Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Academic Oversight Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Friday October 18, 2024 at 2:15 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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Members: Kara Fortuna (Chair), Greg Klein; Committee Alternate: Ann Rhodes
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Committee Members Present
G. Klein, K. Fortuna
Committee Members Absent
S. Morrill
Guests Present
D. Bissonnette, T. Garcia
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Review of Action/Discussion Items
D.
Presentations from the Floor
No public comment on items not on the agenda.
E.
Vote on Minutes from Prior Meeting
No public comments or questions about the minutes.
II. Academic Oversight
A.
Instructional Updates
Daniel shared Fall NWEA Map data. This is baseline data for the year that has multiple instructional changes already in place. Overall, more than 40 % of students students are above the 40th percentile in both reading and math (60% in reading). Students generally performed better in reading that in math. 50th percentile is the average American student pre-pandemic. When looked at subgroup, again, students performed better in reading and in math, and all other subgroups had a gap in performance compared to white students. From last fall to this fall, 34% of students are meeting growth targets in math and 48% in reading. 70% of students in 8th are meeting year over year growth targets in both reading and math. Across subgroups, about half students are meeting expected growth targets and Students with Disabilities having the highest percentage of students (over 50%) meeting growth targets. The slides are in included in the "Documents" for this meeting. The committee asked questions to clarify and understand the data in the slides. Daniel shared how staff have been supported to see for themselves how items on an assessment look and what they say, to help them translate for students. One parent commented on the need to support students to translate from materials to real life and to standardized test items.
No other public comments or questions.
B.
Effective School Boards Framework Training
Greg shared that he and Daniel have met briefly multiple times to support Daniel in drafting possible Interim Goals to support each overall Goal in the LCAP. Daniel shared about looking at both NWEA and IXL assessments to help track progress during the year because SBAC is only offered one time per year.
No public comments on this item.
III. Closing Items
A.
Topics for next meeting
No new topics collected at this time.
No changes needed.