Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday February 1, 2023 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
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Review of Action/Discussion Items
D.
Presentations from the Floor
E.
Vote on Minutes from Prior Meeting
II. Academic Oversight
A.
Instructional Updates
B.
Attendance Data
School attendance average 92%
lower rates for lower grades. 8th grade is great.
Not a huge discrepancy by race.
SPED rates are the same as general ed
33% chronically absent.
Pre-pandemic, the averages were 94-95%
Hard to pinpoint appropriate outreach. Still in a pandemic, families have a lot going on.
Two new positions posted - Montessori coach and a Student Services director - gives admin more capacity to support attendance.
Interested to know where other charter schools are with this - how to find out? reach out to other people.
Are there ways to build in community support around families with the highest rate of absenteeism? Peer outreach?
C.
Board retreat follow up - Role of Academic Oversight Committee
Dashboard: a tab on our website. Board designed fed by data from ops and data consultant.
Need to determine specifics of each aspect that we would want to highlight from standardized testing - % of students who are proficient and above, etc
Action: Kara and Donald to research other charter school's websites to see if they have something like a dashboard.
Ways to retain middle school parents: provide lists of ways to participate in things people are looking for in larger middle schools - create resource for our website to link to for parents.
III. Closing Items
A.
Topics for next meeting
ongoing discussion around role of academic oversight
Getting ready for SBAC in March - early window so NWEA brackets the year. Teachers are preparing students. Focusing on explaining unfamiliar language to students.