Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Academic Oversight Committee Regular Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday April 20, 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.
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Committee Members Present
D. Williams, K. Fortuna
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.
Board retreat follow up - Role of Academic Oversight Committee
Kara still has not moved forward - will send spreadsheet to Donald to move forward.
Other ways to move forward - what are community resources that support attendance and what can we access? Transportation? Access to health care? Supporting to let the community know what resources exist?
III. Closing Items
A.
Topics for next meeting
Next AO meeting: May 18th
Talk about next years calendar.
Things to look at re renewal: enlisting families to attend county meetings.
In the middle of student transition meetings, students going from one level to another. All teachers fill out cards for students with personal details, key metrics. lower lever teachers present student by student, discussing strengths and challenges and what sort of classroom environments would best fit. Key that students are not placed based on teachers but on classroom community.
Question: Any consideration of reasons that students should match with a specific teacher - ie, black boys with black teachers? can't guarantee teachers will stay.
Training: second site supervision visit, Elizabeth Slade will focus on trainee classrooms but observe all classrooms re engagement. Will do a training on norming data across levels.
2nd summer training starts first week of summer. Everyone will go to montessori for social justice in Chicago. Other teachers can choose to go - all leads have a PD stipend that would cover all expenses.
Updating LCAP - final draft by May board meeting. Public hearing in May, vote in June.
Attendance
similar to last time discussed (January). Same breakdowns as well. Positive that it didn't get worse; hope to see it get better.
Putting together a student attendance response team - preparing for next year. Consists on Jess (school counselor), Iris, and Daniel. Creating systems for families to be kept in the loop in a supportive way. Did a self assessment and identified three priorities to plan for next year. 1) data collection & review 2) what is our way of recognizing good & improved attendance 3) systems around reaching out to chronically absent students to create a caring a& supportive way to support improved attendance. Meeting every 3-4 weeks. Next year will be held by Student services director.
Slightly higher than pre-covid, but not substantially.