001Welcome everyone to this July 14th, 2025 meeting of the Carson ISD board of trustees. This is a regular board meeting and all items that will be discussed have been duly posted. We have a quorum here so Dr. Brown's absent. While this is a meeting in public, it is not a meeting of the public. The board's role is to set goals, approve personnel and budgets, make policy, and provide oversight. We're not here to manage or solve individual problems. Management is the responsibility of the superintendent. As a board, we believe that we must educate every child, provide every child the greatest opportunity to learn, maintain a safe and secure environment mentally, physically, emotionally, and academically. These are our core values. We appreciate your interest in students CSV. All right. The next thing is the pledge allegiance to
002the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to thee Texas. One state under God. one and indivisible. >> Jeremy, >> please bow your heads. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for the rest our students and staff have gotten over over summer break and just pray for your for your divine wisdom as we continue the the preparation of of starting for the new school year. I I just pray for the safety of our students and staff uh in all that we do. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. >> Amen. Merl, do we have any gifts for >> Okay, thank you. >> Superintendent Miss How? >> Good evening, everyone. Believe
003it or not, this is scary. We are 30 days away from the start of the 2526 school year with the first day scheduled for Wednesday, August the 13th. The back to school rally, stay in school rally is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. August the 9th at the Commons at CHS. Thank you to the NAACP of NEA County for continuing to support our students and teachers for two decades now. We appreciate the love you show for our public schools. For other key dates coming up, please follow our social media platforms on both Facebook and Instagram. We have a special recognition tonight and as many of you know, we recently shared some exciting news. Corsica ISD has partnered with 106.9 the ranch to bring Tigers football back to the local radio airwaves. After a year of streaming only
004coverage, we're thrilled to return to traditional radio, something our loyal fans truly missed. Even more exciting is that our broadcast team is making the move with us. Let's take a moment to recognize the incredible voices behind the mic. Rusty Hit and Chuck Williams. They have been calling Tiger football for over a decade. Richie Catrer. He's a familiar face and a voice who stepped up full-time last year for football after passing after the passing of our beloved broadcaster and Tiger supporter Todd Wills. All three of these men are proud CHS graduates and their dedication to our program is unmatched. Also, we have Steven Nut. He's a baseball enthusiast who joined Rusty in the booth for baseball and brought a great knowledge and insight to the broadcast. What's even more remarkable, they volunteered their time and talents
005last year broadcasting pure purely out of love for the blue and gold. Most broadcasters get paid. These men did it for our community if you did not know. We're we're very thankful for them. Behind the scenes, we have two more. Adam Walththal and Jonathan Seatin keep our broadcast running smoothly online, coordinating YouTube and audio streams when we didn't have a radio home. Adam has since moved on to a new opportunity. Boo. And we're excited to welcome Jonathan. Yay. into a full-time role to continue that legacy. Tonight, we honor all six of these outstanding individuals from Community National Bank Trust and Stadium to Greenville to Waco to Pricefield and to everywhere in between. You've kept our fans connected and our spirits strong. Let's give them a big round of applause. [Applause] What's up? No, no, no.
006I think you're good. >> Yes. >> I didn't think it was going to work. >> Those 50 lenses are pretty narrow. All right. >> All right. Thanks a lot, guys. We we were now adjourned into close session as permitted by Texas government code section 55101. Thank you. >> All right. Do we have any business from close session? >> Yes. I make a motion to approve Jessica Ward as principal at Buouie Elementary School. We have a motion. Wait, it's not over yet. >> This is an action item. There's a motion. We have a motion. Well, this is after the item. Is there a motion? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Second. >> Do we have a second? >> I'll second. Uh, we have >> It's approved. Jessica War be the principal. We have to vote on these
007things. >> All in favor? >> I All in favor? Yeah. >> All right. I make another motion. Um I uh to approve Weston Grounds as assistant principal at Collins Intermediate. >> I second. >> All in favor? >> I It has been passed. a motion. >> And there's another. I make a motion to approve Melinda Anderson as assistant principal at Corsacana High School. >> I second. >> We have a motion. It's been seconded from Melinda Anderson to be the principal at uh assistant principal >> at the high school. >> CJ. >> Yes. All in favor? >> I don't want anybody against it. you've been passed. [Applause] We are excited for all three of these administrators. We have brought in uh three great people. Uh we're really excited for Jessica Ward as well. I know that she
008will lead Buoie to a lot of great things. And thank you Weston and Melinda. We're excited for our CHS graduates coming back to us as well. We're in course ISD class ranking system. Aaron, good evening. Uh just wanted to uh make you aware of a change in our in our GPA system. Uh and this is only brought on by making sure that fairness is carried out uh through all of our students. Um it was brought to our attention that we had a couple of dual credit courses that met online only um that were being calculated into our class ranking system. uh we felt um as much as AI has progressed this year or in the last few years um and it being online um it's very hard to monitor the rigor of that course and
009the uh the integrity of that course that are on whether it's sociology or whatever course it may be that's just 100% online. Um and so uh we we're going to add a clause. We're not going to change any what we're counting, what we're not counting. We're just make it easy. Um, basically the verbatim is if a dual credit course listed as eligible for class rank consideration does not provide an in-person professor and is delivered strictly in an online format, it will not be counted as a core area course for the purpose of calculating class rank. Only dual credit courses taught on the course high school campus and taught in person by a qualified NEA college instructor will be considered for inclusion in core GPA and rank calculations and that is solely for being fair to
010uh all of our students and keeping the the bar level. >> I have a question. Yes. >> In regards to what um what is counted towards GPA? Isn't it just core classes like English, math, science? Aren't those the only ones that go towards the calculation of GPA? >> Correct. >> Class rank. >> Correct. So like for instance, the the big two that this covers and it can cover more in future years. But that way when you have verbatim like this, you don't have to keep changing it. But for instance, dual credit sociology is listed under a course of social studies uh that we accept as a social studies credit. Um and this is strictly online. >> Okay. >> Um and psychology. That's what I was >> as well. Yes. And so and also it could
011in a year or two one of these depending on how NA changes and we change there could be another class that we count uh that ends up being strictly online. And so that kind of >> this one clause will kind of reserve us the right to >> change as we to make keep the bar level for everybody and we don't have to keep changing. Hey, we're not going to count this class this year. We're going to count this class this year. We can keep our classes the same. >> So that counts as a social studies. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> I have a question as well. Um will this be for new classes taken or is this for previous? >> So it will it will be for it will be for approved courses for
012calculating GPA for students entering high school in 2024 or later. So this will be for uh students that are going into their junior year or into their sophomore year, I'm sorry. So, >> so we're not we're not changing people that have already taken it like we're not you you can't do that because you that that causes all kinds of lawsuits and unfairness. We're only changing we're changing the whole class that hasn't took it. So, everybody's level on that playing field. >> At what uh what year can they take that class? Is that because I know that we had changed it a few years ago. You can only take certain classes each year. A lot of them take the sociology as a sophomore and so that's why we wanted to >> right >> start >> right
013okay I didn't know it counted as a social studies okay >> and a and a lot of kids probably don't know it counts but for those that maybe do we want to make sure that we're level whether you >> is that something that we decided it would be social studies or is that Um, >> I think did >> Yeah, I think I think it's counted under >> and and that's Yeah, it's a crosswalk that we share with Navo. >> Okay. >> U, but that's kind of a >> the mainstream across your upper your higher education. >> Okay. >> Any more questions? >> Thank you. Appreciate >> it. Thank you. >> All right. the star scores update. >> Good evening, Mr. Farmer, Miss How, members of the board. I'm going to briefly go over our star
014scores for K through six, and then I'll pass it to Dr. Hall to review our middle school and high school um for this last school year. So I do want to note that as we go through these slides, the areas that are highlighted in yellow are areas that we showed improve improvement from the previous year and that we really want to focus on that meats that middle category because that's the category that's going to give us the highest u bang for our buck in terms of state accountability. So that's kind of where we put a lot of our our eggs into that basket this year. Um and then I do want to note before I go through the scores that there is a lot to celebrate, but then we do recognize that we still have
015work to be done in lots of areas as well. So, while we do have areas um that did show lots of improvement, we do recognize that we're not done and there's still a lot of work to be done. Um so, here's our third grade math. And just noticeably noticing here, there's lots of yellow, but we want to note the 12 point increase in Carol in the approaches category and the 11 point increase in the M's category at Fannon. Those were huge jumps for those two or for those two campuses. Um, reading again, lots of yellow, lots of areas of growth and areas to celebrate. We had a 14% increase in the meats category at Buouie, a 17% increase in the meats category at Carol. Again, meats again is where our accountability is going to hit
016us the hardest. So, we're really proud of those meats categories growing. um 14% increase in the meets at Fannon, 7% increase in meets at Navaro, and then there was a whole 25% increase in the approaches category at Carol. For fourth grade math, we had a 10% increase at Navaro in both approaches and meets. There was a 10% increase in Buoie in the meets category. And then I also want to note the um incredible meets and masters percentages at Buoie. Um, if you notice there, almost half of the fourth grade students at Buoie mastered fourth grade this year, which is absolutely incredible and is blowing those state percentages out of the water. So, good job um to that campus on that. And then we have 13% increase in meets at Carol as well. Fourth grade reading,
017again, lots of yellow, lots of growth and things to be proud of. Um we are proud of the 14% increase of meats and the 11% increase of masters at Nearo and then the 16% increase at Carolyn meets. Again, all of these areas showed great growth. I'm just highlighting the ones that showed exponential growth. Okay. And then what we didn't we did drop a few percentages points for meets and masters for fifth grade math and reading, but we're not too far off from where we were. Um and we're confident with some of the changes that we're making on that campus next year with our professional learning communities is going to help um with those scores. Science did improve from the previous year. And then I do want to note that on your paper those state and
018region percentages are not correct. If you want those state and region percentages, I have them. Um the state was at 63% approaches, 29% meets, and 12% masters. And then the region was at 61% approaches, 21% u meets, and then 9% masters. So I'm not sure what happened on my copy and paste on that, so I apologize. And then we have sixth grade as well. Um there wasn't a lot of growth from last year to this year, but we didn't drop too far. We maintained in a lot of areas. And so again, recognizing that there's a lot of things that we're putting in place to help with that for next year. Are there any questions on um third through sixth grade scores before I pass it on to Dr. Harl? >> Okay, >> thank you. >>
019Good evening. I wanted to go over the course of middle and the high school scores. I do want to say though as we go and start to look at the scores that there was an overall positive trend in several of our areas. We also recognize that there's a lot of areas that we have to and room to improve. Um, but we also want to stop and recognize too the hard work that our teachers are putting into what they're doing to make the positive gains. Um, and some of those include even this summer like the um the curriculum writing that we have several of our staff members working quite a few hours to make sure that they um alter their plans to make sure that we're addressing some of the needs of our students. Um, and
020there's other things too like professional learning communities and things like that that our teachers are going to be doing this year um and intentionally working um to uh understand their plans and then also to to implement them in a way that our students needs are met. So I did want to start with the seventh EL scores. We do have an 8% increase in approaches uh meets and then masters. So overall um the approaches we know to meets and masters does count towards federal accountability like uh Tiffany said uh which is in domain three but approaches means that our students are well on their way and so we want to recognize too that our students are making gains in that area. So there's seventh ELA. Our eighth ELA scores did pretty much maintain uh the same
021as was what it was the previous year and we're doing some reflecting on that to see how that we can make um positive gains in this upcoming year. Our seventh math we maintained approaches but we did go up in meets and masters. Eighth math we did go down across the state. There was a decline in a lot of the math scores. Um we there's it's really unknown exactly why. We do know that some of the uh frequency distribution that it shifted in some of the way that they was scored but overall um we know too like I said we know that we have hard work ahead of us and we're we're ready for that. uh star history there was uh maintained in the meets and masters area and then eighth science it did slightly decline
022in the approaches but maintained in the meats and masters. What we do need to note about science and this will also be the case with biology is that their teaks did change this year and in changing with sometimes they which is what happened at the eighth grade science level they take the teaks that would be tested at a lower level and they push them into the eighth grade science area. So while they did maintain you have to remember too that this is with a big adjustment of them having to teach teaks that were pushed down and then also pushed up to their area. So there was a lot more that they had ground they had to cover and I don't know what happened. Okay. Um so this is compared to this the region as well
023as the state and overall we are lower than the region and the state but in comparison we are close in several areas especially in the um we do know that our focus is EL and math and while we are focusing on all areas our main focus is EL and math because that is where our federal accountability lies and we do want to note though that as I've said before We recognize that, you know, like seventh math, EL, they've done some maintaining. We've slipped in the eighth grade math area, but overall we feel like that the middle school is on track and the high school. Um, looking at the high school, so while we had declines in the area of English one and English two and algebra, we did see some positive increases in areas of
024biology and US history. Um and again that's a really important thing to note especially with biology because of the news. So with English one star we did see a decline in the approaches uh meets and masters areas and this was the case as well for uh English 2 and then also in algebra. So those are our main focus areas and I can tell you that there's some pretty intense work that's happening. We're working with a partnership with region 12 at the time this summer. Uh they are coming and they've already been here about six different times helping us to make sure that we have a plan uh as we go into the next school year. And then again biology as well as US history. So you can see biology we had 90% approaches. So even
025though there was a huge shift um we were able to target the specific teach that were being taught in a way that met the needs of the students as also as well as address the star um the star targets. So again that approaches meets and masters went up for biology and then you can see US history star um Bana White um and her team has done a phenomenal job um in US history um and we um we also wanted to note too that we are adding Bana to our instructional coach this coming year and she's already been working with us this summer. Um, so we think that we've got some positive movement. While it's not reflecting in the SCAR scores yet, we do have some positive things that are happening. Do you guys have any
026questions? >> Okay, thank you. >> Thank you, Kelly. >> Next thing is 2025 26 pay scales. Uh, Mrs. Hal, Mr. Farmer, board members, uh, I'm here to present updated pay scales and raises. Uh, this is an action item. The teacher scale was adjusted according to House Bill 2. Teachers with three and four years will be earning $2,500 more than they were last year. And teachers with five plus years will be earning $5,000 more than they were last year. Teachers with 0,1 and two years of service will receive a 2% raise. These raises were not mandated by the state um and they were not directly funded like the other teacher raises. Professional support uh staff like counselors, librarians, nurses, they're put on the former teacher pay scale with a 2% raise on each step. Uh the
027police department were given a new scale. Uh custodians were given a $500 increase on each step. And all other auxiliary, par profofessional, and professionals were given a 2% raise. The 2% raise cost about $500,000. The teacher raises is about $1.8 million. Any questions? >> Okay. >> I move to approve the 2025 2026 pay scale as presented. >> A second. We have a motion and a second to approve the pay scales if presented. All those in favor? >> I pay skills as pass. >> Thanks. >> Thank you very much. We appreciate it. >> We will adjourn to close session permitted by test government code section 55101. Thanks. Thank y'all. >> Good job.