001okay welcome everybody we are so excited for everyone to join us today this afternoon for our 20125 military connected student webinar today is February 26 and we will be hosting this webinar from 1 to 2: PM standard central time um for those of you had joined in a little early you were able to use the QR code to fill out the pre-webinar survey for those of you who are joining us um right now Mr Dobbins will be dropping the pre-survey webinar uh pre-webinar survey link um into the chat so that you can complete that it will only take you one or two minutes it will provide us with some logistical information on um where you're at your ESC your Lea and also what you are expecting to um be trained on during this webinar today
002and what you would hope to see um in the future all right everybody we are going to start off with introducing ourselves we are excited to be able to present this training today um my name is Dr Ann Le I joined tea last April as a tchi Texas education for homeless children and youth program specialist and now serve as the HM program specialist I previously served in the school districts um in the ESC 4 in six regions as a former interim director and assistant director for special education uh a behavior discipline specialist educational diagnostician and loow incidents self-contained special education teacher I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to my partner good afternoon everyone I am John dolins I'm also an hmar program specialist I did join ta last this January so my
003two-month anniversary is coming up uh prior to TA I did work in the uh education sector for 26 years I've been a school principal of several campuses I've also been a middle school math teacher I've been an elementary special education teacher and special education general education teacher prior to joining the education field I was in the United States Army for six years that's one reason why the military connected student program is so important to me I also have three of my children that have either served or currently serving in the US Military and if you are military connected yourself go ahead and drop an emoji um a heart or thumbs up we would love to know where you are right now as well so drop in the chat all right to kind of give you
004a preview of what we will be uh reviewing in this a training today uh we are going to be covering some pams coding also known as military student identifier um provides you with some sample questionnaires that we found um across some of the leas in Texas we're also going to go over some data and Reporting uh such as the updated 2024 school year military students data and also reviewing some of the changes we've seen over the years um based on the school years 22 23 and 24 we're also going to go over some frequently asked questions and best practices for leas and esc's and then we will be reviewing and discussing our upcoming purple Star campus designation application process and uh resources that are newly developed including the purple star rise and finally we're going
005to be wrapping up with some resource and reminders and um discussing some of the upcoming trainings as they relate to um support and the impact for military connected students some uh logistical uh engagement and Technical support uh we do have some uh housekeeping items we would like to go over um we do have our zooms Q&A feature and chat feature available we ask that you submit questions during the presentation into the Q&A function and then any input insights feedback um through the chat feature um Mr Dobbins and I will also be using the chat function to drop links that are uh relevant to what we are discussing um uh according to the slide into the chat function if you do um submit a question into the chat it may get lost as the chat feature
006um is a little has a little more traffic than the uh Q&A so try to use the Q&A for their questions um this training is being recorded at this time um the recording will be posted in the hmar webinar web page under military connected student programs you will also be provided with a copy of the presentation in the PDF form um in that uh webinar web page however we are at this time unable to make the PowerPoint available in advance and we thank you for your understanding so our first uh section of our training will be pe's coding and Mr Dobbins will be be reviewing this information good afternoon again uh with the adoption of every Student Success act 2015 military connected students are recognized as a distinct subgroup of students using the military identifier
007sorry the military student identifier for Texas the military student identifier will be our pe's coding system Federal Law requires local education agencies including public charter schools to identify these students and Report their academic performance on annual standardized texts along with other highly mobile student subgroups so who are military connected students the answer to this question to answer this question we'll look into statute Texas Education Code 25.6 D defines a military connected students as a student enrolled in a school district or open enrollment Charter School who is a dependent of current or former member of the United States military the Texas National Guard or Reserve force of the United States military or a member of a military or Reserve Force described in sub uh subdivision one who was killed on the line of duty students who
008meet the requirement of this definition are identified as military connected students in our pe's data system let's discuss the pe's data table on the next slide teams include six indicators or military identifier which is your MSI or your military student identifier codes to capture the identification of prek through 12 grade military connected students descriptors 1 through three are for kindergarten through 12th grade dependence of active duty members or current members of the Texas National Guard or United States Reserve Force descriptor four is for pre kindergarten dependence of active duty members of the United States armed force or those injured or killed while on active duty descriptor six is for kindergarten through 12th grade dependence of former members of the US military Texas National Guard or Reserve member descriptor six is for kindergarten through 12th grade
009dependence of military or Reserve members who were killed in the line of duty I will drop a link to this document in the chat as mentioned earlier local education agencies are required to capture uh MSI information one of uh the questions we frequently receive are Ms about MSI is who should we sorry how should we ask parents for this information the short answer is there's no way to ask parents for this information but it can be as simple as the graphic you see here on the screen what additional information is needed in in this example on the screen and please place your response in the chat box and we will have a short discussion about this form so looking at this form there's a couple things missing that are really needed to accurately identify military
010connected students oh I'm seeing some great responses Mr Dobbins in the chat I see several people they have accurately said I see someone some some are saying veterans or former military members correct those are missing somebody got it prek yes prek prek is missing uh and also someone did mention uh individuals who were killed in the line of duty correct this form it's a good form uh but it will not accurately capture every student we are missing our veterans and individuals are killed a lot of and our preas students so just just for a a note for those who are unaware there has been guidance that providing this is a simple way to ask those MSI questions uh in enrollment however this guidance is given on a very broad uh Spectrum where across the United
011States these would be sufficient however in the state of Texas we have additional pen code that is why some of the information that you guys had highlighted the prek the veterans the killed in the line of duty is not reflected because in Texas we have additional codes that are not seen at a federal level so great job you guys way to really highlight uh what is missing from the national guidance on this slide we have a sample questionnaire from Houston ISD as you can see there are six questions and the questions align to the previously discussed pe's code Houston ISD collects these forms at the school then there's an additional step of contacting the parents to VI verify the accuracy of the data we will drop a link to the Houston IST form an additional
012sample of an e form from M McDade ISD in the chat I'm dropping that now Mr Dobbins we have a question here is it required for uh someone to contact the parents to verify the accuracy of this data and I great question yeah and I would say that this is a local policy um it is dependent on what your policies and procedures are um typically school districts whenever any form is filled out a regist or pe's personel would reach out to parents to provide any clarifications um or anything like that but there is a question question that we will be uh going over in the FAQ section that may help us to um provide more guidance on this um if your Lea um is using similar forms and you would love to share a a
013copy of that please drop the link into the chat um and then um other attendees can see what is uh happening at other leas um across the state of Texas and how you guys are capturing the MSI questions all right so Texas is home to 15 active duty military installations and nearly 2133 military connected students ranking second in the nation we know for research that school age military connected dependant will move six to n times during their K12 years this is three times the number of moves that the non-military connected peers these multiple transitions can often lead to numerous academic social emotional and other challenges for the students we have recently updated our military student identifier INF infographic with the 20234 PS data which which is from the 2024 fall snapshot this is a useful
014resource for schools to assist them in understanding the requirements of identifying military connected students and I will drop a link to this infograph into the chat and this is a great infograph to take back to your campuses and share with your Administration and certainly uh I do like to comment on your certainly your register on your a clerk anyone who is assisting with student registration with the parents anytime you get a new student this is great infograph for them to have on hand which brings us to our question and answer session all right Mr Dobbins let's grab um one or two questions uh and let's see if we can answer those I had a question uh one of the questions was why is there not a code for prek students of former military so why
015is there not a code for former military members for prek and the answer to that is it's a unique situation for your active duty uh military dependents and those that were injured in the line of duty or killed in the line of duty the students do have access to prek this is not extended at this time to former members great another person asked about the survey uh do we need to fill out the survey every year an so it also depends on how your local policies are set up um typically at the beginning of the year there's a annual enrollment for all students um really work with your um your uh policies uh to be able to incorporate questions that will be able to um annually assess a situation uh where you can identify um
016pams coding we have an identification at the beginning of the year and also um at the end of the year when the students are coded out so each year you have to identify now are they going to be are they going to qualify every year if they are a former member maybe it depends Case by case uh that's why a local policy will need to be put in place to assess those just like when we assess our um KY vento students our foster care students our special education students all students really um but it's also important because a former member uh a dependent of a former member could suddenly become a dependent of an active member if they are called back to the line of duty is that correct Mr Dobbins yes it is and
017we had a comment in the chat that said just that they they do it every year because in their area uh students do go back and forth from active duty to reserve or maybe they weren't in the military and joined the military so the status of the individual can change so I do believe it would be good practice to do this uh survey every year awesome all right guys let's go ahead and move on to the next uh section of our training and we promise we will get to some more questions at our next pause to process so if you know me you know that I love data any opportunity to see data to analyze data to report on data you know I'm on it so here in this section we're going to look at
018our military connected student data thanks to our pen indicators or uh military identifiers that identify our military connected students we are able to track the number of military connected students across the state of Texas as Mr Dobbin shared earlier we have over 213,000 military connected students in PRK to 12 Public Schools this table here shows the number of military connected students by ESC region and uh it's ranked by ESC areas in descending order you can also see from this slide that we have military connected students in every Education Service Center um so esc1 to esc2 we have military connected students um one thing I do like to note here is that some areas that do have a large military connected student population such as esc4 Houston um is not near a large military installation and
019so this is an important reason why we do create materials and training so that we can bring awareness and resources and support for our military connected students to all areas of the state whether they are close to a military installation or not um in this graph here you can see that uh ESC 20 has the largest uh population of military connected students um and then we have our esc3 who has the least uh identified in terms of military connected students so on this next slide here this is the same information that was on the previous slide but just in a graphical form so um you can kind of just visually take a look and you can kind of see um how each of those ESC are compared to and just like Mr Dobbins had share
020this number is based on our 2024 October or fall snapshot um so this is for the most recent 20 to 20 23 to 24 school year data so of course we're going to try to update this each year so we have an accurate a number um to represent um where our military connected students are across the state of Texas what's also important is understanding changes in military connected students from one school year to the next um this is helpful for us to be able to make adjustments to services and supports that we do provide um for our military connected students so in this slide you can see that the number of military connected students in um school year 2023 versus school year 2024 um so 2023 is going to be represented in blue 2020 I'm
021sorry uh 2024 is repres Ed in blue and then 2023 is represented in the orange so um there was growth in the number of military connected students in most escs across the state there was only one ESC which is ESC 12 where we saw a decline in the number of military connected students under identification of military connected students can be addressed through a strengthened relationship with our partnership with ESC teams coordinators what you will also note from this slide here is how ESC 2 and ESC 16 are highlighted um identification in these two regions are have increased by double or more meaning the number more than doubled from 23 school year to 24 school year if we do oh I already see emojis must be from one of these two regions if we do have
022attendees in the audience who are from from ESC 2 or 16 we would really like and you are willing to share some insight we would like um to see if there are any feedback to maybe um that can account to why uh the number uh the number of military connected students have increased um was there maybe a change in the way that they were identified was there a change in the coding procedures or simply a population increase m Dobbins do we have any feedback and don't worry I have we don't have any just yet uh I'm imagining that it's because our campuses did an amazing job improving our systems of collecting the data for our military connected students um that's my assumption I think we've done a great job absolutely All Region are all areas
023all leas are doing an amazing amazing job in identification and here's the reason why we can see in this next slide right here um this table shows military connected students data depicting year-over-year growth from school year 2022 to 2023 to 2024 and as you can see from the table the areas that have the largest percentage of growth are in the areas of Pam's code five which is Veterans and six fallen in the line of duty this is like likely due to the growth in the awareness of these two additional codes that were added to the P Table after Texas Education Code 25.6 was amended in 2019 by Senate Bill 1557 um which included these additional dependence to the definition of military connected students now the left column aligns with p's codes one to six and
024in looking at the total military connected student role which is the dark green role at the very bottom you can see the growth of military connected students across these three school years and it's almost 20,000 um increase each school year and lastly on our data portion um we want to project the previous data in graph form as well but here we see the change over time in Statewide pe's MSI depicted as percentage growth per pe's codes 1 to six so the definitions of each of those PE codes can be found on the top right as you can see here with the blue red green yellow purple and orange with the numbers 1 through six and then it corresponds with the graph form and as you can see on the purple one significantly that's the veterans
025you see that increase across those three years now I could go on and on with data but you know only some of us like the data right and don't worry you're going to get this information and we are very excited to have additional information for our esc's in later um in later trainings all right Mr Dobbins we are to the next PA to process uh section do we have any questions regarding the PS data I'm looking right now uh we had another question about providing evidence uh what evidence do the parents need provide again that that that's a great question we're about to go over that yes in one of the next slides all right another question we've had a couple of questions uh will this be recorded uh is a question uh and also
026we've had a couple of people people ask if we're going to get the copy of the PowerPoint absolutely and um yes the answer is yes the recording and a cop of the deck will be available uh shortly after the webinar I promise you I try to process things as quickly as possible so definitely a copy of this presentation will be available to you by tomorrow on the hmar webinar web page and then the recording will be available um by Monday of next week um if uh if nothing goes wrong which I don't anticipate so yes great questions all right Mr Dobbins I'm going to hand it over to you the next portion of our webinar is our faq's and let's Le the way into that thank you Ann on the next couple slides I'm going
027to go over uh a couple of our frequently asked questions I will be dropping resources as I go through these questions uh on the first slide is what are the benefits of identifying students as military connected and on this the answer is simple uh school districts and open enrollment Charter Schools will be able to appropriately link military connected students and their families to resources and services um and also uh comply with the law um another question is what are a school's requirement for collecting military identified data school districts and open enrollment Charter Schools must include the military student identifier questions codes 1 through six in their student enrollment process uh again I'm placing these questions in the chat another frequently Asked question is does the parent or Guardian need to provide proof of military status
028this is a question that came up earlier great question and verification of military status is not required for the purpose of the military student identifier verification may be required uh if a student has special programs with which the uh which with with which they're eligible uh with which there is an eligibility requirement such as state funded prek like we had said earlier uh AC duty military does have access to prease so does injured military members and members of died in the line of duty School District open enrollment Charter Schools should not make copies of depart Department of Defense identification cards that is critical I know we take make copies of our driver's license but you should not be making a copy of a department defense identification card another question is how does the military connected
029student identifier and public education information management system the pems differ from the the federal impact Aid survey and that is the MSI and the federal impact survey are not connected in PE the impact a law uh allows local school districts to apply for federal assistance if the district boundaries include federal land including Indian land that are otherwise exempt from tax from taxes and I'm going to copy and drop the link of the impact Aid law in theat chat some other frequency asked questions are um I'm sorry so what's next we have a call to action for you you need to talk to your school leaders about the federal and state law requirements for colle to collect data on Military connected students uh for their MSI and also does every military connected student have an MSI
030code at your campus if the parent select the pe's code number six service member killed in action does the campus have a process in place for counseling this is critical you have students that do have needs when they're military connected but certainly an individual is military connected that has lost a parent uh due to military service which now brings us to an we have our purple Star campus all right before we go into to purple star we had a question and I think Mr Dobbins did answer it um can we photocopy the dld identification card the answer is no do not make a copy of that card do we have any other questions Mr Dobbins I had uh I think that that last slide answered quite a few of our questions as far as what
031uh the parents will need to provide IDE as far as uh paperwork awesome all right okay let's get into our next portion um thank you so much everyone for hanging in here with us uh we had a lot of information lots of data lots of FAQs um we know you will have a lot of questions on this next portion of the webinar um we would like to lead with a reminder that we have a designated purple Star campus designation interest meeting that's scheduled for next month March 19th um where we will dig deeper into the application process um I know we're going to make this reminder at the very end but it is important for you to subscribe to our list serve had a question about where this uh registration link will be um posted
032the registration link for our purple star interest meeting has been posted to our web page for quite some time during this school year we also have sent out a list serve announcement so when you subscribe to our list serve you will be kept up to date with everything and all things that are going out so um again we're going to dig deeper at our interest meeting today we will just be going over purple Star campus designation at a very high level all right at a high level purple Star campus designation was created by the 86 legislature in 2019 it recognizes campuses for demonstrating support and commitment to meeting the unique needs of military connected students and their families um the Tea's commissioner rule 19 Tac 61163 um was effective April 9th of 2020 which officially
033created the purple Star campus program for the 20 to 21 school year since then TAA has awarded 5 years of purple Star campus designation and the awards are annually each fall so to earn ta encourages all public and open charter schools to apply to earn the purple Star campus designation there are four major areas of the criteria to earn the purple star designation campus mod designated a campus-based military liaison and one of the roles for the liaison is to provide professional development for the staff as they relate to military connected students the second criteria is to maintain an easily accessible web page for military connected families this can occur uh in a manner in which each campus that is applying has their own military connected web page or if they are um linking it to
034the district one their campus web page has to link directly to the military connected family web page of that District also um the campus must have a student Le campus transition program and must participate in at least one of three initiatives to support military connected students and families which include the uh resolution also participation with military uh month of military child which is in April or month of military families which is November or they must uh partner with an installation to uh have active duty members uh collaborate and participate in uh school activities such as field trips or uh seminars um once designated the designation will last two years campuses must reapply for the design nation and currently we have 692 purple Star campuses and this includes the 23 to 24 and also 24 to
03525 so if you were awarded the 2425 purple uh Star campus designation go ahead and uh send us a little harder thumbs up oh my goodness look at all those um the 2425 designes will not have to reapply until spring of 2026 now if you applied and award were awarded in 2324 you will be reapplying for that designation if you are interested in um interested in it um this spring and so oh my denness Mr Dobbins look at all those emojis I should see a lot of emojis because 2425 designation um we had 542 campuses that is a 200 2% increase from the 2324 so that does account for all the Emojis we are seeing Mr Dobbins um and what's interesting is even though we had a 202% increase 72% of the awardees were earning
036the purple star for the very first time and we will be dropping the link to the list of awardees for 2425 and also the uh to the administrator addressed or a TAA that was released um into the chat and of course I had to put in some data somewhere right so give me an emoji if you love this data so this is a depiction a breakdown of the 542 awarded campus this table offers stakeholders an opportunity to see the breakdown by leas and ESC regions of those awarded so as you can see 542 awarded campuses um for example let's take uh esc20 at the very bottom esc20 um of the 542 total wed 29 um of those campuses that were awarded were from Region 20 and they came from 15 of those leas so 15
037leas within esc20 received the uh purlear campus designation which accounts for 219 campuses um if we look at Region one they had five eleas who were awarded um the purple Star campus designation um which accounts for 36 of those campuses so all in all in 2425 542 campuses received the purple star designation um and that was across 66 total leas in the state of Texas so what now right so coming really soon 2526 purple Star campus designation application window opens April 4th and will close June 6 don't forget to attend the spring interest meeting on March 19th from 1 to 2 p.m. standard Central Time this is whether you are New U to applying or you are reapplying or simply interested in understanding the application process for maybe next year applying there there has been
038some changes to the application process but they are good changes and that's why it's important for you to attend if you plan to apply um for this upcoming application window we also are planning to schedule two office hours during the application window to assist applicants um and we are uh it's going to be to be determined but we are planning for one in mid April and one in mid May additionally we have also developed an Exemplar train training to run through each application question and what we are looking for when we are scoring the application reviewing those application the training will be scheduled soon but in the meantime we have a lot of new resources to inform and support you one of these resources oh I'm so sorry I forgot to mention on the right
039side of this um slide here you'll see information on our purple Star campus web page and um there's information here about how to apply but what I wanted to focus on was that relevant tools and resource section that you see those are the resources that will help um any campuses who are uh applying for purple star uh campus designation um but also just implementing purple star on your campus so we are super excited to announce the release of purple star rise tea learn course this was released January 28th of 202 5 um and so this is new um this course was created to support Texas schools with the implementation of purple star whether you your campus is new um to purple star or has been a purple star designated campus for some time the content
040information tools resources and guidance in the course will support the rise of purple star across Texas and Beyond we currently have um over 41 enrolled learners give us an emoji if you have enrolled or taken the course um our first enroll U enrolled learner was from Flower Bluff ISD so if you're out there kudos to you um enrolling in the course at 1 a.m um let us know how uh how you thought the course went um and I'm going to go ahead and go over how to access it Mr Dobbins will be dropping some links in there but really all in all two ways you can access you can go to tea learn homepage and simply Type in purple star rise or you can just click on the direct link that Mr Dobbins is dropping
041um and then you will see um on step one you're going to click on enroll which is that blue enroll button that you see on the first page and after you click on enroll you have two choices if you do not have a te learn account you will need to register as a new user this is very very quick and simple it takes less than a minute um but if you do have a tea learn course simply sign in and then once you sign in you click on enroll in course and you are ready to take that course so just to provide an overview of it um purple star rise uh is a five course module that walks participants through all aspects of purplle Star campus designation and the unique elements of supporting military connected
042students it will help leas in implementing effective purple Star campus programs um we have resources tools videos asynchronous professional development training modules that strengthens purple star in Texas this course can be taken in one setting or broken out into individual set settings and it is very adaptable to the learner's need this course is free and is available to all Learners within and outside the state of Texas we say outside because we do have Learners in different states that are interested in what we are doing in Texas and so we do have Learners from outside of Texas uh who are learning about our program once uh participants complete the course and um receives at least 80% on their final quiz um they will receive a certificate of completion and three continuing professional education or CPE CL
043credits which you can keep for your records um and for the five modules if you notice they do align to the criteria of purple star so module one will provide that overview module two three four and five cover the four criterias Campus based military liaison the roles and responsibilities the web page for military family on the campus transition program and then lastly the uh military initiative then for each module just breaking it down module by module each content module was designed to build upon each other as information is presented to the learner the format is uh aligned across the entire course so it's consistent you know exactly what to expect next um each module opens up with an overview and objectives then you're presented with targeted content that's aligned to that module Focus whether it
044is a military liaison role or the campus transition and so forth then you have a wrap up in the form of a summary and key insights for that module a short check for understanding just to make sure you got the gist of the module and then additional vetted resources that are aligned to that module for in the event that you want to learn more about um that uh module what's unique to purple star rise was the development and roll out of 10 unique tools to help um leas and serve leas and so you will also see those reflected on the purple Star campus designation web page that I had uh shown you earlier at a high level three of the 10 new resources specifically support leas in applying for purple Star campus designation so you
045have the application overview and checklist which provides that purple St campus designation criteria and a program checklist so that you can check off to make sure that you've covered every single thing application guide provides the key tips resources and reminders for successfully submitting your application application rubric which is intended to inform candidates on how their application will be evaluated against these requirements now more details on these resources will be provided at the interest meeting on March 19th and Mr will be dropping the links to these three resources into the chat for you in addition two more resources we would like to highlight is the FAQs and the annual timeline the FAQs were recently updated to take into consideration the changes uh to the guidance for this year's purp Star campus application process it answers common
046questions you may have as you work on your application the annual calendar and timeline recommendation provides key considerations and recommendations for the Campus based military liaison to guide monthly and annual planning for purple Star campus designation again more details on these resources and the remaining remaining five uh resources that we did not cover in today's webinar will be provided at the interest meeting on March 19th and again Mr Dobbins will be dropping the links um to these two resources into the chat for you Mr Dobbins before I proceed uh do we have any questions regarding purple star application that we can address we do Ann um well the first question I saw was does it cost to apply for purple star it costs zero doll it is free free and free uh another question which
047is a great thing another question is uh when do they reapply if they were a previous personal purple Star campus when should they reapply great question okay so the designation lastes for two years and so you would reapply after those two years so for example if you received the purple star designation for the 2425 which is this past School past fall you will not need to reapply until spring spring of 2026 but if you uh receive the designation in 2324 you will be applying if you are still interested in the designation this spring 2025 all right another question we had someone um would you like another question an or you me wait on it no no go ahead another question is uh individual said I'm not applying until next year can I participate in the
048webinar this year absolutely the interest meeting is open to anybody who's interested in learning about the process about purple star and it's not ever a bad thing if you want to participate in those interest meeting because you can go ahead and pre-plan to consider possibly applying next school year um now we can't promise that there may not be tiny tweaks to the process for next school year but the criteria is set in stone with the te see um the format is pretty much the same so it is very beneficial if you just want to participate in the interest meeting just to know what's ahead in the event that your campus would like to apply in the future great questions and it's also a great way to start off next year so you can be having
049activities uh desing individuals and collecting data all year long that way you don't have to do it all in the spring absolutely all right okay so we're going to move move on a little bit this is um just as an FYI for all our military connected individuals here one of the benefits of being a designated purple Star campus is um for the first time this year we uh have developed a partnership with MC to be able to offer professional Learning Community series um currently right now we have our 2324 and 2425 purple star designes who are participating um in this professional learning which started at the end of January uh this uh it's designed for school professionals and Educators at campuses across texes that have earned the purple Star campus designation each series includes a
050PD training and then an office hour to discuss any questions or uh feedback from that training each PLC is unique and is a great way to tap into network of peers and partners to support military connected students and be presented with research-based tools and resources to share best practices our first PLC was January 29th we had 118 register to attend um and we had 85 who participated the feedback we received was very positive we had breakout rooms so that people could Network and discuss like ways that they can help each other and get ideas from each other from other purple Star campus designated uh campuses to improve on their implementation moving forward and Mr Dobbins will be dropping a link to this flyer here just if you are interested in seeing um the information additionally
051what's new um this year was our uh unique purple Star campus list serve that we develop to include the 2324 and 2425 purple star awardees um we uh have and will continue to use this list serve to share out announcements related to purple star additionally marketing and promotional announcements are going out via Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter X and Mr Dobbins will be dropping the links to those promotional Pages um into the chat all right um I'm looking at the time and I want to go ahead and just kind of skip through um this pause the process and have some designated Q&A at the end to address any of those questions that we may have if that's okay so I'm going to go ahead and go to the wrap up section that where Mr Dobbins will
052lead us out okay so to wrap it up uh we do have for you here our designated Education Service Center military Leons uh sorry military Champions every ESC all 20 have somebody designated to give assistance to our districts and our campuses when we're working with a military connected students here's their their contact information reach out to them if you have any questions a valuable resource that we have right now is strategies to support military connected students I will drop a link to this in the chat this course contains information designed to help Texas Educators know about and meet the needs of students who are served by special education and our military connction Ed this will review the factors to consider when making decisions and increase awareness of resources and strategies to meet the academic and
053functional needs of students served by special education and who are also military connected I took this course myself as a prior special education teacher I felt it very uh very insightful uh this is something you would probably want to you could do if your military uh leaz on for your campus it would be a great training to have for your teachers here are some additional resources that can assist you in supporting military connected students and their family uh families I will drop these in the chat box uh we do have military ta military family resources we have insect which is military child education Coalition there's a lot of great training uh wealth of knowledge on this site I highly recommend it as well as our military Interstate children's compact uh Commission of the State of
054Texas and again I did drop those in the chat we have month of the military child this is in April we want you to purple up everybody on April 11th that's the day ta is winning every campus across the T State of Texas to celebrate the mil month of military child and purple up uh and your local education agencies may choose a different day and you may do the month of military child all month long so it's a great month this is a great uh place to stop I saw a question in the chat earlier about November being the month of the military child uh November I did research that going through uh some of the applications for last year I saw a lot of people that were placing information on for November that is
055actually the month of the military family a great time to celebrate you really want to honor your military family so do celebrate in November but April is the month of the military child we have a couple Sav the dates uh so MC does have a toolkit we were switching SL slides which one are we on I'm so sorry um sorry we're on slide 47 month of the military child oh yeah I'm sorry I skipped I I'm sorry let's go back to uh upcoming trainings I did skip that one thank you an oh okay too excited I know that there are some up coming trainings and events I will drop this in the chat a couple upcoming training and events are a purple star training all are welcome again as we noted earlier uh even if
056you're just thinking about the process uh of becoming a purple Star campus uh you can come and see what it's about that way you can implent it next year and that will be March the 19th uh we do have our state advisory Council on educational opportunities for military children we also have our purp Star campus professional Learning Community coming up and again as Ann mentioned earlier this is for current purple Star campus designes that uh that have already earned the designation this year so if you are a purple Star campus please joined us in our professional learning uh community and then I did Skip sorry and I I went straight for the month of the military child I was excited and then the next slide uh we do have the msex uh month of the
057military child toolkit will be updated soon I'll drop this resource and several other resources in the chat for you that you can use for the month of military child and now an is going to talk to us okay so we're nearing the end of our webinar I want to remind everybody that we do have a special project that that we have been working on this entire school year um we really do do need your help though we know there are lots of amazing things that are going on in your area in your region in your Lea um we want to be a part of that we want to be able to know what's happening um and so please bookmark and submit any celebrations events achievements so that we can highlight all these amazing things that
058are happening in Texas all because of you um we have a lot so far on Military we've got foster care we've got uh tety and so really we we have this whole uh whole Bank of fall and now we're asking for spring so please please please if you have anything to share um please submit a story I promise you I will include it uh into the final in the 242e video reel that will be developed based on all of these submissions um we also started this at the end of 2324 school year last year but all of our submissions were very much related to tchy and so we ended up just modifying it a little bit so if you're interested we did develop those submissions into a 2324 tety celebration across Texas so this year
059our goal is to broaden it out to incorporate all of hm programs so uh Mr Dobbins will be dropping the uh C the link to the submission but also a link to the YouTube video of the last year's tchi celebration video and as mentioned before and I know we got a few questions on um the posting of registration links and things like that to stay informed uh with all the things that are happening in our program it is very important for you to be subscribed to the list serve um and I know sometimes you you get a lot of emails and it just clogs up you know your inbox and things like that but we do send out announcements on important dates important resources that we've rolled out um such as our purple star interest
060meeting uh We've announced those out for the last month um and then upcoming uh opportunities um we've announced those through our list serve basically we do use our list to uh keep all of our stakeholders informed and um you will also receive an announcement once this recording and this resource is available uh after this webinar so if you haven't already um subscribe to our list serve Mr Dobbins will be dropping the link finally if you do have technical assistance uh requests inquiries questions anything um this is our email address uh we have our website um and also please complete this feedback survey it helps us to improve on how and what we are presenting you because we want to make sure that we are addressing your needs so that you can continue to support um
061the military connected students to the best possible ability um and so um this feedback survey is very helpful for us to adjust where it's needed and um yes and we are at the end of our webinar we're going to hang back um a few minutes to answer any questions um but I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording um and thank you so much for attending um this hour training with us we hope that it has been helpful informative and if there's anything that we can improve please let us know