001Well, there we go. So, once again, uh we have uh we got Midway with us today and we got National Math Stars and then we also always have our good friends from uh T A GT who are here and then always I'm here to answer your questions. So hopefully uh I won't bleed it out all day long uh or at least all during this session, but hopefully everyone is doing well uh and it's going well for you today and and I do apologize. But yeah, yeah, I'm I see Blake is c catching it. I'm gonna make Blake uh my uh co-host and so he could catch he could play with it. I love it. All right, y'all. So, as you know, I always love to start with our um state definition and who are the
002students that we're looking at. And right now, you're looking at and or you've had your shows to see who are those students who are performing at and shows that potential for for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, and environment. real looking at how is that exhibited in the intellectual, creative or artistic area. Some of you are just wrapping up your uh spring testing with April testing uh going on and going into determining who will be placed for services in the fall and then really looking at those students who possess that unusual capacity for leadership and then those who excel in those specific academic fields and when are you looking at those specific academic fields. So, uh, really looking at that, but then how do our
003students demonstrate that? That's our goal. How do they demonstrate their skills or in self-directed learning, thinking, research, and communication by the development of innovative products and performances? What are they doing out there that is really truly different? You know, bringing out that creativity, but really showing how they are advanced compared to some of their peers. and then really thinking how's our high school graduates doing that and what are they doing it and then sometimes they're doing it a little earlier than high school. So, um thank you Catherine. Let me go back to share. There we go. This is my life today. Uh and back over here. Move this over. I don't know what it's just it's going to be that kind of day. It's going to be a great day. And so this is not
004my new slide cuz I did add Kristen to the new slide. I have to find that one. Uh but we have Kristen Graham who is with us today from uh TAGT who will uh give us our updates. Hi Kristen. Hey everyone. Good morning. It's so glad to be with you on this, you know, might be rainy for a lot of you too, but everything's super green. uh which is uh really nice and uh good for my own mental health. Uh so um again, happy to be with y'all. It's been a minute since um I know us at TGT have gotten to see everyone since the leadership conference and spring breaks and all the things. Um but uh as we're looking to wrap up the school year, um we are we have you all top of
005mind. Um we're still keeping tabs on what's going on at the capital. Um we're still um uh looking forward, you know, with all the uncertainties we have right now uh going into the next school year. Um we're still actively um meeting and talking with you all and trying to determine what's the the best ways to support you going forward. Um if you're not familiar with TAGT, um uh we are your professional home. We are um a professional association that supports youth that supports educators. Um really anyone that um is supporting gifted and talented students. Um and so um we are a member centered organization. Um we have uh I think 11 committees. Um we have a board of directors. um all that provide input and guidance and um uh direct the association on how we
006can best um empower you and connect you uh with resources and each other. Um I'm a former GT coordinator. I I've been on these calls before when I was um uh in a school district and trying to figure things out and um get, you know, get things on the right path. So, I've been in your shoes. um uh now on staff with TAGT. Um it's it's a great vantage point getting to um get to meet so many of you from across the state and look at how we can um support the bigger picture of uh gifted education. Um you should know if you're here on this call obviously you have multiple uh forms of support. you have um Monica and TEA, you have TAGT, you have your region service centers, um you have other folks
007like I heard National Math Stars is going to be on the call and it really takes all of those uh to do your job well. So if you are here on this call and maybe um newish to your role or brand new to your role, um just know there's a lot of support available to you and um just highly encourage you to uh plug in and find uh find your community and find your people um and we can uh be a great start to helping you do that. Um I want to share some good news at the top. Um uh TGT has been working um on a uh concurrent resolution uh for the last four this is the fourth legislative session that we've been working on it to officially have um the first week of
008April uh formalized as uh GT awareness week in the state of Texas. And uh we are happy to say that that is officially um in route to the governor's desk for signature. It's been passed uh by uh both the House and the Senate. And so um that might sound like a small thing, but we know we've heard from some of you um that your districts would not let you celebrate GT awareness week or acknowledge um uh uh gifted and talented students in any kind of special or unique way unless it was um formalized by the state through a concurrent resolution. So um and hopefully within the next week uh that should be officially signed by the governor. Um and uh for the next 10 years, that's the maximum amount of time they'll let you have
009a a recognition. Um but the first full week of April will be GT awareness week. And so um that I know uh lots of uh folks participate in and it's a great time uh for you to uh leverage you know the resources that you have and uh TGT and other things to um bring to light uh both the issues, celebrations, achievements of uh gifted and talented students, but also it's a really uh great time for you to platform why gifted and talented services matter. why does it matter that we identify students um and acknowledge that they have um special and unique needs? Uh so that's we're really excited that this has been crystallized and uh can be a formal thing. I know lots of you though have already been celebrating and engaging in that and
010so um anyway just that's great news. Um we're still keeping an eye on other things uh you know at the state legislature. We know the thing that affects everyone the most is um just general funding uh for for school districts and um you know who's to say what's going to happen. We are watching it very closely. We're watching House Bill 2 very closely um trying to keep tabs on what uh the legislature may or may not do. Um if you're not aware um basically things are held up right now in the Senate uh and so um and that includes uh teacher raises that includes uh the basic aotment being adjusted for the first time since 2019. Um it includes a lot of things. Uh so um we'll see. Um, if you didn't see last Saturday,
011Governor Abbott did officially sign uh SB2, which uh formally uh creates a program for uh school vouchers or education savings accounts in the state of Texas. Um, that will program will go into effect late uh next year in 2026. Um and so um we'll also you know as with everything just watch to see how that uh is going to play out and directly impact uh you all and and of course what effects that may or may not have directly on uh gifted and talented services. So on a on an advocacy front on a legislative front that's that's what we know right now. Um there's less than a month left in this legislative session. So, we highly expect things to um be moving pretty quickly in these last few weeks and we'll see what happens. Um
012so, that's that's all I'll say about that. Um a little bit about TGT news. I put some links in the chat for you to browse. Um there's exactly a month left until the deadline closes for the call for proposals for gifted, which is our um annual conference. It's our biggest event of the year in December. We'll be in Grapevine this year at the Gaylord Texan. So DFW folks, we're coming back to you um right there kind of in the middle of the Metroplex. So um start making your plans and um if we did go ahead and open up registration. So for some of you that may want to use some of this fiscal year's funds, if you're able to do that and you want to register a few folks, um the registration is open. So
013um we had a few requests for that. Um so if you um visit that tgtconference.org, you'll find the the registration button. Um, and we'll start to get the rest of um, the information about gifted uh, put out here soon. Once the call for proposals closes, we'll really get rolling on the programming and our steering committee will um, look at all the proposals that are that uh, will come in and inform the the direction of the conference. So, um, we're excited uh, for um, another great year of gifted and hearing what is most important to you all. um before we get to Gift Ed um but after June 6th uh is our gifted plus conference and that will be June 9th through 11th also in the Dallas area will be in Allen um and the gifted
014plus conference was designed to address um uh learning around serving underserved populations and so um we have Oh, she's froze. Look at she's coming back. All right, she's frozen. I know some of you are still there. All right, so when she comes back, we'll uh we'll continue on. We'll let her wrap it up. She got a little technology, but you know, it's all good cuz it's raining. We need the water. We need the water. We got to remember that. Uh and so, and then we'll bring Kristen back once she pops back on a little later. Uh but we're going to sleep. Uh did I lose Tiffany? Okay. Am I back? You're back. All right. I'll just take another minute and then I'll be done. Um uh anyway, so Gifted Plus Conference is in Allen June
0159th through 11th. So, um, you can go to that link on the website and view the schedule and the programming and some of our speakers. Um, and we'd love for you to join us. We've really reimagined the the structure of that event. Um, and so it's really going to be a very collaborative, collective learning experience and um, we're going to have everything directly tied to the state plan. Um, and you'll be able to walk away and leave with a plan that's aligned with the state plan uh, for how to move the needle, whether um, someone's a classroom teacher or a coordinator or whatever your role is. Um, you'll be able to do some learning through that lens. And then very last thing I'll mention is our new coordinator boot camp, which is a one-day virtual
016event. um that's very much a favorite for especially anyone that's in their um you know first few years and really just needing to calibrate and say how do I start the year off well? Uh so check out that event. The schedule is up and you'll see some of the topics and um we're going to have a steering committee uh meet uh soon to also inform some of the specifics on that. But it's been a favorite event um of those that have attended in recent years. So um all right. Well, I'll hang on here for a couple more minutes if you have questions and um but I'll give it back to Monica. Thank you so much. Thank you, Kristen. Hopefully, stay well, stay dry, and uh I appreciate you. Uh and as I said, we got
017Midway ISD. Uh Tiffany is here with us today to talk about the Gate Shark Tank. uh and how they got to uh got started, how they got into it, how they got their final finale and give us a few clips. So, Tiffany, I'm going to stop sharing, allow you to share, and it is yours. Okay. Thank you, Monica. Um Okay. So since January or right after Christmas, our middle school gate students were deeply engaged in an exciting real world entrepreneurship project modeled after Shark Tank. The project challenged students to think critically and creatively as they designed innovative products or solutions to address real world real world problems. Sorry, I can't talk or serve a specific purpose. Um the journey began with them having an idea development. Then they had to identify a problem and brainstorm
018original inventions or improvements to existing products. From there they conducted market research using tools like Google Trends and student created surveys to determine consumer interest and viability. And then based on their research, students decided whether to move forward individually or in a team of two to create detailed business plans that included financial projections, production logistics, and advertising strategies. And then the students brought their ideas to life by building prototypes and testing them for effectiveness and appeal. Once the prototypes were completed, they refined their pitches through classroom presentations and peer feedback sessions focusing on persuasive delivery and the clarity of their information. Then each campus hosted its own preliminary and we had two campuses, but they hosted their own preliminary Shark Tank competitions to identify the top three projects that would advance to our district-wide gate
019Shark Tank finale. Um, we serve as judges. We had two schoolboard members um one person from Baylor, one from the education foundation, Monica Brewer, volunteered to come down and um be a judge as well or a shark as well for us. And um it was really neat for them for the community members to talk about these students. They were really impressed with middle schoolers, 12 and 13 year olds being able to uh present and were well spoken. they knew their information and then they were put on the spot when they were asked questions that related to either their budget or their um audience um different things. They knew how to answer those questions and we're super proud. So, taking the top three from each of the middle schools, there were six final um groups or
020teams that um presented their Shark or Shark Tank ideas. And um the judges were just again so impressed. It was really neat to see. They were like, "How do we pick one of these top six? They're the best." And they truly were the top six out of 45 teams. And so it was really neat to see the judges go through the process with rubrics and to narrow down. And so I'm going to share with you one of our um actually the winner. Let me find the screen. to see their presentation. Hello Sharks, we are with you here today to Can you hear it? To our brilliant business, Cap It Shark. My name is Liberty Dunaway and I am the original creator of the Capid Shark pencil sharpener business. When I was brainstorming what to do
021for Shark Tank, I was at a complete loss because everything seemed to already be invented. And that's when it happened. My pencil tip completely broke off. Then it hit me. What if I could create something that would fix this problem? Like a capped pencil sharpener to go on my pencil whenever I needed to sharpen it. Hello Sharks. My name is Jenna Ants and I'm the co-creator of Capit Sharp. When I first heard that Liberty was making this product, I immediately asked if I could join. My pencils always get crushed in my backpack and I hate when that happens. The Capit Sharp solves all of those problems. Let's be real. Is this annoying or is this annoying? Problem and purpose. If you've ever struggled with losing your pencils, your pencil tips breaking, or your pencils getting
022crushed in your backpack, and your backpack getting dirty. If so, then our product is 100% for you. The Cab Sharp is designed to fix all of these problems. Also, not only is it convenient to students, but many teachers will benefit from having this in their classrooms as well. Cap Sharp pencil sharpeners consist of two semispheres connected by little magnets and it has an attached pencil sharpener inside. All you have to do is stick your pencil inside the body and twist. And if you want to start writing, just simply twist off and start writing. Product standouts. The Capid Sharp is a unique portable pencil sharpener that attaches directly to the tip of your pencil. Nothing like the Kappa Sharp exists on the market today, making it one of a kind. It also comes in three different
023sizes, a variety of colors, and is environmentally friendly. The cost to make our product is $38. We're planning on selling a pack of two for $8.15. This means that our profit is $1.99. Market research. We conducted a survey that 65 total people filled out. One question that was asked was, "How annoying is it to happen to have to sharpen your pencil?" Over 80% agreed that it was a big hassle and would be interested in investing in our product. Here are some frequently asked questions that we have received from potential customers and former Shark Tank judges. Jenna, what is our targeted audience? Our targeted audience is mainly teachers and students, but anyone can use the cap at Sharp if they will benefit from it. Liberty, what inspired you to make this product? I just wanted to
024provide a convenient solution to a to a common problem that a lot of people experience. Jenna, what changes or iterations had to be made to make our product better? Well, we had to change the way that we applied the magnets to our product. They kept coming off because they were so strong. We solved this problem with just a simple solution. Okay, I'm going to stop there. And they continued on explaining their project. They created is you go through. They created a um a really nice advertisement um where they could show you Hey, so they continue showing um how they built everything. But one thing, we did make sure that they had a budget that the school provided for them. meaning that um each student had about I'm sorry each team had about $15 for their
025budget and we ordered the supplies for them so that there weren't things brought in uh from home so that it was equitable across all teams having the same amount of a budget to be able to spend. And as we go through, um, the judge has asked some really good questions and I'll just play a few of them. And we found that and we were looking for something to create like the main body with and we just decided to use that and it worked great. Thank you. How many hours did you spend sharpening pencils to test the size for the perfect amount of pencil shavings? Um, it took about like like one class period because we weren't planning on making different sizes in the beginning because we were still struggling with like how to make the
026spheres and how to connect them. So, it didn't really take that long, but we are also planning on making more sizes. So, I know you mentioned how the lid would detach because it's magnets and that you did some glue. Did you do the lid with the glue also or or was that a goal? So, um the lid like coming detached, we didn't add glue to like actually glue the lid to each other. Um and it doesn't come detached that much. It's just if you're like literally shaking it or being really rough with it. Um, we glued the magnets on with glue and that's how we kept them on. You have to empty it in sometimes. I love the promo video and I love the bright colors. I know you put a lot of time into
027that and you can tell. How long does it take you to make a pack of two? um to make one singular one, it probably takes varying from like an hour or two hours. So if you make two at the same time, then you could do everything like back to back. So I think it would probably take around like an hour or two hours. Um when we do have a 3D printer, then that will make the process a lot faster. Okay, so I hope you get the gist of how um the judges or sharks asked questions and they did a very good job with being able to explain their answers and um we were super proud of that. This was our first annual Shark Tank event, so we have some kinks to iron out for next
028year, but uh we were super pleased with the results um and just with the community involvement. the news station came and interviewed a couple of students and it was just a neat neat experience um to be able to showcase our middle school gate students and um be able to see their professional products and that's about it. Monica, right? Uh got a couple of questions in the chat. So, uh first question, uh when did uh they work on this and do they have a DT class time to work on this? Yes. So, middle school, um we have a gate class. Um we have sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. Um our sixth graders have an individual class, so it is an elective. And then um our seventh and eighth grade groups are combined and um our so
029it is an actual elective that the students select um when they have like three to four electives that they can choose from they select the gate course and if they do not take the gate course they're served through their um advanced or honors courses but um they do have this specific gate course where they can work on this daily. Did I answer everything? So, yes. So, they worked on it during class. They did have class time. So, yes. Uh and one thing she did not her superintendent was there to answer questions from the students as we were uh tapulating scores and so uh but I think uh they had a lot of community buy in and the students were happy. So, and I think actually one got a job once she gradu they were offered
030jobs. Yes. All right. Any other questions? Uh oh. Do you have any templates? Uh this is from our friend Blake. Do you have any templates or Rubik's that you would be willing to share? Yes. What I'll do is I will put my email in the chat and I can share with you our rubric and guidelines, the things that we used. Um or or I can put it in this chat. What do you think's easier, Monica? You can just drop it in the chat. Yeah. Okay, I'll do that. They they they like to grab things. I get it. All right. All right. Thank you, Tiffany. Thank you. Uh it was a great time. Uh and they put a lot of uh time and effort into it so that the students understood that this was a big,
031you know, a nice event, uh a showcase and then their parents were there uh and everybody came out in their t-shirts and so we were good. It was a good time for all uh and a lot of the uh competitions, you know, actually one student is actually selling his product and then others is like you got to still work out some stuff on yours. But it was a good time and uh it was nice to see and so and the staff buyin was uh I think very important into that also. So thank you Tiffany once again. Yeah, go ahead. We included um canes, raising canes. They donated lunch for the students and gift bags. And so just including those um community uh restaurants that are willing to um you know provide provide food. It was
032great. So Blake has one more question or question for the group. Do you involve your upper elementary in this? So, is their radar on their radar as something to look forward to? Good question. Yes. um our fifth grade group coming into middle school next year, they were able to watch it live streamed and the full event was about two hours. And so, uh between setup and different things, they had a great communication or um question answer time with the GT specialist on at the elementary campus with watching it live streamed. They stopped, they asked questions, and it was a really great experience for the students to be able to see the live stream. Our goal next year is to bust them over to be able to be in the audience. Thank you, Tiffany. And now
033we have our friends Keith and Alex uh once again from National Math Stars who are here to give us some updates and some reminders. Thank you so much, Monica and Tiffany. Um wonderful to hear that update as well. Appreciate that. Um, Monica, just a quick question. We don't need to, but do we have uh permission to share slides on our end? Yes. Okay, wonderful. Okay, I'm going to send that request now to share and I think it has to be approved. All right, looks like it's working. Wonderful. I'll get the slides going here. Share and Well, let's try this again. Here we go. Let's do share screen. Wonderful. Here we go. And I hope you can see National Masters Texas Partnerships. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My teammate Alex is here as well.
034Um, and he's going to get us started off. Good morning, everyone. Happy May. Happy last month or so of this school year. Uh, we're going to keep this pretty quick because I know most of you have heard from us already. the past few months, but just wanted to to visit this group and share that we've got just over a month left until applications close for National Math Stars. I know we've been talking with many of you over email, in person, over the phone, but just wanted to visit this group and make uh one last reminder to please get in touch with us if you'd like to nominate students this year. And please make sure if you have nominated students that we actually distribute the materials to them and give them an opportunity to apply. Um
035Keith, if you just head to the next slide, just to run through super quickly as a reminder, if you haven't heard of us before, if this is your first time hearing about National Math Stars, we are a nonprofit that runs a free support program for extraordinarily talented students starting in second and third grade. It's competitive, but if your students are accepted, we will work with them and their families over 10 years with a ton of financial and personal support to help them access all of the STEM enrichment opportunities they could use. And so, it's a really great free opportunity for some of those ultra highf flyers that you're serving in your your district. Um, here are some of those high-f flyers from last year. I know we've got a whole bunch of students from various
036of the districts here. Blake, I know we've got 15 or so students from Austin area and we've got folks from all over the state. These are our 2024 National Math Stars and we're going to be recruiting about 50 or so more students from Texas this year into our 2025 class. Um, and just to put one last pin in it, remember that this is a totally free opportunity. We're really lucky to have the support of several foundations that allow us to provide this service free of charge to the students you serve. And so we do hope that you take advantage of this opportunity. Um, and we're really excited to see see some of your amazing students get involved. And I think this is my slide now. Yeah. So, so many of you already um thank you.
037Thank you for helping open up this part this uh opportunity for your students with a partnership with us. Um, and really we just want to um for one last call for any other schools that would or any other districts that would like to nominate students for this cohort of our 2025 National Math Stars. Um, if you have not yet gotten involved and you still want to, there is definitely still time to get you those nomination letters. How it quickly works um is you look at your school data, your student data, and you identify the top two to 3% um at your at the local elementary school based on math ability. Um you can look at your students on a map, KGAT, I Ready, any nationally or state recognized exam. Um and any student that's a
038second or third grade student that's seven and nine years old and that's at the 98th percentile or above is an outstanding candidate for our program. and we'd love to have them nominated. Um, and really how it works is you just I'll show you on the next slide, fill out the QR code. Um, ultimately all you're going to do is send to me the number of student nominations you've identified and we send you that number of letters and gold medals in the mail to distribute to students and then families have that that inside that same envelope, they have an application letter to go home and apply for the program. So if uh this this slide right here is going to serve two purpose purposes. One for reminders for schools that already have a partnership with us
039that already have letters in hand or that have already distributed letters. Um the last date for those applications to be completed is June 15th. Um, if you ever want any um updates on um how many students from your district have uh completed the application uh or which students have completed or which schools have sent or um are you getting nominations from, just let me know via this email here on the left side of the slide and I'm happy to send you those updates. Um, and then also the other purpose of this slide is purpose of this slide is if you are not partnered with us yet and you want to nominate students this year, go ahead and scan this QR code. Um, or just email me. But when you scan that QR code, it's just
040going to ask you for a tiny bit of information. Mainly uh your email let me and let you know, hey, we're interested and we want to nominate students and then I'll be reaching out to you shortly after. I think that's the final slide of it all. Yeah. So this is slide seven. This is the last slide. Um, if we have the space for questions, Monica, I'll open it up for a few questions. We have a little time. Yes. Cool. Yeah. Um, I guess we can do one a few questions here. Um, and then like I said, if there's any others, um, we're easy to reach as well. And Alex as well just posted in the chat the link to everyone to signed up. That's probably a lot easier. Thank you for doing it that way,
041Alex. Appreciate you making it easy on everyone. Yep, Bridget, you can email for the status of your kids who's signed up. Just let me know that email right there that you're interested in knowing and I'll send you an update. Great question. Hi Tracy, seeing you on the call. Good to see you. I know we've been emailing this morning. Emily, yes, we're so excited. It was wonderful uh visiting Hurst Ulis Bedford ISTD a few weeks ago and meeting everyone getting student nominees there. Wonderful. Um the last thing I'll say is there if there's any schools or districts that have the nomination letters in hand and they want to host a parent information session to let parents know, hey, this is what we're all about. Just let me know. We can host a parent information session via
042Zoom or Google Meets or if you have school your campuses, your campus leaders need to know what it's all about. Let me know and we can set up a session for that as well. But thank you all so much. Um and oh Blake, this is cool. Thank you for putting that in the chat. This is the first time we've gotten a medal for a goal. I'm not sure how this but next. Yeah, I love this. Intentional with the data you're submitting. Thank you, Blake. Um, yeah, that's it for us. Monica, thank you so much again for creating the space for us to just uh remind folks and share a little bit more. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. So, thank you Keith and Alex for your updates on National Mouse Arts. You know, it's not often
043we get an opportunity just to nominate, you know, to nominate a kid and for them to get some financial support and academic support for their high school for their, you know, their student career to do excel and to do well. And so, uh, without you doing the extra work, also on the other side on your side. So, thank you very much for National Math Stars. uh send kids their way when you have the opportunity. So at this time, are there any other questions, wonderings out there uh that you may have or any uh you know, I always like to do shout outs and uh happenings. Anything anyone wants to share or you know, any wonderings? No questions. I have a question. Hi, Monica. Danielle's on. Hi Danielle. I know this is more on the um
044advanced academic side, but I'm just wondering if you have any information about the college prep provider application. Um we were told that our um college was supposed to be notified by the end of March and they haven't received any information. Oh, which way? The college did you broke up for the college provider application? College prep provider application. Let me check with uh Kay Humes. Okay. And uh you know I need to write it down cuz if not I will forget. I appreciate it. What school district? Uh, Danielle Katie ISD. Okay, I will check and then have her get back with you. Thank you very much. All right, any other questions, connections, hookups? Hey, Monica, this is Carla Cheshire. Hi, Carla. Is it okay? Can I remind everyone about the America Texas 250 that's coming out
045that we presented information on last time? Definitely. And then if you have something, you can drop it in the chat also. Okay, here's the link in the chat. I think I just put the link um to the presentation from last time. The uh America 250, if everyone uh if you weren't here last time, America is going to be celebrating their 250th birthday. um July of 2026. And so what they are doing is they are asking the states to get together and uh all the communities in the states to create some sort of present uh celebration to celebrate it somehow. And so, um, when we were looking at some of the options and some of the things and their vision and the mission, it I realized that it, uh, lent itself and was, um, directly related
046to our GT kids. So, as you're planning next year for your GT classes and and the activities and that the kids are going to be doing, maybe think about how you might introduce this and have your GT students lead it in your community. The link is to the presentation is in the chat box. If you have trouble connecting to it, let me know and I will um I can do it a different way. Does it I don't know if anyone's tried it if it works, but um think about how you might be celebrating two America 250 celebration in your community and how your GT students might lead it. Thank you, Jasmine, for letting me know. I'm glad it it works. There's contact information in there. Pat Hardy is one of the the members of the
047uh Governor Abbott's board committee that is helping to spread the information. So, if you have questions, you can ask her or talk to her. Um I can put my information in there as well uh in the chat. Um it's really simple. It's just caresmail.com if you're interested in getting more information. But um also in this presentation there's information how it ties or how some connections to the Texas performance standards project and how some of those task also lend itself to celebrating America Texas 250. So be thinking about that and um hopefully you will come up with some great activities for your communities and for your GT students to participate in. Thanks Monica. You're welcome. You're welcome. All right. Any other shout outs happenings? Um, also remember we have our GT education resources page. Um, this
048is where most of all of our GT Tuesdays are housed the videos, but our videos are also housed on YouTube on the TEA platform there. Uh, we have a GT playlist. Uh but I do want to say because uh as you know all of this takes space and uh so a lot of things are going to be archived and moved uh off the page and put off somewhere else. So if there is something from like 2019 when I first started this uh or you know the first couple of years that she's like oh that was great information. I want to keep that. you might want to go grab it uh before uh things I I'm not sure what day uh technology is going to start you know you know removing things off the list but
049they are there uh we're going to probably do a two-year rotation so the last two years roll off so but uh if you want anything from earlier dates uh you can grab them I always have all the powerpoints still but a lot of things are just going to kind of quietly roll off uh and then hopefully I'll do better with putting some things on. But if you missed the finance meeting from the last time that uh that YouTube video is up, uh it is out there for you to watch. Um Peggy Watt did some great gave some great information. So I want to say thank you for joining me today. Um it has been um great and if you need anything uh this is how you can reach me. You know email me uh either
050emails work or make a phone call. It usually get goes to the voicemail but I will call you back or just email me. I'm good always. But if there are no other further questions, wonderings and at least I only blinked out once today. So hopefully everyone have have a great time. We got one more GT Tuesday and our GT Tuesday. Uh for the last one, you know, I typically like to end with a Q&A. So either send me your questions or bring your questions with you cuz uh we'll be getting ready to talk. We could have more communication on those things that are, you know, legislative updates because they'll be closer to that end. Um, so and I Oh, and actually I will have a hopefully by that time a a major announcement for you
051uh at that time. So yes, [Music] uh that's what I'm going to talk about next time. Blake, wait on that one. Um or text me, email me to Blake and then I'll I'll respond to that. But I hopefully everyone has a great day, great rest of your week. Happy Mother's Day and then I will see you before Memorial Day. So, haha and thank you. Appreciate you. Uh and actually have a good one. Stay dry everyone. Stay safe. Turn around. Don't drown. Remember. Okay. Bye.