001we are going to call this meeting to order we would like to welcome everyone to the February 24th meeting of the corsen ISD Board of Trustees this is a regularly scheduled meeting and all items that will be discussed have been duly posted while this is a meeting in public it is not a meeting of the public if you wish to speak please register in the lobby for audience for guest and follow the instructions on the speaker form the board's role is to set goals approve personnel and budget make policy and provide oversight we are not here to manage or solve individual problems management is the responsibility of the superintendent as a board we believe we must educate every child give every child the greatest opportunity to learn and to provide a safe and sec Ure
002environment mentally physically emotionally and academically and these are our core values we thank you for your interest in the students of CISD the first item on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance and we are blessed today to have our amazing Shake students who have made it uh our top 10 and will be traveling to Atlanta in March they are Gotham unthan Lea price ke kelan waights Cooper Olen Abigail Smith Grayson Smith Corbin te Ethan Williams Noah Ingram Ingam I'm sorry and Anthony Rodriguez flag of the United States of America for which it stands one nation under God indivisible jce Forex St indivisible thank you and just remember that tomorrow is going to be uh Chick-fil-A day so if you visit Chick Chick-fil-A and tell them you're there for the amazing shake they will be
003making donations for our program uh so our kids can travel to Atlanta so thank you for being here next item on the agenda is our invocation and our own Chris Minkin will lead us in that amen as we bow our heads dear father God we thank you God and we magnify you and we praise your holy name God for this day we thank you God that this still is the day that the Lord has made God and we will rejoice and be glad in Lord we asking God that you will forgive us for anything that we said did or thought God that was not pleasing in your sight God and even as we continue God on this journey school year we pray God that you continue to guide us and lead us in every right
004direction every decision that we make God let it be to your glory and to your honor God God continue to take us higher God in everything that we do God and we thank you and we praise you even the more God in Jesus name we do pray amen amen next item is audience for guests do we have any audience for guest we do not okay thank you all right now we're going to move into discussion and action items first is the 2025 2026 targeted Improvement plans good evening Miss Hal president Roman and members of the board Dr harl and I are going to present our targeted Improvement plans for our campuses that are in school Improvement um for your approval this evening we had to identify our school Improvement strategy for each of the campuses
005so our two Elementary campuses the school Improvement strategy and you have these plans right in front of you um is instructional leadership development through teal till stands for Texas instructional leadership we receive those um support services from region 12 they send a till coach for our principes and they send a um reading and math specialist to our campuses eight times a year and um the reading and the math Specialists work directly with the principes with the coaches as well as with the teachers and so um through those Support Services we've identified lots of areas for growth we're working on things like observation feedback coaching Cycles lesson plan internalization and then evidence-based instructional practices and then we also have to identify our curriculum that we plan on using for the 2526 school year our math curriculum
006that we currently are using with State Board of education approved that stem Scopes so we do plan on continuing to use that one next year um however on Thursday of last week we did just um learned that we received grant funding to be able to use open education resource Texas blue bonnet so for right now we would like to put in our plan that we are going to use blue bonnet learning for our elar curriculum next year of course since we just found out that we got the funds for that we will most likely have to come back in March for Te certification and final approval do you'all have any questions about that before I turn it over to Dr harl okay do anyone have any questions okay good evening um I presenting over the
007uh School Improvement plan for cors count high school as well as the Middle School um my our school Improvement strategy is also the instructional leadership development through teal and we are also partnering with region 12 for support for Focus Improvement on leadership uh English language arts as well as math and that also includes supports within the classroom as well as supports for school leadership and the um as well as and as we meet and collaborate together too um and so some of our allocation of resources that we're working on will be the allocation of common PLC time this will also be at the middle school and at the middle school specifically we will further develop the PLC with clear and measurable goals because they do currently have a PLC period we're working on the implementation
008of that at the high school um we are also going to utilize region 12 consultants for support and professional development another thing that we're going to work on is the EOC remediation courses as part of our uh multi-tiered support system and another thing is the coaching sessions with actionable feedback and that will be part of that coaching and feedback cycle and then the last thing is the walkthroughs and data driven feedback loops that we'll be working on um the two curriculum pieces for a math we will be using the te resource and mcgar Hill and the ELA we will be working on te resource and hmh do you guys have any questions okay thank you so much have any questions no okay this is is an action item I move to approve the 2025 2026
009Target Improvement plan so we have a motion and a second to approve the 2025 2026 targeted Improvement plan all in favor any opposed all right that passes thank you next on the agenda we have approved District instructional calendar for the 2025 2026 school year that's hot Miss how Madame President members of the board um as previously discussed in our last school board meeting we had put out three options for the school calendar for last year and option b had had over overwhelmingly won the votes but as discussed in our last meeting we wanted to try to pair up uh the bi-week for football season for next year uh to go along with our fall break and which we did and that's what you see there um that is the only change that that went into
010option b was to match those dates up for next year is the first weekend I'm sorry the first week in October uh and it does match our buy uh this does require votes an action item um are there any questions over what we've done when we were in Austin last week I know it is on uh the discussion item as to change uh the start of school as to the last Monday of August so if that is approved or or or passed by our uh legislators um we will have to come back and amend our calendar for next year so yes ma'am just putting that out there so everyone knows that that is a discussion item in Austin and um that they're looking at potentially making everyone start school um on or after the first
011the last Monday of August so any questions okay we have a motion and a second to approve the 2025 2026 calendar option b all in favor any oppos all right thank you thank you next item is a second reading and approval of tasby update 124 so at our last board meeting we had the first reading of tasby policy update 124 we reviewed intellectual property employee standards of conduct curriculum design special programs student welfare and community relations uh does anyone have any questions about the first reading and if not this is an approval an action I move that we approve Taz B policy update 124 as presented second okay I have a motion in a second to approve tasby policy update 124 as presented all in favor any opposed all right that passes that will become
012our new policy update um next we have consent agenda this is an action item I have a motion and second to uh to approve the consent agenda as presented all in favor any opposed all right that is approved now at this point uh we are going to take a 10-minute Break um so that we can then start our facilities committee meeting um we have pizza and uh drink so please um feel free to take advantage of that and we will um we'll start say at 5:50 okay we're going to get started so I can get you guys home at a decent hour tonight so thank you again for being here I am Stephanie how if you do not know me I'm the superintendent and I am excited about this meeting most people do not get
013excited about meetings but this is the beginning of a lot of planning for our district and the things to come for our students so our agenda tonight we're going to do some welcome welcome and introductions uh we're going to talk a little bit about CISD we're going to overview our committee and what that's going to look like and our purpose for this committee you will be our committee moving forward for about the next four to however many months that we need you guys facilitating capacity study and then the tour and next steps of what it will look like next month so here comes the awkward part please do not get mad at me over this uh we're going to go around the room and you're going to introduce yourself it can be really quick uh
014tell us who you are your profession your role in the community years in the community did you grow up here are you new to our community children or grandchildren in the district and maybe something to know about you so I'll I'll start Stephanie Hal Hometown girl 90 class of 94 uh my kids are graduated I have a grandbaby she's only one so she cannot go to school here yet but I would love for her to go to school here um something to know about me um well you probably know everything I'm class of 94 been uh through in this district for almost 20 years and very proud uh tiger I definitely B blue and gold so Kelly will you start sorry El I St Le e pH dist child princi El anded e my name
015High School EXP am joh start I GRE GR col years years CL e years have any J e years for k one of to Will Grand my name ispal at elementary and for the district I graduated from school in 1989 both of my girls graduated from school my parents graduated from high school I don't have any grandchild and something to know about me which is not a surprise I love people and I love what I do and I'm glad I to k I ch I serve go years terrorized she terrorized Terr e e me old [Laughter] know my name isy also years I'm marri com car con for ch love I'm Adam I am the production specialist for cor ISD or multimedia specialist I've been in cors since 2001 I've graduated in 1999 from fafi
016high school I have a child she's or 17 Pi graduate this year don't know about I'm AUD thank you'all I know that gets a little awkward but we learned a lot about everyone so thank you guys for again for being here I appreciate each one of you taking the time tonight to do this so we're going to talk a little bit about Corsicana ISD what do we believe we believe that every uh educate every child provide every child the opportunity to learn and maintain a safe and secure environment mentally physically emotionally and academically so a few District highlights you probably heard several people say they are calling scholarship recipients what does that mean if you're not from corana you may not know but it's probably one of the best scholarships I would say in the
017nation maybe one of the few opportunities that our kids get that if you're in the top 20% Then you can apply for a scholarship that pays for um most or maybe all of their tuition in a Texas Institute so um that's something that the board works on they work through the committee of that um it's phenomenal it's one of the best things that we have in corana probably one of the things that we're most proud of uh a lot of students have been um able to go to college on that and to be educated through that scholarship this year we started a fire academy uh this has been really exciting Mr tidwells what is it about 10 kids nine 10 kids is it may be growing just a little bit but we started the fire
018academy this year it it's a two to threee program I believe but it's something that we're also excited about tennis who's on the tennis team in here 40 years consecutive let's see 40 consecutive years of being in the playoffs it if you have not seen our tennis team you should go watch them I went and watch them this uh fall they are competitive it makes me competitive uh I know Mel was there her son's on the tennis team I want to yell and scream but you're not really allowed to do that like I really think I'm at football but you're at tennis but our tennis kids that program is amazing perfect thank you uh amazing shake you seen those 10 kids come through amazing Shake is a program to work on soft skills shaking hands
019eye contact speaking to adults uh they have a Laura green does a really great job of creating a um program here starts usually about 150 kids they narrow it down to 10 kids then those 10 students will travel to Atlanta later on in the month of March and compete on an international level it's at the Ron Clark Academy if you know who Ron Clark is he's a big deal in educ with Educators and we all love that and it's if you've never been there it is it's an amazing amazing experience that we get to go to um FFA so I was writing down a few things to talk about FFA but it's a lot they have uh they speak and they show animals uh leadership skills um I was invited in the fall to I
020guess somewhat judge something for FFA I did not like doing that I don't like judging things for our students because I think they're all amazing but they really were exceptional so if you have not been able to see our FFA students we have the youth expo coming up in in um April it's a great time to go out and you can um represent them and and support them and then we have night school for CHS students so maybe we have a student that Traditional School is not the best place for them so we have the opportunity for our students to go to night school several nights a week they're able to graduate through that program we have administrators there and counselors there to support them but that's a way to make sure that all of
021our students uh graduate and get the education that they need this next part we're going to have W come up and we're excited to have them as our partner uh Jeremy and I will talk about these next couple of slides um I do appreciate y'all doing the introductions it kind of gives us Outsiders an idea of who's in the room and it's so heartwarming that all so many of you are lifelong Corsicana individuals I love the students that have dedicated some of their evenings to come and do this with us and our former former student over there in the corner um so anyway what we are going to talk about is just um kind of some of your charges why are you here and and what is your role um obviously this is a kind
022of a long-term facility Planning Group you're going to kind of assess the facilities we're going to walk you through some of that information throughout the course of the meetings we'll talk about financial data capacity studies um and then you all will sit down together and really develop some of the needs and wants for the district for your community and then prioritize some of those needs and wants um of course all while considering the educational needs of the students and not only now but when we think about facilities we think about like your high school was built in 1970 for me that seems like yesterday but when you put the math to it it's like 55 years ago so when we build buildings we build them for longevity so as we're planning for the future you're
023going to have to plan for things that haven't even happened yet jobs that haven't been invented yet and so really thinking those things through um you in the room are representatives of the community so we want you to take what's talked about in here and take it back to the community and get ideas from them and really bounce things off of them um kind of talked about that next bullet and then in the end you may decide to make a recommendation to the board about what you think needs to happen next um par parameters uh we want everybody to be productive talk we want healthy dialogue do we want everybody to disagree obviously not we need all those different viewpoints in the room and we need y'all to share those different viewpoints um make a
024recommendation uh the third bullet I really want to talk about so w is working on a facility planning committee website which will be live soon all of our presentations will be on there so that you can share that site with the community and say hey here's what we ' been doing and here's what we've been looking at and talking about so transparency is really important to us these aren't secret meetings that you can't discuss outside of here um when we get started into the needs and wants for the community yall are going to kind of have to decide what is your level of consensus that you want to move forward obviously with this many people in the room it's probably going to be hard for everybody to agree on every single aspect we might never
025get out of the room but y'all will kind of decide okay do we want 80% in agreement do we want 85% in agreement kind of what do we want to move forward um and then the one thing I just want to stress before I turn it over to Jeremy is that the board ultimately has the final say in anything that would come out of it so this committee we want y'all to be diligent look at all the data look at where we need where y'all need to go and then make a recommendation to the board and then it's in the board's hands at that point so just a little bit about the uh the planning process steps uh what your responsibility is with that for for everybody in here and just like Kelly said this
026is a community process everybody's voice is heard uh everybody um all input is taken yes that can uh that sometimes that's uh that this is this is where these types of things start so there is wrestling over ideas things that people might want things that people might not want so it's important to listen to to person as you have your voice heard as well but assessing the needs of the existing facilities uh looking around at all existing facilities exist and assessing uh where they where they are where you think that they are where needs uh where you think needs are identifying places where you think that there are uh deficiencies or inequities at existing campuses uh reviewing financial data studying demographic and enrollment project C and that's looking at years down the road is there
027growth if if if there is what kind of direction is that in uh those types of things and aligning uh a final plan for uh the committee the board and the community again y y you're the you're the primary um ambassadors to the to the town when people start asking questions about this it's it's facil it's facility planning committees that answer those types of questions that have those types of conversations uh because the board uh or people that work work of the schools can only answer so much it's a community-led effort from really beginning to end it's looking at things you might want and prioritizing what those things are it's also uh looking at things that we we might want that maybe we can't have uh type of thing PRI priorities being uh impacting student
028uh student Futures uh but prioritizing those things across the entire District uh recommending pre uh presenting the findings and making recommendations based on those knowing what's possible what can be happening uh we tend to have um large you know everybody in in in any town has a very large uh dream of what they might want everything to be like and so a lot of what this ends up becoming is is looking at all of those things and trying to prioritize what you think might have the largest impact and then consider um the board uh presenting making a recommendation so this is the process of what this planning committee essentially does so there's there's four meetings sometimes five meetings um in those meetings you do a demographic study of what what where the town is now
029uh what the town might be looking like at five 10 years uh facility and infrastructure needs some some of that might be where we are some of it might be something in your mind of something down down the road uh we talk about school Finance this is a big one especially right now Facebook um a lot of things that people get about public school stuff uh it ramps up it will be it will continue to ramp up especially uh before May uh you'll see a lot of stuff that's out there and it's important that information is shared that's that's um educating and not always just incendiary to one side or the other uh that's part of what these types of committees do as well School Finance is a part of that because when you leave
030that you you feel like you know a lot more than you did going into it of oh that's how funding works and it's important that we can have those conversations with uh the voters at large as well uh potential Solutions and costs uh and would be uh the at the end of this looking at those types of things uh after you do a hierarchy of what your priorities might be what you think might serve the district the best and then a final recommendation based on those findings and I will turn it over to Mary thank you okay I was going to back up one thing real quick okay so as we go through this process it's also important to note the the schedule of the design so as the an architect I'd like to go
031over that really quick so prior to the bond being called we are not going to have a fully flushed out design by any means what we will have have is some puzzle pieces starting to make sense and really an overview of what can go into the bond and any Associated cost with that is a budget so we will not know exact numbers say the bond passes and everything is you know we're all herin um exact numbers wouldn't come out until we do all of our construction documents and it actually goes out for bid so that's just important to know um so we had the opportunity to walk a lot of the campuses oh we're backing up um so we had an opportunity to walk a lot of the campuses and I by no means know
032these buildings as well as you do so we have a lot of teachers and staff in the room so I'm I'm starting to learn these facilities but I just want to give a quick overview of some of the things I've seen um keep in mind age of facilities uh capacity um even function of a lot of the space as well as Safety and Security which is always a top priority um in all of our day-to-day jobs now um so starting at some of the elementary schools so we did walk every Elementary School um starting at Carol some of the things that really stood out are the prek program that are going in or that's happening at Carol there's a lot of prek classrooms and a lot of kids and there are some capacity concerns at
033that campus in particular um as well as storage so I have a a overview slide at the very end about kind of District things and storage Storage storage is a Common Thread in a lot of these slides so you'll see that um so really quickly so in addition uh this is an older building and uh it was really cold the other day when we walked in some of those hallways with no heat it was it was quite chilly so I know you teachers and kiddos who are having to be in those buildings every day that um uh fan and Elementary so this building um is overall in pretty decent condition there were some Foundation issues but as well as cap as far as capacity it's not as full as some of the other campuses so
034I'm going to go through these kind of quickly um buoy so there's a lot of buoy people in here um uh office space and storage um the cafeteria seemed pretty good and they had a good system of circulating the kid throughout um for lunch so that was working really well um there were some signs of erosion with cracks um on some of the flooring in the hallway but nothing super major from what I could see um the playgrounds were very nice and I was informed it was a lot of heavily influenced by the P PTO so that's always a plus um Navaro Elementary uh this is one of the new I went too fast one of the newer build uh elementaries um a lot of these campus and that's another theme for the district there's
035an ongoing cost for hbac replacement um Mr bware mentioned it was to the tune of $3,000 a month roughly so that's an ongoing cost as well as Roofing um you all could almost have your own roof company um so some of those are ongoing challenges that the district is facing um Sam Houston Elementary it is one of the older buildings um and this one did have the most Portables as any of the elementary so with four Portable Buildings um so as far as capacity that is a concern uh moving to intermediate and and Middle School following that so as you all know these are the newer campuses with um they're they're in decent shape so yeah they they were looking good um there was some evident uh roof leaks and there was some spots on
036the gym wood floor that were starting to buckle a little bit but not the entire floor by any means um and then Middle School we can probably quickly go by the middle school since it is fairly brand new um but that is a beautiful campus um okay and then as we get to the high school so we did spend majority of our time here at this campus um so some of the things that are pretty evident so we were here while students were going to lunch and exchanging between classrooms and it there are a lot of kids in there those hallways so just with the the floor plan of the building with kind of the main spine I'm sure you have a name for that hallway but the main spine of the building and then
037the classroom Wings branching off of that that main spine is just packed of kids um and the cafeteria was also just it was tight for sure so I definitely see the needs um there's Plumbing issues that definitely need need to be addressed um again Roofing restrooms um but from a functional side your CTE program is very robust um but there's always room for more being able to add more programs to the to the district um just in themes of Education we're seeing more and more students choosing not to go to college and going into trades and everything and so when District invests back into those kids and provides um a professional education that's always a plus so lots of photos and I have a million more on my phone too but um and then lastly
038we did want to show the a facility so as far as a um this is not an enclosed facility so not having animals in an enclosed building and rather just open air um is something we see in other districts so it is something to think about as well as again storage a lot of the storage concerns are are evident here as well and I know you have a very big a program so it would it was interesting seeing the state of the a facility um quickly the drain Learning Center um there were some ADA compliance issues um but overall we didn't spend a ton of time at drain um transportation so the transportation facility is definitely showing its age it's not weathertight um there were some leaks in there and just I commend all the
039District employees of just being able to get in there and help maintain all the buses and uh District vehicles on a daily basis um back to some of the districtwide um this is similar to what I was saying earlier so HVAC is a continuous um expense for the district as well as Roofing and plumbing as well um so overall I think my opinion just going into this but we are going to do a quick tour of this building after uh the end of this but um again the high school just with capacity concerns and showing the age of the building to me seems like it would be a top priority um I did he in 2015 a lot of the elementary schools got some minimal Renovations so they have been seeing work done at those
040campuses moving forward we still want to hear all of your ideas we want to hear here like the next meeting is going to be about your wish list and really starting to look at what what you dream of in a district following that meeting we are going to go over cost because there isn't an infinite pipeline of funds available so at that meeting we'll be able to start digesting and prioritizing what is a want what is a need and what is potentially maybe a down the road future Bond so going through that this was just a quick run through again I'm learning a lot of the buildings we've Dron scanned some of you teachers might have seen our drones out there so we've had drones we're documenting the entire building buildings multiple uh we're getting
041scans inside and out so all of that is starting to take place um but yeah looking forward to the process so so our next meeting will be Monday March 17th so we're right now we're planned for four meetings one this month March April and May so in the next meeting we're going to look at our demographic study we're going to talk about school of Finance Bond capacity and like they said our needs and wants so we're going to that will be our next meeting if you would like to if you have any questions between now and March email me or shade bware or probably Raymond one of us will return will answer that question if we can't answer that question then we'll answer that question in March so if you if you think of something
042just shoot us an email and we'll keep we'll keep a list of questions um if you are interested in a tour if you want to stay my team is happy to walk you around the building if you've already been in the building but there they can just hit some hot spots of like out in CTE you can look at the restrooms near the auditorium um maybe some other restrooms um when most of us in the 90s were here the front office was right up here so what does that look like now that's the ghost center with with the counselor so if you're interested in a tour if you want to just hang tight for a little bit uh some of our team will get you going on a tour and if not I will have
043Merill send everyone an invitation the week before well we're in we're actually spring break that week before so the week before spring break we'll send you guys an invitation to invite you back to uh March 17th please please please come back we need your input we need your feedback and we want to hear from you guys so thank you again for coming and I appreciate everyone for being here thank you we're GNA officially close this meeting we're going to adjourn into close session as permitted by Texas governance code 55101 thank you all for being here