 
    • each week levels are meeting to plan together, reviewing standards and lessons to match and record keeping system (Transparent Classrooms).
    • implementing work and activity accountability systems in classroom. scheduling in to daily schedule to be sure happening. help everyone be more productive and aligned with requests from families in the past.
    • Nautilus system - up and running. consistency 
    • Jan encouraged to highlight in BTS night.
  • Schoolwide assessment
    • NWEA MAP: fall 9/27 to 10/15 and winter 1/18 - 2/4
    • DIBELS: fall now until 9/20; winter 1/18 to 1/31; spring 5/16 to 5/27
    • SBAC: end of April - May
    • YIP/YEPS in October
  • Goals
    • reminder of LCAP goals
    • discussion of how best to measure staff goal
    • teacher-family communications. Loren shared feedback that has not seemed frequent or consistent to her so far. Daniel shared that expectation is 1 post/update to Parent Square per week. 
      • Parent shared that some posts happening in community groups instead of formal classroom group.
      • Family night around work systems.
    • portfolio work: couple representative works for each part of the year. all students should have one, will look different for primary.
    • ABAR goal: still working on determining measures of success. 
    • plan to revisit these goals each meeting.

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

Future business: need to decide on new committee chair and additional committee members.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 5:15 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
J. Faraguna
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FOR MORE INFORMATION For more information concerning this agenda or for materials relating to this meeting, please contact UMCS at 5328 Brann Street, Oakland, CA 94619 or board@urbanmontessori.org. All materials are available via the Governance Section of our website: http://www.urbanmontessori.org/governance.