001Good evening. You all meeting independent school district show me president Bernard is not present. Furthermore, let the record show this meeting posted in accordance with the text meeting of allegiance. [Music] All right, that'll move us on to item three, which is the mission statement. Jason, can you take that? Gun will empower every student to attain an exceptional education that challenges them to exceed their own expectations and provide a foundation for success in life. Newly that is newly created as well. It's the mission statement we had. It's newly created to be chair at the board meeting because what we want to do is make sure the focus of our entire meeting is the mission of the school district. So by reminding ourselves and everybody here what we're here to do that's the idea [Music] as a
002superintend Okay. Do you want to introduce our new maintenance operation? Would you stand up? He's coming to us from Salina. We are very excited because today we started to hit the ground running and we are just extremely excited about the taken care of in the district today. We are very very excited about taking care of our facilities because I truly believe our facilities is a reflection of how we act and so you'll start to see us slowly taking care of some of the things that we had for the last several years. And um my next update is public comments. Let everybody know that we have a place on our website where the public can put comments in. they have to come to the board meeting to address the board. And so at the beginning of
003the board meetings, we will I will make sure everybody has a copy of that and we'll say the person who's subitted public comment. We will begin a strategic plan. U the board will need to pick a day later tonight um in October either the week of the 20th that be the 22nd the Wednesday or the 27th or the 29th of October to have a 3-hour tour workshop. so we can start the more strategic plan. What that is is a road map here where we want our district to be. Without that, we're just hoping we get to where we want to be. So, it's very important that we start this process sooner rather than later. It'll be start in October with the school board surveys that go out to parents to teachers to students. We'll be
004able to understand what's going out in the district and by April we'll be able to adopt a brand new 5year strategic plan for state. That's what that that work is and it's very important to start demographic study. We've already started engage with education coming. We don't know exactly where it's coming when it's coming and and how many people are coming. We just want to know what they'll do is update the 2021 survey that they did demographic study and uh it's going to be useful to us as we make facility plans going forward and know exactly to build schools how big the schools need to be made very precious knowledge. We did have some damage to our facilities. We have the middle school roof in some of the flashing on top of the sliding areas damage
005during the storm and the annex. The annex is almost complete [Music] a separate claim with the elementary. There was a couple thousand of small damage to that school. Something that we need to help a roofing company take care of. So we can take care of somebody who's a contractor. Uh this year what I want to start doing in the future is have our students own their education. And one of the things that students should be doing when they own it is twice a year I want students to lead parent teacher conferences because our students know what they're learning, what their needs are. more than our parents do, more than our teachers do, more than our principles coach. And so starting this year, we're have one student le conference for every student and that's going to
006happen. The principles will dictate and tell the teachers and communicate to the parents and students will do that. And then as of today two posters that were donated by the first Baptist church we have two that was all in the classroom before we all [Music] right the events that are coming we have transport meeting I'll be in Washington DC for the rest of this week doing some training that I need to get done we do have the 25th evening we have in school board trainies. That's the legislative update that's happening. And those teacher services won award. She asked a question to raise her hand in my mind for that substitute that second half of the day I get to school I'll be first conference 15 at Tiger Stadium. We have a board meeting on the
00720th here at this same room at 6:00 p.m. And then don't miss it. The 25th, we have our annual fundraisers for our education foundation. And then we need to plan the dates for our strategic plan board meeting. Like I said, Wednesday the 22nd, Monday the 27th or Wednesday the 29th will be a special meeting just for that purpose. But that'll start strategic plan. [Music] So with that we can move on to students. [Music] Students first, right? Students first. >> All right. First, we're recognizing a young man who could not be here for the last board meeting for his excellent achievement on his fourth grade math star test. Landry pick it. going up. Landry achieved a perfect score, which is pretty rare. Uh, it's not designed for perfection. It's designed to measure growth, but Landry showed
008exceptional grit and hard work to to achieve this feat. Excellent. [Music] Next elementary would like to recognize our August student of the month winners. First we have our kindergarten winner, Charlotte is our kindergarten student of the month. She has entered kindergarten with enthusiasm and has truly excelled. Charlotte is a wonderful role model for her peers. She's always ready to learn, always listening, and is consistently kind and helpful to both her classmates and Mrs. Best. Charlotte always has a smile and positive attitude. She is a friend to everyone and a true joy to have in class. Miss Best is so proud of her. [Music] If you don't mind, we're going to get a photo of the campus students of the month all at one time at the end. >> Our first grade student is Rosalie Cardas.
009She's the first grade student of the month. Rosalie is an amazing young lady. She shows grit in her class. She is respectful to her teacher and has a smile for everyone in class. Um, Mrs. Jameson is so happy she is part of their class and a role model to her classmates. Happy Easter by East comes into class each morning with a smile working hard and helping his classmates and teacher. He is a good friend. He is always kind, inclusive, and encouraging to his classmates. He is our second grade student of the month. Way to go, third grade. Cole Smith. We are proud and excited to recognize Cole Smith as our third grade student of the month. He is an incredible example of what it means to work hard and never give up. No matter the
010challenge, whether it's a tricky math problem or an injured arm that slows him down a little. He shows grit by pushing through with determination and a positive attitude. He doesn't complain or flip when things get hard. and so he digs in, keeps trying, and inspires his classmates to do the same. His effort, perseverance, and strong work ethic make him a role model in our classroom, and we're so proud to celebrate his success. [Music] You can see you got I got potato such a bright, responsible and sweet young man. He is always engaged in participating in our lessons, willing to help others in need, and such a good sport whenever we play games and engage in team building activities. We are so lucky to have him in gunner with us now and so blessed to have
011him as one of our fourth graders. [Music] All right, last but not least, we have a Scott Wyatt is a never give up superstar who always works hard and keeps trying with a smile is proof that amazing determination and effort equals success. Wyatt, we love your sweet, quiet spirit and the smile that is always on your face. You are a wonderful example of a gunner tiger and I'm honored to give you this award. All the students come back up. >> All the students will come back up for a picture. [Music] Maybe [Music] So, I'll go ahead and have Cora and Landon come on up. So, y'all just stand right here while I write about you. Okay. So, our three students of the month from the middle school are Cora Gray, Landon Bowen, and Brier Murphy,
012who couldn't be here tonight. These three middle school students were honored by giving the student of the month award after being nominated by their teachers for outstanding behavior, academic effort, and positive attitude. These students consistently demonstrated leadership, respect, and a strong commitment to their learning, making them role models for their peers. Kora is always smiling. She's the one of the happiest students that I've ever seen. She just consistently invites others into her circle. She's always making friends, always reaching out to others, and just really a wonderful role model when it comes to kindness and caring attitude. Landon sets a great example for his peers. Um, especially those seventh grade boys that I have to talk to sometimes. But he really, really is outstanding at always making the right decision, even when no one's watching. And
013that's one of the biggest things in middle school that we want to honor and look for. And he's doing that just on a consistent basis. So, I'm so proud of both of them and very honored to be their principal. before [Music] this doesn't improve. [Music] >> You're just being nice. [Music] I got the privilege of introducing and recognizing our student of the month, Mr. Jackson Lazy. probably heard me talk about in the past when we look at our our coursework and the rigorous um demands that we set with our AP courses. Uh and I always try to direct kids if you want the challenge, you want the push, take your take our AP courses. Um dual credit offers that as well, but a lot of times when our our AP courses are taught to the
014level they should be, um our our kids are really pushed. So, we had a bunch of kids take the AP lang and our physics test, but Jackson was the only one. We had we had a bunch pass one or the other, but we didn't have but one that passed both. And Jackson passed both the AP physics exam and the AP Lang exam. So, um that's very difficult. That's not only a reflection of his his intelligence, but also his determination, his willingness to put the work in. So, um with that, it's my honor to introduce Jackson Spacy. Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. We started a big impact award this year for staff members above and beyond. Okay. It's very difficult to choose just a few. We've got so many of our staff members here at Gunnar ISD
015go above and beyond. They work tirelessly to make sure our students get what they need every day. They help each other out. Um they're kind and caring. They they have a smile even if they're exhausted and work really long hours and and so our principles are looking for people on their campuses that they can love to give a big impact award to. So big impact that award we'll be giving this year for our staff comes with 100 grand because we like to give the teachers 100 grand because that's what they're worth. I say teachers because that's a loose term the staff member 100 grand and so you're getting 100 grand bar I know it's not really 100 grand to us and the sayings that wrapped up is basically thank you for putting this together for
016us. The sayings that we've decided on is uh your impact is worth a fortune. Thank you for making a big impact on the students and the staff at Gunnar High School. And there's two quotes here. The first one's by Stephen Cuy. What you do has a far greater impact than what you say. And the second one on the back side is going to be more funny, but it's so impactful. It's true. If you don't think, excuse me, if you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed. So, yes, even if you don't think you're going to be impactly day in and day out, it's a long school year. Little things over time make a big impact. And so, uh, on behalf of the administration, thank you to all of our our
017staff members for what they do. But specifically, we have some recognition tonight. And so we'll start with the high school. [Music] These two young ladies in front of you. I've got to have a team around me that's uh tremendous because I'm I'm there's a lot of times that uh say they just keep me grounded. They keep me straight. They keep me in line. They keep me doing uh the things that uh that are required to to run a school um to help the kids. And when you begin a school year, there's a lot that goes into it. Our enrollment has grown by about 15 or 20 kids this year. Um they are so they're responsible for so many things when it comes to scheduling at the beginning of the year getting kids where they need
018to be doing um fixing schedules registered for AP classes. Um all of that you think counselors you think emotional support and all those things that's just a fraction of what what these ladies do. Um and I couldn't I couldn't um do what I do without them. And so, uh, Miss Katie Johnson and Miss Mandy Bose, my two counselors at the high school, they are our impact, um, staff members of the month. Thank you. Thank you very much. [Music] Okay. Uh, Minnie and Candy and Corey and Brooke, go ahead and come on up. So this is our middle school special education team. Cory Axil, Candy Lindberg, uh Mini Smith, and Bert Medlock. They make up uh just a tremendous group of educators that I could not function without. Um, I wrote a little something, but they're
019being nominated this evening for the Big Impact Award in recognition of their unwavering dedication, creativity, and compassionate support for their students. They spend countless hours creating plans, reviewing paperwork, and collaborating with general education teachers, not to mention putting out probably 45 hours a day. uh when it comes to their kiddos. Their collaborative efforts have created an inclusive and empowering learning environment where every student can thrive and succeed. One of the biggest things at uh the secondary level is including support and that is one of the the greatest things that I've seen that has helped our students flourish. We've now gotten to spend almost three years together with them and we've watched them grow from sixth graders now to eighth graders and a lot of those kiddos have just grown tremendously and that is a direct
020impact of the love and the care and the support that this team pours into them every day. They never say no. They always answer with yes and they always do with a smile on their face. And so I I could not be more appreciative of our instructional aids and our special education teachers and they deserve this and 10 times more. So, thank you guys for Right. [Music] Heat. [Music] All right. Um, tonight I want to shine a spotlight on a group of unsung heroes at G Elementary, our cafeteria staff. Thank you. Every single day they make sure our littlest tigers have at least two square meals a day and they do it with kindness, consistency, and care. They're often the first smiling faces our students see in the morning, and they keep everyone fueled to
021learn and grow throughout the day. I can tell you personally, they even take care of me, especially on state day. Please join me in recognizing Lindsay Wear, Michelle Clemens, Jack Clemens, Kiana Hucker, and Lauren Rogers. These ladies don't just serve food. They serve love, stability, and energy that helps our campus thrive. Elementary is a stronger, better place because of them. Wait [Music] a minute. Wait a minute. Okay, I'm going turn like this. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Good evening. We'll start the financial report on page five of your board book. Um we'll start with the statement position by fund and we're going to be looking at that fourth column, the ending market value. So for the general fund, we've got the five accounts in that ending market value of all five accounts was
0222,627,9008. In that middle section, we have our interest in seeking funds of two accounts and one at Lamar and one at Techstar with the ending market value of 2,311,46412. [Music] And then continuing down to the last group of uh accounts are construction funds which have five accounts that still have balances in them. The ending market value for those five accounts is $16,51,6229 for a total of all of our accounts of $20,990,00042649. [Music] On page six, it's our inventory of investments. So, it's the accounts that were just listed on the previous page, but have that higher interest rate. The ending market value for all of those accounts is 19 million at the very bottom. 19,740,522.71. [Music] Next, we'll go over to page seven with our property tax collection analysis. We'll be looking at the third column,
023the actual year-to- date collections for our general fund. The top three um of of the top three in the section for our general fund, we have our um current year, prior year, and other tax revenue, a total of collections, $100,259. The next section is our debt service, our INS fund. Um, of the current year, prior year and other tax revenue collections of our debt service for a total collections of $212,498. Next, on page eight, we'll go into our budget summary. That third column is what we're going to be looking at here, the year-to-ate actual for our revenues and expenditures. The top portion is for our revenues. So for the 2526 school year, we have total revenues collected year to date of 1 million $748,010, which is um just under 12% of what we have budgeted
024for the year. for the next section se section for our expenditures. Um all the way down to the bottom the total expenditures $1,735 $1,735,574 which is um around 16% of our budgeted expenditures for the year. On the next page, it goes into our debt service summary for the year. Our year-to- date actual for our revenues is $240,7 and our expenditures of $2,657,541. [Music] The next section is the um food service year-to- date actual. For our revenues, we've collected $162,888 and our expenditures at $97,835. [Music] there any questions on those? Then we have our um quarterly investment report that starts on page I think it's 18 don't know if it's number 18. Um it looks at our um accounts from June through August to 2025 or early investments from there. Um, it starts with our general
025operating fund at Lamar ended with $92,76166. We have our interest in syncing fund at Lamar ended with $160,787.25. Our construction fund of 691. Our original bond has a balance of $8,3116. On the next page, our Lamar general operating investment account ended with a balance of 1,537 91 1,537,9281. The Lamar workers comp account ended with 131,5395. Our school fund activity account ended with $54,815.82. 82. On the next page, we have our 2022 bond at Lamar ended with $73,35.7. Our the 2023 bond fund ended with $8,61,6294. And then the Techstar INS fund ended with 2,150,67687. The next page begins with the Techstar construction fund with a balance of 19,584.77. The next one is the 2023 bond fund at Techstar with a with a balance of 7,258,525 ending with our Techstar general op investment account of $880.74. [Music]
026All right. So, as we go to page 22, you'll see that we have added what was requested last month to your report. So, you can see what we based our budget off of. You see on the bottom there, we based the budget off of 1,150 students with the average daily attendance of 93% which means the refined APA for your budgeting purposes is 1,72 students right now. The current student population is 1,185, well above what we plan. You see the breakdown for September. The elementary school has 489 students. Middle school has 281 students and our high school is at 385 students. Remember the last Friday in October is snapshot day for UI purposes. Next we have our construction Monday. It's on page 23. We still need to work on getting shades for corar. We also need
027playground equipment because it just wasn't enough for the student. So, we're going to start construction this week on the uh fourth third, fourth, fifth grade playground. After it's completed, then we'll move over to the little playground and we will add some handicap equipment there for our life skill students as well. We're excited about that. Uh we'll get some signs up over there, some signs of some door lock issues we have. We're almost done after the elementary school. The middle school, we thought we were done with the gymnasium, but uh I had the construction company working with the architect to redesign the entry into it. Goes through a restroom, and it just didn't make any sense. So, I'm working with the the architect to have them redesign it to make an airport test entrance and we'll
028have to relocate the water balance engine gym. The other problem I see with that is it leak is a problem, but we're going to get some industrial rubber underneath it. And I think it's still the best option. So, not everybody has to walk their restroom to get into the gym. Solves that problem. Um, there was some water damage to the court already, the gyms. And they came in and started that today. They should be finished with it by October 22nd. the uh threshold wasn't put in the right way apparently and water came in that storm and developed for it and damaged that pretty good. So they're working on that currently and they're also redoing the stansion holes because when they put in for the volleyball the one for the main main net is too wide
029and the ones for the practice are too close together and so they are making all that right but these things happen. It's easy to go to school. It's hard to get out of it and complete it, right? And so we expect perfection. That's what we're asking of our contractor, all their subcontractors, and of all. So, um, we're looking at 84% of the bonded funds. It's expended. Right now, we're about 37.3 million. We had budgeted 44.6 and we still have a contingency of about half million. and the uh construction company has a contingency of about $200,000 still left. So, we're well under budget, which means we'll be able to do more things with the district when this is done. But, we want to make sure we finish where we're at before we start the next projects.
030I want to make sure these are done and completed and we're happy with the projects before we go in with the same general contractors and the same architects and starting here. [Music] >> All right, Dr. just went over enrollment a little bit. But to break that down even further, we have 106 in our 9th grade, 113 in our 10th grade, 89 juniors, and then we have 77 in our senior class for a total of 385. So our attendance rate at this point is 96.4. Uh first nine weeks is is kind of slow. Our teachers have settled in. Kids are kids are working. But um a few of those recognitions um our GHS, our pharmacy tech kids, we have four of those. They just started earlier this month. they are now in theirarmacies in salina. So
031they have started that and and working in the pharmacy. So um Mr. Moore's chemistry class I'll just highlight a few of of recent Mr. Moore's chemistry class learning about atomic theory atomic theory. Mr. McAll's class is going over indirect objects and pronouns in Spanish. So I got out of there pretty quick. U class is also applying domain and range to real world situations. Um, we have a new ninth grader, Jason Lindsay, that moved in the beginning of this year. If you were at the game Friday, he was awarded uh by Dave Campbell's the unsung hero award. Um, his dad was also a coach, Mr. Darren Foster with Texas Farm Bureau. Heard his story and um put it up at 5 years old was diagnosed with a like full heart blockage. So they had to go
032in do an open heart surgery, put in a pacemaker, told that he was never going to be able to play any contact sports. Um K is a very competitive kid. He's one he wants to be just like, you know, everybody else and have that opportunity. So I think he's begged for like the last 10 years, every time he's he goes into the guardologist, can I play football? Can I play football? The answer was always no. No. He was being pretty persistent. Not I want to play. I don't care what the risk are. Um and he had leads that would come in. So when he was young, so the leads that would come in, they had to put them in low. And so the risk was always if he got hit right, they're going to pull
033out and it's going to be a problem. Well, this last time he went in, I think in February and kept back in. They said, "You know what? We have a new leafless u pacemaker if you're willing to if you're willing to go through it." He said, "Absolutely." So he had the surgery back at the end of July. They put in a leafless uh pacemaker and he is now with no limitations. So, if you'll come on a Thursday night and watch our freshman group, he's out there running around performing and playing well. So, um that was a neat story that they wanted to get out there. Um varsity football is currently sitting at 2 and one. Our only loss has come to the defending division one champs that are rated, you know, ranked number one right
034now. So, we we went over there Friday to Melissa. Played them hard. Uh played them tough. I think the score wasn't a direct reflection of what our kids laid out there Friday night. You know, you look at 4 minutes left in the third quarter. We're down by 10, still competing. So, I think uh our our kids show a lot of grit, determination there. Uh volleyball's currently 17-11 overall. They're 2-0 in district. Their biggest district game that I that I see, you know, last Friday they went to play Blue Ridge, which is very competitive. Um and we went over there and swept them in three. So, that was really good for our girls. Uh this upcoming week, so tomorrow, excuse me, the 17th, which is Wednesday. So, our week's a little off this week. So, we
035play Wednesday and Thursday. So, JB White and JB Blue. JB White plays at 5:00 at home on Wednesday. JB Blue plays following them approximately 7:00 p.m. And then on Thursday, we go over to Sanger and our varsity plays them at 7:30. And then Friday, we have a a volleyball district game at How at 4:30. So, it's about all I have for now. Any questions or anything? Thank you'all. [Music] Okay. So, just by September board report, our enrollment um we're having a new kids start tomorrow. So, we'll be up to 282 starting tomorrow. Our attendance rate is about 97.1 right now. So, they're doing really good getting to school. Um football seventh and eighth grade teams are in full swing along with volleyball. They're playing tonight against uh Leonard just right across the way. Cross country
036is competing really really well. Um on Saturdays we've had several kiddos medal in place. Our football team is always competes well, but they're doing very well um with both teams. Um they're all excelling. They're all winning. They're all doing what we what we expect. But um they're also just great kiddos. I love watching student athletes perform on the court and then in the classroom because it's just a totally different type of student that you see on the court versus in the classroom. Um, I see the most quiet girls that never talk in class and are super shy and just are beast on the court. So, it's just really fun to watch. Um, the middle school band came out and supported Tiger football. That was really fun to see. Um, they were hoping to do that
037more often at the home games. So, they just played pet music in the stands and it was such a great addition. Um, I had several football boys throughout the day before we even got there that night that had stopped me in the hall and said, "Miss, do you know the band playing for us tonight?" So, they do think it's all about them. But um it was really cute and they were just very excited by it. So I loved that addition. Um lots of learning was going on after that 4 day weekend. Um we had sixth graders learning about substances and mixtures in Miss Morrison's uh science class and then Miss Holy had scavenger hunt, a math scavenger hunt going on around the building. So just lots of getting up and learning and traveling throughout the
038building. Um our sixth graders are kicking off a kindness club. So, they wanted to do something a little bit different with our Tiger Time home rooms since they have an advisory class where they can focus on Adventum with that extension and enrichment. Um, they wanted to do something different with Tiger Time. So, they started a kindness club where they're just doing random acts of kindness around the campus. Um, so they did they created bookmarks for the library that had like nice things that say, you know, to different kids so kids can pick those up or they'll just randomly find them in books. Um, they also did a bunch of posters uh a couple weeks ago for the cafeteria staff just thanking them for their service. So, just some random acts that are just brightening. They
039put uh sticky notes all over the lockers. So, just just some real sweet stuff that they're doing. Um, our STC class, y'all, if y'all have not been over to see Mr. Small and see the SEC class. It's just an awesome thing. Um, they're out in the community a whole lot. He loves community based learning. So, they're out at the doughnut shop and learning how to buy uh donuts. They're at Dollar Tree or Dollar General doing uh budget and learning how to grocery shop. Um then they grocery shop and they come back here and they cook. So they use the air fryer instead with bacon last year. So we're nowhere. But um they are doing air fryer stuff. Um they're doing rice krispie treats and we always get some goodies in the office. So it's just
040it's a wonderful thing to see. There's soda, coffee, tea cart. They're doing that again this year. It's their business that they do. Um, so if you haven't gotten to see him in action, he's a he's a great one to come watch and just a just a great guy, great teacher. Um, they went to the gator farm, too. Sorry I missed that. It was that was awesome as well. So, um, just really fun things going on. Um, [Music] chessboard. Um, so this whole husband uh created a chessboard for the library. It also it's beautiful. Like it's unreal. You guys know he's amazing woodworker. But um he created a chessboard and it stores books at the bottom. The checkers the kids can play and it's really beautiful. And so she has that in the library now. And
041then she's doing a blind date with a book and so they're all wrapped and kids get to you know pick a blind date with a book and so they unwrap it and she gets to have those conversations about literature with the kids. So >> awesome. Very neat. All right. Um, for the elementary update, I've got a few pieces of paper that you can reference during this. Uh, first, our attendance at the elementary on the year is 96.96% which is great uh from last year. I also included on that page the class sizes for each grade level. I just want to thank you guys again for your commitment to keeping class sizes low. I wanted to keep you updated on that monthly in terms of with having transfers kind of where we at in terms of
042class size. This is well below what what you're seeing across the across the state. So, thank you for that. Um, a lot of the things I would normally talk about I believe Dr. Enos has been sharing in the weekly board reports which is fantastic. So, I'm going to talk about a couple other things today. Um, one one couple shoutouts I'd like to give in terms of this year some new things. Shout out to um Sharon Bond, our fifth grade science teacher. She spent a whole day setting up the lab. That's a brand new thing for us. We did not have something like that at the old school and the grades have been getting in there and kind of getting their hands dirty and doing experiments. So, that's been fantastic. Um also, shout out to Mrs.
043Lock for what she's been doing with our art program. That's something that's been missing for years and it's really reaching a number of our kids. Dr. You know, you may get to participate in the uh I'm not sure what she has planned for you, but you may you may get to participate in the um Christmas card decorating contest. That's something that our kids are going to be doing as well as a yearbook contest this year in art. Um the next page you'll see, you know, I talked last time about how we're doing a lot of beginning of year data. Uh the map test is kind of a gold standard in our industry for measuring growth. And so what you'll see in front of you here, lots of different ways to break the data apart, but
044when we sit down and we'll talk more about hospital 3 in and later meetings, but we talked about the old way of education was kind of teaching towards the middle, but we've learned from research that you really want to pull kids up. And so we really look at our meets and our M's numbers in terms of a measurement for are we being successful. So these numbers here follow a graduating class. So the 2025 numbers are going to be their beginning of year map the number of kids that would be me or masters or the equivalent on on the map test. And then to the right of that you see that same group of kids where they what percentage scored above the 61st percentile which would be meets or masters last year. So it's not just
045doing it's comparing apples to apples here. Um so you can see and if you flip to the other pages you can see the trajectory is largely that positive correlation we want to see. Um we do have a few dips. I did have a couple asterisks on two of them. Our fourth grade math score is lower, but in third grade, the state allows for the math test to be read to them in part or in whole. So when we administer the math test to third graders, they have it read to them. Same thing for our data in for our third grader. Was it third grade? Yeah, third grade this year. And reading in second grade, they had it read to them in second grade. So we just did a great train at RB's training talked about
046listening comprehension versus reading comprehension. So that accounts for a portion of those two particular areas with an asterric. But these are things we look at to see are we being effect how effective are we actually being within each grade level year over year. Um so last month we got to celebrate us being an a campus that is wholly based off of star. So, our A- rating uh this year was based off of third grade and fourth grade achievement scores. And then fourth grade was our only measure for growth. So, this gives you kind of a a different picture and maybe a better picture for how we're doing in each grade level to prepare our kids for for the next level. But these are nationally norm percentiles. So, you can see that our kids are going
047up by being in this school system. So, I wanted to just put that in front of you for you to All of them. All over. That's good. Okay, that's all I got. You have any questions about anything? If you think of anything, let me know. Thank you. Okay. Next uh item we have to communicate here is the gun multi-hazards emergency operation plan on page 24 to 72 of the bill and the gun active threat for schools annex on page 73 to 93 was submitted to the Texas school safety center and they've accepted it as is now being reviewed. Uh but that is submitted and we are fully compliant and we have everything in place. What I am working with chief to do look at some of the fencing around areas I think we can be
048a little bit more secure with also we want to make sure that we have a reunification plan in place ahead of time should anything happen. That's so important. That's what a lot of people miss and then that's whenever we have an issue that that occurs and we don't have uh our ducks in a row and we can't get students back and parents quick enough and so we want to make sure unifications an item that we discussed throughout this year. Any questions on the EL or the ads? No, sir. That's just a communications item. Next, we have some important dates coming up. You'll look in your on your agenda under number five. There you'll see that we have the homecoming week tailgate. I mentioned both of those. And then we have our October, November, and December
049board meeting dates listed there. Don't forget, we'll also have our September 24th, excuse me, September 25th training at 5:00 p.m. at Tom Bday. And then we do need one day for a 3-hour training so we can start with the strategic plan in October. Thank you. Yes, sir. Uh with that we'll move on to item seven which is consent agenda. Any discussion on any of the items any items discussion items [Music] one item item. >> Yes sir. >> All right. I pull out of a motion to make a motion to pull out. >> I'll make a motion to pull it out of cons. [Music] All in favor say I. I Any other discussion remaining items. Need a motion to approve items A, B, C, D, F, and G. A motion to approve A C F and
050G. Second. >> A motion to second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppos? Motion carries. >> Uh now we'll move into individual items. Uh we'll start with item 7B, the ELLL program evaluation. I will um so the ELLL program evaluation is not complete. That's why it was pulled from the cons agenda and we will bring that to the board next month when it is ready to go. Just need some a few more things added to it. I just wasn't ready to present yet. We didn't get table until November. [Music] So we didn't ask all that. So >> that's our it was motion. Got a motion second. Got a motion second table item B. All those in favor say I. I. >> Oppos. Uh the next item on is 8A which
051is consider approval to adopt House Bill 3 goals for continuous growth. Yes sir. They are on page [Music] 17 I'm sorry 124. I'm also going to projector behind us so everybody can see what we're talking about. You want to come up here? Yeah. I guess I can also make it bigger. Let me see what [Music] I hope that you all come to me so you can see as much as possible what we're looking at. Um, House Bill 3 is a uh growth measure that was passed years ago by the Texas legislature and every school district needs to pass goals that show that they're uh having students in third grade measured in growth continuously for literacy numeracy and then CCMR for high school students. Underneath those we measure prek, kinder and then first and second literacy.
052the same thing with numerousy and then for our CCMR we measure IBC attainment military uh going join the military enlisting and then we also measure drill credit uh attendance the completion so with that I'm going to go and present the uh literacy first the goal will be the percent of our third grade students will score 64% this last year and that will go up to 73% by 2029 as measured by SCAR readiness. That's at the meets grade level. And that's where we want to make sure we're not just focusing on approaching because uh approaching may get us what we need to get this the passing score, but it's not at grade level. So, we're always going to focus on needs. So, that's goal three, excuse me, one. And then goal 1.1, like I said, we're
053going to measure prek. So early child literacy for pre kindergarten is going to be on track for CLI circle. Currently it was at 80%. It's going to go up to 86%. The numbers here are wrong on top. It should be 80 to 86%. [Music] We look at all these numbers and that is my fault. Okay, target yearly target goals, right? The year yearly target goals are correct. And then the same thing for our kinder students. They get measured in class for literacy and we're going to go from last year's 70% to 2029 of 80%. So we're going to see continuous growth and we're going to measure that and make sure that our students are reaching their progress monitor goals. And then finally, our first and second grade literacy is 1.3. And that is going to
054be measure on math testing. As was said earlier by Mr. Davis, that is really our our standard for measuring student growth. And so we're going to use that measurement to go from 70% this last year up to 75%. [Music] And as we move on to numeracy, the overall 2.0 Final goal for numeracy is third grade students as measured by star on grade level goes from 62 to 72%. 62 last year we want to make sure that we go up 10% by 2029 to 72%. We break that down to our progress monitor goals. You'll see here. Let me make that a little bigger for everybody. Oops. Okay, the circle progress monitor for math will be 85% on track as of last year. We're going to make sure it goes to 93% by 2029. We're going to
055use math testing for our kindergartener, our first and our second grade. So 2.2 is for kinder. It's going to go from 60% last year to 72% 2029. And for our first and second graders, the 2.3 goal is going to go from 66% last year on math to 74%. So you can see some of these are pretty aggressive. Others we know where we're struggling. We know we're going to get curriculum lined up. So we were kind of more conservative with them, but we are looking for continuous growth year over here. And if we continue that, then eventually we'll be where we want to be. And now I can figure out where I [Music] second. I do not see my tags on the bottom. They went away. There they are. Just have to open it again. Okay,
056CCMR, this is goal three. CCMR overall percentage was 84% last year. We want to make sure that continues to improve and it's very aggressive at 97%. We think we can get to 97% year-over-year. I don't know past 2029 if that'll go up, but that might be where we cap it. Uh we'll get that by measuring progress in these three areas. First one is industry based certifications. Currently we get 70% excuse me 50% of our students get IBC's passed by 2029. We want that to be at 70%. Our 3.2 goal for CCMR is dual credit. Right now we have 50% of our students attending classes that are credit. We want that to be 65%. And then military we're at 8% right now. We're not sure with our classes if we could ever get more than 10%.
057So we kind of feel like the enlistment there's only so much we can do. We bring in recruiters. We give them the ASVAB. We tell them the benefits of it. But 10% of a class of 80 students is eight students. It's a lot. And we just don't know we'll ever get above that. So what we want to do is maintain the 10% goal for that measure and so we'll try to do what we can to maintain. So those are the House Bill 3 goals. Each one of them have progress measures. Any questions? If there are no questions, I'd ask you to approve those goals as presented. Thank you. Any more discussion on item 8? Shall I make a motion? >> I move to to approve as presented. >> Motion second, Dr. Harris. >> All those
058in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? I'll move the item AB, which is consider approval for Dr. En to submit four EL waivers for 25 to 26 classroom teachers. >> Told you last month we had one. Heidi did a really good job of vetting them all. We are four more short. Four more teachers do not have what they need to have the certifications we thought they did through vetting it. We know now they don't. So, we're working this year to get that done. The state allows us to get a waiver for it. So, luckily we know now who needs them. That's accurate. So, we asked for four more teachers to get the waiver for the services for this year. [Music] Any questions or comments? That's a waiver for this [Music] just until April to
059get it to get it done. >> There are no questions. My recommendation is that you approve it as per motion. I'll make a motion to approve the form. Second motion to second. All those in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Item 8 C is consider approval of the district improvement plan. Okay, this was challenging for me mainly because we we didn't have a lot of of what I needed for the comprehensive needs assessment for the district from the previous year. And so what I did was I put the DEIC team to work and I presented the goals that we had from last year where I provide data. I provided data and then we tweaked the goals from last year. This is not what we'll continue to do starting this year but for this year this
060is what we have to go with. This is kind of the the base of it. So we have five district goals. The goals each have areas of focus and then there's performance objectives for each one of them. And it starts on page 130 of your packet. And I will go through just the goals. If you want to talk about any of the performance objectives, I have no problem doing that. We also have action items in your packet where you can see what types of things our administrators, counselors, some of our teachers will be doing to achieve each one of the goals. And we're going to measure each quarter. We're going to measure where we are for each one of the five goals. And that was a year where we compreh needs assessment with a group
061of stakeholders which are teachers, community members, business owners, uh administrators, and we all get together and we decide where we at these 11 areas, technology, instruction, curriculum, safety. We go through 11 different areas and find out where we really are. And that's what we'll use next year to build our district improvement plan goals. So they'll look completely different next year. Yes. Okay. So the first district goal is innovative learning. We're going to create an innovative learning environment that empowers our students to become creative and collaborative problem solvers. We're going to do this by focusing on two areas. Instructional experience will be designed so they allow our students to take ownership and collaborate with one another, their teachers and their counselors. We're going to also integrate digital tools into the learning environment to promote opportunities for
062students to utilize problem solving skills. Second goal deals with future rate future readiness. Students will take ownership and accountability of their education plan review and restructure the current opportunities for our school district. Make sure we align with our workforce readiness in the county. That's one that we added that wasn't there. We feel like a lot of our career tech program. And so we're going to be focused this year on where is the workforce solution? where are they saying the jobs are for our trades in the area? So students that want to do that don't have to leave the area to go get sustainable learn uh living wage. They can stay here, get trained and live here without even going to college. And then we also want to implement a mentor program that crossromotes the collaborative
063learning between all combination of students, staff and community. Goal three, we're going to focus on social emotional health and assure every member of the Tiger family that they have value and selfworth. The two areas of focus will be equipping our students, our teachers, and our parents with resources, promote emotional health, and connecting every student to the Tiger family based on their unique interests, their passions, and their abilities. Goal four will be building capacity of our students and our staff by cultivating a system that builds the capacity of the staff and students through mentorship and leadership development. This one we tweak quite a bit. We want to make sure we implement a teacher professional development plan with a leadership and mentor opportunities that that integrates followup with them. So it's not just putting in place one
064time. We want to make sure we have progress monitoring along the way check in. And then we also want to develop a plan to provide and align leadership opportunities for our students pre-K through 12th grade. First thing we're doing is we have a superintendent advisory committee that's been formed and we'll always start meeting with them in October and we're going to meet on a monthly basis and I'll be able to hear from the students what they think and this is these are elected students from every grade level and there it shows them a representative type of government. They elected their members to be on this committee. If they had issues in school, they go to these members. Those members get to be regular and they feel heard and valued. And then the final goal for
065the district recruitment plan for the year is growth. We want to formulate a master plan that proactively addresses growth while optimizing student performance, community relationships, and core values. Like I keep saying, it's about relationships. If we can focus on that, no matter how we think big we can get as a district, we're going to always make sure we stay small because we know each other. We want to establish a comprehensive plan to identify potential resources and policies to support growth. And we want to develop a collaborative partnership with other entities that impact our district. We started that already by meeting with Methodist uh hospital medical center last week. They're going to work with us to help develop out some more CT program sites just have which is pharmacy tech right now and that program is
066wonderful but always preach students are able to take advantage of it. So we want to get other CT programs with a higher percentage of our students be able to participate. Any questions on our district improvement plan? >> Nice job. >> Lot of work. Lot of work. >> Yeah. It really was more than it looks like because it was just there was not much to pull from. I have to give credit where credit's due and that's that improvement educational improvement committee. We met. It was only 45 minutes. It was very very focused on this is what we have. Is this good? Is it not? What do you want to add? And they worked really well with me and with our administrative team to get exactly what they wanted. They gave me a lot of great questions.
067Every member of that committee left there with one takeaway, sharing one takeaway with me and two questions. And the two questions I have on each one of them are very good. They help us as well. Scott, you have a question. One of the question as much as it was kind of a comment, but uh you know around the CTE and looking at what what the the skills needed. We talk about Grayson County, but obviously the the south southwestern part. I assume as part of this we'll look beyond the course ad what the job what the what the skills opportunities are just but we've talked about that we have it could look very different if you go in and call guys the explosion of growth that you know could and those job opportunities are very important
068as well just it's it's very germanine for us to work with our county on things because they also work with our gracing college >> and we get the best breaks the grace of knowledge. So, it's a natural fit. Not that we should know the problem. It hasn't been discussed. Any other questions? No questions. I'd ask that you present. We approve our district improvement plan as I presented. >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 district improvement plan as presented. >> Second. >> Got a motion and second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? carried. Item 8, consider approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance crediting chapter 48 funding. We discussed this last month. This is more signatures needed as we're going into this. This is new for all of us
069because we are now a property welcome district and we're asking to purchase attendance credit so we don't have to send as much money back to the state for recapture. As we do this, we're focused on uh doing things right. And this last month it turned in the paperwork and they said no you need to have this approved as well. So we're asking for more things we can approve this motion. We got a motion second. All those in favor say I. your opposition. I respectfully ask that we accept the resignation of board member Natalie Bernard. She was effective August 15, 2025. We don't [Music] she did a very good job here for his wedding stop. Uh I'm sure she's watching from Mayor Austin. Thank you very much for all that you did for our board, for
070our community, for our schools, our students. We greatly appreciate the time and the effort of Miss Brown. I I regretfully make a motion to her resignation motion. I have a regretful second. Motion to second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Uh with that we will now turn into close session to executive session act code section 51.073 discussing land 51.074 discussing personnel 51.076 76 discussing St. Pete in the time of 71. [Music]