001Good evening. I would like to call this meeting to order. The time is 6:32 p.m. We'll begin with roll call. Kilan Lewis, present. Jennifer Roach, >> present. >> Heather Barrett, >> present. >> Karen Thomas, >> present. >> Lisa Kis, >> present. Philip Chapman >> present. >> J.R. Humphre >> present. We >> have seven of seven board members present. We have a quorum. Please rise for our prayer led by Trusty Police and posted to our colors and pledges of allegiance by Captain Alyssa Smith and Private Cheyenne Green. >> You'll bow your heads, please. Father God, we come to you with grateful hearts for the care and provision you have so graciously blessed us with. We are especially thankful this time of the year as we reflect on all of our many blessings and your constant presence
002and help on the days that are difficult. Father, we know there are families that are walking through difficult times. And we humbly ask that you provide encouragement, healing, and provision to those that are in need. Tonight, we humbly ask that you give us the discernment, wisdom, and knowledge that we need to make decisions that honor you and those we serve. Please equip all of us to do what is best for the children that you have placed in our care. Thank you Lord for this beautiful season and all that it means. We give you all the glory. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Pledges. I pledge algiance to the 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. >>
003And now for the Texas flag. >> Honor the flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state one and indivisible. Thank you. >> Okay, we will move on for uh board remarks. Door is now open. Anybody has anything to say? I had the opportunity to go to the um band Christmas concert and they did such a wonderful job. Always say Christmas doesn't start until you hear to have the Crosby Cougar Christmas with the CHS band. It was a great great was just wonderful, beautiful, beautiful production. So, thank you all. >> Uh all I had was uh we went to saw the Christmas play at the high school. Uh they did a Christmas story. It was hilarious. Great job by those guys again. They kept us laughing. It was good. >> Anyone else? >> Reminds me of
004Quick and Easy. Um, nothing to do with anything that I went to, but um I just want to give a shout out to Arondo Reyes one more time. I cannot stop loving driving down 2100 and looking out how pretty the junior high is for being pressure washed. So, great job. >> Yep. >> Crosby alumni as well. Anyone else? >> Okay, we will move on to the hearing of citizens. At this time, in accordance with Bey Local, the board will provide an audience with individuals who have signed up to address the board. Tonight, we have one request to comment in person. Audrey Anderson, the board clerk, will serve as our timekeeper. And for those requesting to speak, the timer will also be visible on the screen. Public comment is in person only. Anyone wishing to speak
005in person at the board meeting must register five minutes prior to the start of the board meeting with the board clerk and or signup sheet. Citizen participation is limited to the hearing of citizens portion of the agenda. And the board is not allowed to respond to comments pertaining to items not included on the agenda unless the response is limited to specific factual information or reciting existing policy in response to the inquiry. Each citizen is allow is limited to three minutes to speak. And with that, I'll call up Mr. Davenport. As some of you know or may not know, my name is Ronnie Davenport. I'm a former uh coach and teacher here in Crosby. I was the athletic director and head football coach for 10 years. I became the high school I mean not the high
006school but the kindergarten principal for 22 years. I always tease people that it took me uh 22 years to get out of kindergarten, you know. So anyway, I you know I've been in I was in the district for 40 years before I retired. My original reason for wanting to speak tonight was about to talk against the splitting of the athletic director and head football coaches position. But today, you can ask my wife, I stayed on the phone all day calling and talking to people, and I've come to the decision now that that uh after doing a lot of research, that it's probably best for the district to to go ahead and and uh split the split the uh position. You know, I uh my original concerns were about the pay that the the two would
007uh would get, you know, and I was kind of concerned the district couldn't afford that. But, uh, you know, I know we came in the our district recent past has had a problem with the, uh, with our finances, and Dr. Patterson has done a great job of of, uh, getting that straightened out for us, and there's no doubt in my mind, she'll do a great job of of getting these two these two positions paid paid properly. Uh, my reason again tonight, now since that changes, I want to make sure the head football coach is uh, paid a a stipen. you know, that is that is the worth worth his efforts and also for the uh ad, you know, same thing because, you know, it's two jobs and they're pretty high salaries. In fact, I did
008some research on it and the school district nearest to us has gone through this like we have a CE King and they uh they pay their uh athletic director 137,000 uh dollars and they pay their head coach somewhere between 95 and $100,000. So, you know, that's two big salaries and uh you know, I don't know what we can do about it. I know that recently the head football coach here and athletic director combined been paid $135,000. So, uh you know, I don't know I don't know where to go, but I just want to make sure that both are are paid, you know, for the job that they do. I've done some also some research about the Houston area. In the Houston area, the the average salary for an athletic director is about $120,000 and the
009uh average salary for a head football coach is anywhere between $85,000 to $100,000. So, you know, I just uh you know, I don't know what what the thoughts are now on how much we're planning on paying, but I did want to you know, share that with you. My main reason again is uh I'm concerned about with the athletic director. You know, right now the athletic director head football coach is not teaching any classes. And I know uh when you hire an athletic director, you know, if it's somebody from within, they may have uh been teaching classes and they'll no longer be able to teach classes. But who's going to feel that responsibility? you know, and uh uh if if you ask a head football coach to do it, you know, you're not going to find
010anybody come in here to teach, you know, so you know, time's up. Okay. >> Thank you, coach. Okay, we'll continue this evening with the public hearing to discuss Crosby Independent School District's rating on the state's financial accountability system presented by CFO Robert. Public hearing is now open. The time is 6:41. Good evening, board of trustees, superintendent Dr. Patterson, cabinet administrators and guests. Uh thank you for being here for the school first public hearing. Um today we will discuss um an overview of school first, the school first rating system, comparison of indicators, the district performance, annual financial management report, required disclosures, and then we'll finish up with public comments and questions. Okay, so an overview of schools first stands for the financial integrity rating system of Texas. The 2025 ratings are for the 2023 2024 fiscal
011year. So this is as of June 30th, 2024. So about a year and a half has passed since these numbers were released. Schools first was developed by TEA in response to Senate Bill 875 of the 76 Texas legislature in 1999. In 2015, there were major changes that combine financial indicators with the financial solveny indicators. The primary goal of schools first is to achieve quality performance and the management of school district resources. So, TEA assigns a rating for each school district A, B, C or F. A is superior achievement which is 90 to 100 points. B is above standard achievement which is 80 to 89 points. C is standard achievement which is 70 to 79 points. And F would be a substandard achievement which is less than 70 points. The rating system consists of 21 indicators.
012Uh the first four are critical indicators which require a yes or a no response. And you must get a yes on each of these to receive an A, B, or C. If you get a no on any of these, you automatically get an F. There are six indicators which are ceiling indicators. And these are a predetermined maximum number of points that may be assigned if you fail one of these indicators. And then there are 11 additional indicators and these are where the points are awarded all the way up to a maximum of 100. So I will jump into some of the indicators. I'm won't read every single one but I'll go over the main ones, the critical indicators and anywhere there may have been some changes in the past year. So the first indicator is
013a critical indicator was the annual financial report submitted to TEA within 30 days of November 27th for us since we are June 30th and we did submit that to TEA within 30 days. Indicator number two, was there an unmodified opinion in the annual financial report as a whole? And Crosby SD did receive an unmodified opinion, which is the maximum level of assurance that external auditors can issue. Critical indicator number three, was a school district in compliance with payment of all debt agreements. And we were we paid all of our our debts. Indicator number four is a critical indicator and a ceiling indicator. And did the district make timely payments to TRS, IRS, Texas Workforce Commission, etc. And we have made all payments timely and then I will go ahead and skip a few of these
014um and just hit some highlights here. I'll start with indicator number seven. So was a number of days on cash on hand and current investments in a general fund for the district sufficient to cover operating expenditures. So we did have at the end of June 30th, 2024 175 and a half days of cash on hand which is greater than the 90 days for the maximum amount of points and that increased about seven days from last year. Now we'll skip ahead to indicator number 11. So we received two additional points this year compared to the prior year. Um we have steadily paid off debts. This compares the ratio of long-term liabilities to total assets and we have steadily paid off debt which has reduced our long-term liabilities. So we received two additional points from prior year.
015Indicator number 12, debt per $100 of assessed property value ratio. And we received two additional points compared to last year. Again, we're steadily paying off debt. So, obviously, our debt has gone down. So, we received two additional points for that. The next indicator I would like to highlight, excuse me, is indicator number 15. And this was a school district's ADA within the allotted range of the bianual pupil projection submitted to TEA. I just wanted to mention this because this has not been scored the previous three years due to uh the effect of CO but it has been scored on 20 24 ratings and we did receive all five points. And then I did want to mention indicator number 21. This was new last year. Um and we do not have an adjusted repayment schedule with
016for foundation school program funds. So we have passed this indicator. And although I skipped over some of those indicators, I'll be happy to answer any questions if anybody has any. Um so the district performance, I'm happy to report that we scored a 96, which is an A for superior achievement. And then we will cover the annual financial management report required disclosures. So this is performance rating provided by the TEA. Uh performance under each indicator for the current and you have to compare to the previous year's financial accountability ratings. The required disclosures are the superintendent's current employment contract and total reimbursements received by the superintendent and each board member. I also have to report compensation and fees received by the superintendent for any outside professional consulting. Total dollar amount received by the executive officers and board
017for gifts that had an economic value of $250 or more. And then total amount by the board members of business transactions with the school district. And then I will open it up for any questions. I don't have any questions, but I just want to say thanks for the hard work from this. As always, Ken and I enter on this board. We were basically failing. We've had how many years in a row of an A is this now? >> This is our fourth year in a row of an A. >> We're back to an A. So, thanks for all y'all's hard work and getting us back there because it was scary walking into that. So, it's good to see that day a every year. Thank you. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you. Any other questions?
018I >> think we're good. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. This concludes the public hearing for this event evening and the time is 6:4. We are going to move into regular business uh for the board. We're going to go to item B under regular business and that is um discuss and cons consider approval of donation made to Crosby ISDs for a specific purpose and the presentation is by Miss White. >> Good evening board president Lewis, Dr. Patterson, members of the board and community. I am honored to present on behalf of the Crosby Education Foundation as they are awarding $170,858 in innovative teaching grants. These grants are designed to support creativity, excellence, and innovation in classroom across Crosby ISD. This investment empowers our educators with resources that enhance student learning and bring engaging
019instructional ideas to life. And we are grateful for CF's continued partnership and the board support in fostering innovation for our students. And so we have the check. And if I could have the board, please be the chair. Just a touch. >> All right, everybody ready? Uh move to approve the donation made to for specific purpose as presented. >> A second roach. I have a motion by trusty Humphre, a second by Trusty Roach. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed by nay. Motion carries. 70. Now we are going to move back to reports and we will start with our TEA intruder audit by Mr. Mitchell and the three tier system update since you're standing up there for both. >> Good evening Dr. Patterson and board of trustees. come here this month
020to report on our latest TEA door and intruder audit. Again, this is the program set aside by TEA to check our intruder detection and exterior doors. And so, we had an auditor to come out on November 17th to visit one of our campuses. In phase one, the intruder detection audit, there were no findings. In phase two, the exterior door audit, there were no findings. The campus had their weekly door inspections in place and in phase three the classroom door audit all doors were locked and there were no findings. So we are now at three out of our seven campuses complete at this time. Any questions? >> Okay. Three tier system update. girl here. >> Good evening, Madam Board President Lewis, members of the school board, and superintendent Dr. Patterson. Tonight, members of the superintendent's cabinet
021will provide an update on Crosby ISD's January 2026 Tier 3 system implementation. Our tier 3 school hours will change on January the 6, 2026. That is a Tuesday, and that is our first day back for the second semester. As you can see here, our bell schedules have been uh disseminated and shared with all of our community. Our students, parents, and staff have our bail schedules here. This remains the same. We will continue with our pre-attendance calls at all levels. So besides the regular attendance day, we will continue to have the pre-attendance calls. So parents will know that their children have made it to school or if they're tardy and not in their seats at the time that pre-attendance calls go out. And those go out daily to our students, parents. For the second semester, the
022curriculum and instruction department, human resources department, finance and technology departments will provide second semester transition support. We will provide this support January the 6th through the 9th, which is the first week we return back for the second semester. The departments will combine for two shifts beginning in the morning from 6:30 a.m. until 9. Then we'll go to work on our regular schedules and then we will report back from 3:30 until 5:15 for each one of these next areas that we discussed. Training will be provided on January the 5th to all departments to ensure that we have systems in place for support for parents. I'll let Miss White take over next. >> She forgot to mention communications is helping as well. >> Oh, sorry. Well, I will let you take over next. >> So, for the
023call center, we are going to create a call center that will be here in the boardroom and it will be manned by 12 phones. We've already worked out um the logistics. We have also built a binder um that will be for every person that will be working. So, there's plenty of information in here. Our goal is to when parents call and they either hit the zero or they hit the number four that the phone does not ring busy. We want them to get a live person to talk to. >> Number four is >> I'm so sorry, transportation. Yes. So zero is operator or our front office and four is to go to transportation if they have questions. So we are going to train them on January the 5th and then we are going to fully
024ensure that they have as much information as they possibly can to be able to answer those questions and of course we will also be monitoring that as well. Additional support staff will be placed at Crossy Middle School to welcome our students at 6:30 in the morning. So, we have district staff available to support students, parents, and our staff that will be there. The hallway monitoring, parking lot duties, phone line support, and student holding areas will have extra staff members on hand from one of these departments to help facilitate that in the mornings and in the afternoons. So, we'll have people stationed in the parking lots, throughout the campus, throughout holding areas for our students as well. So our plan is to be there and support the campus for that transition. Also the SRO's will be
025on on staff along with Mr. Mitchell. Now for our departmental updates in the curriculum and instruction department. Our Crosley Middle School staff will complete their first semester grades by this Thursday, December 18th. This will allow for our PES coordinator to who has already updated the schedules in Skyward, but she cannot make them live until January 5th. So, we will be prepared for schedules updates in the January 6 beginning of school. And by schedules, we're not talking student schedules. This is the bell schedule that is created in Skyward. Remember our last board meeting, no student schedules have been adjusted at the middle school. So all student schedules remain the same. The only change will be our campus bail schedules in Skyward. Next up, human resources. Okay. So we have had the seven shared employees between middle
026school and high school. All their all the schedule adjustments needed for them have taken place. Um and then also some recruitment strategies. Most of these were here the last time, but school board approved a $150 raised. We've distributed flyers through the food bank. Um, there's a huge social media campaign that Miss White has pushed out. Uh, job fair was held before we left for Thanksgiving. And we've also sent out an extra duty interest survey to all employees for to see if there's interest in getting their CDL or if they have a CDL to drive activity trips for after school hours or on Saturdays and afternoon phone assistance. And we've had a pretty good response so far. Okay. and the transportation department. Since the last board meeting, we hosted our job fair on November 21st. It
027was very successful. As of right now, we had about 18 bus driver training applicants to apply and we have two actual bus driver applicants that's already ready to drive and they're steadily applying every day. So, this number is changing every single day. So, they're definitely excited about the pay increase. I thank you. and it's being very effective for our staffing. And so I do want to make sure that you understand that it does take a while to get those trainees ready, but we're doing extra work on the weekends, on the holidays to train those people to get them on the buses as quickly as we can. And so our transportation department helped on Thanksgiving break on a few days coming in to actually do training with those trainees to help them get through the process
028because they have to do 26 of just video hours to start off with. And so we've been working on trying to get that done first and then we'll move into the actual driving part and then they're able to take their test two weeks after that. And so we will have some other people working during the Christmas break as well for any of those trainees that are able to come in and do their video training. As far as the routing, all the morning routes have been done and the new bus routes have been driven and we plan to drive them again on January 5th to just make sure that we're still good. And then today we sent out the route information to our parents and we've got some feedback already. We sent out a link for
029parents if they had questions and they've been responding with their questions and we're working through those as well. And then as far as our writership numbers, these are our numbers by campus campus since the changes. And so as a total as of right now, there's 4,544 students riding. And that's actually 64 fewer than what we had this semester. And so some of the uh parents were able to switch from bus to actually parent drop off or parent pickup. And so we're about 64 students shorter than what we had. >> And for communication, everything that's involved is already done. Um but of course on um during Thanksgiving, I do want to say we successfully put out 38 parent square messages. We got some feedback on that. We said a lot. We know it. Um, but we
030wanted to make sure everyone was informed. We did eight Facebook reminders during the Thanksgiving break. And a number that I can give you right now, because we did send out the parent square, it went out to each parent individually um through a mail merge in Parent Square. 7,317 notifications have been sent out. As Mr. Mitchell has said, the Google link is hot. We are responding to parents. We're as answering questions as they um as they ask them because we didn't want to top the phone lines. So, that has been working really, really well and we will get all those questions and things flushed out before we leave on Thursday. We're very excited to report and then of course our start of spring is on January 6 and then anything we need to do to continue
031to communicate to our parents about um transportation, bus changes, how they need to go about making changes, we will continue to support the transportation department in that manner. Thank you. >> I press next question. I keep I keep going. I have a um question. The call center, the 12 lines or additional phone lines that is only open from the 6th through the 9th >> currently right now. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. And the hours for that are going to be >> that morning >> from starting time to like is there >> there's a morning a morning >> a morning shift and an afternoon shift. >> Uh oh, I think that was it. >> 6:30 to 9 >> and 3:30 to 5:15. >> Okay. That is for the phones. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. What if all
032the buses aren't back by 5:15? Are there still going to be people available to answer the phone at that time? >> We're not leaving. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> We're not leaving. >> But then after the 9th, it goes back to how it used to be. >> That's the plan. But if it seems like there have been overwhelming calls during the week and like by Friday and there's still lots of calls, then we'll do we'll adjust as we need to. And with our interest inventory that is starting, I think we are going to be able to fill those three additional just extra hours for phone assistance in the back. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> That's what Let's explain that a bit. That's for the semester. >> That's explain what that is. >> So we
033have sent out an interest inventory to people at all departments. So it could be child nutrition person who when they get off at 2:30 would like to get some extra hours coming to help with phones. It could be a teacher at the high school. It could be um anyone in the district that is a current employee to be we will work around their hours to be able to fill those positions to get um up to four after hours people to help with phones. >> So four afterhour people in transportation to answer transportation calls. So even when the phone bank >> concludes there are four additional people to help with calls. >> That's correct. And at last check >> for the whole semester. >> Yes. And at last check there are 40 respondents already to that
034survey. So it's really good. Some people that are actually in in the audience. >> Thank you. >> It's going really well. >> And I know I have one other question on the bus drivers. On average, what is the time frame from a bus driver saying or someone coming in going I want to to? So on average right now we're predicting that these drivers if they come in and take care of their business can be on the bus by February. But it all depends on how how they hit the hours because it's self-paced by the actual trainees. And do know that most of them get frustrated and they drop out because of the videos. And that's why I'm glad we have an over amount right now. But it just depends on how much they want to
035go do it. Like we had two drivers that went and did it on their own even before they came. And so we've been able to speed them through a lot quicker because we got two people certified this past Friday. >> Okay. >> Friday. So it just depends on that person and their drive to get it done. >> And that's why we're offering those extra opportunities during the break. If they really want to go get it, then we'll be here to help them. >> Okay. >> Anybody else? Do we pay them for those training hours? >> Yes, ma'am. They're paid as a bus driver until they get certified. Okay. Anybody else? Thank you. >> Item C, 2026 CISD midyear update presented by the cabinet. >> CNI, you're like, we're not >> Oh, sorry. Thank you. All
036right. Well, good evening again, Madam Board President Lewis, members of the school board, Superintendent Dr. Patterson. Tonight, the curriculum and instruction department will present to you the middle of the year update from CNI. You will hear from leadership, curriculum directors, and student services. Beginning with our CrosbyD demographics, we present this slide tonight to show you the progression from the beginning of the school year when we presented our beginning of the school year numbers. Our numbers at the accountability snapshot which is the last Friday date in October. So we don't have school on Fridays. So our date is October 30th. You will note here. So you can see our enrollment increase and then on December 10th we wanted to show our enrollment there. Some of our trends that we will note will be our economically disadvantaged
037increases, our emerging bilingual increases and then our special education increases and our overall total student enrollment. This is from August 15th until December 10th. Looking at our leadership, we still have our three district initiatives that we're focusing on. Better instruction, more time on task, and write a little a lot. Our fundamental five focus focuses on five high yield strategies. Framing the lesson, teachers working in the power zone, frequent small group purposeful talk, recognize and reinforce, and then looking at critical writing. We are working with three district consultants this year. Elizabeth Later continues to be our accountability consultant. She provides campuses with leadership and teaches te teacher group teams to review assessment data, look at monitoring groups, and then how to address support measures for those groups. Veronica Sofur provided communications strategies to our district leaders
038and campuses and work with our campus leaders on how to message and tell the story of their campus. They provided she provided skills on strategies for storytelling as well as how to make sure that they're curating the messages for their parents for their students to ensure that culture and climate efforts are being noticed. And finally, Dr. Destri provides professional development. He will be providing consultant work for the spring 2026 semester and will be presenting at Cougar Con for all of our teachers. He provides emotional intelligence work which helps supports teachers in the classroom when they're working with students as well as other staff members and working with their leadership so that they can in turn that around and then use it to help support one another as well as support their students and their families.
039Looking at curriculum and instruction each year we take district milestone assessments. We have two milestone assessments and then we conclude our year with our endofear assessment which is star at the 3 through eight level and then the EOCC level. We wanted to provide a little background information this year. Our math in the area of mathematics. Our new curriculum resource is stem scopes that has been implemented from kindergarten through algebra 1. STEM Scope's resource is inquirybased vers versus being a skills-based curriculum. And so it did require that we had some changes in our scope and sequence at the science level. This year we have the implementation of the implementation of the new TEACS were implemented last year. However, the spring star blueprint for spring 2026 is the first time that these TESS will be assessed this
040year. So this spring we have a new star blueprint. The star blueprint for science at fifth, 8th and end of course will have cluster set questions. This is the first time that our students will experience these types of questions for spring of 2026. The elementary fifth grade science test is now called the elementary science test and it is administered at the fifth grade. However, there is third, fourth, and fifth grade TESS on the assessment. 15 out of the 29 TESS that will be assessed on the fifth grade test are now coming from third or fourth grade. And then that leaves 14 TESS from fifth grade only. Looking at the middle school science test that is given at the eighth grade level, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade TESS are assessed. However, now 28 of the 42
041TE's assessed that are eligible to be tested are from sixth or seventh grade. That leaves 14 TESS that are coming from 8th grade only. So those will be the changes at the end of the year for our STAR assessment in science. Biology is a standalone course which is our EOCC and so that will remain biology tone. So, let's take a look at our milestone one information. Miles, >> good evening. So, we're going to focus on our meats category and we see in third grade ELA, last year's milestone one, we see an 8% increase. In fourth grade ELA, at the meets level, we also saw an increase. At the fifth grade ELA, we did see a decrease going from last year at 66% to this year at 50. We then move on to math. And in
042third grade to last year's third grade milestone one to this year's third grade milestone one, we do see a slight increase. In fourth grade, we see a decrease. And in fifth grade, we see a decrease from last year's to this year's milestone. Oh, I'm sorry. I am so sorry. I don't know what it's doing. >> There you go. >> Okay. Sorry. I'm adjusting to a new prescription and it's sorry. So, fourth grade math, uh, we saw a decrease. Fifth grade math, we saw a decrease as well. And then our fifth grade science, we saw a decrease from last year's milestone one data to this year's milestone one data. And so our areas of focus for each elementary, we do have um fourth grade at Barrett, fourth grade math and ELA, fifth grade science. Um we
043do have fifth grade science as a focus at all four of our elementaryaries. Fourth grade math is also a focus at all four of our elementaryaries. and fifth grade math is a focus at Drew and Newport and Crosby Elementary has third grade math. So we are aware that our area of high focus and priority is of course our third through fifth grade math and our fifth grade science. So our academic action plan is we're going to do daily math spiral review and that is being designed by a curriculum committee of teachers that are working in collaboration with our math coordinator. We have ongoing professional development on our new math resource and that is being provided by stem the company stem scopes along with our math coordinator as well. We are also working reteaching mini lessons
044targeting lowest performing TEICSS and those are being created by our campus math instruction interventionist from each campus and they are working in collaboration with our math coordinator. Our science instruction will prioritize vocabulary development and hand-on practice hands-on practice and focus on tested readiness standards. Our math coordinator is working side by side with teachers. She is modeling and coaching on how to give students feedback and problem solving task through exit tickets and guided practice. And then our like I mentioned earlier, our teachers and interventionists have been brought together as a committee as a curriculum writing committee and they are collaborating with our department and our math coordinator to spiral fall teques and align spring pacing for stronger STAR results. Good evening. We're moving into our secondary milestone data. If you notice, we start with sixth grade
045ELA. Sixth grade ELA did see an increase um from last year. Sixth grade and seventh grade ELA saw an increase. Our one spot is eighth grade ELA, but if you look back, our seventh grade did not come in very strong. We had some struggles last year in seventh grade. So, we have se seen an increase in 8th grade and we're continuously working on that so that we can fill that gap as fast as possible. So, while we're not where we were last year, we are continuously working with those babies so that we can get them to where we were and beyond. In English one, we did see an increase from last year, a significant increase, which is a priority for us. And then in English two, we stayed the same. Our math data in sixth
046grade, we saw an increase from 33 to 48%. Our seventh grade math went from 3% meets to 23% meets. And this is the change that we made last year where that is our onle babies. We don't have any honors students in our seventh grade math. So last year they were at 3%. As you all know, we did kind of an overhaul in seventh grade math and we are up to 23% with our rock stars. And then in eighth grade math, we have our seventh grade honors students because they take the eighth grade math star. They're in there along with our eighth grade on level students. So last year they were at 35% meets and this year they're at 57% meets. Our algebra 1 at CMS has stayed steady at 77% meets and we have seen
047a gain in our CHS algebra 1 scores. Our eighth grade science, we saw an increase from 46 to 48% meets. Our biology did see a decrease from 71% to 53. Our eighth grade social studies has doubled and more than doubled in masters. So if you look from 14 to 28% and 7 to 16% in masters and US history has seen an increase from 35 to 38%. So when we think of our campus overview, we think that we're in a good spot for November. Although we're continuously striving to do better and do have our students be the best they can possibly be, we believe that sixth grade math is an area for us to really focus on because it is a transition year. They left elementary and the structure of elementary and they've gone to middle
048school and so that's a this curriculum is a tough curriculum. So, um sixth grade math is one that we're focusing on heavily. And then at the high school looking at our English 2 and our biology. So for our plan, we are looking at having short daily writing tasks and making sure that we're getting that daily feedback back to students so they can improve upon their writing. We can write every day, but if they don't ever get feedback, then they cannot really improve. So really working on the feedback piece is important. and then focusing on datadriven qui quizzes every other week to track our progress. So one thing we have found is last year we really focused on the writing process and making sure that they could do a short constructive response doing the ECRS. Well,
049now we need to make sure that they can revise and edit and that they can do the multiplechoice portion of it. So, we think giving them those short um quizzes will help them to be able to do both pieces, the writing and the multiple choice component. And then looking at having many le lessons to teach our lowest performing teques. Sometimes they don't need a full lesson, but just pulling kids um aside or doing a short snippet of a lesson will help to get students back on track. Biology is going to be using their common planning to analyze their lowest performing TESS and then looking at the release questions and the star stems and making sure that we are planning our lessons to that verb and making sure that we're diving deep enough so that we
050can um get to mastery in biology. Our math classes is making sure that we are incorporating daily skills practice. So that's one piece. It's one thing to have the understanding, but if they can't do this skill, then that is a struggle. So, making sure that they're getting enough practice during class so they can get feedback from the teacher and we can fix any mistakes on the spots. And then also incorporating a fix it and finish it, which is basically an error analysis. So looking at problems and having our students be able to find the errors and be able to fix in a group setting so that they don't make those mistakes again. All right. So we've really been focused on student growth. So when you look at where our third graders performed last year and
051how they performed this year as fourth graders on their reading language arts milestones. So, third graders last year to fourth grade this year, we saw an increase from 30 to 38% in meets. Our fourth graders from last year were at 36. As fifth graders, they're at 50%. Our fifth graders last year um were at 66% and we did see a slight decrease now as sixth graders to 55%. Okay. And for our sixth graders, we did see an increase from sixth grade to seventh grade. And then from seventh grade to eighth grade, the one piece that we saw a slight decrease is our English one. So going from 8th grade to English one. So that is a priority to keep on pushing our English one babies. It is a transition year. So really focusing on those
052students to make sure that they're having a good transition, but we're filling in any of those education gaps they may have. And then from English one to English two, we did see a significant increase. And so we know that our math is a high priority. So our third graders last year went from 25% as fourth graders they are at 23%. um fourth graders last year to fifth grade we saw a decrease from 43 to 34 and then fifth grade last year they were at 55 this year they're at 48 as sixth graders so I did say that sixth grade math was a priority for us and that is because of the transition so you do see the red error arrow now then the sixth grade math to seventh grade math I put it red only
053because it's a decrease but really it's a triumph Okay? Because the sixth grade math, those were all of our kids. Those were on level kids and honors kids. Last year, they were at 33%. This year, that seventh grade is seventh grade on level only. They're at 23. So, we're only 10 percentage points away from where our sixth graders, all of our sixth graders ended last year. So, it is a win, but for the ease of numbers, I did make it red, but it's a win in my my mind. seventh grade. Those were our seventh grade um regular babies to our eighth grade. We see a big increase because we have regular babies to um honors and on level babies in eighth grade, but we did see that last year they're at 3% and now moving
054up they're at 57%. and our eighth grade math to algebra 1 at CHS. Last year in eighth graders, they were at 35% and this year they are at 43%. >> Good evening. Uh I will present to you the attendance rate as of November the 30th. Uh for the first six weeks you'll see that we were down uh 9%. Uh second six weeks we went up to 27%. And on an average because of our u the hard work of our administrators the registars uh doing dropout walks and making calls uh and doing attendance incentives we are on an average of 12% uh on the increase as as of November the 30th. So, we just need to continue to do what we're doing by using attendance contracts and uh you know making those calls and and running
055those reports of our students that are being absent uh excessively. The next thing I would like to present is the fall uh submission of discipline. And so this is from the fall 2023, 2024 and fall 2025 as of August to November the 30th. the start of school until November the 30th in CMS. You can see that in 2023 there was 34 fights. The next year in 2024, 30 fights in this year I'm proud to say and thank you to CMS and all their hard work they have 11 fights. So that is down and we are greatly um we're grateful for that. Uh vaping uh in 2023 it was 14. In 2024, we had 34 and now CMS has seven. They only has seven vaping incidents. Uh I attribute this to pro possibly uh no cell
056phones. Okay? Because I can't text you or call you until you meet me in the restroom or you know to pass me a vape or where you going to leave it. So I think that's um they're abiding by uh the rules of the cell phone. So um we love that that rule. uh aggressive behavior. In the fall 2023, uh there were 23. Uh 2024, 11, and this year we are at 10 uh 10 aggressive behavior occurrences for CHS uh fighting in 2023 at 25 and 24, 21, and now six. And that's that's that's pretty pretty that's huge for the high school. Uh they've only had six fights. Um we don't want any fights, but that's huge. Um vaping in 2023 there 28. In 2024 there were 20 and this year we have 50. We do
057have you know we have a nationwide epidemic. We do know that we are doing some things to assist uh those students that are um we want to say that are addicted or indulging in these activities. Um we do have our behavioral specialist um uh therapist Miss Rashard who does uh groups with our students. We also uh partner with uh uh Triad and TAT. I was trying to think of who the Houston health they it's the health department and they provide uh counseling for our students. Um and so Amanda Cole who's the director of technology did give us a quote for uh vaping sensors for our restrooms and so we are looking into that as well. aggressive behavior. In 2023, we had 30, 24, 34, and this year we have I mean, right now, we have
05845 aggressive behaviors. I do want to explain u maybe that aggressive behavior might be um uh verbal. Okay, it could be verbal. We're arguing across the cafeteria and it, you know, using profanity and those type of things. So, we do use that as aggressive behavior. uh if one student goes and pushes another and the other student doesn't do anything, that's aggressive behavior. So, what I do want to say is we contribute that to our administrators and uh being available and being uh visible in the hallways and all those. So, they're preventing the fights from happening and so now those fights have gone down. Uh we can also say that we have some better teachers and the teachers are doing a a good job in classroom management. So, we're not having the fights, but you know,
059you could be having a verbal argument. And so, that does uh go underneath that. So, >> do you have any questions for any of us? >> I had a quick question about the on the vaping number. Is that actually kids caught vaping or is that included caught vaping or caught with a vape? >> It's caught vaping. >> Caught with a vape. >> Okay. I know that we have a math focus. Um, but we took a hit on approaches for fifth grade reading. Is there any action items to make sure like focusing on one doesn't cause us to forget about the other? >> No, absolutely. We do have a focus on ROA because even though we saw growth in third and fourth grade, um, we did see a decline in fifth grade. Um we had it
060there, we took it off, we put it back, we took it off because we really wanted to focus on what our high priority is and uh but we do absolutely have some spiraling. Our um coordinators have been amazing working handinhand with our teachers um planning weekly with them, modeling, coaching. So um even though we've seen some growth, we did see a decline in fifth grade and we haven't not we haven't forgotten about them. just really wanted to focus on because we saw such a dip in math and science. So the reading one like I said was there and then it came off and then it went back and then it came off. So but we haven't forgotten about them. >> So in elementary you mentioned that the math interventionists and a committee are writing new
061mini lessons for reteing. Just wonder does stem scopes not provide um intervention lessons? >> They do. They do provide intervention lessons. However, we took the TEICSS, our lowest performing TEICSS, and really dove deep to look who the students are and we're pulling the resource from STEM scopes, but also from Pra from lessons and activities and resources that our um interventionist or higher performing teachers are using as well. So, we're supplementing not only we are using STEM scopes, but also supplementing depending on the need. >> Okay. And then how many math coordinators do we have for elementary? So for elementary we should have two. Currently we have one and we have a position. >> We lost her I believe in October, late October. >> Somewhere around. >> Okay. Yeah. So you're just looking to fill that
062school. >> Correct. >> And then for science, do we have an elementary science coordinator? >> We do not. >> So we have one person that does >> one person. PreK12. >> PreK12. Yes, ma'am. And our math coordinator currently is doing preK5. on the uh the milestone one the cohort comparison when we changed uh to the STEM folks curriculum how much can you attribute that decrease to the change of curriculum >> so anytime that we introduce a new resource there typically you see a dip just because the teachers are getting used to it they're acclimating the students are acclimating to it so we do attribute a tremendous amount of that decrease ries to acclimating to the new resource. Um as well as we did see some changes in the scope and sequence the pacing guide. So
063TESS that in the past had been taught early from starting in September um the scope and sequence has them starting later. So we're already working with our committee of curriculum writers and we're making adjustments to ensure that next year we don't have the same data. >> So the current curriculum has them starting later. >> Correct. Some some of the skills. Yes sir. >> Are you using the stem scope scope and sequence or district creates scope and sequence? >> So for this year we did adjust it to reflect the stem scopes. However, we are adjusting that to go back to um what we've seen successful. >> Okay. What training has been provided on STEM scopes for teachers? >> So we do have STEM scopes that's come out twice already. Um they've met with every team K
064through high school. Um, and they've come out twice. They're they're coming out at their time. But we also have our coordinator coordinators who are meeting with teachers. They're planning. They're modeling. They're coaching. >> What do we use for math prior to STEM scope? >> We use Go Math. >> Go Math. Oh, yeah. Know about that one. >> Yeah. >> So, tell me, I I'm familiar with the science stem scopes. That's been around a long time. What What does the math look like? because I'm curious how much paper pencil manipulives is everything technology iPads what what are we doing what are our kids doing >> so it is a combination of manipulatives and technology based >> and as well as paper based >> so on the daily well I wouldn't say on the daily but they're
065they pretty often use manipulatives >> they're supposed to isn't >> in the explore and elaborate phase of stem scopes >> and I suppose stem scopes track progress So isl does that mean that that's gone? >> No, we still use that. >> That's a sub. Yeah, we still have it. Yes, ma'am. It's a supplemental curriculum. >> Yeah, I you know I make no secret about my dislike of iPads and math. I'm a I'm old school. Taught math for third and fourth. Some of these grades we're talking about for 21 years. And I just I left, you know, retired around the time everything was schooly and iPads. And I could a disengagement with our kids. That's just my opinion. I think it can be very boring, very dull, and you know, just throwing my two cents in.
066And I I do like manipulatives. I like building concepts with hands-on stuff and the whole gamut. >> Some fans in the front. >> Huh. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's important, right, guys? >> The kids need to be engaged. I I watch kids pick multiple choice answers and act like they were busy and doing things and engaged when I knew that they sincerely weren't. And and honestly, as a teacher, it was it was dull for me. I like being, you know, I like watching what they're doing and being part of it. I'm sorry. No, no critical, but I mean, I'm just saying that's the that's the way of the future, I guess, but um I don't love it. Well, we appreciate you your support because the board did approve for us to purchase the skills-based books as
067well as the foundational books for all of our teachers. So, they have the actual tangible pieces of paper as well. So, they have it in student workbook form. And at the elementary level, we also purchased the foundation kits which has the manipulatives. So we did ensure that we had a combination and a balance of both the manipulatives, the tangible, but as well as the technology. >> Well, good. Maybe that'll serve better than the just the go math thing, you know. >> Thank you. I have one question about secondary. Um, what percentage of second seventh graders are in honors math? And you don't have to know that off the top of your head. um in honors math. Oh, in honors math. So, we normally have not quite half of our kids that are in there. So,
068we're looking around 40%. >> I can get you an exact number, but it's about 40. >> Thank you. I've got one more quick question that y'all may not have to answer to just but since we talked about phones again I do agree that I think the fights generally are down because of the no phones because that encouraged more fights to get the video but um how have we been looking throughout the semester? I know we started strong confiscated a few phones and then it went down because it was working. How are we looking on that? I mean, does do any of y'all have that answer as far as >> um I I did look at it last month. Um I can tell you that CMS has not had to they haven't picked up very many
069phones at all. CHS to just to give you a number in October. No, it was September. They picked up 350 phones. >> Okay. So, it that was consuming, you know, when I talked to them that was but then it went down. So it is going down. >> Okay. And I mean that's the question here. Do we think it's going down because it's working or is enforcement at the same level? Do we feel like >> it's working? I can tell you. Um before we went to Thanksgiving break, I was downstairs in the front office and a kid was, you know, like, can I get my phone? You know, we're going on Thanksgiving break. And you know, it's like no, you know, we picked up your phone. So it's working, >> right? That's what I wanted to
070hear. >> I think along those same lines, I would just say stay the course. We, you know, like >> I don't want to speak for the whole board, but for me, I want to encourage teachers to continue to enforce that with rigidity. Like that's the rule, then that's the rule. >> Yeah. I actually had we had a teacher today that came up to CNI and she said, "I have not seen this was a high school. I have not seen a phone in my classroom without even being, you know, but it's that type of teacher, you know, you have to enforce it. >> One last quick question for me. I'm going to jump back to the baiting of a high school. Are there particular hot areas that these are being confused? >> All the restrooms, >>
071these restrooms predominantly. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> You do you have a few, you know, that will try it in the in the classroom, but somebody tells so mostly the restrooms. Thank you. >> Correct. >> Is that correct? Right. >> Most of the restrooms. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> There's a favorite one too, Mr. Chapman. >> Yes. >> There's a favorite restroom. We We have identified the restroom. >> Yes. >> On the high school campus. >> I don't know why. It's in the front. It's in the front of the bed. This is the funniest thing. We're like, we will smell that. >> Anybody else? Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Item D will be long range uh planning team presentation. Miss Whitfield can take care of y'all. Tell me. Uh, greetings board of trustees
072and to superintendent doctor. That's the first time I've got to say that, Dr. Patterson. And to all the other attendees, we appreciate you being here. Um, representing the Crosby ISD long range planning team. The following esteemed volunteers will present to the board which are I'm Donna Davenport and my connection to Crosby ISD is I'm a retired fourth grade math teacher and math coordinator of the elementaryaries. I'm a mother of three girls who attended school and graduated here and I pay taxes and that's important to say. >> I'm Aiden. I attended here and graduated in 2024. a lot of family in the district. A lot of family of family in the district and um I also tutor around here so I know a few students in the district as well just from business. I'm Caitlyn Hawkins
073and I am a parent of three Crosby ISD kids. All right. Also, we're not just the three of us that were on this committee. There were over 70 individuals who volunteered to serve on the long range planning team and attended one or more of five committee meetings throughout the fall semester. The committee was made up of residents, students, graduates, staff members, and local business leaders. I'd like to ask any committee member who is here tonight to stand up and be recognized. The process was more about more than just facilities. Throughout our five meetings, we learned about the district's instructional goals and programs, demographic data about enrollment growth, school finance, and the tax rate, a tour of the Crosby Middle School, and that was very enlightening to many of us. the facility needs assessment concepts for
074different types of potential bond projects, cost estimates of potential projects and tax implications of possible scenarios and how can we get more grocery stores. Oh, where'd that come from? But we did discuss that a lot. As mentioned, we covered a lot of information in five meetings. I'd just like to briefly share the highlights from each meeting. Meeting one was a chance for the committee to hear from Dr. Patterson about the state of the district, to hear from a demographer about student enrollment growth, to learn the basics of school finance from Mr. Henneth. We ended with an activity where we shared our vision for the future of Crosby ISD. And for those who were not there and teachers who are here tonight, we've got some great visions for our future and I hope we can come
075through with them. In the second meeting, we did a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat analysis, learned about the facility condition assessment, heard about the district's instructional programs, and finished by hearing from a panel of students about their experiences in Crosby ISD. In meeting three, we were able to tour the Crosby Middle School, hear from the district's financial advisor about bond capacity and tax rates, and we were able to submit suggestions for possible bond projects. In meeting four, we learned how the submitted projects fit into a project framework, which explains the why behind each project. We then were given an opportunity to rank the submitted projects. In our final meeting last week, we learned about the cost estimates for each project, considered three different packages of possible bond projects, and voted on the packages that we
076felt best met the needs of the district. I've been very careful to read exactly what it says because you as board members have the final say and you have to vote on it for this to pass. Not this committee that just got got all the information together to give to the trustees. They're the ones that will pass this or not pass this. A few key needs we identified through this process were the need for space to accommodate student enrollment growth, improvements related to safety and security, addressing aged aging infrastructure and building systems, needs for technology infrastructure and device replacement, improvements to traffic and parking on various campuses and spaces for learning outside the traditional classroom and still keep trying to get more grocery stores here. So, adjust that a little bit better. So uh the
077way we reached our recommendation we we first began uh developing this project list by asking the members of the committee to submit project suggestions and uh and we asked them to do that based on their experiences and the information that we gave to them start you know financial and demographic information. Um when we compared that to the list that the district leadership developed, we saw that they had a lot of overlap. And um when we we then learned how each project fits into the kind of district uh mission by looking at it within sort of a framework and uh we're going to look at that framework next. So here's our project framework and the team used these categories to review and compare project needs. We'll share each project in the category on the next slide.
078So for growth to accommodate the growing student population in the district, we were considering building a new elementary school and acquiring land for a new middle school to be built. To accommodate the safety and security concerns, we were considering upgrades such as alarm systems, cameras, and more secure entrances. Uh modernization and alignment would include district-wide technology upgrades. So, we'll have a 5-year replacement cycle and a 10-year replacement cycle. 10 years is going to cost a little bit more. Um I think the numbers were 8 and 3 million. um roof replacement and repairs, HVAC technology infrastructure upgrades, side improvements, including traffic and parking, and new school buses. Learning outside the classroom will consist of a new marching band pad and a new aquatic center. And these are important points of discussion we're going to look into
079whenever Caitlyn presents her portion. The individual projects were then pack into three different options based upon committee priority rankings and the district needs. You can see packages B and C are built off of package A and the main difference is the new aquatic center on package C. We had 20 participants who voted during our last meeting. As you can see, package B narrowly beat out package C in the first round of voting. We then did a runoff vote between package B and C, and package B received the most votes. The group had specific discussion and contention about the band marching pad and how it may be received by the community in terms of need and frivolous spending. The committee then took a vote on whether this project should be on a separate proposition if it's
080included in the bond election for the best chance for a successful election. The results show that the committee believes it should be on its separate proposition. The long range planning team's recommendation is package B. Based upon the estimates provided by the district's financial adviser, you can see that the estimated tax impact of the proposed package. The estimates for the other packages are also listed. For your information, please note that the tax rate impact shown is the latest information from the financial adviser based upon the detailed project list. It is updated from the rates originally calculated to reflect that the many projects such as roofs, HVAC, and technology will not be financed for as long as new school construction. Based upon the average home value in Crosby ISD, the tax impact for package B would be
081less than $1.50 per month. I believe it was like $147ish and less than $18 per year. We are grateful for the strong community participation throughout this entire process. We believe that this type of process helps to provide the board with valuable input to help make strategic decisions regarding our district's future. Thank you again for all the community members, committee members who serve and the board for providing this information. Are there any questions? >> I I just and I don't know if this is for you or for Dr. Patterson, but did the um community committee did they receive a copy of that facility report that we got last spring? >> No. >> From >> Okay. And so there was no consideration for improvements to CMS specifically from that report >> besides Well, they don't know about
082the Or are you asking if the committee came back with >> Yeah. If they tore the middle school, they didn't have like the foundation, the restroom, none of that came to the top. >> The foundation on the 600 800 the 600 hallway is being taken care of. >> Okay. >> The restrooms are being taken care of. >> And they have roof repairs and stuff down there, which I'm assuming >> would be some of the middle school stuff. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. >> Thank y'all for y'all's work. >> Thank you so much. Really, >> we couldn't do this without that. >> Okay. If anyone at the meeting right now wants to leave, now would be a good time if you want to step out. If you don't and you want to stay, we
083appreciate that, too. It's perfect. Come on, baby. Okay. Next on the agenda for tonight's meeting is consent agenda. From the items above, are there any items requested to be pulled from the consent agenda and discussed? Move to approve cons. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Trusty Humphre, a second by Trusty Thomas. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed by nay. Motion carries 70. Moving into regular business again. We'll go to item A. discuss and consider approval of the 2024 2025 annual financial report presented by CFO Robert Kennet. >> Good evening, Board of Trustees. Dr. Superintendent Patterson. Um, I did want to mention real quick last board meeting, I'm sure you remember, the board approved uh the financial audit. Eight days later, the federal office of management and budget released the
084uh OM compliance supplement and due to audit requirements um we cannot approve the audit prior to that compliance supplement release. So we just need a formal approval for the audit at this meeting. There are no changes to the numbers. Nothing has changed other than compliance level came out. Auditors can now release the final audit. >> So moved. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Trusty Humphre, a second by Trusty Chapman. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I >> opposed by nay abstensions. Motion carries 70. Item C, discuss and consider approval of the interlocal agreement with Harris County Department of Education for the purposes or purpose of providing HCDE case debates programming at Crosby High School for school year 2025 2026. be approved. >> Second roll with K. Motion. I have
085a motion made by Trusty Chapman. A second by Trusty Kiz. That's K correct. Okay. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed by nay. Abstentions. Motion carries 70. Item D, discuss and consider approval of budget amendment one for fiscal year 2025 2026. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Trusty Chapman, a second by Trusty Humphre. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed by nay. >> Abstentions. Motion carries 70. Item E, discuss and consider approval of the 2026 2027 Crosby Independent School District academic calendar presented by cabinet. So move >> second. We have >> we're going to have no Thank you. >> I feel like saying all that, but I can't say. >> Okay, we're ready. We're all here. >> Good evening once again, Madam Board
086President Lewis, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Patterson. Tonight, members of the superintendent's cabinet will provide an update on Crosby ISD 4-day hybrid calendar. Beginning with our 4-day look back at our hybrid calendar implementation. The four first year of implementation began with the 2023 2024 school year. This year we are proposing the same 4day hybrid calendar. We received input from the district sitebased decision-making committee which is composed of parents, teachers, community, and administrators. The calendar that we are proposing also meets the Texas Education AY's instructional minutes requirement. Looking at the curriculum and instruction department and the effectiveness of the 4-day calendar. Key points from the curriculum and instruction department. We've noticed an increase in teacher planning and collaboration time, higher teacher quality instructional delivery, and consistent professional learning. When we look at our increased teacher
087planning and collaboration time, teachers are provided with more time to analyze their data, to look and adjust lesson plans, and then plan interventions. We also see more supports through the PLC effectiveness with our CNI department. The overall impact of this particular area is that we have more intentional standards align instruction and better lesson preparation. We also want to note that on the calendar on our red box days, teachers are provided with opportunities in the afternoon to work together if they choose to work on this planning and collaboration time which is uninterrupted by campus leaders as well as district. Looking at higher quality instructional delivery with more time to prepare, teachers can design stronger lessons. We hope that there is more increased opportunity for interventions and enrichment during the school day with our intervention models that
088we have in place as well as with our model at the middle school for the block schedule. And then increased opportunities for hands-on learning, more labs. We're looking at guided practice and then small group interventions. And the impact that we see here is stronger engagement and more time on task for our students. And then finally, consistent professional learning. So with our ongoing embedded PD without having to pull teachers from the classroom. So our teachers are in the classroom, but they are receiving PD on our red box days as well as at the beginning of the school year and throughout u their their campus schedule. So our interventionists are working with students and we are not pulling them from classrooms giving them PD all the time. So we definitely see the benefits there and then training
089our teachers on the new curriculum continuing again like we have stem scopes in place and we are bringing the company out as well as we're training assessments and then instructional strategies and continuous growth is the impact that we look to see here human resources. Okay, so the results for human resources have been fewer resignations, increased recruitment of experienced teachers, increased recruitment of student teachers, increased recruitment of fully certified teachers, and our staff attendance has had no rule. It has had no significant impact on our attendance rate. >> Okay. From a business and finance uh perspective, the calendar has provided some opportunities um to increase planning and collaboration between the department. Um we've used this time to do staff meetings, um trainings, and Fridays are typically a time where a lot of continuing professional education occurs.
090Um the staff have appreciated more uninterrupted work time. Fridays are awfully quiet, so um they like that time to get some work done. Um, it also affords a good time for vendor and consultant meetings. This way, we're not bringing consultants to campuses when students or staff are there to minimize disruptions. >> Okay. As far as the operations department in our maintenance area, those Fridays are allowing us time to catch up with our work orders instead of having the interruptions of our daily uh situations that come up. And then it also allows us to facilitate those larger plans that cause for us to have to shut down electricity or water for projects to be done like chiller projects. As far as child nutrition, uh that gives our office staff time to work on Fridays without the
091typical interruptions from campus level situations. And then it creates that protected time for the employees to participate in those state and local training requirements that they have to do. And then in transportation, it allows them to kind of catch up on the safety and maintenance things with the buses without impacting our daily services. And then it also enhances driver support to be able to do their professional training and development as required by the state. for the communications department. The additional non-instructional day each week allows the communications team to be able to pres pro provide more and produce more high quality messaging. Um it also gives us the opportunity um on the community side to be um schedule interviews, record features, do different things instead of pulling students out of class. It gives us a chance
092to really um highlight our district profile and our student achievement. We're able to work on those stories. Um, and then on the community side, again, let me say boosted community goodwill. Some key things that have come out of the 4-day week, of course, were our food bank, the Houston food bank. So, in being able to train those kids and serve our community at the same time, um, work-based learning opportunities with the students as well. Um, they're in conjunction with Harris County Department of Ed. Um, some of those high school students are now working at our 21st century program in the afternoon or um, on Friday. So, that's given them an opportunity. And then of course other local partnerships that we've garnered, the Houston um the Houston Food Bank, I already mentioned them and of course
093um Harris County Department of Education in supporting our efforts um to be able to help and assist with 4 day week and questions again. So, um, I I went back to refresh my memory because we started, I think the big meetings that we had to discuss this were in February of 2023. So, went back and rewatched some of those. On the finance side, there was a note that we would um, potentially see cost savings in the form of utilities, a reduction in the amount of substitutes we needed, and increase in student attendance because students were going to take care of appointments on Fridays. I'm just wondering if any of that has come to fruition. Do we see any? I'll have to double check the student attendance portion of it, but we have seen a decrease
094in the amount of utilities used. The cost has gone up just because the cost per utility has gone up, but the usage has gone down. Okay. Um, so I think this is probably an unpopular opinion, especially with my teacher friends. So I I'm going to tread lightly, but um whenever I rewatched the videos from February, and what what I thought we agreed on was that after three years, we were going to look at the student achievement and the efficacy of the overall 4day school week. Um, Miss Khaliss spoke specifically about it. I spoke about it. Um, and Keyn also brought it up that we realized that it wasn't going to be like a one-year we were going to do it and then be like, "Oh, no, our scores are bad and we're going to go
095back that we were going to give it a good three years." And so, this is that three-year mark. And um I do think like when I look at the um teacher retention data and the amount of first year teachers we have it is clear that we solved that problem with the 4-day week. But what is not clear is that we have seen an increase in student achievement based on the improved teacher recruitment and certified teacher rate and experienced teacher rate. And so for me, I don't I don't know how we can say yes to the four-day calendar. Like all of these are great things, but I don't know that these are things we couldn't do in a fiveday week. And what we see if I look at 2023 milestone one data compared to this milestone
096one data in almost every area, we've gone backwards. And so for me, I can't say that it's been a success. So I don't know how we support moving forward with that. I'd also like to say like whenever I didn't I hadn't seen that demographic data. So I look at the demographic data. We have a 2% increase in emergent bilingual students and a one and a half% increase in special education students. And we know those are students who um pose a a bigger challenge with instruction. And when um so Commissioner Morath, he cited that if we have 175 minimum days, they will pay for us to provide intervention like summer school or extended school year for students who struggle. And so I don't like we're leaving money on the table by not offering that. And we
097can't offer that if we don't have a minimum number of days. So again, those are my concerns with the calendar. I'd like to speak to a couple of those things when it comes to student data. Um I think I I I look at star and not milestone. And so if you look at the three years, year two we had a dip. No question about it. We had a dip. Year one. Year one we had a dip. Year one we had a dip. Year two we rebounded. We are now in year three. So looking at star data it the first year of implementing a major change it's you're going to take a hit and we did but we rebounded and did even better year two we are in year three. So that's I just want to
098say the data I look at is star and not milestone because star is what we're held accountable to. Milestone is where we are middle of the year. Um secondly, as for the additional monies, from my understanding, that's additional money to implement kind of a year round calendar. And we look at calendars every year. And so if we get to a point where we feel like the community is open to it and we have campuses in need, then we would look at that type of calendar. So it doesn't it's not based on what you've been doing. it's based on the calendar you adopt. And so if we get to a point where we feel like that's something we should implement, then we'll look into implementing that just like we implemented the 4 days. >> So in
099the 89th legislative session, they open three buckets for ads and one of them is just summer school and intervention. So it isn't year- round school. >> Okay. >> Um but again, you have to have the minimum of 175 days to even opt into that money. Um, so when you say we rebounded, so year one we took a dip, which I think we all expected, you know, with new implementation. Year two, you say we rebounded. Are we would you say year two's data was back to pre4day week data or we rebounded from year one? >> Good question. And that was on my list to look up and I did not get to that on my list just yet. >> Okay. >> Um, I know it was great improvement. Now I also know before that was the
100old data that we're told not to compare ourselves to. Right? I think that was all at the same time. New test, new accountability. So, it's difficult to compare apples to apples because it was a different accountability system pre-day hybrid calendar if if my memory is serving. >> Um, so we'll we'll look at this annually. Am I understanding that correct? >> Yes. Yeah, I think we talked a little bit about that. So, um I wouldn't want to throw any curves out there, you know, right away, but I do I do think that it's like I said before when we spoke year by year for for me the way I feel about it. So, see how we do. We're we're a large. I mean, we're becoming bigger and bigger district and more and more people. >> Thank
101you. Anyone else? Okay. I have a motion by Trusty Chapman, a second by Trusty Thomas. All those in in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed by nay. >> Nay. >> Motion carries. 61. The board will now move into close session. That's 8:09 p.m. Section 551.072A section 551.073 section 551.074 074 A and B section 551.076 section 551.0821 section 551.084 and section 551.087 Close session. The time is 9:13 p.m. >> and open session. Discuss and consider the approval of the revised compensation schedule for fiscal year 2025 2026. I move to approve. >> Second. >> Who has it? Humphre and is Thomas and Humphre. >> I have a motion by Trusty Thomas, a second by Trusty Humphre. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed by nay. >> Nay. >> Motion
102carries 61. No abstensions. Correct. Okay. Consider the hiring and uh contract of dis director of maintenance. I'll move to approve the contract of Rusty Daniels for the position of director of maintenance. >> Police. >> Yeah. >> Sorry. >> I have a motion by Trusty Humphre is a second by Trusty Kalis. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed by nay. Abstensions. Motion carries. 70. >> Oh my gosh. >> Second big. >> Okay. And that was Barrett. I have a motion by trustee Roach, second by trustee Barrett. All those in favor of adjourning the regular board meeting signify by saying I. >> Opposed by nay. >> Meeting adjourned at 9:16 passing 70.