001Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. We will now have the invocation led by Miss Karen Lowry, and pledges led by Mr. Mike Moore. Bow your heads with me, please. Heavenly Father, our creator and our sustainer and our protector. Thank you for your neverending mercy and grace and forgiveness. We thank you for your guidance and your wisdom. May we seek you in all of our decisions. We thank you for your presence with us tonight. May our words and deeds bring honor and glory to you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Please join me in the pledge algiance to the flag of the
002United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. And we did not have anyone sign up for public comments tonight. So instead, we're going to switch gears a little bit and have our superintendent give her first 90day superintendent report. Okay. All right. So, some of you have seen this before. Um, but we'll go through this and then if you have questions after this about the plan or what was in the plan, we want to make sure and give you a chance to ask that even though you're not signed up for public comment. So, want to give you that kind of heads up when you're thinking
003through the slides. So, um, I gave this presentation at the board meeting. Um, but added just a few reminder slides. I always like to remind you guys that um how many students we have, how many employees we have, how many teachers um are starting teacher salary and average teacher experience in campuses. So that's a great reminder. These are numbers from this year and so as soon as we get numbers for next year, we'll update these slides. We want to make sure and put these numbers in front of you each time that we talk to you. Um also a great reminder about what our student body looks like. And so you'll see in here that we have some student groups that are um the largest student group is white students at 68%. Uh but our Hispanic
004group is a is a large group and it's 27% about 26.2% right now. Once again, we'll update those with new enrollment numbers as it comes across over the summer and into the fall. Um and here's some numbers as well from last year. Um I always say to to look at the economically disadvantaged at 57%. Um, and what that means is those are the students that qualify for free and reduced lunch. Um, so, uh, there's probably even more that did not complete the paperwork. We know that's, um, a difficult challenge for some families, and I know our campuses do a really good job of helping, but there's always ones that slip through. Um, 91% credit uh, students take a CTE class at high school. 9% are gifted and talented. And that number already at special education
005is a little outdated. I think we're at 17% um, special education in our district. So really what is this? Uh this is a comprehensive 90-day report. Um and so there are three things that are included in this report. And the first one is an analysis of all the stakeholder sessions that you participated in all over uh the city. Um and then also just a review of the district structure and processes and and how we can look at those and and find places to improve and then my recommendations going forward. So a lot of you participated in not one but many engagement sessions and so we appreciate it. Um you hopefully saw me at lots of different groups but we had 10 staff, four parent, four student and six community um engagement sessions and total participants
006were over a thousand um people. So lots of good voices to be heard. And one of the questions we asked was what is Granberry do well? And so we picked the top three trends that showed up in all of the responses and they uh number one our staff showed up over and over and over. really appreciated the caring and supporting teacher. Number two, our CTE program showed up all over the place in the engagement sessions and really the community uh the communication and community involvement was one of the strengths found in all of those engagement sessions. Here are some of the comments um that we heard. And so uh you know you can read all of those, but mainly the ones that I like are the teachers truly care about the well-being and future of
007our children as reflected in the heart they pour into our job. And I think that's a great um summary of how our teachers, not only our teachers, but our staff respond to students. Um the other one that I like is the I love the CTE program and how it supports students learning and trade knowing that not every student is going to college. So those are a couple of highlights, but there's others on the board as well. The second question was, okay, so we talked about what we did well. Where do we have an opportunity to improve? Um and so, uh these are the three trends that really showed up the most across all groups. And we have an areas areas to improve our staff support and salary that came up a lot. Um facilities and
008buses came up a lot between the groups and culture and connections. And that means it's kind of a a broad overview of um some of the words we had about teacher support and about uh student connections and and people feeling valued at their job and different things. So it's kind of an overarching theme for that. And some of the comments we had were um that we need to communicate positive things and connect with the community. Um another one said we need to provide better 5A quality facilities, newer technology. Um and just some other things. Behavior also came up a lot in here as support for teachers. And then the last thing is in your opinion, what should the immediate focus of the district be? So you remember we did those little um interactive uh slideshows
009with your phones. And so I broke it into four different voices. So the staff said really we should concentrate on number one, the biggest was behavior and bullying just like I mentioned a minute ago. Um climate and culture of staff and then there was an even mix of academics and communication going on over there for those almost 600 people that participated in that. We had some parent voices through surveys and engagement sessions. And the top one was communication as you can imagine with parents. They want to make sure they know what's being communicated. uh behavior and bullying and then both reading, writing, math and science were also at the top of their list as district focus. The students surprisingly were a little different. Um and so uh they said we really need to focus on
010CTE and the choice opportunities which remember is just getting to choose how you learn. And so Steam Academy was an example of that choice. And then they didn't they didn't think we should focus on reading, writing, math, and science at all. Can you imagine it? Cell phone use. Look at that one. I think it had like two in there, but then they did want to think about behavior and bullying, communication, and safety and security. And then community came really the top three that stood out for them were and we had almost 200 um was reading, writing, math and science and then CTE learning was at the top of the community list. And so what I did is I pulled all those voices together and put all groups combined really what we want to focus on.
011and reading, writing, math, and science, communication, behavior, bullying, and climate and culture were at the top of that list for all groups combined. Um, and so what we came up with is, and I'll come, never mind, I'll come back to that summary in a second. Okay. And then we did some internal reviews kind of um thinking about where our strengths are as a district and where we might need to think about getting a little more um focused on. And so strengths and I don't want to read all of them to you but um lots of wonderful things going on here from staff both at the campus and leadership levels. Um we have our curriculum and special services are student centered. We operate effectively and frugally and budgeting is cautious and prudent. Uh we've got all
012of these departments that are operating smoothly. Students have lots of wonderful extracurricular activities. U we've included lots of examples there and you've heard us brag on lots of those different ones. And then we have a a thoughtful and collaborative strategic plan that had been developed. So that's our strengths. Some areas that we found after review is um that we needed to get better on and think about including in our plans going forward are that we want to build trust by being transparent about district goals with stakeholders. So that was a constant that came back. Um we want to explore opportunities ensure to ensure Granberry ISD is a high performing district in the state and nation and the best choice for families. So that gives us kind of a focus there. Um we want to always
013work on culture and climate where people feel valued and then some things that we need to formalize and we will our long range facilities plan our instructional support and expectations and some procedures here at district office office. So putting it all together. So we took all the staff engagement feedback and our internal review and came up with our with these kind of focus areas. So you'll see um we've got the first six are already identified somewhere in our strategic plan. I had missed student behavior and bullying has a piece in there before. Um but really seven and eight we've got to get a little bit better at um transparency with district goals and clarifying district processes really need to be a part of that. So um we're going to take all that all that good
014work that's been done and here's my recommendations going forward. So the first one already did so you don't have to give any feedback on that. It's already been done. I presented it to the board at our last board meeting and um listened to any feedback that they had to give and really we're going to we're going to move forward um with some of these recommendations. One is that our strategic plan has was developed uh collaboratively and took a lot of um time and effort and it's a really great plan but it's a little u large and hard to read. And so one of the things that we're going to do is create a two-page easyto read um version of that and post it on the website for you to see what we're doing. Um, what
015did you say? It already is. It already Yeah. Well, we've got Yeah, we got we're working on that. And then we're also getting we're working on a two-page version, a little smaller one, too. You think you posted the 90-day report? Yeah. Okay. Uh, and then we're we're not going to ignore the the committee work that's already been in there. We're going to continue that work. And then we're also going to create a district scorecard. And so that will monitor how we're doing on the plan. So, we'll give you updates along the way about the goals that we're going to set as a as a board hearing. Next thing is that we need to schedule a session and we're working on it really hard to schedule a session uh to uh have the board develop some
016goals for us to go to add to our strategic plan. So they're going to tell us kind of what they want where we want to shoot for and then we're going to make sure that we publish that and tell you how we're doing on those goals. That'll be the scorecard. Um next we are creating I'm creating four advisory groups. So, you heard you saw me get the voices of students, of staff, of parents, of um community members. We're going to continue that work um and create advisory committees for each one of those groups for me. I know there's different advisory groups everywhere, but this is for the superintendent so that I can continue to evolve that plan and make sure that we're listening to voices. And then lastly is that I'm going to present regularly
017this information, especially as we up give you updates. Um, we'll be updating the board monthly on the strategic plan and how we're doing and I'll be going on the road and and I know I've already told a couple of groups if you need me to present, ask me to present to some group that you're affiliated with. Happy to come and share this because we want to make sure that people know what we're doing and what our outcomes are. And just a quote that we've got lots of great things going on granting people and passion we have in our district, there's nothing we can't accomplish. The last thing is that we've got two opportunities. Um one is the if you want to be a part of the ambassadors and basically it is learning kind of four
018sessions about school. Uh and at the end if you were going to think about either joining a district committee or even running for a school board. We will have some information about the the process for that. The last one we've got one June 16th about policy and curriculum. Get excited. It's going to be super fun. We've already had two sessions and we've had good attendance at each of those sessions. We've had about 20 people at both sessions. So, um if you want to join us, all you have to do is just come and show up. But if you get on this form, I'll send you email reminders. So, that's helpful. The other thing is remember I said that we're going to do an advisory group for each one of those four areas. So, if you're
019a community member or parent or if you want to join one of the advisory groups, you can just QR code that and I'll put you on the list. Those actually won't start till beginning of school year next year, but you can sign up and then I'll start giving you some information along the way. So, that is my 90-day plan. I'd love to answer any questions um about the plan or questions that you have. Oh, we have some ambassadors. Who's who's here in the ambassador? I saw you, Henry. Anybody else besides See, it's fun. Don't you think it's fun, Henry? I do. I've learned a lot. Yeah, it's good. I get down in the details with y'all and it's a lot better than what I hear at the school board. Okay. Well, good. That's great. I'm
020glad to hear it. Perfect. Okay. Any questions or things that I can answer for this group about the plan? Easy. It's great. Okay. Good job. Okay. So, we don't have any comments about this. We don't have any public comments. So, um I think Okay. Yes. How does the schools here compare with the schools that you were you came from? What's the good, bad, and the ugly? Well, here's the great thing is there's good, bad, and ugly wherever you go. And so, the thing that's great about here is and the culture. I mean, the people and the culture and the the the work ethic and just this community of people that want to be involved is different than any place I've been in. So, I always share that that it's a special place to be. And
021so, that is a kind of what everybody has contributed to. Yeah, we have areas to get better in. I think um some of these things when we get our strategic plan a little more um concise is going to give us some focus on some things to fix and we'll be bringing that forward to you guys in y'all setting. But really I would say the culture, the community, just the willingness to do what's best um for our students is is by far the best I've been a part of. So good place to be. She skipped right over the bad and the ugly. I know. Well, we're not There's no bad and ugly. Both of those are me. No. Okay, that's a great question. Anybody else? All right. Do you want to Okay. Thank y'all for coming
022out tonight. The time is now 5:46 p.m. and this meeting is adjourned.