001I call this meeting special meeting of the county independent school district order. Let the record show that a court of board members is present. This meeting has been duly called and the notices meeting has been posted in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act Texas Government Code Chapter 551. First item uh first item. This is a report only. This is a review of our updated Conley Elementary and Connley Junior High School turnound action plan for implementation. Miss Bernett. Good evening. Um, so our turnaround plans for for the junior high and the elementary have not been updated in many years. The last one for the junior high was 2019 and elementary was 2020. So I know many of these spaces were a lot different back then. Um, we also had a very different star test and a
002very different accountability system. And so there have been many changes since that time. TEA doesn't require you to update the tap every year. And so that's why just now doing this. It's similar to the tip. You know, they like their acronyms over at TEA, but the TIP and the TAP are very similar. The TAP is a little bit more extensive. So, it kind of goes a little bit deeper into some of the actions that we're going to take. Um the summary, which is used for both campuses, was I think included in your packet online. Um, we also sent a summary to parents last Monday um to gather feedback and we have received a few messages of feedback that we'll be using when we submit that to TEA um at the end of the month. So
003basically a lot of these strategies you've heard or we've we've already implemented or we're expanding upon for the next couple of years. High quality teaching materials in math and reading. So we implemented the Eureka math last year. um that's now changing to blue bonnet math, but it's the same core components. And then we're also going to do blue bonnet reading. And so that's one of the strategies is the high quality teaching materials. And that is a strategy that TEA pushes as one of their number one things they want schools that need to improve to do to make sure that they have the high quality instructional materials in the classroom. Um part of that implementation is very intense training which today I sat at a leader training with nine other administrators in the district. Everyone goes
004through very thorough training in the curriculum. That was personally my first curriculum training as an administrator which I think is a huge difference between the HQIM and things like HMH or SAS learning or things that we've had in the past is that every administrator in the district is involved in the implementation. We know what the lesson plans are supposed to look like the assessments or it's not it's internalization now not lesson planning but we know every step of the system so I can walk through any classroom and know exactly what I'm looking for and so that's also part of this uh school improvement strategy on top of the HQIM we are also doing till work which is teacher instructional leadership the district has for the past several years been doing observation feedback and so that
005process as leaders go into classrooms, actually video record teachers doing their lessons, and then they meet with those teachers later and sit down with them and show them ways that they can improve. And it it's a whole researchbased practice that has a waterfall document where you start at the top and then you improve them. And the goal is at the end of the year that they are a more experienced and knowledgeable teacher. Um, on top of that, we will be adding data driven instruction which I think will take some big heavy towards our student scores. That's something that we haven't done in the district before. So that's added. So on top of the observation feedback, we'll be teaching all of the instructional leaders, the coaches, the teachers, the administrators how to dig into that data
006so that every single product the kid turns in, whether it's an exit ticket or an assessment result that we can dig apart that data, figure out what they're missing, what they need, and then we can give them that when we come back for those intervention Fridays or when we have intervention in the classroom. Um, it's a very methodical approach. I have experience with that in a previous district and I've seen where that success has really helped with other districts struggling like we are. Um there's a book driven by data and when you start reading it it's like calling ISD. I mean every the ecodis everything's almost exactly the same. So I've told the administrators DD DDI 3.0 is going to be Conley ISD. This is going to be about us next time. So that's the
007uh building strong school leaders and supporting teachers. Um, we are going to, let's see, I'm trying not to read this whole thing. We're going to progress monitor this by using the systems that we have in place through the strong foundations plan and the strategic leadership plan. Um, that is work that the entire district has done that has checkpoints, very comprehensive checklist, meetings that are set where we look at specific things every single time so that nothing slips through the cracks. All of this is being paid for through our lasso and ESF grants. Um so that it's not an extra cost. It includes those services from the service center which are huge having someone come in and help and guide us through it. We've even had them come for just colony staff several times and so
008that's been a real help with some of this work. I do want to add that in pulling the different star scores that we've received so far. Um the predictions, they're not calculated this time and the scores definitely show areas in need of improvement, but there has been longitudinal growth across the board. And so that means every kid that took third grade math last year, this year, and fourth grade math did better than they did in third grade math. It's not huge. It could be one or two points, but everyone's showing growth. Not in one star subject did it go down. And so I think that that's something to be proud of. Um, and but all of these things that are in this plan aren't things that we use, we fix, we move on, we try
009something else. These are lasting processes. They're lasting skills. They're lasting culture and climate um portions that will become part of the culture in Col. And so until we have straight A's, we will use these techniques to get us where we need to be. Any questions? Any further discussion? All the appropriate sign any opposing sign all voting for motion carries.