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Brevard Academy

Board Meeting

Work/Training Session and Regular Meeting
Published on June 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM EDT
Amended on June 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM EDT

Date and Time

Wednesday June 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT

Location

Brevard Academy Music Room

Mission:

The Mission of Brevard Academy is to prepare its students to achieve academic excellence through the Core Knowledge Sequence. Through a partnership involving students, teachers, and parents the school strives to create citizens with strong moral character and active intellectual inquiry.

Vision:

Brevard Academy: A Challenge Foundation Academy (BA-CFA) a K-8 public charter school develops and encourages motivated, intellectually curious students who are skilled in critical thinking, individual expression, and problem-solving. From their diverse backgrounds, students accept our challenge to pursue personal and academic excellence. Through this pursuit, they become confident members of their community who lead by serving others.


 

Strategic Goals:

  1. Ensure Academic Success for Every Student
  2. Actively Engage Stakeholders to Strengthen and Enrich Our Communities
  3. Recruit, Hire and Retain Highly Effective Personnel
  4. Use Resources Effectively and Be Fiscally Responsible
  5. Provide Effective and Innovative Learning Environments

Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Work Session 5:00 PM
  A. Work Session Discuss Ted Duncan 30 m
   

Summer Planning and Topics

  
     
     
     
II. Opening Items 5:30 PM
  A. Call the Meeting to Order   Mark Campanini 1 m
  B. Record Attendance   Jennifer Silva 1 m
  C. Approve Meeting Agenda Vote Mark Campanini 1 m
  D. Approve Minutes Approve Minutes Jennifer Silva 1 m
    Minutes for Board Meeting on May 21, 2025  
  E. Approve Minutes Approve Minutes 1 m
    Minutes for Special Board Meeting on June 4, 2025  
  F. Pledge of Allegiance   Mark Campanini 1 m
III. Regular Meeting Business 5:36 PM
  A. Good News FYI Ted Duncan 5 m
   
  • All end-of-year activities went smoothly.
  • Remediation and Retesting has begun.
  • Mountain Roots is on campus.
  • We are fully staffed for the 2025-2026 school year.
  • Americorps has been reinstated.
  
  B. Opportunity for Public Comment FYI Mark Campanini 10 m
   

To be recognized by the Chair, an individual needs only to sign in (5 minutes) prior to the meeting being called to order.  Each speaker is allowed three minutes unless otherwise specified by the Chair (individuals shall not yield minutes to other individuals). You may supplement or submit public comments electronically or handwritten to the School Director or Board Chair.


*Please note that it is a violation of law to discuss personnel and private matters in a public meeting.  It is also a violation of law to make slanderous remarks or to cast false accusations in a public meeting.*

  
IV. Committee Reports 5:51 PM
  A. Finance FYI Paul Cooper 5 m
     
     
  B. Governance and Policy FYI Abe Pallas 5 m
   
  • Nepotism Policy Update
  • Family Handbook Updates and Staff Handbook Updates
  • AI Policy -Discussion
  
  C. Development/Fundraising FYI Jennifer Silva 5 m
   
  • Giving Day Focus on Arts and Theater
  
  D. Long-Range Planning FYI Jamie Atkinson 10 m
   

Summer Retreat Training and Planning

  
  E. Academic Excellence Update FYI Abe Pallas 5 m
  F. Facilities FYI Tyree Griffin 5 m
   

Summer Cleaning is underway.

Improvements are planned in the resource room.

  
V. Director Report 6:26 PM
  A. Director Report FYI Ted Duncan 10 m
   
  • Director Report
  • Additional 1:1 Position Needed--Grant Funded
  • End of Year Benchmarking and EOG Data--Retesting still occurring.
  • Benchmark and EOG Comparison
  • 24-25 Attrition Report
  • Bulldog Summer Socials
  
     
     
     
     
VI. Items for Board Approval 6:36 PM
 

These items will require Board Action.

  
  A. Committee Consent Items Vote Mark Campanini 10 m
   

 

  1. Facilities
    1. Classroom Phones--Safety Grant Funds
    2. Build Out of Resource Room--Blue Ridge Health Funds
  2. Finance
    1. Add a work vehicle to the encumbered spreadsheet at $25K over 12 months.
    2. Move all financial accounts to First Bank.
  3. Policy
    1. Title 1--Parent and Family Engagement: Review and Approval
    2. Employee Handbook 25-26 Changes: Approval Needed
    3. Family Handbook Changes: Approval Needed
    4. Nepotism Policy: Approval Needed
  4. Long-Range Planning
    1. Jamie Atkinson as Board Chair
  5. Director Requests
    1. Proposed AIG Plan
    2. Newly Hired Staff
      1. Elementary Teacher--Kristen Mullins--4th-Grade


 

  
     
     
     
     
     
VII. Other Business 6:46 PM
  A. Announcement of Next Meeting FYI Mark Campanini 1 m
VIII. Closing Items 6:47 PM
  A. Adjourn Meeting Vote Jamie Atkinson 1 m

This meeting is a public meeting of the BA-CFA Board in public for the purpose of conducting the School Corporation’s business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There will be time for public participation as indicated on the agenda.