AMO Meeting Agenda - June 20, 2012

12:00 - 4:00 PM; Burton Cross State Office Building, Room 537

Outcomes - Goals for the meeting

  1. Continue to address the elements required in the new AMO system, and
  2. Determine specific next steps related to the AMO Group.

Agenda

12:00 PM - Welcome, overview, and adjustments to the agenda

12:10 - Review of the group’s determinations to date

12:20 - Discussion and determination of responses to the following questions from the previous meeting:

  1. Should writing scores be included in the AMO methodology? If so, to what extent?
  2. Should other measures, such as attendance, be included?
  3. How should growth be determined?
  4. How will each of the measures be combined to identify schools?
  5. How many categories of school performance should there be? (Under the ESEA Flexibility program, there must be at least three categories.) What terminology should be used to identify each category?
  6. Should the ‘n’ size currently being used be revised?
  7. Given that schools and subgroups will have different beginning targets, should there be an established threshold?

2:15 - Break

2:30 - Continue addressing the 7 questions above

3:45 - Summary of remaining and/or additional questions to address along with specific needs to support the Workgroup’s efforts

4:00 - Closure: next steps and meeting schedule

 

 

6/18/12