001you shall engage in opportunity you'll engage in opportunities to grow in a safe environment through multiple approaches to learning Taylor ISD We Believe families are Partners who will be informed and supported an educational process to help students discover their unique potential ISD we believe the superintendent and the district leaders are forward-thinking prestigious accessible Partners type of community IT empowers staff to help students achieve their unique attention to their eyes see we believe the Border trustees is a collaborative thing anchored in Tradition with a vision towards the future connection to the community inspiring exceptional workplaces and excellent and students in Taylor ISD we believe our accessible campus leaders Foster Community relationships and demonstrate effective communication servant leadership and instructional leadership to guide faculty and staff towards our vision our mission Inspire equip and Empower every student
002to achieve their unique potential with a vision of intentionally empowering the whole child thank you trustees next on the agenda is one of my favorite when we get down and it's a recognition thank you Mr Ortiz uh first it is principal appreciation month here in this month of October so we do want to take a minute to recognize our principles as well all right at this time I'd like for our six principles to come forward we're proud of our principles and all that they do for our students and our community and we like to recognize them this month of October so if you please give our principals a big hand [Applause] all right thank you that's Thursday we we have sandwiches for him on Thursday as they're making their way to their seats we have
003Andy Bashi who's the principal at TH Johnson Erica Elizondo who is the principal at Legacy our Early College High School Felicia Gibson which is the principal of Naomi posman Elementary Carrie Pierce who's the principal of Main Street Intermediate Stephen v hill or Taylor Middle School principal and Matthew Womble who's the Taylor High School principal so Taylor ISD is very lucky to have you um you all as principals next up we are going to recognize our um some high school students who have had an outstanding performance either on their PSAT PSA 10 or and our AP exams throughout their high school year we'd like to First honor Elaine cervinka sorry uh trustees if you can join me in front of the guys foreign all right first up is Elaine chavinka [Applause] next we have Rebecca Courtney
004[Applause] Bethany Robles [Applause] Jayden Rush [Applause] Zane Talavera [Applause] Luke Thompson [Applause] Ava White [Applause] also not able to be with us who also received an honor were Caitlin Baum yahir can sell Serena McIntyre Miguel Ruiz Rose Simmons and Brennan Zephyr [Applause] Jim and I know [Applause] all right next we are going to honor our students of the month and we are going to start with Legacy Early College High School so when we call your name or names from each school please come to the front and just like um the other students did from Legacy Early College High School we have Abel Grimaldo and Soraya Rogers [Applause] thank you so my name is Jay Reed and I'm doing a leadership class at the high school and this is actually our first time to recognize student
005of the month and this was kind of the um the project that one of my classes my leadership class did and their idea was to not only recognize the students but also get some sponsors from the community involved to reward those students and also recognize all that were nominated and so one of the things that we've done is given a little baggie of treats goodies to all those that were nominated just to to recognize those that are doing what they're supposed to and above and beyond that and so our first winners of this award first up we have Estrella de la Torre and then we also have Ryan Valdez [Applause] I also wanted to mention that we had over 120 students nominated by teachers throughout the school and so I was just overwhelmed sometimes you
006can kind of lose track um dealing with some of the challenging students and you lose track of those students that are doing a really good job and so I was really encouraged by those students and thankful that we do have some awesome students at Taylor High School [Applause] next up we have Christina agami or origami and Colton Bittner from Taylor Middle School foreign Main Street Intermediate we have Gilbert Korea [Applause] all right from Naomi posman Elementary we have cyan Campisi Miguel and Hell Rios alamanza [Applause] all right and from th Johnson we have Paxton Metz [Applause] thank you all right congratulations to our students of the month everybody would come back and we're going to take a group picture please [Applause] thank you parents before we go on to public comments we're going to take
007a moment moment to pause just in case you want to make sure your child is getting home for a restful night before school tomorrow mm-hmm foreign next on the agenda is public comments and I do believe we have a public comment so members of the public who completed a public comment card are invited to speak at this time if I call your name please step up to the podium and state your name and the topic you would like to discuss please limit your comments at three minutes or less um it's pertaining to District Personnel or individual students are not permitted please recognize that under Texas the Texas opens meetings act the board may not take any action on any matter not listed on the public notice for this meeting board members will not be able
008to answer any questions or respond to situations directly but may request that the district's Administration follow up with you at a later date we do have public comments and I'd like to ask Vicki Thornton and Mr Werner to step up to the podium oh that's okay I'm just going by the names on there that's fine and the discussion eyes was presenting seven frame uh National models and God We Trust Baylor ISD you have three minutes and I don't mean to be rude everybody so if I cut you off and 30 minutes you better be about a minute all right as soon as you begin I'll start I'll try it thank you Dr pattabill and president Ortiz and board members for the opportunity to present our framed national motto in God we trust to Taylor ice
009ISD history reveals this motto has been prominent in our nation from the 1700s to present day president Dwight D Eisenhower signed the national motto into law on July 30th 1956. in 2006 the 50th anniversary of In God We Trust becoming our national motto the U.S Senate reaffirmed this motto and in 2011 the U.S House of Representatives passed a similar resolution president stating their support for our national motto include President Truman President Kennedy President Reagan President George H.W bush and president Trump on June 14 2021 Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 797 allowing our national motto to be placed on display in a conspicuous place in each building of the school on behalf of moms for Liberty Williamson County chapter it is our honor and privilege to present seven framed National mottos In God We Trust to
010Taylor ISD and with the principals please come forward your frame thank you thank you foreign um all right next on the agenda is the campus Spotlight from E.H Johnson Elementary Mr Ortiz well Mr Bashi is loading up here I just want to tell you uh we're really proud of the work our principals are doing in regards to goal one excellence and academic outcomes and at TH Johnson we know that the staff led by Administration but also in partnership with Miss Michelle holster are doing a lot to improve literacy when it comes to our Pre-K Kinder and first grade Learners so we really appreciate the three of you being here today uh we know what a long day you put in at t.h Johnson and I'm just really proud to showcase the work you're doing is
011the Apple TV on there we go thank you for inviting us to come up and present about we love I wanted to take a second and look at this is the this is the close of the first police we are excited to come up here and share with you kind of what we're doing at the school once the goal of this is kind of like to present here is here here's some things that make us special here's what th Johnson does here's what we believe what makes us us we kind of want to dig into some data then to look just briefly at the kind of data that the teachers are looking at how they are making decisions in the classroom the needs of the students that we have here and then um uh kind
012of like the plan for the future who are we we are Taylor at TH Johnson Taylor Taylor's Early Childhood Kansas City of 558 degrees we have 26 students three k three we have 39. we are at 40 as our capacity we are almost there pre-K four we have 112 kindergarten 192 at first our vision is to provide a nurturing caring environment children are eager we won all of our lives we're going to do this by laying a strong academic Foundation we make safety a top priority and we intentionally meet the social emotions when you think about our district Vision the mission this this Dr Patel gave us the challenge to talk to you tonight about kind of what makes us the very first thing we have to talk about with social emotional learning because this
013is part of what this is part of what makes phosph part of what we work with students and explicit instructions career readiness how to be assertive innocent and how to assertiveness and how to be assertive resolution bullying prevention counseling wanted to look at really what is the heart of looking what is this what is what behind th Johnson really makes sense we know that students need extra support learning social skills that is part of what we do every single we have a we have we have teachers that are a team that are behind that are behind the successful support for teachers for students for teachers coaching that goes into what what can be in the classroom strategies resources for the future but then also when we work with students we students that have Behavior needs
014we're actually explicitly teaching those behaviors what we want to see in the classroom just like we would teach the agencies what are some of the fun things because this all fits into that social emotional way so one way that we encourage our students with positive behaviors is some of the reward systems that we have in place have our weekly super ducks or our super ducklings so each week a teacher nominates one student and they come to the office on Fridays they receive a medal we talk about how we've seen the become safe kind of responsible and then they get their picture taken and that's that's a big thing for our kids at this age to be recognized behaviors another thing that our teachers are implementing so our kids can receive duck buckets in the classroom
015and as you can see we have two students that are getting to cash in those debt bugs and then we have our golden ducks at lunch so we have this little you did the teachers names and in class at lunch and then once they've received three golden Ducks they get extra recess impossible um free choice centers is also free choice centers is kind of what we do as a campus foreign social emotional learning but it's also academics and for somebody that would walk into th Johnson and not have an early childhood background they might think oh they're just playing but it's so much more than that when you see free choice centers happening in our classrooms they are practicing their social skills and regulation practicing making choices for themselves setting a goal and attaining that
016goal a lot of times there are you can see in these slides there's literacy and math built into centers and in one of the slides it's a movie theater and they're practicing paying for an item at the concession stand so a lot of things are built into the centers even though it looks like they're displayed they are playing but they're learning a lot built into that play and it's in the students don't even realize cursor to a lot of that beginning oral language and so they're they're beginning to have those conversations and build that early language that released like early literacy skills special events and Community connections so one thing that we I think we do really well at TH Johnson is also building community and um like bringing in our families because that's so
017important for our little ducks that we're fostering that community and family connection Within them and so one way that we're multiple ways that we do that um is through our Hispanic Heritage Month and celebrating that we know we know I feel like our bilingual teachers do a really good job of um celebrating that and teaching our kids to be proud um we have community helpers come in we had our firefighters this last week and then just through different learning field trips and providing those experiences that maybe our kids would we also have multiple like events throughout the year like our math and science programs were found on campus and be involved in different activities with their kids we have our canned food drive that we do I've got to kick off of the Thanksgiving season
018and then our Bubble Run that will last year we've gathered 14 over 1400 Camden Chevrolet um one huge thing for this year is we will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of our campus and so um that will be celebrated in the near future just look at the rich culture or the rich and history that comes with our campus and okay this will be in the springtime so it's coming this year we had to cancel it last year with a spike in Coven so we put it off so it's a it'll be th Mr th Johnson's 122nd birthday ah data just a little bit so I wanted to kind of think it just because I want to show you it's hard to talk about data a little bit at the um at an early childhood campaign
019we tend to look at Star Sports and we tend to be able to look real closely and go down to real specific standards and things like that I want to take you kind of from a teacher view from a school view from a bird's eye view down to a teacher View and drill down to show you the kind of data we collect on each student what we do with it and then we're going to kind of walk through some some more of like what that looks like so you can see that we collect real specific data working with students with real with things like with things like name uppercase letters and lowercase letters we're being very specific with it we also collect data from we have two main measures that we use for like a
020universal screener we have had our m-class data and then we also have our Renaissance data and Renaissance data is something we're collecting across the district take a look at this slide with you because this shows that bird's eye view and what does this show it shows a lot of red it shows a lot of things that so this isn't showing any specific at this point this is showing where students are but when I look at and there's a little bit on here that can be deceiving the top two um the top two teachers have a lot of bread but those are students that are in bilingual classes this is the first time they've ever been tested in English now what is it what can we do with this data when we drill it down to
021future level and then I take it and I focus on a classroom you can see have students that are well below benchmark it's red anymore I can see where that where they're low I can see that I have phonemic awareness deficits in this I can see that I have students with a lot of strength in this classroom that need to be pushed even farther I can go down One More Level here and I can see what I can see with Clarity with color-coded Clarity what student what students need assistance in what area we can we can see areas of deficits for certain names the meaning of awareness I have one student the second one down he's bringing across divorce except for phonemic awareness that's his one area that that should be the next thing that
022teacher focuses on if I drill it down even farther I'm taking a look at I want to take a look at this one and look at the headings at the top I want to look at things like letter names phonemic awareness letter sounds decoding word reading reading accuracy reading fluency oral language these are the things that we focus on that we teach that we are work that is these are the these are the areas instruct teachers are able our m-class data shows if these are the are Plus data when I was just showing you shows that our greatest area of learning of learning needs or deficits are in letter names and sounds phonemic awareness and decoding and word reading are the Renaissance data shows basically the same thing phonological awareness knowledge of phonics vocabulary oral
023language and comprehension so what's our response let me take you through that we're going to do some pictures and have a little more fun with but it's things like fundations which is our which is our phonics program we're explicitly teaching phonics every day we have we use a program called hegarty to explicitly teach phonemic awareness we have small group instruction and reading which also includes these same reading skills less comprehension what tools are there for teachers when they click on that next that top button that says instruction the the program group students for them and gives them access to activities that they can pull Pursuit we also have again this is the a tool for instruction that we send home this is this data is also communicated to parents as we send this home when
024we equip actually as we invite parents to come up for para conferences we also share this data with them the Renaissance data shows kind of the same thing this is that bird's eye view looking at about 35 percent of students need urgent intervention this is how we know what we need to do next because then we can take that information and drill down into a list of students and a list of skills we can take a specific student look at where he's testing and where the test projects he's going to go next we can see with the little lightning bolts there the foundational skills are those the lightning bolts are the important ones the skills that he needs next what are we supposed to focus on to allow this child to succeed in this classroom
025this year again kind of like zooming back out from this a little bit seeing a see you can see the the number of different skills that we're looking at and if several pages of lists of skills they're able to take those skills and group them together and pull groups of students to work on those skills skills you see the power behind that or if we're doing in the club in our in our professional learning communities is taking our Renaissance our report card data and pulling in together to figure out what to do with students to make the most impact every business is an example of the work that we're doing we're taking students and teachers and teachers grouping them by students improving the students by teacher by skill and then we're meeting the future through
026explicit instructions and interventions most of the teachers here in our at TH Johnson have just completed the rating Academy that reading Academy provide a lot of provided a lot of background for a broad a lot of good learning to the Forefront of what have what could be happening in the classroom it ties to our curriculum and also to our um to the Taylor line curriculum and also to our literacy framework which is we have foundational things in place we have phonics instruction Dynamic awareness instructions we are working with reading and math where the magic happens and now we talk there it is so I just visited um this is nescola's Pre-K class and um I got to see all four of her like rotations in small groups and you can see on the far left
027this is one of her higher groups and so they're going through and they're sorry this is one of her lower groups they're going through and they're distinguishing between straight lines and curved lines to identify the letters so that's just one skill of being able to identify those letters then in the middle group I think I think oh sorry no that far group is doing uh letters and number sorts so at this age there's a lot of confusion there's a lot of confusion between numbers and numbers yes so they're they're being they're they're able to go in and sort the letter and then the middle group um that's the one that they're they're looking at curves and straight lines then the far right group is actually building their name so they're now identifying those letters and
028recognizing the letters within their name and at one point time she had them switch names so then they were building each other's things are you getting the idea that in the things I want you to do is that we our data is not broad teaks or so much or broad standards that we're looking at at this point because I can put those for you but really what I wanted to leave you with was the idea that I made that point I hope we have because then we have some really neat things to show you here too like take a look at the picture on the left these students I think this is the third week of school these are our first graders they're sitting there they're doing research on their on their iPad on with
029using a non-fiction book They're focusing on writing complete sentences and they're pulling out because they're pulling out facts from that from that non-fiction text so more on the right hand side we're doing phonics on the right we have things like there's a shared reading going on in the top right hand teacher or interacting with the Texas there everybody in everybody's eyes are on that teacher at TH John's we there's oh anemic awareness I keep bringing that one up that's what Miss adiano's doing in that bottom one she is teaching that sound manipulation and it's a practice it's growth it's exciting and it's amazing engaging I'm gonna stand the ball up at the top up there she's breaking words in the syllables which is another one of those phonological weapons at TH Johnson what we want
030to do is people small groups which is where that's how which is where the magic happens we're learning to read and also to do math because we do math too but I didn't want to be 20 minutes again sorry about that the last year if you were here last year um and then just so my goal is principal with this team here is to see our little ducks grow learn and grow every day any questions or comments I have one question so when you do your assessments and you the data and it says in the bottom third in the table you showed is there any kind of analysis of those kids to see if there's something different you should be doing at the grade below so that they would come in better possibly better prepared
031and how you would where you would adjust another grade below them so that they come in better make these changes first last year we ended the year doing that with pre-game Tinder we had a we call them a vertical PLC where we met together to talk about end of year standards for one group and beginning of your Dad thank you Charlie you had my middle son I just want to applaud y'all he's now an eighth grader and you your name in our house is still a household name the Wilderness holster say you know like so uh just the the foundation of Education it starts so much with y'all I know I know my you guys know the two that y'all saw from the cage and they're still carrying lessons today I really appreciate it it's
032amazing making fun of this account and what what dollars will hopefully follow through things you have a big job but he ever wanted to know the difference between building a job oh no I mean I like how y'all said uh basically customize the learning to each individual student outstanding Mr bash you just um oh yes I just Before you depart from the mic I just want to tell you just really proud of your team and the work you're doing we all know t.h Johnson is a really special school but that doesn't happen on accident I loved in this presentation how you thought you just shared so many examples of the culture and student life is there and then that was the foundation for academics because once kids feel a sense of belonging and family and
033happiness and community in their school well then then some real learning can take place all right excuse me that brings us the reports to the Board of Trustees superintendent of things Mr Ortiz I wanted to give Miss Rochelle Fink and Miss Rodriguez and I see Ms hortonstein is here as well to just talk about uh college career military Readiness as a strategy towards improving learning in our schools and uh real proud of the work that was taking place in our that is taking place in the school district so I wanted to give you an opportunity just to peel back the covers on what does this mean and what are we doing as a district and give you the opportunity to ask questions this thing um I am really glad Christie is here because today we're
034going to talk about our strategy in advancing college career and Military Readiness across the district and I'm really glad that Mr Bashi and his team were able to present before me because they really are the fundamental start to a lot of what you're going to see today we're going to talk about kind of this idea that it's not just in the role of the counselor it's not just something we talk about when a kid is a sophomore or a senior in high school this truly starts from the minute a student enters Taylor ISD and continues all the way through that conversation we really have three main approaches to increasing College and Career Readiness across our district and it is a comprehensive approach like we said from K to 12 or Pre-K if they are in
035our Pre-K Center first college Encore Readiness social emotional development many of the same skills that Mr Bashi and his team just talked about advocacy empathy tie into these very skills if I cannot advocate for myself do I have the skills that I need in these same capacities so it continues all the way through our careers as well as that academic development of our needs academic needs of our students and our families what I hope you will see is that we are taking intentional approaches to not just talk about not just talk to our students but to also bring parents into this conversation to bring our community at large into what's happening in our schools so we're really going to focus on three main key points um our students academically ready through the idea of the
036Texas success initiative and a test that we will talk through what does college matriculation look like for them are they ready to go to college if they so choose that may be their path and if it's not what does career ready look like for them can we set them up for Success before they even walk out the door and be able to walk straight into a high-paying High wage career in doing so we are really looking at this and conversation when we talk about improving ccmr outcomes or College and Career military Readiness outcomes you will hear us talk about TSI ready or enrolling in a college or being having that industry-based certification this year we're also looking at military Readiness however for us in our strategy we are looking at and we want every student
037to leave Taylor high school or Legacy Early College High School academically prepared with that TSI being what we call TSI ready and able to either enroll in a college or university if that's their choice or have it IBC so they have both in their back pocket at the end of the day for us as an institution that also adds extra what we call ccmr bonus outcomes to our Bottom Dollar we get funds back for making that happen and it's just best practice right we want kids to be academically ready and take whatever that next step looks like for them so we really work hand in hand with our teaching and learning Department our school counselors and our administrators to make sure we're able to make this happen in TSI you will see in each of
038these some key strategies that we are working through as well as some goals we have set for ourselves this year this year our goal is that ninety percent of our class of 2023 will meet TSI criteria meaning that they will be ready quote unquote in math and in English by a cut score that they have offered for us we also have said that 75 percent of our junior class will meet TSI criteria by the end of the year now in having really strategic conversations with our high school administrators and counselors what we would like to see happen is that right now we are working on both seniors and juniors right we are kind of moving in both of those targets if we are able to set ourselves up for Success this year by the time
039students enter their senior year they will be considered College and Career ready so as opposed to really working on our seniors and our Juniors at the same time we're kind of going to do double work this year so that next year we can get ahead of it and make sure that we're not dealing with a lot of kids their senior year that aren't CCM already but that's just a little bit of kids that we've got to play catch up with their senior year but we're really focusing on the bulk of our work at our juniors and we do that through intentional TSI prep and testing we have been granted a opportunity through the rural accelerator Grant which is a two-year program to help us create strategic planning around our TSI and instruction academically making sure
040our kids are academically ready working hand in hand with our teaching and learning and our instructional Specialists both at the middle school and the high school so that this isn't just one thing they take it's just not just a test that they take and we don't talk about it ever again right it's not like Bruno we're continually having these conversations we're continually working through what does this look like for our kids can we have academic conversations surrounding what does TSI look like for our kids but it's also reviewing the content and the data in plcs so that teachers are aware we talk about sat in high schools all the time they understand what that looks like when we talk about TSI some teachers are left scratching their head because it is a relatively new conversation
041so it's making sure they are getting that same understanding as our teachers our kids as well and then also that idea of increasing overall awareness in our larger Community again if you ask a parent about PSAT or sat they know exactly what you're talking about or they've got a way that they can find it pretty quickly TSI is one of those areas that a lot of our parents are asking to go take this test what does that look like how do I help you how do I help you be successful and so making sure our parents and students feel equipped make this happen one of the biggest things that we are working with Mr Womble and his team this year is intentionally planning instruction into our junior year so that all students will test at
042times that are appropriate in the curriculum so for example you'll see up here Algebra 2 and honors classes will take TSI math at the end of Algebra 2 because that's where the majority of the curriculum is so if it was like if I was having you take a test on welding and you had an opportunity to prep I'm going to test you right after you teach that content as opposed to waiting three months not really sure if the confidence content is going to stick and then giving you an opportunity to come back so we're being really intentional about where testing opportunities are placed same thing is true for our College strategy we are looking at opportunities and Christy has been really really intentional on setting in some basketball workshops where parents and students can sit
043side by side and have advisors from Temple College or advisors from TSTC answer questions answer that question why do I have to fill out this paperwork or what's the benefit for me if I know my parents say I'm I've got to figure out a way to pay for college what is available out there what are those Outdoors that I can open for myself but also that strong comprehensive College and Career advising we are working hand in hand with counselors to increase the capacity for advising at Taylor High School it is not just something that the four high school counselors own in their own little Silo it is a conversation across all of our campus it is a conversation across every teacher across every administrator across myself going to advise as well so we're really making
044sure all of us are together to figure out what's happening and then also our career strategy so this is an opportunity for us to look at how are all of our kids earning an IBC how are all of our kids that are in an opportunity walking away with a certificate at a level one or level two certificate that they can leave high school and go straight into a IBC or they can go straight into a high-paying high-wage career and the way that we make this all happen um Christy has branded this the brain but every we have every single student at Taylor High School currently housed on this spreadsheet and we can very quickly see Rochelle Fink what is her post-secondary plan has she filled out the waiver have we looked at every single piece
045of ccmr outcomes to see where am I at because if I don't intentionally intentionally track just like we talked about all of that academic data it's really easy for me as a student to get lost in the cracks it's really hard to get lost in the cracks when you see red where you see yellow or you see orange but also it means we are having intentional conversations with every single senior and making a plan to help them achieve their unique potential just last Wednesday the whole High School came together to do the second annual testing day and so what that looked like was 200 seniors tested in TSI we now have a plan for which students are in need of Intervention which students are academically ready and which students maybe we need to have another
046conversation about what does this look like at the same time our Juniors and sophomores both took the PSAT so every single Junior every single sophomore in the high school took that exam giving them an opportunity and giving us an opportunity to truly look at what does their AP potential look like what does dual credit look like for them what does their p-tech opportunity look like for them so what's really giving us information to then advise kids and families on what does this need to look like and then finally every single freshman went through much of that same social emotional learning that you heard from Mr Bashi although developmentally appropriate we did things like social media Wellness I don't know a high school student that does not need conversations about how to use social media to
047their advantage and so that was a big conversation as well as police officer interaction and so we are constantly in this spreadsheet I think Christy has it open every minute of every day um I am in there probably every other day just looking at where are we at so that we can make best opportunities and best plans for where we're headed and finally I'll leave you with this graphic previously Christy and I have the opportunity to come and step into these positions at the exact same time and we found that while great things were happening it was felt like a random acts of advising we had lots of different things happening in lots of different places and we're really moving towards this idea that we have aligned systemic systems to help more kids be more
048successful for whatever they choose to come their way at the end of the day if our number one goal is to equip Inspire and Empower every student to achieve their unique potential we do it through systems and align processes to make that happen so to summarize um help me uh our parent is walking into Taylor High School how would you summarize what are the ways my kid can be considered college career or military readiness ways youth back here at Taylor High School yes so in order for them to be considered TS or to be College in karate they have to meet a cut score in both reading and math on TSI so a test that they would take at the end of their sophomore year or hit a cut score on their sat in both
049reading and math or earn an industry-based certification or if they are a special education student meet certain criteria in their IEP or this year we are looking at and the state is allowing us to increase military enrollment as an option as well so those are the big ones that we look at thank you is there any relation between all this data you're collecting and state accountability yes so that's a great question when we look at domain two which is part of our outcomes for each individual campus at the secondary middle or high school and both of our high schools this is a third of their domain score so for right now last year um Taylor High School earned I want I want to say 65 points for their every so every student has the ability
050to earn one point so we have the ability in a class of 104 students to earn 104 points um and so we our goal is that every single kid has that point by the end of the year helps us in our accountability and also turns around and helps the uh did any kind of fracking mechanism like this was this taking place prior to you and Miss kind of Houston kind of put something like this together if there was it was random and we were not able to locate it when we got here um so this was definitely Christy spent a ton of time putting this together and so the minute a student enters Taylor High School they are added onto the spreadsheet the minute our Freshman Class of 2026 came in there was a tab
051added and we can actively see where they're going and we track them from the day one on the high school through their last day in the high through their senior year thank you trustees are there any questions you're coming so it's in the acronym but explain to me the military part of it College in the career so in the past it's kind of been a silent m if a student enlisted in the military Texas said great we don't have a way to track that so starting this year if a student enrolled enlists in the military and fills out the necessary paperwork and gives it to us we upload that in our system and it gives them then their point so it says like yes you're not going to college yes you're not you don't may
052not have an IBC but you have said I am actively serving in the military and they consider them college career or military Readiness they have brought them back into the after they've already they have until the Readiness part no while we encourage it and we still offer the ASVAB in in order for them to get that point or for them to be considered military ready they just have to enlist now for us academically we're able to I think one important thing to note is that our ccmr data is lagging data so they have time to account for those students that have enlisted in the military because we're a year behind so for example our accountability for this year will be for our 2022 graduates in ccmr backwards yeah so I'm up in here it's backwards
053right it is better it is backwards yeah so what the state does is they give us a report of all the students that they have down as being college career military ready and then they give us a month to look at that list and verify and if they have missed anybody um that we know of then it's our job to tell them you've missed you know these 10 kids because they had we were tracking them and we know that they have these indicators we resend that back to the state and then they will finalize our report it's called the ccmr verifier so this is extremely important because you're asking like well how do you know we have a Year's worth of time where the state's collecting all this data and so then it's you're right
054it's back it's a year behind yeah I was just gonna say if y'all need any help or you need a resident expert on getting some of the kids be careful what you wish for no but we would gladly welcome any opportunities to increase awareness and I'm going to piggyback on what uh Joe said because I was able to last year meet with some of the Legacy students I had the opportunities for veterans after they after they served that Hazelwood act it'll pay for their college not only that as I have daughters and my daughter got to utilize some of my benefits so those are some of the positive things about being and plus you're a little older when you go to school and you know a little more mature stuff yeah the uninformed or just
055not and talk to someone who is a non-recruiter right like a recruiters have a reputation so no I'm not saying that it's accurate uh but it's it's the rumor that is out there I would be willing to help with that so yeah a lot of good opportunity together any other questions are coming thank you thank you thank you item number two on superintendent's aggressive monitoring practices uh Mr Ortiz at our last uh board meeting uh board members had asked for an update on just the practice of aggressive monitoring that we were referencing that we talked about improving students performance especially in the area of math so I'm going to have Miss Rodriguez uh share a little bit about that um in this video at mper Focus this year is on our math instruction to ensure
056we are equipping students with critical thinking and problem solving skills our teachers have recently learned about aggressively monitoring their students as they work independently aggressive monitoring is where teachers are able to go to every student in their class and provide each student with immediate feedback students are provided with clear expectations and a criteria for success when teachers are circulating the room they're able to see students misconceptions immediately monitor collect and respond to student Data before students complete an assignment that's incorrect the teacher is able to jot down notes about what the particular student is struggling with provide them a prompt and then move on to the next student making sure they Circle back to those students that needed the prompting I was able to visit with a few students after the teacher had done this
057a few times and they were able to express how it has helped them on their independent work and without feeling defeated and some even shared that it made them feel good that they were on the right track I feel that with teachers doing the aggressive monitoring it is able to build student confidence and their Joy of learning math so I'm I'm looking at my phone because we also have some statements so that was a message from our posman principal so thank you so much for that debut that was amazing um and thank you Mr Crow for putting that together for our community I think it's just I mean it's super important for us to tell the story of what's happening in our classrooms and how we're helping students achieve that success and and close the
058gaps that they've been experiencing especially in math and that takes some aggressive work from our teachers but not necessarily aggressive in the sense that they're in their faces but they're just so active and move so moving you know so much about the room which is why we deem it aggressive monitoring but really it's like you know think of a teacher walking around with a clipboard and going to every student and being able to say whether or not that student is meeting a specific skill that lends itself to them understanding the overall concept of what they're learning for that day and it's immediate feedback for students they're students that are using sticker charts there's teachers that have little booklets where students are putting their own stickers and tracking their progress and so it just involves the
059whole classroom community in in everybody's learning and so we have this also happening at our middle school and at MSI and so a couple of our Middle School teachers said um this is from Miss Brittany East Hope eighth grade math she said aggressive monitoring is increasing student engagement thus far I am still working on perfecting the skill but just the essence of it is proving effective and so she's releasing benefits for her Mr acord who's also jumped in to support our math classes aggressive monitoring is fantastic at both simplifying the grading process and giving immediate feedback to the students they are desperate to get a star or check and work to improve their overall output while shortening the time it takes to grade drastically so not just a benefit to our teachers I mean to
060our students but obviously a benefit to our teachers as well and everybody just knows where they are in the moment of learning and I think that's what's you know most important about what we're doing with this in this process questions thanks for the update you know seeing this well I'll do it in my the uh before we move on um every time I see it uh yeah um movie night so um one of the things that I really uh like about um aggressive monitoring is it's allowed for a lot more uh teacher and student interaction I remember last year we heard from our superintendent's advisory council at the from the students Juniors and seniors at Taylor high school and when we asked about what are what are some things you want us to think about
061as we think about instruction in the next year they actually said we wish we had more interactions it's something they really desire this is a real natural way for that student a teacher interaction to have also heard from a Middle School Parent where they talked about um how much homework should be coming home versus how much homework has taken place in class and it's that delicate balance right we want it to get work to reinforce things they know we but practicing correctly over and over again is a heck of a lot better than going home and practicing incorrectly over and over again and especially in the area of math if I can be prompted really quickly on a way I'm heading the wrong direction while I'm in class that's extremely valuable compared to when I
062go home and I'm trying to Google what the answer is or text message her friend and said how did you do that one problem so uh I I'm really proud of the work our Math teachers are doing I I really feel like it's in a positive direction I appreciate our principles really leading that effort and support next on the end of every after every conference we would like to kind of download and give the truck it's an opportunity to kind of talk and at this time we're going to talk about Tasman I'd like Joe because he's the junior member here to kind of share his experience a little bit as me make sure it's done uh so it being the first first uh Cosby conference I went to I didn't really know what to expect
063but it was a great opportunity one of the first things is chronological kind of walking through it one of the first things I did I signed up for was a field trip um where we I had the opportunity to see two different schools uh two extreme different schools a brand new school that was built and just opened in 2019 elementary school and just seeing everything that they included in that uh to to taking the the children's learning into consideration as far as collaborative spaces and all the different the flexible seating options it was really good to see that so to hear teachers talk about that and ask for that like features that we have and then to see it and like in an occupied school we went during a school day when children were there
064and they were enjoying it uh that that was a really eye-opening experience um on the other end of the spectrum was we went and saw Thomas Jefferson High School which was built in 1932 and so seeing a school that's built correctly in the beginning maintained properly throughout the years uh you I I got to see how fantastic like on the Safety and Security part we we heard from the the head of school how how difficult it is because they have 86 entrances and exits in one high school it's the largest High School in San Antonio the oldest high school in San Antonio a gorgeous campus but so seeing their challenges there um so that was the main takeaway whenever I got there the first day or the rest of the conference where I did enjoy
065what I went to knowing that we could be getting into to contracts at some time in the future I went to the contract a uh for construction class meeting session and they they brought up a lot of good points there as well as since I'm a new member Junior member uh I wanted to know they had some opportunities there for me to see what does your superintendent expect from you what a superintendent wish wishes you knew uh about being a school board member and then and there were superintendents in there in there and school board members alike so it was really good to hear both sides and and I do know that one of the things that they said about being a team and a unified board is one of the the biggest things and
066just have an Open Candid conversation with your superintendent so really fantastic overall experience for me uh I got to meet other school board members from Houston District as well and that one having 137 000 students enrolled kind of kind of overwhelming to hear a peer that does that in a school school district at large so um I don't want to get long-winded but I'll I'll take it all night if you want to know day by day what I did so it was fantastic it was it was a great great opportunity so thank you yeah um among the sessions that I attended uh the two that really helped me the most I went to one on districts of innovation I was not super familiar with that but knowing that we are one um being able to
067see all of the things that you can embed and put into your District of innovation plan that gives the district some flexibility and ability to do some things that was very eye-opening for me so I got I want to I want to read our own plan I want to see it get that plan and take a look at it and see what we've done just as a comparison to my notes the second one I I attended was on um making the district a magnet for talent and in particular in that session there was the superintendent from Lockhart and I think I shared this with Dr patville um and they have like 6 500 students 80 percent Hispanic something around that in that regard but they're doing some super creative Innovative things to attract and retain
068teachers they don't have a super high turnover rate um additionally they he used the example that at Texas State this past excuse me this past year Texas State graduated um seven teachers that were bilingual and of the seven Lockhart attracted six of those and so how they did that is I thought of something that we need to go do excuse me or look at and see you know they giving paid internships uh other things that they were doing that were creative to make their District uh really attractive to not just new teachers coming out of college but for a broader base of learnings there as well where yes I'm sorry okay the first one I chose because some charities talk to other people that there's you know something through the same things we are but
069the exciting thing was that I really didn't get a whole lot of new because we're doing it you know a lot of our sizes are urging one thing we did talk about besides the money you know you know to talk to people but I know that that is a little bit of property you know because I think really good and talking about the old building it was in this one or another one was inspiring to see that sometimes even in an old buildings that we've seen in the feedback we had a great speaker I'm sure all of you along so heard of Derek Johnson talk more of that thousand dollar Grant Ed down our straight bodies without I mean I just love to hear a story and I'm making mistake you know I have high
070blood pressure so it really wasn't a good idea and I told myself anyway so um we have not it was a really good premise there was a librarian who'd been a librarian for a number of years and her brother happened to be a lawyer that they were talking about the difference Library did that and it was going there were eight minutes before it was out yes after the first time attack these presenters like I've never witnessed in my life and I was speaking thank heavens somebody is my state so anyway it's bottom line getting started to these people your blessings so anyway I rounded out by listening to Mike Moretz the conditions very light camera this background has been six hours it's like quiet one time in his life he says and trying to help
071you okay let me check again so I'll just leave that with you really did yeah don't be too positive it was it was not comfortable are struggling same way their stripes we're not online so that was a bit of a um things from the professions on care conferences to think surprisingly and they get their parents to to come to a future what a great kid they have and um is what a parent thinks and you know it may be something that uh but it got the parents at the elementary level there's a school a day off out of the classroom for each grade level second idea of implement second practices as a play however they need to say but but it is it is a schedule planning day where they know they don't it's kind
072of an encouraged um um one of them was on Facebook um presenter and at the Kalahari has perhaps then plug other s so there's some Renaissance um but I just thought that was not that I've got and together when I shy away from going to places that I decided that I know you can't afford it or you can't do it um um what we expect our senior graduate and they really asked a positive um but they all sounded like this through um okay uh we'll be all over the place but I promise you I'm gonna be short um I like going to things that kind of tailored for us what we doing now uh growth uh trying to pass a bond and um security I went to a couple of security class Safety and Security
073Code that's real big throughout the Nation right now and uh I'm proud to say that uh from the Dr Pepper leadership and his staff doing uh we doing a lot of that already correctly uh actually I think Dr petterville in this book could have gave that class because we're doing a lot of things straight up um a couple of crafts with Jim so he touched on a human things you know um what really touched me uh it was what the district was talking about we know pay is real big with District but he was talking about the uh in schools where teachers where they have like a teacher they call it teacher lunch and on what teachers can go and just well let's just chill out you know they have it this particular school have
074it kind of like not too far from the office in the high school and it's where they can go and you know drink their tea coffee or whatever and they have computers in there was really it was really a nice setup what they were showing and say you know he was saying that that was very invaluable to uh you know to teach it when they could just get away and kind of just relax you know chill out while the day is going by there's the students walking by it's open glass they can see the teachers and uh they thought there was a lot of districts are going to probably start going to that uh especially the newer schools because it's something that attracting a lot of uh teachers in the middle school and high school
075level you know but the biggest class that I've went to don't nobody like to talk about and actually the fact the class was packed I don't know about like tongue uh and it's coming this way it's already here actually it's all transgender you know in the schools and how districts getting prepared how long all that would uh for us uh um you know what do you do uh restrooms facilities on on um it's a lot of different things of sports uh it was very like I say it was very interesting I took a lot from that because I wanted I really wanted just here what the Educators thought about it because uh it's been my 17th convention and so most of them um really and truly you it says it's a different spin are they
076doing it another way whether you heard it in Houston Dallas Austin or San Antonio you pretty much heard all of it just in a different way and so but those were the first time since I've been on the board they had of course transgender and uh you know of course a couple of a lot of questions I asked and I mean we're listening because uh it's just something that uh throughout the state of Texas in the nation Taylor ISD is is coming and people don't like talking about it but it's but it's coming that was the one that really pretty much touch me touch me the most um and just being proud of uh because like I say I don't Echo what Anita said uh Mr Channel Jim Joe Marco uh you know some of
077us went in some of the same classes uh she stole some of my stuff about Derek Johnson I was impressed with him uh as a speaker and uh giving back the library 25 000 books and all that kind of stuff I thought that was very impressive and and we're not we're not uh far away elisd I mean I'm proud to be a part of Taylor ISD you know we had a class where some guy thought he'd done a great job he gave a psych Academy away you know he he thought he was that good so they just start passing out candy you know and seriously uh Snicker boys I think Marco's in that class you're in the classroom Museum yeah so uh but uh everything uh is very it's very refreshing uh and we as
078a bullet we wanted a few boys based on some of the ones I talked to while I'm dying and has been talking to over the years pretty much all seven of the board members be down there for two days and some of them three days along with the superintendent and that to me that let's be that's big volume because it'd be some board members down there you might have three board members and the other two daughters online the other two just ain't gonna do it until later on and superintendent know where to be found so we I think that I think Anita can be back on that we've always as Taylor will always pretty much Sean well as a team and that and that mean a lot and last but not least I want to
079say I took a fall for the district I fell in front of a bus and in this true story on Friday and uh trying to be a gentleman like I am and let the woman come through and stepped off the building San Antonio and the drop was falling I thought it would be and so I went one but I had an opportunity I ain't an underground you know and so uh skimmer need arm a little bit from a watch but it was it was all good and uh and then I mean the the school people that was willing to help real quick I mean I was very impressed with that you know when you fall first thing you look around because you're kind of embarrassing what's the first thing we're gonna do but the bus
080driver he saw me so he stopped in plenty of time because it was it was no way I could have bought it if he wouldn't if he would wouldn't have been looking you know so uh and I was pretty much sure that it happened that Friday Friday evening before we went to eat and stuff so I was uh pretty much sore the whole time but for it all you know we made it we made it through and I'm thankful it wasn't it wasn't wasn't worse because I was pretty much so when I went to a little urgent care and I got back on that Sunday because I told my neck was well I remember everything uh worked out I told Marco he started laughing I said man it wasn't nothing to grab I mean nothing
081but Aaron opportunity you know so I I I I know the ground was coming so I just I just prepared myself for it but you know what long time people like Mr taught my kids you know and uh just a just a pleasure and Dr proud of you have a great staff and I mean I'm I'm proud to uh be a part of Taylor Isley thank you for giving this opportunity close out tasby had an interesting delegate assembly that I was uh that I've been to a couple of times and let's just say in this particular case they utilize the parliamentarian a little bit more than they normally would at alligator Center but it was all good yeah and kind of the Shorties that that candy bar thing I mean this is pretty neat I
082think I took two candy bars but they were actually talking about the possibility because I think they were talking about students getting paid for the enrollment versus the Ada and the negatives of doing it enrollment ways I I've actually reached out to the the gentleman to see if he could provide me that information it was it was overall a good great conference just like it normally did I appreciate you guys taking the time to go out there oh next on the agendas the president's report but it's about the Mazda Mazda conference so I attended mosberg conference a couple weeks ago and uh that conference was actually I just want to touch on a couple of things uh got the tour Twitter has practicing uh we got to see an intermediate Elementary and we've got because
083Garcia Middle School and what I took away from there is one is artists going we actually had to submit our names again our school district representing and uh we're gonna go so what they utilize is our conference badges were acting went into the middle school they checked us off to make sure we had our badge on and we are properly vetted going into the the security portion of that we got to see you know I was amazed that some students we got to go into one classroom and you mentioned this Rodriguez about a clipboard and taking notes so these students you can tell they got in our country recently and for them to have eight members you know visit their classroom you would you'd figure that they'd be a little shy and things like that
084but they were participating they were learning how to speak make complete sentences they're introducing themselves they were all English language Learners or English is a second language then so it was kind of it was kind of nice seeing that and Gus Garcia Middle School they're actually they were one of the few schools that were fully staffed now granted they only have about 400 students but they were fully sapped with all certified teachers we also got to go to tour the Winston Elementary and this is the differences that I saw in the Safety and Security portion of that so we again utilized our our badges as our getting on campus but we had to go in and they had our own names written we had to sign in with the office and check them out and
085make sure we were who we said we were and go and they were checking our IDs at that point as well at that intermediate school so I kind of when you go to Mazda the tour best practices is probably the big thing that I like to see and my wife enjoys it as well a couple of things that I took back was you know we had lunch at Our Lady of the Lake University and they have a program that's coming up for the high school and it's they're going to choose out of Texas 20 students that are going to have a their uh tuition paid for I've given Dr pataville the information for that uh those things so we're going to take a look at that another thing that we did was and you know
086you talk about programs and things like that well I was very impressed and I want to show a short video air conditioning people they have a stem program that's available and I wanted to kind of show a little bit of a video of this program Vicki has one program is getting Kansas students a chance to learn more about the tech field yeah the btu crew and train Technologies is exposing kids in rural communities to the world of stem in hopes of inspiring their future in a STEM related field to talk more about that is trained scientists Mr Bill Nelson he's joining us here welcome in it's good to see you thank you thanks for having me on this morning let's start out with a really simple question what is BTU and what does BTU do
087well the btu crew is trains uh education program it's been around for a while but and you called me scientist I'm actually an educator in a residence with train uh not a scientist although I did teach science for a number of years so what we do is we bring educational resources to science classrooms that enhance what they're already doing so our focus is energy education career education in the terms of in terms of Scientific careers that may interest students and then stem activities to get kids involved in not just learning about science but doing science so how did train come up with the idea for something like this well for a long time train has been involved in schools but trains involvement was in equipment and helping schools with Heating and Cooling and so trains
088saw a need to become involved in schools in a way to enhance schools in another way and in this case it's in the education side so over time and in your experience what have you seen what kind of impact have you made on on these kids on the Kansas side well the fun thing is is you know students don't necessarily enjoy studying science but they enjoy doing science yeah and so if you go into a freshman science class say physical science and you say we're going to learn about gear ratios today well you can turn to that that chapter in the textbook and you can put those gear ratios on the board but instead it's a lot more fun to bring in small wind turbines and say we're going to do some experiments with different
089gear ratios and you're going to have the ability to determine how many blades in the turbine what size are the blades what shape are the blades and we're going to see how these gear ratios produce electricity more efficiently and then what we're going to do is we're going to compare the data from all the groups in the class and you're going to have a chance to redo the experiment using the information that everybody's gained and so we're beginning to implement data analytics into the classroom well it seems like such a collaborative effort right now because we hear a lot of Education that collaboration amongst uh student peers is an important way uh of learning and it sounds like exactly what you guys are doing well and the collaboration between industry and the classroom so we
090can bring those modern tools that industry is using and allow students to see how those work in the real world and let's see if it's a I'm sure a career that they want to pursue absolutely and then train goes one step further using sensors so we can take the information from the classroom or excuse me from the school the energy that's being used and students have access to that data so now the students are empowered to find ways to use the energy in the school more efficiently yeah and you know what you just have to drive down I-70 for a little while to see some of those wind turbines in the state of Kansas but there's a lot of them out there and and lately if you notice that they've been turning pretty fast yeah
091they're working overtime a lot of win lately that's right absolutely reducing a lot of areas yeah so if someone would like to learn more um about the program where can people go sure they can go to trains website and our educational materials are there it talks about our educational program but we're excited about our relationship with uh with schools of all sizes large districts small districts alike rural districts it gives students we're all about giving equal opportunities in the areas of Science Education to students all across the country not just Kansas and Missouri but all across the country all right that's Bill Nelson a trained educator joining us here at 9 o'clock good to see you what that program kind of just stood out to me and Trane did uh make a commitment to Mazda
092the Mexican-American School Board Association they've actually committed to a 500 of the donation if you will so for five years they're going to sponsor a hundred thousand dollars through that organization to help put the kiddos and and not only do they have these stem opportunities but they also have opportunities uh if we decide we want like an HVAC a class of course or something here so there's a lot of opportunities out there things that I got you know after as a director and I was I had more of a leadership role this time around so I didn't get to attend a lot of classes but every time I introduced myself and I said I was from Taylor ISD the first thing people would say so there was that your Samsung right I was like well
093yeah and then I did get to talk to our core cohorts over there at uh at Lockhart and they were a little bit disappointed they didn't get the micron but I did tell them hey that's okay because you have my grandkids my grandkids go to the Lockhart Locker Independent School overall it was a great conference at Mazda thank you you know one thing maybe to add just in reconnaissance talking about the bond that we have it's interesting there are nine Bonds in in Texas this year over 500 million dollars and there are three bonds that are over a billion dollars three School bonds this year that are over a billion so there is a ton of money that's being needed and being looked at for education it was kind of Staggering to think of the
094amount of bonds that are going to be potentially into coming putting my uh in the name of it again I appreciate you guys going to the conferences all right next on the agenda is the bilingual ESL program update Mr Rodriguez all right so this next portion is to satisfy the requirement for the annual review of our bilingual and ESL program so basically what we're going to do is just talk about our overall program from last year so 21-22 school year again the purpose of this presentation is to satisfy the requirement to present a program Effectiveness and student academic achievement for our bilingual and ESL students um we currently have three different models program models which are our dual language dual language immersion one way that we have at our elementary schools where we have our
095bilingual students self-contained in a classroom that are they are learning their instruction in both English and Spanish and the overall goals for them to learn be efficient enough in the English language so that they can then be with the greater population moving forward and we also have ESL content-based students so those that don't necessarily need a self-contained and they're a little more fluent in English they are able to be with um the general population of English-speaking students in all of their content-based classes and then we have a pull out program in our secondary schools where students who need additional support or ESL students are pulled out at certain portions of the day or they spend one class period in an ESL classroom becoming more fluent in the English language currently in our district we have
096618 students enrolled in this program or with this program indicator and you can see the breakdown off to the side thj-74 npe 124 MSI 62 TMS 147 Legacy 32 and THS 179 so we have quite a large population of ESL students overall our performance in tulpas um would have been better as we know when we looked at our numbers just overall State assessment performance numbers for last year we did have quite a bit of growth but we also were able to see our areas of need and this one was definitely one of our areas of need that we already had picked up on when we dug into those accountability numbers during the summer and so basically what these charts are showing you are how many total students were assessed on telpus how many of them
097stayed at the same level meaning they didn't show any growth or they even had a backslide to their growth um or to their learning how many students moved up one level in the in the way that talpas assesses them for their fluency Reading Writing speaking in English how many went up two levels and this is percentage based and then how many um were at that went up to up three levels and so um obviously we want those numbers to look better moving forward and so we do have our instructional specialist one of our instructional Specialists on the team that is focused um pretty much I'd say 50 of her time is just looking into this data and targeting these specific students to support those teachers and these students so one of the things that we
098did last year was try to bring in a little more professional development than what was seen in the past and so although there typically are director meetings that the region hold their standard trainings that are required annually for teachers such as elpac there's telpus training and things like that compliance training we did also build in a vertical alignment meeting for all our bilingual teachers that we've carried forward and are trying to amp up this year in terms of allowing our bilingual teachers to come together to talk about their best practices in many cases there's one teacher per grade level that support our immersion students or our one-way dual language classrooms and so it's just helpful for them to have an opportunity to plan together collaborate and share some of the things that are supporting their
099students to be successful we also have multiple family engagement nights throughout the year to bring in our bilingual families so elementary middle and high school all have scheduled parent nights they had them last year they will have them again this year every summer we have our hey and first grade summer enrichment program where we offer opportunities to bridge some gaps for students over the summer as they're coming into school and as they're moving into first grade and then we also had some of our Samsung Engineers come over and spend some time with our students and specifically in our bilingual classrooms to support the needs of of our students as well involving our community so taking a look at just those that population of bilingual students this was their overall performance on Star last year so
100in grades three four and five you can see the different percentages of those students that hit approaches meets and Masters so not again where we would want to see them especially knowing that we have such a large population of students in this group but this overall we have to start somewhere and these numbers just tell us where we currently are and where we need to go and how to support them this is that same overview for our TMS students in that approaches meets and Masters category and this chart is for our high schools so THS is on the left Legacy on the right so to wrap up our presentation um you know we just looked at numbers and again this is some baseline data for us as a team that's come together to um really
101dig into where we are with our kiddos and where we need to go and so some challenges that we've been talking about for some time now are Staffing we know that just teachers there is a shortage of teachers and there is an even greater shortage of bilingual teachers and so that's just an obstacle that we have to work as a team to overcome and so it's not just the teacher that's responsible for those students it's the entire District community and so the teaching and learning team is in those classrooms you know I'm not certified but I can speak Spanish and so I jump in there and help when I can as well and so it's not just on one person um because of that shortage in Staffing we do have to submit the exceptions and
102waivers to the state to tell them that we don't have ESL certified teachers with those students and so we'll be submitting that next month in November and then obviously if our monolingual English students are experiencing a learning Gap are definitely our bilingual students are experiencing that Gap and maybe sometimes more because of the language barrier so we do know that that exists celebrations to address the the Staffing we are competitive with our stipends and so that is a huge bonus that we do have to offer teachers that are interested in coming to Taylor um we are working to expand our recruitment not just within the United States but also several districts around us have partnered with programs in Spain and in Mexico and so we're looking into those as well and and developing agreements with
103them to have Educators come over to support our students from those countries and then as I mentioned before we have a dedicated bilingual instructional specialist to support our teachers and students in in that special population who was a phenomenal teacher herself and so she's using those strategies to now support the learning that's happening in those classrooms and that's the end of the overview inside of me proposed alternate work schedules for support operation Mr Ortiz um Mr weidler had approached this uh earlier in the year talking to recruit and retained staff and um also allow our staff to have the work hours that it would give them the time to attend their own to their own families be involved in the my children who are here in school as well so I give Switzerland Mr weidler
104had the opportunity to uh as we've all been talking about Staffing in the last hour and we really do want to try and find different ways to attract staff to Taylor ISD and not only our teaching staff our support operation stuff as well and so we're competing with a lot of people for support operations staff and have things building near us and we know it's going to continue to get even more competitive and so Lance and his team brought together a proposal for an alternate schedule so have him present this now and it's something that we're considering doing for January so we'd like to hear some questions and feedback from you guys we propose at this time to change the maintenance and ground staff to 14 hour days year round that would put approximately 12
105maintenance and ground stuff coming in on Monday and two Monday through Thursday nine minutes of ground staff Tuesday through Friday each month each month the staff will switch from Monday through Thursday to Tuesday through Friday only give more time for family but also allow them to save some money and not have to go wear and tear on their personal vehicle to get to work and during that switch over it would give one group a four day week weekend each month when they do that when they do the crossover for custodial we reviewed numerous options the hardest area for us the staff is the second shift from 3 30 pm to 11. that's where I get the most return turnover people are looking at searching for different options we propose a change of custodial afternoon shift
106from 2 30 pm at 11 PM to 1 pm to 9 30 pm this will allow for Tia for Taylor is to attract more qualified staff through the hours and allow the staff more time to spend with their families during the summer all staff would come back on the regular schedule that we're going to run through the summer so Monday through Thursday without the district sites to sit down on Friday to save money thank you do you have a pot of heat how far do some of them um I have some people that commute from quite a few that can be from Rockdale um some other of my staff have their own businesses which would give them another day to to schedule time for that during the week um and like I said I would
107give them more time to plan out for those 40 weeks yeah um it's it's huge I've I've been in multiple districts I've started in the grounds Department I know the the opportunity is there for us to do this and to bring more people in like what would the core hours be um for the staff would be if it would be from 6 to 4 30. an hour lunch yeah and then for custodial course of the people from Wonderland together and they and you have the skilled technicians and that when that one person that you're a game HVAC guy he or she is out there would be an HVAC Tech Monday Thursday Friday let's say there's a schedule conflict that one week and then give them time to talk to their other co-workers and they say
108can we talk to I talked to the business office that's for the January start date came from we wanted to make sure that they're very comfortable it wasn't going to affect them December and November are pretty hard for and I think that you know it's a huge selling point for us for us for 10 hour days summertime I love it takes them a week or two yeah oh man um as far as right now myself and my Administrative Assistant will be Monday to Monday through um so I will be there every day um they will be there like I said depending on the schedule I have also went through and looked at every individual drinks are and who we can compare who we can Talent man uh yeah I'm a four day uh my guys
109that do maintenance though they're four days and that's what we had done big fan of it because it you're absolutely right they say you know what 30 miles a week one way that's 60 miles a week okay I want to know a little more thanks appreciate it right and that's that's what we do that's the normal business rule is uh doctor appointment today or what okay thank you shorty you answered it you asked him a question already oh sorry on vacation so if they take a vacation it's a 10 hour an hour it's a half a day it's five hours now with with it being four days a week it kind of gives us a little bit ability as well let's say You must actually one of my staff members uses a lot of applications
110maybe we can to help them out with their family with their paycheck they can work Monday Tuesday but that's something what are some other things you think you could do for help with attention and this is obviously I think there's a positive depth um so we've done different things so far this year created a I would say you're talking about lounges we created one for my staff they've enjoyed it thus far um we have multiple times a year we do cookouts some of my staff members are very good club I'm not but they are um and then we do a lot of different things throughout the year we have vendors come in and they bring lunches sometimes um and then we have been having we've had other things we have other ideas we haven't haven't
111done them yet I'll kind of go to the Taylor Park and do some stuff just trying to make it make us stand out as much as we can I know everybody says that and we want to do that but I really want to attract them and keep them here I don't want to have the one or two year guys 15-year guys and people want to have a wait list that's what I'd love to have a wait list to get an art Department and I can see that being from the we got to look at that every year I'm sure yeah what's your what's your one with the longest opinion I have to go back okay yeah um I just want to be clear some of the that's maintenance 410's Studio still 5 yes sir what
112is the morning skip uh uh they come in they started about 6 6 30 and then they they usually they overlap and that's our leads they overlap and they mean what's happening yeah anticipate any one but request to like hey this month working days for work tonight yeah see any pushback from any facilities uh this was so some of the stuff I've met with them and this was brought up by them this is something we're looking at I wanted their opinion and that was their opinion was the afternoon shift the day shifts are coveted there's not many so the night shifts were the more I mean changing that and getting them home earlier I want my I want my staff to see I wanted to talk to kids and tell them they love them and
113make sure they they have their homework done before they before they lay down and that's a big thing that's the hardest thing to feel um they'll come to me and we'll go to the interview oh these are the hours like a lot of school the districts that I contacted the ones that have the most the least amount of vacancies are the ones that have their owners whenever this if if January we'll have meetings before then let them know what the schedules are it'll give them time to adjust if they need to do but overall I think it's I think it's a good plan and if our cleanliness for the custodial I do want to say this if our cleanliness for the custodial drops and we notice that it's noticeable but we're going to watch it
114very closely for the future first three or four months Monitor and we'll talk any other questions thank you next on the agenda the Switzerland upgrade to team I'm gonna get it pulled up in just a sec okay in a few minutes Jenna self's going to talk to you about um during our finance part about some expenses for teams or Frontline it's a front line or teams as it's most commonly known is our software system that we use here in the district we brought it into Taylor in 2014 2015. it does two different things it does student information systems and that's how we see our students grades how we take attendance how we do online registration but then there's another side to it and that's the enterprise resource planning the Erp side of it and with
115that we're at that time it's just time for an update and so you have probably heard through the grapevine and the Rumor Mill teams has some issues and we'll be the first ones to say we've been talking to them since I started here about what can we do to make teams more efficient here in the district and for us to use it a little bit better and so what we're talking about right now is how we can make improvements on the Erp side and what the Erp side is is recruiting hiring time tracking so that's for our hourly employees absent management professional development and purchasing and procurement and so with our discussions with Frontline here's what they're proposing and for forty eight thousand dollars they can come in and re-up our system give us all
116the upgrades give us additional training and fix some of the issues that are currently happening with the system and so you know me I'm a little Frugal and so I asked okay isn't this just part of the package we pay you guys yearly and they said no think of it like a cell phone you're operating on an iPhone 8 and everybody else is on iPhone 15. and so for you to get up to date with everyone else you'll need to add some pieces to it and so 60 of that will be reviewing position inventory that everything that happens when we hire a person they come in they're given a teacher number that's how they are tracked in the online system Frontline teams the entire time they're with the district that's what ties them to their
117absences ties them to payroll to stipends and so instead of everything being on paper because right now we do a mixture of paper and software because we don't have the additional bells and whistles yet and this would streamline everything so you weren't having to touch in a new hire or an existing hire multiple times the next piece is reviewing the financial reporting and budgeting and also the training piece so this was brought into the district in 2014 the training for all this started in 2013-14 so when you look at some of the people that were here for the original part of it there aren't many left also with and not in an ugly way they just weren't here for the implementation of it and so the training components that come with that and so part
118of it the reporting and budgeting this will streamline that it will address the payroll concerns and because we're currently not using full capabilities one of the biggest ones is stipends we're still doing that by hand on spreadsheets this new system will allow you to embed it directly into teams workflows for position approvals and vacancy approvals the ad hoc reporting that's how we do purchasing and how we keep up with our property in the district and so right now we have a lot of different systems that don't talk to one another and so this would put everything in one place and then the training component of it and the last one is the PM time and so with this is the time that they would take after to make sure that everybody could utilize the systems
119and so that is 240 hours worth of work at two hundred dollars an hour for forty eight thousand dollars that would be a one one-time cost for what they call optimizing the system we have an annual contract with them already the other part that would be an expense um currently if you go to our webpage and try and apply for a job you can apply to be a volunteer or you can apply to be an assistant superintendent and it is the same application and so this would allow us to have multiple applications in there especially for our volunteers and for our substitutes that don't need the link that we are currently offering it'll also clean up our job site um everything that you see right now online for our um to apply for a job
120or even our vacancies is run through teams and so for that to be the updated one which is actually a through called Apple track it would need the optimization here's the timeline that they're proposing and know that this isn't them just working on it so this is our people in our office staff that are working with them to continue to update the system so This Is Us and Them working together big ones in November include the business process review Finance accounting budgeting procurement payroll human resources and talent acquisition and how it all connects to the campus December would be position management and the security workflow which is building dashboards for the campus and District staff and then December through April is when they work on the recruiting and hiring that would be the new piece
121to stream on the vacancy piece and then employee management that's the part right now I'm the most excited about that would allow you to be able to hire someone and it go directly to payroll and budgeting and so that it's all connected and then continuing on through February all the way to March the next one would be employee management as well as absent management and then you finish out with business reporting and so some of this would clean up the pims the W-2 reporting as well as the Civil Rights and flexible Finance reporting do you have any questions on the optimize piece from teams Frontline that we're proposing yeah oh trustees this is an amount under the fifty thousand dollar threshold that you approved however since it is still a significant expenditure we did want
122to keep you informed about it and allow you to ask any questions before we hit the go button on next day Joe uh Jim and Joe I just had a quick question on the training and so forth that follows this is that all in person we'll have people here on the ground doing that they said that it would be a mixture they would have hybrid some in person and then some hybrid opportunities but they'd also record that so that if we hired in people in the summer that were doing that or we wanted to cross train green and people were tied up during that time that they would have access to it as well in the second question is that 200 an hour inclusive of like all of their travel potential travel expense all that
123yes sir yeah I have the same question uh perfect um do they have I know you said since it was implemented well first the ISD likes this like you know you know like like you don't you wouldn't want to change like another program no uh that we would not answer that um this this system teams it's like a language for the organization and uh we have entertained the thought of going to a different system it is the year of transition is incredibly costly right um second part of that is we have concerns about the strain it would put on the organization I mean you would be talking about everyone from the classroom who business and finance to Human Resources basically the memories of a mother who retired from nursing thing that which part of the
124egg was it was time to learn a new computer so knowing uh about that that for our teachers as well we just have concerns about whether it be worth it to transition to a different system I will just speak franklyn and say that for a service program that's providing a service to us I think it is kind of ridiculous that we have to pay additional fees to see the appropriate upgrades for it to work efficiently that's the way the program works yes sir and I understand the cost of doing business with with these I just wanted to make sure that like if you were you know we're going to sink another 50k in into it then we actually like it and yeah I agree that transition is is horrible I know you said the it's
1252013-14 was in the initial training yes sir do they have is it is it possible that they have a train the trainer type of course where you could get your we could get our our G whiz ninjas that really understand and grasp at that then could also deliver it to anybody else new in the next four five six years that's a good question and one that we continually ask Frontline they're not set up for that quite yet they have what they call tug which is a team's User Group which is basically the best of the best from each district come together and it's people doing the same job in a different District and they help train one another and so it's almost like a help group but no they currently don't offer the trainer of
126trainer peace and that's why we've asked specifically can we record what we're doing are there pieces that you can provide us with the initial training that we're doing now that we can carry over self-sustaining yes okay yeah there's a question thank you any other questions or comments and this is strictly training forty eight thousand no sir this is coming into our system and retooling it going in and cleaning up positions and so an example that I can use right now and I'll use myself I'm in a position that's no longer a title in the district but because I was hired under that position control number we can't change it and so we have a lot of those one-offs in our system because when we built it back in 2013 we didn't know any different not
127against anyone here they just kind of say hey put in your positions any way you want well we've learned a lot since then we would make them a lot more standard instead of as specific as they are good to go me all right item G goals two and three update okay so I'm gonna talk to you about goal two our exceptional workplace climate and the last time we came to talk came together to talk about exceptional workplace climate we we gave ourselves grades basically on where we were on our different critical success factors and so I might go through and talk through each of those knowing that critical success factor 2.4 is a new one for us this year looking at 2.2 our strategies on this critical success Factory include factory factory Factor include empowering
128principles to develop opportunities for decision making and to assemble teacher teams to respond to campus needs as we learn more and more about Recruitment and Retention that's the big one teachers want to have voice and they want to be a part of the planning and systems that happen on our campus and some strategies we've done to this point we've created more roles on each campus for department heads and leads and we've we've stipend those pretty richly um we've doubled the number at elementary school that have that leadership piece as well as the amount of money they're bringing in campuses have set schedules for department and team lead meetings and our staff from the district level are including those campus meetings so you'll see instructional coach instructional Specialists and District people in those meetings and we're
129all on the same page and showing that United for 2122 our Baseline year our strategic actions had us right around 70 and so we want to do greater than that on our interview report and so our next data point for this will be our mid-year staff survey on 2.3 increase the percentage of teachers remaining part of Taylor ISD team this is the one that I feel is my biggest goal personally in Human Resources as a district is to really see what we can do to keep people in Taylor and what we see every year is as you have people come and go that um lose you lose a knowledge piece with that and so we're spending a lot of time training people we continue that cycle and so with that we were behind expected progress
130last year our strategies on this critical success factor include systemic support for new to profession teachers and new to Taylor ISD employees and so we hired um as of the start of school we had hired a hundred new employees to the district and with that 24 of those were new to new to education in some way so those new and first-year teachers of those new and first-year teachers only eight of them had gone through a traditional teaching prep program and so with that that gives us just information moving forward on strategies to support them Human Resources as well as technology does a great job on that or onboarding piece we've taken feedback from our employees that have gone through onboarding and we had some of you come by and visit one of our onboarding sessions
131but we differentiate it based on our years so if we have people that have been in education 20 years versus that first year teacher looks a little bit different also we have some people that are fresh out into the world and sitting down with somebody that this is their first grown-up job um compared to somebody who's been doing this for a while it looks a little bit different on how we sit down and work with them on their W-2 as well as those first paychecks and so we've seen some great strides with that and especially being able to offer 13-month pay some of our people didn't understand why they needed 13-month pay as a teacher because they don't get their first check into September but they start work August 8th so just some of those
132conversations being differentiated help we give them surveys and take that feedback from all the different summer activities they do a new to profession Academy and this year an instructional specialist as well as one of our intervention teachers helped with that so with that we give them just the basic toolbox to start that first couple weeks of school and that went hand in hand with what our instructional and teaching and learning team did with routines and procedures been a lot of focus on what routine routines we did a new to the district training for all of our teachers where we brought them in and we used feedback from what we did the year before to try and improve on this and it was a half day this year for them and we'll take that feedback and
133go a little further next year and would like to see some differentiation and more technology this is in that some actual hands-offs and then professional development for mentors and I think this is the piece that didn't go so well last year and so I'm hoping that the time and energy and time together that we've done this year with mentors that we will see that go forward because their conversations are so rich and they've learned so much from each other and then to see how they do with new to profession teachers has been wonderful so for our fall we have monthly checkpoints for year one and two teachers Mentor meetings every other month our mentors are logging their time together as well as doing an observation this fall a 15 to 20 minute observation in the
134classroom with their new profession future we're stipending not only our mentors but as well as our new teachers all these have thresholds you have to come to the meetings and do all the things to be able to get stipend so that was a huge one we were one of the only districts um out of I think there were 60 something districts in the training for Lee Ford provided a stipend for the actual new teachers we take feedback from our mentors and new teachers for each session this last time we asked them to grade themselves on their routines and procedures so are new to profession as well as eye-opening what they think they're good at and what they need to work on so then that will transition to our teaching and learning team so we can
135provide support for them and then this year we've we've started off with central office buddies and that's somebody they can connect with here in central office and it's fun to hear them talk about talking to people at the district office and yeah they like to say you know different pieces about them coming into their classroom and asking so where we were last year we were 77 for retention for all staff so that's 23 percent of Staff left by taking these strategic actions our goal is to retain 80 or greater of our total staff so that's support operations and people in this building and but we would like to be 85 or greater on teacher retention across the state we are still high at 77 compared to some of our neighbors this year currently 100 of
136mentors have been trained in mentors toolkit 93 of year one and two teachers have attended every session and so right now we're on we'll have session five this next month 97 percent of our mentors have attended every session you can't attend a session we do send you materials and that you're able to participate remotely if need be but as part of our lead forward partnership and that's who's given us the resources for new to profession as well as mentors they send out every month a 30-minute webinar for the mentors on timely topics so this month is the October dip and it talks about the October dip and increased behavior and increase morale within your classroom we continually monitored or monitor our exit data and exit survey feedback as part of this critical success factor this
137is part of an article from Charles Bett foundation on just teacher retention right now and so it's interesting to see and I know you guys attended things at tasby about what keeps people in the district and so here are the different pieces and I thought it was pretty eye-opening to see by age of the employee on what keeps them here and so we're doing a little bit with each of these retirement salary increases District day district-wide days off paid personal days student loan forgiveness one-time retention and the one that you guys talked about a little bit today was affordable housing and I think that's probably the next big one here for us to continue seeing ways that we can support 2.4 is our newest critical success factor and this one was added to reflect the
138knees to prevent protect staff by measuring campus safety efforts strategies for this this summer were district and City safety roundtables professional development for campus emergency response teams review of our district emergency operation plans review and audit of our district drill expectations and procedure and facility audits big thank you to maintenance for all the help they did on some of those audits this year for our buildings strategies for fall regular meetings with our campus safety leads we were able to come together last month virtually and talk through our drills and the next steps moving forward weekly door audits this wasn't one that Taylor came up with this is the one from the state but it's been interesting to see we're trending really well on these and so I'll talk a little bit about that in a
139minute our monthly safety drill reviews safety training for our auxiliary staff we were able to do some training with ewcc our subs our cafeteria workers Grounds Maintenance all of those we made sure that they went through a safety training and standard response protocol this year so what is a lockdown what is all those different drills additional training on the district level for threat assessment standard reunification and standard response protocol and then addition of a threat assessment Annex to the district emergency operation plan and that one was with our consultant Curtis Clay helped with that threat assessment and so all of our safety plans were submitted end of September and the state asked for them by October 12th and we've submitted everything and here is the data for that this is our Baseline year for data
140by taking these strategic actions our goal for initial data is 97 or greater on safety drill results right now we're at 95 percent and what that means what you're measuring is how well we're doing those all the different pieces that if you're doing a fire drill did everybody know where they were going do we meet our release time did we contact the fire department did they take their bug out bag with them did they have their rosters with them and so after each of those drills they do come back together and they they debrief currently our we are 98 on our exterior door Audits and that makes me just extremely proud and so these are done weekly and as of week five we turn those over maintenance grounds and myself turn those over to the
141campuses and they are doing their own door Audits and they're doing them at different times throughout the week you have to do one a week you have to go to Every Door make sure it works make sure that it's locked and that it's not propped and so that's what's all your slide says 97 uh so sorry 97. yes sir and then our next data point for this will be part of the mid-year staff survey but we'll also continue to do our drill audits as well as our door checks if you have any questions for me on me okay so before we hand it off to um for goal three you know the whole point of 2.2 and 2.3 is uh really helping Staff feel like they're Taylor I see is their home and they want
142to return for the following year uh we're going to do this presentation again in January um in January what what leading indicators can we point to that are showing that to work so you don't have to answer that now but just be prepared that in January we have some rather than waiting till the end of the year and seeing what the staff results uh look like in terms of who is staying and who's going like what are some glimmers of feedback that show us like that we're on the right track either and also from mentors as well um I'm really grateful for our mentors but that's an added workload for them I know that they're getting a stipend but uh that stipend goes really quickly when they're giving up their ebooks commit for us all
143right so goal three is quality customer service and there are three um success factors in this particular goal um for 3.1 our goal is to annually increase the percentage of parent engagement um and so the strategies focus on having the schools or the district by offering um more opportunities for students and parents to come to school outside of the school day or by um us as a district or as administrators being able to have much more frequent communication to let um so as a parent you feel like you know and are involved in what's going on and so for the fall of 2000 2020 um some of the things that we have in place each principal is sending out a Weekly Newsletter newsletter we you'll see a increased use of social media from the district
144level from the campus level we have District Community letters we have created a district calendar of different events so you can pull up and see what different things are and we're really working hard not to stack things on top of each other and also to stay away from Wednesdays um Dr patteville has been hosting lots of town hall meetings to talk about not only um just what's going on at the school district presently but what our needs are and helping people to be a part of and we had to meet the principal night we had meet the teacher night we had classroom expectation nights and we will continue to pauseman has a literacy night tomorrow I know the other campuses Mr Bashi had a um just a movie night for lack of a better word
145so just increasing the number of opportunities for parents to be engaged and still working on making that um I guess more meaningful at the middle school in high school but um so 3.1 centers around that we will be sending for a leading measure a survey um well and I'll talk about the surveys in just a minute that are coming so 3.2 is we're going to annually increase the percentage student satisfaction with the school experience themselves so we realize that for students to be successful that they have to be engaged in what they're learning and they have to have an opportunity to develop their own learning progress so um this is something that is probably more on the school side instead of the student side but the campus principals have if you look at one of
146the Strategic measures they have worked on developing a specific walkthrough form in order to provide teachers with specific and immediate feedback in order to to help the students certain grade levels are developing student data trackers where they can be responsible and see where where they fall what they need to grow and how they're growing as far as like Gathering data during the fall it's actually started this week students and parents of npe MSI and TMS will be given a survey that will help us get information that will guide our school improvement process and so I think this is the first time that I can ever remember that we're asking third and fourth and fifth graders to complete a survey to help us get more involved in what they think and what will help them and
147so we'll we'll not have that data until January but we'll be able to still have plenty of time to do lots of things with that the last critical success factor is just increasing the percentage of Staff satisfaction um we want to encourage our staff to be actively involved in the community in the Improvement of the workplace we've talked about um sometimes just a Diet Coke day or jeans or whatever is really not enough it's what people are really looking for um and I know our principals are leading by example and supporting in classrooms and and helping um also allowing the staff to be involved in what it means to um this morale having them be a part of that so I know that each campus well not each but some of the campuses have given
148staff surveys and implemented the ideas um and we're trying to as campus administrators Implement creative opportunities to acknowledge staff and celebrate their success whether that means they get extra PLC time or or what more than just saying here's the a Diet Coke thanks for all um this particular um the doctor doesn't the data like I said in January will have some really straightforward data input from students parents and our teachers all three groups since it will be able to come back and talk about and have some specific opportunities um to grow from there that's it for me months sure thank you some of your agendas the financial report Jenna good evening all right first on the list is the tax collection report um these figures are as of September 30th so I'm looking at these
149of course if you look at our fiscal year 2023 that's the school district's count towards the middle of the page the total year to date that we've collected as of September 30th is 141 000. looking down to the next section that's based on Williamson County Appraisal District their collections the total collected as of September 30th is 21 million any questions about the tax collection report all right moving on to the statement of revenues and expenditures the first page goes over General operating fund 199 fund and the top of course shows the revenues and if we look at the year-to-date revenues collected we're at three million two hundred ninety four thousand the expenditures you can see to the right each by each function the balances that we've used the percentages used and what is remaining the
150total expenditures used in in general operating as of September 30th were 7 million 50 340. the next page reviews the 240 account which is our food service fund um the total revenues received as of September 30th is our 93 566 total expenditures ninety nine thousand five hundred ninety five debt Services um total year-to-date uh revenues received 55 000. total expenses uh one million twenty thousand five hundred sixty three and then at the bottom that gives the total of our balances in both the Citizens Bank account the general operating account Texas class Lone Star so it brings our total cash to 14 million three hundred sixty four thousand thirty two any questions about this statement of Revenue and expenditures next as Tiffany has gone through some of the info or all the information regarding the front
151line education it is a purchasing request for the both the Forty eight thousand and the 38 379 for the upgrade and implementation of the updated version um so this again Tiffany mentioned that it it was or Dr paddeville mentioned that it's under the 50 000 required but of course in transparency we would like to make sure you guys are aware of everything that is um for your review just to make sure you are on board any questions so I just want to clarify that because now I see where the custom Training on Erp system that one time for you 48 000 yes for the 240 hours okay there's another 38 000 right so earlier when I asked that was that 48 000 was training only this is where I redid it's training only unless I'm
152thinking okay and then further on it talks about the prorate as well for that 30 okay thank you any other questions foreign and finally uh the quarterly investment report um this is as of September 30th the portfolio summary um just shows that we are our beginning marketing market value uh 3624 ending market value 3645. I'm looking at the second sheet just shows the long star investment pool we have three thousand four hundred and forty nine dollars beginning balance and we ended the month of or the quarter with 3469 Texas class Investments we started the balance on July 1st with 740 sorry 174.79 ending balance 175.73 any questions about the quarterly investment report thank you next on the agenda is the consent agenda which consists of the minutes of the regular meeting September 19 2022 and
153purchasing approval are there any items that uh trustees would like to thank uh for further discussion they're done I'm open to a motion to prove the consensus agenda as presented I'd make a motion we're approved to the gymnastics sure he's singing by Anita all in favor raise your right hand you want to pose be the same motion carries six zero with one f all right item number 10 news business the discussion of policy EF a e yes sir so as mentioned earlier this is a Hot Topic right now in the news and Library materials and so on advice from our policy Services they asked for us to take a look at our current policy for Library materials we do have an EF local our EF local right now is about instructional resources and so what
154I've presented for you this evening is recommendations from the policy service we can keep our EF local and make some changes to it and so that's what you see in the red or the changes that would happen to our current EF local where you would go to instructional materials and Library materials as part of our how we accept materials here in the district and so with that they go through and they the policy this is the standard policy that the state uses for EF local and so this would be EF a local if we were to go with this which is a single option that has both Library materials and instructional materials in this and so with that you see the proposal which is to clean up what is considered an instructional resource how it's
155defined and that's the the selection part in the beginning and so they go in and talk about appropriate subject area age ability learning styles must meet high standards and then it goes down to promote literacy and defines what promotion of literacy is it talks about specific criteria or selection of materials just like we do textbooks but with that they include in here Library materials and most of it is that you need to be able to develop a presentation for multiple viewpoints and Foster critical thinking represent many ethnic religious and cultural groups and contributions to the whole community they go through and there's 10 more different things that they put underneath that that have background literary merit favorable professional reviews already received national awards covers a variety of topics have a high degree for potential use
156after the school level that they're in requested and recommended by students and teachers and mirror selections found in neighboring districts it has in here many times representing diverse viewpoints and cultures appropriate to each campus and then the part they put in here is the the definition of how things can be challenged and with that a student who is eight years age or older or an individual or employee of the district and then it gives you guiding principles for a challenge it really defines in here that during the challenge that they can't restrict the use of it and so what does that look like and then the major Criterion for a final decision and with this the recommendation from policy review Services is similar to our textbooks that it's committee based and that with that who
157would make a good Committee Member for a selection of materials for a library or if there was a criteria for a challenge and then after that under the formal reconsider is a reconsideration those would be our local pieces our local guidelines that would fall behind that and with that our Librarians have already presented what they would like for that to look like now this right here um that was presented this evening is to keep our current EF but make it EFA which is the single option that keeps both instructional materials and Library materials under one piece and just make sure that the language is clearer and that it's more defined questions for me on the recommendation or the discussion of the recommendation yes ma'am that's something I'd like to do to recognize my library to
158give them something every possible you know I would log into um business World Business program you picked an engineer you're going to put your faith Virginia he knows what he's doing you're not gonna try to do it go to school these Librarians have faster doctors they've gone to every kind of because the state makes sure they know that every time every scenario that is probably about I just wish that give them you know because oh and Miss tunnel I would agree with you um our Librarians are excellent in fact one of our library media Specialists is currently going above and beyond and servant in her classroom as well where there's a big see but I have to give kudos especially to miss Lynn Butler she last year without prompting tea created a book review process
159in case it were ever to happen and it hasn't in Taylor ISD and the reason it hasn't is because we have um not only Librarians that are extremely educated and intelligent but they have high common sense as well so they screen the books that come into our libraries and they're able to really give be a good judge of what's appropriate to put in front of kids the nice thing about a policy that spells out the challenge process is that it actually protects our library that way it you know what could have happened last year prior to miss Butler creating a process with the other Librarians is there would have been a book challenge then we're all looking at each other like well how do we want to handle this but it's clearly spelled out here
160in case a Community member were to approach our schools and say well I don't think this book is appropriate well now we got a protocol a follow to really judge whether that's appropriate or not and that that policy also explains to you that that material is pulled while producer any other questions comments what's the biggest challenge here issue that we face but Karen Taylor just overall with library books both some of them are religious in nature or historic titles that just come up all the time titles that are mainstream but they they get on the news and we hear them in other areas we haven't had as Dr said anything big which is good and we have people that support our libraries and our Librarians here is the discussion point then is how the library
161books integrate into the overall education of the child and to make sure that they're they're interconnected for for this discussion point it's it's we're open to any conversation regarding the social materials that you would our board would want to have um this discussion point was we wanted to get to the practice of presenting a policy for your report before put it in as an accident next month this is for you to feel like you don't have to questions we have opportunity to read through this and then get back with me yes sir thank you any other question all right next on your gender new business is discussion of policy CW Mr Ortiz uh we are presenting CW here because it has come up in the past for trustees um to have the topic of potentially
162naming items around the district and items buildings structures and even geographic features like roads after individuals who may have come from the community I wanted to put a policy CW in front of you for your review and then discussion I will point out that there is a nomination process um and this mostly relates to buildings but we could expand this to give you more latitude as well but I'm gonna put that in front of you and open it before it's fine the one I was glad to see it and we talked about it I think it gives the trustees that are new to the board that haven't been through this process because we went through this process back in February of 2016. and we didn't have a policy for naming building I think at the
163time we came up with that was a time where we actually named Legacy prior to this uh Legacy building after Dr Dickey and then after that we developed a policy for naming facility you know looking back you know and I'm glad it's it's here because the trustees that haven't been there or haven't gone through this process recently in Austin ISD there was a incident at a high school that was named the Performing Arts Center was named after the teachers had been in the district for 30 years and then students came forward so that was kind of uh you know it's kind of nice to let you guys know hey this is our process this is how we met these these uh this process or the naming of a facility and you know like I said
164it gives us an opportunity to look at it and uh kind of talk about a little bit I'm glad to see it's here but any questions or comments about the uh policy so cool yeah it is and funny because I looked it up it was in February and when we went back there was pretty good discussion amongst the four back then but there was language in that we were presented three options and one of them had to figure it out the board May rename an existing facility should an honoree discredit his or herself school or the community but we actually voted to pull that out or we we decided not on that that particular uh there was uh some amendments and and other men it's pretty neat see that going back any other questions or
165comments on this policy or was it good is it good to go and anybody like to change it or I'd like the opportunity to read through it and just maybe bring it up and again it was on here for discussion just to bring it up or just to talk about it I wouldn't get a nomination you can't do anything else yeah oh yeah and this is what I was talking about and I you know like give us some time don't just providing us a policy for us to you know have three days or four days to look at and then try to take actions kind of like having this opportunity to have at least a month to take to get it ask questions get with our compatible if you have questions you can get those
166answers for it so I like that direction I don't think it's necessarily concern about the possible method to be an embarrassment it's a way to memorialize them right all right there's another further discussion on this policy we'll move forward Adam C discussion and possible action to amend policy FFA local in our kind of just Sherlock Ortiz you'll notice that on this policy we did add possible so I'd like to talk a little bit about the possible amendment to ffac local and while we're not aware of any fentanyl overdoses in Taylor ISD at this time we know that it has been a great problem in districts surrounding us we've had some districts close to us that have lost students recently due to fentanyl overdoses as well as opioid overdoses our nurses brought to us the recommendation
167for Grant access to narcon which is better known as an opioid antagonist or naxalon and with that they have been giving narcon to school districts in case something like this were to happen not only to our students but if we were to host an event of any kind and we had people in our building possibly that would suffer from an overdose of any of these and so what we're asking is to be able to amend ffac local which currently right now the big one on ffac is epipens if you had somebody go into anaphylaxis we have extra epipens in case we ever need them and so similar to that we would have narc on available and do training for our staff if ever needed for Narcan for our students with that only a registered nurse
168or someone that's been trained would be able to do that and they would administer the medication and may only do so in accordance with the order from the position and we have standing orders from Physicians for epipens and so this would be something we would include any question is yes ma'am right now they are giving it free our local police department does have Narcan on them but this would allow us to have it in our buildings as well yes ma'am it's available perspective how do we keep the parent in the loop and you know I guess for lack of a better word if they're consent or does it fall under an emergency response type situation and I can assuming it's the kid fell and broke their arm we're going to provide you know how does
169that work for Narcan or the opioid antagonist same thing it would be an emergency response and so this would allow us in an emergency situation be able to administer it because it would be a life-saving piece and right now they say anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes um it's that crucial any other questions are coming yes principles what do you what what are you well um I'll have um Womble being our high school administrator that here you might have uh approaching the mic and I Sharon your feedback about um what you think of this policy I just want to know what I feel how I feel about having on campus and then being really available I think it's great I think just being able to have it there I mean it's we're seeing more and
170more of it um I would like to say that you know it's not but to have it available will be a great asset money reservation no just to make sort of trainings training's right on it you gotten that are trained in different parts of the building just in case I think that's the best vehicles there are no other questions I'm open to approve to amend policy ffac local Narcan Edition that's presented foreign discussion all in favor raise your right hand anyone else do the same motion carry six zero at this time as determined by the Board of Trustees there may be a closed session pursuant to if this opens a meetings act Texas government code section 551.001 to discuss items and leading to Personnel including but not limited to board superintendent goals code section 551.07
171or any action will be taken in Open Session we'll exit opening fashion Open session at 9 58 pm here purchasing approved so this is like this is giving us the information if I'm um yeah that's that's just that purchasing a proven review she talked about this right right and then this is this should be yeah all right then good thing just approving it approving that planet yeah it's the same thing right so yeah yeah I again I just want to make sure foreign