Vida Charter School

Minutes

Academic Excellence Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday February 13, 2020 at 4:30 PM

Location

120 E Broad Way, Gettysburg PA 17325 Conference Room

Committee Members Present

B. Reyes-Lua, C. Miller, S. Powell, Y. Gagliardi

Committee Members Absent

E. Nashelsky

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

S. Powell called a meeting of the Academic Excellence Committee of Vida Charter School to order on Thursday Feb 13, 2020 at 4:30 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes

B. Reyes-Lua made a motion to approve the minutes from Academic Excellence Meeting on 01-09-20.
Y. Gagliardi seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

II. Academic Excellence

A.

Review Academic Excellence 19-20 Goals

Goal 1 - Curriculum Updates - Math specialist from LIU, Charlie Trovato has been meeting with math teachers and helping them to build a math curriculum map.  Will be back in March.
Grade 3 Curriculum Map writing will continue this summer.  There is a possibility of sending another team to the biliteracy center training this summer.
Goal 2 - Career Readiness Updates - Digital portfolio files were created for each student in Google, teachers from all grade levels and content areas are collecting artifacts.
Goal 3 - Staff Survey - Only 67% completed.  Not enough time given to staff to complete it during faculty meeting and time frame allotted.
 
ED - Held a meeting for parents of grades 3 to 5 to share possible configurations for next year for grades 4-6.  It was a good turn out.

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 5:30 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
S. Powell