Eno River Academy
Minutes
Academic Committee September Montly Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday September 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Committee Members Present
Annie Harrison (remote), David Nagel (remote), Lindsey Sealy (remote)
Committee Members Absent
Charlotte Dungan, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Pamela Norcross
Committee Members who arrived after the meeting opened
Annie Harrison
Guests Present
Kristin Martin (remote), Michael Brown (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Academic Committee
A.
AC Goals and Board Deliverable Schedule
Confirmed that the 6 AC goals remain the same from the July retreat. Lindsey resent these to the team, and these will be what Pamela submits to the board for approval.
It was requested that each subgroup consider their deliverables and put together a deliverable schedule. Lindsey is pulling together a summary.
B.
Subgroup updates
AI: Policy is finalized. ERA has a Mark Cuban AI Fellow (Tiffany Jones) who will particpate in a year long AI in Education training series with expectation that those learnings will be shared within and benefit ERA. An AI acceptable use policy is being developed.
Climate: Review of all ERA survey data is underway, with teacher data being first.
Staffing: Annie participating in a teacher/admin listening session to better understand staffing needs.
STREAM: deliverable schedule is complete. Working toward defining STREAM vision and student/teacher outcomes.
It was requested that all subgroups provide better transparency to leadership team and other subgroups when meetings are occurring and who is invited. Admin should be invited to each.
C.
School Goals 1-3
Goals 2 (retention and teacher development) and 3 (STREAM) have heavy overlap. STREAM goal led by Dave should represent any PD needed for STREAM. Goal 2 should be tackled by Climate subgroup led by Megan. Goal 1 to be tackled by Academic Performance team led by Pamela. These subgroups should be working with admin team and advancing finalized language for each of these three school goals.
D.
School Performance & Accountability Measures
Another AC meeting,outside of the regularly scheduled monthly AC meetings, will be scheduled for the AC to go deeper into the annual school performance results and discuss implications.
postponed to next regular AC meeting