001Yes, I am. I'd like to thank everybody out to the Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting for May 19th, 2025. All members are present. We do have a quorum established. I'd like to start with uh a moment of silence. So, if you'd please join the board in that Okay, thank you very much. Now, we'll have our pledges of allegiance and those will be led by the high school VAS students. If you go ahead and come on up to the front. United States of America to the for it stands nationy and justice for all. flag under God, one indivisible. All right, thank you for that. Our next item and we have several sub items under this, but we're going to have our student and staff recognitions. The first of which is the Falcon
002Friends track meet and we'll be hearing from Mr. John Kennedy, our adapted PE teacher. How you doing? Good. Good. We're glad you're here. So we ended up I think with 46 students participated in it and a total of about 240 overall. And the thing most that I love about this All right. All right. Yes. [Applause] You want to come up here? That's fine. [Music] Are you ready? All right, our next recognition is going to be our T AEA Youth Art Month exhibition, and we'll hear from Janette Murray, our uh high school art teacher, who uh is going to have an office here in Central before too long. Oh, now you can hear me. Thanks. Um Sophia wasn't able to make the last board meeting, but we've had an update about her um accomplishment since then.
003So, just to go back and revisit, um, so March was National Youth Art Month, and Texas is, of course, a leader in the Youth Art Month celebrations. Um, sorry, TA, which is our state organization, sponsors a number of different programs celebrating art during the month of March. So, we do um Big Art Day, we do the spring exhibition, we do the Tassa Tasby spring show, um, and so many other things. because we really try to do as many events as possible. But Sophia is a freshman and she had her artwork entitled As I See Myself um accepted into the Texas Art Education Association's Youth Art Month exhibition at the Bullock State Museum. The exhibition showcases preK through 12th grade student works all across the state of Texas and um just over 100 pieces were accepted
004statewide. So huge accomplishment to be accepted into the show. So, there was a ceremony held on March 9th in Austin that Sophia was a part of to recognize all the participants. Oop, sorry. Here's Sophia work uh Sophia's work and um her posing with her piece too at the state exhibition. And it is still on view if you would like to go visit that website. You can see not only her work but lots of other um student pieces as well. But even more exciting now because of this, the Marie Media actually reached out to her family and they uh published an article about Sophia and her work. She talked about her inspirations and her processes and things like that and they had a two-page layout. So that was super exciting. So if you guys got the
005April issue, Sophia's in there. So congratulations Sophia. [Applause] And I think I'm also next, so I'll just stay here. Yeah. Yeah. So, I guess we're going to hear about the Lake Dallas High School vase state medal medalist. That right. Okay. And last time I was here, we had three um student state qualifiers. So, we just participated in the state visual arts scholastic event which is a UIL equivalent art competition. So, it was in uh it was held April 26th in San Marcus. Um we had Amelia Benyaga, Elena Blake, and Joanna M all participate in that. So, statewide there were 32,000 student works that were that were entered into just the regional competitions. Um, and then 2,359 of those works advanced to the state level. So just a teeny tiny little percentage. So just to get
006to the state level is incredible. And at the state level, they are jured again. So um, at that time, Elena, who couldn't be here tonight, and Joanna again received superior ratings on their works of art and came home as state medalists. So they won. Yay. [Applause] And because of their awards, that brings us to 24 years of competing at the state level and bringing home a state at least one state home state award home every single year that we've been doing this. So, I'm super proud of all of our kids and all their hard work. They're just absolutely amazing. And there's um Joanna and Elena. They did these amazing pieces where we were studying Prismacolor and positive and negative spaces. So, I really pushed them and I think they might have hated me a little
007bit during this process. Um, but their pieces came out absolutely incredible. I mean, and and your state winner. So, they they pushed they pushed and I pushed and they pushed back, but they did some amazing work and we're so proud of them. Yeah. Good job. Thank you again for having us tonight. Okay. Our next presentation and recognition is Lake Dallas Middle School Junior Vase Medalist. And this is Jessica Ryzen Hoover, our Lake Dallas Middle School art teacher. Hey my art students, y'all can come up here. Awesome. All right. And y'all can face the board. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Good evening uh to our school board, Dr. Brown, and the members of our Lake Dallas ISTD community. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to recognize our artists and these Falcons who competed in the
008Junior Visual Arts Scholastic event. Um Junior Base for short because it's a mouthful. Uh this is the middle school level version of what Miss Murray was just talking about for a high school base and our students have the opportunity to do a similar competition practice kind of what they will be doing at the high school level um and earn lots of awards for their artwork. So um Junior Vase seeks to recognize exemplary student creativity and achievement in the visual arts. Students are provided an opportunity to talk with members of the art community about their work and to receive feedback from someone other than us who are looking at it all day long. Um, it's a really valuable experience for them because they get to show off their skills among the best students in the middle
009school level in our state. And this uh contest specifically focuses on creativity, originality, and then artistic merit. This year we had 49 students with 60 entries at the event, which is a huge amount of students entering and it is actually the most entries we've ever had from our middle school. Um, right. So, for this competition, students have to do a lot of work. There's a lot of prep that goes into it. Um, they have to create their actual artwork, but then they have to submit all of their planning sketches and process. They also have to fill out a student intent form explaining how and why they created their work. This is all before the event. When they actually get to the event, they get to go into a room with a judge and talk about
010their artwork and have an interview. The artwork and the interview come together to one score and they get a rating of one to four with four being the best or superior. of the 60 entries that we had, 55 of our student artworks received a four rating and got a medal, which is an incredible amount of students um to come home as medalists from our event. Uh the other part of the event is after all of the artworks are scored and we know who has a four or not, they actually put the students against each other and they lay out all the artworks that got the superior rating and those are judged again blindly. The top 10% of the event receive an additional honor called a platinum honor. And these students who are here, as well
011as a few who couldn't make it tonight, are eight students from LDMS who received that platinum honor. [Applause] Yes. So, these students placed in the top 10% of the event and Lake Dallas Middle School actually took home over 10% of the total platinum honors awarded at the whole event this year. Um, so we wanted to share with you these students and their artworks. Um, so the first one is Natalie Callen and this is her artwork. [Applause] Teddy could not be with us tonight. I don't think I haven't seen her. Um, but Teddy Dunkai also received a platinum medal. Claire Kennedy received a platinum medal for her photography entry. Adelaide Lee received a platinum medal for her crocheted tapestry [Applause] piece. Unless I missed Ellie somewhere, Elizabeth Rivero did this digital artwork that received a platinum
012medal. Olive Thompson uh did this amazing sculpture that received a platinum medal at the event. Another digital artwork by Maravevel Valencia received a platinum medal at the [Applause] event. And one more digital artwork by Hayden Wade received a platinum medal at the event. So, we are so proud of these students and for putting their artwork out there and uh attending the event. And we're super happy to have so many medalists and so many platinum medalists. So, congrats, guys. [Applause] Good job, y'all. That's some awesome artwork. All right. Our next uh recognition will be Lake Dallas Middle School Stuco Award of Excellence. And we're going to hear from John Fabro, our middle school stucco advisor, teacher, sponsor, guru. Good evening, guys. Good evening, Dr. Brown, uh, Lake Dallas School Board, and members of the Lake Dallas
013ISD community. I wanted to thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to share about our honors and our awards that we've received this last school year. Um, I wanted to talk about three major awards that we've received this year. um the National Gold Council of Excellence, um the Texas Association of Outstanding Student Council Award, and then the Texas Association of Student Council Sweep Stakes Award. Um I'm so very proud of our amazing leaders. I'd like to introduce to you some of our key leaders this year that have made it successful. Isaac Birds, he's our president. Kinley Strong is our NJHS president. [Applause] Braxton Smith is our StuCo parliamentarian. Eva Norwood is our StuCo vice president and Lexi Matt Sakis is our StuCo secretary. These amazing leaders have have demonstrated outstanding leadership for their council
014to achieve these awards. So, we're going to start with the National Gold Council of Excellence and what that means and what what what that means for the district and what that means for us. The Council of Excellent Award was created to recognize student councils across the United States that maintain strong year-round programs and work to improve their schools and their communities through leadership activities. These guys do a ton of things. You see them all over town, all over the place. Um, the LDMS Student Council has received the Gold Council of Excellent Award for the past three years. only 250 middle schools received that award this year in the United States. So, that's pretty impressive. I'm really proud of these guys. Um, this year, our student council was also awarded the outstanding student council award from
015the Texas Association of Student Councils as well as sweep stakes, making this the 10th year that Lake Dallas has had this award. Um, 10th year in a row for both. These young leaders are so busy all year long. In fact, they're already working on some various community volunteer projects that we have over the summer along with preparing our back- tochool fair in August for all of our Falcons. These guys kind of keep me busy. Um the projects that they work on all year, many of many community service partners they work with and projects. Um we reported to the state over 2500 hours of community volunteer hours just this semester. Um we run our annual canned food drive with our NJHS. Red Ribbon Week is part of our um part of our thing we do. We
016have our adopt a spot homecoming and then just a lot of lot more things. I'm just so very honored and proud to have had the opportunity to work with these amazing leaders over the years. These students truly make a difference in our schools and community and have lots of great things in store for their future. So, I'd like for us to give one more round of applause for these great leaders. All right, y'all hang around for a picture afterwards. We're getting close, sort of. All right, our our next recognition is Lake Dallas High School Falcon Band State Solo and Ensemble Qualifiers. We'll hear from our band director, Denise Kennedy. There she is. She was hiding. [Applause] Okay, if we could wait like just a second and let this posy file in. Take your time, but
017please hurry. No, I'm kidding. Yes, sir. Absolutely. All right, double time. Let's go. Did Did you bring the whole band? Pretty much. No, no, no. About a third of them. This is what happens when you breed success at Lake Dallas High School. Hey, this is a good problem to have, right? Yes, sir. Just come up this way. Okay. All right. Yeah. Just come up here and face the crowd. [Laughter] Not even a little bit. All right. File across. File across. Let's go deep. Okay. If we could get a couple more across the back, please. Excellent. [Laughter] We're still back here. Please carry on. Okay. All right. I think I think we're ready. Go for it. All right. Um, good evening. My name is Denise Kennedy and I am the director of bands for Lake Dallas
018High School. And I just want to say um good evening to the school board and to Dr. Brown. Thank you very much for inviting us here this evening. Um slide. Who who am I talking to? Okay. Fantastic. Um on Saturday, February 22nd, many many months ago, um the members of the Falcon Band program participated in the region 2 UIL solo and ensemble contest at Billy Ryan High School. We had 60 students who competed in solo events and nine ensemble events. The solo events are individual um individual performance events. The students prepared a solo, what's considered a class one solo, which is a college level repertoire, and then they performed it with um an accompanist. Next slide. So of those who participated, 40 of those solos received superior ratings and six of those solos received an
019excellent rating. Additionally, eight ensembles comprised of 31 students, all who also performed a solo, received a superior rating for their performance. 24 of those solos performed at such a high level that they qualified to compete at the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Contest in Austin and will actually be making their way south on Friday um for the performance on Saturday the 24th. In order to qualify for this honor, a soloist must perform the college level um solo. It has to be performed memorized and receive a superior rating from the adjudicator. Additionally, eight ensembles, as I said, comprised of 31 students also receive superior ratings for their performance. Ensembles are not required to be memorized, but must also play college level literature. So, um, simply because they received a superior rating, they qualified for the state
020solan ensemble contest. As a result, 38 different students will travel to Austin to represent Lake Dallas High School, Lake Dallas ISD, and the Lake City's community at the UIL Texas State Solo and Ensemble event. These students are as follows. Bryce Beno, Payton Ber, Leila Brewer, Austin Brumley, Conai, Abil Curo, Addie Clemens, Anna Doe, Jackson Durham, Enzo Fernandez, Jackson Fischer, Ethan Glown, Lucas Gditis, Paul Haney, Kaden Hedrickk, Isaac Hai, Esther Kitamira, Nico Casteno, Liza Lee, K Ma, Mitchell Mesh, Ashlin Mines, Grace Monahan, Ellie Parks, Guyel Perez, Gabriel Presley, Ulissiz Quesada, Kanesley Reeves, Zoe Zoe Ruiz, Danny Sanders, Andrew Schaefer, Marina Shotwell, um Emily Scalson, Rebecca Scousson, Presley Sloan, Cassidy Smith, Brandon Stewart, and last but not least, Christopher Willis. Ladies and gentlemen, these are our state stolen ensemble participants. All right, y'all. Y'all stay put. We're
021going to come down there and get a picture with you. We don't want to have to do that hurting thing again. All right, our next recognition we'll hear from coach Matthew Dean and coach Sonia Frell Fouch regarding our Lake Dallas High School baseball and softball season success. Where are they? Oh, they're out there. Well, they've been announced. So, hey, that's fine. [Applause] Yep. I think Are we right on either side of the podium? Either side of the podium. And Terry's Terry's getting y'all in trouble. Of course Terry is. Yes. Sort of. I got it. Is baseball coming? Oh, great. They've been very serious today. I'm excited. Um, that's fine. I don't know. It was kind of a let down, wasn't it? Voice. No, he can wait. You're fine. Huh? Oh, you want to stand on
022that side or you good? We'll take turns. Oh, well I, you know, was sure. I mean, whoever's is first, we can just go. I think it's us. All right. Good. All right. Um, this is our Well, I'm Sonia Fouch. I'm the head uh softball coach. Um, so our Falcon softball uh for 2025. So, some team success we had. Uh, it was our first playoff appearance since 2016. um by district champions first time since 2016 as well. We were overall 17 and 11 this year. We placed third in um district. Uh we had eight all district selections and we have two collegiate signees Alicia and Zoe Christensen. Alicia is going to Illinois College and Zoe's going to McFerson. I know. Going back as far as I could, I tried to look through some program records that
023we set this year with our uh successful season. Uh we had a new home run record with 21 home runs. Um new overall batting average of 357, a fielding percentage of 934, and a new stolen base records of 57 stolen bases this year. [Applause] Then it's all uh just thanks to their hard work. They work hard day in and day out and I appreciate it. Congratulations. [Applause] Yeah. All right. Um sorry for uh my name is Matt Dean. Uh first year head coach here. Uh, first off, I want to thank you guys for having us. Um, want to thank Dr. Brown, the board, um, Miss Avalino for all the support that we have as a program. So, thank you guys for that. Um, when I got the job in October, um, I had a plan
024of what I wanted to do and, um, you know, these guys bought in and, um, all the credit goes to them, you know, and they, uh, worked their tails off and, and it's been been a fun ride. So, um, first playoff appearance since 2021. Um, increased all offensive production in in all categories. 928 fielding percentage. Uh, one collegiate snee. Uh, Ryder Shyel Hut. Um, [Applause] going to uh, Southern Nazarene University and then uh, eight all district selections. So, um, that's the most all district selections, um, since being a head coach. So, first year head coach, by the way. So, uh, just want to thank these guys for all the hard work they they've put in and, uh, hopefully we'll be back next year. So, thank you. All right. We're going to get everybody up to
025the front up here and we're going to get pictures with y'all. Yeah, we can do so first. [Applause] Do you need anything else? You don't have Okay. All right. So, our next uh recognition will be our Lake Dallas High School Golf Success. And against my better judgment, we're going to hear from Coach Kaishack. How's it going? We'll start like that, huh? Well, Coach Ed's not here tonight, so Oh, yeah. Okay, cool. Y'all come on both sides. Come on. Yeah, boys and girls, as it always is. Oh, it's okay. You're right. Oh, getting already nagged, man. I got All right. Uh hello. Uh just want to give you uh the board here a little uh update on the success that our varsity golf team has had this uh this past season and hopefully these uh these
026uh young men and women are going to build on the future for our team and set a good foundation for us as we move on. Uh quickly just want to talk about a little bit of the sense we have here. We've got our second place girls team and regional qualifiers. Uh most of the young ladies are here today. Um, we have Savannah, we have Ki Web, H Car Web, she was LPG, Ki Perez, Ria Rosa, and Maggie Farmer. Uh, they did very, very well at regionals. Um, just wanted as a team, these young ladies also were playing the second day at regionals with an actual outside chance of making it to state. So, it was nice to, it was, it was very, very much an accomplishment for them. Uh these are some of the all
027district of a players we had in the uh for our new district. Um and Marissa uh Hughes who finished eighth and second team all district. She couldn't join us tonight because of a of the senior senior picnic. That's right. And Savannah here fourth place first team all district. Very very proud of her. 14. Uh both of these young ladies were four-year members and uh it was an excellent way for them to end their high school careers. This is our young men who've played for the district this year. We got third place, very very close to go advancing as well. Um we have Carter Latrell. We have Kanan Collins, Gavin Novak, and Jackson Clark. All of these young men did a great job. All of these young men are coming back next year, so we should
028have a much stronger team. Um, we had our we had our uh Gavin Novak, our sophomore here, is our individual district 9A4A champ. Um, it's been a while since we've had an individual champ, but he's our fourth or fifth champion we've had at Lake Dallas in the last 25 years, which is nice, and I expect him to successfully defend for the next two years. No pressure. All right. Uh, another thing that the young ladies really enjoyed when we were making the slideshow, they really enjoyed the fact this was their f favorite tournament and it's an also ana and it kills two birds with one stones because it's an example of how we give back to community and how a lot of the tournaments sometimes we go a lot of the tournaments we go to are
029actually philanthropic in the sense that uh the money goes to a scholarship. In fact, uh I'm the host of a North Texas High School Golf Coaches Association scholarship uh tournament which these um uh these children have participated in before, but we also go uh for the young ladies. They really enjoy this one. It's a fun format. It's a good day. They get to play and rarely do you get to play together as a team. So, it's a scramble, but it's a competitive scramble. And they like the fact that we can buy pink shirts. Let's not let's not kid ourselves. Um, let's see. Here's Savannah Carter. She's one of our seniors that is leading. She's We're really going to miss her. Uh, she's been an awesome team leader. And because Marissa's not here, yes, you are
030my favorite. Um, Marissa Hughes, also one of our seniors, four year seniors. These two young ladies, like I said, they've been rocks for these young ladies that are coming up uh and setting up a good example and foundation for girls golf in the future. Uh, another young man that couldn't be here today, Griffin Humphre. He's still a little under the weather. He finished eighth place, second team all district. Kanan Collins another junior. As I said, we don't have any senior boys or coming back as far as our varsity is concerned. So, next year, we are we are looking really uh we're expecting big things from these guys. Young man named Jackson Clark here to my right. It's just a sophomore. He's probably one of the most uh one of the most rapidly development uh developing
031players we have on our team. Looking about looking for good things from him as well. Ki Perez, another sophomore district all district honorable mention. Leah Leah Rosa over here on my left and Maggie Farmer as well, rounded out by uh a girls team that stayed committed all year for me. Um which was important because how many girls did we have this year? How many girls on the team? There you go. All right. and a little special recognition for the uh some others and that were really instrumental in helping us round out a good varsity season this year. Um and I just wanted to put them in there uh even though they may not have played in that five top five. All right, I'm done. Congratulations. Okay, here's how this is going to work. We're going
032to get pictures with y'all right quick and then we're going to go back and uh do the art uh recognition photos, too. We'll get that knocked out and then we'll hit our last recognition. All right. All right. What' you say? All right. Now, we'll be pleased to hear from Molly Abalino, our Lake Dallas High School principal, who will present our Lake Dallas High School class of 2025 top 10 graduates. Good evening, Dr. Brown, President Stacy, and members of the board. It is both a privilege and a pleasure to stand before you tonight to recognize and celebrate the exceptional achievements of the top 10 graduates of Lake Dallas High School, class of 2025. These students represent our highest standards of academic excellence, dedication, and character. Through years of hard work, perseverance, and commitment to learning, they
033have distinguished themselves not only in the classroom, but also as leaders, role models, and contributors to our school community. As we introduce and honor each of these remarkable young individuals, we also extend our gratitude to the families, teachers, and staff who have supported them along the way. This moment belongs to all of you as well. Okay. I'd like to welcome to the podium Amelia Vanyaga, our class of 2025 validictorian. [Applause] Y'all have to be patient with these seniors. We've had them at the school all day and then they had a picnic and she's still here looking glamorous. All right. Amelia is a standout student at Lake Dallas High School. Known for her academic excellence, leadership, and school spirit. She has completed a demanding course load including AP chemistry, physics, calculus, AP drawing, and many more
034along with over 30 hours of college credit through North Central Texas College in subjects like art appreciation, psychology, and the dreaded college algebra. Balancing school and part-time work at Mike's Bakery, Amelia brings creativity to both academics and her job. She's also a dedicated member of the varsity cheerleading team and actively involved in numerous clubs and organizations in student including student council president, national honor society vice president, class officers, math and science club vice president and many many more. You guys will be seeing a lot of her Tuesday night, Wednesday night. Her ability to manage rigorous academics, work, leadership roles, and her extracurricular activities while energizing the crowds across campus as a cheerleader reflects her exceptional commitment and her Falcon pride. This fall, Amelia will attend the University of Texas at Austin to study architectural engineering.
035Amelia, again, I am honored to recognize you as a class of 2025 valadictorian. Okay, slide over here. Don't wander off. We'll have a picture afterward. All right. Oops. I'd like to introduce our saludiatoran, Jan [Applause] Kim. Over the past four years, Jan has exemplified the four pillars of Lake Dallas High School: safety, ownership, achievement, and respect. A dedicated student and active member of both the STEM club and the football team. His leadership and work ethic have earned him the name from his peers and coaches. Coach Kim as a National Honor Society member since junior year. Giwan has completed over 100 100 hours of community service including youth leading youth uh every summer at vacation bible school. Academically, he has pursued a rigorous path in computer science, completing multiple honors, AP and dual credit courses and
036over 20 college hours in total so far. Right. Okay. He has also earned a certification in machine learning with Python on his own, underscoring his passion for the field. This fall, Jiwan will attend the University of Texas at Austin as well to continue his studies in computer science with a focus on machine learning. I'm proud to recognize Juwan as the saludiatoran of the class of 2025. Thank you. Congratulations. Right over here. I think most of our top 10 are here, but some of them may be outside. Did Jaden make it in? All right. Jaden Abraham will be attending the University of Texas at Austin and majoring in aerospace engineering. Adena Clemens. [Applause] Hello again. Adena will be attending Valley Creek College and intends to directly pursue an associate of the arts with her future career
037so far undecided. Congratulations, Hannah Davis. [Applause] Hannah will be looking forward to attending Texas A&M College Station and majoring in ecology and conservation biology with her future career path also undecided yet. Congratulations, Dev Raj Data. And Devraj had let me know he had a conflict this evening, but Devraj is looking forward to attending the University of North Texas and majoring in construction management with future career goals in construction management with a side of entrepreneurism. Ray Ma, it's you. It is you just in a different outfit, right? Ray wanted to wear that UT shirt tonight. Okay. All right. Ray will also be attending the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in mechanical engineering with his future career definitely on the engineering path. Congratulations, Ray. Emerson Milgaris. [Applause] I tease Emerson. He outdresses me everywhere he goes.
038Emerson's looking forward to starting out at Dallas College majoring in emergency medicine and services. His future career will be to continue his path that he started at Lake Dallas High School as a firefighter paramed paramedic. Congratulations, Rebecca Scousson. [Applause] You've seen Rebecca already moonlighting the band, so she'll be recognized in multiple activities. Uh Rebecca plans on attending Brigham Young University, majoring in music and math with her future career teaching music and math. Okay, congratulations. [Applause] and Kelsey couldn't join us tonight, but Kelsey will look is looking forward to attending Loy Lyola Mry Mount University and majoring in film and TV production with her future career hopes to be a film director or cinematographer. So trustees, thank you and congratulations to the Lake Dallas High School top 10 of the class of 2025. We are going
039to take a picture. So once they get organized, we'll get organized. If you're tall, All right, we're gonna move out of order for just a moment. We're gonna have our executive director of HR, Carl Landram, introduce us to a couple of new uh Falcon folks. Falcon folks. Got to be careful. Good evening, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, and board. It's my honor to introduce the newest members of the Lake Dallas ISD administrative team. Mr. John Lawacher, assistant principal of Shady Shores Elementary School and Dr. Colleen Grindle, principal of Lake Dallas High School. First up is Mr. John [Applause] Lawacher. Many of you already know John. He is a Lake Dallas High School alumnist. He was also a teacher and coach at Lake Dallas Middle School from 2018 to 2022 where he taught sixth grade social studies,
040math, and science, and eighth grade business information management. While at the middle school, he also coached football, track, cross country, and basketball. He then moved on to Flower Mountain High School where he has taught money matters, leadworthy business management, and held various coaching assignments including head JV football coach, varsity assistant offensive line coach, and JV soccer coach. John received his bachelor's degree in middle school math and science from Henderson State University and his master's degree in educational leadership, also from Henderson State University. We are thrilled to have Mr. Lawbacher join our administrative team. So please help me give a big welcome back Falcon to Mr. John Lobacher. Next, I'd like to introduce Dr. Colleen [Applause] Grindle. Dr. Gindle began her teaching career in 2006 as a seventh grade English teacher and coach in Denton ISD.
041The next year, she moved into the role of speech communications teacher and coach at Guyire High School. She was appointed assistant principal at Harpool Middle School from 2013 to 2016, then assistant principal at Guyire. high school from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, she became the ninth grade house principal and later the associate principal at the same campus until she was named principal of Harpull Middle School in 2022. Dr. Gindle received her BA in speech communication with education emphasis from Stephen F. Austin State University, her Master of Arts in Education Administration from Lamar University, and her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of North Texas. Lake Dallas High School will be the benefactor of Dr. Gindle's experience. And I ask you to please join me in welcoming Dr. Colleen Grindle to the Falcon
042family. I hope you know what you're in for with us tonight. Think you have an idea, right? She's already met Scotty Bear, so it's Yeah. I guess this is your family down here. Yes. This is my husband Jeff, my son, and my daughter. All right. Good to meet you guys. Yeah. All right. Our uh last recognition. We're going to go back into recognitions. Our May teachers and employees of the month, Dr. Brown. Yes, sir. We uh honored our May teachers, employees of the month a few weeks ago. And uh when we go into executive session, that video will play. All right. Speaking of executive session, the open session of the meeting will adjourn and the board of trustees will reconvene in executive session pursuant to one or more of the sections of the Texas Open
043Meetings Act, chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. The board of trustees will reconvene in an open session to take any final action, decision, or vote on a matter deliberated in executive session. And it is 6:38. [Music] You're welcome to hang out with us if you don't have anything better to do for a board meeting. Boy, girl, [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Mhm. [Music] All right, it is 7:35. We are back in regular session. Our next item is public comment and we have nobody here. So, we have nobody signed up or nobody signed up and nobody here. So, we'll move on to our next items. The fir uh which are information items. The first of which is the 2025 20226 budget update. We'll hear
044from Anne Han, our CFO. Hi. CFO in home. Will you push that button on your Is it blue now? Can you hear me? Yes. Perfect. Okay. Um, as I was saying, tonight we're going to give a broad overview of our 2526 school year budget. So, kind of just to have a budget calendar. um of our upcoming meetings. Tonight's again just our first overview. Then hopefully we'll be able to dive a little more into it at the next workshop on June 2nd. And then at our June 16th meeting, we will hopefully maybe bring to you a compensation plan in addition to campus and department budgets. And then at our July 21st meeting, another budget update which will bring to you our three adopted funds that are required for your approval. general fund, food service, and debt
045service. Then hopefully Jul by July 25th um sooner would be nice, but that's the last day that we can get our certified values um from the appraisal district. So hopefully we will have our certified tax values by the 25th. And then August 11th, we can give you a final budget update before bringing it back to you August 25th with our public hearing to adopt the budget and the tax rate. As you've heard before, state funding follows the student. The foundation school program establishes how much state funding school districts are entitled to receive. The calculation consists of the following district characteristics, student characteristics, the number of students in attendance or the average daily attendance, number of students in actual enrollment, and the number of the full-time equivalent students. Then also the tax effort. It's also a
046balancing act though because um local share versus state share. So as our property values or the taxes that we receive from our property values increase, we will receive late we will receive less state revenue um because it's an equal dollar per dollar. So as long as our property values are going up and taxes are increasing, we receive less funding from the state. And since a big part of that is following the student, I kind of wanted to do an overview of enrollment and where we have been start since 2022 and where we kind of anticipate it to be for next year. As you can see, for 2223 year, we had a total of 3,900 students. that decreased by 89 students for the 2324 year where we ended at 3811. Oh, let me say these are
047actually PES. So these are snapshot numbers that were taken in October of each year at our snapshot date. And so at snapshot for 2425 we were at 3,717 students. and current numbers as of last Friday, May 16th, we were down nine students for a total of 3,78 students. Doing a projection for the 2526 year, not factoring in preK3, we're anticipating enrollment to continue to decline. Um, currently looking at 3,613 students. Um, we did have a large graduating class. This 12th grade class that's graduating consisted of 335 students. So, that was a rather large class that we're leaving. Um, unsure about kindergarten. I kept kindergarten numbers the same as current enrollment. And so, we'll know a little further as more students get enrolled in kindergarten and also our pre-K programs. And so, we'll be able to
048come back to you hopefully with an increased enrollment projection. But, as it stands today, that's kind of what we're looking at. In regards to the budget, um since it is a legislative session and nothing has been decided yet, there's a lot of unknowns, but one thing that we did want to touch base on tonight is just our required spends. Um so, basically, these are areas that we can't cut cost because they're determined for us. And these are costs that the district will incur regardless of staffing, student count. These are just a constant cost that we have. um yeartoear. So if you look at 22 to 23 the 22 23 year um we were a little over $2 million that increased slightly for the 2324 year. Then in the 2425 there was a big jump um
049mainly in our property insurance. We saw a big increase in our property insurance from the 23 24 year to this year. And then also you can just see utilities um slightly increases every year for the projected 2526. Um again these are just all projected numbers. We have not got the appro Denton County appraisal district number. That number is based on last year's certified tax values. So that could change slightly once we get our certified values for this year in July. um not anticipating a big increase in property insurance like we saw um for this year, but probably a slight increase. And then also an increase in utilities. Um we will have a new CTE building opening up this year. And so we anticipate, you know, increased utilities with that building. So an increase over the
050four years is almost at a $700,000 increase um percentage-wise since 2223. That's over 33%. Um, and we currently adopted a deficit budget for this year of $357,00044. Again, legislative session. And so, the Senate committee substitute to House Bill Two has recently came out and that would bring about an 8 billion increase in funding for public ed in the state of Texas. When we look at the numbers of what that would generate for Lake Dallas ISD, it's an overall increase of $3,171,72. And within that is a new aotment that they're titling teacher retention aotment. And that would generate around 2.2 million for the district, but again, that would go to specific raises for teachers as it's worded currently in the bill. And then there's also additional funding for specific program um areas, but a lot of
051those have a required purpose, meaning that it's additional funding that since it's for a required purpose, we can't spend it in other areas because special ed, bilingual, career, and tech, those will all be additional dollars, but will be we'll be required to spend them within those certain areas. So, it's not additional funding that we'll have to use for anything else. So that leaves us with about $539,000 remaining. But what hasn't been factored in is any French benefits that will come along with the added teacher retention aotment. Um so that's just things the district pays for on the benefit side. Health insurance percentages, um TRS, a lot of the things that the district will will pay for that's not factored in. And so if you take that out and then also take out the added $29,000
052um increase in our required spend, it's not leaving us a lot of money. So that would really leave us new available funds of um $6,135. And so for June, um we're hoping there will be some new guidance, some possibly some something will pass that we can come back to you and be able to provide um general fund revenue, which a reminder, new revenue is tied to growth. And then again, we'll also be bringing you the campus budgets, department budgets, and the compensation plan. And with that, are there any questions? Thank you. Is there any questions or comments from the board? No, ma'am. I appreciate you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, our next information item is our Lake Dallas ISD CCMR update and we'll hear from Dr. Kelly O' Sullivan, Deputy Superintendent. Good evening,
053Dr. Brown, President Stacy, and school board members. It's good to see you. We are going to present an update tonight on our college and career military readiness. We have had a lot of focused work in this area over this year and in LA last year as well. And so a little bit of a review of what constitutes college, career and military readiness. There is the side that is college and the college readiness or the Texas success initiative and that's comprised of SAT, ACT, the TSIA2 and college prep course and then we also have AP um test and dual credit and then on the career readiness those indicators um included in that are the industry based certifications level one level two certifications the IEP and workforce readiness Um, and those are a limited number of our
054special education students who qualify um for those indicators and then our students who enlist in the military. And so I thought it'd be helpful to look at just some of the changes in CCMR requirements as they are also aligned with CTE because we know CTE that offers the industry based certifications are tied to our CCMR. So these are some changes that have just occurred recently plus our current standard and then what's coming up next year. So, it's always changing. So, prior to 2023, 60% of our graduates were required to meet their college career and military readiness indicator in order for the campus to receive an A rating. After 2020, as of 2023, that standard changed to 88% from 60 to 88%. going into 2024, we're still with the 88% and now some changes um to
055the IBC program. It had to be part of an aligned program of study which we have done a tremendous amount of work ensuring that all programs of study are aligned and they lead to an industry based certification. In addition, one course level two or higher must be taken and then at least two credits within the same program of study. 2025 um again all those stayed in place and 2025 layers on top of it. So 2025 the IBC the align program of study a level two or higher course and now two or more courses for at least two or more credits in the same program of study. And then looking into 2026, all of those things that we just covered in addition to that last piece that says three or more courses for at least four
056or more credits, including one level three or four course in the pro same program of study. So a student must meet all of that criteria in order to be eligible to take an industrybased certification to receive their college and career military readiness. So if we divide out the college ready from the career ready for just a minute and we look back historically remembering that this is a lagging indicator. So our 23 graduates reported in 24 our 24 graduates are to be reported in 25 and our current graduates in 25 should be reporting out in 26. And so looking at 23 and 24 overall college readiness compared that 39 to 62%. So our 24 graduates greatly incre improved in that college readiness indicator and then delineated that out between dual credit AP. We saw an increase
057in SAT. Um the college prep course we work with Texas College Bridge and we began with our juniors and seniors. The high school did a tremendous job of that approach and they had juniors and seniors participating in that college preparatory course. Um, starting next year, TEA has said only seniors can participate in that course. So, our juniors can no longer. Um, they could as of this year if they were enrolled in it, but only seniors, it will count for seniors only. And then the TSIA2 is a college readiness exam. And so a slight increase in that as well. These are projections um based on um we looked at our 23 and 24 which were 39 and 62 met college readiness. And looking at our current seniors for 25, we're projecting 81% to meet the college
058readiness standard. And please understand those are projections because included in that are AP exams. An AP exam window just closed last week. Um also students, believe it or not, although it is Monday before graduation, students are still completing that um college prep class and they're doing some of those last minute things to make sure all of that is um completed. And we also have some students that take the TSIA2, that college readiness um exam on college campuses other than taking it at Lake Dallas High School. They may go to or NCTC and take that. So that would be reported back to us. So a significant increase from our 23 graduates to our 25 graduates. Um but we will see that in 2026 accountability. Looking over on the other side of CCMR to the career readiness
059path, the industrybased certifications in 23 about 9% or about 25 students completed IBC's. Last year our 24 uh 2024 graduates we had about 18% which equated to 52 students. I did not put the 25 graduates on here because there is such a number that either you're required to be 18 before you can complete it or they're still taking it and there's just other that the um projection right now is 22% or at 72. But that's just um until we finish out the year in the summer and we go through everybody turning 18 and meetings such as our farm techch kids and our educational aid students and then our AEP and workforce that is really limited to a small group of students who qualify for that indicator. So our CCMR projections, so this is the college
060ready and the career ready combined from 2023 graduates at 48% that were reported out in 24 to our 24 graduates approximately 76% that should be reported out in 2025. We are projecting right now 94% for our current graduates at 20 our 25 graduates again with some of those outliers in that data not yet having taken place or been completed. In addition for the military component of it in the past the DD form 4 we collected those we hunted it down. We called, we worked with the military, we worked with the students and their parents to collect those forms. Starting um for 26 accountability, which is our 25 students, our graduates this year, we're going to depend on the Department of Just uh defense. So, we do not have to solely depend on that DD4 form
061anymore. It was it was quite challenging to collect those forms timely and to meet that window. So, we will we're looking forward to that partnership. So looking at continuous improvement and how it has improved um just over the past um two years and going into next year an increase in the industrybased certification choices. We've gone from three industry based certification choices to 25. We had the animal science, we had um welding and we had farm tech. Um and I I added just a sample of some of the um IBC's. Some of them are are more popular ones and the newer ones such as social media marketing. Um the certified personal trainer is a new one. Um food safety is becoming popular and then our tried andrue welding is still very popular. animal science, farm tech.
062Um, one of the more difficult ones, the mechanical design solid works, that is a difficult IBC and we have students being highly successful obtaining that certification. And so that is exciting. And then also about continuous improvement is that systematic approach um with the um alignment between middle school and high school offering not only an expanded um program of CT at middle school but also making sure that alignment is possible. Um it's in place. Um offering that TSI, that college readiness test to our eighth graders so they have the opportunity to take that exam. um and making sure our eighth graders know about um dual credit classes and that they are prepared for that and we can walk side by side with them and their parents as they enroll um in dual credit. And then just
063program alignment overall, ensuring that every program of study is aligned and goes down the pathway not only to an IBC but also wherever dual credit may fit into that because we want students having both sides of that whenever possible. the four-year graduation plan. Our counselors um work with students on creating that four-year graduation plan, but it's not just put in a folder and put to the side. Really sitting down and working with them, calling them in, meeting with them, making sure they stay in that program of study, and if there's something else they want to try, is there another course within that program that they would like to go try? Um that ensures that they reach those higher level courses that will allow them to take the certification test. and then the CCMR progress monitoring
064system that has been put in place that systematic approach to ensuring every single student has a path to CCMR and multiple paths um and then somebody overseeing that and delegating that throughout the roles and responsibilities. We have the counselors, we have the administrators, we have our CT advisor all looking over that system and collaborating and working together with the CNI department to make sure that that students move through that seamlessly. And then just the extended opportunities and thinking differently. Um so proud of what the high school has come together and has offered um from the Texas College Bridge systematic approach to ensuring everybody has that opportunity. um but also the college test prep and test taking throughout the year. So they've actually increased the number of times that students can take the TSIA2 a number
065of staff members and administrators have become proctors for that test at the high school. And I think now they are offering it six to seven times a year whereas before it was maybe three maybe four but usually just three times a year um and also at the middle school. And then the industrybased certification, the preparation that's going in to that now. So students see, oh, that's a that's a four-hour exam or that exam has multi-steps to it. It's going to be taken over a series of days. And so teachers becoming more familiar with the certification test that their students are taking and the students having an opportunity to practice that. Um and so we just really have to give um the the praise and the gratefulness to the high school team, Miss Aalino, Mr. Gomez,
066Miss Canales for their systematic approach in driving this and that commitment to ensuring that um every student has walks that path and has their CCMR met. Any questions? Thank you, ma'am. Is there any questions or comments from the board? I do. Go ahead. Okay. Um, well, yes, first of all, I just want to reiterate, um, huge thank you to the high school staff bringing us from 48% to projected what, 90 something% 94. That's amazing. So, I appreciate all the work that they've been doing on um, so I I still keep trying to understand this. Um, so to get the CCMR point, they only have to have one point. It takes four anytime they're in their four years to get it, right? So the industrybased certification when you were going over that slide, um, it seems
067like though they've increased the difficulty to get the IBC. Yes. Point, right? Increased the steps the steps to to be able to be eligible to take that IBC. Yes. And and more coursework. It sounds like correct. more coursework, um, more advanced coursework, okay, and aligned focused coursework within that program of study. So, we're not going to lane jump, okay, in from one program of study to another and then take an IBC for something maybe I only took one or two courses in, not fully prepared. So, it ensures that focused work in a program of study and then that preparedness by taking an advanced level course, right? And does that help them pass the is that in The goal is to help them pass the certification for them to be more prepared. Yes. Okay. And they
068have to pass the test to receive that point, right? Yes. Okay. And then um uh the but they could also get a point by taking just the TSI test, right? Or the TSIA. Is there two different tests or is the same? TSIA is the test. There was a TSI A and now it's TSIA 2. Okay. Um, and so they can take that test and receive it. They can also take the um the Texas College Bridge. It's an online program and they can take that as well for that point. But if they take that TSI A test in 8th grade, does that count for their CCMR point in high school? It does. It stays good for five years. Okay. For their college entrance. Okay. And then just um just just for my curiosity on the industry
069based certifications that you have all those tests that we're taking, could we at some point get a report of how many kids we have passing all those? That would be kind of exciting to see just personally for me. Yes. Like who all has passed this certification? Who how many kids we have passing all these the specific certifications. Absolutely. I think that would be nice to see. Yes, ma'am. That's all. All right, that's off. That's all we got. We'll move on to our next item, which is uh Lake Dallas ISD facilities plan update. And we'll hear from John Modica, our chief operations officer. Good evening, Dr. Brown. Good evening, board. So yes, we've had multiple conversations about uh our facilities, the maintenance and what it takes to maintain those facilities and even some proactive u some
070measures or upgrades we can make to systems to make us more efficient. We've talked about HVAC, heating and air, um more economical flooring and even some upgrades to our electrical, mechanical and plumbing systems again to make us more efficient. So, in an effort to ensure we're being good student stewards of uh our maintenance and operation funds and making the most efficient and beneficial decisions for our students and staff, we're currently developing a long range facilities plan. So, tonight we wanted to show you the platform we'll be using to accomplish that task. I'm ready when you are, Mr. Hamilton. So, we partner with U Bell and they've turned us onto this software program called Matterport. So, that's what I really wanted to show you guys tonight. of all our buildings and facilities within the district. We
071came across this um by partnering with Belffor restoration company. And so I'll show you. We've done this with every um building within our district. And we're going to show you tonight the central services building where we're at now. So you can see here this is a laid out of the building. it' be a 2D image, but if you click anywhere in the building, you can actually come into it and now you get 3D imaging of the building itself. We took these images about 18 months ago, maybe two years ago. Um, and you can see this is what it looked like when we took that imaging. And again, this was primarily done for insurance reasons. Uh because if there is ever damage to this room, fire, water, electrical, whatever it may be, um you could really
072sit down with the insurance company and show the assets before and after uh the damage was done and you can make any claims needed, especially when it comes to technology or any devices in the room because you have a good image and detail of what was in the room before the damage. There's also a lot more you can do within this program, which is why we want to show you this tonight. So again, this is for any building within our district. Um, and you can actually tag anything within the building. So here in our civil central services building, I tagged this AED. So you can see I've labeled as an AED. There's also a bleak kit and an ARCAM pack in there as well. And you can add whatever details you want. So here I've
073said that it's it was last inspected of February of this year. So again, very powerful, especially if it's a SRO or campus administration on campus. um they would have access to this and they would see these tags within the building. We can also come down here and I'll show you our utility closet. I've labeled some other tags. So, who exactly would have access to this? We're for now we're thinking our uh facility staff as far as our maintenance and operations, campus principles, campus administration, and even our technology team because then they could also tag some of their assets. So within this closet here, utility closet essential, you can see I've tagged a roof access. Also, we've tagged this water heater here. And all I've done is take it uploaded a photo of the uh model
074tag number there. So you have all this detail right at your fingertips. Um you can see that it was installed March of this year. The the other great thing about this this software, this program is we can upload or link other artifacts. So we could actually link the warranty for this water heater. We could link uh the next time we need to inspect it or drain it. We could also put in um just where we bought it, the information from the vendor we bought it from. Here to the right, there's another tag. This is HVAC control systems. Um so I've labeled in there um actually the the vendor we use for this building, the contact information. If we step into the closet, there's actually another set of century control systems for our HVAC. And that's
075a another product and another vendor. So that here we have Honeywell which is the product and then the vendor that we use for the sensory control system for HVAC. So again very beneficial for maintenance facilities but again even our campus administration. So you can imagine uh there's an outside scan of the building as well. So we can even tag shut off valves as far as gas, water, electric. Again very powerful. So in the if a event ever came up whether it was an emergency or an operational facilities emergency uh campus admin any campus staff that needed it would have quick access to this information because there's actually an inventory list and they can go to emergency management see the shut offs and if they click water shut off it brings them exactly to where it
076is in the building and gives them a 3D image so they know exactly what they're looking for whether it be for a campus administration or even our facilities. And again the the best part about this platform is that we can actually again like I said tag those artifacts warranty inspection dates uh anything that we think is useful and beneficial for our team to know we can tag it to that asset. And again this would be for facilities campus and even technology. So they can come in and tag as detailed things even as our electrical outlets network drops or even IDFs or MDF closets or access points. just about anything in the system we want to tag, we can do that. So again, that was just a brief overview of that software system, Matterport. Um, like
077I said, we're in the process of tagging thousands of artifacts within the building. Um, now going through archives to find blueprints as builds, um, warranties for things so that it'll all be in this one software unit um, that we can again give permissions to, right? So facilities guys would just have access to what they need to whereas campus admin or SRO would have access to all and everything right because it comes to emergency management as well as maintaining the building. So we're excited about this. We wanted to show this to you. Um I think I already know a question already. Yes, as soon as the CTE building is done, we will go in and do that exact same software. So we'll have that layout of that building and again be able to go in and
078and tag everything. But with that, I will happily take any questions you may have. I do have a question regarding access to outside entities. Is this only internally like let's say TDI if you wanted to give them access so they could go through and check we could um and we could limit access we're what we're currently doing right now is we're going to integrate incident IQ which is our work order system um and we plan on all our vendors using that. So TDI is a great example, HVAC, because they manage our HVAC systems, they would go in and we would inventory everything and tag everything. But when they come in and do a work order, then we'll know actually exactly when the filter was placed, uh, when the coil was last replaced and who the
079warranty is through, and we can integrate those systems. So that way when David or I need to go in there, our maintenance guy, they can actually just with one clink click on that asset, it brings them to Insight Q and then they have the inventory for that item. So, okay. We'll probably let them live in the incident IQ and we'll live in the the system because it has a lot more information than they would do. Yeah. Okay. So, they can live on one side of it and Yes, sir. But they would integrate. Very nice. Thanks to Jerry. There you go. So, he does have a lot of purpose, right? More more than you want to know. Not just the pretty face behind all the presentation series. Anybody else have any questions? If not, then we'll
080we'll move on to our next item. Thank you, sir. Our next item are our consent agenda items. Those are those routine. We don't have any consent agenda items. Did we? Yeah, we do. They're just not listed on here. Okay, my bad. Oh, there they are. Yeah, usually I see it on here and it's I'm like, wait a minute. Thanks. Wow. Okay. Consent agenda. If there's those routine items, it can be handled in one motion. Do I have any questions or comments regarding the consent agenda? If not, I will entertain a motion on consent. I move to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Applebee. Thank you. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. All right,
081we'll move on to our action items. The first of which is consideration approval of a resolution regarding good cause exception to the House Bill uh three requirement for armed security on every campus. Dr. Brown. Yes, sir. This evening uh you have attached the uh good cause exception. We're seeking approval. This is the um the the same exception that you guys approved last year about the same time. It is updated to reflect that we do have our own school district police department and that theou will still stay in place for stay in place for all of our local PD uh for assistance and needed and it aligns to our safety security plan. All right. Is there any questions or comments for Dr. Brown? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve by Mr. Tucker. Do
082I have a second? I'll second. Second by Mr. Bar. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that is unanimous pass. Thank you. Our next item is consideration approval of pre kindergarten partnerships. And we'll hear from Dr. Kelly O Sullivan, our deputy superintendent. Hello again. So, tonight we are seeking your approval to establish prek partnerships within Lake Dallas ISD with private child care um centers. And so looking at um prek partnerships overall, we've had an ongoing conversation and communication with Texas workforce with um with you as a board through workshops about the benefits of these preK partnerships and that it is a collaboration, a true collaboration between um public school districts and private child care um providers and it expands that access to high quality early uh
083childhood sorry early childhood education and it helps us reach more students and families earlier in that learning process as they are becoming learners. And so we get to work with the with the parents, the centers and the students. And then supports readiness and academic foundations for young learners and really readiness skills not only in math and in reading but also social interactions and behavior and building that confidence and that independence as a learner. And then looking at the funding for these partnerships, it is based on attendance. And so, um, state funding is based on our ADA at $3,900 per students annually at 100% attendance. So, we notice that is a difference than regular funding. Um, for students, preK is at 3,900. Um, child care providers are funded according to attendance as well. So, not only
084us, but our partnerships, the school districts are funded at the $3,900 um based on 100% attendance and the child care providers would see receive 50% of that based on attendance of the students and those payments are made to our daycare partners. They would be made quarterly by the district. looking at the curriculum and the instruction support for our prek partners and for the students. Um we pro would provide TE's aligned curriculum to all preK partners. We currently use CLI that's children's learning institute as our prek curriculum and we would continue to do so as would our um prek partnerships and that is approved curriculum through TEA. Um this ensures instructional consistency and quality. Um again, our teachers are very familiar with it and um the pre-K partnerships um would be able to implement this curriculum
085with our support um and and professional development and then as a partner they would engage in collaborative planning with us with district staff. Um we would invite them um to professional development to trainings go out provide observation consult and make sure that um they are set up for success as are their students as well because they are our Falcons as well in the prek partnerships. Teacher requirements. The teachers will be employed by the daycare um provider. They are not um Lake Dallas ISD employees. for prek3. We always want to recruit highly qualified teachers. Um and also um our district of innovation plan provides that flexibility to hire um for the daycare providers to hire preK3 teachers um based on their degree or their certificates or their experience and their training. And then preK4 teachers, they
086must meet that state um high quality teaching um expectation. Again, that is met through um early childhood degrees um or early childhood certifications as well. The student assessment and state reporting. So, this is a requirement of students to be progress monitored throughout the year. um three and four year olds have different levels of monitoring that is required for them. Um and this is also through the CLI that children's learning institute curriculum they provide the assessments for us um that we do beginning and we do a middle of the year as well but really the beginning and the end of the year are the major assessment times um that assessment data whatever assessment data that we take through CLI we do submit that to TEA and then that supports our accountability and program improvement. TA provides
087feedback and support to us based on that data that they receive on our pre-K programming. And then earlier I just mentioned about the professional development as a part of this partnership. We're very excited about this. Um as district partners um they will um our our daycare provider partnerships will be invited to our beginning of the year training. anything that is specifically for our prek teachers. Um as well as for prek parent events. Um so we want to remember them as well. Um not only beginning of the year but throughout the year whether it's curriculum, instruction, materials, assessment um also special programming. We want to be able to go out and support them and have them come and join us um as well. And then that will promote those consistent expectations and that professional growth that
088we will see in the achievement of our very littlest Falcons. Any questions about our prek partnerships? Have any questions or comments regarding this item? [Music] about how many partnerships are we currently looking at? Right now we are looking at five with a potential of six. Um we have we were we're working with five and one is still working on their um their final pieces of their process to be a part of this program. But right now we have five. Okay. Thanks. Dr. O Sullivan doesn't know this, but we received another request today for two more. And so the word is kind of spreading that we're doing this to some of the local child care facilities. And so they're now reaching out through Texas Workforce Commission. So we've told them that we're going to start with
089our five and then get that going and then we'll start visiting because we can add throughout the year, but we would be able to just kind of get it functional and then add some in. So I just got that request today. Nice. Okay. Any other questions or comments? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve by Mr. Applebee. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Smith. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that is six in favor and Mrs. Collier is not in the room. So, that passes. Um, our next item is consideration and adoption of resolution approving uh contingent fee legal services contract including findings needed for submission of contingent fee legal services agreement and request for expedited review by the uh Texas
090Attorney General. They're from John Modica CO. Yes, sir. Uh so these actually have the next two items and they both pertain to the matter we discussed and closed last last week. Um the national multi-dist litigation that's now being pursued here in Texas. So this first action item is a resolution to join that litigation with the two firms representing the Texas school districts. And that is all I have. Any questions or comments from the board? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Barrett. Do I have a second? A second by Mr. Bartley. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous, including Mrs. Collier. Now we'll move on to our next item which is consideration and adoption
091of contingent fee legal services agreement with Elen and Bonan PC and oh Hanland Demerath and Castillo PC. We will once again hear from John Monica COO. So this action item is actually again regards to the same uh multi-dist litigation. Uh and this is a resolution regarding contingent attorney fees for the litigation and as a reminder these are contingency fees. So the district at no point will be paying associated fees regarding the litigation regardless of the outcome. The district would only receive funds if the restoration is paid um which the district can then use towards mental health services for our students. And with that I I will open up to questions. See I can't talk until that that that slide is up. I have to wait for that slide. I've been told. Uh, is there any
092questions or comments regarding this item? If not, I'll entertain a motion. I move to motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? There's a second by Mr. Tucker. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. move on to our last action item which is consideration approval of professional new hires. Dr. Kristen N. Brown, superintendent, will you please present this item? Thank you, Mr. Lance, Stacy, board president. Uh, we recommend approval as presented in close session. Okay. Is there any questions or comments on this item? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve by Mr. Applebee. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by Mr. Barrett. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please
093indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thanks once again. We'll move on to our calendar announcements and information items. Uh upcoming meetings and events. Dr. Brown. Thank you, sir. You have a an attached list. Our big grand finale is Wednesday night. Um you should have a packet. If Melissa didn't get a chance to give you your little green envelope, make sure you get that from her with directions. And then we also have our end ofear staff celebration um on Thursday. And then everybody goes home. Well, almost everybody except for the rest of us who have to work all summer, but the fun kids go home. Okay. All right. Well, that uh concludes uh our business for the evening finally. And it is 8:21 and we are adjourned. Thank you. [Music]