001back to P Independent School District meeting uh March 27 2025 uh first on the agenda we have public participation which we have none uh next will be staff reports Dr B oh and let the record show that uh Mr Brandon bti arrived at 5:45 okay thank you president Lon one thing that we just want to remind everyone is that our STAR Test season will begin on um April the 8th with English one so we want everyone to be reminded and be cognizant of our students take very good care of them treat them well let make sure they get a great night's sleep because our testing will go through the month of April so we want them to come to school ready to learn in a good mood not hungry I mean just have slept all
002night slept all night long and ready to test so we're excited about this year and we're ready to begin is is here now so here we go Miss lot for the month of March we have had a lot of media coverage as you can tell from this title page one of our Librarians was featured on channel 12 news at Daybreak prior to read Across America week to let audiences know what PISD was doing throughout the district to to celebrate read Across America week our career fair that we hosted yesterday evening was on the news last night I actually saw it in real time um our PISD alumni uh kayn Gardner senior who is a new Justice of the Peace has started a Judicial Academy and that was reported by the Port Arthur News we had
003three different articles in the latest edition of The bont Business Journal there were two articles about weekly School of Early Child Hood one of their business partners um financed and U another business partner constructed a new covered walkway for the campus and also the fact that Dr Porter is on the incoming board of directors and we are starting to do student and staff spotlights so we have one teacher um at the at Memorial High School to start the series off and her name is Jennifer Gonzalez so that's on our YouTube page we had 20 observances for the month of March and when we do our observances we like to feature photos of our students and staff rather than like stock footage of random people so that people can recognize their students and their students teachers
004and relate more to our Graphics here are some more of our uh March observances continued um International women's day was March 8th and then Texas Public Schools week and for spring break this year the elementary campuses engaged in a spring break challenge um with having the students complete and pass um lessons on I ready and I'm assuming that whichever school had the highest percentage won the popsicle party but I have I don't know what school that was so here are some pictures from RE Across America week uh Dr Seuss's birthday a lot of activity across the district and everybody including our superintendent was in on the fun uh the top left corner we have some students showing their solar system projects and science Awards our third quarter report cards were issued we had students who
005completed the second phase of Camp SE report on yesterday several of our um life skill students were able to visit the rodeo at the South Texas State Fair and they had a good time you can tell from the pictures at the campuses have posted uh you can tell from the videos that um that were posted as well our life skill students at Alpha they have been learning how to cook uh I remember in the fall I believe they made pizza and so this particular picture in the bottom left corner they're making breakfast and the queen Elementary usually you see campuses um celebrating perfect attendance report card grades or AR points the queen actually celebrated CBA scores with their students Wilson early college students attended the annual women and Industry event this week and they had
006a lot of nice activities I even saw pictures where the girls were receiving makeovers in addition to student networking with industry professionals and reviewing resumés and practicing interviewing skills we have a student author at Travis Elementary Little Miss Aubrey Nichols has co-authored a book that is now available on Amazon and the book is about her adventures around our city with her grandmother so we are very proud of that we had seven of our CTE autoc Collision students and six welding students who attended the UTI top Tech Challenge and they won over $21,000 in scholarships and we are proud of these kids but it's also you'll see in one of our upcoming student Spotlight videos they are very proud of themselves and um there will be a presentation at the at the campus so we will
007cover that as well when the students will be presented with their scholarships and that's uh coming up next month we have had some U literary criticism wins this was at a meet at um Sabine Pass and we also had Youth and government students that have been U doing well at their conferences and youth and government just received a big Grant from um one of the business partners and the YMCA to go to their next conference some of ours I think this is Wilson's Fitness club participated in the Marty gr this year the second picture um this is the teacher who we did the spotlight video from the first slide her name is Jennifer Gonzalez and she is a 2025 rard Award winner so she it's a very extensive application process there are multiple pieces to
008it it's very hard to be awarded this and her award is $10,000 uh Wilson's Maritime Club was able to visit the sanino Maritime technology training center we had students from Memorial 9 who went to the student exposure Expo and one of our students placed in that particular event the bottom left um is uh Thomas Jefferson's culinary arts after school club we have students from the CTE building who are still um taking and passing those parts to the real estate licensing uh program so here are some new students who have um passed their exams we have a student who has been named a ketta Scott King champion of Excellence winner um and this is from The Martin Luther King support support group from Wilson Early College student we named our 2025 2026 teachers and rookies of
009the year we posted those uh announcements on social media and we also posted some of the surprise uh looks on their faces when they found out that they won and uh we made the bottom left corner our new Banner pick on our Facebook because that is the cutest group hug picture something that I thought was very cute and something new Adams Elementary had a fundraiser where they had a stuffed animal sleepover so the students it may have been like a dollar the students paid a dollar or whatever the fee was to have their uh stuffed animal spend the night in the school library so the campus took pictures of all of the fun that the stuffed animals had during the slumber party so as you can see they were on the computer they listened to
010music they read books they played games and there was even some videos where the campus had the animals moving around kind of like puppets doing little activities and they posted the vide so that the children will see what their stuffed animals did uh at the at the sleepover a lot has been going on with all of our sports teams our auxiliaries have named their new 2526 rosters tracking field is in full bloom and we hosted the um Titan relays last week softball has started our uh baseball team has been winning the um I think it was last week they play bont United on Tuesday and Friday and they won both games and our powerlifting team we we on these pictures you see that the media team is producing a video featuring the power the girls
011powerlifting team our um spring tennis teams have been uh having some good meets and we have been posting those results we had one student Michael R was named to the memorial um the waterburger super team uh and so that was covered by the port AR news and they came during the track meet to present him with his award and he I believe is he's one out of 40 athletes named to the team out of the state of Texas so that's a huge accomplishment um some people didn't know we had soccer and our soccer team made it to the first round of the playoffs this year um unfortunately in the second round they didn't win the second round but they did make it that far and we're still proud of them nonetheless and um today we
012just posted an update to our Middle School soccer team schedules so we do have girls and boys soccer middle school and high school and then we had several of our basketball players who made all district teams and we had two that made All Region teams for Our Lady T we had some that made all district and what I thought was particularly very nice to recognize they had an academic all district roster and we had several students that made the academic all district ladies basketball Adams Elementary has started to highlight their um boys and girls basketball team players um I don't know if it's on a daily basis or every other day but they've started doing a these little highlights for their student students and I know the kids enjoy that cuz I'm pretty sure they
013like posing for these pictures everyone they have a different pose and you can tell that they're kind of like uh imitating what they see the high school kids do in their Sports um photos our um tennis team has a fundraiser that will be ending on April the 1st and we have been helping them to publicize that and these are some of our community engagement um initiatives where we have been promoting and supporting what's going on in our community um our PISD retired Teachers Association donated books to Travis Elementary our band is going to have pajama practice tomorrow night and they it's not just for kids in the band it's open to anyone to come and watch the band practice in their pajamas if you would like to wear pajamas to the practice to watch in
014the audience you can but it's not required but it is open to the community for students who are interested in ban or people who just appreciate music in general um our Flames participated in Lamar's health fair they were one of the featured guests that performed during the health fair we hosted a blood drive in the administration building before spring break and we actually set a record for the administration building because we were able to get 16 units of blood Don so that's a record for us some of our senior girls participated in the Delta Sigma data catian we are having our Founders Day our Port Arthur City Council of pta's Founders Day program in London is going to be tomorrow at the Courtyard Cafe uh we had our top teens they went to a conference
015in San Antonio and they uh as a lot of our most most of these kids are our students and they won some prizes I know one of them was like for like the newsletter or Communications or something and um one of our Wilson students ois Washington was elected as the top teens area pres president at that conference and that was in San Antonio and so they will be going to another conference in New Orleans pretty soon um our welding students made a return trip to the Livestock and Rodeo Show this this uh year in Houston and I like how they dress the park for that uh the drill team is having a spring review on April the 12th and they are we've been helping promote that so that they can sell tickets to that fundraiser
016and project graduation dates and times and location have been announced we are still moving forward with our 70 is the standard campaign and we have been um putting our bond uh on social media campaign out to the public as well we will have our first uh Community town hall meeting this coming Monday March 31st at 6 o'clock at Strong Tower uh church and um so we have been posting um these different Graphics um every night and we'll continue to um push that social media campaign moving forward and this is our media summary of a lot of accomplishments from our alumni one alumni um was named the new Public Works director for bulat the city of bont we had two Lincoln alumni well that that young lady graduated from Thomas Jefferson we had two Lincoln alumni
017who went to the military and are now njrc instructors and they happen to meet up at as some type of njrtc competition and recognized each other so they sent us the information about um the that event and then the band has started doing their own alumni Spotlight and this particular alumni is actually a surgeon now one of our alumni has been named teacher of the year for her campus at bont ISD uh Keandre Jones who you remember from setting the track and basketball records is still doing well at Lamar Port Arthur and our weekly Elementary um weekly School of Early Childhood principal has authored a book that is also available on Amazon for just just $1 and then uh we remember our former uh employees who have passed away um since we last met thank
018you thank you Mrs L in addition uh we would like to announce that the portar Independent School District will be closed on Friday April 18th for good Good Friday the original schedule cause uh stated that we would be closed the Monday following which would be the 21st however due to the snow days that we incurred we will that will be another makeup date the 21st so we will have only the Friday off and return on Monday Dr Porter I do have something I want to mention and highlight I think it was really good to see um of course how we supported on social media the soccer team um I think it would be a great opportunity for us to keep that steam going on behalf of the soccer team by inviting them to our next
019board meeting along with their families to recognize them I don't know how far our soccer team has gone ever before um but soccer is a sport that is indeed a hard sport to play and I think that it definitely deserves recognition just like basketball and football um so I think it'd be great if we can invite them to our next meeting and recognize them for um getting as far as they did and we have talk to the coach that's good thank you yes can I ask a question Dr P could you or staff provide the names of those two books whenever you get a chance that she mentioned she mentioned the elementary student co-author and then the other the last principal yes okay definitely why don't we do this why don't I just get copies
020that's everyone that's even better yes we definitely want to support our student and our staff so get copies for you excellent thank you yes no that that concludes okay that concludes that one off consider if appropriate approve the minutes of the February 27 2025 BN Board of Trustees meeting do I have a motion move for approval second motion was made by by Mr get would all in favor say I I I oppos consent agenda the following items which are a routine or real curring nature have been designated consent agenda items by the board president per policy be local all of the items in the consent agenda will be acted upon by one vote without being discussed separately unless requested by a trustee in which event the item or items will be withdrawn immediately for individual
021consideration in this normal sequence after items not requiring separate discussion have been acted upon I'll give you a minute to look at items 1 through 14 okay uh I need a motion so move for approval of the consent agenda items 1 through 14 motion was made by and second by Miss Dian Brown all in favor say I I all opposed next we have Personnel uh first one we have considering if appropriate approving of teachers so for no teachers we don't have teachers we so okay so considering if appropriate approve employment of social worker cons appr approve employment of Social Work second go ahead motion was made by Miss D Brown second B Mr Dr Brown all in favor say I I all considered if appropriate approve employment of teachers twice yeah go ahead okay considering
022appropriate approve nonrenewal of probationary employment contracts any motion motion we approve second know second next non okay considering if appropriate approved proposed non-renewal of term contracts huh oh I need a motion okay need a vote on the for the emplo of a social worker right we did the social we're on the second vote all in favor say I I all oppos okay did we approve the employment of teach the first one we didn't have have any teachers we don't have soci Dr Brown you made the the second for for that one Dr Brown second the um yeah the nonrenewal I second the social work all right all right good Lord Jesus Rob water training tomor consider appropriate approve proposal nonrenewal of term contracts need a motion I'm motion it we approve second motion was made
023by m Brown second by Dr Brown all in favor say I I all opposed considering if appropriate approv return to probationary status of employment contracts need a motion so move second motions made by Dr Brown second by J cor all in favor say I I all opposed considering if appropriate approve renewal of probationary status of employment contracts some moves second motion was made by Mr gwood second by Dr Brown all in favor say I I I oppos considering if appropriate approve renewal of 2-year employment contracts for professionals motion approve second motion was made by m second Mr Mr gwood all in favor say I I all opposed considering if appropriate approve renewal of two-year employment contracts for administrators need a motion so moved second motion was made by Mr gwood second by Mr NIS in
024favor say I I all oppos considering if appropriate approve oneyear employment contracts for profession administr need a motion second made get second by Mr Brown all in favor say I I allos information average daily enrollment 8,065 average daily attendance by month 91.8 we call for adjournment at 6:54 p.m. some and second