Eno River Academy
Minutes
Academic Committee Montly Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday August 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Location
meet.google.com/bpi-mfvg-hkh
Committee Members Present
Annie Harrison, David Nagel, Lindsey Sealy, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Michael Brown, Pamela Norcross
Committee Members Absent
None
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
II. Academic Committee
A.
Committee Subgroup updates
B.
Meeting with Mike from BoT summary
-Helpful to speak with Mike about school goals and AC goals to bring to the board this month- what is the difference between a goal and a priority
C.
Quick Academic Committee Dashboard Review
-Documentation for whatever works best for the group
-The entire AC committee group should know these pieces/data
- Info in one place
-Each subgroup can add information to this to keep the full committee updated
-Can update it if needed
-place for subcommittee meetings
-review before large committee meeting
D.
Academic Data review
- a bit early
-Dave working on it
Academic Data Review:
EOG/EOC scores
TWCS
AP reports
-compare to other schools
-Growth for different achievement levels
-Data comes out in September
-Consider AP pathway
- Calculus: AP scores; no one received a 3 or higher- concerning. Teacher receiving AP training
Calculus weighted high for 5s- need to identify other schools to see how they are doing?
-Do state standards align with what the AP exam asks
Subcommittee AI (Lindsey):
-Working on AI policy that was presented to the full board
-Received mandated guidance- it is required to have an AI policy
-Revising AI policy as a committee- simplifying language and bringing it back for review to the AC committee
-Charlotte sends out resources for ERA teachers
-Tiffany Jones (teacher) has started her Marc Cubin AI fellowship
-Are kids getting digital citizenship teaching? Yes in middle school, not so much in the high school- hoping the holistic AI guidance will provide more protections
Subcommittee Staffing (Annie):
-trying to meet with faculty- possible faculty meeting
-all positions filled but 1 K-2 EC teacher
-Lindsey to share data from teachers
Subcommittee Academics (Pamela):
-data review- Dave tackling this to help guide
-extracurricular activities
-teacher professional development
-evaluation
Subcommittee Climate (Megan):
-What is it for our school, and how do we tackle it?
-Climate for students- do they feel safe?
-Climate for staff- do they feel ERA is a safe space?
-Do parents feel this is a safe space?
-Do our core values show up day-to-day?
-PTO
Subcommittee STREAM (Dave)-
-Possible retreat to take a deep dive into the planning- understand the purpose to be able to define an implementation rubric, which is a critical piece because implementation, tracking, and timeline will come out of it
-can use other rubrics as a guide, but we need to customize it for ERA
Step 1: Vision, student outcomes
Step 2: Implementation rubric to track work
-What are the strategies, timeline, and funding needs
- Goal: halfway through the year to have an implementation rubric created for review
-Review roadmap
-Can we test out the vision before we officially implement it? How did other schools do it? What have others done?
-Conversations with others who are more experienced
-What does the annual report to the board look like? Pilot or find examples happening already at the school