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MADAM SECRETARY, DO WE HAVE A QUORUM? YES WE DO.[3. CLOSED SESSION]
WE WILL RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION AT APPROXIMATELY 7 P.M..THANK YOU FOR COMING. SEE YOU IN A BIT. THE TIME IS NOW 7:14 AND WE
[4. RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION]
WILL RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION. GOOD EVENING.I AM JAMES SPRADLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE EANES ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION, WELCOME TO TONIGHT TO TONIGHT'S MEETING.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING IS FOR THE BOARD TO DELIBERATE AND VOTE ON MATTERS LISTED ON THE AGENDA.
AS ALWAYS, WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING A RESPECTFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT.
WE ASK THE SAME COURTESY IN RETURN, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM OUTBURSTS OR DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR.
HOWEVER, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS SIGNED UP FOR TONIGHT'S OPEN FORUM.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE MEETING TO LISTEN TO THE BUSINESS OF THE BOARD. IF YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE EARLY, PLEASE DO SO QUIETLY AND TAKE ANY CONVERSATIONS INTO THE HALL TO AVOID DISRUPTING DISCUSSIONS OR PRESENTATIONS.
AS ALWAYS, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK ABOUT THE ITEMS DISCUSSED TONIGHT, FEEL FREE TO SEND AN EMAIL TO THE TRUSTEES AT TRUSTEES AT EANES ISD.NET, OR CONSIDER REACHING OUT TO A TRUSTEE OR TRUSTEES TO MEET AND DISCUSS THINGS FURTHER.
ONCE AGAIN, ELLEN IS JOINING US VIA VIDEO. WELCOME, ELLEN.
THANK YOU. WE WILL BEGIN OUR AGENDA WITH OUR SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT, DR.
[5. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT]
ARNETT. THANK YOU, MR. SPRADLEY, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE BOTH JOINING US TONIGHT IN PERSON AS WELL AS WATCHING ONLINE.I WANT TO START BY ACKNOWLEDGING OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STUDENTS, OUR STAFF, PARENTS, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, EVERYBODY WORKING HARD TOGETHER TO MANAGE WITH THE CLOSURE OF CAMP CRAFT ROAD THAT BEGAN ON FEBRUARY THE 1ST, I WILL TELL YOU WE HAD SOME TREPIDATION ABOUT HOW THAT WAS GOING TO GO.
BUT IT HAS GONE AMAZINGLY, BOTH QUIETLY AND SMOOTHLY.
AND SO FAR, AFTER A LITTLE MORE THAN ONE WEEK, WE DON'T HAVE ANY MAJOR CONCERNS.
IN FACT, MANY PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTED THAT TRAFFIC HAS BEEN BETTER.
AND I COMMENTED EARLIER TODAY THAT WHEN CAMP CRAFT FINALLY DOES REOPEN, I THINK OUR COMMUNITY IS PROBABLY GOING TO EXPECT OUR OFFICERS TO BE OUT THERE AGAIN, STILL DOING THAT. SO BUT IT IT'S GONE REALLY WELL.
AND I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE SEVERAL PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
I ALSO WANTED TO COMMEND OUR FOREST TRAIL COMMUNITY AND PARENTS.
BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS SO SPECIAL THAT THE FOREST TRAIL COMMUNITY, THE STAFF AND THE PARENT BOOSTER CLUB WELCOMED THE FAMILIES FROM BARTON CREEK AND REALLY GAVE THEM A WARM RECEPTION AT FOREST TRAIL. AND SO WE WERE VERY PROUD OF EVERYONE THAT EVENING FOR THE WAY THAT THEY ROLLED OUT THE WELCOME MAT FOR THOSE FAMILIES. AND WE KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT EASY, BUT THEY'RE CERTAINLY HELPING MAKE THE TRANSITION A LITTLE BIT MORE BEARABLE.
SO WE APPRECIATE THE FOREST TRAIL COMMUNITY FOR COMING TOGETHER. I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANKS TO A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING CLAUDIA MCWHORTER, MOLLY MAY, AND MANY OTHERS WHO ARE WORKING WITH OUR CAMPUSES TO AGAIN HELP COMMUNICATE AND EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF DAILY STUDENT ATTENDANCE. AND YOU CAN SEE WITH THIS SPECIAL GRAPHIC THAT HAS BEEN CREATED, IT PUTS A DOLLAR AMOUNT, WHEN OUR STUDENTS ARE NOT IN SCHOOL THAT DOES EQUATE TO A LOSS OF FUNDING.
MANY PEOPLE ARE WORKING VERY HARD TO TRY TO REMIND OUR FAMILIES THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO BE IN SCHOOL EVERY DAY, OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE INSTRUCTION MATTERS, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEIR ATTENDANCE MATTERS TO OUR FUNDING.
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I WANTED TO CALL OUT SOME OF OUR STUDENTS AS WELL AT THE HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR PASQUALE MAURICI, HIS BROTHER, NICO MAURICI, AND THEN SENIOR AVA ROGERS, AND JUNIOR LONDON LAXER ALL PLACED AND NOW ARE HEADED TO THE STATE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT.SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED FOR THEM. CONGRATULATIONS.
I KNOW THAT WAS QUITE EXCITING FOR THEM AND AGAIN TO BE IN THE TOP FIVE NATIONALLY.
GREAT RECOGNITION OF THEIR HARD WORK AND ATHLETICISM.
AND SPEAKING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, CHRIS SCOTT, CLAUDIA MCWHORTER AND I WELCOMED A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM SUSANNA MCCONNELL'S AP MICROECONOMICS CLASSES TODAY. MANY OF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THEM PRESENT LAST SEMESTER THEIR IDEAS.
AFTER HAVING RESEARCHED THE ISSUES RELATED TO SCHOOL FUNDING IN TEXAS.
THEY CAME IN TODAY AND SUMMARIZED THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR US.
AND CHRIS MADE THE COMMENT THAT IT FEELS LIKE THEY'VE BEEN SPYING ON US BECAUSE SO MANY OF THEIR IDEAS ALIGN WITH THE SAME STRATEGIES THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING, SOME OF WHICH WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT AT LENGTH PUBLICLY.
BUT WE HAVE REALLY SMART, INTELLIGENT STUDENTS, AND IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO SPEND TIME WITH THEM THIS AFTERNOON AND OVER THE COURSE OF AN HOUR, REALLY LISTENING TO THEIR THOUGHTS AND WHAT THEY HAD LEARNED, ENTERTAINING THEIR QUESTIONS AND HAVING THAT DIALOG WAS REALLY A MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE.
SO AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO COMMEND OUR STUDENTS AND TO MRS. MCCONNELL AND HER AND HER CLASS. SO THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT FOR THIS EVENING.
THANK YOU, DR. ARNETT ANY QUESTIONS OR THOUGHTS FROM THE BOARD? MAYBE A QUICK ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE RECOGNIZED THERE [APPLAUSE]. THAT WAS AWESOME.
OKAY, WE WILL MOVE ON WITH OUR AGENDA. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS FOR OPEN FORUM.
SO WE'LL GO TO THE REPORTS. TONIGHT WE HAVE TWO REPORTS.
[7.1 Board Committees discussion]
WE HAVE A BOARD COMMITTEE DISCUSSION AND THEN THE 2024 TAPR REPORT COMING UP.SO ON THE BOARD COMMITTEE DISCUSSION THERE'S A IT'S WRITTEN IN THE BOARD POLICY THAT TWO TRUSTEES OR MORE CAN COME FORWARD AND REQUEST AN AGENDA ITEM. AND A COUPLE OF TRUSTEES CAME FORWARD IN THE EARLY FALL AND ASKED FOR AN AGENDA ITEM TO DISCUSS COMMITTEES THAT REPORT OR THAT DISCUSSION IS UP NOW, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DIANE TO TAKE A LEAD HERE ON THIS DISCUSSION.
BASICALLY, I WAS JUST WANTING FOR THE BOARD TO REVIEW THE BASIC OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES AROUND OUR BOARD APPOINTED AND BOARD APPROVED COMMITTEES. AND TWO MAYBE HAVE A DISCUSSION AND CONSIDER SOME POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS.
YOU KNOW, I'LL SHARE A FEW IDEAS I HAVE, BUT THEY'RE JUST MY IDEAS.
AND HEATHER WILL, YOU KNOW, SHARE SOME THOUGHTS THAT SHE HAS AS WELL.
SO, YOU KNOW, MY GOAL BASICALLY IS TO ENSURE THAT COMMITTEES ARE REALLY TAPPING INTO OUR COMMUNITY IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL THAT WE HAVE. WE HAVE SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO DEVOTE SO MUCH TIME TO THESE COMMITTEES, AND WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TIME THAT THEY'RE INVESTING AND WE'VE SEEN IT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE PRODUCING SOME GREAT RESULTS, BUT THAT WE'RE REALLY YOU KNOW, EMPOWERING THEM AND AND LISTENING TO THEM.
SO YOU KNOW, FIRST, THIS GRAPHIC THAT YOU SEE WAS SOMETHING WE PUT TOGETHER THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T REALLY HONESTLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT EVERY SINGLE COMMITTEE ON HERE.
HOWEVER, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NICE TO LIST THIS OUT.
REMIND THE BOARD AND ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO IS LOOKING AT THIS, YOU KNOW WHAT THE DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES ARE FOR PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, WHETHER THEY'RE PARENTS, STUDENTS YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL AND ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS TOO, TO HAVE A VOICE AND TO HELP GUIDE THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE TO LEAD THE DISTRICT.
SO THAT'S WHAT THIS LIST HERE SHOWS YOU, AND I THINK THERE'S 14 DIFFERENT ITEMS OR DIFFERENT COMMITTEES AND SUBCOMMITTEES LISTED HERE, TEAMS OF PEOPLE WHO WORK THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
AND THE SECOND COLUMN INDICATES WHETHER THE MEMBERS ARE SELECTED BY APPOINTMENT BY THE BOARD, OR MAYBE A COMBINATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD SELECTING THE MEMBERS OR WHETHER IT'S BOARD APPROVED.
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AND SOME DO. SOME ARE VERY SMALL SUBCOMMITTEES THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS.SO, YOU KNOW, THAT GRAPHIC IS JUST ONE FOR US TO REFER TO AS WE HAVE OUR CONVERSATION.
AND NOW I'LL MOVE ON TO A FEW THOUGHTS I HAVE THAT I'VE OBSERVED OVER THE, YOU KNOW, NEARLY WELL, JUST SHY OF TWO YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD, AND ALSO TIME THAT I'VE SPENT SERVING ON COMMITTEES.
AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU KNOW, MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ON THESE COMMITTEES AS WELL.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING YOUR THOUGHTS, YOU KNOW, AS PEOPLE WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED.
ONE IS THE TIMELINE THAT WE EXPERIENCE AS WE GO THROUGH A YEAR OF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE APPOINTING PEOPLE TO A COMMITTEE, REVIEWING WHAT A COMMITTEE'S BEEN DOING, HEARING REPORTS BACK FROM COMMITTEES.
SO I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT. I'D LIKE TO TOUCH ON JUST THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS IN OUR COMMUNITY, OF THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES. YOU KNOW, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY I KNOW THAT WE HAVE, MAYBE NOT TONIGHT QUITE SO MUCH, BUT WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE BOARDROOM. SO PERHAPS THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE AWARENESS JUST WITH THIS CONVERSATION.
HOW LONG HAS LEADERSHIP BEEN IN PLACE IN OUR COMMITTEES? YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S NICE TO HAVE LONGEVITY AND CONTINUITY, BUT ALSO IT'S NICE TO BRING FRESH VOICES IN.
SO THAT'S A TOPIC WE MIGHT TOUCH ON. AND MY NEXT POINT IS, YOU KNOW WHAT, OUR COMMITTEES ALL HAVE PURPOSES OF COURSE. BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THEIR GOALS THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH EACH YEAR.
AND, YOU KNOW, PERHAPS THAT'S SOMETHING MAYBE THAT THAT COULD BE IMPROVED.
LASTLY, AND THIS SORT OF WRAPS UP, I THINK WHAT WOULD BE A TOOL FOR TO HELP US ANSWER SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS IS GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SERVED ON THE COMMITTEES. YOU ALL KNOW I LOVE THE WORD SURVEY AND I HAVE TALKED WITH, YOU KNOW, A SELECT FEW PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING HARD ON THESE COMMITTEES NOW.
AND I DON'T THINK, I THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE WELL RECEIVED, THIS IDEA OF ONCE WE COME TO THE END OF A SCHOOL YEAR OFFERING EVERY COMMITTEE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SHORT, YOU KNOW, NOTHING THAT TAKES TOO LONG, BUT JUST A WELL THOUGHT OUT SHORT SURVEY OF WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE LIKE ON THIS COMMITTEE? DO YOU HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS? YOU KNOW AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE NOT DRAFTED BY ME, BUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH LEADERS ON THE COMMITTEES AND JUST SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE CONCISE AND WELL THOUGHT OUT.
SO THAT TOUCHES ON THE DIFFERENT, THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN FLOATING THROUGH MY HEAD AS WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, AS I'VE BEEN SITTING ON THE BOARD AND THINKING ABOUT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, AS DR.
ARNETT LIKES TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WE ARE A FANTASTIC DISTRICT, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO BECOME COMPLACENT.
WE WANT TO ALWAYS THINK ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT IMPROVE. SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED FOR THIS AGENDA ITEM.
I CAN CONTINUE TO TALK AND SHARE A FEW IDEAS THEN THAT I HAVE.
AND I'LL JUST MAYBE MOSTLY FOCUS ON A TIMELINE, BECAUSE FOR ME, IF I ONLY WALKED OUT OF THIS EVENING KNOWING THAT WE CAN MAYBE IMPLEMENT SURVEYS AND HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE ON THE COMMITTEES THOUGHT, THAT WOULD BE JUST A FANTASTIC THING FOR ME.
BUT I DO HAVE A FEW OTHER IDEAS OF, YOU KNOW WHAT MY PERSONAL VISION IS.
SO I'LL THROW THAT OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. AND LET ME FLIP BACK TO MY NOTES.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE BEST TIME FRAME, AND I'M NOT GOING TO START NECESSARILY AT THIS IN JANUARY OR JULY, BUT I'LL START AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN WE WOULD POTENTIALLY ASK FOR FEEDBACK FROM A COMMITTEE MEMBERS MEMBERSHIP. SO IN THAT MAYBE APRIL /MAY TIME FRAME, YOU KNOW, PUTTING THIS TOOL OUT THERE, ASKING THE LEADERSHIP TO ASK THEIR COMMITTEE WHAT THEY THOUGHT.
AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME ON THAT SURVEY, YOU WOULD PROBABLY BE ASKING THEM, DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE ON ON THE COMMITTEE? SO THEN YOU WOULD HAVE A FAIR IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, WHO'S, AND I THINK THAT OBVIOUSLY THE COMMITTEES ARE DOING THAT, BUT JUST A FORMAL WAY OF KNOWING WHO WANTS TO CONTINUE ON. AND THEN IF THEY'RE NOT CONTINUING ON, OF COURSE, ASKING THEM WHY DOING AN EXIT SURVEY OF SORTS, TAKING THAT INFORMATION AND INTO THE SUMMER. YOU KNOW, PERHAPS WE HAVE A ROLLING WAY FOR PEOPLE TO INDICATE THAT THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IF
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OPENINGS WERE TO COME. BUT ONCE THE SUMMER COMES, THEN IT MIGHT BE TIME, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LEADERSHIP TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THEIR COMMITTEE, MAKE SOME SELECTIONS, BRING IT TO THE BOARD, POTENTIALLY IN AUGUST. IF YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S THE PROCESS THAT'S SET UP FOR THAT PARTICULAR COMMITTEE.AND, YOU KNOW, WE'D BE ABLE TO ACT QUICKLY, I THINK, IN AUGUST AND MAKE A DECISION SO THAT ONCE SEPTEMBER ROLLS AROUND AND PEOPLE ARE SETTLED INTO SCHOOL, THEY CAN START THEIR COMMITTEE MEETINGS. I THINK A WELL FUNCTIONING COMMITTEE, THEIR FIRST DISCUSSION, I THINK MOST OF THEM DO. THIS IS LIKE WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO THIS YEAR? SO AS THEY THINK ABOUT WHAT AM I, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? AND THEY SET THEIR GOALS, THEY COME BACK TO US MAYBE IN OCTOBER.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO, IN MY MIND, COME IN AND TALK TO US AND SIT DOWN, BUT JUST SHARE WITH US A SHORT LIST OF HERE'S WHAT WE THINK WE WANT TO DO, OUR MEMBERS ARE INTERESTED IN DOING. THIS IS WHAT WE THINK THE HOT TOPICS ARE. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS YEAR, JUST SO THAT THE BOARD IS AWARE OF WHAT THESE COMMITTEES ARE THINKING IS IMPORTANT.
THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY DO THEIR WORK THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
WE WE DO HAVE A NICE SYSTEM IN WHICH WE GET EMAILS SENT TO US, YOU KNOW, SHARING WITH US.
THIS IS THE MINUTES. THESE ARE WHAT THESE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES ARE DOING.
A LOT OF THIS IS ON OUR COMMITTEE WEBSITE, YOU KNOW, AGENDA ITEMS, MEETINGS.
SOMETIMES THEY'RE RECORDED DEPENDING ON WHAT TYPE OF A COMMITTEE. THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL OF US TO FOLLOW THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BUT THE SHORT, CONCISE UPDATES THAT WE GET ARE VERY HELPFUL.
SO THAT WOULD LEAD US BACK AROUND TO THE END OF THE YEAR, IN WHICH WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE, AS MANY OF THEM DO, THEY COME AND THEY REPORT TO US, THEY SHARE WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
AND THEN I THINK JUST BECAUSE THIS IS HOW I OPERATE, I'D LOVE TO SEE MAYBE A ONE PAGE UPDATE OR SAYING THIS IS, THESE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED THIS YEAR AND POTENTIALLY THE RESULTS OF THEIR SURVEY.
THIS IS WHAT OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS THOUGHT OF THE EXPERIENCE, AND THIS IS HOW MANY OPENINGS WE HAVE.
IN THERE YOU COULD KEEP TRACK OF, YOU KNOW, HERE'S WHO'S ON OUR COMMITTEES, HERE'S WHERE THEY'RE REPRESENTED FROM, HERE'S HOW LONG THEY'VE SERVED ON THE COMMITTEES, HERE'S WHO OUR LEADERSHIP WAS.
AND OVERALL, WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING TO HELP, YOU KNOW, US AGAIN, LEAD THE DISTRICT TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES WITH AS MUCH INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY AS POSSIBLE. SO I'VE TALKED FOR A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME THERE.
THANK YOU FOR FOR LISTENING. AND THEN, HEATHER, YOU ALSO HAD SOME SOME THOUGHTS AND.
YEAH. HEATHER. MY MY ONLY THING THAT I REALLY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF COMMITTEES WAS THE COMMITTEES THAT WE ARE ON THE BOARD. WE HAVE A BOARD LIAISON IS JUST HOW WE WOULD LIKE TO REPORT OUT TO EACH OTHER ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THOSE COMMITTEES.
AND AS I'M SURE YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING.
AND GRANTED, THE ONE OF THE ONES THAT I'M ON IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE LONG RANGE IS, YOU KNOW, THOSE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ANYONE. BUT LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, I THINK I CAN SPEAK TO THAT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ON THAT ONE.
SO I AND, YOU KNOW, JUST WITH THE ONES THAT WE ARE ON, THAT'S MY MAIN CONCERN IS HOW DO WE WANT TO REPORT OUT? AND I KNOW A LOT OF OTHER BOARDS DO A VERY QUICK I'M NOT TRYING TO ADD MORE TIME TO OUR, OUR BOARD MEETINGS, BUT JUST A VERY QUICK, SUCCINCT LITTLE LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS COMMITTEE MET.
HERE'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
OR IT COULD BE A MEMO. I DON'T REALLY HAVE A STRONG PREFERENCE, BUT I JUST THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME SORT OF REPORTING TO THE FULL BOARD IF WE ARE HAVING THESE COMMITTEES. AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER PIECE THAT I WILL REALLY ADD IS ON ALL OF THE COMMITTEES THAT WE APPOINT TO, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE NOT OVERSIGHT.
THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT WORD. BUT JUST WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE DROP OFF OR IF WE'RE HAVING PEOPLE NOT ATTENDING THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO BACKFILL THOSE PEOPLE QUICKER AND JUST KIND OF HAVE AN AWARENESS IF THAT'S HAPPENING.
AND LUCKILY, WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO GENERALLY COME TO THE COMMITTEES.
SO THOSE ARE MY MAIN THINGS. KELLY. I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING IN LINE.
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OKAY. SO I REALLY LIKE THIS BECAUSE I JUST HAD A REALLY IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH SOMEBODY ON A COMMITTEE, AND I SAID HEY, DO YOU FEEL SINCE YOU ARE IN THE KNOW, BEING ON THE COMMITTEE, DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR LIKE, YOUR PURPOSE IN CHARGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.NOW, LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CHOSEN FOR THIS POSITION TO GIVE INSIGHT DURING THE MEETINGS, BUT ALSO, DO YOU DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE GIVING INSIGHT TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL? AND, YOU KNOW, THIS PERSON DID AGREE WITH ME AND SAY YES, BUT THEY HADN'T REALLY OCCURRED TO THEM HOW IMPORTANT THAT REALLY WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE THE ONLY PERSON AT THEY WERE THE PERSON THAT'S AT THAT MEETING THAT'S HOLDING THAT INSIGHT.
AND SO ALTHOUGH PEOPLE CAN GO ONLINE AND READ THE MINUTES OF THOSE MEETINGS AND STUFF, THESE INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE THAT WERE APPOINTED TO THESE COMMITTEES, I WOULD REALLY LIKE US TO REINFORCE AND HELP THEM UNDERSTAND AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO BE TALKING IN THE COMMUNITY, ALSO GETTING COMMUNITY INPUT BECAUSE THEY ARE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS WE ARE.
AND SO IT'S JUST REALLY HIGHLIGHTING HOW IMPORTANT THE ROLE IS, BECAUSE I DO FEEL LIKE WE TAKE ALL THIS TIME AND EFFORT HAVE AN APPLICATION PROCESS, BUT ARE WE REALLY HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE TO THE PROCESS? WE DID TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT KEEPING THE COMMITTEES FULL.
I THINK THAT'S SUPER IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I KNOW YOU HAD MORE APPLICATIONS THAN SPOTS.
SO I KNOW THE INTEREST IS THERE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE COMMITTEES STAY FULL.
I JUST DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY WE WOULDN'T DO THAT.
AND KEEPING GETTING SOMEBODY UP TO SPEED, YOU CAN USE LIKE BUDDY SYSTEMS AND STUFF.
I'M LIKE, ACTUALLY, YOU'LL HAVE A BUDDY, AND THEN Y'ALL CAN MEET AND YOU GUYS CAN ASK QUESTIONS AND ASK ME AS THE CHAIR OR SOMETHING, BUT BUT THERE'S WAYS TO DO IT EFFECTIVELY AND STAY PRODUCTIVE.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT REPORTING TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE SITTING ON EEF BOARD I ALWAYS WONDER, LIKE WHEN I'M SUPPOSED TO TELL Y'ALL WHAT THEY'RE UP TO AND ALL THE AMAZING THINGS THEY'RE DOING AND ALL THE PLANS THEY HAVE.
SO I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE A REPORTING SYSTEM.
BECAUSE PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES BECAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE'S REPRESENTATION.
SO MAYBE IF THE CHAIR OF THESE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES WOULDN'T MIND JUST PASSING AROUND A PIECE OF PAPER AND JUST GETTING A REMINDER OF WHERE YOU'RE WHERE WHAT CAMPUSES YOU'VE BEEN AT, WHERE, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING, OR IF YOU'RE A COMMUNITY MEMBER ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND THEN THEY COULD IF THEY GAVE THE FEEDBACK, I GUESS, THEN THEY JUST SUBMIT IT TO US SO WE COULD USE IT OR COMPILE IT, I GUESS. AND THEN THE OTHER THING WE WERE TALKING ABOUT YOU HAD MENTIONED WAS WHAT ARE THE GOALS? I KNOW EVERYBODY SETS THEIR GOALS AT THE BEGINNING.
I'VE BEEN ON MULTIPLE COMMITTEES HERE BEEN ON WITH DR.
SAILORS, AND WE'VE DONE, AND WE ALWAYS START OUT WITH OUR GOALS LIKE WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH? AND SO JUST SOMEHOW REPORTING THAT BACK TO US SO THAT WE CAN REPORT IT TO THE COMMUNITY.
SO THE COMMUNITY IS AWARE OF WHAT WHAT'S BEING DONE, I THINK WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.
THERE'S JUST MORE. IT'S AN EASY WAY TO GET MORE AWARENESS AND GET AS MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED AS POSSIBLE, SO. THANK YOU. I THINK WE'LL GO TO KIM. I WANTED TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR THEIR IDEAS BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS IS THIS IS IMPORTANT AND IT'S IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US.
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY. SO I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS.
I LIKE THE IDEAS, HOWEVER, THAT ANYONE IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE OR ANYONE THAT'S REALLY RAISING THEIR HAND IN SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY, THAT WE DON'T DICTATE WHAT THEY DO.
SO A LOT OF WHAT YOU HAVE THOUGHT OF AND AND GIVEN AS RECOMMENDATIONS, I COULD SEE THEM BEING RECOMMENDATIONS TO HOW YOU RUN A COMMITTEE. HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS ON YOU KNOW, ON HOW WE MOVE FORWARD IN COMMITTEES, BUT REALLY NOT DICTATING WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY RUN THEIR COMMITTEE BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT STYLES.
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SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, EITHER THIS SNIPPET OF THE BOARD OR MAYBE A SUMMARY MIGHT BE GOOD FOR TO GO OUT TO ANY ANYONE JOINING A COMMITTEE GOING FORWARD. ON HEATHER'S POINT ON REPORTING OUT TO THE BOARD.AND JUST BEFORE I GO TO THAT, DIANE, YOU KNOW, AS WE ALL KNOW, ALL THE COMMITTEES ARE SO DIFFERENT AND THE STRUCTURE IS SO DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF HOW LONG YOU SERVE ON COMMITTEES. I THINK THAT THEY CAN BE GOOD, GOOD IDEAS FOR ANY COMMITTEES GOING FORWARD.
I DO LIKE THE HEATHER, YOUR POINT OF BOARD REPORTING OUT.
IN MY MIND, IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WE DECIDE AS TRUSTEES TO DO ON A QUARTERLY BASIS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WITHIN SOME TIME PERIOD, THREE MONTHS, SIX MONTHS, WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HIT VARIOUS COMMITTEES SO THAT PEOPLE, IF THEY HAVE THE ABILITY OR HAVE SOMETHING TO REPORT OUT, THEY CAN IF THEY DON'T, IT'S, YOU KNOW, BUSINESS AS USUAL. BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR ISN'T SOMETHING ALL THAT STRUCTURED, BUT JUST TO GET IT PART OF THE AGENDA AS NEEDED.
YEAH. WHICH AS A TRUSTEE, I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH WHATSOEVER.
I THINK THAT WAS IT. I THINK THIS IS GREAT FROM AN AWARENESS STANDPOINT.
I KNOW THAT THOSE THOSE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE ACT, TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY IN THIS DISTRICT. YOU KNOW, THE THE MORE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE CAN GET IT OUT TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS, THE BETTER, BECAUSE THAT JUST GIVES US A GREAT POOL OF OUR GREAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ACT.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU KIM. ELLEN, DID YOU DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK YET OR.
OKAY, I'LL GO TO LAURA. THANK YOU ALL FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
IT'S WE NEEDED TO KIND OF CLEAN UP SOME OF THIS AND SORT OF JUST ORGANIZE IT.
SO I APPRECIATE YOU ALL BRINGING THIS TO THE AGENDA.
SO YEAH, I THINK THE REPORTING FROM LIKE THE SO WE HAVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMITTEES WE HAVE AND THIS, THIS HIGHLIGHTS THEM, WE HAVE DISTRICTS SELECTED, WE HAVE CAMPUS SELECTED, WHICH WE HAVE BOARD SELECTED AND BOARD APPOINTED. SO SOME OF THESE COMMITTEES ARE LIKE SUBCOMMITTEES THAT ARE PRETTY MUCH JUST BOARD MEMBERS.
AND THOSE WOULD BE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES POLICY AND THE FINANCE ONE.
AND THEN WE HAVE DISTRICT LEVEL COMMITTEES THAT WE HAVE LIAISONS FOR.
AND THAT WOULD BE SAFETY AND SECURITY, LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING COMMITTEE.
AND THEN EEF KIND OF SITS OFF ON ITS OWN. AND THEN WE HAVE THE COMMITTEES THAT WE OWN AND THAT WE APPROVE CHARTERS FOR AND THAT WE SELECT THE MEMBERSHIP FOR. THERE ARE SOME UP HERE THAT THE BOARD ISN'T REALLY DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN.
SO I'M NOT I CAN'T REALLY ADDRESS THOSE BECAUSE THOSE ARE ADMINISTRATIVE.
SO FOR THOSE THAT LIKE LEGISLATIVE, FINANCE, POLICY, AND EEF, I WOULD SAY THOSE FOUR THAT WE COULD DO LIKE FOR REPORTING IT WOULD BE JUST AS NEEDED. SO LIKE WE JUST DID AN UPDATE ON THE LEGISLATIVE WHEN WE WERE DOWN THERE.
POLICY COULD BE COULD LOOK LIKE WE MET AND WE'VE GOT UPDATES AND WE'RE BRINGING UPDATES FORWARD.
I MEAN, THAT'S WE HAVE A PROCESS FOR GETTING THINGS ON THE AGENDA, SO WE JUST UTILIZE THAT.
GREAT. THAT COULD JUST BE YOU KNOW, SOMEHOW WE GET A MEMO THAT SAYS NO COMMITTEE HAS OR THE COMMITTEE HAS NOT MET, SO THERE'S NO UPDATES WHATEVER. BUT I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE MAYBE SOME SORT OF AN AWARENESS OF WHEN THE COMMITTEES ARE MEETING SO THAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO HAVE A REPORT. IS THAT FAIR? LIKE SO WE KNOW SOME SORT OF A TIMELINE OR SOMETHING.
AND WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T HAVE TO GET AN AGENDA ITEM WITH TWO PEOPLE TO GET THE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE.
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IT WAS JUST PART OF THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT.SO I JUST WANT IT TO BE CONSISTENT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST KIND OF WHATEVER.
AND I WOULD HATE FOR IT TO BE, YOU KNOW, TWO PEOPLE HAVE TO REQUEST IT TO GET ON THE AGENDA.
AND THOSE COMMITTEES ALL HAVE TWO TRUSTEES ON THEM EXCEPT FOR EFF.
SO THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, KIM AND I HAVE A POLICY MEETING.
AND THEN WE'RE LIKE, OKAY, LET'S WE WE HAVE SOMETHING TO REPORT COMING OUT OF THAT POLICY MEETING.
YOU KNOW, WE REQUEST TO GET IT ON THE AGENDA.
SO IT WOULD JUST OKAY. AND THEN IT WOULD STILL BE UP TO EXEC TO CONSIDER WHEN THAT WOULD GO ON.
RIGHT. AND IT'S NOT A BIG IT'S IT'S NOT A BIG TOPIC.
IT SHOULDN'T BE A BIG FORMAL REPORT OR ANYTHING.
IT'S JUST AND HONESTLY SOME OF THESE ARE WILL LIKE I KNOW POLICY DRIVES, POLICY UPDATES WILL REALLY USUALLY BE PART OF A BIGGER DISCUSSION BECAUSE WE'LL BE BRINGING SOMETHING FORWARD.
SO I TO ME THOSE ARE PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD JUST KNOCK, KNOCK, WE NEED TO GET SOMETHING OUT, WE HAVE SOMETHING TO REPORT. WELL, JUST HAVING THIS DISCUSSION TOOK A LONG TIME TO GET ON THE AGENDA.
RIGHT. BUT THIS WAS THIS IS DIFFERENT. THIS WAS NOT A POLICY.
I MEAN, THIS WASN'T A COMMITTEE UPDATE. I GOT YOU.
SO TO ME, THOSE SUBCOMMITTEE UPDATES SHOULD BE STRAIGHTFORWARD NOT A BIG DEAL, WE JUST REQUEST THAT WE NEED THREE MINUTES FOR AN UPDATE. NOW, I WANT TO ADDRESS THE BOARD APPOINTED THE WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE BOARD COMMITTEES, WHICH ARE BROUGHT BACK. I PUT THOSE UNDER THE SAME CATEGORY BECAUSE THEY'RE OFF YEARS.
DEI, LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND THAT'S REALLY IT. THAT'S IT. SAFETY AND SECURITY IS HAS IT'S AGAIN, THAT'S KIND OF AN ODD ONE THAT'S OVER THERE THAT'S MANDATED BY LAW AND IT HAS ITS OWN SET OF RULES. SO THOSE THREE THAT WE HAVE CHARTERS AND WE HAVE CHARTERS ON THOSE THREE AND THOSE CHARTERS ACTUALLY SPELL OUT HOW MANY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, WE REVIEW THOSE CHARTERS EVERY YEAR.
IT INCLUDES ATTENDANCE WITH ATTENDANCE AS IT DOES.
SO THAT'S SO SO THE CHARTERS ARE ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD.
IF WE NEED TO START FOLLOWING THOSE. WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEM.
WE NEED TO GET THEM ON THE AGENDAS SO THAT WE'RE REVIEWING THOSE EVERY YEAR.
BECAUSE THAT IS THE TOOL THAT ALLOWS US TO APPOINT MEMBERS, SO.
SO JUST A CLEAN UP, IT'S DOABLE. THE SYSTEM IS THERE.
THAT'S IT. I'LL GO TO ELLEN AND THEN HEATHER.
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY HERE. ELLEN, IS YOUR MIC ON? MIC] I'M UNMUTED. IS THAT. WE CAN HEAR YOU. YOU CAN? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT WAS A GREAT POINT, LAURA, THAT THE CHARTER IS THE GOVERNANCE TOOL. AND SINCE WE'RE OPERATING AT THE GOVERNANCE LEVEL, I THINK THE CHARTERS ARE GREAT WAYS FOR US TO GOVERN WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THOSE TYPES OF COMMITTEES.
IN TERMS OF THE THE COMMITTEES WHERE BOARD MEMBERS ARE EITHER THE WELL, POLICY, LEGISLATIVE, THE FINANCE, THE WAY WE ONE WAY WE COULD HANDLE IT AND WE'VE HANDLED IT IN THE PAST AND THIS WORKED WELL WAS THERE WAS A STANDING ITEM ON THE AGENDA CALLED COMMITTEE REPORTS. AND VERY FREQUENTLY, ALMOST ONCE A MONTH WE MIGHT HEAR FROM THE EEF LIAISON. THE OTHER COMMITTEE CHAIR PEOPLE RARELY HAD SOMETHING.
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OR IF THEY HAD SOMETHING, IT WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD FINISHED UP THEIR DISCUSSIONS AND THERE WAS ACTUALLY A WORK PRODUCT THAT WAS PUT ON AS A REGULAR AGENDA ITEM.SO IT WAS HANDLED THAT WAY. YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING AS TO WHETHER OR NOT WORK PRODUCTS COME FORWARD FROM FROM THESE COMMITTEES, LIKE THE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES. BUT IF THERE WAS SOME IMPORTANT INTERIM INFORMATION THAT NEEDED TO BE SHARED BY A BOARD MEMBER WITH OTHER BOARD MEMBERS, THEY COULD JUST, YOU KNOW, TAKE A MINUTE TO TWO MINUTES IN THAT COMMITTEE REPORT SECTION. AND IF THEY DIDN'T NEED IT, THEY DIDN'T NEED IT.
BUT IT WAS A IT WAS A STANDING ITEM. SO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUE OF A MAKING THE REQUEST, B EXECUTIVE TAKING TIME TO DEAL WITH IT AND MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING FAIRLY BUREAUCRATIC.
IT WAS JUST ON THERE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING OUT OF THE COMMITTEE THAT NEEDED TO BE REPORTED ON.
I WOULD CAUTION US FROM HAVING OUR BOARD MEMBERS BECOME READ OUT SESSIONS FOR COMMITTEE WORK, THAT THAT IS GENERALLY GETS PRETTY FAR AWAY FROM GOVERNANCE.
THANK YOU ELLEN. OKAY, THERE WE GO. I CAN GO TO YOU OR I CAN GO AND THEN YOU CAN GO OR WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? SO LET ME PUT A LITTLE SUMMARY TOGETHER HERE.
I THINK THAT I AGREE, BY THE WAY, AND I THINK THIS HAS BEEN, CALLED OUT.
I THINK TERM LIMITS, ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS, REPRESENTATION, IF YOU'RE REPRESENTING A SCHOOL ON A COMMITTEE AND I THINK A REPLACEMENT PROCESS. I THINK ALL OF THOSE THINGS SHOULD BE IN THE CHARTER.
AND I THINK THAT, AS HAS BEEN CALLED OUT, WE NEED AN ANNUAL REVIEW FOR REVIEW FOR CHARTER'S.
IT'S APPARENTLY WRITTEN IN THE CHARTER. I DON'T RECALL EVER DOING A REVIEW OF A CHARTER WHEN WE, WHEN WE RE-UP THE BOC OR THE BAC IS USUALLY A TIME WHEN WE, WE LOOK AT THE CHARTER AGAIN, BUT IT'S FOR THE NEW ONE. SO HERE'S WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE.
LET'S PUT A CHARTER REVIEW ON AN UPCOMING AGENDA.
WE'LL AIM FOR A SPRING CHARTER REVIEW, AND MAYBE THAT COULD MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO ADD THAT TO OUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS SPELLED OUT IN THERE, LIKE THE SUPERINTENDENT EVALUATION TIMELINE.
MAYBE WE PUT IN THE CHARTERS GET REVIEWED IN THE IN THE SPRING.
THEN THAT LEAVES A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP, COMMITTEE REPORTS AND WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE, LET'S PUT AN AGENDA ITEM ON EVERY OTHER STUDY SESSION AS THE LAST ITEM OF THE NIGHT TO DO BRIEF COMMITTEE REPORTS WHEN WE HAVE A STUDY SESSION. AND IF THERE'S IF THE COMMITTEE HASN'T MET, THEN THERE'S NO REPORT OR OR THE REPORT COULD BE OUR NEXT MEETING IS THE 17TH. RIGHT. OKAY. I THINK WE WOULD NEED TO I'D WELCOME THOUGHTS ON, SAY, LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING.
DOES THAT HAS A REPORT TO THE BOARD? DO WE NEED ADDITIONAL.
ARE WE ONLY. SO WE NEED TO ZERO IN ON WHICH ONES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
OKAY. ANOTHER CONCEPT THAT WAS BROUGHT UP WAS SURVEYS.
AND I LIKE THE IDEA. I STRUGGLE A LOT WITH THE WHAT DO I DO IF TWO PEOPLE ANSWER THE SURVEY AND THOSE TWO SAY IT'S TERRIBLE. YOU KNOW, WE GOT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AND WHO SEES THAT AND WHO TAKES THE ACTION BASED ON THE SURVEY.
IS IS IT THE BOARD? IS IT A IS IT A SURVEY ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD? IS IT A SURVEY ON BEHALF OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS? WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND WORK THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT.
AND I THINK AGAIN, THAT COULD BE PART OF A OF THE CHARTER THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ANNUAL SURVEYS.
AND THEN I THINK AND I THINK THERE WERE PROBABLY OTHER THINGS WE'VE DISCUSSED, BUT THE OTHER ONE THAT I WROTE DOWN HERE WAS SORT OF ANNUAL GOALS AND COMMITTEES PROVIDING TO US THEIR VIEW OF WHAT THEIR ANNUAL GOALS ARE.
AND THAT COULD BE A WRITTEN REPORT THAT COMES TO US IN OCTOBER OR SOMETHING.
WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT HOW THAT WOULD LOOK, BECAUSE DIANE AND I HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS.
WOULD IT BE THE BOARD PROVIDING GOALS TO COMMITTEES OR.
I'M SORRY. YEAH, BUT MORE LIKE THE COMMITTEES COMING TO US AND SAYING EITHER SAYING, HERE'S OUR PLAN FOR THIS YEAR OR SAYING, HERE'S A, B, C, AND D, PICK TWO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THERE NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE STRUCTURE THAN TRYING TO GET THE BOARD TO COME UP WITH, WHAT DO WE WANT THIS COMMITTEE TO DO THIS YEAR? BECAUSE THAT MAY BE A LITTLE TOO UNSTRUCTURED.
SO I'D LIKE TO WRAP THIS UP SO THAT WE CAN MOVE ON WITH OUR AGENDA.
IF THERE'S ANY OTHER THOUGHTS AND THINGS WE NEED TO CAPTURE, LET'S DO THAT.
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BUT LET'S LET'S GET WRAPPED UP. OKAY. I'LL TRY TO WRAP IT UP.THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU, LAURA, FOR YOU KNOW, THE WORD CHARTER.
I DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH ON THAT. AND I JUST PLAIN FORGOT.
SO THANK YOU. THAT WAS SOMETHING DEFINITELY ON MY MIND.
AND THE ABILITY TO ANNUALLY REVIEW THE COMMITTEES THAT WE HAVE CHARTERS FOR.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING THAT. I DO AGREE THAT THIS CONCEPT OF THE SURVEY WOULD BE IF WE COME TO AN AGREEMENT THAT WE WANT TO PUT THAT INTO THE CHARTER, THAT'S WHERE IT BELONGS. OTHERWISE IT COULD BE OPTIONAL.
HIGHLY SUGGESTED, PERHAPS FOR OTHER COMMITTEES TO CONSIDER DOING THAT.
I THINK IT'S MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT SURVEYING WHAT PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCES ARE IS HELPFUL.
I THINK THAT'S BEEN A TOPIC BROUGHT UP. I'M REALLY LOOKING AT IT AS A TOOL FOR THE LEADERSHIP TO KIND OF SUMMARIZE IT AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AT OUR SURVEYS AND WE THINK THIS IS HOW WE COULD IMPROVE OR WE WE'RE GREAT OR WHATEVER.
ONE THING I MENTIONED VERY BRIEFLY THAT I'D LIKE TO JUST THROW BACK OUT THERE FOR CONSIDERATION IS YOU KNOW, WHEN ARE WE ASKING PEOPLE TO SUBMIT APPLICATIONS FOR.
I'D LIKE TO BE ON A COMMITTEE SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE.
IS THERE A FORM THAT CAN JUST LIVE ONLINE AND PEOPLE CAN SIGN UP ALL YEAR AND SAY, IF THERE'S AN OPENING THAT COMES UP, I'D LOVE TO BE ON THIS AND BE CONSIDERED FOR IT.
MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN CHEW ON A LITTLE BIT.
AND THEN FINALLY, YEAH, THE GOALS. I DON'T THINK THE BOARD SHOULD BE SETTING THE GOALS. I THINK IT'S THE COMMUNITY THAT SHOULD THAT SHOULD BE SETTING THE GOALS, AND I JUST LIKE TO BE AWARE OF THEM. AND THEN IF SOMEHOW WE HAD SOMETHING IN MIND THAT THEY DIDN'T COME UP WITH, WHICH I WOULD BE SURPRISED. IT MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, DID YOU THINK OF THIS? AND IT COULD BE A CONVERSATION, BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE, I DON'T THINK, DICTATED BY THE BOARD.
I THINK THAT SUMS UP MY THOUGHTS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYBODY.
COULD I ADD ONE THING? THERE IS A WEBSITE THAT ALREADY EXISTS WHERE WE DO ALLOW PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY TO SUBMIT THEIR NAMES IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN SERVING ON A COMMITTEE, AND IT IDENTIFIES AREAS OF INTEREST, AND WE REGULARLY REFER TO THAT WHEN WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE OPENINGS ON THOSE COMMITTEES, THAT WE HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE PURVIEW OVER. AND SO WE'LL WE'LL REGULARLY FILL SPOTS BASED UPON THOSE WHO HAVE IDENTIFIED AN INTEREST.
IS THAT ON THE WEBSITE UNDER THE COMMITTEE PAGE? YEAH IT IS. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEAH. OKAY.
AND HEATHER, TO WRAP US UP. YEP. SO WE DO GET A REVIEW OF SORTS.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHILE SOME OF THESE WE MAY NEED WELL, WE DO NEED TO REVISIT CHARTERS.
I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL ON THOSE.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE NOT TOUCHING THOSE OR HEARING FROM THOSE WE ARE.
BUT I LIKED WHAT ELLEN SAID, I APPRECIATE THE ADDITION OF EVERY OTHER WEEK DURING STUDY SESSIONS.
I THINK THAT'S GREAT. ONE OTHER PIECE THAT I WONDER IF WE SHOULD ADD, AND OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE EVERY OTHER MEETING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO DISCUSS IT. BUT IN PAST YEARS, LIKE WHEN WE'VE HAD SOMEONE GO TO LEADERSHIP TASB OR GO TO DC AND, YOU KNOW, ADVOCATE AT OUR NATION'S CAPITAL OR GO TO A CONFERENCE, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A GREAT WAY TO REPORT BACK ON THAT.
SO MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S, YOU KNOW, COMMITTEE REPORTS AND SOME JUST SOME WAY TO REPORT OUT ON IF WE FIGURE WE'VE IDENTIFIED SOMETHING THAT IS AMAZING OR THAT WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT OR THAT WE'VE LEARNED.
AND I'M NOT SAYING IT TAKES A LONG TIME, JUST VERY BRIEF.
AND WE'LL, WE'LL TWEAK THEM. ALL RIGHT. WELL THANKS EVERYONE.
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT DISCUSSION FORWARD.
AND IT WILL LEAD TO FURTHER DISCUSSION THIS SPRING.
WE WILL NOW MOVE INTO OUR NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
[8.1 2024 Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) & Educational Performance]
WE HAVE FOUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, SUCCESS FOR OUR TAPR REPORT.OUR EXCITING TAPR REPORT. MOLLY AND CATHERINE ARE JOINING US.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. I WILL HAND IT OVER TO YOU.
YOU ALWAYS TALK ABOUT WHAT YOUR FAVORITE REPORT IS OF THE YEAR.
AND I THINK THIS IS IT, RIGHT? NOT NOT COLLEGE ADMISSION.
IT'S TAPR. SO HAPPY TO BE HERE THIS EVENING TO REVIEW THE TAPR REPORT.
SO JUST REMEMBERING OUR BOARD PRIORITIES AND WHERE WE ARE.
AND THIS IS A SUCCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS. AND WE'LL BE DOING THIS IS KIND OF VERSION ONE.
AND THEN AT THE END OF FEBRUARY WE'LL BE DOING AN UPDATE ON SOME OF OUR OTHER PRIORITIES.
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SO JUST TO REMIND YOU ALL AND THE VIEWING PUBLIC THAT WE ANNUALLY ARE TO REPORT TO THE BOARD THE FINDINGS OF THE TAPR REPORT. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE REQUIREMENTS FROM TEXAS EDUCATION CODE 39.306.AND THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO REPORT OUT PUBLICLY.
AND THERE'S ALSO A TIME THIS EVENING FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS REPORT.
SO WE'LL START OFF IN TERMS OF OUR A THROUGH F RATINGS AND DISTINCTIONS.
SO WE, ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER DISTRICT, ARE WAITING FOR THOSE RATINGS SHOULD THEY EVER COME ABOUT.
NEXT IS WHAT'S KNOWN AS RESULTS DRIVEN ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND WE HAVE DETERMINATIONS IN THREE CATEGORIES.
THOSE ARE BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE.
SO WE MEET REQUIREMENTS IN ALL OF THOSE AREAS.
I ALSO JUST WANT TO MENTION, AS WE GET STARTED WITH CATHERINE HERE ON STAAR SCORES, YOU WILL SEE IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A TRICK THIS EVENING OF WHAT YEAR WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE THE TAPR REPORT, DEPENDING ON WHAT CATEGORY IT IS, IT'S DIFFERENT YEARS.
SO CATHERINE AND I WILL TRY TO TELL YOU WHAT YEAR WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS, BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT IT'S ABOUT 3 OR 4 DIFFERENT YEARS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
BUT CATHERINE IS GOING TO START WITH STAAR SCORES FOR 23-24.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE PERFORMANCE LEVEL INDICATORS.
ALL OF OUR STUDENTS RECEIVE A PERFORMANCE LEVEL DESCRIPTOR WHEN THEY RECEIVE THEIR SCORES.
JUST A REMINDER THAT DID NOT MEET MEANS THE STUDENTS HAVE NO BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE COURSE CONTENT, AND THEY WILL NEED SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT TO GET CAUGHT UP.
I'M GOING TO FOCUS MOSTLY ON MEETS AND MASTERS DURING MY PRESENTATION, BECAUSE MEETS MEANS THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY PREPARED AND THEY'RE READY TO PROGRESS TO THE NEXT GRADE LEVEL OR SUBJECT LEVEL. AND MASTERS MEANS THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE COURSE MASTERY.
AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT FOR ALL OF OUR GRADE LEVELS, THEY SCORED AT LEAST A 95% AT APPROACHES, WHICH MEANS THAT THEY HAVE SOME COURSE KNOWLEDGE IN THOSE CATEGORIES.
FOR OUR THIRD GRADE STUDENTS, THE MASTERS SCORES INCREASED FROM THE 2023 SCORE OF 36%, AND YOU CAN SEE FOR 2024 THEY'RE CURRENTLY AT 47%. SO MASTERS MEANS THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE MASTERED THAT SUBJECT AREA.
SO THEY'RE SHOWING COURSE MASTERY. OUR FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS SCORED 97% APPROACHES.
AND FOR OUR FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS THEY SCORED MASTERS.
AND THE MASTER'S SCORE INCREASED FROM 60% THE PREVIOUS YEAR TO 64%.
OUR SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS, 91% OF THE STUDENTS SCORED PERFORMING AT MEETS FOR SIXTH GRADE LEVEL, SO THEY'RE ON LEVEL. AND FOR SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE, 70% OF OUR STUDENTS ARE RECEIVING A SCORE OF MASTERS, WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE READING LANGUAGE ARTS COURSE MASTERY CONTENT.
FOR OUR MATH SCORES FOR GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT, THEY SHOW THAT ALL OF OUR LEVELS HAVE ACHIEVED AN APPROACHES LEVEL, WHICH IS PASSING OF 91% OR ABOVE. AND WE HAVE SEEN A SLIGHT DECREASE IN OUR THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE MEETS LEVELS.
AND IN FOURTH GRADE THEY SCORED 80% MEETS. AND IT'S DOWN SLIGHTLY TO 76%.
STARTING IN FIFTH GRADE, OUR STUDENTS CAN TAKE ACCELERATED MATH COURSES.
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IT STARTS WITH MATH FIVE SIX. AND YOU'LL NOTICE FOR SIXTH GRADE THOSE NUMBERS DO LOOK A LITTLE BIT OFF.WE HAVE 25% OF THE STUDENTS SCORING MASTERY FOR SIXTH GRADE.
MANY OF OUR STUDENTS SKIP OVER THAT SIXTH GRADE.
SO THAT SIXTH GRADE MATH LEVEL IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF A NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO ARE TAKING, FOR EXAMPLE, FOURTH GRADE, YOU HAVE ALL OF OUR FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS TAKING IT, BUT FOR SIXTH GRADE, YOU HAVE A SMALLER PORTION WHO ARE ACTUALLY TAKING THAT TEST.
82% OF OUR SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS ARE SCORING MEETS, WHICH MEANS THAT THEY ARE ON LEVEL.
AND 63% OF OUR EIGHTH GRADE MATH STUDENTS ARE SCORING AT MASTER'S LEVEL.
BUT WE ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE LEVELS THAT ARE ABOVE JUST PASSING.
OUR END OF COURSE EXAMS ARE OFFERED FOR FIVE CORE SUBJECTS.
WE HAVE, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY ABOUT HALF OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE TAKING ALGEBRA ONE IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND THEN WE HAVE A SMALLER NUMBER OF OUR NINTH GRADE STUDENTS TAKING IT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
OUR MEET SCORES FOR ENGLISH ONE IS 93%, AND OUR ENGLISH TWO MEET SCORE IS 94%, WHICH IS HIGH.
THESE ARE EXCELLENT SCORES, BUT OUR ACADEMIC DEAN AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IS WORKING WITH THE ENGLISH ONE AND ENGLISH TWO TEAMS TO INCREASE THE MASTER'S LEVEL, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT SCORE IS REFLECTIVE OF OUR STUDENTS TRUE ABILITY.
SO THAT IS SIGNIFICANT. THEY HAVE A STRONG KNOWLEDGE OF THE COURSE CONTENT.
AND WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF OUR BIOLOGY SCORES BECAUSE 98% SCORED APPROACHES.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THAT THE MASTER'S SCORES ALSO HIGH.
THE DATA IN THIS SLIDE REFLECTS OUR OVERALL PERFORMANCE FOR ALL GRADE LEVELS IN ALL TESTED SUBJECTS.
OUR OVERALL PERFORMANCE, SO THIS IS JUST STUDENTS WHO ARE PASSING.
SO HITTING THAT APPROACHES LEVEL FOR READING LANGUAGE ARTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT AND OUR ENGLISH ONE AND ENGLISH TWO EOC 97% OF OUR STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT ARE APPROACHES, SO THEY ARE PASSING THAT EXAM.
95% OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE PASSED MATH TESTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT AND THE ALGEBRA ONE EOC.
95% OF OUR STUDENTS PASS SCIENCE AND SCIENCE INCLUDES A FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE STAAR AND EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE STAAR, AND THEN BIOLOGY AND 97% OF OUR STUDENTS WHO TOOK THE EIGHTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STAAR AND THE US HISTORY EOC PASSED.
SO WE HAVE SOME HIGH NUMBERS OF STUDENTS WHO ARE PASSING EXAMS. I'M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO MOLLY AND SHE'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT ATTENDANCE DATA.
AND WE'RE TRAVELING EVEN FURTHER BACK IN TIME JUST TO PREFACE THAT.
SO YOU WILL SEE THAT IN 22-23, WE INCREASED OUR ATTENDANCE A LITTLE BIT FROM THE 21-22 SCHOOL YEAR.
WE'RE STILL NOT QUITE WHERE WE WERE BEFORE 2021.
THAT DATA, THOUGH, FOR 2021 WAS SOME HOLD HARMLESS DUE TO COVID.
AND SO THAT 95% IS PROBABLY FAIRLY ACCURATE. I DID LOOK AT THE DATA, THE UNOFFICIAL DATA FROM LAST YEAR THAT IS NOT PUBLISHED AND WE'RE STILL RIGHT AROUND THAT 95, ABOUT MIDDLE OF 95%.
SO THAT SEEMS TO BE WHERE WE'RE TRACKING RIGHT NOW, STILL AHEAD OF THE REGION AND THE STATE.
IN TERMS OF OUR CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. AND I SPENT A LONG TIME TALKING ABOUT THIS LAST YEAR, AND WE HAVE BEEN FOCUSING A GREAT DEAL ON THAT.
UNFORTUNATELY, AGAIN, BECAUSE WE'RE SORT OF IN ARREARS YOU WILL SEE FOR 22- 23 THAT WE LOWERED OUR CHRONIC ABSENTEE RATE, WHICH IS GREAT. AGAIN NOT WHERE WE WERE PRE-PANDEMIC, BUT CONTINUING TO WORK ON THAT.
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AND AS DR. ARNETT MENTIONED EARLIER, DEFINITELY DOING A VERY BIG PUSH ON OUR ON OUR ABSENTEEISM AND TRYING TO GET OUR STUDENTS TO SCHOOL, BOTH FOR THE ACADEMIC LEARNING AND THE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS.AND THEN BACK TO CATHERINE FOR GRADUATION. LOOKING AT THE CLASS OF 2023.
SO IT DOESN'T REFLECT OUR MOST RECENT GRADUATING CLASS.
THIS DATA IS BROKEN DOWN BY GRADUATES AND CONTINUERS, WHICH ALSO INCLUDE STUDENTS WHO ARE ATS.
BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT OUR OVERALL GRADUATION RATE IS 98.7%.
WE DO HAVE COLLEGE IN OUR TAPR REPORT. JUST SO YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME FUN STUFF TOO.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT COLLEGE, CAREER AND MILITARY READINESS.
AND WE ARE STILL IN THE PAST, NOT LAST YEAR BUT THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
STUDENTS CAN ALSO EARN CCMR BY GETTING AN INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATION THROUGH COLLEGE PREP COURSES.
ALTHOUGH I DO WANT TO MENTION THAT NOT MANY OF OUR STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN THOSE COURSES.
WE DO HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN AP COURSES, AND WHEN THEY TAKE THE AP EXAM, IF THEY SCORE A THREE OR ABOVE ON A MATH OR AN ENGLISH COURSE, THEY CAN EARN THEIR CCMR CREDIT, AND STUDENTS CAN ALSO EARN THAT CCMR CREDIT THROUGH THEIR SAT AND ACT SCORES.
AND AGAIN IT FOCUSES ON THE READING AND THE MATH PORTIONS.
WE ARE WORKING TO INCREASE OUR CCMR SCORE TO PRE-COVID NUMBERS, SO I DON'T WANT TO GET IN THE WEEDS WITH IT, BUT THE STATE HAS CHANGED THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE SCORE.
IT USED TO BE THAT IF YOU SCORED A 66 OR ABOVE, THEY ROUNDED IT, IT BECAME AN A AND YOU GOT AN A.
WELL NOW YOU HAVE TO THERE'S NO ROUNDING. YOU HAVE TO GET AT LEAST AN 88 TO GET AN A.
AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN A IN CCMR THEN YOUR CAMPUS RATING CANNOT BE AN A.
SO WE ARE WORKING TO INCREASE THE CCMR SCORES TO PRE-COVID NUMBERS.
AND OUR MOST RECENT SCORE IS FROM 22-23, AND THE DISTRICT SCORE IS 87.4%.
AND YOU'LL NOTICE IT'S HIGHER THAN IT'S BEEN SINCE 2021.
IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS ACCUPLACER, AND IT LOOKS AT STUDENTS SCORES IN MATH AND ENGLISH.
WE ARE WORKING TO INCREASE OUR CCMR, LIKE I SAID.
SO ONE WAY THAT WE'RE DOING THAT IS BY NOW OFFERING THE TSIA TWO AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
WE STARTED OFFERING THIS TEST TO SENIORS IN NOVEMBER SO THAT STUDENTS WHO DIDN'T EARN CCMR CREDIT THROUGH SAT OR ACT COULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THIS TEST AND POSSIBLY EARN CCMR CREDIT.
AND ALSO TOO, WHEN STUDENTS GO TO OTHER POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS, THEY CAN USE THOSE TSIA SCORES AS A PLACEMENT SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO TAKE PLACEMENT EXAMS WHEN THEY GO TO THOSE INSTITUTIONS. THEY ALREADY HAVE THOSE SCORES IN HAND, AND I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT 19 OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE MET CCMR REQUIREMENTS. AND MANY OF THESE STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS EXAM SINCE NOVEMBER ARE IN SUBPOPULATIONS, TOO. SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO CAPTURE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN LEAVE AND DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE COLLEGE, CAREER AND MILITARY READY. AND OUR ACADEMIC DEAN HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE STUDENTS WHO HAVEN'T MET WITH THEIR SAT OR ACT, AND THEY CAN, LIKE I SAID, MEET THROUGH TSIA AND USE IT AS A PLACEMENT SCORE ONCE THEY GO TO A POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTION.
ALL RIGHT. SO NOW WE ARE IN A YEAR BEHIND, SO WE'RE BACK IN THE FUTURE.
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OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR COMPARISON DISTRICTS.I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS LIKE TO SEE THIS INFORMATION.
THE SAT /ACT COMPARISON REFLECTS LAST YEAR'S SCORES.
WE REMAIN IN THE TOP THREE OF COMPARABLE DISTRICTS FOR SAT PERFORMANCE.
YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR SAT SCORE INCREASED FROM 1263 AND 2023 TO 1275 AND 2024.
OUR ACT SCORE IS 27.9, AND WE'RE PERFORMING AS WELL AS HIGHLAND PARK.
AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT OUR SCORES ARE TIED FOR THE TOP ACT SCORES WITH COMPARABLE DISTRICTS.
AND I'M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO MOLLY. OKAY.
AND THE FIRST IS OUR ACCREDITATION STATUS. AND WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING AT THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE ACADEMIC ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS, DATA INTEGRITY, AND THEN THE RESULTS DRIVEN ACCOUNTABILITY THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER.
AND AS OF 2022- 23, WE ARE WE ARE ACCREDITED IN THE STATE OF TEXAS TO OPERATE AS A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
WE ARE ALSO NOW STILL ACCREDITED TO BE OPERATING.
BUT THE DATA AGAIN IS A YEAR TWO YEARS IN ARREARS.
IN TERMS OF CAMPUS PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES, AND WE TALK A LOT ABOUT THIS THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR, EACH CAMPUS HAS DEVELOPED A CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN.
WE HAVE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES. THE CAMPUSES ARE MEETING.
IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THE CLT MEETINGS, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY'RE PERIODICALLY UPDATING THOSE MEASURES.
THIS PARTICULAR DATA IS ALSO IS VERY DATED. THE LAST INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE, AND THIS IS THROUGH THE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, IS AROUND VIOLENT OR CRIMINAL INCIDENCES. AND THE LATEST DATA WE HAVE IS FROM 2000 -2021.
AND IN THAT PARTICULAR YEAR THERE WERE NO VIOLENT OR CRIMINAL INCIDENCES ON CAMPUS.
BUT THAT'S THE MOST CURRENT DATA THAT WE HAVE.
AGAIN, SORRY, GOING BACK TO 2022 GRADUATES AND WHERE THEY'RE ENROLLED IN TEXAS PUBLIC OR HIGHER ED, AND YOU CAN SEE THE TOTAL STUDENTS THAT ARE ENROLLED IN A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY.
AND THEN THEY ALSO ARE LOOKING AT THOSE PARTICULAR STUDENTS GRADE POINT AVERAGES, TWO YEAR COLLEGES AND THEN INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES, STUDENTS THAT WERE NOT TRACKABLE, NOT FOUND, AND THEN THE TOTAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.
AND THIS JUST IS YOU KNOW, SENDING OUT SURVEYS TO ADULTS, STUDENTS AND ASKING THEM TO REPORT BACK AND CLEARLY A LOT OF THEM ARE NOT REPORTING BACK. AND THEY'RE AND THAT'S JUST A FUNCTION OF OF THE SURVEY.
SO NOT A LOT THAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE THE, YOU KNOW, THE RESPONSE RATE ON THIS PARTICULAR METRIC.
IN TERMS OF EARLY LITERACY AND CCMR PLANS AGAIN, INFORMATION PERTAINING TO GOALS IN THE AREAS OF LITERACY AND CCMR ARE CONTAINED IN BOTH OUR CAMPUS AND DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLANS. AND THEN LASTLY, JUST TALKING ABOUT THE TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT OR TAPR.
THIS REPORT IS VERY COMPREHENSIVE. TONIGHT WE GAVE YOU A VERY, VERY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW.
AS IS REQUIRED BY LAW. IT IS POSTED ON THE WEBSITE.
AND ANYONE WHO'S INTERESTED CAN DIG IN TO A LOT OF DATA ON ON THE TAPR AND LOOK AT THAT.
THERE AGAIN IS STUDENT INFORMATION THERE'S STAFF INFORMATION.
THERE IS SO MUCH STAAR DATA ON THERE. YOU CAN LOOK AT ALL THE SUBPOPULATIONS.
AND SO AND WE DO WE WE DO NOT JUST LOOK AT ALL OF THIS FROM A VERY HIGH LEVEL, BUT FOR A BOARD PRESENTATION WE HAVE TO STEP BACK A LITTLE BIT OR ELSE WE COULD BE HERE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. AND THERE'S ALSO PROGRAM ENROLLMENT, STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY PROGRAM AND TEACHERS.
SO AGAIN, FOR MORE INFORMATION, YOU CAN VISIT OUR DISTRICT WEBSITE WHERE THE TAPR AND OUR FEDERAL REPORT CARDS, WHICH ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO BE POSTED, ARE ALL POSTED.
AND I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. CATHERINE AND I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. APPRECIATE THAT.
WE WILL START WITH HEATHER. YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE TAPR REPORT.
NO I DON'T. SO IT MAKES ME CRAZY THAT IT IS AUTOPSY DATA AND THAT IT'S SUCH OLD INFORMATION WHEN OUR OUR STAFF IS DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB OF ACTUALLY USING MEANINGFUL ASSESSMENTS AND BENCHMARKS THAT MATTER, BECAUSE THIS DOESN'T.
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I ALSO HATE HOW DECEPTIVE IT IS WITH THE APPROACHES THAT'S PASSING.THAT MEANS YOU'RE ON GRADE LEVEL, YOU'RE FINE.
IF YOU'VE MASTERED IT, YOU'RE KILLING IT. YOU'RE PROBABLY WAY ABOVE GRADE LEVEL.
SO I DON'T LIKE HOW DECEPTIVE IT IS. CLEARLY, OTHER PEOPLE IN THE STATE ALSO AGREE BECAUSE THERE WAS A LAWSUIT, AND THAT IS WE WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE LAWSUIT, TO BE CLEAR. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT QUESTIONED THE VALIDITY AND THE LACK OF NOTICE ABOUT THE CHANGE OF THE TEST AND THE SYSTEM AND THE FAIRNESS OF THE RATINGS.
SO YOU KNOW STAAR IS NOT THE END ALL BE ALL. ALSO IT'S ONLY ONLINE.
WHICH MAKES ME A LITTLE BIT CRAZY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOME KIDS TEST BETTER PAPER AND PENCIL AND WE'RE TRYING NOT TO HAVE SCREENS ALL THE TIME, BUT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. SO I DO HAVE THREE QUESTIONS.
THE FIRST ONE IS WHAT OTHER MORE MEANINGFUL ASSESSMENTS AND BENCHMARKS OR TOOLS ARE OUR TEACHERS USING TO ACTUALLY MONITOR AND REPORT BACK AND AND HOLD OUR PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE? WE OFFER MAP FOR OUR STUDENTS UP TO GRADE EIGHT, IN THE BEGINNING OF YEAR, MIDDLE OF YEAR, AND END OF YEAR.
WE USE THAT DATA TO PLAN FOR GROUPS OF STUDENTS TO REALLY HAVE MEANINGFUL INSTRUCTION.
WE ALSO USE M-CLASS. WE WERE GIVING THE APPLE TEST FOR SPANISH IMMERSION STUDENTS.
WE DO FMP. AND SO WE ARE PROGRESS MONITORING OUR STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT. YOU'RE WELCOME.
SO ONE OTHER THING THAT MAKES ME CRAZY IS THE CCMR STUFF.
AND THAT'S NOT PART OF THE OF THE QUESTION. BUT THE IT'S A, IT'S AUTOPSY DATA ALSO.
AND THEN LIKE THE PART WITH THE GRADUATES ENROLLED IN TEXAS PUBLIC OR INDEPENDENT HIGHER ED.
IS THAT THE PART WHERE WE AREN'T TRACKING OR TEA IS NOT TRACKING OUT OF STATE, KIDDOS, RIGHT? SO IF A KID, WHICH A LOT OF OUR KIDS, AS WE SEE IN THE COLLEGE REPORT, WE SEE THAT THEY GO ALL OVER THE STATE IN THE WORLD AND WE AREN'T GETTING CREDIT FOR THAT.
AND THE CCMR THING ALSO MAKES ME CRAZY WITH THE SAT AND TSIA AND ACT BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, A LOT OF COLLEGES ARE STILL TEST OPTIONAL. MY KIDDO IS GOING TO COLLEGE, AND SHE APPLIED TEST OPTIONAL TO EVERYWHERE SHE WENT.
SHE DIDN'T SHE DIDN'T EVER TAKE THE ACT OR ANY OF THAT.
SO IT DIDN'T MATTER. SHE GOT INTO A GREAT COLLEGE.
AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THOSE THINGS, BECAUSE THAT IS A WAY THAT WE CAN REALLY MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS DO HAVE CERTIFICATIONS AND OR OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE COLLEGE LEVEL COURSES AND GET CREDIT OUTSIDE OF AP.
SO THERE'S THAT. AND I THINK I HAD ONE MORE, BUT I'LL LET IT GO UNTIL I THROW MY PEN NOW.
I GET SO EXCITED OVER A PAPER I'M THROWING MY PEN.
BUT I'LL LET ANYBODY ELSE CHIME IN. THANK YOU HEATHER.
WE'LL GO TO DIANE AND THEN LAURA. ALL RIGHT. YEAH.
I'LL, I HAVE MAYBE 5 OR 6 QUESTIONS. LET ME START WITH A QUESTION ABOUT ABSENTEEISM.
AND YOU DID TALK LAST YEAR, AS YOU MENTIONED A BIT ABOUT CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM.
AND DR. ARNETT, YOU MENTIONED AT THE TOP OF THE THE MEETING HOW MUCH MONEY WE'VE LOST JUST IN THE FIRST PART OF THE YEAR, SCHOOL YEAR FOR ABSENTEEISM. DO WE KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THAT NUMBER IS DUE TO KIDS WHO HAVE BEEN CHRONICALLY ABSENT? I'M CURIOUS WHAT? I DON'T HAVE THAT CALCULATED.
I WOULD BE CURIOUS IF WE COULD DIG INTO THAT.
BECAUSE WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE GET OUR FUNDING BASED ON STUDENTS BEING IN SEATS AND IT'S THERE'S DIFFERENT REASONS, OBVIOUSLY, FOR KIDS TO BE ABSENT. I CAN TELL YOU TO DATE, WE'RE AT 6.4% OF CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM TO DATE RIGHT NOW.
YEAH. SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE KIDS THAT ARE ON THE BORDER.
AND SO AS THE YEAR AS WE FINISH THE SCHOOL YEAR, THAT NUMBER WILL INCREASE.
BUT THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. OKAY. THANK YOU.
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WHO WEREN'T ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, MEET THAT CCMR CREDIT.THE 83.8% THERE, IS THAT A PASSING OF THE SUB PORTION OF THE STUDENTS WHO YOU DID OFFER IT TO? I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE 83.8% MEANS THERE.
SO THE 83% IS THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO MET TSI.
SO IT'S A SEPARATE IT'S NOT THE EXAM, BUT THEY MET THAT CATEGORY THROUGH THEIR SCORE FROM SAT /ACT.
OR IT COULD BE THE TSIA. SO IT'S COMING FROM A TEST.
OKAY. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT. YOU'RE WELCOME.
MY NEXT QUESTION IS LET ME SCROLL. WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ON THE SLIDE WHERE THE TITLE WAS ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE DATA AND THE LAST BULLET MENTIONED CHILDHOOD LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS PROFICIENCY.
AND IT JUST MADE ME THINK ABOUT DYSLEXIA. AND I'M CURIOUS, DO WE TRACK? AND NOW THAT WE HAVE THE SCREENING, I KNOW WE HAVE MORE DATA, THE MANDATORY SCREENING, THE PREVALENCE OF DYSLEXIA WITHIN OUR STUDENTS. I'M CURIOUS, DO WE SEE THAT GOING UP OR IS IT KIND OF STEADY? YOU KNOW, CAN YOU COMMENT ABOUT THAT? WE DO TRACK THAT AND IT IS GOING UP.
OKAY. AND WE DO HAVE TO TRACK THAT. THERE IS A DYSLEXIA INDICATOR.
SO EVERY ONE OF OUR STUDENTS WHO HAS DYSLEXIA THAT'S CODED THROUGH THE STATE.
THERE'S ALSO A SMALL FUNDING ALLOCATION FOR STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA.
OKAY. I'M SURE THAT FUNDING FULLY COVERS THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WE NEED TO GIVE THOSE CHILDREN.
CORRECT? NOT. NOT CLOSE. YEAH, THAT WAS A LOT OF SARCASM THERE.
THIS VIOLENT AND CRIMINAL INCIDENT. WHY DO WE HAVE TO GO TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS DATA COLLECTION FOR THAT? WHY, I MEAN, WE HAVE OUR OWN POLICE FORCE. I'M JUST CURIOUS, ARE WE REQUIRED TO USE THIS AS OUR SOURCE? I AM REQUIRED TO REPORT FROM THAT SOURCE. YEAH.
ANOTHER THING THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO ME. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND IT SAID WHEN I WENT, IT SHOULD HAVE HAD THE 22- 23 DATA ON THERE OR THE 20, SORRY, THE 21-22 DATA.
IT HASN'T BEEN UPDATED. I THINK THERE MAY BE SOME ISSUES WITH FEDERAL REPORTING.
OKAY. STOP THERE. YEAH. RIGHT. AS IF WE CAN'T REPORT ON THAT OURSELVES.
OKAY. THEN THE AGAIN, YOU REFERENCED TO THE VERY DISAGGREGATED DATA IN THERE.
LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN.
AND SO THAT IS A AREA OF STILL FOCUS FOR US. WE'VE SEEN WE HAVE DEFINITELY SEEN IMPROVEMENT, BUT WE, YOU KNOW, TO HEATHER'S POINT, WHEN LOOKING AT THIS DATA THROUGH TAPR OR ANY OF THAT, WE ARE LOOKING VERY CLOSELY AT THOSE SUBPOPULATIONS.
AND WHILE WE ARE ALWAYS WE ALWAYS SEEM TO DO WELL AS A DISTRICT, WE DRILL, WE DRILL TO THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT DATA FOR THOSE STUDENTS. WE LOOK AT STUDENTS WHAT WE CALL LIKE THERE'S HOPPERS AND DROPPERS IN TERMS OF STAAR.
AND SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THAT EVEN AT THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT LEVEL.
SO THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, SOME SUBPOPULATIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT, BUT OVERALL WE'RE NOT CONCERNED SPECIFICALLY WITH ANY ONE GROUP. WE'RE MORE CONCERNED WITH STUDENTS, INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS.
OKAY. THANK YOU. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK ANY MORE TO THAT. YEAH.
WHAT MOLLY SAID IS SO CRITICAL. BUT WE ALSO LOOK AT TEAMS AND CAMPUSES AND WE ARE LOOKING AT REAL TIME DATA TOO, WITH WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS. I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THE CURRICULUM TEAM AND THE ICS HAVE DONE.
THEY'VE TAKEN THE DATA AND REALLY WORKED WITH TEACHERS, AND IT TRICKLES DOWN WITH THE STUDENTS.
SO I THINK THAT JUST SINCE THE TIME THAT I'VE BEEN HERE, WE'VE BECOME MORE DATA AWARE.
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SO THE DATA IS REALLY STUDENT BASED. AND IT IS VERY INDIVIDUALIZED TOO.THANK YOU. AND I GUESS MY LAST QUESTION IS ABOUT THIS MORE REAL TIME DATA.
HELP ME UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT IS REAL TIME.
IF A CHILD TAKES A MAP TEST AND REMIND ME HOW MANY TIMES, HOW FREQUENTLY THAT IS.
HOW SOON AFTER TAKING THAT TEST IS THE STUDENT AND PARENT INFORMED OF THE RESULTS? THEY TAKE THE BENCH, WE CALL THEM BENCHMARKS, BUT THEY DO A BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, AND END OF THE YEAR. AND ONCE THAT WINDOW CLOSES, THE CURRICULUM TEAM ALLISON KEY AND HEATHER MEEK LOOK AT THE CLOSING OF THAT WINDOW AND THEN SEND COMMUNICATION TO CAMPUSES AND FAMILIES RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION BACK, I'D SAY WITHIN 2 TO 3 WEEKS OF THE STUDENT TAKING THAT TEST.
IT'S PRETTY IT'S A PRETTY QUICK TURNAROUND. AND AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, LIKE THE VERY FIRST, THE PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE IS ONE OF THE TIMES WHERE THEY REALLY DO GO OVER ALL THAT DATA.
BUT WE'RE PRETTY RESPONSIVE ON THAT TO HAVE THE PARENTS AND THE TEACHERS LOOKING AT THAT DATA.
THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TEST IS TAKEN HOW FAR INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR AGAIN, JUST A FEW WEEKS OR? IT IS A THREE WEEK WINDOW AND IT STARTS THE FIRST FULL WEEK THAT WE ARE IN SCHOOL.
OKAY, SO TEACHERS HAVE THREE WEEKS, BUT IT GIVES STUDENTS HAVE THE WHAT'S CALLED THE SUMMER SLIDE, WHICH MEANS THAT MAYBE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN WORKING ON SOME OF THOSE SKILLS, THAT YOU CAN SEE IT WITHIN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS AND WORK TOWARDS GETTING THE STUDENT CAUGHT BACK UP TO. BUT IT'S IT'S A THREE WEEK WINDOW AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID THIS YEAR AS PART OF OUR EQUITY PLAN IS ANY STUDENT THAT WAS NEW TO EANES ISD, WE ACTUALLY PUT THEM AT THE VERY FRONT OF THAT WINDOW SO THAT WE WOULD GET THAT INFORMATION EARLIER, BECAUSE OUR DATA ACTUALLY SHOWED THAT WE IT WAS WE DID HAVE AN ISSUE IN A CONCERN WITH OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION.
BUT WHAT WE WERE NOTICING, IT WAS ACTUALLY MORE STUDENTS THAT CAME INTO EANES AND HADN'T STARTED THEIR CAREER HERE, AND THAT THOSE STUDENTS WERE COMING IN WITH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ISSUES. SO WE ACTUALLY PRIORITIZED THEM FOR THE BEGINNING OF EACH WINDOW SO THAT WE WOULD HAVE THEIR RESULTS EARLIER TO SEE IF WE NEEDED TO INTERVENE MORE.
AND AM I CORRECT IN SAYING THAT THE TESTS THAT A STUDENT TAKES AT THE END OF, SAY, SECOND GRADE IS NOT THE EXACT SAME TEST THAT THEY TAKE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIRD GRADE? SO TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE LOSS, THAT ADDS JUST A LITTLE BIT OF CONFUSION.
THERE IS WHAT I'VE SEEN IN SOME OF THE READINGS.
IS THAT IS THAT A CORRECT STATEMENT, THOUGH, THAT IT'S NOT THE SAME TEST? IT'S NOT THE SAME TEST, BUT IN SOME CASES IT IT CAN GIVE YOU A REALLY GOOD GUIDANCE OF WHERE THAT STUDENT IS IN REAL TIME, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE STARTING THIRD GRADE.
OKAY. CORRECT. THE TEST THAT WE GIVE ARE ADAPTIVE.
AND SO IT IS NOT JUST A ONE SIZE FITS ALL. IT IS TRULY TAILORED TO EACH INDIVIDUAL STUDENT.
AND HOW LONG DOES THE MAP TEST TAKE? IT DEPENDS ON THE STUDENT BUT TYPICALLY ABOUT 30 TO 45 MINUTES.
OKAY. AND IT DEPENDS ON THE SUBJECT TOO. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THANK YOU. WE'LL GO TO LAURA AND THEN ELLEN. THANK YOU ALL FOR CONSOLIDATING THIS INFORMATION FOR US SO THAT WE WE DON'T HAVE TO GO IN AND ANALYZE ALL THE DATA OURSELVES, SO APPRECIATE IT.
COULD YOU JUST SPEAK TO THE CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM? AND WHAT IS THE PROCESS THAT YOU ALL ARE USING TO COMBAT THAT CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM, ESPECIALLY IN THESE SUBPOP'S? YEAH. I WILL SAY THAT OUR CAMPUSES ARE JUST ABSOLUTELY ON TOP OF THIS.
I MEAN, THEY ARE MONITORING THIS VERY CLOSELY.
LOTS OF PARENT EMAILS, PARENT MEETINGS, BRINGING THE PARENTS IN FOR CONVERSATIONS, HAVING THE COUNSELORS INVOLVED, REALLY TRYING TO DIG IN TO WHAT SPECIFICALLY IS THE ISSUE AROUND THE CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM? REMEMBERING THAT AND THIS GETS A LITTLE CONFUSING THAT CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM CAN INCLUDE ALSO ALSO STUDENTS THAT ARE ABSENT FOR FUNDED REASONS. BECAUSE CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM IS JUST LOOKING AT WERE YOU IN YOUR SEAT WHEN LEARNING OCCURRED? NOT WHAT WAS THE REASON. AND SO A LOT OF WHAT OUR KIDS.
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AND THERE'S MAYBE NOT A GOOD REASON. BUT OUR CAMPUS HAS SPENT A LOT OF TIME DIGGING INTO WHAT, WHY IS IT THAT THEY'RE NOT AT SCHOOL. AND SO THAT'S A BIG PART OF IT, TOO.BUT I WILL I'M JUST SO JUST IN AWE OF WHAT OUR CAMPUSES ARE DOING.
WE ARE UTILIZING TRUANCY MORE THAN WE HAVE IN THE PAST, AND FILING TRUANCY WHEN WE REALLY ARE NEEDING TO, YOU KNOW, TO [INAUDIBLE] SORRY TO RAISE TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
BUT I THINK JUST THE WHOLE TRACKING IS BETTER THAN WE HAVE BEEN DOING BEFORE.
THEY KNOW THEIR KIDS AND THEY KNOW WHO'S NOT COMING TO SCHOOL AND WHY.
THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT. YOU KNOW DR. ARNETT, YOU HAD A SLIDE THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT IN YOUR REPORT, AND IT TALKED ABOUT THE FUNDING, BUT IT ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE HOURS OF LEARNING LOSS.
AND I GUESS TEN WAS TEN ABSENCES WAS 60 HOURS OF LEARNING LOSS.
AND THESE KIDDOS WITH CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM, 140 HOURS OF NO.
IS THAT RIGHT? 140 HOURS OF LEARNING LOSS. THAT'S A LOT.
YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU LAURA. WE'LL GO TO ELLEN. THANK YOU FOR THIS REPORT.
CATHERINE KNOWS THAT I REALLY DO LOVE THIS INFORMATION, SO I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT. MY QUESTION IS, HAVE WE SEEN AN INCREASE IN READING SCORES, PARTICULARLY AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, POST THE READING ACADEMIES AND THE NEW NEW CURRICULUM, THE PHONICS BASED CURRICULUM? I WOULD SAY THAT WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE, BUT WHAT I SEE IS THAT IT'S REALLY PAYING OFF IN FIFTH GRADE, SIXTH GRADE, SEVENTH GRADE AND EIGHTH GRADE. THE MEETS AND MASTERS NUMBERS ARE JUST ASTOUNDING, AND THEY'RE SO SIGNIFICANT. TO HAVE 90% OF YOUR STUDENTS AT MEETS, WHICH MEANS THEY'RE READING ON GRADE LEVEL, ESPECIALLY IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADE, IS JUST SIGNIFICANT.
SO I WOULD SAY THAT YES, WE ARE SEEING IT PAY OFF.
GREAT. THANK YOU. AND I'M SORRY, I DO HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.
AN AREA WHERE WE ARE WAY OFF FROM REGION AND STATE.
BUT ON THE LOW SIDE, IS THAT APPROVED INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATION.
I'M. I'M NOT THAT FAMILIAR WITH THINGS THAT QUALIFY FOR THAT OR DO NONE OF OUR OR VERY FEW OF OUR HEALTH SCIENCES ROBOTICS, ANY OF THOSE THINGS. I'M SURPRISED THAT WE DON'T HAVE MORE THAT THEY SOUND TO ME LIKE THEY WOULD BE INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATIONS, BUT MAYBE I JUST NEED MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT MEANS.
YEAH, SO I AM I GOOD? SO WE DO HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH A THE CORRECT SEQUENCE IN TERMS OF LIKE THEIR [INAUDIBLE] AND GETTING A CCMR INDICATOR FOR THAT ARTICULATED SEQUENCE.
BUT A INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATION LIKE A SPECIFIC CERTIFICATION, NOT ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS HAVE THAT.
ONE OF THEM THAT WE HAVE SPECIFICALLY IS LIKE PERSONAL TRAINING.
SO THAT'S WHERE SOME MORE OF THE INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATION COMES IN, VERSUS JUST MAYBE STILL GOING THROUGH AN ARTICULATED SEQUENCE OF COURSES, BUT THERE'S NOT A CERTIFICATION AT THE END. BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE LOOKING TOWARD.
AND I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT ON FRIDAY AT OUR, AT OUR BOARD MEETING.
BUT YES. SO, SO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THOSE THAT END WITH A SPECIFIC CERTIFICATION.
THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION. THANK YOU ELLEN.
WE'LL GO TO KELLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT? I WANTED TO JUST COMMENT ON HOW AMAZING IT IS, LIKE WHERE WE CAN SEE THE PROGRESSION IN THE SCORES.
AND LIKE YOU SAID, WITH AT THE EIGHTH GRADE LEVEL THAT WE HAVE LIKE 70% OF THE STUDENTS ABOVE LEVEL IN READING AND IN MATH. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. AND YOU CAN SEE IT CONSISTENTLY HAPPENING WITH THE READING.
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DOES THAT AFFECT THE STAAR TEST SCORE THERE? OKAY.THEN THEY WENT TO SEVEN EIGHT AND THEY CHAD CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT THEY WOULD THEY TAKE THE EIGHTH GRADE, SO THEY WOULD SKIP THAT SIXTH GRADE TEST, AND THEN THEY WOULD SKIP THAT SEVENTH GRADE TEST.
AND SO OUR SCORES WERE UP AND DOWN TO REFLECT THAT BECAUSE THEY WERE SKIPPING MATH SIX AND THEN MAYBE GOING TO SEVEN OR EIGHT, AND THEN YOU SEE THE SPIKES. SO WE DO HAVE STUDENTS WHO WOULD WHO WOULD TAKE THOSE EXAMS. BUT WE HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO WERE SKIPPING THOSE EXAMS THROUGH THE ACCELERATION PROCESS.
THEY WOULD TAKE THE WHAT STAAR TEST WOULD THAT EIGHTH GRADER TAKE? SO THERE IS NOT A STAAR TEST FOR GEOMETRY. THE LAST MATH TEST IS ALGEBRA ONE.
SO A STUDENT WHO IS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL TAKING GEOMETRY WOULD TAKE THEIR ON GRADE LEVEL STAAR.
SO IF IT'S AN EIGHTH GRADER, THE STUDENT WOULD TAKE THE EIGHTH GRADE TEST.
THIS IS FEDERAL LEGISLATION, FEDERAL LAW. SO EVEN IF THE STUDENT THEY TOOK THAT EIGHTH GRADE STAAR TEST IN SIXTH GRADE, THEY WOULD TAKE IT AGAIN BECAUSE WE WERE FEDERALLY REQUIRED TO TEST OUR STUDENTS IN MATH AND READING IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.
SO IF YOU'RE SEEING TWO SCORES FOR MATH EIGHT, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THEY'VE TAKEN IT TWICE, BUT ONLY ONE SCORE ACTUALLY COUNTS TOWARDS THE ACCOUNTABILITY.
THAT'S INTERESTING. OKAY. SO SO THIS IS A GREAT.
ALL DIFFERENT LEVELS IN ALL THE DIFFERENT MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH COURSES.
OKAY. AND THEN IN THE ELEMENTARY THOUGH, THEY'RE TAKING THEY'RE ON LEVEL, THE FOURTH GRADE MATH.
SO IF I'M IN FOURTH GRADE I'M TAKING THE FOURTH GRADE MATH.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE NOW IS THE FIVE SIX MATH STUDENTS ARE TAKING THE SIXTH GRADE STAAR.
SO THOSE STUDENTS, THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE'RE DOING THAT SINCE THEY ARE ADVANCED AND ACCELERATED, THEY WILL BE TAKING THE MATH SIX AS FIFTH GRADERS.
IT'S COMPLICATED FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL. YEAH IT IS.
[INAUDIBLE] BUT YOU SAY THAT YOU GIVE FOR ALL FOR ALL OF THESE ELEMENTARY LEVEL STUDENTS, THOUGH, WE'RE TESTING THEM WITH THE MAP, WITH A MAP TEST THAT ACTUALLY GIVES US A READING OF WHERE THEY'RE AT THREE TIMES A YEAR.
YES, THAT'S CORRECT. AND IT'S ELEMENTARY, BUT ALSO TO OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT MATH COURSE THEY'RE IN, THEY'RE TAKING A MATH TEST. OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.
DIANE. I DIDN'T REALIZE RAISING MY FINGER WOULD GET ME UP SO QUICKLY.
GREAT. THAT WHAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT RAISED ANOTHER QUESTION FOR ME.
I KNOW IN THE PAST, SOMETIMES IT'S BEEN CHALLENGING WITH SO MANY STUDENTS AND PARENTS WHO ARE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS WITHIN THE SAME AGE GROUP AND, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO PLACE STUDENTS APPROPRIATELY IN THE RIGHT LEVEL.
MATH, FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING.
DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE DOING BETTER THESE DAYS THAN WE WERE MAYBE A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN WE WERE FINDING THAT MAYBE KIDS WERE ACCELERATED A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH SOMETIMES? CAN YOU COMMENT ON THAT? I WOULD SAY I THINK WE'RE DEFINITELY DOING A BETTER JOB, AND I GIVE CHAD A TON OF CREDIT FOR THAT.
WE'VE DEVELOPED JUST DIFFERENT ON RAMPS FOR PEOPLE NOW.
SO IT WAS KIND OF LIKE BEFORE YOU EITHER GOT IN OR YOU DIDN'T.
AND SO THERE WAS A BIG PUSH FOR STUDENTS YOUNGER.
AND NOW THERE'S DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCELERATE AT DIFFERENT POINTS IN YOUR CAREER.
I THINK THAT WE ARE WE'RE DOING A BETTER JOB WITH THAT.
WE ALSO ARE HOLDING REALLY FIRM, WHICH PEOPLE AREN'T ALWAYS HAPPY ABOUT.
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CRITERIA, WE HAD A LOT OF STUDENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL DROPPING OUT OF MATH IN THE OLDER IN THE UPPER GRADES.AND SO WE NOW ARE REALLY MAKING SURE AND HOLDING KIDS TO THAT AND HOLDING PARENTS AND SAYING, THIS IS THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE DATA TO SUPPORT THAT YOU WILL THEN BE SUCCESSFUL LATER ON OR ON, OR HAVE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF BEING SUCCESSFUL LATER ON.
SO I THINK WE'RE DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH THAT.
BUT IT'S TAKEN IT'S TAKEN A WHILE. AND BUT I THINK IT'S I THINK WE'RE ON THE RIGHT PATH FOR SURE.
AND DO WE HAVE ANY CASES WHERE WE JUST HAVE TRULY EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS AND WE'RE ABLE TO STILL ACCOMMODATE THEIR NEEDS? YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY RARE WHEN A KID MIGHT, YOU KNOW, REALLY JUMP SEVERAL, SEVERAL LEVELS ABOVE.
BUT WHAT DO WE DO IN THOSE TYPES OF CIRCUMSTANCES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF WE CAN? I MEAN, WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE DEFINITELY DOUBLE, DOUBLE ADVANCED.
I THINK WHAT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT IS WE ONLY GO TO A CERTAIN LEVEL IN EANES.
AND SO WE ALSO DON'T WANT STUDENTS TO NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A MATH IN, IN, IN EANES.
BUT YES, WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE, ARE ACCELERATED A COUPLE, A COUPLE GRADE LEVELS.
AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S APPROPRIATE FOR SOME FOR SOME STUDENTS.
BUT WE ALSO SEE KIDS THAT, YOU KNOW, ACCELERATE AND THERE'S SOME, SOME GAPS.
AND SO WE JUST HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE'RE NOT ACCELERATING TOO FAST.
WE CAN ALWAYS DIFFERENTIATE. AND SO EVEN THOUGH A STUDENT MAY BE, YOU KNOW, VERY GIFTED AND DOING VERY WELL, OUR TEACHERS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF DIFFERENTIATING AND PROVIDING CHALLENGE FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.
FANTASTIC. THANK YOU. WE'LL GO TO KELLY. YOU ACTUALLY JUST SAID EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK.
I WAS GOING TO ASK ABOUT THE DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING IN MATH AND HOW WE KIND OF HOW THEY HOW YOU CAN I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THESE SCORES WOULD BE AS GREAT.
YOU'D WANT THE MATH SCORES BECAUSE THOSE ARE IN THE MOMENT.
BUT THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THESE FOR THE DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING AT THE CAMPUSES.
YEAH. FOR SURE. ANY OTHER TRUSTEE QUESTIONS? OKAY.
THANK YOU BOTH VERY MUCH. WE'LL MOVE INTO THE DISCUSSION ACTION SECTION OF OUR MEETING.
[9.1 Request to approve a resolution for proposed redrawn elementary attendance zones]
THE FIRST ITEM I'M LOOKING FOR A MOTION.MOTION FROM THE BOARD. KELLY. MY FIRST TIME MAKING A MOTION.
[INAUDIBLE] I MOVE TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED REDRAWN ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE ZONES.
MOTION BY KELLY. SECOND BY LAURA. LET'S HAVE AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION.
ALL RIGHT. BEFORE CHAD BEGINS, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS WORK ON THIS AS WELL AS DR.
KRISTY SAILORS, MOLLY MAY, MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE A PART OF SEVERAL ASPECTS AND COMPONENTS OF THE BLEND PROPOSAL, AND WE HAVE COMMITTED THAT WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE FREQUENT UPDATES.
AND TONIGHT IS ONE OF THOSE. THIS IS ACTUALLY AN ACTION ITEM.
THIS IS A RESOLUTION THAT THE BOARD IS REQUIRED TO ACT ON THAT MEMORIALIZES THE REZONING OF THREE ATTENDANCE AREAS FROM WHAT IS CURRENTLY BARTON CREEK ELEMENTARY TO FOREST TRAIL ELEMENTARY.
WE DO NOT DO THIS OFTEN BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS CAN BE DISRUPTIVE TO FAMILIES.
IT'S AN EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FOR FAMILIES TO GO FROM ONE SCHOOL TO ANOTHER.
SO WE DON'T TAKE THIS LIGHTLY. AGAIN, YOU HEARD ME REFER TO EARLIER IN MY REPORT THE GREAT JOB THAT THE FOREST TRAIL COMMUNITY DID IN WELCOMING THESE FAMILIES TO THEIR SCHOOL AND HELPING TO GET THEM ACCLIMATED AND BEGINNING THAT PROCESS.
BUT I'M GOING TO ASK CHAD NOW TO KIND OF WALK THROUGH THE DIFFERENT MECHANICS OF THIS, WHAT IT ENTAILS ONCE AGAIN, AND THEN THE RESOLUTION THAT YOU'LL BE ASKED TO SIGN OR TAKE ACTION ON AND SIGN LATER.
SO, CHAD, I'M GONNA LET YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE. THANK YOU.
I WON'T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME. WE TALKED QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY.
JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY, THE PROPOSAL IS TO LOOK AT REZONING OUR PLANNING AREAS OF 273, 274 TO 275 ON THIS CURRENT MAP TO FOREST TRAIL. THIS IS GOING TO BE THE, THE PROPOSAL IS SO THAT WE CAN MINIMIZE ENROLLMENT AT THE NEW BLENDED.
AND BE ABLE TO SEAT ALL OF OUR VALLEY VIEW KIDS AFTERWARDS, THE TOTAL REZONING.
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SO THE AREAS WE'RE LOOKING AT, ROB ROY ON THE LAKE, I THINK I WENT THROUGH ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS LAST TIME. I DO NOT HAVE THEM MEMORIZED, EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE ASK ME. BUT THIS WOULD BE THAT EASTERN BLOCK OF CURRENT BARTON CREEK ZONING AREA.JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY WHAT THAT DOES, THAT GETS US CLOSER OR A LOT FURTHER BELOW THE 700 MARK, WHICH IS KIND OF A GOAL OF OURS FOR THE CURRENT BLENDED CAMPUS.
IT DOES INCREASE OUR ENROLLMENT TO ROUGHLY ABOUT 547 AT FOREST TRAIL.
JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY, THIS CHART DOES HAVE GROWTH ON IT.
HOPEFULLY SOON WE'LL START TALKING REAL NUMBERS AS WE START OPENING UP OUR SIV ENROLLMENT.
A LITTLE OVER 30 STUDENTS IS ABOUT TOTAL FOR THIS.
YEAH, THAT WAS QUICK. THANK YOU CHAD. QUESTIONS? COMMENTS FROM THE FROM THE BOARD DISCUSSION. I WOULD JUST ADD THAT I WAS AT FOREST TRAIL THE OTHER NIGHT, LAST TUESDAY FOR THIS MEETING WHERE THE FAMILIES FROM THIS AREA CAME AND VISITED FOREST TRAIL.
IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MEETING. EXEC HAD MET THAT MORNING, AND WE HAD ACTUALLY PUSHED THIS VOTE ITEM OUT TO TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, AND A LOT OF THE PARENTS AT THAT MEETING CAME UP AND SAID, WOULD YOU PLEASE VOTE ON IT SOONER? WE REALLY WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR PLANNING.
AND SO THEY ASKED US TO BRING THIS IN, AND I TEXTED DR.
ARNETT THAT NIGHT AND SAID, LET'S, LET'S GO AHEAD AND BRING THE VOTE IN.
SO I THINK THAT THAT I'M NOT SAYING I MEAN, CHANGE IS HARD.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THESE FAMILIES ARE ALL GUNG HO TO CHANGE.
I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR THEM ON THAT BEHALF. BUT THEY WERE VERY ANXIOUS TO TO GET THE VOTE DONE AND, AND BE ABLE TO KNOW FOR SURE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
SO ANYWAY, THAT, THAT THAT WAS MY TAKE ON MEETING WITH THOSE FAMILIES LAST WEEK.
OKAY. THE MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. SO THOSE FAMILIES NOW KNOW.
[9.2 Request to approve resolution to notify TEA of intent to amend the District of Innovation plan]
LAURA.OF ATTEMPT TO AMEND THE DISTRICT OF INNOVATION PLAN.
MOTION BY LAURA, SECOND BY KIM. ANY DISCUSSION? DR. ARNETT, DO YOU WANT TO? SO YOU HAD A CONVERSATION EARLIER TONIGHT ABOUT DISTRICT COMMITTEES.
THE DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TEAM IS ONE OF THOSE.
THERE'S ACTUALLY A PRESCRIBED PROCESS IN THE EDUCATION CODE REGARDING ANY CHANGES TO OUR DISTRICT OF INNOVATION PLAN, AND THIS IS A FORMALITY. THE DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TEAM AT ITS MEETING LAST WEEK DID REVIEW TWO POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS TO OUR DISTRICT OF INNOVATION PLAN.
AND SO WE'LL BRING THOSE FORWARD FOR YOUR DISCUSSION.
BUT PART OF THE PROCESS IS FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION THAT FORMALLY NOTIFIES THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING OR INTENDING TO MAKE AMENDMENTS TO OUR DISTRICT OF INNOVATION PLAN.
SO THIS IS JUST A FORMALITY. IT'S A STEP IN THAT PROCESS.
AND THEN WE'LL BRING THOSE AMENDMENTS TO YOU FOR DISCUSSION, PROBABLY AT THE FIRST MEETING IN MARCH FOR LIKELY ADOPTION OR ACTION AT THE SECOND MEETING IN MARCH. [INAUDIBLE], ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT? THANK YOU, DR. ARNETT. DIANE. I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THAT.
COULD YOU JUST SHARE WITH US AGAIN AND REMIND US HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ON THAT COMMITTEE AND WHAT TYPES OF INDIVIDUALS COMPRISE THAT? YEAH, THE DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TEAM IS ACTUALLY OUR LARGEST COMMITTEE IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I THINK THERE ARE PRESENTLY 47 MEMBERS OF THAT COMMITTEE.
THIS YEAR, WE'VE HAD VERY ROBUST ATTENDANCE BECAUSE WE'VE CONSIDERED EVERYTHING FROM THE CALENDAR TO NOW, THESE POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS TO THE DOI PLAN. SO IT'S A IT'S A LARGE COMMITTEE, BUT VERY ENGAGED.
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AND WE HAD A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH THEM LAST WEEK ABOUT THESE POTENTIAL AMENDMENTS.THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. THE MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED AND DISCUSSION AND DISCUSSED.
AT THIS TIME, WE'LL VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION SAY AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. OUR NEXT ITEM IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA.
[10. ACTION - CONSENT AGENDA]
DO I HAVE A MOTION? KIM. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS POSTED.MOTION BY KIM. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND BY HEATHER.
ANY DISCUSSION? I WAS EXPECTING A VERY ROBUST DISCUSSION OF THE COOLING TOWER VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE INSTALLATION, BUT I GUESS WE'RE JUST SPENT TONIGHT. SO MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. OH, THERE IS A, THERE'S AN OPEN FORUM SLIDE.
AND THAT WAS FOR THE TAPR REPORT. BUT WE HAD NO ONE SIGN UP.
OKAY. SO MAKE NOTE OF UPCOMING BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEETINGS.
[12. UPCOMING MEETINGS]
THIS FRIDAY WE HAVE A BOARD WORKSHOP IN THE MORNING SEVEN 7:30 A.M..YEAH 7:30. SO IT'S ALSO A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR OUR STAFF.
SO WE'LL WE'LL MEET EARLY AND REVIEW AND UPDATE ON OUR PROGRESS TOWARDS CERTAIN STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND THE WORK ON THOSE WITHIN EACH OF OUR RESPECTIVE LEADERSHIP AREAS.
PERFECT. AND THEN OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE FEBRUARY 25TH.
AND WITH THAT, THE BOARD IS ADJOURNED AT 8:55.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.