001This special meeting of the Waco Independent School Board is hereby called to order. All items which may be discussed or voted upon this evening have been posted as required by state law. I extend a warm welcome to those present and to our television viewers. The board's purpose is to set goals, listen to listen to reports of the superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personal appointments and make policy for the district. We are not here to make management decisions or solve problems of individuals. Management is the responsibility of the superintendent and her staff. I ask that you turn your cell phones to silent if you have not already done so. We appreciate the time you have taken to join us and for your interest in the Waco Independent School District. We're moving on to item two. Do
002we have anyone sign up for public comments? No. All right. We are moving on to item three. Consider, discuss, and take appropriate action regarding the South Wo Elementary turnaround plan presented by Miss Carmen Logan. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to come before you, Mr. President, Dr. Spicer, members of the board. Um we're here just briefly to discuss um a TA requirement for a turnaround plan for South Waco Elementary. Um as you see on the first screen here, it says high quality curriculum implementation and instructional leadership development. One of the first things that when TA is requiring this plan, they give only a couple strategies that we can choose from to be able to use. So the two of them that we've decided um in collaboration with South Waco Elementary as well as district
003leadership is focusing on that high quality instructional curriculum and instructional leadership development. So just briefly this is the timeline. I know you have it in your packet but why the timeliness of this is that why we're meeting today is because it does have to be board approved by June 30th 2025. The submission is simply it's a Qualric survey. there's a link um with information that's filled out based on the things that we're talking about here today that's a part of the turnaround plan. So the reason why we're here today um and for the accountability ratings was in 2019 South Waco was rated a 59 which was for accountability purposes an F. And so that year they were required to develop a targeted improvement plan or sometimes we refer to it as a tip. Um but
004Just as the recent release of our 2023 scores, um the requirement is with two consecutive years that you develop a turnaround plan. And so based on our recent scores being released that we have a turnaround plan and so you notice the 2024, we don't have ratings for that, but the next step with that would be to actually implement um the plan that we're talking about tonight. And so the requirements for TTA is to develop a turnaround with clear priorities aligned to the campus's ratings. And so as I mentioned the two priorities or the two strategies that we're using is sometimes you'll hear the HQIM you also may hear uh open education resources or it's of course abbreviated as well um OEARS and so those are the focus. So, thank you um board for last Thursday
005night for approving our new um blue bonnet instruction. So, that um you're going to see in just a minute why that's going to be especially important for South W. And so then in addition to that, we're going to be working with TEA requires that when we're working to use a vetted partner and so one of the partners that um our leadership has interviewed multiple people. We all also approved their quote last week at the meeting um is instruction partners. So everything is very aligned to the work that we're doing and fitting into the turnaround plan for South W. the campus and district will engage in instructional leadership development focused on building sustainable systems that drive student outcomes and beyond the classroom. And so I thought this was important. So all of our campuses have been
006in school improvement had to have a ESF diagnostic that goes through region 12 where two members of their team come out and they spend a full day from observing students coming in to observing transitions during the day. they um sit in PLC's leadership meetings um but they were also required to submit some artifacts and so as you see here the academic when they submitted those artifacts that 63% of the RLA reading language arts and 20 20% of the math assignments did not meet the threshold for high quality assignments. So the goal was to be at 75. So we were significantly closer in Rlay um significantly further behind in math. And so some of the steps in working to work on the high quality instruction as well as the leadership is through instructional walks um with
007campus as well as district weekly PLC's with internalization and data review. I was just the opportunity was just meeting uh with Miss Atnip again and just as she's got very clear plans that she's working on her playbook for what that looks like on her campus. Um addition to that quarterly data reviews minimumly quarter data reviews and coaching bi-weekly instructional rounds and targeted professional development um for not only the teachers but also the leaders on the campus. And then what that looks like the structures bi-weekly instructional walks and the purpose of that monitoring implementation and then calibrating with observers both at the campus level leadership as well as district level leadership and supporting um weekly PLC's getting to that deep planning and then with our HQIM really focusing on that lesson internalization so that they can
008practice um before going into that first teach data reviews again quarterly with monitoring their progress and um guiding in to make those decisions on guiding instruction, observation and feedback through campus leadership as well as from district leadership coaching the leaders on campus to support teacher growth and then the leadership coaching. So that will be through the principal supervisor as well as our DCSI our district coordinator for school improvement and instructional rounds. And this is something that we're looking at with across departments. So that we're focusing on special education, our um any of our other early childhood. So bringing in our coordinators for reading language arts, all of those different individuals to to help be those support pieces for the campus as well. And then all of that is professional development. So quarterly and ongoing through
009PLC's through staff meetings. What questions do you have? Question just want to clarify the you mentioned math is 20% not meeting and six for RLA was 63% not meeting. So which one is right? 63% met. Okay. Just want just want to make sure of the RLA 20% met for math. Okay. So, just I may have just mis misread it. So, yeah. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Perfect. Thank you. Yes. And really, real quickly, what that is, so every third, fourth, and fifth grade teacher that they had last year when this was done had to submit three artifacts. So third grade teacher had to present and what it was was three assignments that she had given to the the students to do. So it wasn't the student work. They just looked at what the teacher was assigning.
010You mentioned quarterly data that we're going to look at like what are we looking at per what numbers are we looking at based on so it will be their IR data it will be their TCA data discipline data it will be looking at all of their data but mainly focusing obviously on the academics for this part of it but we'll be looking at when we're talking about quarterly reviews and I'll just clarify one thing so that's going to be happening from the executive director lenses um and the leadership side and the curriculum side along with the principles so they have when we submit this plan to TA we are obligated whatever we put on paper we're going to be doing so they'll be doing that so when we do meet with the board and we
011say say um strategic plan it's I'm making this up 2.1 right if we say that's in November we'll come back and we'll do the whole district okay so just so you know there's two things going on okay thank you uh how does can we go back one slide So on some of these, how how does this differ from what we're currently doing? I mean, we do data reviews, we do PLC's, we do professional development. I think it's gonna a lot of it's going to be the oversight. So, not only the principal manager, but oversight by the school improvement team as we're really looking at how we're looking at school leadership within our department, how we're shifting for that oversight of our campuses, really tiering campuses just like um and tearing support just like we do
012with teachers at a campus. And on going back to the quarterly review, is is that you I you know more than I do, but I'm thinking is quarterly enough? I mean, if if it if it comes down to a student getting behind in week one, so that's the more formal review. All of this is going to be the continuous cycle is we're in PLC's, we're in ILT meetings with the campus and so making those on-time adjustments at the same time. So these are kind of those bigger picture reviews. Okay. Mr. Bledo, do you have any questions or discussion? No. Mr. Abnusi, do you have any questions or discussion? Mr. Ela, do you have any questions or discussion? No. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the South Coaround Plan. So moved.
013Second. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? The motion passes. Thank you, Miss Logan, for the information and presentation. Yeah. With that, we're adjourned at 5:41.