0017:30 p.m. as we continue tonight's meeting we welcome all who have joined us as we keep asking how we can best promote and encourage achievement for every student in our district the mission of cbury Independent School District is inspiring educating and empowering all students to be Innovative thinkers in the global community at this time we'll begin with our pledges of Allegiance yes Mr board president at this time we have Cub Scout Pack 155 led by cub master Sarah Kelty who will be leading us in our pledges please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible lier to justice for all and now for the Texas pledge honor the Texas flag I pledge allei to
002the Texas good thank you we should let him say it by there move on to item 7 B no I'm sorry 7 C yes at this time Mr board president we have our campus recognition for Castleberry Elementary School and we have Mr Gideon our principal who will start us off good evening Miss myth fogner Mr toer Board of Education I'm so excited to be able to show you all the amazing things that are happening at Castleberry Elementary of course I know we're saying we're going for the gold but I just want to remind you that we already won it once okay we're going for it again um so I just want to let you know just reminding you uh it's been a while it is March so you know that next one's coming around the
003bend but of course don't let me tell the story let's have our students come up and tell it for us Britain you here buddy there please lay your part to join us for the C pledge red white and blue red white and c e bold and true c e bold and true leing and all we do Li leading and all we do together we s together we Roy Lions War Ro [Applause] Roar at Cleber Elementary we're working hard to be the best in everything we do especially in our classrooms our teachers make learning exciting and fun well helping us grow challenges ourselves and believe in what we can achieve with the right tools support and encouragement we know we can do amazing things learning isn't just about lessons it's about making sure every student gets
004what they need to succeed our teachers care about us and create fun interactive ways to help each of us do our very best at Castleberry Elementary we know that family is super important success isn't just about our awesome teachers staff or students it's about working together with our our parents too when our school and families team up we can give every kid the support and and encouragement they need to do their best whether it's helping in the classroom coming to parent teacher meetings or joining fun school events our parents are a huge part of our CE team we are all in this together when parents help with learning it makes a big difference with everyone working this team every student feels F encourag and ready to reach their goal c elting h School the family
005world whole Community coms together to help every kid CH and go for [Applause] goal at cille elementary we know that going for gold isn't what happens in the classroom it takes a whole team from from our amazing PA Educators to awesome cafeteria workers everyone plays an important part in helping us succeed our pet educators are a huge part of our learning they work with our teachers to give us extra support help us stay focused and make sure we understand what we're learning with their help we feel more confident and ready to do our best every day but it doesn't stop there our awesome cafeteria workers help us go for gold too they serve up healthy meals with a small smile giving us the energy to focus learn and do our very best every day a
006good meal helps us have a great day of learning and our cafeteria team makes sure we all have what we need to keep going strong at Castleberry Elementary were all in this together students teachers and staff working toward the same goal Excellence that's how we go for Gold by supporting each other every step of the way at Castleberry Elementary we know that everyone in our school Community is important in helping us go for gold including our amazing substitute teachers they're not just filling in they're stepping up to keep our learning going whether a teacher is out for us day or longer are subtit to make sure we stay on track and keep learning just like we would if our regular teacher were here this past November we celebrate our awesome substitute teachers on National substitute
007day we invited them and a guest to our school for a special dinner and a show Chef Cece and the team made a delicious meal and our a students put on an amazing musical performance we even gave out some cool C swag to show our appreciation purposeful people has real help us super elementary elementary their are fun and dtive lesson up to us how to be kind respectful responsible grateful honest Cooperative how to per Superior learning how to understand others make good choices and believe in oursel because of this we may better friends and feel confident in in school purposeful people has made has helped make our school a Kinder more supportive place by teaching as important character traits our teacher use these traits when choosing the student of the month giving her awesome badges
008when we show good character and picking students for famous red RS award this program doesn't help us just grow as people it also brings us together and makes cway Elementary a great place to be to learn and be a team when I get a badge like this I can't wait to show my dad good so we had our students tell you all about the amazing things going on and of course from be's perspective they're loving the badges we've got some amazing kiddos that from kinder all the way up to fifth grade from new to the country and being able to read in English some amazing testimonies of things that are happening on our campus but I wanted to close out with a testimony from one of our teachers Miss bner hello everyone I want to
009preface by saying that although I'm a teacher I'm incredibly nervous when it comes to public speaking however when Mr Gideon asked me to speak I knew it was important for me to do because Castleberry has had such a major impact on my teaching Journey last year I was actively looking at jobs outside of teaching as I had one of the hardest years of my life when I accepted a position at CE I didn't know how it would change my life to start off I have such kind talented and hardworking students I love coming to work and seeing them every day my team and the other teachers that I've had um the opportunity to talk to around the school are incredible my team has supported me and encouraged me since day one and I appreciate them
010more than I can put into words all that to say that Mr Gideon Mrs Jackson and Mrs Depp and others behind the scenes have created a positive and supportive School culture where everyone involved the students teachers Paras office staff and parents feel welcome heard and important of course Castleberry Elementary is always going for gold academically by intentionally planning and collaborating reflecting on student growth and challenging and supporting students but I believe Castleberry Castleberry Elementary's positive Community is the most important reason and has the greatest impact on going for gold or may I say reaching it thank you and just to close out if you are a parent or a family member one of these amazing students or a parent of any student at Castle bement would you just stand and be recognized real quick oh
011I know there's some out there and also if you are an educator substitute par teacher administrator at Castleberry Elementary would you stand to be recognized as well please there's some in the back that we're already standing so so that still counts too thank you board for uh letting us be able to show you all of the things that make Castle Bay Elementary a special place [Applause] yeah see that yeah thank you great job guys it's hard to move on uh where we at oh sorry spelling me yeah yes at this time I believe that Kristen Smith our third through fifth grade ELA coordinator in VNA lus our elementary dual language ESL specialist will recognize the 2425 spelling be winners forgive me good evening President Oliver Board of Education and superintendent Smith bner thank you for
012the opportunity to recognize the spelling B champions from each Elementary campus the national spelling be has around has been around for nine decades each year students from all across the country participate in the scripts National Spelling be every year the scripts National Spelling be releases its list of Campus spelling be words the list includes 450 words students may study to prepare for their school level spelling be this year for the fifth time the region 11 Education Service Center will host a regional Spanish spelling be on April 1st where we will have one student represent us region 11 also released a a list of Spanish spelling words for students to study in preparation for the campus district and Regional spelling be which included over 1100 words this was also the first time sixth grade students were
013invited to participate in the competition at the campus and District level this evening we are recognizing both the English and spell Spanish spelling B champions from across our elementary campuses as the names of our spelling be Champions are announced they will come to the front and be recognized and remain until all winners are announced we are first going to recognize our 2024 2025 English spelling be winners from AV KO I am pleased to present the campus Champion fifth grader Jonathan Castillo the championship word Jonathan spelled was dignified from Castleberry Elementary I am pleased to present the campus Champion fifth grader Raphael gutieres the championship word Rafael spelled was jerky from Joy James Academy of leadership I am pleased to present the campus Champion fourth grader Aiden ftis the championship word Aiden spelled was Daredevil congratulations
014to all of our English spelling be District winners and Regional Representatives students you may now return to your seats all boys we are now going to rec our 2024 2025 Spanish Belling we winners from Avo Elementary I am pleased to present to you fourth grader sherad Garcia the final word sherad spell was crad from Castleberry Elementary I am pleased to present to you fifth grader Gael Dominguez that the final word ga spelled was malabarista now from Joy James Academy of leadership I am pleased to present to you fourth grader britan baros the final word britan spelled was Bala Britany was also our District's overall runner up and last but not least from Irma Marsh Middle School I am pleased to present to you sixth grade Thea Lopez the final word Thea spelled was arano Thea
015will represent Castleberry ISD at the regional Spanish spelling B for the second time congratulations to all of our Spanish Belling District winners and representatives at this time students you guys can go back to your seats [Applause] we would like to now than our spelling be coordinators for both our English and Spanish spelling bees we ask that you please stand and be recognized I would also like to extend a thank you to the pronouncers judges teachers staff and administrators who have supported these fantastic spellers along the [Applause] way at this time with parents of all of these fantastic spellers please stand to be recognized [Applause] thank you for joining us today in recognizing our students gracias let's give all of our spellers one last round of applause [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you now on item
0167 e uh yes Mr board president at this time we have Kelly James our social studies coordinator will present campus activities celebrating Black History Month and Wesley Mcall the ninth through 12th grade uh D assistant director will lead the Jazz Band in a musical rendition to celebrate Black History Month good evening President Oliver superintendent and Miss Smith fauler and Schoolboard members I'm excited to share with you some of the ways in which our students celebrated Black History Month students at AV were thrilled to hear the high school band perform they learned about the style of jazz and were able to connect this musical genre with African-American history fourth grade students also completed research projects over notable African-American figures at Castlebury Elementary our students researched various African-American historical figures and Pioneers students learned how these figures
017impacted the United States by breaking down racial barriers and bringing people together morning announcements highlighted a new person each day during the month of February ACE also joined in the fund by drawing pictures and Art Club of the people honored and read their biographical stories and book club Joy Jam students participated in research about historical African-American figures listened to books and learned about the positive impact that African-Americans have had in our world the morning announcements featured African-American pioneers and their impact throughout the month of February at Irma Marsh 8th grade students use AI to have conversations with federick Frederick Doug Douglas and George Washington Carver in addition students in seventh and eighth grade learned about the Civil War and famous abolitionist who fought for an end to slavery eighth graders connected that learning in their
018Ela classes by reading about the Underground Railroad daily announcements focused on honoring a wide range of notable African-Americans throughout our history reach students discussed civil rights and the significant role that African-Americans played in that movement they focused on the role young people played such as the Freedom Riders at CHS students completed a powerful research project on Martin Luther King Jr through their English classes this project encouraged students to explore history resilience and Justice to further solidify this learning students also studied the Civil Rights Movement the CHS Library showcased a diverse collection of books providing students with valuable resources for reading and research we continued our tradition of the high school jazz band performing for elementary schools and even provided a treat for those enjoying their lunch in Sundance Square thank you to miss Graves and
019Mr mcau for their planning and Direction and making those special performances happen for our students please welcome with me the lion jazz band as they perform St Thomas by Sunny Roland round midnight by theonis Monk and moments notice by John coltrin thank you for your time tonight so that we could honor black history month thank you [Music] la [Music] now [Music] n [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] e l [Music] St [Music] all [Music] h [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] for e [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh e [Music] down [Music] a [Music] [Applause] great it's been a great night we got some great kids and we want to take some time to remember this moment so we're going to take some pictures right now sorry we're going to take some pictures right now and
020try to remember these great kids and uh take a point in time so I'll let Miss Branch direct us yes I think our Castlebury elementary students if if you'll come up yes pi [Music] the okay smile all the spelling be kids come on up spelling be kids was right here and I wanted to make sure I saw your e than just d per spe e how are you doing sir good to see you good oh yeah good maybe about ready to need some new glasses I think to yeah can't close you guys do exams we just started doing viralam yeah [Music] ins doctor yeah photos is that they do the puff of the air thing no that's just pressure checks oh yeah if they don't diate or do photos sounds good yeah yeah that's David's
021yeah there you go thank you for the glasses the oh wow really that's cool yeah sure thank you that's pretty cool that it's a F yes Mr board President we have an introduction uh tonight uh Mr uh Lenny Lasher will be introducing our new director of auxiliary programs and facility maintenance good evening again uh school board members uh board president toer and superintendent Miss Smith fugner um I am honored um with the announcement of uh our new director of auxilary programs and F and facility maintenance um I would like to welcome riberto zala casber ISD welcomes rioo Zavala as the district's next director of auxiliary programs and facility maintenance zala joins the casber ISD from Garland Independent School District where he where he has served as a director of maintenance for the past year and
022assistant director for the three years previous in 2010 he started his journey in K12 as a supervisor for Dallas Independent School District he has led a team to address challenges under the maintenance umbrella and ultimately led him to his next appointment shortly after uh 2012 he was promoted to maintenance manager a position that allowed for greater responsibility and influence ensuing efficient operations of school facilities for nearly a decade he has demonstrated leadership implemented strategic maintenance plans and fostered a culture of Excellence within the maintenance team embarking on his journey into the construction industry in 2002 he initially honed his skills in electrical paint Contracting and trim carpent crafts over the course of two decades he has evolved professionally embracing various roles that ultimately led to a distinguished career in education and facility management throughout his
023career spending over 22 years in construction with five of those in excuse me with 15 of those in K12 he has remained steadfast in his commitment to Excellence Innovation and continuous improvements his journey From The Trenches of construction to the Helm of educational leadership is a testament of his new chapter as the Director of auxiliary services with Reliance and expertise and unwavering dedication to serve both students and staff alike his goals are to Foster strong relationships with students staff and the broader Community while consistently driving improvements to casber ISD facilities Zavala is committed to Leading with Integrity setting a positive example for others he also aims to build a robust pipeline for future leadership development in ensuring a sustainable impact of the district he extends his gratitude to the superintendent and the board of education
024for the opportunity to serve the Castlebury community and contribute to its continued growth and success so at this time I would like everyone to welcome Mr rioo [Applause] zal good evening board president board members superintendent uh S bner I want to take a moment to express my sincerest gratitude uh for this opportunity and the warm welcomes I've received since I've been here at cast I it's an honor to step into the role of the director of auxiliary services and to serve this District alongside such uh dedicated team I appreciate the trust you have placed in me and I'm committed to ensuring that all facilities and operations continue to support a safe efficient and thriving learning environment to our students and staff I look forward to working collabora uh to maintain the high standards of excellence
025that cast I is known for thank you for your sport and I'm excited to get to work thank you now wait a minute who did you bring with you who did you bring with youcome [Applause] welcome n