Brighten Academy
Minutes
July 22, 2024 Policy Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Monday July 22, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Location
Brighten Academy - School Classroom
Committee Members Present
D. Carter, S. Battle, S. Littles
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
C. Burns Falker, N. Lord, R. Finan
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
II. Policy/Governance Committee
A.
Review monthly items on B1-E1 board functions and responsibilities calendar
B.
Review recent DCSS policies and updates
Tabled.
C.
Review Maternal Leave policy and updates
Discussed in conjunction with overall conversation about staff leave.
D.
Review student tribunal policy and updates
Tabled.
E.
Review state DOE policies and updates
Tabled.
F.
E7 technology acceptable use policy
-The entire E7 (to include E7, E7-E1, E7-E2, E7-E3) will be tabled in terms of making any updates/changes, although there was ample discussion about the Senate bill and our current policy
-Justin and Mrs. K. Peterson will review the current Acceptable Use Policy for further review and will bring back any updated info to the Policy committee.
-DCSS will be implementing a social media policy that will need to be included in the E section and we will wait for guidance from there language to include in this E policy section.
-Oct 1 2025 is the due date to have an acceptable use policy in place
-We need to determine where the policy or addition to the policy should live/be placed
-Review discipline policy related to cell phones at school
-Dr. R Finan and Dr. S Littles will gather to dissect the Senate Bill
-Dr. Littles will reach out to DCSS to see where they are will making the update related to the Social Media policy
G.
E7-E1 wireless network agreement
Specific policy discussion tabled.
-Justin shared information about agreement all staff/students sign; will share more details in future committee meeting
H.
E7-E2 K-2 AUP
Tabled.
I.
E7-E3 3-8 AUP
Tabled.
J.
E7-E4 Employee AUP
Tabled; to start at Finance section top of page 34 "Loans"
-All CARD committee language will change to CORE or Finance committee where appropriate
-Under Org and Gov section, we changed the "charter change process" to "as needed annually"
K.
B8-E1 Role Sort and Functions
Tabled
III. Other Business
A.
Staff Leave
-F39 staff leave
-change maternal paternal language to be parental
-change 120 hours to 240 hours to reflect congruent with DCSS
July functions were reviewed and updated