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

Annie Harrison arrived at 8:15 AM.

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

David Nagel called a meeting of the Academic Committee Committee of Eno River Academy to order on Thursday Sep 10, 2026 at 8:05 AM.

C.

Approve Minutes

postponed to next regular AC meeting

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.

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 9:03 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
David Nagel