001and get started. So, I call this Medina Valley ISD regular board meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. on September 22nd, 2025. We have a quorum of board members present. Absent board member is Mrs. Lee. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. First on the agenda tonight is student and staff recognition with Mrs. White. There we go. All right. Good evening everyone. Um and this evening we are going to be recognizing from Petranco Elementary some of our um some of our broadcast crew. So from PETV. So our PETV students play such an important role at our campus every morning. They're the ones who set the tone for the day leading announcements, sharing reminders, and helping all of us start with energy and focus. It takes commitment to stay after school,
002prepare, and get in front of the camera for the whole school. And this team does it with pride and consistency. Tonight, we're proud to recognize four of our broadcast leaders that are here with us. We have Mila Herrera. Well, she's um she'll be here in just a little bit, but Mila Herrera is on her way. We have Freda Compos here with us, Leah Angulo, and Olivia Lindamman. While they are part of a larger team of students who contribute to PETV, these girls are representing the whole group tonight. Their work might look simple on the screen, but the impact is big. They bring our campus together and help us start each day on the same page. I am grateful for the way they model responsibility and teamwork for all of their fellow Cubs. And I invite
003you guys to watch a little video um on the screen. Three, two, one. [Music] >> Good morning, Pachenko Cubs, >> and welcome to TE TV, >> empowering minds >> every morning, >> soon and every day to get the latest news for kids by kids. What's happening outside? Tell us if we're rocking short sleeve or jackets today. >> Well, we know that answer. >> Today's weather will be partly cloudy with a high temperatures of 92 and degrees F and the low will be 73° F. The winds will be from 5 to 10 miles hour with a slight chance of thunderstorms during the afternoon as well as 30% chance of rain. Keep those jackets away. >> Good weather on the Friday is the best. >> And we know that the Friday lunch menu is always great. Foodies,
004let us hear it. [Music] >> Welcome to Lunch with Libby. Today, your main entree is Furrito pie with a side of sandwich garnish, charo beans, pineapple tip, and your choice of milk. And if you would like, you can have some cheese sauce with that. Don't worry, it's a little bit cheesy. Today your main entree is cheeseburgers with a side of vegetables, tater tots, sandwich garnish, and mandarin oranges along with a choice of milk, bone, appetizes. [Music] Let's look at the menu. For our main entree, we have Furrito pie. For vegetables, we have sandwich garnish and chario beans. For fruit, we have pineapple tidbits. For milk, we have your choice. For condiments, we have cheese sauce. I hope you enjoy because this sounds delicious. I cannot wait for lunch. Good morning, Cubs. Today for your hungry
005tummy, we have cheeseburgers with a side of tater tots sandwich garnish, mandarin oranges with your choice of milk. This sounds like a great meal. Bonapet pizza is so delicious. Let's keep that good time going with a great laugh. >> What do you call a fake noodle? >> And then pasta. We are so excited to share that we have a new segment coming to you with Coach Rodriguez, our April employee of the month. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Who is your favorite Disney character? >> Ariel. Thank you for everything you do to make Petraco great. >> This month is all about cooperation. Cooperation means working together to reach shared goals. We hear all of the time that it is important to say thank you and feel gratitude grateful. But why did you know that practicing gratitude
006can help us feel happier? >> This or that. That's it for today's announcement. Remember to be safe, respectful, and responsible. >> Remember always to be safe, respectful, and responsible. PTV signing off. >> It's going to be a good day. [Applause] So very proud of you girls um in the work that you guys do for our campus every single day. Uh they did have some words that they wanted to share with you all too. Um so first I'll start with Leah and Gulo. If you can come up and share your words with the board. Come on up and I'll stand here with you. Hello. My name is Leah. I am in fifth grade and I am proud to be part of the PETV broadcast team because all of my siblings have had an experience of being
007on the morning announcements for a club. So being part of PETV means a lot to me. I have been in PETV broadcast team club for 2 years and one of the things I enjoy about the club is working with friends and when you can make the script for the part that you record in the PETV broadcast team. Two things I gained from being in the PETV club are learning how to type and I learned how to write a script. My favorite PETV moments are almost all the bloopers because I enjoy laughing a lot even during PETV. After everything that we have done in PETV, it is still one of my favorite clubs I have ever been in. Thank you for listening to my presentation. Next, we'll have Freda Compost come up. Hello, my name is
008Freda Sophia and I am in in fifth grade. This is my second year in PETV. Something that I enjoy in PETV is the teamwork. Like people always say, teamwork makes the dream work. I also love filming and entertaining others. PETV has helped me gain my courage in filming and meeting new people. So far, my best moment in PETV is making new actions for the anchors. I love being in bloopers and doing funny actions. It has been an amazing time doing PETV for my last year in elementary school. I think that this was an amazing opportunity for me. We are so lucky to do this for our school. Thank you for taking the time to listen about what I think about PETV. Next we'll have Olivia Lindamman. Hi, my name is Olivia Lindaman and I'm in
009fourth grade. This is my first year of PETV. My favorite part of PETV is filming. One of the things I've learned so far is to be more comfortable on camera. One of my favorite memories so far is when I laugh with Milo when we mess up our lines, as you saw on the video. Thank you for Thank you for supporting my school and PTV. Thanks for listening. And last but not least, but Mila Herrera. Hello, my name is Mila Herrera and I am in fifth grade. This is my second year in PETV and I really enjoy getting to work as a team to help the PETV episodes come together. We can always rely on each other to help get the work done. PETV has taught me how to be more confident in being social with
010interacting my not sorry with interacting with other students, teachers, and staff. My favorite moment was being named as co-anchor this year. Thank you for supporting Pachenko Elementary and PETV. At this time, girls, if you guys can come up, please. Now I would like to highlight my second second grade PLC process. Sorry, the pro got Got it. I'm sorry, I didn't realize it wasn't on the PLC community and process and really what it can do for our students. Um, so we're really excited to be a part of this process and to be a part of and collaborating and functioning as a community. So, um, you know, our second grade team has really leaned into the process, um, and what it's all about. They've been proactive, taking those brave and bold steps forward as a team while
011fine-tuning how we approach instruction to better meet the needs of our students. Uh what I admire most about this team is the way they carry the mindset that every student belongs to all of us. There's no I, it's we. In the conversations that they have, they're not just focused on their own class. They're focused on making sure every second grader at Petranco is successful. Their collaboration, consist consistency, and willingness to grow together are making a real difference for kids. And I couldn't be prouder of the example they're setting for what a strong PLC looks like in action. Um, so if you can turn your attention to the screen, we are going to be highlighting Mrs. Castillo, Narvvice, Odum, Oen, Rolette, Johnson, and Dono. My favorite thing about school is when we do stations. Like today
012for a station, we did technology, math academy, and progress learning. We do lots of math, which I really love. There's like a one learning where it's like there's a bigger number and number like that. >> I think that PLC is really important because it builds community between our team. we're sitting. We're talking about every individual kid. It's not just my kids, your kids. It's all of our kids. Especially being like first time in a new grade. I'm not familiar with all the teeth. So, it really helps me feel like I'm not figuring it out on my own. >> So, when we're unpacking a TE, we're really looking at that verbiage that's set inside that TE. What is actually essential? What should we focus on and spend the longest amount of time teaching? because we really
013need to focus in on those skills. And so unpacking that TE and that PLC with the team looks a lot like that and really figuring out what is it that this TE is saying that these students need to learn. So it's very important to unpack those TES so we know what we're responsible for. >> And we also have to look at what do they have to master before we get to those skills. So it needs to look the same across the board and we have a goal that we're looking to hit. For example, um we just went through a place value unit. We gave them 10 questions over written notation over your base 10 form, things like that. We had preassess and then we took 10 questions at the end of our unit, had them
014come together and test in that and see what that looks like. If they scored an 80% or higher, we declared that mastery as a team. And then you want to give them some leeway. You don't want to say 100% is mastery. That's not going to happen. That's not mastery. That's perfection. I love the PLC because we all get on the same page. >> We came to the table yesterday and we started talking strategies and I had strategies that I had come with. Some of them had strategies that they use and we kind of met in the middle and I found some strategies that would work for my kids that need that extra help and some strategies for my kids that need that extension. We're all trying to do the same thing and so it's consistent
015so all the kids are getting what they deserve and what they need. So again ladies, thank you for challenging yourselves. Thank you for investing in our students and in the PLC process. So at this time if I can please have Mrs. >> Yes sir. Okay. So I will So for if I could have Mrs. Rolette come up first and I can keep like keep going after. Okay. All right. [Applause] If I could have Mrs. Narvvice, Mrs. Castillo, Mrs. Odum, [Applause] Mrs. Oeen, [Applause] Mrs. Johnson, [Applause] and Mrs. Alva. [Applause] Next on the agenda is public comment and we do not have anyone signed up to speak. So we'll move on to announcements, communications, and presentations. We'll begin with the board committee reports. First with the finance committee with Mr. Nash. >> Uh good evening. Uh
016the finance committee consists of myself, na Nathan Fillinger, and Suzanne Lee. Um we last met on September 10th, and the following items were discussed. Um we discussed uh some updates to the facility rental board policy. We updated or discussed the uh nomination for the Medina County Appraisal District Board, which is on the agenda for later this evening. We had some updates on how the uh cell phone policies implementation has gone at the uh middle schools and the high school. Um and the status on the bags that we're going to be ordering. Uh construction updates for Creek View High School. Everything's on schedule there. Um the updates on the A ROC building here at Medina Valley High School and updates on the construction that has begun on middle school number three. Um, we discussed the purchases
017of some items for Creek View High School, particularly the band and choir, concert equipment, and custodial equipment. Um, we had some discussion on the remaining funds from the bond 2019. Um, particularly around scoreboards and batting cages. The scoreboards have already been approved. The batting cages have not. Um, and then we had some discussion on what our stadium advertisement is going to look like. And that's it. >> Any questions? Not. We'll move on to construction committee with Mr. Beer. >> All right. I'll try not to sound like a broken record uh here. So, the construction committee meeting uh met on September 10th, 2025. Uh committee members consisted of myself, Matt Castalone, and Ben Huarez. Uh we discussed the following items. uh facility rentals, updates to board policies or not updating board policies but discussed around what
018we were doing there with facility rentals. Uh Medina Central appraisal district board nomination, cell phones and the bags that we're going to use. Uh one of the items that Mr. Nash did not mention was uh County Road 482 property and the CPS easement. Uh other folks know that as the Bippard Lane property uh around Creek View High School update there around the football video board project cost changes and some purchases that we have there with that high school. Uh next item discussed was around the uh Medina Valley High School A and JOTC building. Uh next item was around Medina Valley Middle School number three and status on that project. Uh we also discussed Medina Valley Elementary School number seven and where we stand with with that process. And last but not least around Medina Valley
019High School, we discussed HVAC updates uh the video boards and advertisement um for softball and baseball fields. And then uh item that we're still currently discussing and looking for pricing on is the batting cages. >> That's it. >> Question. Any questions? and we'll move on to safety and security with Mr. Wattis. >> All right. Uh September 11th, the safety committee met. Uh safety and security meeting uh took place. Uh they consist of myself, Nathan Fillinger, and Blaine Nash. Um some of the items discussed were the police department update, uh safety project updates, including the district security cameras and district access controls, the the EOP and annex overview. Uh some of the additional topics discussed in the meeting were the ELT learning walks and data collection, accelerated learning plan for fifth graders, uh CTE externships, special
020education psych cyclical um monitoring update, the 2425 age of learning and progress learning growth data, bilingual hub numbers, special programs information night, the appeals to the board to challenge a course grade and teacher incentive allotments. ments and the district scoreboard scorecard. Sorry. Any questions? Good. Okay. Last one. We'll move to curriculum with Mr. Bonnie. >> Uh the curriculum committee meeting met on September 11th. Also, the members are myself, Mrs. Lee, and Mr. Castaloney. Uh very similar to the one you just heard before. We had we discussed ELT learning and walking and data collection of instruction on grade level 2526 district scorecard the accelerated learning plan for fifth graders CTE externships special education monitoring update 2425 age of learning and progress learning data growth data the bilingual hub numbers the waiverss and special programs night appeal
021to the board to challenge a course and the teacher teacher incentive aotment questions? >> Not then we'll move on to the construction briefing with Mr. Brawhouse microphone um to give you all the construction update. We'll start with our first project, uh, Creek View High School. On this project, >> all right, sorry. Uh, we are currently out just about to reach 80% completion on the original project. Um, on the change order, we're at 13%. Again, we're reaching um, very critical milestones uh, moving forward on this project. As you can see on the next page, uh paving has started and it's gone uh pretty pretty fast on this project. There's only a couple of small sections left on the bus drop off and the connection from the future uh bus and staff entry coming from 1957 that's
022left uh to do. Moving on to the next picture. Um you see again asphalt is well on on its way as well as temporary irrigation that's scheduled to receive some hydro seed here in the next couple of weeks as well. U moving on to the next for the baseball and softball fields. The final grading uh has already been placed. Now that we have the approved uh pattern and uh logos for this field, it takes about 30 days for them to receive the turf. We're about two and a half to three weeks out on this. After that, uh we're hearing it's going to be about two to three weeks to get that completed on the turf piece. Moving on to the next one, the another milestone that was reached this last month is the placement of
023the saw on the practice field. Um, as you can see there in the front, it's the second and then third PLA practice field to the bottom of the hill. Uh, that has been placed and uh, it's being irrigated currently. Uh, as we move on to the next picture for proposition B, the this is what will become the visitor vending building and uh, visitor restrooms. Uh, all of the CMU external CMU is now complete. They're going to start moving on interior walls uh for this building itself. All of the retaining walls around it are also complete. Uh if you can see the large poles right next to it, musco lights have also been placed and completed uh throughout the project. Uh moving on to the next, we'll move on to the interior of the building. This
024is what the first floor um typical classrooms look like now. They're pretty buttoned up and finished out. uh they're going through the last coat of paint on their own punch list on Barl Cox's punch list. We still need to do uh our uh punch list as well with the uh consultants and architects. But this is what you'll find typically on on the first floor of the academic wings with the finished mill work as well. Uh moving on to the next picture uh kind of towards the center of the building. This will be the go center. The uh installation of the glazing is being worked on throughout the project. Um this will then receive the uh security film that was uh added, but as of right now, they're going to be placing it all throughout. On
025the next image, this is more of the athletic uh wing side also with uh the installation of plumbing fixtures and ruffins. Uh on the next picture you'll see also what the student restroom and overall uh visitor restroom will be on the fine arts area as well. So there's a lot of finishes still uh pending on one side of the building but on the academic side uh we're pretty pretty complete. Any questions on Creek View? >> We're on permanent power now. There >> we are on permanent power on the academic side. We're still waiting on chiller startup, right? >> Chiller startup should start next week. Middle of next week. >> So, we're still on temporary air conditioning dehumidification. >> Yes, sir. So, chiller startup is um is scheduled to happen middle of next week and then
026we're having the um boilers also start middle of October. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. For the A and Gerald TC, we'll have a drone footage of this one. We're about 23% complete on this project. Uh and if we can move to the drone video, we'll see what that means in terms of project overall. So base, the subbase of the building has been um installed. The future greenhouse 2 uh base has been uh placed. Currently, all of the roughen underground plumbing and electrical infrastructure is complete. As it's panning in, uh you'll notice there's trenching for the concrete uh slab beams that are starting on what will be the JOTC wing. Um and they're going to move towards the A side on it. Um after this it'll be placement of rebar formwork and then uh
027pouring the slab. In the next couple of weeks as the the drone kind of pans out you'll be able to see where we are at on the second feed or phase two of the future transformer that would fit feed this building. It was surveyed by our civil engineer uh last Friday. Um once we get that information that will be sent over to CPS to generate the Eastman agreement that we're looking into presenting for board approval in October. After that we'll be waiting for the um the transformer from CPS to be to be installed. Any questions on ACTJC? All right. Now moving on to middle school number three. On this one, we're roughly about 5 and a half% complete. Um, as of pay number four that we received today. Uh, if we move over to the
028next one, you'll see where we're at. Uh, in terms of um, drone as well. All of the building itself has been excavated. Um, we're still doing a lot of site work and rough grading throughout for driveways, um, parking lots, islands. As the drone moves over, you'll notice also the future track, uh, taking shape on on this portion to the further piece. Um, that's where the tennis courts will be as it's panning out. Those are also done and completely excavated in the next couple of weeks. uh the base subfill will be will be installed. Currently, we're about 40 plus peers uh that are have been drilled on site. Um and coming up in the next couple of weeks, we will be finishing out all of the peers on area A. Um once we get full permit,
029we'll start the storm grain as well. Uh, and then begin, like I said, begin placing all of the base fill on the areas that get build back back like the tennis courts and the courtyard. But other than that, that is the update on middle school 3. Um, is there any questions on this? >> N appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you. We'll move on to financial briefing with Miss Hermish. >> Good evening. So, the financial briefing this month is a little short. So, we are we just kicked off our audit um with ABIP this last week. And so, we're not bringing you the full financial statements. We'll have um August's to report in September and then we'll have audit updates as we go through the process. but but plan to conclude the audit in early
030December so that we can bring that for approval um in December. So we are just bringing a a snip of where we are with our bond financials. And so there were a couple things that I just wanted to point out, but this is bond 23. Um, and so this is this, as it's kind of noted on there, these are unudited because we are still making final payments for any work that was done by August 31st, as well as booking retainage and a few accounting entries. Um, and so these will likely tweak just a tiny bit um before we actually close out the month of August. Um but on here just a little note that um as we move to the bond 24 one that we had 15 million allocated um to middle school 3 from
031bond 23. So when we move to bond 24 you'll see that it's not the full 102 million that are that is allocated because we've we've we've done that. We also used 3.6 million in um bond 2019 for the design of middle school 3. And so that's where you end up with that lesser amount. So just wanted to kind of point that out as we start tracking um the expenses that it's not going to match the 102. Um and then as we sold bonds bond series 2025 we sold 132 million in August and so and the 11.2 we had sold the prior and that's where you get the 143200 that we've sold so far. Um, and we've just allocated that to the projects as you can see. So, most of it to middle school three and
032then the remaining remaining to make up that balance in elementary 7 as we're starting that project and kicking off the design design work for that. And so, as we move forward, you'll see that. And then also noting out the the separate interests between Prop A and Prop B. We have to keep those separate. And so you'll see that reported each each month as well. Do you all have any questions on on the bond financials? Every hopefully kind of easy to follow at least a little bit to start with and we'll finish using bond 23 um before we move over and start using bond 24 for the middle school projects. So, so we'll we'll deplete that first. And then the other piece that that we were bringing tonight is the fourth quarter investment report. And so
033y'all have a copy of that. And if we'll scroll just a little bit more, Scott, um, we have the the percent of the average interest earned was 4.44. Um, as you know, we we primarily are using Lonear investment pool. It's it's safe. It's easy to move money and it's still the the short-term interest rates are still beating the long-term interest rates for the most part. And so so that is that's where we've been using the money. You'll see on here that we also added the series 25 bonds halfway down. And so you'll see that 132 million pop up that we sold and then the 176,000 in interest that we earned um just in the short time that that we sold those bonds in August. And so our total interest earned for the quarter, if we
034keep scrolling, was just under $3 million um from from the bond projects as well as a little bit that is going into our our debt service and operating fund. Do you all have any questions about about the investment report? That's all I've got. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next we have the superintendent briefing with Dr. Palos. All right. I believe our first slide has a purple star campus designation. So campuses that receive this designation, they receive it because of the um things that they do for military connected students. And so um it's a two-year uh designation. Last year, six of our campuses received this designation, this purple star designation. And then this year, you see, we add added silos, Casterville, and Petranco. Uh, so currently all nine of our campus have received this designation. So
035very proud of each campus and all that they do for our military military connected students. Uh we've uh each campus has also celebrated grandparents day uh over the last few weeks and so they did an outstanding job from offering breakfast and lunch and having having evening uh game nights for our grandparents to celebrate you know all that they do for our kids as well. Next slide, you will see that uh September 11th uh campuses again did some special things to recognize our um first responders and military uh u uh people. And so they were greeters at a lot of our campuses that morning, greeted our students as they came in. And so very thankful for them for doing this and then also for all that they do uh in in servicing our country. Uh recently
036here we had a special programs night. So both our bilingual and our special ed department uh invited families to come in and they provided them information about these two programs. U so thankful to the uh both of these departments bilingual and spe special ed departments for setting this up and taking the time to do this for our parents. Panther Nation Network. So this year we've started Panther Nation Network and they are uh uh uh filming our football games home and away. And so this is being run through our CTE department using our our staff and our students uh in our CTE program. And so um we're very excited about this. Our students are are excited in do doing this and so so are our teachers. And so uh looking forward to see this program really
037growing as they implement it. you know, we want to implement it this year with football and then as we move forward get other sports programs involved in it as well. And so go-kart recipients. So we're continuing that. We implemented that last year if you recall. So these are uh these are recognitions made by district employees to district employees. So one employee will recognize another employee for something that they are doing uh you know out out their outstanding service in the in the district them going above and beyond for whether it's our students or our staff. And so you can see a list of our our employees that were recognized in the month of August. So very thankful to to them and very thankful to the employees that are writing these out because that takes time
038and effort as well. So thankful for for all of them. And then last, we have our district enrollment. So you can see uh our enrollment at the end of the year, right? End of last school year, which was a little over 9,800 students and where we were as of last Friday, right? So just just comparing, you can see we've got a couple of elementaryaries that have not uh quite met their enrollment at the end of the last school year. Petranco and I'm I'm sorry not Petranco but Lucky and Silos and then we have a few that are over right um Lacost in particular has increased quite a bit this year and then another another one that's kind of stood out is Loma out to middle they were projected to be a little bit under Medina
039Medina Valley Middle School and you can see they're a little bit above Medina Valley Middle School and then our high school as always continues to to grow hence why we're opening Second high school. >> Any questions on enrollment or anything else? >> Any other questions? >> Was it what was our target targeted? >> 106. >> Yeah. Right at 10,600. >> 106, right? >> Yes, sir. And and remember that is uh at snapshot. >> At snapshot, correct? Which is >> which is the end of October. Correct. So we got about another month. Any other questions? Okay, moving on. Next is um NBISD bilingual um ESL annual program evaluation for 2526, Miss Davalina. Okay. Good evening, Mr. President, Dr. Kawas, and school board. My name is Clarissa Dvalina, bilingual ESL director. Texas Administrative Code Chapter 89 requires
040that all local education agencies, including public charters, deliver a program evaluation for the previous school year on our bilingual and ESL programs. I will briefly go over this and we can dive deeper if need be at the next curriculum committee board meeting. There we go. So these are the areas that are required by TAC chapter 89. We need to go over the previous year's numbers. So I will go over the total emergent bilingual student numbers for 2425 academic progress on STAR proficiency progress and Telp pass reclassification numbers. Professional development information on our current bilingual ESL waiver. the application that was submitted to the Texas Education Agency. And finally, briefly, I will touch on our action plan for this 2526 school year. So, as of the end of the 2425 school year, we identified a total
041of 828 emergent bilingual making up 8.4% of our total enrollment. So, we went from 8.2% to 8.4%. So from 2324 to 2425 that was that increase. A total number of 233 students in the bilingual program. 465 participating in the ESL program that is elementary and secondary combined. We have 99 students with a denial of services and no parental response. 31 students. And that just indicates we have 31 families out there who we have yet been able to get successful verbal approval or written approval for these individual students. However, by law, we can go ahead and place them either in the required bilingual program or English as a second language program depending on their needs. So just briefly on STAR EOCC data for our emergent bilingual population, you see the numbers there. I indicated these by
042grade band grades 3rd through 5th, 3rd through 5th and Spanish, 6th through 8th and 9th through 12th EOCC's. I did go over some data with our dual language uh session this morning with our consultant, our partner consultant, TNTP, and our bilingual educators. And some of the celebrations today were that we are very very close a tad higher in some areas when it comes to comparing the data between MBISD and the state data. There are some areas clearly some areas of improvement that we need to go ahead and tackle. So looking into areas of academic vocabulary and ensuring that educators are instilling or modeling and expecting uh authentic listening, speaking, reading and writing activities in the classroom throughout their instruction. And you can see moving on into our Telpass data that is our Texas English language
043proficiency assessment system data for spring 2025. These are the grade bands. Tell pass 1 through 5 fifth, 6th through 8th, and 9th through 12th. I'm going to show you by grade level the percentage of advancement, sustained performance, and a reduction in performance. What do I mean by that? Advancement means the students have advanced in their overall average composite level on their language proficiency ratings. Sustained means they have maintained a composite average but does not necessarily mean they did not increase at a proficiency level in one of the four language domains of listening, speaking, reading and or writing. And finally, that red section is the reduction in composite score. And we've already tackled this talking uh talking to teachers um talking with our curriculum department within our own bilingual ESL department as well. So moving on
044into that next um figure there, that table, we have grades 1 through 12th listed there. I do not include kindergarten because we do not have growth as the first year taking pass is in kindergarten. So we have the total number of students up there in Hawaii. So for example, first grade we had 71 students taking who we actually had kindergarten data for. So we can see that growth way at the bottom you see in the gray those are the total number of students who took for the grade level but we are only looking at the overall growth. So looking at students who had previous spring 2024 data and spring 2025 data and I would like to call your attention to if we look at that next slide right there. If we look at second grade,
045we've already evaluated where we're looking at that 11% of a composite in advancement that went down from a 41%. Going from first grade to second grade, kindergarten and first grade are holistic ratings. So teachers take their calibration training via an online platform provided by the state of Texas. They calibrate and have to pass calibration uh trainings and they holistically rate their kindergarten and first grade emergent bilingual at second grade. It changes our second graders are then placed on an online platform to take the tel pass online in listening, speaking, reading and writing. So we know we have to equip our teachers with enhanced training, better training to ensure the ratings at kindergarten and first grade are really the appropriate ratings at that beginner, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high levels. I also want to call your
046attention to that jump when we look at fifth grade to sixth grade. We have 59% advancing at fifth grade, sixth grade 18%. And then we see the same thing going from 8th grade to 9inth grade from 20 uh 27% advancing going to 4%. This all shows the importance that our teachers have to place on academic vocabulary. the use of academic vocabulary and the same things that we've been hearing in this year of accountability ensuring that we are teaching to the level of the rigor of the TICSS and ensuring that we are holding high expectations for all of our students and that includes our emergent bilingual as well. The next information that I am sharing is on reclassification of our emergent bilingual. In order to meet reclassification status, students must earn an advanced high composite level
047on Telpass, they need to pass at an approaches level, their star rla. And finally, they have to meet the subjective teacher evaluation uh rubric provided by the classroom teacher, meaning the classroom teacher has that last and final say on the student being able to be reclassified as English proficient. So our numbers for the end of 2425 are we reclassified a total of 70 students and that is up from 59 students in the previous year and that is fantastic. So that is 10% of our emergent bilingual and we had 706 emergent bilingual eligible for reclassification. students can begin to meet reclassification criteria starting in first grade. Okay, we see our numbers take a little dip there and again just showing the importance of ensuring that we are teaching to the rigor of our TEICSS and holding
048our high expectations for all learners and that includes our emergent bilingual. Finally, I must share the professional development that was shared or that was offered in the 2425 school year. I won't read through all of those. You can see that in your packet. But from contentbased language instruction to Spanish reading language arts, all of that was offered to our teachers of emergent bilingual who are designated bilingual and ESL teachers who are bilingual and our ESL program. I am providing updated information on our bilingual exception and our ESL waiver application. So currently the state required programmatic setting is at our bilingual program. Our students are placed in that bilingual program with appropriately certified bilingual educators. our ESL program, our students are placed in the English as a second language program with appropriately certified ESL teachers as
049well. So the justification for a teachers on the bilingual exception or ESL waiver, the application submitted to the Texas Education Agency is that we are pending a few teachers from meeting that certification status which is why we had to go ahead and submit for that waiver. I am required to let you know the professional development, the support that was offered during that waiver period for 2425 and it is actually coming to an end right before November 1st as the new waiver will be due on November 1st. Our our teachers were provided with support training for the three Texas exams. They received tea learn Canvas certification support modules online to dabble in uh asynchronously on their own time. They received observations and coaching from one of our partner consultants as well. I had virtual check-ins with
050our teachers and they also had digital and hard copy study materials on hand. And this is our so far the results of our 2425 waiver application. We had one teacher on the bilingual exception and this individual is currently in has their certification in progress. On the ESL waiver, we had a total of 33 teachers and we had nine successfully attempt the exam and pass. So, I'm happy to announce that they are officially ESL certified and this certification has posted officially to their ESPEC certificate. The requirement from the Texas Education Agency in chapter 89 is that we meet at least a 25% reduction. And I'm happy to announce that that 25% requirement was attained. And I will be providing information on the 2526 waiver in October. And finally, our action plan for 2526. We will continue
051with the same professional development. We are slowly getting more and more teachers um engaged in our professional development supporting all of our emergent bilingual participating in both the bilingual and ESL programs. We will be engaged in more frequent learning walks. We will now have an AB task force that will be shared with our principles during their principal collab actually tomorrow and that will ensure that every campus has points of contact more than one point of contact to be able to support teachers not only teachers instructional coaches and students at each campus. Okay. We will continue our newcomer committee for year two and developing our MBISD newcomer toolkit. And we will just continue again to focus on that high quality tier one instruction that is highly linguistically accommodated. Okay. We will also take part as a
052bilingual ESL department more so in our principal collaboratives and PLC's making sure that we are sharing data, recent data, current data, the best instructional practices and strategies out there in support of emergent bilingual. Continuing to develop our instructional coaches and academic deans during our um ICA collaborative. And then just making sure that we make it a point basically that all of our emergent bilingual are at the forefront of many conversations and that our EB population is an an awareness across the board. Okay, any questions? Um, and we can go over some of this in the committee meeting, curriculum committee meeting, but like the numbers where we're um, we're saying that the kids, the students have, you know, achieved true bilingual, they're English proficient. A lot of those kids haven't been with us the whole time,
053though. They've moved in and um, as being primarily uh, you know, English as a second language, but they're moving in at the higher grade levels. They're not here from kindergarten on. >> Some are for Yes. Uh have been with us since pre kindergarten. >> But I am happy to announce that many who are who do come to us at the higher grade levels, they are reclassifying, which is still looks great for Medina Valley. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm sure, you know, we're getting a lot of kiddos that may not speak English well at the higher grade levels. >> So we, you know, it's we try to think that they're going to be with us the whole time, but that's not the case. So we got to keep focusing on on those kids too, right? >>
054I mean we looked at the data how it dropped off. Yes. At the higher level. So but we can go over that more >> and just ensuring that vocabul academic vocabulary instruction um is in place and we can go over more. >> Yeah. It's just trying to understand the the demographics of the kiddos that are moving in so we know where to focus our efforts and stuff like that. >> And ultimately it's ensuring that we all hold because they can do it those high expectations. >> Yeah. I mean obviously if they're starting later off in life trying to learn another language that's >> a challenge. So >> right I agree. Thank you. >> Exactly. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Question. >> Thank you. >> Next on the gin we have NBISD professional learning
055plan with Milis. >> Thank you. Good evening. I am glad to be here this evening with you guys to celebrate um our district professional learning plan, share a little bit about um what our plans are this year and what we've accomplished so far. Um uh our mission, you know, where greatness grows is for everyone and for us that includes the adults in our system. We truly believe that students won't grow if adults don't grow. And so we focus our professional learning on their growth for that end goal to um to grow our students. Um we have an alignment with all of our major initiatives and processes. Uh we have alignment to the test rubric that we use to evaluate our teachers, of course, to our Texas educator professional learning standards and each one of our
056district um initiatives included in our strategic plan. You'll see there that those have been updated for this year including our pillars of excellence um that we have transitioned to this year from uh emergent tree. In addition, um our instructional academic division um profile of a graduate looking at all of the component pieces, all of the different uh initiatives and plans and programs and systems that we use to uh help our students grow and to monitor that growth and to continue to tweak the documents and resources that we use with our teachers. Um is demonstrated there in that lovely visual. Um and some highlights for this year. We do have our first year teacher academy. We have 20 teachers. These are teachers that are new to our profession. And so we focus on them through a
057lead forward new teacher academy model. We have trained an 11 uh 11 additional mentors this year who work with those teachers as well as our student teachers. We added a couple of additional days this year to that during the school year for that job embedded ongoing training for our new teachers and to give them things in in a more timely manner. Um when those first year teachers start with us in the summertime, it can seem like, you know, drinking from a fire hose. There's so much information and so many things uh that we want to to be able to do with them, to grow with them, to teach them. uh and so putting those days throughout their school year is just a much better model for that. We also continue to have our tradeout days.
058Um we had over close to 685 staff members who have documented trade-out hours from this summer. Over 7,000 hours of time that teachers and additional staff put in for professional growth and learning over the summertime. So they will get those tradeout days in October, October 13th and 14th for that week. We also have our compliance tradeout for our standard compliance trainings. That's on January the 23rd. Those are online trainings that um staff members complete outside of the contract day in order to receive that compliance tradeout day. And then we have our shared district learning with campus and campus professional learning. We had one of those days today. Uh we focused from the district level primarily on our elementary campuses uh with our presenter from solution tree. We will have her back on November the 10th
059for our secondary campuses. And we also have um a presenter coming February 23 23rd as well to focus in on our staff there. Um just a another brief summary about our tradeout in time. We had a hundred different opportunities offered in our district in June and July for professional growth and development. We also had a lot of teachers and other staff members who attended trainings outside of the district um ranging from special ed to emergent bilingual to GT um and all of the the special populations in between those. That is what I have. Any questions? >> Any questions? >> Thank you. Next we have uh NBISD scorecard for 2526. Dr. Kaos. So the district has uh developed a scorecard, right? We've used this over the past couple of years. Uh this the the purpose of
060the scorecard is to establish goals that we want to achieve as a district and then um implement measures to determine whether or not we are actually achieving those goals. uh at the end of each school year over the summer, we review the scorecard to determine if we want to make changes to the to the goals or to the to the measures. And so tonight, we're going to present the uh the changes that we have discussed over the summer. And we'll start with Miss Hendricks. Our four remember our four goals are our students, our staff, uh the community, and then uh finance and operations. So we'll start with Miss Hendricks with >> And so in priority one, we really did not make any changes, especially to our long-term goals. What we did was look at our
061key strategic actions. And so we changed verbs in a lot of them. So like last year it was implement PLC ILTS and this year we changed it to strengthen. Um, we also added some things like for PLC's, this is the year that we we took a lot of teachers to the conference this summer and so we really want to see that happening. Y'all saw tonight um the video of the teachers, but um we put like we have a district liaison now that checks in with them to provide additional support. Um we also have a dashboard where when um teams of teachers have gone through a full process um they we we monitor that on the dashboard. Um with CCMR um some of the things can go to the next one. So, some of the things
062that we've done for this year to increase our CCMR is we are really aligning our programs of study. um they just went and met with all eighth graders in their individual classrooms and um focused on trying to get students to think of CTE not as an elective but as a program of study so that they can get to that completer status. We're also increasing opportunities for testing for our students. So those are some of the big um changes. Any questions with priority one? >> Okay. >> Not necessarily on this, but how often are we statusing this? >> I said not I mean not specific to one. I'm just talking across all these all of them. >> We're statusing it I think once a year right now. Correct. We're reviewing >> it. It dep no it
063depends on it depends on the the the measure right some are some are annually some are bianually some are quarterly >> right just depends on the measure >> are they coming back to the um board meetings >> with the board we we're update well >> we will this year we our plan is at committees yes those that are quarterly >> we we we provide y'all that information yes but remember as a board we do a by by annual basically we do one midway through and then we do one at >> Yeah. And that's why I was asking I think is y'all status internally just if we can keep in committees keep up >> up to speed on where everything's at and where things are moving and where things are trending. >> Yes. Like so we
064just completed beginning of the year map assessments. So like this I mean my whole committee meeting next time will be on all the map progress. Scott, can you swell up? So, on um goal two, recruiting and uh retention, all of our items stayed the same except for the measures that we're going to do. Uh I know you asked for me uh tenure report. That's the only thing we changed and how we're going to report that to you and we'll bring that to the committees, but uh you do get an update on every HR update to you. You'll get numbers on on where we are with staff. But uh for scorecard two, we are keeping all the same. >> Good evening board members. Um so for priority three, I'm just going to go over kind of
065the new we had some new key strategic actions in that first uh 3.1 improve communitywide relationships. We did add um a goal this year. So I know last at our special board meeting, I did present on the uh advertising program. So we did add that into the scorecard as well um as as a key strategic action and goals and we have some measurables there. Um if you go down to 3.2 as well um parent square so we have kept that as a key strategic action but we are adjusting some of our monitoring uh this year just increasing how we're utilizing the data that we get. So we are going to be um checking in and progress monitoring our usage by our campus teachers as well on that platform. And I actually will be uh reviewing
066all of that data with our principles tomorrow. So um just kind of adjusted some of the the goals there, but still um how we can continue to better use uh parent square. And so also right beneath that goal 3.2.2 student square is that's a completely new uh goal all the way across is we just rolled out that tool on our secondary campuses. Um and so we did want to add that into the scorecard as well that here by the end of this school year we'll have 100% of our extracurriculars at our secondary campuses using student square. Um and then um kind of lastly just going into that 3.3 one other adjustment that we made um maintaining annual surveys. So previously we have um done surveys bianually across the board for our teachers for our students
067and for our our parents um our staff students and parents I should say and so based on feedback based on some best practice and what we've seen um from other districts as well we're looking to move those to annual this year. What we were seeing over the last few years is that our fall participation would be really high. our spring participation would drop off and so we think that that annual will help um our increase our participation and overall get better data to work from that that's more accurate. So any questions? Those are really kind of the big updates highlights for any additions to number three. Good. All right. So for priority 4, the the first one 4.1, we we didn't make any changes to any of the strategic actions as those are multi-year kind
068of intended to take up the next several years as we are opening new schools and creating those long-term plans. Um and 4.2, to the financial piece. The the only change that we really made here was just expanding the um stakeholder groups that we're going to try to work on educating on school finances. We know that it'll be important to know that as we start opening Creek View and the budget gets a little tighter moving into next year. Um, and then where we see kind of most of the changes that we made were to 4.3. And this was somewhat with the addition of our new transportation director. We added in um in addition to the long range facility plan, we added bus replacement in there. Just as we as we are continuing to grow, it's becoming
069really imperative that we add additional buses to the fleet um as well as drivers. And so wanted to make sure that that was added in. And then we also child nutrition and at at 4.3.2.4 as you move down to those last two, we didn't have really metrics to to talk about child nutrition or transportation that were measurable. And so we went and created created those as well. That way all of our operational departments have have a little piece in in the scorecard and and we're measuring how they're doing. Um, and then the last one is we move into having the fully established police department and marshall program um, more metrics into how that program is working and how well we're doing. Um, versus just the implementation of the program. Do you all have any questions
070on any of the scorecard? Everyone's good. Great. >> Thank you. That it good. All right, moving on. Um, we'll move into discussion and possible action items. First on the list is consider approval of consent agenda agenda items. Dr. Kaos. >> Yes. So, agenda items are are listed consent agenda items, I'm sorry, are listed in the agenda. All these items have been reviewed with the board either through um committee meetings or board updates. And so, any questions that the board might have, we can ask we will answer at this time. Any questions or anybody want anything pulled? >> If not, I'll look for a motion. >> I Matt Calion move to approve the consent agenda items as presented. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> Peter second the motion. >> I have
071a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Not. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next, we have consider approval of nomination resolution for the two-year term on the Medina County Appraisal District Board of Directors. Dr. Kaos. So, the district does have a representative that they can nominate for the Medina County or Medina Central Appraisal District. Uh, currently that that member is Cindy Malone. Um, Cindy Cindy has indicated that she would be happy to continue in that role. And so, if the board has no other nominations, I would recommend uh moving forward with Cindy Malone as the district representative for the appraisal district. Dr. Kaos, did they provide us with a list of anybody that's thrown their name in the hat for this? No, >> Joe
072asked that earlier and I agree. I think maybe moving forward that would be a good thing to have. You know, they're kind of ask us to go look for people, but they may know others that are interested. It would be nice for us to know that, too. Kind of help our search a little bit. So, >> we can definitely ask them that. Any other questions or comments? Not I'll look for a motion. I, Joe Beetleer, move to approve the nomination resolution nominating Miss Cindy Malone as a candidate for the election of the two-year term for the Medina Central Appraisal District Board. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> I want to second the motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not. All those in favor, raise
073your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next we have consider approval for purchase of Castro Elementary gym floor replacement. Miss Hermish. >> So this was one of the items that that we talked about in our last finance and construction committee meetings. Um over the last couple years there have been several places where the gym floor at Casterville Elementary has had some seams come apart. And then this summer as we were working on access control projects and had lifts on the floor, it it expanded in several areas. And so we're bringing to you tonight, we have the quote um from Rubber Floor Systems, Inc. um to come in and replace the rubber flooring and install a sports court flooring system. Um, this this flooring system is going to be a little more
074resistant to any humidity or moisture exposure that may be happening underneath on the concrete base. Um, and it comes with a 16-year warranty. Um, we're looking at an 8 to 10 week lead time and hoping to get that installed over the December break. We do have a sample of the floor over here if you all want to see kind of what it looks like. Yeah, absolutely. And Mr. Kennedy's here and he's the resident expert. If you if there's something I can't answer. >> So, this is kind of a floating floor system that's not there's no adhesive on it. >> No, sir. >> So, we don't have issues with moisture and did we get moisture core samples done yet or no? >> They're still working on it. Okay. >> They collected some samples this or this
075afternoon and the remaining will be collected tomorrow morning. >> So, it sounds like this is the right product even if we have moisture issues. >> Yes, sir. I'll throw out the dirty word that no one wants to talk about the mold issue. I mean, that's something with a floating floor system, we may have to be cognizant of. I mean, I know we have problems with it under VCT at work. So, >> looks nice with this floor. >> Oh, it's ventilated. >> Oh, okay. >> Maybe I should have looked at it. Okay, that's good. >> So, it has it can evaporate. >> Okay, great. >> It's not going to the moisture. >> Yeah, forget it then. That's great. Okay, thank you. >> Yeah, after looking at several of the options, this was actually less expensive than
076replacing the rubber floor andor doing an elevated and then putting additional rubber down. And so it just seems like a really durable option considering the the moisture issue that we may be having on that floor. >> And and I believe Toby also reached out to uh some other districts that have used that flooring too and got some feedback because they've used it. And correct me if I'm wrong, Toby, but that was all positive. >> Yes, sir. >> Yes, >> it was. >> One of the things we talked about was La Hoya. Um, La Hoya was the re most recent customer that's installed this and they're actually using it on their middle school gym floor. So, they're playing volleyball and basketball games on it and and are and are a fan so far. >> Miss Hermish,
077the other positive is is if part of the floor is damaged, >> right? You can you can just take out a tile and replace a tile. >> Not the whole floor. >> Correct. >> Good. I'll look for a motion. >> What's the funding source? >> So, the funding source for this is the general operating fund, but if you recall, we had um a project capital projects contingency budget that we had built into the fund. And so we would pull it from pull it from there for now. So it was to to mitigate potentially with HVAC. We were just watching budget and seeing how our enrollment numbers um came in. >> So it'll just have to pay attention to our overall upgrade plan. You know, this is just one of the first items or >> one
078of the initial >> due to the emergent nature of it and with the 8 to 10 week lead time, this we at least want to be able to try to replace it over the holiday break. >> Okay. But this wouldn't come out of the capital projects that we had. You had contingency already built in. Correct. >> Correct. It's there was we had moved like the H some of the Hback and some of those projects into a contingency and so it is coming out of those funds. >> Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. >> Yeah. No budget amendment attached to this one. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? Now look for a motion. >> I Bla Nash move to approve the purchase of the Castro Elementary gym floor replacement from RFS Sports as presented. >> I have a motion.
079I have a second. >> I Jason Bonnie second the motion. I >> have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. The time is 7:15 p.m. and the board of trustees will now convene in close session as authorized by section 551071, 551074, 551076, and 551089 of the Texas Open Meetings Act and discuss items 6 A through C. No action will be taken in close session. The board is now in close session. The board is reconvening into open session at 8:16 p.m. For the record, no action was taken in close se session. Um, next on the agenda is consider approval of an officer to be commissioned as peace officer by the Media Valley Independent School District Police Department GP.
080Good evening, Mr. President, board, Dr. Kaos. Um, I would like to recommend as discussed in close session that the board consider for holding the commission for officer Roslin Martinez for MVISD Police Department. >> Any questions? Now, I'll look for a motion. >> Uh, I move to approve Rosen Pente Martinez uh to be commissioned as a peace officer for Medina Valley Independent School District Police Department. >> I have a motion. I have a second. I'm Matt Castle second the motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? None. All those in favor raise your hand. >> All board members vote it for and the motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. Next on the um is future meeting dates. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for October 27th, 2025 at 6 p.m.
081Last on the agenda is adjournment. I'll look for a motion. >> Jason Bonnie move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 8:16 p.m. on September 22nd, 2025. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? I beer second the motion. >> I have a motion and a second. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and we are adjourned. Thank you.