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Agenda

Topic		Time
Roll Call	Who is not here? How are we doing?	10
Vision & Norms	How do we want to show up and interact in this meeting?	5
Introduction to new Chair:	Who is Daniela? Q and A	15
Meeting Purpose Discussion	What is the purpose of our meeting?	10
Agenda Planning:	How do we want to use our time?	10
Action steps & Parking Lot	What should we bring to the table for the next meeting? For a future meeting?	5
Celebrations & Shout outs	Let your teammates know how awesome they are!	5

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Roll Call

Academic Committee Members Roll Call

Member	Title	Absent
Catherine Schwenkler	Former Chair
Christi Elliott-Earby	Executive Director
Clarence Brantley	UC Social Studies Teacher	X
Cutia Blunt	Head of School, Lower
Joan Marks	Assistant HOS, Upper	X
Kristen Karably	Assistant HOS, Lower
LaShayla Clark	Parent Representative	X
Megan Tolbert	Curriculum & Instruction Coach, UC	X
Pascale Datta	French Immersion Teacher	X
Rochelle Lofstrand	Head of School, Upper
Sabrina Manns	Curriculum and Instruction Coach, LC
Sandra Daniel	Director of Language Program	X
Daniela Torre Gibney	Chair
Ron Kemp	LC Counselor
Tiffany Russell	Community and Culture Chair

What is one win from this month?

What’s something that’s been or is a challenge this month?

Did I get your title right?

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Vision and Norms

Vision. To develop globally minded citizens who have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to effect positive change in our world.

Mission. The GLOBE Academy fosters Global Learning Opportunities through Balanced Education for children of all backgrounds. With a focus on dual-language immersion, an experiential-learning model and a constructivist approach, GLOBE inspires students to be high-performing lifelong learners equipped to make a positive impact in the world.�

Keep our vision, students, caregivers, and staff at the center of the work

Maintain a mindset of continuous improvement

As we make decisions, remain open to the possibility that our perspectives can and should evolve in response to new information.

Expect and accept non-closure

Be comfortable with the reality that we are going to leave this conversation with unfinished work, unanswered questions, and unmade decisions.

Engage proactively

We contribute to the success of the GLOBE vision by asking questions, seeking clarification, offering our perspective on a topic, listening for understanding, and taking ownership for moving the work forward.

Practice directness

with kindness

We bring varying perspectives to this work and need to be able to share directly, with warmth. Assume best intentions.

What would you add, revise, or remove?

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Intro to Daniela Torre Gibney, PhD

Growing Up

My Education & Career

My Family

Just for Fun

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A little about my style

I am direct.

I believe we need to “say the thing”, with care.
If you ever feel like I am missing the “care” part, please call me out.

I am curious

This shows up as me asking a lot of questions.
My intention is to understand, not to passively aggressively criticize.

If responding to a written thing, I write a lot of comments

Many comments are just my thoughts to take or leave
I will be more explicit when a direct action is needed

I like to share

I may share ideas or information. This is because I get excited about visioning and planning; it is not to dismiss other ideas.

I respond well to feedback!

Tell me what you like and don’t like, and I will pivot.
I am very open to the ideas of others.

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What are our roles on the Academic Committee?

My role as chair is to

Be a liaison between GLOBE Academic committee members and the larger Board
Provide input/be a thought partner around Academic activities related to the strategic plan
Provides direction to the committee.
Maintains focus on strategic priorities related to academic affairs.
Develop agenda for and facilitate our meetings
Ensures decisions align with the GLOBE’s strategic goals and charter.
Ensure action items have owners
Monitor progress on action items and ensure follow-up on unresolved issues.
Document committee discussions and recommendations.
Advocate for resources and support initiatives a that will improve academic outcomes
Where you’re board hat, not parent hat - think about all children
Be an advocate/messenger for school

Because of my background and position, at the groups request, I can also help with

Data analysis and interpretation
Thought partnership around measurement, goals, indicators, etc.
Identifying and best practices, exemplars, research, etc.

Your role as members includes to:

Educate the chair and the board on implementation of strategic priorities
Provide input/be a thought partner around activities related to the strategic plan
Participate actively in meetings
Maintains focus on strategic priorities related to academic affairs.
Review the agenda and suggest additions before the meeting
Ensures decisions align with the GLOBE’s strategic goals and charter.
Ensure action items have owners
Execute action items for which you are responsible
Review notes as needed
Implement initiatives and policies that will improve academic outcomes

What would you add, revise, or remove?

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What is the purpose of the AC meetings?

Take two minutes to think about what you understand or want the purpose of this committee to be.

Proposed purpose:

To work closely with GLOBE’s academic leadership to :

Establish academic performance goals, charter contract goals (Miles), progress goals (MAP) yearly
Track progress towards goals
Identify areas for improvement as needed, and test improvement ideas
Identify areas for celebration and spread the news (identifying progress, innovation, master teachers, better connect whats happening in school and cmte work)
Discuss and provide input to leaders on curriculum adoption and school wide learning approaches
Educate the board on existing activities and results of those activities to support academic excellence at the school (and data review, thinking aout story telling).

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What would you add, revise, or remove?

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How do we want to use our time? Agenda Discussion

What would you add, revise, or remove about the proposed agenda?

Add an X to each row to show how you want to spend our time

Agenda Item	Description	Every meeting	Some meetings	Send an email
Roll call	See who is here or not and reflect on whose voices are not present Share a quick thought to build relationships
Celebrations	Shout outs at the end of the meeting to recognize each other
Announcements	Committee members provide updates on anything of note
Strategic Plan Update	Update on activities related to strategic plans Collaborative thought partnership
Data Review	Discuss most recent data, update committee on current or collaboratively identify action steps
New business	Committee members bring up any new business or areas for improvement and proposed solutions for the committee discussion
Resource Allocation	Committee discussion of how school funds are used for academic support, for board approval
Follow up from last meeting	Check status of action items from last meeting
Action items	Review of action items and roles
Other?

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Parking lot: What do we want to discuss at a later date?

Next Meeting	The 24-25 year	Next year	Unsure
better support our subgroups through WIN and otherwise Improve caretaker awareness of student performance		Understand MAP changes Decide if we want to keep MAP as our formative assessment New ELA curriculum	Science performance Gifted program Comms around bright spots/wins/impacts- eg, AP. Building relationships with local TPPs - eg Clark Atlanta, Ga State

Board questions and priorities based on data review in addition to items raised by the committee are outlined below and in the notes. Let’s commit to addressing them or creating a plan to address them this year.

We identified with red arrows where we wanted to move specific buckets of students with regard to improving performance, but what is it that we will do differently to achieve these desired outcomes?

WIN already exists but is also limited to UC - is WIN actually making a difference? Can we measure its impacts since it has been in effect for a few years now?
What is the plan for those without WIN time?

We would like to improve overall caretaker awareness for how their students are doing in school (in between standardized test timings). What are the actions we are going to commit to?

Are we going to push out the directive that all teachers will start sending work home on a cadence that makes sense for their convenience?
Something else? It doesn't have to be a huge project, small improvements in this area are pretty meaningful.

We would like a focused effort against improving our Science performance - the data has been consistent over the years and we have discussed it the past several years of needing to improve it. What are the concrete next steps?
What does the gifted program look like at GLOBE? (We didn't get to dive into details in this area, but it was brought up as a concern, so would be great to learn more)

What do services look like at each grade level?
We have concern around retention of high achieving students (4th grade attrition to Kittredge,etc.), but if we have a strong gifted program, more families would consider staying at GLOBE if their students are receiving quality gifted services.

Related to point 1 above: What steps can we take this year to address the substantial achievement gaps between white/Asian students and Black/Latino/Special Needs/Els/Low-income students?

How are we messaging our awareness of the gap and urgency to close it?
How might we better understand the root causes of the gaps?
How can we improve the effectiveness of MTSS and our support for special needs and EL students?
How are we leveraging the substantial assets of many of our ELs in a dual language setting?
How can we make enrichments after school more accessible (i.e., our low income kids might not be able to pay 400-500 for additional enrichment)?

Related to many of the points above: What steps can we take this year to improve rigor and provide more academic opportunities across the board?

For board knowledge: How is teaching practice assessed? How do teachers in need of improvement receive additional support?
For board knowledge: What is the science curriculum? What are the opportunities for science PD already available?
Are there ways we can leverage after school, before school, or other times to provide tutoring or additional academic support for students (low or high achieving)
What are expectations for what is taught during connections? How can we improve rigor here?
How can we best leverage technology/media? Eg, are there norms around how teachers use TV and computers?

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Action Items

Action Item	Owner	Status
Think about what data UC can bring to the meeting to talk about WIN	DTG

What should we bring to the table for the next meeting? What do we need to do in between to prepare? What do we want to discuss?

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Thank You

Always feel free to reach out!

Text: 202.903.5364

Email: dgibney@theglobeacademy.net

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Extra Slides

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What is the status of our prior action items?

Prior Meeting Action Items

Action Item	Owner	Status

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Are there updates on activities related to the strategic plan?

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Does anyone have any new business for the group?

New business might include a new concern, idea, event, or activity that is on your mind and you want the board to weigh in on.

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Action Items

Action Item	Owner	Status

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Parking lot: What do we want to discuss at a later date?

Next Meeting	The 24-25 year	Next year	Unsure
Think of how to better support our subgroups		Understand MAP changes Decide if we want to keep MAP as our formative assessment New ELA curriculum

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