001I call to order. Let the record show that a quorum of members is present and that this meeting has been called in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. We wish to extend a warm welcome to everyone who is present at this meeting. This is a regular meeting and all items that will be discussed or voted on have been posted as required by state law. As the MSD Board of Trustees, we are pleased that you have joined us as we celebrate achievements, set goals, listen to reports of the superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments, as well as make policy for the district. We are not here to make management decisions or to solve the problems of individuals. Management is the responsibility of the superintendent. This is a meeting in
002the public, not a meeting of the public. You are a guest and you are welcome to observe and listen. If you wish to address the board in the public comment portion of the agenda, please fill out the public comment form found on the back table and return the completed form to the superintendent secretary. We are pleased that you have taken the time to join us this evening and we thank you for your interest in the Marshall Independent School District. Someone like to open us in prayer this evening as we get started, please. Sure, I will. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you today and we just thank you for uh who you are and the fact that you are our holy God and that you love us and that you want the best for
003us. Uh I pray Lord uh just a prayer of thanks for the uh just a good start to school that we've had. Uh pray Lord that you would allow that to continue. Pray Lord that you would help our students as they uh uh just allow them to focus uh when they need to. Help them to have fun when they need to, but uh just uh just bless them and and help their their desire to to learn and and to to grow uh be very real for each one of them. Be with our our teachers and our administrators as they guide them, as they teach them, as they work with them. Uh just give them strength, give them uh energy, uh just encourage them when when the times are hard. Uh and just help them to
004to uh always continually look for what's best for their kids. Thank you for this board. Allow us Lord as we uh make decisions and as we hear reports and and do the different things that we do that you'd help us to also keep that at the forefront of everything we do that that uh the best for every student would be real in in in our decision making. Uh thank you for Dr. Langley. We ask your continued guidance and blessings upon her as she leads the ship. We thank you for her and all the hard work and and and things that she does to to help MISD be be successful. We praise you and thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right. We'll now have our pledges starting with our American flag. All right.
005We have some special pledgers here with us tonight from David Crockett Elementary School. And we need Caden Singleton, who was one of our second graders. Is Caden here? Come on down. And also, we need Savannah Owens, fifth grade. All right. There you go. Hello. Hello. How are you? Let's come up here and y'all are going to stand and face right here, face the flag, and y'all will just give start and we'll go with you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Excellent. Good job, bud. Way to go. Thank you. All right. Caden and Savannah, y'all just do the same thing and come here with the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag.
006I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. All right. Thank you. GOOD JOB. NOW, WHERE IS YOUR PRINCIPAL? DO YOU WANT TO COME UP HERE? Y'all stand right here. We have something for you. First of all, we want a big shout out to Juicy's. Have y'all ever gone to Juicy's? And y'all for doing this hard work. Caden, this one's yours, and this is Savannah's. That's the way they're going to keep it. This is what these look like. And it says, "For being a pledge leader, this certificate is awarded to Cayden Singleton, student at David Crockett Elementary. And you get a $25 Can I go with you? It's awarded to Savannah Owens, student at David Crockett Elementary School. Thank you for your work. And you also GET A $25 GOOD NIGHT.
007OKAY. GOT IT. GOOD DEAL. THAT'S A LOT OF ICE CREAM. YEAH. SO GREAT of Juicy to do that. Yeah, wow. And next, we have our extra mile person uh for the staff member for this month. And for our extra mile presentation this month, we're going to recognize an educator also from David Crockett School. Would you want to come down to the front? Would you want to come back down here? David Crockett Elementary for outstanding service to our students in the classroom. I'm going to read you the nomination from Erica Mills, the campus principal at David Crockett. And this is for Miss Katrina WATTS. ARE YOU HERE? YOU GET TO SAY IT IN A MINUTE. YOU LOOK NICE. DID YOU WEAR THIS TO WORK TODAY? HOW old are you? OH MY GOODNESS, YOU GUYS LOOK BETTER
008THAN I DID WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL. UM I WILL READ YOU THIS NOMINATION. Miss Watts, a second grade teacher at David Crockett, has been selected for the extra mile award due to her dedication, leadership, and a to excellence in education. She exemplifies what it means to go the extra mile, consistently striving to ensure every student in her classroom succeeds. Ms. Watts fosters an environment where children feel valued, supported, and encouraged to reach reach their highest potential. Her focus is always on what is best for her students, and the positive results reflect her hard work. In addition to her work with students, Ms. Watts plays a vital role as a mentor and leader within our school. She provides ongoing support, guidance, and encouragement to her second grade team, helping to promote collaboration and strengthen instruction
009across the grade level. She also steps in to assist other staff members, modeling what it means to be a true team player. Our colleagues have noted her drive for both professional insight and personal growth. Thank you, Ms. Watts, for going the extra mile for our students AT DAVID CROCKETT. MS. WATTS GETS A $50 OH, LET'S SEE. I GOT ONE, TWO. OH, YEAH, you can. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE THINGS OR is Dr. Klein We have some distinction designations to give out. And we had three campuses, and Dr. Klein is just going to be able to talk about this. I'm sure he knows more than I can, but these campuses are getting distinction designations for achievement, student success, and commitment to excellence. Is there anything else that you know about any
010of those? Yes. We can just recognize for each campus. Christiana received a SCIENCE DISTINCTION. YES. OH, THAT'S IT. BUT THE STAND DOESN'T COME WITH IT. SO, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT BACK AND GET THE STAND WITH IT AND GIVE IT BACK TO YOU. OH, OKAY. And a $50 GIFT CARD. FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT. Chase said he was going to find out. Superintendent Okay. Um next Stay here. Um next we have William Travis. THEY RECEIVED MATH. WOO. CLOSING AGAIN. CONGRATULATIONS. WOO. WOO. I JUST WANT TO CAN WE GET $50 FOR EACH DISTINCTION? WHY YOU LOOKING AT ME? ASK HIM. HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO FUND IT. AND OUR LAST CAMPUS WE HAVE SAM HOUSTON. WOO. WOO. ALL RIGHT. MATH, SCIENCE, ACADEMIC GROWTH, post secondary readiness, AND CLOSING. WOO. WOO. OUR DISTRICT WE RECEIVED A POST secondary
011readiness. So, that is a total of 13. Woo. GOOD JOB. ALL RIGHT. GOT IT. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? MOVING ALONG TO administrative reports, item one is the healthy recognized campus, which is Sam Houston Steam. Is Ms. McDonald here? Yes. Yes, there you go. Good evening. Good evening. I'm Laresia McDonald. I'm the family community health agent, one of the county extension agents. And so, here tonight, I just want to recognize and honor SAM HOUSTON. AND THIS IS THEIR THIRD YEAR TO receive the healthy recognized school campus award from Texas A&M University. And how they went about receiving it, they implemented three health and wellness programs. One of them was Walk Across Texas, and Walk Across Texas is a physical fitness program. They actually started here in Harrison County over 30 years ago, but the
012goal is to walk 832 miles, which is equivalent from East Texas to West Texas. So, all the students on campus participated in that. And the fourth grade students participated in the youth garden program called Learn Grow Eat Grow. This is where they learn how their fruits and vegetables are actually grown, and they do have a garden there on campus. And each week, they had the opportunity to taste test different food recipes. And finally, we have the teachers involved with a nutrition program called A Fresh Start to a Healthier You. And they're sharing healthy eating tips with the teachers. SO, CONGRATULATIONS. AND I WANT TO SAY THAT OUR VERY OWN MR. CHASE Palmer helped us kick off Yes. So, CAN WE GET A PICTURE? WE DID GIVE HIM A CERTIFICATE, and there is a banner outside
013of the school. So, each year whenever they win an award, they get a sticker for that year. We know that. All right. Ready? This one first. 1 2 3. And One step at a time. THAT'S IT. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. All right. Well, you know what? We're at the 6th week of school, which seems incredible. Um we we're getting grades together and grades out and all that coming up. But, I want to take just a moment to thank the staff that is here and then even those who weren't able to make this tonight for all of the work to make Friday night at Maverick Stadium a fantastic night. Um that was These these people You can look all the way around the room. These folks were there working. Uh of course, you
014had to even a lot more, and I've heard great things. I've had people texting me and calling me and seeing me in town saying how wonderful they thought that the stadium renovation was and what a great time that they had Friday night. So, I don't want to thank you all for supporting this school district the way you do because if it was wasn't for y'all, we wouldn't have that over there. So, thank you all and thanks to the staff for a great Friday night. Sure. THANK YOU. OH, AT THIS TIME IF THERE'S ANYBODY THAT not anybody, there's any visitors here and you do want to leave at this time, you may or you may stay for the whole meeting. Completely up to to our visitors. You're not a visitor. All right, moving along to the
015consent agenda action items. These are normal items as well as several other things that we discussed on last Tuesday, not Thursday. Make a motion we approve the consent agenda agenda items as presented. >> I'll second it. I have a motion by Mr. Palmer and a second by Ms. Fisher. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Matters requiring board discussion action. Item one is considering to approve the vote entitlement and nomination resolution for the appraisal district director selection. Um this is typically with the last several years we've had two board members on there, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Huffines. This year Mr. Palmer has decided not to be on the board again, so we're going to nominate Mr. Huffines and Jacob Fullbright who is a resident here in the
016in the county and obviously in the city Mhm. to uh we will allot our vote totals. You can see those on page 195. We'll do that at a later meeting once we get an official ballot. Tonight we are just nominating these two individuals to uh basically represent us as a school board on the Harrison County Appraisal District Board. So, we would entertain a motion to nominate Ted Huffines Jacob Fullbright. I move that we nominate those for the appraisal district selection. Second. I have a motion by Ms. Marshall, seconded by Mr. Medina. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Moving on to education, let's consider and approve the district campus improvement plan for '25 and '26. Dr. Crane. Good evening. We are here to um consider and
017approve the '25-'26 campus and district um improvement plans. And so, as you can see, our plans encompass from our smallest learners, our youngest learners, early childhood center, um to the high school and early graduation. So, each campus will um present their plans as they are tailored to their specific student populations while aligned to our district goals and accountability expectations. So, the foundation of our work is um grounded with our mission, our vision, our beliefs, and customer service. And so, um we our mission is to um improve outcomes for all students by providing learners guidance and support in schools. Our vision is forward-looking. We're committed to equipping every learner to achieve their goals and contribute as global citizens. And our belief system supports the whole child, emphasizing academics, athletics, and career and educational pathways to student
018success. And across the district, we want to make sure that we are anchoring a culture of excellence um with customer service built on trust and positivity and solution-oriented practices. So, we have our four goals. Our four goals are academic achievement, staff and quality retention, safety and discipline, and parent, family, and community engagement. So, every strategy and action item that we have in place across the district aligns to these four areas. So, I want to go over some of our district improvement plan strategies and based on our goals. And so, the first one here for academic achievement, with objective one, it is to increase student achievement on state and readiness standards by 3%. So, we've set that achievable target here. To get there, we will look at tier one instruction. So, we're continuing to improve with
019tier one instruction with TEKS Resource System and TEKS Guide. And also, Blue Bonnett Math as we have implemented that K through Algebra 1 this year. We will also analyze our multiple data sources looking at our STAR data, TELPAS data, our district benchmarks, and our diagnostics. This will drive our small group instruction, our interventions, and enrichment. We look at goal two, which is regarding staff quality and retention. This is about the people here, the educators that are the heart of making sure that we implement these goals. And so, we want to increase our staff retention from 65 67.5% to 69% by July 2026. The strategies for that is we want to strengthen our mentoring and coaching structures, which we do have a district mentor program. And so, we partner that with math path as well. And
020so, we have a succinct plan of how we're supporting those teachers this year. We still want to continue our teacher incentive allotment to recognize, retain, and reward excellence in the classroom. So, as you know, we went from eight to 51 teachers last year. So, hopefully we'll get more teachers with the TIA incentive allotment. Our next goal is safety and discipline. And so, this goal focuses on creating learning environments where every student feels safe, supported, and engaged. We have two objectives here that I would like to highlight. The first one is to decrease our disciplinary incidents by 2% as well as increase our student achievement at to at least 94%. So, I think we fared out well for the first 6 weeks on that. So, we want to continue with those attendance goals that we have.
021The strategies that we include for this is our Maverick Way discipline plan and our character education programs that we have at each campus compared with that customer service piece with consistent communication, relationship building, and incentives to support those positive behavior and attendance initiatives. At this time, I'm going to also talk about goal four. That is parent, family, and community engagement. This is our last goal. And so, with this goal, it is looking at building those parent community and family partnerships, making sure that we have those parent family engagement events across each of our campuses. And so, the strategies here is to create one new partnership as well as making sure that we cater our engagement nights to our emergent bilingual students and families so that we are fully supporting all of our students and families
022here in Marshall I S D. So, that is our district improvement plan overview and at this time I'm going to turn it over to each of our campuses and so the first campus is M S C C. And we'll hear from Ms. Culberson. And I have my hair on paper in case she can't see straight. You got it. Okay. It's a little bit bigger and excuse my voice. I'm very hoarse, but I'm going to get through it. So, our goals, we have four goals. Goal one is academic performance for all students. All of our students academic performance will increase from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. We want to increase their language with intentional lessons and create and execute incentives for attendance and increase parent participation. Participation utilizing parents as
023partners. Goal two is recruit, retain and employ a well qualified staff. That's providing targeted professional development for areas of need. Provide staff acknowledgements for their personal and professional accomplishments. Encourage and support teaching assistants to continue with course work for their certification. Safety and discipline. That's our third goal is to provide a safe, nurturing, and inviting environment that is conducive to learning and maintain locked locked campus and provide training materials and support for conscious discipline to reduce student discipline referrals. And our goal four, the parent community engagement is to facilitate and encourage family support. Encourage involvement in all the campus activities. So, those are our goals. Thank you, Ms. Culberson. Up next, we have David Crockett, REPRESENTING THE SCHOOL. GOOD EVENING. WE HAVE THREE GOALS. Our first goal is to provide a comprehensive instructional program to
024increase student achievement. We will provide productive PLC facilitated by principal, assistant principal, and instructional coaches. During these sessions, we will analyze data to to guide the effective implementation of Jessica curriculum, strengthen instructional practice, and support teachers in internalizing lessons to drive instructional success. We're going to implement instructional strategies that foster academic growth for identified students, as well as provide effective strategies through target intervention. We will provide target instruction to all our students during RISE time, and RISE time is an acronym for refocus, intervene, support, and excel. Our second goal, we will recruit, employ, and retain well-qualified professional staff. We will provide teacher instruction and classroom management support training, coaching, observation, feedback through the use of Kick Up. We will create a positive work working environment to attract and retain highly qualified faculty through incentive, praise,
025recognition, and positive feedback. And that can include a break celebration, shout-outs, and etc. Provide continuous professional development to enhance teacher efficiency and effectiveness. The leadership team will facilitate professional development sessions every third Wednesday after school based on teacher needs. And our final goal, we will create a culture and climate that builds a strong and effective partnership with parents and the community. It's our goal to encourage family community attendance at student recognition ceremonies, student performances, and family curriculum nights. To encourage our parents to join PTA, we have a PTA membership drive to increase membership. Uh the PTA president will offer incentives to increase membership. We will foster a relationship between David Crockett Community School and the community through campus events and activities. Thank you. If there are y'all have any questions, board members, along the way,
026just ask. Thank you, Ms. Mills. Up next, we have Price T. Young Fine Arts Academy. You may have Uh I can hardly speak. You can't? Yeah, of course I can. Good evening, I can't. Good evening, y'all. Um so, we have our our big three goals are uh for Price T. Young Fine Arts Academy to provide well-rounded instructional programs to increase student achievement. Uh we want to provide professional development that's relevant and engaging to our students in positive learning experiences. Uh ensure that students will learn to interact and communicate effectively throughout their time at Price T. Young. And increase point value in closing the gaps in reading, math, and science. And to help pass for all students by May 2026 using growth mindset, Blue Bonnet curriculum, and I-Ready diagnostics to achieve one academic year of growth
027for each student. Uh second big goal is Price T. Young Fine Arts Academy will recruit, employ, and retain well-qualified and professional staff. Administration and instructional leadership team will engage in high-quality interviews in which top candidates are selected. Uh provide uh support to all staff with student appearance in both academic and discipline concerns. And provide all staff with positive reinforcement and recognition. Um this past year we maintained a 91.2% um uh retention rate. Uh we would like to maintain that if not increase. Um and then uh Price T. Young Fine Arts Academy will cultivate culture and climate to foster partnership and collaboration with parents. Uh we will continue strong rapport with stakeholders in ways that build trust through parent engagement nights and our partnerships with Emmanuel and the Marshall Alliance Club. Uh Price T. Young will
028be uh beginning the first Cub Club in Marshall uh thanks to the Marshall Alliance Club. So, uh establish effective in communication, also. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Langley. Up next, we have Sam Houston STEM Academy, Ms. Livingston. I'm a senior at Price Yes, ma'am. I have a few years on him. All right. Um our first goal is that Sam Houston STEM Academy provide a well-rounded instructional programs to increase student achievement. This was a lot of our goals are similar to what we had last year, so we're just going to keep forging through those and we stepped our game up just a little bit. We felt like that could help to close our gaps and get us those distinctions. So we're going to continue in that same way. But we did want to increase those performance
029goals on our benchmarks, common assessments, and of course our state test. So we would like to see all of our students longevity over time. Of course, we feel like at STEM our students should all be at approaches approaching grade level. We really feel like they should mostly be on meeting or above. However, we are do want those goals to be attainable. So we want all students to at least be 95% approaches, 80% meets, and at least 40% or above on mastering. We did hit these areas some and some last year, especially within that mastery area, but we want to see all of our subject areas be there, not just one or two. Our second goal is continued on from last year as well. We'll provide a safe school environment for staff and students, improve student
030discipline and attendance rates for every 6 weeks. Discipline last year, we were very excited to celebrate that we hit our 96% attendance goal for the entire year. So we are going to step that up this year to 97%. Our big focus is this year are just having our students understand that being here all day is the most important. And when you're not here, you're not learning in that time adds up. That's what we've really focused on, especially those early checkouts, decreasing tardies, having those conversations, and having that parent buy-in to understand that why it's important. Elementary school kids get dropped off. They don't They're not driving a car late, but we want everybody to have a piece of that. And then also with our discipline and really having our students uh really learn from those
031mistakes that they're making and um grow from that as well. And decreasing those discipline referrals. Our third goal is that Sam Houston STEM Academy will cultivate culture and climate for foster part and foster partnerships to collaborate with parents, provide opportunities for families and community to engage in campus in their students' education. Uh we really are focused on increasing the involvement on the academic side this year. We at Sam Houston tend to have a lot of parents who want to come and be with us and we are so grateful for that, but we really want to have them partner with us in helping their student on the academic side. So, we've already began that this year with our open house. Um every parent received the data from i-Ready on their students, so they know exactly where
032their student stands in math and reading. We've had conversations with them and they understand what that data is and we are going to continue on that on throughout the year, um as well as providing them with information how they can support their student at home. Um the same with community partnerships partnerships and bring in that community aspect of STEM and local businesses and really allowing them to partner that with what they're learning. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Livingston. Up next, we have William B. Travis, Ms. Johnson. They said I have 10 minutes. I'm I'm just kidding. I KNEW SHE was going to give ME THE STINK EYE. ANYWAY, UH OUR first goal, of course, is academic performance and what we're looking at is by May 2026, all subgroups, including special education, English language
033learners, and economically uh disadvantaged will demonstrate at least 1 year's of academic growth. In order for that to happen, we're also going to target the interim targets that the long-term interim targets that the state says that we need to meet. And And that's another thing that helped us to get our distinctions. So, we're targeting that in conjunction with intensive tier one instruction, aggressively monitoring, providing immediate feedback, and lesson internalization on time, which is embedded into our master schedule. Goal two for staff and quality retention, that was a little bit of a bummer for us this year. And so, we're looking at the pay raises held 85%. So, that is our goal to keep retaining staff and keeping them there. For safety and discipline, the overall goal is to decrease discipline referrals by implemented plans that
034will help us to be more proactive. We're utilizing our communities and schools for that process as well as our behavioral specialist. And so, we're being proactive with the behaviors that we know are there and looking at how we can keep in class. Goal four for parent, family, community engagement, we want to strengthen meaningful partnerships and families and the community stakeholders by increasing communication, involvement opportunities, and shared decision-making to support student success. We want to increase parent participation to events by 20%. So, we do have sign-in sheets that we always do when we have events. And so, we want to increase that by 20%. The way that we're going to do that is offer free dress passes to the kids with Um also, we're going to feed them. So, yeah. That's how we bribe them to
035get them in. The next, we our goal is to establish three new community partnerships and local businesses that will support William B. Travis Elementary. We're looking forward to continue our partnership with the Starfish Society, Sam Baxter and Jennifer Truelove, as well as Marbley Baptist Church. Okay. Thank you. Thursday. Thank you, Ms. Johnson. Up next, we'll hear from Marshall Junior High, Mr. Carter. Good evening. Good evening. Uh goal one at Marshall Junior High will be to holistically focus on closing the gap, which is domain three. We plan to do this through uh mandatory tier two instruction for any student that did not pass math or reading on the STAR test. We will also be looking at tier three mandatory intervention for any student with more than a two-year growth gap. Um multiple incentives for teachers and
036students that reach short-term goals throughout the year to celebrate and keep them motivated and going. Daily PLC assessments and lesson internalization focused on rigor and instructional growth. Goal two is to uh increase to 78% in reading and master for the STAR test. We plan to do this by bringing in what we think is a great staff. Uh we have totally increased our staff. We have highly qualified staff members with experience and proven success rates. Prescriptive curriculum such as Blue Bonnet, non-negotiable student re-teach sessions that occur during lunch. We call it extensive educational time. Uh for any student that soft test throughout the week. Mandatory 45-minute weekly focus on i-Ready, the i-Ready platform. Goal three is quality customer service and transparency. Um offering opportunities for parents to give us feedback so we know what they need
037and what they are expecting from us. Open an essential dialogue with parents from teachers, administration, and key stakeholders. We plan to host engaging and insightful parent meetings and functions in order to understand our students' background, where they come from, and what they deal with on a daily basis. Top-tier customer service to any and everyone that has interactions with MJHS. And actively use Thrillshare to communicate with our parents on the daily basis. What is Thrillshare? Thrillshare is our platform that we use when we need to blast something out to the community. Uh it offers English, Spanish. Uh we have all of our students that their parents get it right away via text, call out, or email. So, it allows us to reach everyone in every language. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Carter. Oh, yeah.
038I'm going to need a phone though. Hey, up next we'll hear from Mr. Hancock with MEGS. Pass. Howdy, everyone. Howdy. Hello. Um I stood in front of you guys in August of '23 and mentioned to you that it was time for MEGS to evolve into more. Uh I believe we're doing that and I believe we're ahead of schedule. Uh thanks to Dr. Langley's vision and and her guidance in this in what we're doing over there. Uh the other thing I would mention is everything we do, MEGS is a non-traditional campus. So, so keep that in mind anytime you're looking at MEGS for any reason. I start out every email like that. I start out every staff meeting like that because everybody has to understand MEGS is a non-traditional campus. Um and by being ahead of
039schedule, what I'd like to tell you currently about MEGS, we have 85 students. We are interviewing students every Tuesday this year and if they get accepted on Tuesday, they begin at MEGS on the next Monday. Um we're interviewing six tomorrow. So, hopefully by the end of the day we'll have 91 on Monday. Uh we had our fifth graduate today already. Um so, we're on pace for about 70 graduates again this year. Oh, good. Which is which is a big number for us. Very proud of that fact. Um so, as far as our goals, I I want to talk about student achievement. Progress monitoring is where we make our money. Um myself, the counselor, the family engagement specialist, uh those kids know from the word go, from the time they had the intake meeting, when they
040start, they're going to see the three of us every day. Uh we know exactly what they're doing and what they need to do. Uh and that helps them have some ownership in it, and I think that's really the biggest difference we've made over there is that those kids taking some ownership and getting that diploma is making the difference. Uh as far as attendance, that's our second goal. 23-24, our attendance overall attendance rate for the year was 68%. We have a goal set for the last 2 years of 85%. So, for 24-25, last year's average daily attendance total was 83%. So, we got super close. But, we're getting there, and that's making a huge difference as well. And finally, dropout prevention. Um that's the biggest thing for a lot of our kids. We use flip celebrations.
041What I mean by that is we don't schedule them and tell them we're having a a scheduled event. Lots of times, we just pop up and say, "Okay, we're having pizza today. We're having Kona Ice come by, and the only thing you had to do was show up for school." Um it's making a huge difference. Last Friday, we celebrated with pizza and Kona Ice in the same day. So, everybody got a treat, and everybody got to eat. And also offering comprehensive services. Um we do all we can for those kids, just like everybody else in this room, but having the number of kids we have and some of the situations we we they have, uh we do our very best to alleviate all those stresses so they can get to that end and get that
042diploma. Um I think that's it. Thank you all. Great. Thank you. it. You're welcome. Last but not least, we have Marshall High School, Mr. Miller. All right, our first goal, MHS will provide a well-rounded instructional program focused on student achievement. Uh number one, math time for accelerated instruction and academic enrichment during school day, which we tweaked last year and this year we have it where the entire school is on math time at the same time doesn't coincide with lunch. So, that's already helped uh logistically this school year. Fully staffed teams in EOC content areas, continue CCMR progress meetings, achieve 80% CCMR for graduating class of 2025-2026. Goal two, recruit, support, and retain qualified professional staff. Participation in the district's mentoring program for our brand new teachers, continue to provide instructional coaches and intervention support for
043students with gaps, continue our freshman center to focus on high school newcomers, uh continue discipline-specific PLC and planning meetings to ensure horizontal and vertical alignment, and also develop a master schedule that allows for implementation of initiatives while taking care of our PLCs, inter-extracurriculars, and our CTE, and our new dual credit, and uh all those items. And then, our third goal, MHS staff will work to create a learning environment that's positive and safe. MHS staff will implement the Maverick Way to prevent Excuse me, promote consistent campus-wide expectations for a safe learning environment. That's been a lot bigger focus this year um for our staff and students, including our school-wide culture and routines. We've already seen a lot of gains from that in our 6 weeks. Improve student attendance rates to 95%. We're providing campus incentives, truancy
044prevention manners uh measures, and enlist our Communities in Schools to help with that. And then, uh follow all district student management protocols with fidelity. Thank you, sir. Thank you. So, as a reminder, each campus and district we meet quarterly to revise these documents as needed. So, these are living breathing documents. However, tonight we provided the highlights for you for our district and campus improvement plans, and those detailed and complete plans are available in your board notes. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Dr. Criner. Appreciate it. So, when I know everybody is busy, I'm going to tell you it will make your day to go from our smallest campus, back there little Mavs, to our very largest campus with Marshall High School and everything in between. Fantastic. I mean, you go in at It doesn't matter what
045time of day you go there, whether they're at drop-off, pick-up, and everything in between. If y'all get any time, go by. You'll have to get your little sticker to put on. So, you can make sure you got your driver's license to hand to them, and they'll roll it, and put your sticker on there, and y'all can go check out whatever's going on at the campuses. It's It's fun. It's fun to be on those campuses. You're doing a great job. Thank you all. We appreciate it very much. All right. Um we will entertain a motion on all of that that we just heard. So, move that we approve all of the campus improvement plans. Second. Well, the district one. I have a motion from Mr. Huffines and a second by Mr. Lewis. All those in favor,
046please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Board will now adjourn into closed session pursuant to Texas Government Code Chapter 551.071 and 551.074. All right, we're back in open session. We need to consider and approve the regular personnel matters as recommended. Do you have a motion? I make a motion that we approve. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Lewis. Seconded by Ms. Marshall. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? The motion is carried. If no further business, we are adjourned. Thank you.