Final

Brevard Academy

Board Meeting

Work/Training Session and Regular Meeting
Published on January 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM EST
Amended on January 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM EST

Date and Time

Wednesday January 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST

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. Provide Effective & Innovative Learning Environments
  3. Recruit, Hire and Retain Highly Effective Personnel
  4. Use Resources Effectively & Be Fiscally Responsible
  5. Engage Our Communities

Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Board Work Training Session--Open to the Public 5:00 PM
  A. Board Training Discuss Ted Duncan 30 m
   
  • Review of Open Meeting Laws
  • Board Member Expectations
  • Board Member Recruitment
  
II. Opening Items 5:30 PM
  A. Call the Meeting to Order   Mark Campanini 1 m
  B. Record Attendance   Jennifer Silva 1 m
  C. Pledge of Allegiance   Jamie Atkinson 1 m
  D. Approve Minutes Approve Minutes Jennifer Silva 1 m
    Approve minutes for Board Meeting on December 18, 2024  
III. Regular Meeting Business 5:34 PM
  A. Student Spotlight FYI Ted Duncan 10 m
   

K-2 Students

  
  B. Staff Spotlight FYI Ted Duncan 10 m
   
  • Camy Stirling K-2 School Improvement Team Chair
  • Teachers ranked in the top 25% of the state for growth on last year's EOGs:
    • Rachel Coykendall--3rd Grade Reading
    • Carly Hendrix--4th Grade Reading and Math
    • Jennifer Iden--4th Grade Reading and Math
    • Jennifer Kelly--5th Grade Reading
    • Sarah Kidston--6th Grade Math
  • Newly re-certified National Board Teacher
    • Nicole Gorry--7th/8th Grade Math and Math 1
  
  C. Community Partner Presentation Discuss Ted Duncan 10 m
   

Takina Jones-Thomas, M.S.M.

Director of School-Based Health

Corporate Compliance Member

Blue Ridge Health

 

https://www.brchs.com/services/school-based-health/

  
  D. 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 6:14 PM
  A. Finance FYI Paul Cooper 5 m
  B. Governance and Policy FYI Abe Pallas 5 m
  C. Development FYI Jennifer Silva 5 m
  D. Long Range Planning FYI Jamie Atkinson 10 m
   

Discussion of Strategic Planning Feedback

  
  E. Academic Excellence Update FYI Abe Pallas 5 m
V. Director Report 6:44 PM
  A. Director Report FYI Ted Duncan 10 m
   
  • Director Report
  • Draft of School Calendar--Waiting for SIT Final Approval and TCS to set Spring Break
  
  B. Important Upcoming Dates FYI Ted Duncan 1 m
   

January

  • 13--Counselor Book Club on The Anxious Generation Begins
  • 14--Enrollment Opens
  • 20--MLK Jr. Holiday--Shcool Closed

February

  • 1--Global Day of Play
  • 4--Parent Information Night and 100th Day of School
  • 6--2nd/3rd Grade CKLA Night
  • 10-11--Basketball Tournament
  • 17-18--School Closed for Workdays and PD
  • 19--Parent Conferences and Board Meeting

 

  
VI. Items for Board Approval 6:55 PM
 

These items will require Board Action.

  
  A. Committee Consent Items Vote Mark Campanini 10 m
   
  1. Facilities
    1. Approval of Master Grounds Plan
  2. Director Requests
    1. Approval of Title 1 grant writing contract
    2. Approval to submit Title 1 Assurances
    3. Approval of Academic Tutoring Positions


 

  
VII. Other Business 7:05 PM
  A. Announcement of Next Meeting FYI Jamie Atkinson 1 m
VIII. Closing Items 7:06 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.