001e e e good evening no good evening I Dr lasna flowers president of the Duncanville ISD School Board of Trustees called this meeting of the Duncanville Independent School District to order let the record show that a quorum of the Board of Trustees is present that the meeting has been duly called and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas open meetings act Texas government code chapter 551 we will now move to Opening Ceremonies at this time we will have our pleas please stand I pled Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to rep stands na indiv andice for all at this time we'll have our prayer by truste verac Cruz thank you madam president thank you Madame President please bow your heads for a moment of
002prayer Heavenly Father we ask that you bless everyone here tonight abundantly as we continue to seek your wisdom guidance courage and strength be with us in our deliberations and help us to be wise in the decisions we make for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in our lead father thank you for every presentation that has been prepared tonight as ideas Vision daily instructions on learning have been shared you can see in perfect detail the end of every beginning ready us for making every moment moment count in Jesus's name amen thank you trusty Vier Cruz we will now move to superintendent report thank you very much Madame President and certainly if you look at the picture and look around the room we have some wonderful basketball players and tonight's cover
003story is a congr huge congratulations and there'll be more congratul ation to come later in in the in our meeting today but congratulations to our duncanville's boys basketball team for bringing home yet another state [Music] championship I tell you guys you truly helped not just for me but I'm sure for many people in the room kick off an amazing spring break and again we will celebrate you a little more later in the meeting I'd like to also uh pause for a moment just to recognize women's History Month uh as you know March is set aside each year to celebrate the contributions of women in history women have played a key role in shaping Society breaking barriers and Building Bridges this their education and mentorship has created a lasting impact fostering leaders and change makers celebration
004of women's history inspires future Generations so enjoy uh this month to all of our women congratulations to Youth and government yay let's give him a round of [Applause] applause the Duncanville High School Youth and government team competed at the YMCA Texas Youth and government state conference in Austin on the for the 12th year joining over 1,500 students from across the state we're happy to say that we had 16 students to qualify to apply for the national competition the conference of national Affairs I'm so proud to acknowledge as some of those students today especially Preston Lee who serves as governor and Jazelle Moreno who serves as ATT as attorney general can I ask them to please stand I think they're in the audience or wave your hands back here [Applause] [Music] the F the right photo
005shows Preston signing the Elizabeth Cain bill into law one of four bills passed at the conference and the only one for from Duncanville High School oh my God and again congratulations uh for the excellent recognition of our school system through that program I'd like to pause just to thank Senator West for inviting Duncanville ISD students to Austin last week the student advisory council is a great way to gain the perspective of students on legislative issues we appreciate Senator to West for providing our students with this volunteer opportunities cultivating their leadership skills and creating networking opportunities with Community leaders so if you see Senator West in the community make sure you tell him thank you at this time I'd offer congratulations to our Career Technical student organization ctso if you're in the audience would you please
006stand I want those students to stand I think many of them are in the office or wave your hands so we can see you back there all right Duncanville ISD CTE is excited to celebrate at the incredible achievements of our ctso Champions our students have excelled in recent skills USA TSA Deca and HOSA competitions showcasing the power of handson learning and career preparation a total of 97 students are headed to the skills USA state competition in corporate Christie all right [Music] ntsa which stands for technology Students Association 15 students are advancing to the state level competition in Fort Worth Deca is sending 31 students to Dallas excelling in business Fields like marketing hospitality and management meanwhile five hosta students are advancing to state in Round Rock showcasing their skills in healthc care particularly sports medicine
007and professional interviewing we are so incredibly proud of our ctso students and can't wait to see them shine at the state level and I'm sure from the announcement they're going to be shining all over the state let's give them another round of [Applause] [Music] applause you know I'm sure you can tell from the announcements that we have so many opportunities for students to really chase their Wild dreams and we're so excited that Duncanville ISD is hosting Champion Choice an exciting familyfriendly event this Saturday from 10: to 1 at Duncanville High School we want to encourage everyone to come get a close get get a close-up look at the many opportunities available for children to excel grow and to succeed explore Pathways to success like academic achievement career technology Fine Arts and of course Athletics enjoy
008a free petting zoo food trucks and meet and greet with teachers and leaders don't miss out on this fun opportunity and I want to encourage everyone to encourage people to go to our social sites uh where there's more information and we want to really make sure that we bring our community as well as our friends and neighboring communities out to see the wonderful things that we have to offer we do have a quick promotion video uh to that we will also tag on our social media so that we can encourage our community to really come out and enjoy this event hello my name is Lamar gory and I have the incredible pleasure of serving as superintendent of the Duncanville Independent School District in that capacity I get to lead the city of Champions I'd like
009to invite everyone out to our Champions Choice program when many of us think about a city of Champions we think about athletic or find our championships but what I want to share is that we're also a district that's committed to Championship experiences in every classroom I look forward to seeing everyone on March 22nd from 10 to 1 as we learn more about all of the incredible choices offered to children in our district whether you're entering kindergarten or you're ining the 12th grade there will be something for everyone we are a school system that's all about creating those Championship experiences for children every [Music] day thank you very much and again look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday at the high school thank you madam president thank you Dr gory I saw coach Ford is coach
010Ford still here coach Ford several of us wore our pantherette sweatshirt shirs last week last school board meeting um and I forgot to mention it we wore the sweatshirts but we want to acknowledge you and the pantherettes on taking us as far as you did so congratulations to the [Music] panther at this time we will now move to recognitions I'll turn the meeting over to miss Connie Wallace thank you president flowers Board of Trustees and Dr goree at this time I'd like to share with you all the many donations that we have received once again our community continues to show up and show out when it comes to making things happen for our students and so this is the list of donations that we've received for the month of March are there any questions about
011the donations okay all right thank you all right am I making that noise okay all right all right next I would like to share that March is theater in our schools month and at this time if I can have our theater students that are here today if you'll please join me up front any of our theater students that are here please join me up front theater in our school's month is a time to honor and raise awareness for theater programs in schools it showcases how participation in school theater Fosters essential skills like creativity collaboration and communication preparing students for success in any career whether or not they pursue the Arts the the Arts enhance academic performance and students show that in study studies show that students involved in the Arts education tend to have higher
012GPA on standardized test scores they do better their college attendance rate is higher and it also shows that there are fewer students who are involved in the Arts that actually drop out of school so there are so many benefits to students participating in the Arts and so this is a month that um they wanted to make sure that everyone in the Duncanville istd Community knows that they are and it's I think it's quite a few of you guys that are participating as you can see on this um picture here but they wanted to remind us that the Arts improve academic performance the Arts unify communities and the Arts improve individual well-being and so please join me in recognizing these students uh who are here tonight advocating for theater in our district and we support them
013recognizing that theater Fosters creativity self-expression critical thinking and builds skills and collaboration confidence and communication and while there's three of you here and I can put you on the spot because y'all are theater students right yes y always ready to go I'm just going to ask you to introduce yourself say your name and your gr my name is willani cuad I am currently a senior my name is zarya skilles and I'm currently a junior my name is Nathaniel Ross and I'm currently a senior so if I can ask everyone to join me and saying congratulations to these students they've had an incredible season in the the in theater and they have many more things to come I think this season as well and so let's uh say congratulations to them with a round of applause
014and if I can please have our board to please stand we'd like to get a photo with you [Applause] all right Evan is probably in the back hoping I put this in the right spot so that it can all show on the screen properly all right at this time I would like to invite our Special Olympics basketball team and coaches please stand where are so I want it to be known that um this is our Duncan Ville iasd Special Olympics basketball team and they have won gold medals I say they're back toback because they won one week and then the next week so they are backtack basketball champions uh twice in the 2425 school year year the first tournament was held on February 8th in Highland Park and they won the goal after earning the
015silver last year and this is a testament to y'all's perseverance and determination to win a goal in 2025 but they didn't stop there no no no they went on to a second tournament that was held on February 22nd and this team competed in the Dallas area Special Olympics tournament in Louisville and they secured the goal there as well let's hear it for these young folks of y'all proud of you guys here and we have a gift for them a small token of our appreciation for their hard work and [Applause] dedication and they are under the leadership of Coach Hawkins and Coach Dixon and do they have any family members in the house tonight where are their family members y'all want to wave and be recognized stand up so thank you to all of our young
016um athletes on the Special Olympics team we appreciate our players for their hard work their determination um and and we say a special thank you not only um to the players but also to their families and to the city of Champions community that went out and they continue to support them um as they play so thank you thank you thank you and [Applause] congratulations and at this time if I can have Coach pee to please join me at the Podium all right coach PE so the Duncan bll boys they have won the uh six UIL recognized state titles with three of them under your leadership 2019 2021 2025 and kayen Edwards was our MVP coach PE when you see coach Peavey coaching the team he makes it look so effortless it looks so easy and
017we know that you have a very talented Squad we know that Talent matters but it also takes an amazing group of coaches and parents to cultivate that talent and so we really appreciate you coach peave for all that you do I'd like for you to take a moment to say a few words and then we have a video recap before we invite the team up to give them a token of appreciation where do I begin um this was a very special group of players um I was saying saying this in the in the lobby we've been here before you know we've won championships and we've come before the school board and I don't think we've ever had as many parents as we we had it when we got presented um are our parents uh incredibly
018supportive of their of their kids our community and y'all okay I I can't tell you how important the school board is in helping us get to where we are um allowing us to play the schedule that we get to play got us ready to do what we did in the playoffs um there's no way we win we make this run in the playoffs if we don't play the schedule that we played this year so I want to thank y'all for allowing us to play the schedule that we that we got to play I think uh looking at the guys right now and and looks like a couple of them about to fall asleep sleep on the wall um I'm exhausted I'm exhausted I know they are um this is a team that act absolutely emptied
019their tank um to do what we did this year in the playoffs it took everything um very long year very long two years um three years uh that that these young men went through um but for them to persevere and to finish on top like they did I'm very extremely proud of them of the coaching staff um and the community and just just happy and and grateful thank [Music] you let's watch the [Applause] video Let's watch the video [Music] [Applause] [Music] all F you deserve to be here you deserve to be here go get what's yours okay and have fun doing have fun go go and get what you deserve it's another great day to be a panther I am so incredibly proud of our boys basketball team for for not just winning district for
020not just winning at all levels of the playoffs but for going on to become the 68 state champions congratulations to coach PE and all of the boys if anyone associated with our amazing duncanville's boys basketball program first of all I want to say congratulations to the coaches to coach PE uh we are truly a dynasty the coaches did a fabulous job all year long making adjustments coming into a game where against a team that had a number one player in the country we did a phenomenal job as usual Duncanville the city of Champions we're legendary congratulations Panthers a special shout out to all of the parents the coaches the staff and everybody that plays a part in this huge Athletic program you guys did an amazing job tonight you never stopped working so cheers to
021you super proud of boys for their G their determination and they just always did so much heart throughout the entire season it's obvious great day to like enough is enough by the end of the game I want them to be happy to be here just happy to be part of our partner got it let's go have some [Applause] [Music] [Applause] if I can have our players and coaches to come forward so so that we can take a picture with our board I don't know they may be a little tall let's see if we can find some window chairs or maybe our board members might need to come down you can come this way you yeah to's on the outside yeah that'll help thanks coach it's just not going to happen go down there miss Wallace
022you want us to come around maybe or all right guys everybody look at me right in the middle s everybody ready one two three and two more two three and we have something for our [Music] [Applause] players do you want one with the team congratulations am [Applause] man that's real good that's a hash I got to tweet that we're going to ask our players and coaches to you may um stick around because when we go to close session in just a moment we do want to get another picture of you all with your sign if you don't if you don't mind thank you all right [Applause] thank you Miss Wallace uh coach McNeely shared some words with the team and uh he didn't have a microphone and so coach I'm going to ask you turn
023on your mic so we can hear that too please I just told him that I'm really proud of them they put Duncanville basketball backward belongs I was told by people at the first of the year that we couldn't win it this year because we're rebuilding and I told them hell no Dunville we reload that's all we do and I'm really proud of [Applause] it I came in on the tail end of that all I heard was we don't rebuild we reload and I'm like oh you have to repeat that at this time we'll have have the introduction of director purchasing presenter is Miss Brown good evening board president flowers Board of Trustees and Dr gory I am going to ask Mr Marquees Scott to join me at the stand we are excited to introduce Mr
024Marque Scott as our new director of purchasing with over 17 years of experience in procurement merchandising and contract management Mr Scott brings a wealth of experience and a strong commitment to operational excellence Mr Scott has experience with Army Air Force exchange services where he held various positions including merchandis merchandising assistant and buyer one and two in these roles he was responsible for managing complex categories handling contract negotiations and developing merchandising strategies he later joined the Dallas Independent School District in 2020 where he Advanced the buyer three overseeing the procurement processes conducting negotiations and ensuring contract compliance within the district Services Mr Scott holds a master of science a master m in science from Southern New Hampshire University he also earned a Bachelor of Arts in finance and banking with a minor in marketing from dealer
025University we are excited about the leadership and expertise of Mr Scott that he brings to this new role and we look forward to his contributions to the continued success of Duncanville isd's purchasing efforts please join us in welcoming Mr Maris Scott as the new director of purchasing and I know I think and today was his first day so we're excited to have him in dunan Bell and he also has a family member in the audience if you could just wait yeah thank you uh Mr Kane and your reps I think we um we skipped you guys can you guys come down so that we can get a picture [Applause] please take and here [Applause] two we will now move to close session all e e e we are back from closed session we will continue
026with our agenda items we will now move to the consent agenda we have some action that we took in close it's not on my page I have a I have a script sorry m may I have a motion to for to accept the consent agenda second it's been motioned and second any questions or comments all in favor please vote electronically motion carries 60 thank you we're now moving on to action agenda item a cancellation of school board election for May 3rd to elect Trustees for places 1 two and three there's no presentation needed may I have a motion so moved second it's been moved in second are there any questions or comments please cast your votes electronically motion carries 60 we will now move to action item B consider the approval of contracts for the
027senior leadership team for the 2025 26 school year no presentation needed may I have a motion so moved I I I I need to make a motion official I move to approve the recommendation of the superintendent as presented to offer one-year term administrator contracts to the professional staff members listed also second motion I move to approve oh okay go ahead second it's been motioned in second any questions or comments please cast your votes electronically motion carry 60 thank you I move to approve the recommendation of the superintendent as presented to offer a one-year term professional contract to the professional staff member listed second it's been motioned and second any questions or comments it's been Motion in second please cast your votes electronically motion carry 60 a last motion is I move to approve the recommendation
028of the superintendent as presented to offer one-year noncertified contracts to the professional staff members listed it's been motion in second are there any question comments or discussions please cast your votes electronically motion passes 60 we will now move to action item C consider and take possible action under dffb to approve a resolution declaring a reduction in force due to a program change in identifying the employment areas affected presenter is Miss Pam Brown good evening Madam president Board of Trustees and Dr gory tonight I will be presenting information on the district's strategic plan and our efforts to achieve academic goals our focus is on making targeted adjust adjustments and optimizing our resources to ensure that we have the best educational outcomes for students at the last board meeting I presented an update on our district strategic
029goals priority three personnel and professional development with Goal one being focused on supporting uncertified teachers and achieving their teacher certification we also reviewed priority four fiscal stewardship and operational excellence um with Goal one ensuring that we have effective financial management to obtain compliance and to support optimal outcomes for our students and goal to aiming to enhance our overall operational efficiency and the quality of District Services today's presentations will presentation will review these goals and our ongoing efforts to advance them tonight we'll highlight the key objectives that impact student learning and District Effectiveness reflecting on our commitment to continuous Improvement reducing teacher vacancies ensures classrooms have highly qualified Educators ensuring that students receive high quality instruction and this is a top priority for our district also we aim to increase the number of expert Educators in
030the classroom to enhance Student Success with skilled and knowledgeable Educators we want to strengthen the support for new teachers through mentorship and development helping them to succeed and stay in their profession long term we're committed to fiscally responsible operations aligning our decisions with priorities while maintaining while while excuse me staying within budget constraints these goals are interconnected and are crucial for educational excellence and supporting our teachers students and the district resources today's Focus will be on the program change and restructuring or restu structuring our instructional support from central office to directly impact student achievement in the classroom so what is a program change at the last meeting we reviewed a program change may occur for various reasons such as a redirection of resources efforts to improve efficiency changes in enrollment a lack of student respon
031resp to specific course offerings legislative revisions or reorganization or consolidation of schools departments or a district on the next slide I will be presenting a proposed change for the instructional support specialist currently part of our central office curriculum and instruction Department who provides support districtwide this proposed change is designed to better align with the district goals of maximizing student outcomes while also maintaining fiscal responsibility we are proposing a new instructional support model that will replace 19 instructional support specialist positions with 11 instructional coaches this change aims to bring our most effective Educators closer to the classroom directly impacting student achievement Acton Bill Harts and Daniel all comprehend hensive and targeted Improvement campuses will each have a full-time instructional coach with the aid of grant funding the remaining elementary schools will be paired to share instructional
032coaches ensuring support across all campuses each Middle School will have its own instructional coach while the high school will have two instructional coaches will be assigned to the campus working directly with the campus principal to enhance student achievement rather than being centrally located under the leadership of the cni department instructional support Specialists who are not hired as instructional coaches will transition to teacher positions that receive the mentor stien these teachers will be assigned to various campuses assuming the role of teacher of record for a classroom they will receive compensation based on their years years of experience in alignment with the teacher salary schedule along with an additional $7,500 stien for their mentoring and coaching responsibilities this this stien on top of their teacher salary is to incentivize our best Educators to remain in the district
033and work directly with students and it's also going to compensate them for the additional responsibilities that they would have as a mentor teacher Mentor teachers will provide coaching and guidance to the support their peers while directly working with and teach teaching students we're excited about this transition because it allows students to receive direct teaching from some of our best Educators in the district this restructuring ensures that we are placing our expert Educators in classrooms driving student achievement goals and fostering improved teaching practices districtwide campus principles will provide Mentor teachers with structured time for mentoring Mentor teachers will be responsible for a variety of variety of Duties including but not limited to serving as the classroom teacher of record co- teing and modeling lessons for their peers and delivering professional development on the campus um in
034alignment with best teaching practices we want to assure that everyone no staff member uh will lose their job that is in good standing so all the instructional support Specialists that are in good standing will have a job with the district and that no one uh would be losing their job due to the program change all current employees in good standing will retain the position with the district this goal is to align resources more effectively to support student achievement and to improve teaching structures again we want to priori prioritize classroom instruction and teacher support Mentor teachers will provide essential mentoring and coaching strengthening uh and helping the teachers to continuously approve across campuses our goal is to align both financial and human resources to support student achievement it is recommended that the board vote to approve
035the resolution as presented in alignment with dffb local are there any questions truste Savage Martin have all those that are involved in this change been notified so yes we met Dr Nicks and I met with them um and we discussed the proposed change U pending board approval and so we we did meet with them and pending board approval we would have another so that means some teacher out there that hasn't been taught to won't be scared that we're fixing to they were no no they're all aware yes we had a face Toof face meeting and it was with the group we answered any questions they had and so perfect thank you yes ma'am thank you Miss Brown do I have a motion to approve the resolution declaring a reduction inforce due to a program change
036with the identified employment areas affected so moved second it's been moved in second are there any questions additional questions or comments please cast your votes electronically motion carry 60 thank you we will now move to action item D interlocal agreement between the police departments of Duncanville Dallas isds there's no presentation needed may I have a motion do I have a motion to approve the public safety system interlocal agreement between Duncanville and Duncan and Dallas isds so moved it's been motioned in second are there any questions comments or discussions please cast votes electronically and you ready motion carried 60 thank you Chief it's not that we didn't want to hear from you we just understand that it's a renewal I appreciate thank you we will now move to action item e transfinder agreement there is no
037presentation needed may I have a motion to approve the agreement from transfinder for software license so mov host hosting and Hardware exceeding $50,000 second it's been moved in second please are there any questions comments or discussion please cast your votes electronically motion passes 60 we will now move to action item H District campus and targeted Improvement plans I'm sorry thank you oh it's just F but same yes thank you board Dr Nicks thank you good evening Madam president members of the board Dr G uh Texas state law requires that the district campus and Target Improvement plans be developed be presented and be approved through a formal process that involves public input and board approval so I would like to invite Dr Lewis our executive director of academic support to present on all three phases of
038this plan as she has facilitated and supported the campuses throughout this process good evening president flowers Board of Trustees and Dr gory tonight I'm going to speak with you all concerning concerning our Improvement plan process that we utilize in Duncanville ISD last month I reviewed I spoke of how the process was for our plan so I'm going to review briefly and then give you some new information based on some questions so in compliance with law Duncanville ISD School Board shall approve annually the process under which the district and campus Improvement plans are developed to ensure stakeholder input was gathered and it is in compliance with all mandated components in Duncanville ISD are we've been in compliance with bqa and bqb legal all members of a decisionmaking committee have to meet these standards so for district
039level we do the district educational Improvement committee which is our deic and for each campus they have a site-based decision making committee 2third of the members of those committees are comprised of classroom teachers a non-teaching professional community members parents business members and a district professional members do not serve on longer than a 2-year term when making decisions all campus plans are aligned to our district strategic plan and our four priorities every goal and strategy is directly aligned to our district priority statements now for state and federal we have two accountability systems we have our state accountability system which is a a through F letter grade and it measures our overall school performance in three domains which is student achievement School progress and closing the gaps the closing the gaps which is our domain three is
040our federal accountability system so that every student succeed act it was passed in 2015 and it ensured that we're in compliance and have Equity protections so it really has districts where we have to pay attention to our special population of students school identifications for federal accountability began in 2018 a school can receive a designation of comprehensive uh support or targeted support or additional targeted support support so that's our CSI our TSI and our atsi Improvement plans are required for every campus that is title one as well as a targeted Improvement plan for every campus that has a designation from the federal accountability system I Want To Explain domain three a little bit uh in domain three there are four types of student groups that we're looking at for accountability the first group is all students
041then the two lowest performing racial and ethnic populations of 10 or more are for group two and three and then the fourth group is our high focus that includes our special education students our economically disadvantaged our emergent bilingual High Mobility homeless migrant and Foster the calculation break down for domain three is significant I wanted it's important to note that academic achievement which is 30% of our domain 3 rating is based on students that score meets or above in the areas of reading in math academic growth accounts for 50% of our domain three and our English language profic proficiency which is our tail PASS testing accounts for 10% and then our star component which is our sqss is what it stands for on our accountability report and the star components is for all other contents of
042all students and their performance on the accountability comprehensive support that CSI designation that I mentioned earlier a campus is given a CSI designation when they are in the lowest 5% of their comparison group so they're lowest 5% of a domain three which is the closing the gaps as well as lowest percentile and overall campus scaled scores currently in Duncanville we have one school with a CSI designation and that is Bill Hart's Elementary for targeted support it is when a student group is considered consistently underperforming and if it misses the Target in at least three of the same indicators for three years in a row currently we have Acton Elementary and Daniel intermediate that hold a TSI designation we do have first year monitoring of two of our campuses which is Central and bird middle school
043now this next slide there are a couple of important points that I want us to consider on this next slide for 2023 in 2024 it is important to note that we have not received letter grades from the state of Texas it is still pending litigation and there has not been any we have predictions what are on this slide that you're seeing note that in 2019 at the beginning of federal designations being given 15 of our campuses in Duncanville ISD at the time had a federal designation we have made progress over time and been very diligent in ensuring that our we're closing the gaps with our students currently in 2024 notice that we do have the TSI to campuses we have our CSI campus as mentioned and and then we have our first year monitoring for
044the two in 2023 when we received our federal designations we applied for the effective schools framework Grant so that we could be very intentional about what we did to address these needs and with the effective schools framework Grant eight of our campuses have participated since 2023 and it is a 2-year Grant so with our progress and here we are in 2025 of our eight campuses that had that Federal designation in 2023 we now have three that number has gone down to three so it's been our ability to track our progress our systems with tea regular Communications they've done site visits and they we've worked with our regional uh service center as well and provided very intentional professional development to those campuses and so we can celebrate that Smith Maryfield Heyman Alexander and Hastings no longer
045have a federal school Improvement designation with the federal with the federal uh requirements as well as the grant requirements in your packets and board book you do have targeted Improvement plans for eight campuses even though only three are now required to do a targeted Improvement plan it was part of the ESF grant that is required for those campuses even though they have come out of federal school Improvement some professional development that we participated in over the last two years every campus that was under the effective schools framework Grant received received a diagnostic a very detailed diagnostic which included tea site visits attending data meetings our PLC protocols as well as just everyday operations of our campuses and instructional classroom walks they receive extensive training on accountability practices recognizing high quality instructional materials lesson alignment and
046on observation and feedback Cycles to ensure that teachers were being supported in the classroom the effective schools framework Grant does end in May of 2025 this was our final year for participating Bill Hart's Elementary has an added layer of support So bill hars is under what is now called the foundational leadership instructional practices and systems so they receive ongoing professional learning in instructional practices and there's real support for their administrative team so they learned achieving an A Team processes systems planning monitoring the learning and having have ongoing learning Labs our district actions and response to the needs is we did apply for the lasso 3 and receive the lasso 3 Grant with professional Learning Community Support support so that we can continue the work we've seen progress and we want to continue the work that
047we've started we also have targeted interventions we also have the provided we're going to provide the highquality instructional materials through our curriculum recently that the board adopted also have ongoing professional learning and we're going to continue the get better faster observation and feedback Cycles these um the these actions by the district were placed in the targeted Improvement plan whereas in the past targeted Improvement plans focused on the campus's actions this year the requirement from tea is that the district actions had to be answered so what are we as a district doing to ensure that our campuses are being provided the support that they need so these are the the actions that we have committed to and we're going to continue to Monitor and support our campuses so the recommendation is we ask the board to
048approve the district campus and targeted Improvement plans for the 2425 school year and at this time it will be my pleasure to answer any questions that you may have do I have a motion to approve district and campus Improvement plans priorities and goals and the campus targeted Improvement plans for the 2425 school year so moved second it's been moved and second are there any questions comments or discussions trusty Savage Martin on the decision making committee which also serves as a uh sa bestest decision making group I guess I'm kind of confused two-thirds classroom teachers so let's say there's 50 teachers on a campus two-thirds of them serve on this committee so for for the site based decision making committee yes 2third of the committee members must be classroom teachers for the district it is 2/3
049complete for so we have representation total from every campus so every campus goes through a nomination process and they vote and those individual uals represent their campus for the district Improvement committee okay and then you said they serve on only two years like does half of them oh I don't know how to ask this question do you know what I'm fixing to ask do half go on half yeah yeah yeah yeah is it half and half or is it even greater so every year when they go through the nomination process for example let's say Hyman has a teacher that has been nominated this year that with with an understanding that they're going to serve two consecutive years and then maybe marfield has a teacher that served last year but this year they have one more
050year so they would actually nominate someone else for the following year so you're not always Reinventing the wheel in that committee there's some that have served one year and cuz I think that would be good do you have trouble uh getting business members or community members it it depends this year we didn't have any problems uh we had great representation from Dallas College we had uh community members um it the principles were key in helping us with community members and business partners those that they have Partnerships that work on the campuses and they nominated them and they gladly serve cool very good thank you yes ma'am trusty behe thank thank you for your presentation U some of the attendance sheets showed poor attendance like three out of 10 or four out of 11 when someone
051misses a meeting are they informed of of what happened and any thought of replacing them I mean um I would want more than three people out of 10 to to show up that's a great question so when a person is on the committee they actually receive the information because we still need their input so a lot of the input um they receive we use a Google Docs so that they can in provide their input to any questions any business that we have conducted um and it depends so on for the district committee we have really good attendance so it will vary on a campus uh so it's based on if the principal is in communication with those individuals but for the district we've had good participation thank you for those attendance sheets also um one
052more thing the last paragraph on the plan sheets I suppose that's a copy and paste because they're alike and they all have PTA meetings but I know that all these campuses don't have PTA so are these another form of parent meetings or so yes ma'am for the Campus based dates if they had a site-based decision making committee or if they had parent meetings um that those are the parent meetings that are uh on the forums and they should vary the dates vary based on the campuses on when they held their particular meetings okay thank you yes ma'am thank you please cast your votes electronically motion carries 60 thank you we will now move to action item G consideration of 2025 26 academic calendar Dr Nicks Madame President members of the board Dr G um I'm
053honored to present the recommended academic calendar for the 2526 school year our first priority was to assemble a committee that reflected the diverse perspectives within our community within our district this committee included teachers campus administrators central office staff parents and Community stakeholders additionally as recommended by the board um we were honored to have the presence of uh Dallas College um to further enrich the discussion and the decision-making process so thank you for that board our key considerations um as usual we're to ensure a minimum of 75,6 minutes instructional minutes for the school year uh to ensure that we had three uh teacher work days and to ensure that we had 187 teacher contract days uh for the calendar in your board books you'll find a detailed breakdown of the three optional calendar surve surveyed by
054our district stakeholders along with definitions of key terms used in the calendar uh and but this slide provides a brief overview of those those um three optional calendars and I'd like to draw your attention to that last box there uh because there's a uh there's verbiage there we we haven't used in the past the verbiage there is professional learning team days um and we used to call that planning days uh for teachers uh but the reason that the committee decided to change that verbiage is because the committee wanted to um really focus on the fact that those planning days are not siloed days um that teachers don't just work in silos or that's not the expectation um that they collaborate that they work with others um as well as work with the things that they
055needed to do but naming IT professional learning team days as opposed to planning days the committee just thought that that would be an appropriate change uh for that so uh that's what we uh did there on that calendar so board as you can see uh three options the first option this is calendar a and um some of the highlights for calendar a is that the students start the school the week of August the 11th the last day of school is after Memorial Day there's one week of fall break break in October and the committee love that fall break um and it includes zero pdce days I want to pause here even though you have the definition for pdce I want to just make sure that I um explained that pdce are the professional development um
056credit exchange days so we have to have 187 teacher contract days so if the teachers adopt a calendar that has less than that number of days for the teachers they need to be able to make those up some kind of way so to do professional development on their own time outside of the school day would suffice for a holiday um they wanted a holiday every month or something of that nature so they have to acrw a certain number of of professional development days in order to have a particular day off so that's what a PDC uh pdce day is so for calendar a first semester 92 teacher work days and 82 student school days for the second semester you see 92 teacher work days and 91 student school days for a total of 187 teacher
057work days and 173 student school days high level I'm shifting now to um calendar B and you'll see um a a major difference between calendar A and B is that um the last day of school is prior to Memorial Day for this particular calendar in addition to that the inclusion of four PD uh CE days in this particular calendar and there are four less student school days for this calendar uh and this calendar really most resembles the calendar that we had this year um but just as as a note and then lastly calendar C and you'll see the difference the biggest difference here is that calendars B and C are very similar and that they both have the last day of school uh prior to Memorial Day they both have four pdce days um but
058calendar C aligns with calendar a in terms of the number of student days with 172 so the committee um uh um you know Whitted down to these three options and we were able to send out a survey to all of our stakeholders uh the survey went out February the 18th um that's when it opened both in English and Spanish and it was open until February the 28th uh we had the opportunity to work with our Communications Department and we had 101 1,000 137 responses from four groups of stakeholders so as you can see the results of uh the survey uh the first question we had uh 16.7% of our survey responders were students and we were really proud about it we were really happy to see that we had you know that many students that
059were interested in their in their calendar um we had uh 40 basically 40.5% are parents or Guardians and then of course uh 40 almost 41% staff members and we had 2% % Community member uh feedback then as you can see on the bottom the calendar that the uh that our stakeholders have voted on overwhelmingly would be sample calendar B with a 56% um approval rating for that particular calendar so when the survey was sent out to all of our Stak holders once again everything was sent out in English and in Spanish and all of the terms everything that you have in your book um all of that was provided to all of our stakeholders so they would understand all of those terms uh what they were voting on what it looked like they had all
060of that information as they voted so um the recommendation is that we recommend that the board adopt uh calendar option b as the 2526 academic calendar as voted on by our stakeholders and it will be my pleasure to answer any question that you may have at this time thank you Dr Nicks do I have a motion to approve the academic calendar draft b as presented for the 25 26 Academic School year so moved it's been moved in second are there any questions comments or discussions trustee fahe thank you Dr Nicks for your presentation I told myself I wasn't going to mention this this year because I mentioned it last year I love these py graphs but it the option the second P graph tells me nothing of the above graph I don't know how many
061parents or students or teachers voted on these choices it said it could have been the 56% could have been all the teachers or it could have been all the parents and students I would like to see how that how that how that breaks down how that first pie graph breaks down maybe in a third pie yes ma'am because I I would really like to know yes ma'am thank you we will get you that information okay thank you absolutely and I was going to say I love how systemic it is it's very organized and we've really improved this system over the 13 years that I've been part of this process so I really like it maybe add her little part but uh it's very good thank you thank you for the feedback yes ma'am please cast
062your votes electronically motion passes 60 thank you we will now move to action item H AP seminar presenter Dr Sam Nick thank you boy this is a a wonderful opportunity for um for our students this is actually uh the approval of an additional course this is an AP seminar an AP seminar is an Innovative college level course that is designated to develop students ability to analyze to evaluate and to communicate complex ideas effectively this foundational course Fosters critical thinking research skills and collaboration essential competencies for success in college and career districts must have board approval to implement Innovative courses the course will satisfy elective credit towards graduation requirement I think it's important to note that um Texas is unique in that this particular course is a um very selective course in other states um where
063uh you have to be selected to be able to offer this particular class however in Texas you do not have to be selected it is something that offer and so or can offer so this is a wonderful opportunity for our students um some of the key benefits for that is that It prepares students for College and Career Success it enhances students ability to research to synthesize information and construct evidence-based arguments cross-curricular learning encourages interdisciplinary Thinking by engaging students in real world and academic issues through multiple perspectives develops essential 21st century skills strengthening students ability to be able to be analytical thinkers collaboration and communication um with the workforce demands that are upcoming and then of increases passing rates on AP exams you know that's a big thing for us we really got to focus on
064making sure our students are performing as best as they can as critical thinkers on those AP exams College Board reports that students who take AP seminar are more likely to achieve a passing score on subsequent AP courses compared with students who have not completed AP P seminar and the biggest um I think anyway um uh the one of the best parts of this is that at the end of the year there's Capstone projects are so um amazing and and what students are able to produce how they're able to think and how they're able to analyze as part of their projects um is really a great option for them um so the recommendation as the board moved to approve the AP seminar for the 25 26 school year to expand rigorous academic opportunities for students strengthen
065College and Career Readiness and enhance inter interdisciplinary learning board it would be my pleasure to answer any question that you may have do I have a motion to approve AP seminar for the 2526 school year so moved second it's been moved in second are there any questions comments or discussion trusty fahe thank you do we already have a teacher identifying to teach this class who's already on our staff thank you for asking yes this will not be an additional FTE for our dist this will be talked by a current teacher at the high school no additional cost or anything no additional cost this is great yes great truste Savage Martin is this for senior level students yes this is this will be offered 9 through 12 oh okay MH so they need you need to
066be there for that choice presentation to make sure they know about this yes ma'am because I would love to take this as an alumnist can I come [Laughter] back Dr Nicks um Texas schools have to meet certain criteria to be able to offer this AP seminar but I don't remember what it is do you know it off the top of your head cuz I know every High School can't offer it there's a certain criteria that we had to meet yes ma'am I don't want to misspeak I can get that to the board it's okay yes ma'am it's okay I was just going to brag on this a little bit please cast your votes electronically motion carries 60 thank you we will now move to action item I approval of tasby policy update 124 no presentation
067is needed may I have thank you Miss Phils you're you're you're always so eager but we don't need a presentation from you today may I have a motion to approve the adoption of Texas Association of school board policy update 124 as not presented but stated sub move second it's been moved in second any questions or comments please cast your votes electronically motion carry 60 thank you we will now move to action item J approval of construction manager at risk semar contract guaranteed maximum price now you may present and thank you board good evening Dr flowers board of trustees and Dr goree again it is my uh great pleasure to present to you for your approval the guaranteed maximum price for our uh high schools Career Technical education uh building and the renovations to area M
068which is most people would know as the Ninth Grade Center uh I have with me tonight um Mr Kamar Hawk with L also Mr John fiser with sedalco you have in front of you a a different item that was inside of your book it's at your place the bottom line is the same there was just one of the things that we had to correct there was an ERA that was on the original and they've corrected that after your board book went out Friday before spring break so the total did not change we just had to correct something that was carried over inadvertently that will be discussed the next GMP so of course we are asking you and you have all of the items really uh bulleted out for you what the cost will be this
069is for the design build of the CTE and the renovations of uh area M at the high school we'll come back to you for area J probably in April we'll have a better idea of that and so tonight board if you I'm going to ask that you would approve the guaranteed maximum price for the construction of the Career and Technical education building and Renovations of area M Ninth Grade Center at Duncanville High School the total of$ 32,5 4,399 and provide sad Delco Construction with notice to proceed with this project and I'm at at this time know you need to take your motion but we'll be here if you have any specific questions about anything that's before you may I have a motion so moved second it's been motioned in second are there any questions or
070comments or discussions please cast your votes electronically motion carry 60 thank you thank you very much we look forward to the groundbreaking real soon yes ma'am Supply us a magnifying glass next time we will now move to action item K purchase over $50,000 classroom and teaching and learning request for proposal Dr Brown good evening Madame President Board of Trustees and Dr G it is my pleasure to present for your consideration tonight the results of the classroom teaching and learning request for proposal our purpose financially supported by proposition B of the 2023 bond is to equip all Duncanville ISD classrooms with 21st century teaching and learning Technologies let me Begin by introducing the selection committee I have Miss Dolores gulan a librarian um Miss K escoto and and India jet both teachers as well as also
071being part of our Tech ambassador program so they're Tech spts we're joined with um Lori Tobin who's the director of special education for compliance our instructional technology coordinators dein Haynes jadori and Tate Richardson and Monica Napier and finally ad Dante Tomkins District technician and then of course as the chief technology officer I chaired the selection committee did you all all stand do appreciate the efforts that they put in this nine member selection committee was responsible for reviewing more than 1100 pages of the 15 accepted RFP responses the requirements for the RFP were developed over the course of two years by the technology advisory committee or Tac a larger group composed of Staff members from across the district a list of the TAC members involved in developing the requirements can be found in your board packet
072on page 364 as designed by the TAC the RFP was divided into five categories interactive flat panel laptop computer document camera mobile teaching station and mobile charging solution the RFP was issued on December 11th 2024 and closed on January 24th 2025 following the initial Proposal review and first round of scoring the committee selected four vendors to conduct live demonstrations for a second round of evaluation which took place on February 25th and 27th after this process the committee selected three vendors to which award the RFP to ensure the best pricing and most effectively meet the district needs for classroom teaching and learning United data Technologies was selected to provide Lenovo Yoga laptops and bretford Cube carts Bloom was selected to provide hover cam mobile teaching stations and Global asset was selected to provide one screen Interactive
073flat panels and IPO document cameras beginning in July 2025 we will deploy interactive flat panels teaching stations and document cameras to every campus except for the ones that are under construction so the ones that will be under construction Smith Central Brandenburg and Duncanville High School will all receive new equipment in the summer of 2026 or a phase two we will deploy approximately 60% of our class rooms this first year and the other 40% next year this phased approach while being relatively short will better assist the district when being able to handle replacements for this equipment in the years to come the mobile charging solution will only be deployed to Middle School and High School classrooms because the Elementary classrooms already have charging carts laptop computers will begin being deployed to teachers in April and May
074so just next two months teacher training for the interactive flat panels and document cameras will begin before the end of the school year continue through the summer and into the fall I'm happy to answer any questions you may have do I have a motion to award the request for proposal 24 25.3 for classroom teaching and learning Technologies as presented so moved second it's been moved in second are there any questions comments or discussions truste Savage Mark since Mary since Mary Phils becoming a parent Center they probably not not yet not next year so sorry go you proceed thank you please cast your votes electronically motion Carri 60 we will now move to information and discussion items the first item racial profiling report Chief Garen now Madam president honorable uh board members and Dr goree uh
075what you have before for you is U uh a report that the state of Texas has required police departments to complete uh since about 2001 and it's the requirements have evolved over the years but it basically tells every Police Department in the state of Texas that you have to capture certain data points related to your motor vehicle stops and Report those uh not only to the state but report those numbers and then have those numbers analyzed against your population to determine whether or not racial profiling is be being conducted uh by your Police Department uh the report you have before you shows that the Duncanville Independent School District Police Department is not engaged in racial profiling I'm happy to say uh we made a total of four traffic stops last year uh and so therefore
076we are required we're not exempt from the requirement to report that uh and so each year the state requires that not only do we report that to them analyze that but we also uh report that to to our governing body which as you're aware as you um uh so we will endeavor each year before March 1st to provide this information to you uh as required by law I'm happy to address any questions I will add that we had no complaints of racial profiling last year either so any questions or comments trusty fhe so this would be uh run red light a stop sign around a school speeding school zone um I mean obviously elementary students in Middle they're not they're not going to be involved so Mo were most of the stops parents or were
077some high school kiddos or so I don't have the information about exactly who would stop I have I just wondered yes ma'am I have the I I will tell you don't dig I'm cool okay I just wondered if it was like four students or were they half parents half students don't worry about don't worry about so while traffic enforcement is is not our primary focus uh it is a necessary uh empowerment for the police officers should there be a crime they would absolutely need to make a vehicle potentially make a vehicle stop so it puts us in the category of having to report thank you yes ma'am thank you we will move to the information discussion agenda Item B legislative priorities miss Connie Wallace good evening president flowers Board of Trustees and Dr gory the
07889th legislative session officially began on Tuesday January the 14th at noon and since then uh many bills have been uh brought before the legislative bodies and you guys have been receiving weekly updates in your board update and our purpose is to ensure that legislators are equipped to oppose or advocate for legislation that addresses the needs and values of our district and so what you have before you is a draft of priorities that reflect the mission and vision of Duncanville ISD um and our Target our and and Target our strategic priorities and so for example um we are asking the legislative body to focus on school funding specifically increase the basic allotment fund full day prek um we are also asking them to increase funding for um technology and instructional material allotment the teema as relates
079to teaching and learning we are asking the legislative body to revise House Bill 4545 for the from the 87th legis lative session when it comes to Safety and Security um we're mostly focusing on those unfunded mandates we're asking them to increase the school safety allotment and when it comes to recruitment our ability to recruit and retain teachers we're asking um to have the legislative priority of continuing the TRS uh defined benefit program and address the rising health care cost so presented um or in front of you you have our drafted priorities and we will ask that um between now and March 31st if you guys have any questions or suggestions for enhancing that let us know so that we can update this document and bring it back to you on the 31st um for your
080vote and approval are there any questions comments or suggestions nope thank you thank you I'll note that we do not have thank you Miss Wallace we do not have any Communications from citizens being that there is no further items to discuss do I have a motion to adjoin our meeting second SP moved in second the meeting is adjourned e