MCCPS Board of Trustees
Minutes
Academic Excellence Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday March 4, 2020 at 7:30 AM
Committee Members Present
Ellen Lodgen, Jessica Xiarhos, Kimberly Sullivan, Matt Cronin, Michael Condon, Peter Cohen
Committee Members Absent
Emily Westhoven
Guests Present
Meg Upton, Sarah Plymate
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Jessica Xiarhos called a meeting of the Academic Excellence Committee Committee of MCCPS Board of Trustees to order on Wednesday Mar 4, 2020 at 7:34 AM.
C.
Approve Minutes from 2/5/20
Jessica Xiarhos made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Excellence Committee Meeting on 02-05-20.
Matt Cronin seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
Jessica Xiarhos made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Excellence Committee Meeting on 01-15-20.
Kimberly Sullivan seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Academic Excellence Committee
A.
Dissemination of Academic Excellence to Staff - Update
B.
Timeline
Peter - Ongoing for the next year and a half. Target share out June 2021, implement September 2021.
At the end of a 5-year program, students will be able to...
Looking to better align and track student growth.
At the end of a 5-year program, students will be able to...
Looking to better align and track student growth.
III. Closing Items
A.
Action Items
Humanities teacher to join Academic Excellence -
Jessica to attend next Humanities department meeting -
Foreign Language to go to Humanities meeting when Humanities is further along
Jessica to attend next Humanities department meeting -
Foreign Language to go to Humanities meeting when Humanities is further along
B.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:36 AM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jessica Xiarhos
Documents used during the meeting
- 2020_02_05_academic_excellence_committee_committee_meeting_minutes.pdf
Math/Science - Standards for Mathematical Practices, Parker,
Humanities - "wrapping their brains around the activity" - top-down or bottom-up?
Foreign Language shouldn't be an add on.
We should have a time to look at this as a whole teaching staff- still needs to be uniform in design
How should the document look - Venn diagram? Bullet list? Web?
Target Categories- break it out by grade level?
Where do Essential Habits fit? - smaller working group?
Staff evaluates their projects against the rubrics/essential habits.
Shifting us back to true value of project based learning- teaching kids resilience to fail and try again. We need a more standardized/consistent view of process over product.
Anatomy of an Exhibition project. Formatting of the night. Students introduce the project. Questions for parents in program to ask students. Parents given information before the night of?
Organization/Executive Functioning
Entry points for parents into the Exhibition projects. - (Step-up day?)