Final

IOTA Community Schools

IOTA Board of Directors' Meeting: December 18, 2025

Published on December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM CST
Amended on December 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM CST

Date and Time

Thursday December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM CST

Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 5:00 PM
  A. Call the Meeting to Order Discuss Amertice Allen 1 m
  B. Record Attendance Discuss Amertice Allen 1 m
  C. Agenda Discuss Amertice Allen 1 m
   
  • Call Meeting to Order + Attendance + Mission Moment
  • Public Comment
  • Consent Agenda
  • IOTA Strategic Priorities Updates
    • Academic Updates
    • Engaged Parents and Community Enrollment Updates
    • Highly Effective Team
    • Replicable Model
  
  D. Vision, Mission, and Excellence Discuss Jocquell Rodgers 1 m
  E. Mission Moment Discuss Jocquell Rodgers 5 m
   

Brown Baptist Church Giving Event and Partnership

  
  F. Public Comment Discuss Amertice Allen 10 m
  G. Consent Agenda Approve Minutes Amertice Allen 1 m
   
  • Approve Board meeting notes from November 18, 2025 
  
    Approve minutes for IOTA Board of Directors' Meeting: November 18, 2025 on November 18, 2025  
II. Strategic Priorities Updates 5:20 PM
 
  • Academic Updates
  
  A. Academic Updates Discuss Academic Department 15 m
   

The presenter is Academic Department. 

 

  • Academic Updates
  • Culture Updates 
  
III. Engaged Parents & Community Enrollment Updates 5:35 PM
  A. Attendance Updates Discuss Teddrick Estes 5 m
   

The presenter is Teddrick Estes. 

  • Attendance Updates 
  
IV. Highly Effective Team 5:40 PM
 
  • Recruitment 
  
  A. Recruitment Updates Discuss Haley Morton 5 m
   

The presenter is Haley Morton.

 

  • What's Next Tennessee?
  • What's Next Arkansas?
  
V. Replicable Model 5:45 PM
 
  • Fundraising 
  • Finance
  • Operations
  
  A. Fundraising Updates Discuss Karen Payne 5 m
   

The presenter is Karen Payne. 

 

  • Build With Us at IOTA. 
  
  B. Finance Vote Finance Department 7 m
   

The presenter Finance Department. 

  • FY25 Audit Delay and Next Steps. 
  • Resolution & Loan Agreement 
  
  C. Operations Discuss Patricia Adams 5 m
   

The presenter is Patricia Adams. 

  • Student Transportation. 
  
VI. Tennessee Public Charter School Commission Presentation 6:02 PM
  A. Tennessee Public Charter School Commission FYI TPCSC 20 m
   

The presenter is TPCSC staff. 

  
VII. Closing Items 6:22 PM
  A. Adjourn Meeting Vote Amertice Allen 1 m
   
  • Close out the meeting