Atlanta Smart Academy
Minutes
ASA Board Meeting
Date and Time
Monday November 18, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Directors Present
A. Kennedy (remote), B. Williams (remote), L. Harden (remote), R. Price (remote), S. Fortson (remote), S. Scott (remote), V. Williams (remote), W. Newman-Johnson (remote)
Directors Absent
A. Bruce, I. Lee
Guests Present
P. Meadows (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
D.
Presentation from Ivan Lee
II. Finance, Facility, Development, and Strategic Partnership Committee
A.
Meeting last Monday budget amendments. Prestige budget amendments and what needs to be amended.
Two budget hearings for anything for approval.
Discussed strategic goals for each committee. Added some goal items.
Following up with Atlanta Symphony - Ivan
Following up with High Museum - Wanda
October Financials Reviewed:
Critical Financial Metrics Reviewed
Undocumented Transactions - Get cleared by the end of the Month
- Balance Sheets
- Profit and Loss vs. Budget (Contracted and Professional reviewing)
- Nutrition we will be able to recoup
- Prestige is monitoring
III. Executive Director Support and Eval
A.
Reviewed Mission and Vision Critical and Creative Thinking Skills (Science and Math) Within 10 years 100% will be in or on track for their career of choice Highlights: October Celebrate Red Ribbon Week - living a drug free life
Highlights:
- Red Ribbon Week
- Volleyball goes to the Championship
- Mock Presidential Election / Student Council Government
- Started Student Council -students voted for student council and each grade level has representation
- School Goals
- Operations - 100% on time reporting
- Enrollment - <2% enrollment variance
- Academics - Beat the state in proficiency in all content areas and grade bands, meet 100% of growth goals, 100% of solutionists meet i-Ready growth goals, 50% meet stretch goals
- Arts - Integration +4 productions
- Counseling/Culture - 100% of 8th grade promotion to HS of their choosing, 95% student satisfaction /safe reporting
- Academic Updates
- Progress Learning Updates
- Provide benchmarks that cover the entire curriculum (they have only reviewed 1/3 of the benchmarks thus far)
- ELA - Reading and Writing standards tracking better than anticipated at this point in school year
- Math is tracking below where they should be (30-40% range) - increasing frequency
- Science is tracking where anticipated (30-40%) assessed in 5th and 8th grade - increasing observations and additional support for instructions
- Social Studies - tracking where anticipated
- It's an effective way for assessments for benchmarks
- Increasing observations and small group interventions
- Progress Learning Updates
- Next update in January for iReady
- Preliminary CCRPI Highlights
- Annual Report due December 15th
- 2 members need to complete board training hours
- Grants & Fundraising
- Working on applications
- Received IDEA Building Capacity - $25,000 (state grant)
- Gala Updates (34 tickets sold)
- Goal is 150 people (15 per board members)
IV. Other Business
A.
Governance Training
Planned the Governance Training in Atlanta
- Feb. 11, 2025, 1-5pm New Board Members
- Feb. 12, 2025, 8-5pm All Board Members
- Team Building optional
Athens Board Training
Atlanta School Choice Expo - 1/25/25 - Talk about school and open to the public and learn about charter schools and school choice
December 12th VIP Program and Fair
Pivotal Moment Non-Profit - Provides new pair of tennis shoes of students (may do the entire 8th grade)
Georgia Owns Bank is coming to the gala - finance training for the students
October Financials Reviewed (See below)