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Urban Montessori Charter School

Minutes

Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday November 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM

Location

4551 Steele Street, Oakland, CA 94619. Signage on campus will direct you to the correct room, generally the Sun Room.


The public may comment and participate via Zoom if they prefer. The public may also email comments to janf@urbanmontessori.org to be shared during the meeting. Please make that intention clear in your email.

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Committee Members Present

D. Williams (remote), K. Fortuna (remote)

Committee Members Absent

None

Guests Present

D. Bissonnette

I. Opening Items

A.

Call the Meeting to Order

K. Fortuna called a meeting of the Academic Oversight Committee of Urban Montessori Charter School to order on Thursday Nov 10, 2022 at 4:16 PM.

B.

Record Attendance

C.

Review of Action/Discussion Items

D.

Presentations from the Floor

E.

Vote on Minutes from Prior Meeting

D. Williams made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting on 09-08-22.
K. Fortuna seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

II. Academic Oversight

A.

Instructional Updates

Main thing is data - even in coaching sessions, the focus is on data. No other items.

B.

NWEA and SBAC data

Daniel shared data slides on NWEA Fall 2022

 

Reading: shows a dip in scores in 5th and 6th grade, similar to last year.

Math: similar findings. Steadier decline from 1st-5th grade.

 

Growth data: fall to fall. 

Reading: 48% met, 36 did not, 14% in margin of error

Math 37% met, 43% did not, 19% in margin of error

 

Break down of levels by ethnicity/FRL/SPED/ELL

 

Projection of State Exam based on NWEA: higher than raw numbers from last year's spring NWEA

 

Looking at inventions particularly around math. Vague because it hasn't been discussed with staff but options might include: programming in after school program (students who don't attend might be invited to attend a couple days of the week); having teachers take tests to get a sense of how problems are presented there v how they are taught; looking at strand data around which specific types of math students are struggling with to focus on those

 

SBAC - dashboard isn't out yet.

III. Closing Items

A.

Topics for next meeting

SBAC if dashboard is available.

Possibly student panoramic data

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 4:45 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
K. Fortuna

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