MCCPS Board of Trustees

Minutes

Academic Excellence Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Friday February 3, 2023 at 2:45 PM

Location

MCCPS, Classroom 6 Gold

Committee Members Present

Jessica Xiarhos, Kimberly Sullivan, Matt Cronin, Meg Upton, Molly Wright, Peter Cohen

Committee Members Absent

Elizabeth Burns, Ellen Lodgen

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 Friday Feb 3, 2023 at 2:50 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes from 01/06/23

Matt Cronin made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Excellence Committee Meeting on 01-06-23.
Kimberly Sullivan seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Academic Excellence Committee

A.

Criteria Update from Departments

HUMANITIES

  • Validation Protocols
    • 4th Grade - Jenna

 

MATH/SCIENCE

  • Validation Protocols
    • 4th Grade - Jenn (Animal Project)

 

Video-taping Validation Protocols - new faculty during Orientation, document the process

 

Alumni Spotlights on the website?

 

Nieve Sullivan - Sophmore in college, Designing a Motel (Architecture) 

  • "This is what Charter taught me how to do."

 

 

B.

Goals of the Academic Excellence Committee for the Strategic Plan

Adding "Action Items" as suggestions to google doc "Goals - Academic Excellence" 

(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MmuoNenQLQ8T0somTXj7GStJYXGMgqcGTMozvt4RucQ/edit?usp=sharing)

 

III. Closing Items

A.

Action Items

Committee members to add Action Items to document. At March meeting we will categorize Action Items under specific Strategic Outcomes.

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 3:14 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Jessica Xiarhos