001One of the things that I was very impressed actually today was actually the speakers this morning. To me, it was very interesting to hear it from a student point of view. So, I was able to enjoy that. I've been a schoolboard member for 25 years. So, I was glad that they incorporated the the kids. So, I hope that they continue to add students as speakers. This is my fifth year here, and each year they keep on bringing more and more tools for us to learn to guide us with our day-to-day operations as board members. We enjoy these conferences because it enables us to know what we do as board members. A lot of the times we come here thinking that we're going to fix and it and it's a quick fix and we're going to
002make decisions, but here we get guidance from professionals that will guide us making the proper decisions. Overall, just the message of, you know, the power of having a mission. It's it's crucial for anyone to have success. You know, you have to know what your end point is. And having all of our board members here present for this event has been excellent because we have some new board members that have joined us within the past few days and and it's been really great to get ourselves together and kind of just plan for what our mission is as a district. It's nice to meet other districts who are also, you know, experiencing the same thing regionwide. You know, we're all basically in the same boat and so it's good to network and plan. I really think that
003the overall, you know, theme of the whole entire session has been, you know, just the power of having that mission. I did get a lot of information from the attorneys. I know that was very useful and new to me because I mean, I've never been a schoolboard member. I've been a counselor. I've been a teacher. So, all of this was very new to me, very useful. And I do plan to go back and implement the laws and regulations as far as what we can and can't do this time around. for us. I know that we find us our ourselves needing help actually from region one and uh just by networking with other people here today, they are going to be giving us some extra help uh coming up this year. So, I'm excited at least
004that I was able to tag along on that. For us being such a small school district, it's it's a tremendous uh help that we're able to use region one for that. And they've always been out there uh helping us with everything from leadership information to student outcomes to just the extra services that they provide that we wouldn't be able to get them anywhere else. I took back how we can communicate better with the superintendent, how we can communicate better with our community. What is it that we can say that we can't say? What it is that we can request and we can't request? things that I didn't know before. Everything here is centered around the students for the school safety, even nutrition, their education. So, we're really glad to be here. I really want to
005encourage all board members. It doesn't matter how big or how small your school district is. If you're from South Texas all the way North Texas, any part of Texas, come on out. All of this can be applied and you can learn and you can take value back to your school district with these conferences. [Music]