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REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SEPTEMBER 22, 2025

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YouTube / Progreso Independent School District
Date
2025-09-23
Location
Hidalgo County, TX
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889 words · about 5 min
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2026-06-20

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001You ch >> um call meeting to order uh September 22nd. Uh at this time uh pledge of allegiance takes place. Oh heavenly father, thank you Lord for another day thou has given us. Thank you for giving us the opportunity Lord once again to meet as uh schoolboard members and for this schoolboard meeting Father. We ask that you would guide us Lord and you will help us make the best decision for our district. Lord guide those that are presenting and us as board members to make those decisions. Father in Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. Amen. Thank you. Do we have any public audience? No public audience. All right. Awesome. At this time, we go to A4 August 11, 2025 board uh special board meeting, August 27th, 2025 regular board meeting for the minutes to

002approve. >> Motion by Martinez, second by Mr. Cost say I. I. All say nay. Motion passes. At this time, we go to district court. >> Good afternoon. Uh Mr. for board president, members of the board community. At this time, I want to inform that Senator Adamosa is donating 200 posters with the Ten Commandments. So, we're not going to have to spend money on the posters. Uh, and on behalf of Progresso, we want to thank our senator for uh this donation. >> Thank you. >> Also, on another note, we have with us Mr. Ruven Cortez, former member of the Texas State Board of Education and Region One board member. Uh he's been helping us out with the adult educa education process that we want to achieve this year. In fact, uh Dr. King was here with

003us this afternoon. Let's give him a round of applause. Come on over. >> Good afternoon, Mr. President, members of the board. Uh he he he's been reaching out about the adult ed. Uh, we spoke about it this morning and and I I know I hadn't been responsive. I want to apologize, but I know Dr. King not only called him today, but came out here. So, whatever we need to do to assist Progresso on the regional education service center side, let us know. We're here to make sure you guys >> and welcome to Progresso. Also, this past Friday, we had our childhood cancer awareness event, and we want to take this opportunity to thank Greater Gold Foundation. Uh the representative Marita Valencia donated uh some of the uh bracelets that we gave out the pins. Uh

004we had a very um incredible event. We need to make sure that uh we plan it accordingly because we also had a parents night with football. Uh but it was very emotional. On another note, let me pass him to you, but uh for the community, you can see it right here. We got the uh second uniform for band is a glad gladiator uh uniform. This is the one that we're going to use for the actual competition in Pixkin. And we also ordered them new shoes. We got him already. Uh so I wanted to let the community know and we're going to be posting that today. Also, the high school and early college created a newsletter for the community today. This one is brand brand new and it has a summary of the different programs that

005we have and we offer here uh in Progresso High School. As you can see, we have um ATT programs of study. We have the agriculture, food and natural resources, arts, audiovisisual technology and communication, business, marketing and finance, education and training, health science, human services, information technology and manufacturing. We're using this information to try to recruit students not only from Progresso but also from Weslo Donna and all the surrounded areas. This came out today as you can see. It's going to be the newsletter for the high school. And also as we move forward with the different programs that we have, we are pushing all of our CT uh teachers to create a club. I'm going to share with you the type of program we have for FFA. These are all the competitions that we're going to

006have this year. And as you know, FFA is one of our biggest programs. Uh we are planning to invest in this program this year. As you can see, the infrastructure that we have out there uh needs some work. So we're going to be bringing the plan to you. Uh but look at the program. I mean the competitions that we have throughout the years is amazing. And lastly, we are going going to start a reading initiative on Thursday. Uh Mariso will be contacting you to see if you want to come over and share uh some reading time with our little ones. We're going to start with uh Peek and Elementary. It'll be on Thursday and we'll adjust to your time. If you want to come over, I'm going to go and central office stab will go

007and we're going to be reading to uh our little ones. We are pushing air uh as much as possible and on Friday uh we are going to announce the winners for the first six weeks. Uh it's a secret right now so you'll know on Friday. Any questions? >> Any questions? No, I'm good. Thank you, Mr. G. >> Thank you very much. >> At this time, we go to B2 for the TIA information. >> As we talked last time, I know there were some questions about teacher incentive aotment and and uh we want to present to you the basic information as to what teachers get teacher incentive aotment. And on the other hand, I do want to present to you the actual numbers so that way everyone is on the same page as to going moving

008forward. uh 7030 or 9010. And I have some numbers that I'm going to present to you uh in comparison with Wesler, but at this time I'm going to pass it on to Miss Garcia. >> Good afternoon board members, Mr. President, and community. I'm going to go over our local designation system. So the makeup of the designation determination basically we have our performance standards our system weights and then our optional prerequisite. Our performance standards are our cut scores. the cut scores that we use. Um it's a minimum standards to meet each designation level for student growth and teacher observation. >> Click on the white So after our performance standards, we have our system weights. Um the weighing of the system components that we use here at the district is obviously the teacher observation which is a

009required that's 30%. The student growth it's it's at 60% and then the other effectiveness measure it's 10%. That's the next one on the side which is the op optional prerequisites. Um what we're using for this coming year is uh how many students they have at meets being that that is one of the goal that you're going to see across all campuses. The meets for for a star, the passing which is completely aligned to accountability and then the readiness within how much progress students made by comparing their by comparing their actual results to the results predicted. it.

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