001like to welcome everybody out to the Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting for October 20th, 2025. Um, we do have a quorum established. Mr. Tucker and Mr. Applebee are not present tonight. Our next item is going to be our moment of silence followed by the pledges of allegiance. So, if you would please join me in that moment of silence. Thank you very much. Now, we're going to honor our country and the great state of Texas. Our pledges of allegiance will be led by some students from the senior choir. That's uh Kaylee Combmes and Jacob Bailey. Are they here? >> Well, come on up. >> Going to help us with the pledges. Appreciate it of the stands. One nation undery and justice for alliance to the Texas one state. >> Thank you very
002much for that help. We appreciate it. Next items are student uh staff reports and recognitions. The first of which is Lake Dallas Middle School Junior Honor Society Service Award of Excellence. We'll hear from Jessica Ryzen Hoover, one of our teachers from Lake Dallas Middle School. officers. Congratulations. [Applause] Good job, y'all. Our next item, we're going to hear from uh one of our regulars here. This is we're gonna Lake Dallas High School student artwork featured at Tex Edcon. We're going to hear from our art teacher Janette Murray as usual, right? Because y'all are so good. You just take up our meetings. That's fine. >> That's okay. Well, you know what? It's just job security. You know, >> it is definitely for sure. >> Thank you again for having us back here. Um, I am presenting Kylie
003Sammons to you all tonight. She is an extraordinary student artist. um her artwork this Oh, where' the clicker go? Sorry. Is it just this way? Y'all know how bad I am with technology. Keyboard. Okay. Okay. I'm bad. I'm sorry. So, um every year we participate, we choose a student to be entered into the Tasa Tasby um show. They've actually changed the name this year. Now, it's the TED XCON exhibition and it is held at the TASTABY convention every year in September. So, the Texas Art Education Association works with the convention to feature artwork from um kindergarten through 12th grade students all over the state of Texas as they continue to advocate for the visual arts and visual arts education. Attendees in the show also have an opportunity to learn more about the importance of quality
004visual arts programs at their local, regional, and state levels. Um, this year we chose Kylie. And I'm going to tell you something about Kylie. She's not even an art student this year. Um, but she did an amazing portrait last year called in called Deliberation, and it was so good that I saved it for this year because I knew that we were going to put it in something incredible. Um, so the exhibit was held September 11th through 14th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. And the uh gallery is still online if you would like to go look at it sometime. There's a bunch of amazing student works in the in the exhibit. But here is Kylie's. This portrait was done in um pastel. The original assignment was to use arbitrary color. So
005color that's not traditional for a portrait. Um but Kylie went above and beyond and started playing with this idea of positive and negative space. So unfinished was still considered finished. Um but just beautiful work of art as an art one honor student last year. So I only got to have her for one year. She's a senior this year and isn't taking art classes. But the other amazing thing about Kylie is she is just dedicated and the epitome of what it is to be a falcon. She is also our president of our art club this year. And every year the um Texas House of Representatives ask different companies, different um agencies, different school districts to decorate a um a ornament for their Christmas tree. So this year, Kylie is also doing our district ornament. um to
006represent us all. So, it was not even a question when this when this competition came up as who I was going to choose. She is dedicated. She's amazing. Wonderful artist. And I'm so proud to present her tonight. So, thank you for having us. [Applause] That's a really That's a really cool picture. I wish you could just leave it up there. >> Oh, okay. No. All right. Uh, our next item is, uh, the TMEA, all region choir and pre- area qualifiers. We'll hear from Laura Jenkins, our high school choir director. >> Good evening. >> Hello. Come here. Face them. >> Good evening and thank you for having us here tonight. Um, I'm really excited to um talk about our amazing region choir results. We had 16 amazing kiddos try out for um the region 2 TMEA
007honor choir. Um we had 10 students who actually earned a placement into it. Uh and those kiddos in front of you are Kaylee Combmes. Helen Stratton is actually at band practice tonight, so she couldn't be here because of that, but they are both sopranos. Alexa Munice, Hannah Stewart, Molly Walker were altos, Gabe Hickden, Lucas Nocttree, Reagan Reyes are teners, and Jacob Bailey and Antonio Lopez are bases. And so they worked, many of them even went to summer camps and they went to places uh Reagan, where did you go, sweetheart? >> He went to Charlton State University. Uh Molly, where did you guys go? >> TWWU Hannah, where did you go, sweetie? >> Abling Christian. So between these guys, we went to three different colleges over the summertime and many of them went together uh to
008learn this incredibly difficult music. At the region audition, they were given three cuts of three pieces of music that they had to prepare and also site readad something, which means to sing something aloud, something they had never seen before. They have 30 seconds to practice and then they have to sing it for five judges uh behind a screen. So they were very, very successful. The clinic and concert will be held on November 3rd at Dallas Baptist University. Uh, and those are those sweet little candles right there. Um, and of those kiddos, of the 11 that we have here, uh, seven of them have advanced to the pre-arrian auditions. Uh, sophomore Gabe Hickden, tenor, ninth chair. This is Gabe. Senior Jacob Bailey, base eighth chair. Sophomore Alexa Munice, Alto, eighth chair. Freshman Lucas Noctre, Tener, fourth
009chair. Junior Molly Walker, Alto, fourth chair. Freshman Helen Stratton, soprano, third chair. And sophomore Reagan Reyes, Tener, second chair. Uh, we are so excited to have this many kiddos representing us. Last year, we had seven students who qualified for the honor choir. This year, we have 11. Uh last year we had um six students uh qualify for the pre- area audition and this year we have seven. So we are seeing great progress. The pre- area audition will be held on November 7th at Gainesville High School. And there they are. They're nervous right now, but they're really fun and smiley and they sing a lot when they're not nervous. Um and a wonderful accomplishment, some data to think about is that we actually tied for second place out of 19 schools for the most pre- area
010placements. We tied with Crumb and Decatur was one ahead of us. So out of 19 schools, we came in second. So I'm very very proud of uh these kiddos uh their hard work and their dedication coming to sectionals before and after school. Um actually some of us just went to a Sunnyvale pre- area camp just this past weekend on Saturday. So giving up mornings, weekends, afternoons. Um I'm just really proud of them. So thank you. Great job, guys. We're going to take pictures here just shortly. So, y'all don't go anywhere. All right. Our next item is the National Principles Month. It's Y'all have your own month. >> I got a whole month. Wow, that's cool. I want a month. Anyway, well, we're gonna Oh, we do. I mean, for me, not you. Um, we're gonna
011hear from Dr. Kelly OS Sullivan, our deputy superintendent. I'm not going to say it. She's not paying attention to me. >> I am. >> Good evening, President Stacy and Dr. Brown and members of the school board. October is National Principles Month, and tonight we are honoring our amazing five campus principles of Lake Dallas ISD. I don't have a clicker. Oh, okay. Just looking for the Got it. So, research consistently supports the critical role of principles as instructional leaders and culture builders who multiply the impact of good teaching. Principles are the cornerstone of sustained academic success. They lead with heart to ensure every student can succeed. The principle matters. Lake Dallas students from each campus have provided their expert opinions on why their they appreciate their principal. Starting with Miss Blevens, principal at Lake Dallas Elementary.
012Miss Blevens is so kind, nice, and beautiful. She helps everybody all of the time. Principal, we are grateful to have you in our school. You are so great at everything. We will always love you and we will miss you when I go to middle school. A great principal is the highlight of the school. That was actually from a card that a student made for Miss Blevens. Students from Shady Shores Elementary had this to say about Miss Bryant. Miss Bryant is actually meeting with a parent right now, so she will be here as soon as she can. Miss Bryant, you are the best principal in the world. You make everyone who did something good feel recognized. You make everyone's day just by being you. When I was in prek, Miss Bryant would be so nice to
013me and my friend. She would visit us at lunch and sometimes give us tokens. She will always be my bestie. We love you, Miss Bryant. You are the best principal ever. Miss Fay, principal at Corinth Elementary. Her students had this to say. She always listens to what others have to say and helps solves problems. She is sweet. She keeps us safe. She is really nice and I love her. She makes a great principal because she has good rules and I am glad that she can do this. When kids are down, she can help them up. She is happy, happy, happy. Moving on to Lake Dallas Middle School and principal Miss Boan. I would like to say thank you for being such a great principal. Thank you for being kind and thank you for being our
014principal. I like how when we see each other in the hallway, you have such a positive attitude and you always say hello to me. She helps with hard decisions. She has been my principal since third grade and has been nice all of the time. Our Lake Dallas High School students shared their appreciation of Dr. Gindle. Dr. Gindle is always so extremely caring. She's so sweet and nice to me in the morning when I walk in and always ask how I'm doing. Dr. Gindle, you are so energetic and fun to talk to. Thank you for being such a positive attitude towards everything you do. Thank you so much for supporting not only me but the volleyball team. Your school spirit is very present and I truly appreciate your love for this school. You never fail to
015brighten our day and warm our hearts. Thank you so much for being you and thank you principles for all you do. [Applause] >> Right on time. Tada. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. She made it. Yeah. Just in time for pictures for your month because you get a month. All right. Our next item uh Dr. Brown is our October teachers and employees of the month. >> Thank you, sir. Our October teachers employees of the month were recognized a few weeks ago at our uh monthly breakfast. And if you stick around during close session, you can watch the video. >> All right, sounds good. Uh we're going to take some pictures right quick. So, we're gonna do that. >> Yeah. I'm pinching. Yeah. All the pressure. All right. Let's start with National Honor Society. Okay. Next.
016All right, here we go. And smile. One, two, three. Thank you. And two, one. Beautiful. Excellent. All right. Okay. No, I just need the front row to slide one window down. Yeah, that's just a little All right, here we go. And Okay, hang on. Dr. Brown, can you go to your right just a little bit? >> Yeah. And um Oh, Scott, can you go that direction just a touch? I'm just trying to get everybody in the right windows. >> Yeah. >> Okay, Ashley, we go to your left just a little bit. I'm still cutting off just a little bit, but I think we might be okay. That perfect. All right, here we go. And three, two, one. >> Great job. >> Thank you. Okay, y'all be careful. It's good to see y'all. Now we can
017start all the fun stuff. All right. In honor of Mark Tucker, the open session of the meeting will adjourn. The board of trustees will reconvene in executive session pursuant to one or more of the sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act, chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. The board of trustees will reconvene in open session to take any final action, decision, or vote on a matter deliberated in executive session. And it is 553. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. [Music] Up. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Okay, it is 6:57. We are back in regular session. The public comment section is next and uh the board uh allows time for citizens to speak uh staff to speak or students to provide their comments to the board. The uh Texas Open Meetings Act requires that every meeting
018of the government of a government body be open to the public except for closed sessions as permitted by statute. As a courtesy to the public, Lake Dallas ISD board of trustees allows time for public comments at regular meetings of the board. Statements and questions from the audience will not be permitted during other portions of the meeting. Excuse me. If you wish to address the board of trustees during public comment portion of today's meeting, you must have officially signed in by 5:30 p.m. with the intent to do so. According to Lake Dallas ISD policy beed local, only those persons on the list who request to speak shall be heard. The speaker shall limit remarks to three minutes. Complaints and concerns for which other resolution channels are provided shall be directed through those channels. The complaints include
019uh the complaints include complaints on the following subjects. Employee complaints, termination of employment, student complaints, removal to alternative education program, and expulsion. If the presiding officer determines that a person has not attempted to resolve a matter administratively, the person shall be directed to the appropriate policy for attempted resolution before bringing the matter to the board. Complaints against specific employees or officers of Lake Dallas ISD shall be heard in executive session as authorized by Texas government code title section 551.0741 and2. If your topic concerns complaints against specific employees or officers, please note this on the signup sheet. You must take your uh points on issues in a constructive and courteous fashion pursuant to Robert's rules of order. And we're gonna hear from Stephanie Hurley in regards to the manager hiring at Lake Dallas Elementary. Stephanie Hurley,
020you have three minutes. Oh, sorry. I believe this decision was not based on merit. I am the most qualified candidate for this role. I have the training, the experience, and the proven ability to manage staff, oversee food service operations, ensure compliance with regulations. When I applied, I had recommendations from a former director of LDISD child nutrition, the retired assistant director, as well as the current cafeteria manager. For me, this is more than just a job. It's a commitment to making sure our students have safe, nutritious meals in a welcome, welcoming environment. I understand the concerns that hire me might appear to be favoritism because my mother is the assistant director with the respect has nothing to do with my own ability to perform the job. Many of you know my mother's history here. 31 years
021of loyal service leading with integrity both cafeteria and now district level. Her reputation speaks for itself. Many of you here many of you here sitting here have followed your parents' footsteps or have children following in yours. My situation is no different. What makes a school like our strongest family who remains committed to serving generation after generation. I grew up in the halls. By the time most kids were getting on the bus in the morning, I had already been at the school unloading Tim's produce truck and stacking milk crates. This work has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I know what it takes to keep things moving smoothly because I lived it. To overlook my dedication, qualification, and experience based on assumptions about favoritism is not fair to me,
022and more importantly, it's not fair to the students who deserve the best leadership in the cafeteria. All I ask for is to be judged on my own merits, just as you were when you stepped into your roles. I'm ready to work hard, lead with integrity, and put my students first. I only need the opportunity to prove it. Thank you for your time, your service, and your consideration. >> Thank you for your comments. We appreciate it. Uh our next item is our information items. The first of which is priority one strategic plan update, prek 3 and four. And we'll hear from Carrie Blevens, Jennifer Bryant, and Ashley Fay, our elementary school principles, who by the way have their own month. >> Hey, it's good to see you. >> Hello. Good evening, Dr. Brown, President Stacy, and
023board of trustees. Our update today focuses on priority one of the district strategic plan, student success. This priority includes three key goals. 1.1 Ensuring yearly academic growth for all students. 1.2 fostering a culture of engagement and belonging. 1.3 helping students grow into responsible contributing community members. And everything we do in preK3 and preK4 connects to this foundation, setting students up for long-term academic and social success. This slide gives an overview of total enrollment across our campuses. And as you can see, our early childhood programs are thriving. High participation in both preK3 and preK4 demonstrates families trust in our schools and that they value the place and the value they place on early learning opportunities. >> Good evening Dr. Brown, President Stacy and board. Thank you. So the Children Learning Institute or CLI as we call
024it through UT Health Houston is used as an assessment tool for our preK3 and four students. PreK4 uses the circle progress monitor monitoring assessment to specifically target students and areas of growth. Those areas include rapid vocabulary early writing skills, wrote counting, shape naming, counting sets, and a variety of other things. And so this is just a small little snippet. So I feel like you have to snap a little bit to this because it's just a matter of seconds. They'll have a letter pop up on the screen like the letter B and they have about three seconds and if they can't get that within those three seconds it goes to the next slide. And so there's 21 letters that will pop up on the screen both upper and lowercase to assess their knowledge of those rapid
025letters. And so that's just one example of the assessments that students take. Students will take three different waves throughout the year to measure their growth. They have wave one in September through October, wave two in January through February, and wave three in April through May. So that way we can assess their growth over time throughout the school year. Um, and all of these assessments um that data that we collect throughout the year, we submit to TEA at the end of the year so we can show our progress over time. >> Good evening. raise it. Okay. So, after our um wave is completed, then our this amazing CLI program actually generates reports for parents. And so, this is actually one of our students um at SSSE. So, the first page is going to give the parent
026an overall glance of how their student did in the four areas. And then over to the right, you'll notice the QR code that is personalized for this student and it has family resources and activities that they can do at home to help increase those skills. I know. Isn't that impressive? And then on the back side, it goes into more detail of each of those areas. So you'll see, let me go back one real quick. So, at the top it says on track, you get a green um circle with a check and then you'll see the red circle with the exclamation for need support. So, you'll see on the rapid letter naming, they need a little bit of support. Sometimes that's just learning how to take the test and knowing to say the letter out loud,
027um not just thinking it. Um you'll also see the rapid vocabulary, early writing skills. We're even looking at social emotional behaviors and those early math skills and the phonological awareness. So, a parent will receive this each wave. So, this is some of our overall data for the district. This is all three elementary schools. PreK4 for the wave that we just completed on October 8th. So, you'll see, look at our rapid vocabulary is already at 54% of our students are on track. So you'll see that number fluctuate throughout the year as the rigor of the assessment increases based on the years of age for the students. So these are just some of the areas that we'll be tracking for y'all. Then it's a little bit different for our prek3. So now that we've expanded and added,
028we are all learning in the same process. And the prek3 is a um checklist. So, these are observational um data that the teacher is taking. It's not sitting with a three-year-old on a computer screen asking them questions. Um so, each teacher has filled this out for our students. So, these are two of the main areas, health and motor, and language and literacy. And you can see they're quite varying. We have pedalling a tricycle, forming simple shapes out of Play-Doh, so learning to make a ball or a snake. Then you'll see even the language and literacy um demonstrating understanding of four different prepositions up, in, on, under, um asking who, what, where, and why questions. So, if you've been to visit any of our three-year-old classrooms, you will notice there's a varying difference between a student
029who is three on September 1st and a student who is four on September 2nd. So since that's the state cutoff, you'll see in our classrooms a varying um I can't think of the word right now abilities and developments in our students. So two more areas that we're going to be looking at is the social emotional and the cognitive. So these are some of the skills that we're working on daily in our classroom. Sharing toys and taking turns with assistants. um expressing emotions through words in addition to actions and body language. Um counting objects um one by one we're getting all those skills ready for them for a successful year in preK4. Next. All right. These images show our preK 3 and four students actively engaged in hands-on learning. From centers to circle time, students are
030building foundational skills while also developing confidence, curiosity, and collaboration. These experiences connect directly to our strategic goal of fostering engaged learners and building responsible, community-minded citizens, even at the age of three and four. And as we close, these images remind us of why this work matters. Every smile, every moment of discovery, every skill gained. These are the building blocks of lifelong success. Our prek3 and prek4 programs are more than just a starting point. They're strategic investment in the future of our students and our community. And we're proud of the foundation we're laying and excited to continue growing together. Right. Any questions? >> Thank y'all. Y'all have any questions or comments? Are y'all going to have a month again next year? That's my only question. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> That's what I've been told you
031will. >> I just want to say thank y'all for all you're doing because I know it's been a big undertaking on that three and four and just seeing those assessments and like that prek4 that's like what my kids were doing in kindergarten. So that's impressive and that hopefully that's going to help our upper grades as we continue on this journey. We appreciate it. I can say that I have a granddaughter in preK3 and I've seen progress in the just in the way she communicates and uh um it of course she's like any other kid. Some days she wants to go to school, sometimes she doesn't. But it just depends on what kind of mood she's in. But I have seen progress in her in her development and I think it's it's brought her a long
032way. And so by the time she gets into kindergarten, first grade, she's going to be that much more ahead. So >> has she taught you to blow her no your nose when reminded? I saw that up there. >> Me to blow my nose when reminded? >> Yeah, she's bossy. >> Up there it says blow nose when reminded. >> She's bossy. She will probably do that very soon. >> Make sure you learn that. >> She just hasn't gotten to it yet. Okay. Well, thank you. Talk to Mr. Tucker about that one. >> All right. Our next item is a bilingual ESL program evaluation. We're going to hear from Dr. Kellyio Sullivan, fresh from the farm. >> Good evening again, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, and members of the board. School districts that offer bilingual education or ESL
033programs review these programs each year to evaluate student progress. And this is in accordance with the Texas Education Code. And tonight we're presenting an uh an evaluation of our bilingual and ESL program in Lake Dallas through an area uh through areas of focus and um success for each campus and the district as a whole. So starting with just an overview of our current enrollment in the bilingual and ESL programs. Looking at 2425 as compared to the current year of 2526, we can see numbers have um decreased slightly overall um our emergent bilingual students um from 541 to 524. Bilingual program at the elementary campus at LDE were at 128. that increased slightly this year. ESL at our other elementaryaries and including at Lake Dallas Elementary are at 176. And then ESL at secondary is down
034to 197 from 260 last year. So we know recruitment and retention is the utmost priority um and for our highly qualified teachers and that goes directly to support our student success. Ways that we do this and keep this as a priority are we provide resources and preparation for our teachers for the bilingual and ESL certification test um to help with that preparation and study and access to the test and resources and partner with region 11 and other um training organizations. We also provide reimbursement for successful certification test. Once a teacher takes the test and passes it, um they are reimbursed for that certification test. Also, Lake Dallas offers stipens for bilingual certified teachers um teachers of record for our bilingual classes as well as ESL teachers of record um for those ESL students in self-contained
035classes. In addition, we offer professional development to teachers in uh from the very beginning of the year. Also, we partner with region 11 and other bilingual and ESL organizations to offer it throughout the summer. Um we offer it to campus teams. I know Miss Blevens and her team at LDE have partnered with region 11 um to um do coaching walks and observations um throughout the year to continue to evaluate and develop the program and also training for administrators whether it is our um bilingual or ESL programs to ensure our administrators are able to go into classrooms and review the curriculum and review the assessments and be able to look at um what students are doing and where that success is drawn. At this time, our campus principles are going to present their programs progress and
036their areas of focus. And we're going to start with Dr. Gindle and Lake Dallas High School. >> All right. Good evening, Dr. Brown, President Stacy, members of the board. We thought we would change it up and start with uh high school and begin with the end in mind. So um just for context out of our 1,200 and almost 30-ish students um you can see the breakdown um of the number of students that we serve in our program at the high school by grade level. Um last year here's some successes that we wanted to share. Um honestly the longer students are in the program the harder it is for them to exit. Um we have many students that have been in the program for six plus years. Um and so to have students, we had 21
037students um exit and go into what we call monitor status. So once students exit the program and they meet that criteria, we don't just completely cut them loose. We monitor them for two years um to ensure that they're still being successful. Um as you know through the ESL program, there's accommodations and things that our students can receive. So this is our way to ensure um that again they're continuing to be successful after they meet exit criteria. So last year um we had um 21 students that went into monitor status. Six of those were freshmen and then we had 15 sophomores through seniors that exited. Um we have 22 students that are in that second year uh status. And then we had 20 students score a four which is a composite on the TP pass test
038which is part of their exit criteria and that was 8% higher than the past year. So that's a pretty significant um increase. So as far as what we're working on this year really wanting to focus on that um post-secary readiness specifically for our emergent bilingual students. And so our ESL teacher, our uh counselor, and our communities and schools representative have partnered um to do um several lunch and learns and and this is open to all of our students, but we have a targeted focus on our ESL students um with some of the topics that you can see there um that's done during lunch. Students can grab their lunch. We advertise prior to and um are really trying to help them uh for post-secary whatever whatever they're interested in. um really giving them targeted help. Um
039as we know some of them don't have that help at home. This takes a huge collaboration. Our ESL teacher who is new this year has really taken the lead on this fantastic program that we have called Elevation. And Elevation is where all of our students are tracked. And not only are we tracking their progress, but our uh all of our teachers have access, all of our core teachers have an account now. And this will help um all of our teachers know some very targeted things that each of our students can um work on and give them some skills rel relative to the content. Um as you can imagine with over 120 students and just one teacher and one pair, it's really hard to have those teachers go into all the classes. And so we're working
040on building capacity with our teachers across the board and specifically our English teachers. So, our ESL teacher has worked with them to create an individual plan for our ESL students and again meeting with them consistently to track their progress so that hopefully our students will have some ownership in when it comes time for TEP pass assessments, why it's important, why it's important to take it serious um and really to help the student feel successful uh on that test that's in the spring. All right, now it's Miss Boan's turn. Good evening. Um, I chose this picture. Um, this is Ariel and I do have permission to share the picture. Ariel just moved um here to the States from Africa this summer. She came to visit her aunt and uncle and she stayed um for a better
041life. She speaks French only. And so, um, she's just, um, this is just a reminder that for many of our students, school is really more than a building, but it's a lifeline of language, connection, and hope. Um, as she speaks French, we use this device to communicate, and I was just really blown away that she could type so fast in French, but it was a lot of fun to go back and forth just to um, be able to communicate with her, and she's already learning so much. So, I wanted to share that picture. Um, so at Lake Dallas Middle School, we have 32 students in sixth grade, 35 in seventh, and 31 in eighth grade. Almost 100 students that um are in the emerging bilingual program. Last um for Tail Pass last year, we had
042about 70 um students progress one level and nine progress two levels. So that means that they could have gone from beginner to intermediate or from beginner to advanced. Um but they are progressing as we are striving for continuous improvement. Um Falcon successes we have 18 students that are first year monitor and 14 students that are second year monitor which monitor just means that the students were successful and exited or reclassified from the ESL program. Um, another something else they have to do to reclassify is also pass the star test. So, we had 14 students that scored a four composite until pass, which is an increase from last year. And a four means that it was the highest level advanced high. Our Falcon focus this year, we want to increase individual skill building and practice through
043intentional K12 summit utilization for our EB students. Um K12 Summit is a program that utilizes their TEP pass scores um to provide practice and intervention enrichment for them in the areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. We also implement English language proficiency standards which we call ELPS within uh the classroom to support language development. And what's really neat is nowadays curriculum comes with um ways to implement the ELPS into the lessons. And so that's really nice. We also will be providing tier one, two, and three supports for our EB students through pushing in and small group pull out um small group and pullout intervention as well as increased student awareness of till pass scores. our ESL teachers meeting with each teach each student to talk to them about their scores, let them know where they're
044at, their progress, which areas they need to focus on, and involve students in setting language development goals. And up next, we'll have Miss Blevens with Lake Dallas Elementary. Good evening. Lake Dallas Elementary currently serves 160 emergent bilingual students. The images on the screen show our amazing ESL teacher, Miss Sandra Atinson, working directly with students in a languagerich environment. Our EB students are an integral part of our campus, and our staff works intentionally to support both their language development and their academic success. Of our 160 EB students, 128 receive support through our bilingual program and 32 students are supported through ESL services. This breakdown helps to ensure that we're meeting each student's needs based on their language background, proficiency levels, and instructional models. We currently serve 24 newcomer students, students who are in their first three
045years in the United States. And as you can see, we have four in their first year, 12 in their second, and eight in their third year. These students often face unique academic and social emotional challenges and we're working strategically to support them as they adjust to a new language and culture. This slide shows the percentage of students who made progress by at least one proficiency level on the TEP pass in each domain. While we're proud that over half of our students showed growth in listening, we know there's room to grow, especially in speaking, reading, and writing. And these results help to drive our instructional priorities this year. In addition, we had seven students successfully meet the criteria for reclassification last school year. Um, those students have demonstrated significant linguistic and academic growth as evidenced by
046their performance on Telpas in the STAR exam. And as for our students in their first year, 47% or over almost half progressed one level. To address language acquisition in the area of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, we're focusing on embedding the English language proficiency standards or the ELPS into daily lesson objectives across content areas. This ensures that all teachers, not just language specialists, are intentionally planning for language development in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We're also engaging our staff in a campuswide professional development initiative through a book study of seven steps to a languagerich interactive classroom. This book provides practical strategies for increasing student interaction, academic vocabulary, and engagement critical for both EB students and for all learners. And finally, we continue to build strong home school partnerships uh through events like our bilingual family
047night. These are some pictures from our event last year. Our families came. They learned how they could help support their children's education at home. Then afterward, we shared a meal. We celebrated culture through a performance by our Falcon Folk Laurico group. And events like this foster that trust, cultural pride, and community connectedness. Right. And now Mrs. Bryant's going to come share. >> Good evening again. So, at Shady Shores Elementary, this year we have 83 students that meet the criteria set by the state to um have the eligibility of emergent bilingual. So, within that, we have 26 that are new to us students with 11 of those in preK4, seven are in preK3, and then two are in our preschool program for children with disabilities, our early childhood special education. Um, and that percentage has stayed
048pretty consistent for us on our campus. Um here are just a couple um pictures of um Miss Brumley's classroom. She's our ESL teacher. So she um provides this intervention time during Falcon time. So on the left you'll see one of our students um they have specific headphones that they use and these have um an embedded microphone. So when students are practicing the listening and speaking on our K12 Summit program, you'll see students um on their um devices and they are using the K12 summit which is a personalized learning pathway. So I know a couple of them mentioned um that it actually is linked to the students current score. So it's personalized for exactly what they need to make progress in. And then you'll also see a group of students working on their writing reflections as
049well. So, a couple Falcon successes for Shady Shores this past year. 83% of our third through fifth graders scored advanced or higher on listening and Telpass. And 80% of our fifth graders scored advanced or higher on their TLPs composite rating. So, that's their overall rating. And our focuses for the 2526 school year. Um, we have two major ones. One is our student goal setting. So, our students this year looked at their TELOS scores from last spring and created goals for their TELOS for this year. And then they shared those goals with parents at our student led conferences these last few weeks. And then um our other big focus is increasing our speaking and writing. So, we're really strong in listening and reading at Shady Shores. So, we're working on focusing on that. Um, so specifically
050in our Falcon time and our pull out intervention time with our Miss Brumley um specifically for English language proficiency, but then also in all of our other settings that students are in. So, um, at our next staff meeting, our, um, ESL teacher is going to actually play some of the recordings of our students speaking and they are going to have the TLEOS rubric in front of them and they are going to score what they think a student would score and then we're going to share with them the TEA score um, just to ensure that we're really pushing our students and challenging them to that next level in their learning. And then we're always working on writing. So, anytime you come by, you're going to see writing in math, you're going to see writing in science,
051of course, writing in ELA, but you'll see that everywhere we are. And next up is Miss Fay from Corinth Elementary. Hello again. So, currently at Corinth Elementary, we have 74 emergent bilingual students. Um, we only have one newcomer that's in fourth grade this year and then we have 20 new students in our prek program. So, we've got them at the beginning. So, we're really excited for that. Between our prek threes and our fours that our um wonderful ESL teacher is she's getting right down there with them and really starting them early. It's great. She's enjoying herself in there with them. And so, um, these pictures up here kind of showcase last year we had a multicultural night at CE. And I will say this is one of those nights where we really got to see
052a lot of the pride from our community. Um, these families that come from diverse backgrounds really came and they showcased where their families come from. They had food, they had little goodies for everybody. It was a really wonderful night. um and they just really fostered inclusion and that community pride for all of us. It's a wonderful event. Some of the Falcon successes that we have at CE is that 43 almost 44% of our EB students grew at least one level in our overall TPAS course. Um the following grade levels increased by one or more levels from the prior year. Our first grade, 73% of our students increased by at least one level. Fourth grade, at least 50%. In fifth grade, at least 56% of our students increase by one or more level. Um, a total
053of 10 of our students successfully met criteria for reclassification from the ESL program at CE last year as well. And what that means is that these students demonstrated significant linguistic and academic growth as evidenced by their performance on Telpass and their achievement on STAR. Um, and just a little story on that, when our ESL teacher saw that, um, she didn't quite believe it. She was so proud of the kiddos and their hard work. Um, and also I I was very proud of her, too. She was quite cute with her disbelief. And it just goes to show how much pride she has in teaching our kids as well. Our Falcon focus at CE is also goal setting like SSE with EV students. They are reflecting and setting goals based on their previous star scores. And in
054the middle here you there's an example of a student who has set her goal. Um she set this goal back in September based off of previous TEBAS scores and what she really wants her goal for speaking to be. she's done really well in the other categories. And then overall as a campus, we're going to be focusing on reading. Um we're doing really well in the other areas, but we do need to focus a little bit more on reading and then how we're responding with that reading. Um and kind of comprehending some of that as well. This is just a picture of a mixture of teachers from several campuses throughout the district at region 11 over the summer um participating in the bilingual and ESL summer extravaganza. So just really taking pride in their learning and
055continuing their education with um our emergent bilingual students. Any questions? >> Thank you very much y'all. Is there any questions, comments? Collier, you good? >> Thank y'all. Appreciate it. Can't wait for your month next year. We have a month, too. Did you know that? I don't know when it is. January. It's coming up. Okay. Um, our next item is consent agenda. There any questions or comments regarding the consent agenda? If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> I move to approve as motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? >> A second by Miss Collier. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous without Mr. Applebee and Mr. Mark Tucker. All right. Our next item is our action items. There's only one
056and uh it is consideration approval of purchase SLAC recommended library materials. And back to the table is our artisal deputy superintendent, Miss Kelly O Sullivan. How are you doing? I'm doing well and I'm here to present this handcrafted presentation. So, thank you for having me back. So, this is um our uh recommendation from our our fir our very first recommendation from our school library advisory council for the list of recommended books from our all five campuses. Our school library advisory council met for the first time on September 18th of this year. The list of requested books from all of the five campuses were presented to the committee as well as posted on the district website. As we recall from when we established the committee and those procedures, the list needed to be uh posted at
057least 30 days prior to being recommended for approval. And so throughout this process um when the committee committee met they went through the procedures started reviewing the list the list is about 500 books um so they were not able to go through all the books in the meeting um our district librarian Miss Chambers was able to provide um a detailed explanation of each book and provide that to the committee members as well so that they could review those and provide feedback and input. So those additional book descriptions were very helpful as well. Questions and feedback were communicated throughout the 30 days. Um I was able to answer questions. Miss Chambers was able to answer questions as well. And so what we have is the finalized list that's presented to you tonight. Um recommended from the
058school library advisory council for approval. Awkward silence. I was just waiting for you to flip the clicker. Sorry. Any questions or comments from the from the board? If not, I will entertain a motion on this item. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Bay. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Smith. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. That passes unanimous. Mr. Applebee and Mr. Mark Tucker absent. And our next and final item are calendar announcements and information, upcoming meetings and events. Dr. Brown, >> you have uh one and a half pages of many opportunities to participate in amazing things happening at our campuses and throughout the district. A couple of things. Our Falcon family night.
059Um our committee has put together a uh a math focused math is not scary uh family night for our our uh our kids and parents. And then we have our LCF gala that's on November 5th. And at Mark Tucker's request, we do have two board meetings in November to make up for him not being here this evening. So at November 10th is our team of eight training in honor of Mr. Tucker. And then we have our regular board meeting the following week. We'll also honor Mr. Applebee with Mr. Mark Tucker that night as well >> if that's okay. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Um, that completes all of our business for tonight. We'll not go into any executive session. I'd hate for Mr. Tucker to have to do the paperwork on that later. So,
060it is uh 7:35 and we are adjourned. Thank you.