Lincoln Charter School and Sallie B. Howard Leaders Present to the Charter Schools Advisory Board
The North Carolina Charter Schools Advisory Board (CSAB) met Monday, May 8,
from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., in the 7th Floor Board Room, Education
Building, 301 N. Wilmington Street, Raleigh.
The agenda is available on the State Board of Education’s website under the Meetings
tab.
Presentations were made from Lincoln Charter School on its Dream Big Program and from Sallie B Howard School of the Arts on its implementation of the English Language Learners Program. Materials from the presentations are posted below for reference.
Attachments: Lincoln
Charter School Presentation & Sallie
B Howard Presentation
 Office of Charter Schools Acknowledges Charter Schools Advisory Board Members with Terms Expiring June 2017
The Charter Schools Advisory Board (CSAB) was formally
established June 2013 under SB 337. Appointed members shall serve four-year terms of
office beginning on July 1. No appointed member shall serve more than eight
consecutive years. Vacancy appointments shall be made by the appointing
authority for the remainder of the term of office.
On June 30, 2017, seven (7) CSAB members terms will expire. The Office of Charter Schools acknowledged those members with service terms expiring June 2017.
Please see the attached chart which outlines the CSAB members and their respective terms on the CSAB. We thank each member for their service and look forward to working with those remaining on the CSAB.
Attachment: Charter Schools Advisory Board - Member Information (pdf, 196kb)
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Reflections from Mr. Alex Quigley, Chair, Charter Schools
Advisory Board (CSAB)
The CSAB closed our meeting on May 8, 2017 talking about strategic planning. Attached is the strategic planning document we used to drive the session. With many of the CSAB members ending their terms, it was appropriate to spend additional time reflecting and adjusting our practices where needed.
As a CSAB we plan strategically each year and encourage all school board and their leaders to do the same. Strategically planning allows everyone to know your goals and where you should end for an established time period and helps us measure our successes and failures. As we reflect on our practices, it is important to have a plan of action to drive our actions and decision making to ensure all students receive a quality education.
To drive this meeting we focused on our mission "Ensuring the existence of high quality charter schools." To ensure we are working to uphold our mission we focused on the following questions:
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What
lessons were learned from the application selection process this year? How
can we improve?
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What
lessons were learned from the renewal process this year? How
can we improve?
- What
can we do to continuously improve from a policy prospective?
We also used a recently released article from the Fordham Institute to focus our conversations and to drive our reflections (see attached). As we concluded our strategic planning session, we discussed the impact of different legislative bills currently proposed in this long session. We encourage you to read the bills that will impact the charter landscape as we move into the next school year and to review the CSAB meeting minutes of this discussion which will be posted to the Office of Charter Schools website by the end of this month.To view previous 2017 Weekly Legislative Updates click here.
Thanks for all you do for students attending NC Public Charter Schools.
Attachments:
CSAB
Strategic Planning Document
Three
Signs That a Proposed Charter School is at Risk of Failing
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