The Catalyst Board of Directors' will have their scheduled April 27, 2015 meeting at Catalyst Cirlce Rock Charter School, located at 5608 W. Washington Blvd. All Catalyst Board meetings are open to the public.  

The agenda for this meeting will be:

*Welcome and mission moment

*Review and decision on February 2015 Board of Directors’ meeting minutes

*Academic Committee

• Update on PARCC, NWEA and EPAS testing
• Update on charter renewal process/calendar for Catalyst Circle Rock and Catalyst Howland Charter Schools

*Development Committee

• FY15 YTD
• Remaining FY15 events and collaborative strategy into FY16
• Auditorium Initiative
  • Leadership Team
  • Potential Strategies

*Finance Committee

• FY15 YTD
• FY16 Budget
• Catalyst National
  • Update
  • Decision on Catalyst National LLC

*Adjournment

Catalyst-Howland has partnered with North Lawndale College Prep for Peace Warrior Training throughout this year, which culminated with a celebration yesterday.   Catalyst scholars and staff forged great relationships  with NCLP high school Peace Warriors, and look forward to the upcoming Peace March in North Lawndale! Check a picture from yesterday's celebration below:

Catalyst Schools will be closed for Spring Break from April 6-April 10, 2015 for scholars and teaching staff. Classes at all campuses will resume on Monday April 13, 2015.  Have a safe and wonderful break!

STEM progamming continues to evolve at Catalyst! Check out the picture below of 11^th and 12^th grade scholars in Ms. Madhavan’s physics class completing a lab in which they learned how the calculations of density impact an object's buoyancy. 

Additionally, scholars in Mr. Ikramullah’s PLTW classroom are programming using Java, and learning modern day coding. This is the same language used for creating android apps, and websites. Check out the image below:

 

Great work scholars and staff embodying one of the critical academic priorities of our network!

Catalyst Maria teacher Ms. Lewis’s 7^th Grade math class was featured in WBEZ's story about Pi day last Friday!  The image below has a link to the article and audio clip celebrating 3.14 with some pie!