MCCPS Board of Trustees
Minutes
Academic Excellence Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Friday August 26, 2022 at 2:45 PM
Location
17 Lime Street, Marblehead, MA 01945
Committee Members Present
Ellen Lodgen, Jessica Xiarhos, Kimberly Sullivan, Matt Cronin, Meg Upton, Molly Wright, Peter Cohen
Committee Members Absent
Elizabeth Burns
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes from 06/10/22
II. Academic Excellence Committee
A.
Criteria Update - Global Studies
B.
Summer Work Update
Matt, Jessica, Molly, Ellen went through unit design over the summer, either aligning old units to the Criteria or creating new units. Sample units were produced for the faculty, both as a guide, but also to help frame the process for new teachers.
Portfolios to be a huge push to fill in gaps connecting work to Criteria. Deliberate use of Criteria as part of portfolios the focus.
Looking toward Student-Led Conferences.
C.
MCAS Board Presentation - Upcoming
Waiting on Scaled Scores, have raw data.
Hard to draw comparisons with inconsistencies in the test.
Smaller sample size leads to more variability.
Expecting to see the scores show impact of pandemic.
D.
Next Step - Reporting on Progress (Summer Update)
III. Closing Items
A.
Action Items
- Jessica to add a footer to front page of Criteria saying "revised on..."; Index; page numbers
- Essential Habits page to be added by Jessica
Jess and Molly over the summer made edits to the Global Studies criteria proposed by Megan Hale. The new criteria have been disseminated out to the faculty. Changes were mostly in the area of refusing redundancy