001e for e for e e e I've tried both I'm fine with either one as long as it's noted we didn't do this y this good evening good [Music] evening e e Lake Belton won the dragon den challenge and sent three teams to 5 a UIL State please make some [Applause] noise they've also secured a region four Spot while belon new tech at Wasco earned excellence and Innovation Awards with teams advancing in 3 a UIL State please make some noise for [Applause] them while we know we have Superior students here none of this would be possible without their outstanding instructors so we want to shout out Andrew [Applause] Berg Petro jtine [Applause] Jessica P silver and the Drone man Stephanie uh Ste Stephen [Applause] tyer a special thanks to all of them for leading these
002creative minds it's hard enough to challenge students but in this realm it's even more intense so thank you um if I could please um have them go ahead and come forward for robotics showcase [Applause] hello everyone can you all hear me fantastic maybe can you all hear me awesome hi my name is Andrew Berg uh these guys are getting ready uh we are about to do a skills uh showcase here in a second this is dealing with is they have a a field set up they're about to to then go by themselves and score as many points as possible so give them a big shout out before we get [Applause] going now if you as you see this whole thing going on uh one thing that I can kind of give a commentary on is
003that as they are up these different Stakes uh the top St is worth the most points and they're about to put in the positive Corner that will give them double points over all the entire time uh they're going to try as many as possible in the in the one minute that we have and then it's going to be be really nice that that buzzer gives indication that they're halfway through uh you can kind of see as they're trying to load into the other positive Corner getting them another double point good job guys all right qualifier one let's go next round let's go like I said again my name is Andrew Berg I I am of the assistant robotic coaches over at Belton new Tech High School I'm also one of the robotics one teachers and
004I'm also our district head ref for all the different tournaments that we have uh we have this has been a really fun fun thing that I've been able to do and these guys are going to reset and get our field ready for another competition that we call a head-to-head head head-to-head has four different robots that going to be dealing with they're going to uh be in two different teams uh what we the two different teams we're going to have are Lake belon new tech and Lake Belton in new tech and uh compete against each other as we uh they're going to compete against each other in three different sections of the game which I will explain as we go through I'm going help them real quick I should say this this uh one of the
005things that we try to do to maintain the field is if you see some of our guys start taking off their shoes on the actual field [Music] itself uh the field itself uh we try to maintain it uh taking off shoes and that way it's just socks and whatnot can you all hear me is that much better fantastic I'm going to come over here then and start uh explaining while going through the game all right here we go that's much better sounds good everybody F fantastic all right these are negative that's positive yeah uh we need uh these need to be right here one corner corner corner that whole thing you have your preloads okay there you go put that on your what we missing do we have enough Rings okay that's fine that's fine
006all right here we go it's going to be okay all right blue Alliance are we ready yes red Alliance are we ready they're from all right so we're goingon to go around we have uh a team from I'm trying to make sure that we got go through here we have belt new tech right here good stuff Belton High Lake belon I'm so sorry uh then we have Lake Belton over here and uh Belton High over here oh boy here we go so as I was saying a minute ago uh these guys over here are our blue Alliance and then our red Alliance over here they're going to be facing off against each other and they're going to try to get as many rings on the these poles that are on the sides and on back
007all right right now what's going on is they have a autonomous period This is the first 15 seconds of the game they are completely uh this is completely cated they are not driving whatsoever so we take a second go 3 two one drivers we ready drivers We Ready drivers in there we go now we are we're going to the the driver period in which they are going to be almost battle Bing it that's what we we don't really like to say but they're going to be starting to load these different Rings oh boy they're really getting after right now all right blue Alliance we got one of our blue Alliance for Lake belon over here is trying to put a ring on one of the mobile goals we got a red Alliance over here is
008trying to put as many as they can on here as they load up as soon as as quick as possible okay let's see new tech here has one ring that's stuck in the middle of their train but they're they're about to it looks like they're about to fix it so we've now gone to a middle the a minute of the game in the first until the 30 seconds they have these two positive Corners that they can fill and make double points all right all right all right they're going to push against each other quite a bit all right red Alliance seems like they they're getting a pretty good upper hand here we are in the last 33 seconds of the first part of the game now we have a 30 second Mark that means has
00930 seconds left in the game they have these positive Corners over here that usually give them double points but in the last 30 seconds of the game they are not allowed to touch those guys all right one get off there we go 7 6 5 4 3 two one that is the game all right qualifier to let's go let's s it up let's go release hey how do you release uh unplug one of the here boom boom boom tou those good those are good we need red red those are fine thank you so much with me to introduce this next one were I thought we were blue it might work on the red but I have the laptop okay it doesn't matter just no we all are red all right while they are setting this
010one up this next match is going to be new tech and Lake Belton team together um Lake belton's a team is going to be with new Tech's B Team um I think most of these guys are going to state of some kind so everybody that is going to be going against each other right now is going to state or has already been I already introd okay okay everybody good blue Alliance are we ready red Alliance are we ready a tment in two one go dang the autonomous period is going through right now we got the nine seconds we're trying to see as many as they can load up this the line's wrong and anyways here we go drivers period drivers We Ready drivers We Ready drivers in go all right these are some of our
011best of the best spots in the in the area right now they're trying to load up and get as many uh rings as possible right now oh man hey they are not they're not pinning right here that's fine keep going red Alliance has a full stack of rings over here but blue Alliance just stole the double corner all right they we are now in a stand still they have to they're trying to get as many points as possible as we get load these whole things up uhoh let's see let's see watch yourself 458a you're protecting we're 43 seconds left in the game they're going to Red Alliance right now what might they may probably do is these goals are just like these goals on the side the more rings that they get on these they
012scored just as as much positive Corners are now touching hey get off I don't know as long as you can move all right all right here we go 17 15 seconds left in game 5 4 3 two one game give it up for the give it up for bton robotics everybody [Applause] when do you want me to want me to just say would you please just hang on with us one minute while we uh break down or do you want to go ahead and just say it from here let's let's let them break down a little bit coming this way there okay okay all last how did the second match go Str all a e good evening everyone thank you for joining us this evening and for your interest in belt and ISD I hope
013you enjoyed our student showcase this evening let's give the high school robotics team a big round of applause folks that's a display of what public education does for these kids I want you to take note of that uh is someone here from meta hi um I I just I just want to recognize you guys and recognize meta because without you this probably wouldn't have happened I know that I know that um our partners here in our community very important to us we just talked about that in our Workshop you know construction uh Automotive those things are very important to us but the robotics program what these kids have done would not have been possible without your $10,000 donation so we appreciate that we want to recognize that let's give these folks a round of applause
014okay the time is now 6:31 and the belt Independence School District Board of Trustees are now convened in a regular board meeting on Monday February the 24th 2025 at the piture fine Arch center located at 400 North Wall Street in Belton Texas a quum of board members is present this meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas open meetings act Texas government code chapter 551 I want to welcome the members of our audience and our live stream viewers to this meeting as the belon I Board of Trustees we are here to goals listen to reports from the superintendent approve budgets contracts personal appointments and make policy for the district this is a meeting of the Board of Trustees held in public not a public meeting
015prior to this meeting board members received information related to items on tonight's agenda agenda items may not necessarily be handled in the order listed on the notice this meeting is open to all who wish to attend and hear the matters discussed these proceedings are being live streamed on the district's YouTube channel and will be available for review in the days following tonight's meeting for the video to adequately reflect the proceedings I respectfully ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking and that the cell phones are on silent please rise for a moment of Silent prayer or meditation please remain standing as students from Tarver Elementary lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and honors to the Texas flag I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America to theic
016for which it stands one nation God indivisible libery and justice for all on Texas flag I pledge aliance to the Texas one State under God one and indivisible please be seated give a hand of appla let's give these kids a round of applause if you [Applause] would the first item on tonight's agenda this evening is recognitions we will turn it over to our Communications uh Team to start us off we do want to introduce our pledgers this even Tarver Elementary we have Ava Amador and a fifth grader uh loves diving into book she has a passion for drawing and wrri stories and anything that Sparks her her friends describe her as kind helpful outgoing persistent second grader Adrian passion for science he is an Avid Reader and he just won Tarver spelling outperforming students up
017to fifth grade and we grateful to have both of you here with us tonight you and now we'll have our students from our showcase our high school robotics tonight we enjoyed presentation from students at belon belon and belon new tech their competitions Inspire stem learning career interest in those in those areas have participated in several competitions throughout season and tonight you just got to see a a small glimpse of what one of those like their achievements and truly impact belon and Robotics well he told me to use this okay okay all right these achievements showcase the impact of Robotics in Bel and ISD they are led by instructors Andrew Berg Petro Justin Jessica pille and Steven tyser so thank you all for being here tonight that may be one of the most exciting showcases we've
018ever had e thank you robotics you guys you guys go up that next we want to recognize our national football Foundation National academic Excellence award finalist congratulations congratulations to Lake belon High School Broncos varsity football team for being named a finalist for the national football Foundation National academic Excellence award for the fourth consecutive year one of only seven 5A schools to earn this honor this award recognizes the academic Excellence with from the entire team and tonight we have our team captains that are here uh accepting the recognition for the team along with coach Brian cop thank you so much congratulations [Applause] and we'd like to now recognize our Texas thespians National qualifiers congratulations to belon high school theater Department under instructor Melissa stuff this team had nine students that were recognized at the state level
019for musical theater duet acting group acting costume design design and democracy Works essay competition congratulations to all of you for this outstanding [Applause] achievement and next up we have Allstate band qualifiers we are proud to celebrate t t mea All State band members from belon high school we have Pablo ureste he is an Allstate jazz musician who achieved first chair for the entire state of Texas in [Applause] trombone and we have Lake Belta High School band ADAM numin he placed in the TMA All State 5A band first place at the regional level and second chair at the area level for the entire State and their instructors Kevin quu and Bobby [Applause] Juran and the all Staters continue with All State [Applause] Choir tonight we celebrate three students who were selected for All State Choir belon
020High School choir senior Ava Novak placed third chair in the state and Junior Canon Hammond placed fifth chair in the state for Lake belon High School choir senior Ethan Smith earned a spot in the large School Division for the second consecutive year congratulations All State [Applause] Choir and their instructors Terrence Livingston Tanya lavor and Charlotte [Applause] Worman and more all stator we have our Texas High School coaches association academic All State football 33 student athletes these seniors selected by the Texas High School coaches association must be in good standing with their team have good moral character and have an overall GPA of 92 or above Bel high school has seven honores and Coach sniffin is here tonight with them and Lake belon High School has 26 honores and coach Brian cop is back up here
021with us tonight congratulations All State [Applause] football and next up we have UIL cheerleading State finalist congratulations to Lake belon High [Applause] School Lake belon High School cheer team earned a spot in the 5 a D1 division finals cheer is led by coach Laura Bulls they competed last month at the comp competition in Fort Worth we are super proud of you guys for achieving this honor so proud of Lake belon cheer [Applause] and next we will recognize our Temple rotary educator of the month Miss yanita of waro sent sentes I practiced that and I'm so sorry she has been honored by the temple Rotary Club as the rotary educator of the month for January she is a dual language teacher at Charter Oak and is in her ninth year of teaching dual language Co coordinator
022said of Miss sentes she Fosters a culture of value support and growth while continuously seeking opportunities to enhance and construction we are so proud of you for being honored with this rotary educator of the month [Applause] award and now belon rotary educator of the quarter is Rose [Applause] Morales she is a first grade teacher at Leon Heights Elementary in her 20 23rd year of Education her principal Lexi Newberry says she inspires students to think critically Fosters a classroom environment where they feel confident taking risk and encourages collaboration and learning congratulations to you Rose [Applause] and our department showcase this evening to celebrate CTE month H in the month of February we have our CTE Department Bel and ISD career and technology is a key part of our career Readiness Department last year we had more
023than 887 students earn over 1,000 industry-based certifications for CTE this year we were notified that we are a CTE District of Distinction one of only 37 in the state huh 38 one of only 38 in the state and we're so proud of belon ISD CTE team for inspiring career exploration and shaping students Futures Denise SS leads this department of K pk12 career readiness [Applause] thank you guys [Applause] congratulations and our final recognition this evening is our community partner recognition and that is meta Temple data center we are proud to celebrate our partnership with meta tonight we have representing me uh meta Holly Davies community development manager and Derek drawhorn who's the temple Data Center Director as you heard earlier this evening meta has invested so much in our stem programming especially with robotics and what
024you saw tonight in our showcase would not have been possible without them we are truly grateful for your partnership and look forward to continuing to grow [Applause] as our board is coming up to the Das I I can tell you these are the most amazing Educators I have worked with anywhere in my career and the most amazing students will you please one more time show your love for for these amazing Educators and [Applause] students all right folks thank you all for attending tonight uh we're about to get into the meeting of our meeting so if you want to stay you can if you want to exit you can do that as well you for next on the agenda are public comments in accordance with policy bed local we will take public comments regarding items on
025the agenda at the beginning of the meeting and comments regarding non-agenda items will be heard at the end of the meeting to allow the board to conduct business of the district Becca do we have any one signed up for no all right so now we move on to item four public hearing regarding the 2023 2024 Texas Academic performance report tpr Dr Goen yes board as you can see Gabby Nino joined us at the podium so Gabby is our assistant superintendent for teaching and learning and although you have seen this data throughout the fall semester we are required to do a report in public hearing um when the Texas Academic performance report comes out and so Gabby is here to provide that information this evening good evening and thank you for um hearing me this evening
026again the purpose of the annual taper report is to review and hold a public hearing over the contents of the T the 2023 24 Texas Academic performance report what I'm going to do is just review very quickly the contents that um will be found in the comprehensive report by section um the first section that's included annually is um inclusive of a district report and campus report secondly every year um you'll see uh the financial standard report included this one alone shows you that anything that we're reviewing in the taper report are things that we have discussed um in one of our board reports publicly that you'll notice the nuances of dates in this section the actual financial data reports are from the 2223 school year several of the reports included individually are from U what
027we would call lag data in section three you will find our our accreditation status we remain um an accredited organization and School District this has not changed since last year when I reported on this those accreditation um status updates have not been released the final um four sections are based on our campus performance objectives those are our Improvement plans that we brought to you earlier in the school year there is always included a report on violent or criminal incidents on campus we don't have any um to report this year there is um a section on student performance and postsecondary institutions you'll also notice the year there for 2122 so that's several years historical data it's um based on the graduates from the 2122 school year so data gets into the postsecondary institutions and we don't
028get that data um for for several years after that and then the final SE of the annual taper report is our progress towards our house bill three goals um just as a visualization and a reminder we have House Bill three goals articulated in early literacy and in math and as we reviewed in our Workshop this evening we also have a house bill three goal related to ccmr um and just want to State again that these are um those measures that we report out on monthly related to our academic progress report report again this is just a public hearing on the contents of the taper report and at this time I would um turn back over to you all um for the actual hearing okay the time is now 6:55 p.m. and we'll now open the
029public hearing regarding the 2023 2024 tpr report Becca do we have anyone sign up for public comment no okay um any board discussion on this issue no discussion just a clarification can you just speak to what the being accredited means for those who may not understand what that is sure so there is there's a rubric that's put out for accreditation of districts and it's based on really some of the contents that are listed here um including your um financial reporting academic status and then one of the key components of it is if there's any um specific targeted areas that a district was asked by the state of Texas to address um it's related to their progress with any specific targeted area and so we um it's limited um districts that are impacted by accreditation um
030and again ours was not updated nobody in the state of Texas has been updated for this year let me go ahead and close the public hearing at 6:58 p.m. um and then also ask if there's any additional discussion question question okay so I think as board members we we get to study this and talk about it if I was just a parent who was interested in this report and I got on what where would you direct me to what would be some maybe key things that maybe I could pull out as as a parent or just a a stakeholder just a a taxpayer in the district that's just curious about how's Belton doing I mean what what would be some uh key points to take away or or have them look at if they wanted
031to open this up sure so a couple of things embedded within your question first of all where could I access it um the report the comprehensive report is linked on our website and we have a tab um related to it public reporting required reporting um and taper report within it um what I would recommend is that if you were interested in saying how we're progressing ing academically is to dig into the academic portions and it's broken apart by grade level um and it'll give you specific related to every tested area that we have our overall performance in um each of those areas how we've grown over time and then also a look at how each of our individual student groups are performing you also then could see if you are a parent and interested on
032the same page each of our Improvement plans for our campuses and district and so you can see the correlation that tells you how we're responding to that data the challenging thing about the public release of the taper report is that we've been doing the Intensive planning um we've put our Improvement plans in place to start the school year and so it really is a reflection back for anybody who's interested yeah I mean I would also Point people back to at least our last two meetings right where we've taken deep dives into this data you know I guess math was last month and uh reading was the the time before to really kind of look at sort of the deeper commentary because I got to tell you looking at the taper report itself is really tough
033to swallow right so I think you know directing folks to those Snippets of the presentations I think we'll get a lot of good commentary that you wouldn't get out of the the actual report I would also add um if somebody is interested it is very complex the the true taper report and so it can be overwhelming our team is available to support anybody that's interested um Holly Moore is here and she is our director of assessment and accountability and she would be happy to walk through any element of the taper report as well anyone else thank you Gabby next item on the agenda is item 4B public hearing regarding accelerated instruction report the time is now 7 p.m and we'll now open the public hearing regarding the accelerated instruction report right so the purpose of
034this annual report is really related to the Exel the effectiveness of our accelerated accelerated instruction in Bel andd so any student in the state of Texas um in high school is required to pass their EOC course in the subjects listed here Algebra 1 English one English 2 biology and US history so they're required to meet um passing standard in those content areas um or on a substitute exam prior to graduating from high school so this report is actually to tell you about how our students are progressing who needed accelerated instruction and it's a specific group of students who have not experienced success on their assessment so when we get our results back we put targeted intervention plans in place to help students accelerate to meet those passing standards in each of the um core areas
035so the graphs that you see visualized here are our passing rate percentages after accelerated instruction in each of those five tested areas and you'll see us compared to both the region and the state in all five areas if you take a look at a glance you'll see that our performance is at a higher level than the region and state in each of these tested areas um and I want to dig in just a little bit deeper to how we got um that accelerated performance for students there's three general areas that we have intervened with students on who were not experiencing success on those end of course exams one of those being specific classroom intervention so the teacher in their their core instructional time has had some targeted standards-based instruction within the regular instruction block and
036then we also have advisory tutoring that has happened um this is most typically happening during one of the team times on our campuses tiger time Bronco time um so it's a a specific area of the day where students are pulled into small group for targeted instruction based on those needs and then the large Blue group is a a pullout um time that is happening very intense just prior to testing so the five weeks before they retesting students being pulled out for small group um that is much more intense during that time the the the P graph represents our success rates based on each of those interventions so you can see that the highest degree of success rate that we had with that smaller group of students who had not yet experienced success happened in the
037most intensified instruction that was pulled out of classroom so this visualization is just to help you understand how we intervened and the effectiveness of those interventions um up next we want to show you the pass rate change and the growth rate um we have been pretty um forthcoming about the reality that the single test measure on a single day is something um that it it's hard to stomach right and so yes we want every single one of our students to experience success whenever an assessment is put in front of them we also really want to emphasize growth with our students So based on those interventions a couple of highlights that I'd like to celebrate is that we have a significant amount of growth in our students even after they didn't experience success on the first
038round um the investment in them has resulted in growth we do see the highest rate of growth with students when we are using very targeted standards-based response and when I say standards based I mean based on our teaks our required standards to teach um with the evolution of our curriculum documents over time we have gr grown St stronger and giving resources to teachers that are very standards aligned so that they can Target students um specific needs and so just what you see here is both the pass rate and the growth rate based on the interventions that students received and then the bolded numbers below are the number of students that were taking part in that intervention and finally I just want to show you um over time the the last few Vis visualizations have really
039just been based on this year's data this final slide for you is to show how we have grown over time with students um who are their their performance after first round and we've provided acceleration and then they've tested again on their star EOC exams and so what you can see just at a glance is that we do have growth across content areas and achieving that Mastery level there are two areas and I'll draw your attention all the way to the right US History it looks like just by studying the graph that we had a slight decrease in the number of students who meeting passing standard but if you look at the bottom you'll see the number of students in there and we have far fewer students needing to take that retest opportunity than we have
040over time and so just wanting to bring your attention to the details of those visualizations and at this time I want to answer any questions you all have about our accelerated instruction for students on their EOC p rates before we move on to questions or discussion let me make a note for the record for those people that are watching um there were no public comments on this item no one signed up for that so I'll make sure that that's clear and secondly want to go ahead and close the public hearing at 7:06 pm and now that we can now we can entertain discussion or questions can we go back just to the last Slide the the bar graph there yeah so I just want to clarify uh just so I understand for sure these are
041um year-over-year different grades different groups of kids what are we looking at here as far as the the groups of of the bars it is a different group of students so it is year-over-year every year a new group of students is required to take us history and so they will take it if a student did not um meet passing standard on US History then we provide accelerated instruction for them so that they can retest so these are your retest and it is just a comparison of the students year-over-year who have taken the retest yeah I mean while we're on this chart right I mean if you look at algebra you look at biology you look at us history right it really look at the black numbers at the bottom right there there's significantly fewer kids
042who fall are fallen into this category which is exactly what we want right um English one and two that's kind of interesting to me um it's a little I it's just about flat right but uh yeah okay and then can we go any anything else on this one actually while we're here no okay so yeah so this one right here so just so we're all on the same page here too right so this is of the 186 students that received pull out right so uh pull out uh intervention 80% of the those 186 grew based on the intervention and 59% of those 186 uh passed the exam with that intervention okay thank you I have a question on this one too so so can you define a little bit what growth means so growth so
043there's multiple ways to describe it within our accountability system essentially um what we want to see is a student moving from their the most simple way is moving from their previous performance level up right so just simple growth but we also look at with any any reporting band a student might have been on the lower end of did not meet and moved into the upper end like they were getting close to approaching standard and that could be considered growth we also look at students who move from one proficiency level to another one um if you think about a stair step that they moved up up in a different stair step so simply put Did they perform better this time than they did last time but there are complexities within there and how we measure it
044anyone else I have one quick question okay um and these three different interventions are performed at all three high schools yes okay they are and Holly works very very closely with our campuses and tracking what are the actual interventions that students are taking part in and and we see a similar Trend this year as we did last year in reporting out that there's been a shift in where our students are showing most success in particular on EOC retesting and it's in a very intense response just prior to them taking the test um and so we're learning a lot from that as well as a higher degree of success with the standards aligned interventions that we've been able to put in place what else thank you Gabby next on the agenda is item five action items
045consider discussion take appropriate action regarding the adoption of the 2025 2026 District goals Dr goolan yes board this is my item to talk about this evening so annually we come to the Board of Trustees to adopt District goals and the goals guide our district and campus Improvement planning unique to belon we do this in two steps this first one is bringing to you for your consideration the broad five overarching goals that we have in Bel and ISD and we we know at the center of our work the core of our work is we want our students to have um exceptional experiences in our classrooms and across across our programs tonight we highlighted quite a bit of that um and the other goals are all while while they are our listed goal 1 2 3 4
046five they're not in priority order we we know our Core Business is growing our students so that when they leave us they are prepared for career and life outside of a K12 educational setting um but we also know in order to do that we have to have we have to attract retain and support an amazing team of employees we know that we need to create a culture in which our employees and our students feel valued in supported and are challenged to grow um Gabby did a great job of showing student growth in that last presentation and we know tonight also demonstrated that we cannot do that alone we have to have stakeholder engagement we have to have Partners partnering along with us in that journey and of course we know we have to maximize the
047resources that we do have in order to address our current priorities as well as plans for the future and so I'm coming to you this evening asking that you would approve these five broad overarching goals and then we will come back to you with specific strategic measurable attainable results oriented and time-bound goals to align to each of these broader District goals we'll do that in our next board meeting so with that I want to see if you have questions for me any question from Dr Golden any comments from anyone okay uh you have a motion to adopt the 2025 2026 District goes as presented Mr Norwood we'll have a number two M bass uh any additional discussion no all in favor please raise your hand passes 7 zero all right thank you very much that
048allows us to go to work on the more specific we call smart goals um to support each of those five district goals are campuses and District District staff are already um doing deep Dives comprehensive needs assessments around our various data sources and looking forward to bringing those two in a future meeting thank you Dr Goan moving on item six reports you're up again that is me again so as you know our vision in belt ND is to empower each and every learner to pursue their dreams and enrich their communities and I have the honor in the superintendent report to share some highlights since we met last of how we're working to bring that Vision to life um I do that through pictures and want to share a couple of quick highlights um the picture on
049the left is a beautiful example of this Vision coming to life it's it's a stem night that took place at highp Point Elementary School what I love about this experience and it's been replicated at lots of elementary schools across our district stem as of focus but we also brought in families to participate with their children in these experiences some of them got some take-home experiences they could go home and do after they left um the time at High Point and so the picture on the right is also an incredible experience for our students lots of community support goes into our CTE programs these are our skills USA students and they are getting ready for their big competition that they recently went to so I also want to share with you some experiences again one of
050the blessings of my job is I get to get into classrooms and one of the things I'm doing right now is making sure that I'm getting to as many of our CTE courses as I can to immerse myself in the student experience gives me the opportunity to actually see the Hands-On application that our students are engaged in but also lets me have very um intimate conversations with students about why these courses what stood out to them why' they take it and what are they planning to do Beyond high school and so I had a great not loving that hairnet but had a great experience uh making chicken fried rice with our students I met incredible students from um those that were head chef who were managing the kitchen um had designed the recipes and we
051were actually preparing food our culinary students at Belton High School for our fine artart students at Belton High School because they had been giving back and were doing a play with um one of our area middle schools and they were missing lunch so when they came back we had the opportunity to feed them um on the right hand side I had amazing lessons from students in a photomy class they were getting ready for one of their industry based certifications they were doing a skills assessment while I was in the classroom um and were actually showing me how they take blood from patients and I had just recently had blood taken myself and I just want to tell y'all they all passed and and they knew exactly what to do and I was incredibly proud of
052them also had the opportunity as many of you did to go to our Bel and Youth Fair which was an incredible opportunity to talk with our students you know our FFA programs are more than um raising animals and they are about communication skills leadership skills I'm so proud of our students and the great job that they did I got to see not only amazing animals that they have um really taken a great deal of time to grow and develop but also got to see some of our students who actually designed um amazing trailers for um that they were able to you know either do because of donated funds or people bid on those and it was incredible to see their welding skills um just amazing students as well as I got to see Chicago we
053celebrated several of the students actually this evening that are in that picture and so incredibly proud of our Fine Arts programs and I'm always amazed when I go to our performances that they they sound like professionals I can't carry a tune but my goodness they can carry a tune dance um they're incredible continuing some celebrations want to share several of these so belon high school won by District basketball championship recently so was incredibly proud of our students the picture below that had opportunity to see some of our students receive recognition from Senator um our Congressman I apologize Congressman Carter um these are students that wrote essays many of them are in our entrepreneurship program at Lake belon High School and were recognized um by Congressman Carter on the far right hand side you see our
054magic Bells who did a fantastic job they won a variety of awards um at a recent Showtime state championship as well as our pural Panthers incredibly proud that we have Elementary look how many students are in that picture our teachers create incredible experiences for our students and our peal Panthers won uh I'm going to read this division one award um they won a judging a judges award a giving back award a wow award they wowed the judges and finally in the middle you see Denise there pointing to belt and ISD and as we have announced belt and ISD receiv received a district of Distinction award in the area of CTE and we recently were at a conference where that award um was given out and so incredibly proud you saw a lot of our CTE
055teachers here this evening being recognized and we're so proud of the work that they do they create incredible experiences for our students and I won't hit all of these I'll just say we have incredible skills USA students so you see a variety of pictures here from everything from video production um you see gold medalists for Teamworks as well as carpentry our students did a fantastic job and I don't know what to say about this one other than we love to celebrate the 100th day of school I looked at this and thought I I I resemble some of these pictures right now and um but I love how our teachers just design incredible experiences for our students they did everything from um working on their numeracy skills to literacy skills all while dressing up and having
056fun and celebrating the 100th day of school and finally um added one final thing to the superintendent's report tonight and that is I know we're going to be um talking with you in a future Workshop but we finished our last session and we've been spending the last 18 months um Denise sharp and Todd and I as well as um so many members of our leadership team on really bringing people together to to Define what do we mean by leadership in Bel and ISD and so you've seen this graphic before um this this is right now driving so much of our Improvement efforts we're aligning our professional learning for principles and assistant principles to really growing these competencies they're setting goals tracking progress as well as Leaders at all level of our organization this is what
057we mean by leadership and we want to grow a really strong pipeline of leaders from our te teachers who want to go into teacher leadership positions maybe they want to go into positions within curriculum within operations but we've got a lot of work to do we've developed a three-year plan around this work and look forward to a future Workshop where we can tell you what we've already done and what we plan to do as we move into the next three years to really continue to develop and support leaders in belt and ISD and that concludes my report thank you ma'am anyone have any questions or comments okay thank you Dr golden thank you all right uh moving on to item 6B board highlights anyone want to share anything that that they did uh the past
058month related to our district start I'll start um just a few I'll share um attended a a family stem not at Chism Trail about a month ago uh and it was AR for the fifth graders they they got to do an are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader with their parents and um yeah I think it was a good success for their first time around and then each of the other grades you got to go and participate in a stem activity and did you know that because we don't have snow we can make snow using only two simple ingredients in your house and that is shaving cream and baking soda legit I mean it really feels like snow but you have to get the right consistency but it was really fun to watch a big
059group of first graders just it really became just play fun after that um they were making snow cones with it it was super cute um last week um Dr Golden and Christine and I got to go down to Austin to the capital to the first part of our day we had a um Tassa tasby had a put on a legislative conference update so we got to hear from representative Buckley he kind of gave an overall um just an update um where he's at kind of some things that were important to him um and that was to school districts across the state of Texas so it was a it was a pretty full room uh we also heard from our Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick um just an update on public Ed we also heard from Glenn
060Hagar did I say that right Hagar Hagar uh our comproller uh and then we got to hear from two Representatives uh van dver and Tarico one Republican one Democrat and it was really encouraging to they were at the table together and then made so much in common um and support for public school and so I I thought that that was very encouraging to hear them um talk we got to go to the house floor where our very own representative uh Hillary hickland she uh recognized us on the house floor so that was really fun to to have her do that and and so we got to stand up and we got to see some other recognitions but that was a pretty fun little thing that we got to do and then we got to to
061go and actually have some time with each of their offices with u Senator Flor representative Buckley and representative hickin and so we just got to kind of hear their thoughts on bills that are interested uh that are important to them priorities that are uh important to us and so it was just a really really great day uh and I'm really thankful and I just I want to give a real big shout out to Christine the work that you're doing to track what is happening down in Austin is truly remarkable um and so she had the bills from all all three offices ones that they're authoring co-authoring snapshot about them what are some you know key points that we need to maybe discuss and so that was just incredibly uh helpful and so thank you for
062your hard work I I can only imagine that you probably don't sleep much to try to keep up with what's going on down in Austin so thank you okay real quickly so we might have been adopted by some high school students from a um High School in the Houston area and it was really great to see high school students engaging in a legislative process and I look forward to in the future us being able to engage our students in a similar fashion but um I think we we made some friends there thank you eron that was very informative anyone else uh Rucker and I attended the taba dinner the other night before the home and garden show that they sponsor and put on every year and that was that's always an interesting evening because it's
063one of those things that really helps you remember how much school districts uh Home Building Community all of that is such a symbiotic relationship and how we all need we all work together to help each other in in that community and in that effort to build strong sustainable communities that people want to live in and and I think it's just it's always a good reminder and they're they're good people that work with them um the other thing I attended this uh on Saturday was the friends of the library luncheon they brought in a very famous author her name is Lisa Wingate the friends of the library put on a luncheon every year here in belon it's usually just two or three sometimes local authors but this was a really big deal and it was at
064the uh Christ the King Catholic Church they have a brand new huge U fellowship hall or Community Hall whatever you call it and they they um I don't know if they donated or rented or what but it was packed out with community members from belon and one of the things that was so cool I saw Ben Smith there I saw lots of Educators and people that are from belt NY currently I also saw some of my old teachers that taught me in belt niy and I also taught PE saw people that I taught with in belt niy who no longer teach so it was such a cool like multigenerational thing and also I went to honor my father who passed um a couple months ago and he was on that board for the friends of
065the library and he himself was a local author and and my mother had donated some of his books for the silent auction so it was just a sweet day and it was just a delight to be able to be a part of a community event like that that also brought back a lot of my educational memories thank you Janet Jeff Jeff did you go to the stunk show I did I want to hear about that well I got to walk around with Dr Golden and Miss bass Miss SS it was my first time in 10 years that I just came and went for the entire week I didn't have any stress it was awesome I mean no stress at all um but it was our kids did a great job they always do we're so
066well represented there uh our you know we had our teachers here some of some of them are actually missing tonight because there's hauling kids across the state of Texas it's a long it's a long month for those teachers I mean they finished you know off hat off to them they will finish a show at Bell County and start loading kids up at 8:00 at night when they've been down there for 2 days straight they will load up that night they will drive from here here to San Antonio that night they'll stay in line until 6:00 and 7:00 in the morning so they sleep in a truck all night long to get those kids into those Barns and that's just the beginning of What's called the circuit when they finish in San Antonio they load up
067and they'll head to Houston they'll head to St Angelo it is a month of they don't sleep and you know couldn't do it without the support of all the parents I mean the kids and anybody who's raised kids they're not sleeping for 2 to 3 weeks so are really Pleasant to deal with at this point too um so that that was a a great success a couple other things I got to do cuz I had time um the robotics we had a competition at belon new tech I got to go up there now I understood what we did here I have no idea what I was watching at one of those competitions I watched it I cheered when other people cheered but I didn't know what I was watching but it was really it was
068unique you know something totally different uh it's just a area that I'm not that familiar with so it was fun to see and then oh I think two weeks ago I don't remember but we have one of our um is it partners with parents parents's partners parents's partners uh events at belon new tech that's where they host them and if any of y'all I think Miss bass has probably been to one but if you ever get a chance to go to it it's really unique and it's it I think it goes with what our vision has always been and hopefully it continues to grow um hats off to Christine she has helped so much this year but we've always said that we have got to get parents engaged in the process and you know it's
069not just a drop your kid off hey we're going to keep them here for eight hours a day we're going to educate them and we'll send them back home to you and there's no back no there has to be back and forth and you know is a great thing I don't know if other districts do it to be honest but it's to bring in parents and show them here the services that we offer at Bel and I and every month that they do it it's a different it can be something different some sometimes it's on IEP sometimes it's on services for for bilingual whatever it is it's got to focus they have speakers that come in and it's it's a great if you ever get a chance to attend it you know I walk around
070and kind of see the different classes that are going on I don't sit through a whole class but it's I've seen it grow and it's a lot of work those people that are up there I mean it takes them a long time to put it on and it's it's a great thing so when you get a chance it shows up on our calendar sometime it's great to stop by there spend about 45 minutes just walking around seeing everybody this Wednesday 5:30 to 7 at megabytes parents's Partners dual language and ESL programs just a little plug Chris if you ever wonder how we get award-winning bands like the Stampede and The Marching 100 or the the amazing orchestras that we have at the high school level right if you ever wonder how that happens you need
071to go to the instrument night at the middle school where they bring the fifth graders in right the current fifth graders in right to essentially the Sorting Hat right to figure out what their instrument fate is going to be right which house are they joining um yeah I had the opportunity to go to uh to go to to instrument night and you would think that that was going to be an absolute nightmare right fifth graders run around like you trying every single instrument that that you could try right so you know you got the woodwinds you've got the brass instruments you've got all of the orchestra Stu stuff right and they're they have the opportunity to try every single uh instrument there to really figure out where do they you know where do their bodies
072fit right with those instruments right can you make sounds with the OBO um you know some of them can some of them can't um but the just the amazing support from our high school band directors from both Balon high school and and Lake Bon high school and all their Supporting Cast right and so that's the uh private lesson instructors and add-ons to kind of help with that and some of the students that actually go in the care that they took with all those fifth graders um to kind of spend hours uh to get through that is just absolutely amazing and and that's the kind of that's the kind of system that we've got in place to really make sure that we're driving like Excellence from a uh from a performance standpoint it was really pretty
073awesome to be a part of it um uh I think I have another tuba in the family out of that night but uh just saying um yeah uh had the opportunity need go check out uh Lord of the Flies uh at Lake bound high school I'm so sad I missed Chicago uh I wanted to see the the live Orchestra uh in the pit um I unfortunately I couldn't make that one but Lord of the Flies was pretty cool um uh got to check out uh a battle of the Belton uh belon High School against Lake Belton High School uh women's soccer uh went there if you didn't if you didn't see that uh Belton High School edged it out two to one um and and then uh and then the robotics competition so I D
074I dropped in the robotics competition uh that Jeff was talking about and I got to tell you like what you saw tonight was only a fraction of it right what you didn't see was like you know the whole structure that's in the center of that field you know there's robots that climb some of that stuff it's absolutely amazing and there's no better way to see sort of the Journey of a graduate in action than actually to see some of those robotics things that go on um and and to talk to some of those students about their thought process and you know how do they work through um uh issues errors mistakes uh malfunctions whatever the case may be like you see the whole journey at work in those robotics competitions and to see the success
075in a relatively short period of time um that we're having across the schools it's it's absolutely amazing to watch they build those things oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah they build them and rebuild them and rebuild them and learn a couple lessons and rebuild them again and uh yeah yeah so if you've not ever seen it like you've got to do it I mean the the dragon Den right um you know where they do it at new tech is is a great place to go with like super cozy feel um when they do it at Lake Bon High School is kind of cool because you get to you could watch it from up top so um but again if you want to see a good place to see all the journey and action that's the
076place to go public education yeah it's great yeah the opportunities are just Limitless public education at work yeah right okay anyone else Rucker um yeah Chicago has mentioned again another great performance by our our students um I got to go to my first uh College Signing Day at Lake Belton High School and I'd never been to anything like that before and it was it was really really well done and just the culture I thought coach cope did with the students all from the entire High School all the student athletes coming to watch was uh incredibly well done um the taba event was was great I thought it was pretty impressive the number of elected officials that were there and I think taba does a great job obviously of understanding that strong businesses make a strong
077Community but also grasping that we have to have a strong educated Workforce not comes some a connection with the public schools so um big props to to taba for understanding that educational connection um and I think also on uh board highlights we can talk about someone who's doing a great job within our district and uh Dr Golden you're everywhere you're all I go to things that sometimes I go just to be a parent and there you are um your engagement with the kids with parents the listening sessions you do I feel like every single day around the around the calendar um with our principales everyone not to mention um I had a conversation with someone I don't remember right now who it was but they said uh that that superintendent Dr Golden she's she's pretty
078amazing and they were talking about your ability to connect with people in the community and just how visible you are and I was just so proud to hear that of course um so you're doing outstanding thank you thank you for that yeah I second that I can think it's ditto across the board here anyone else can't any of Oh that's oh just listening to you guys is amazing it just it's just a testament to what goes on in this District just in this is just for a few minutes go on all day talking about things right okay well thank you all for that um well that brings us to the consent agenda does anyone want to pull anything from the consent agenda no takers do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as
079presented Miss Lee I have a second Miss bass all right uh all those in favor please raise your hand pass a seven to zero all right let's move on to item eight board request for new information anual reports board members at this time are there any requests for new information or reports from the administrative team none okay wait one second M McDonald so just a request from Administration uh and I don't know how to communicate this out to the various campuses it's wonderful that they invite us to things but we need to make sure that they're not inviting the entire board on one email so that's happening a lot uh so I just want I always point it out to Becca so she'll know that what we've been invited to do but I I just
080want to say that out loud here so it becomes part of our record awesome thank you thank you ma'am okay uh moving on [Music] to that takes care of item eight moving on to public comments regarding non-agenda items Becca I think we have one one signed up okay Mr Beck as you approach the podium give me a second here to read something into the record if you would in accord ORD with District policy bed local any person wishing to address the Board of Trustees during public comments shall sign up before the meeting in order to comply with the text open meetings act the board may not respond to comments or otherwise discuss or act upon any issues that are not posted on the meeting agenda and Mr Beck I have you here is Riley Beck
081and you're up at the microphone now so if you would uh just state your name for the record uh tell us where you reside and then you've got three minutes my name is Riley Beck I my wife and I live here in belon Texas we have four children that go to the school district here in three different schools um one of the items that I wanted to dis discuss tonight is um the budget there's an8 plus million doll deficit I know there's been a lot of difficult decisions that have had to been that have been made recently and announced some plans on how to implement cuts and and and what we're going to do um among those is increasing class sizes for secondary so middle school and and and high school education um one of
082my concerns with that and and one thing that I really don't understand is that we still have that we take in a whole bunch of and I don't know how many I think it's about 200 students um from without the district um so we're talking about increasing the class size for our students while we're taking in students from without the district uh it seems to me if there's an $8 million deficit that we're re that the cost the in providing education per student we're not able to meet that at this point so my question and and concern is why are we taking on students from outside of the district while we can't take care or while we're not able to provide um enough Finance for our students that we currently have um in increasing the
083class size I think it also not only impacts students but also impacts the teachers um even if it's just a couple here and there so whether it's a couple of the those that have transferred in from outside of the district or increasing um the you know the student per class um it all adds up five minutes here grading assignment 10 minutes there you know 10 minutes a week every week student parent teacher conferences and and all of the responsibilities that teachers have so I hope we can think about that when we're when we're addressing this because it seems like well so I've talked about students I've talked about teachers and the impact that I think it'll have on them um and then also the taxpayer I don't understand why we are still continuing to have
084students from without the district um while the belt and taxpayer is covering that um um I mean it's hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds that we passed and as far as I understand it uh none of those students and their parents are paying I I would imagine they're not paying since they're not living within the district any of those Bond tax dollars towards our our district so my request is that we're responsible within our district for the students for the teachers and for the taxpayer within our district thank you thank you Mr Beck and that's the only person we had right for non-agenda items Becca okay moving on to item 10 Close session the time is 7:42 p.m. the board will now go into close session regarding student disciplinary matter Texas government code section
08555 1.08 2 person Texas government code section 551.074 and consultation with attorney Texas government code section 551.071 e e e is the time is 900 P p.m and the board is now reconvened an open session all action items reports and consent forms for the meeting have been addressed there being no further business this meeting is adjourned at 900 p.m thank you