001so thanks everybody for joining us we'll start first with our invocation and and pledges leading before we open the meeting truste s please bow your heads Almighty and merciful god we ask your guidance and blessings upon this board students parents patrons teachers and administrators as we are assembled here this evening in the common pursuit of this great nation's wealth our children amen amen flag United States stand indivisible andice all honor the Texas flag I pledge alance to the Texas one State under God one and indivisible okay thank you trusty s once again good evening everybody and welcome this is a regular meeting of the Northside Board of Trustees before we officially call the meeting to order the board would like to take just a moment to briefly review some of the rules for conducting our
002meeting now the order business for this meeting is set out in the agenda and one item that you may notice on the agenda is the cassette agenda and this item includes includes things that are considered routine and or of a recurring nature all the items listed under consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion if there's a consent agent item which anyone here would like to address please sign up to speak that item and we'll pull it from the consent motion and discuss it separately the purpose of the meeting is to conduct board business and for that reason it is held in public uh it is not a public forum however we do provide the opportunity for audience participation if there's anyone would like to address the board regarding C be heard agenda item
003or any of the other items we have must complete a signup sheet that was uh located prior to us officially starting the meeting if there's anyone here that hasn't seen and want that opportunity to sign up on the sign up sheet okay good all right and this is important we don't want to look Overlook anyone at the beginning of our meeting that wanted that opportunity so we'll go ahead and looks like we're ready to get started and uh we're going I know we're going to start with public hearings and we'll give it to our superintendent Dr crash yes sir uh so the the first two items uh as required uh uh the uh Texas Academic progress report 2024 Texas Academic progress report and then also accompanying uh that report is our house bill three uh
004annual report and uh our goals going forward so I'm going to turn the presentation uh over to Dr Janice Jordan and uh we'll proceed uh this has been reviewed like I say uh before academics our academic committee last week um um so like I say this is your annual taper report and House Bill three goals yes thank you Dr craft Mr blunt Board of Trustees as Dr craft mentioned each February districts bring to their board um required information from the Texas Academic performance report which is taper from the 2324 school year the requirements to be in taper are outlined in the Education Code and uh specifically it focuses not only on um issues such as academic performance but mostly accreditation how our graduates are doing and even incidents of uh criminal offense so we reviewed
005this last week at the academics committee meeting and I would like to introduce Dr Susan Cleveland Susan works very closely with Dr Brenda Ward um who would typically uh be taking the lead on on taper um Susan and her team are instrumental in when the taper report comes out anyone who's seen it it is multiple multiple multiple Pages um of tables so to take glean that information and put it into bite-sized pieces takes um some work so Susan I'll kick it to you good evening in addition to the public hearing the P the annual report is also published to the district website under required postings for the 2223 school year Northside Independent School District is deemed as accredited due to the delay in accountability ratings all 2324 and 2425 accreditation statuses are not being issued
006our special education determination status meets requirements districts and distinctions and a through F ratings for 2024 are not yet available as they are still pending and subject to change based on the judicial rulings spring 22 was the last time districts received an A through F rating Northside Independent School District at that time was rated A B an 84 when looking at scores at each passing level by subject area we see that North Side surpass the state average at both the approaches and meets level in every subject except math that being said scores in math declined at the state region and local levels from 23 to 24 the state declined 1% more than norside did at each passing level districts are also required to set House Bill three goals in third grade reading and math at
007the meets level as well as ccmr indicators in the next report we will impact the house bill three goals and propose new goals as required by Statute one of the requirements in this annual report is to provide information regarding violent and criminal incidents I'm sure you noticed the high number of felony controlled substance violations this include incidences of vaping which has increased exponentially Across the Nation in the last three years few years to respond to the need and reduce incidences noride promotes safe and drug-free School environment in which we educate staff students and families on how to prevent and offer early intervention in youth alcohol and drug alcohol drug use makes School environment safer by promoting norms and decrease the use of Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs build the capacity of substance abuse preventive programs
008and services across all grade levels reduce risk factors and increase protective factors among our students and families this slide shows that out of all of our over 7,000 students that graduated in 2020 52% attended and completed their first year of college the year following graduation of these students 17 had a 3.5 or higher that's 27% 21% earned a 3 point or 3.4 grade point average 26% earned between a 2 and a 2.9 GPA 25% had a 2.0 or lower GPA if you'd like to view the full taper report for the district you can use the provided link here you can also find it under under North on the North side website under required postings Dr Cleveland let me interject just to reminder when you look at the slide uh for the information on violent and
009or criminal instance in prevention please note that that is not all disciplinary infractions across North Side ISD and our 132 campuses uh these are the reportable I could say violent uh criminal incidents uh which are uh in some cases uh actually unfortunately of felony level incident um so it's not inclusive of disruptive behavior and a lot of the your common more common disciplinary infractions across campuses uh which is obviously uh much more voluminous thanks that information thank okay now we'll move into the house bill three presentation thank you yes thank you Dr Cleveland so like taper report um it's required that districts give an annual report about their house three goals um what's a little bit different about the timing of this report this report typically is made in the fall in September or October
010uh but districts didn't do it then because accountability was withheld so districts waited until the spring um accountability is still withheld um but the state said just go ahead and move forward um with these goals so what you'll see here is that house bille 3 requires the adoption of plans in both Early Childhood literacy and math as well as ccmr which is college career and Military Readiness specific annual targets for a 5-year period must be set at the meets level in reading and math as well as targets for a 5-year period for ccmr indicators to find a starting point of where to set the initial targets back in 2021 we reviewed five years of data to determine Trends ac across all student groups since the requirement is to have multi-year goals we focused on growth
011at an incremental pace year-over-year so once we determined a starting point we set an annual gain at the meets level and whenever we met that we adjusted our goals um to a percentage to create an aspirational always kind of chasing the goal at the meets level so you'll see that the proposed goal for 2829 which is in the last column at the meets level for third grade math represents an incremental increase from 2021 you'll also see that in 2324 39% of students scored at the meets level in grade three math both the state and the district decreased 3% in third graders math performance at meets the prior Year yes ma'am Mr blunt yeah I'm sorry JY Freeman yes um before we go any further sometimes there's a misunderstanding about what meets means um or approaches
012means and we haven't um looked at approaches here but we need to um would you please absolutely with that yes thank you Miss Freeman so it's a requirement for House Bill three goals that they be set and communicated at the meets level and so why is that important um proficiency levels are in three areas there's approaches which actually means that the student meets the grade level standard so when you have students Meed approaches in third grade reading that means they've met the standard in third grade reading meets although meets sounds like you're meeting the standard it actually means you've exceeded the standard at that grade level and then finally Master's um shows that students not only have mastered the content but prerequisites for the next grade level so it is a little confusing when you
013see that this is at the meets level this this is this means that these targets must be set Beyond students just meeting the standard the expectation is they go beyond meeting the grade level standard this is the same requirement for um everyone around the state if we were looking at approaches percentages they would be much higher um because that meets meets the standard so it it can be um quite confusing so thank you for that and J it's BBY yeah go um and Jenice going back with approaches though um they are meeting standard but doesn't the state um um also say that they would need targeted intervention even though they meet the standard what what it says is students have met the standard for students to be successful in the next grade level they may
014need some additional yes um but but uh not support such as that they have not met met the state right right but yes the go that kind of support you know we you know the goal is for all students to meet the approaches piece right and then after that to your point those students are add approaches how do we move them to the meets and then how do we move them to the master seats thank you and just one other one to make this a longer slide um to clarify your last Point while we're reporting this this way the campuses and we as a district also Define our what we want for approaches what we want for Masters um in addition to the requirements here for meets right now What's um specified as growth that
015we want student not only um all students like if you look at all third grade students we specify growth that we want to see within each student group from where they are at a point in time to growth now we do specify and look at that when we look at map data map data we always look at proficiency where students are meeting a Target but then we're also measuring three times a year um not only their levels of proficiency but how they're growing this um you can set it uh it's kind of you're looking through your your your um rear view mirror at it we do um use interim assessments that are created by the state which that's intended to kind of give a little a little Peak into how students are going to ultimately
016perform um on Star we've also found and I think we talked about it maybe the last time we got accountability scores um we had two releases of a through F when we were using map districtwide and it was very interesting we saw that students performance on the EO y map mirrored in many ways their performance on Star so as we get into conversations about what measures um show growth for students over time I think that's why some are saying that perhaps map uh might be a more useful tool to help instruction and measure growth more frequently um then star and we're going to start bringing uh beginning of year middle of year and end of year map assessment uh results uh for you as well the campuses uh more specifically though do measure using the
017star assessment um through their campus Improvement plans right uh so they won't necessarily particularly if they're already attaining uh these benchmarks and are exceeding uh they won't set obviously a lower goal for third grade math or third grade that'll be addressed like I say in the individual Improvement plans thank you thank you Bobby oh sorry TR your sorry it's hard when we don't get to push our buttons anymore so I keep pushing the table um sorry about that so um Janice going back and Dr CRA when you were talking about um the beginning of the year middle of year and end of year with um map and now we're doing it um more more I'm trying to think not are are we are more teachers using map as a way to get feedback on how
018students are progressing because it's real time data versus looking at the star results from the year before which it's now even moving towards a different version or higher grade level of the star are they seeing some really good data or feedback on how to help their students write then and there yes great question and absolutely the getting the data like you can look at how students did on star in the previous spring then when the children you know come to you at the beginning of the next year there's been multiple months that have passed and so taking the Boi of map gives an excellent Baseline that that you can use the star data from the previous year to help see Trends and what do you see um and then targets where um the specific skills
019that students need to work on lets the teachers know some students already at Boi are pretty close to proficient which is great but that's why they also have the growth measure because the expectation is even if you've hit proficiency how are you continuing to grow over time um what we see um between boy Andi sometimes we'll see small changes um at some of the earlier grades sometimes we even see a drop like in uh in Kinder in first because the test changes when you get to the Moi uh more difficult um but it also informs um the teachers then they can adjust for the Umi and then just the second part of that don't we have more or just help me understand do we have more teachers using map than star because star is only
020three through eight and then um EOC so do we have first grade teachers using map too so we're getting early data on kids in first grade and second grade before they take star in third yes ma'am and then all ceries are just in reading and math right now reading in math okay thanks thank you so much all right so this piece speaking of math you'll see the proposed goal for 28 29 at the meets level for third grade also represents an incremental increase of uh 1% oh I think we already did this slide yeah now let me go to read so here you'll see um the same incremental increase except you'll see that our students had a large larger than expected gain and achievement at the meets level in 2122 so notice the goal was
02142% we hit 49% so what we did in 2223 is we increased the Target that we wanted to meet um considerably so in 23 24 45% of our students scored at the meets level in third grade reading the state decreased 2% from 23 24 while in ISD decreased 3% we see those trajectories often times you'll see we we'll see oh we've got a bump a growth in our scores from one year to the next at a certain grade level we always go we look I mean we celebrate we go and look at the state sometimes the state will have that exact same growth or maybe 1% less or 2% more we see something similar with declines um if you'll see a decline then we go look at the state maybe we decline 3% sometimes the
022state declined four or 5% um anything that's an anomaly or something um certainly that we that we dig into so next remember the third goal we have to set is related to College and Career military Readiness you'll see the progress of meeting the goal um there have been several um initiatives put in in place this is an area that um accountability um changed the percentage that's that excuse me that districts had to meet in order to get a certain letter letter grade increased 28% um so districts have been you know really working and focusing on increasing opportunities uh for our students so this next slide shows you the goals that we're proposing for 28 29 remember each year we come to you and the goals are set for 5 years from wherever we currently are
023um so using our incremental process um by the end of 2829 we're saying uh the goal is that the percentage of students achieving meets on third grade math will increase to 52% um by that same year percentage of students achieving meets on third grade reading will increase to 56% and students achieving the percentage um of college career and Military Readiness indicators will be uh 68% so the only approval item which will come in consent um if you agree is the approval um of these goals uh and then this will then be formalized on our documents and in and um campus's campus Improvement plans yeah trusty Harold so do we also have to approve the taper report no no we don't so I have a real quick question about the taper report Susan I'm not um
024and I know this this was based on last year's data um so just real quick on the in the slide that was on information on violent or criminal incidents and prevention so um and Susan you said this is this showed an increase right from the year before did I miss actually it was overall the discipline was lower it was lower um the reference I made was to um that felony controlled substance The Vape the one that was um so and now I just have another question what was the the felony controlled substance what was the substance THC okay so then the other question I have is so this this sounds really scary to me right so I don't I can't put it in perspective yet but I'm just wondering if um since it happened last
025year this was at the end of last year I'm sure monitoring are do we see where is it trending up or trending down and you you said a you had a great um summary of all the different programs that have been in place and we know a lot of them were real excited but um are we seeing a trend up or down so we actually just met with Mr Glendo yesterday Ray was that we met and talked about discipline data up until this point um overall I would say discipline data is trending down um as a district and but we wanted to get provide the information just if there's any support that was needed but I would say it was trending down at this point so then maybe in our Friday letter um but I
026I want to be real real careful yeah Vape is still very prevalent throughout our community throughout the nation it is it is and you don't have to look very far uh there are uh stores that are selling The Vape pins and THC content uh liquid form however uh it's sold um almost on each corner right so it it I don't want to misconvey uh information that we're getting a grasp on this because we do need in my humble opinion legislation or legislative help in curbing this uh because it is a prevalent issue the biggest issue um aside from the obviously the health risk associated um is it's it's it's really not a controlled market and so just as our police officers have reported when uh these um uh instruments are tested Vape pins are are
027tested the content of the THC percentages vary um so it's it's a very very loose uncontrolled uh Market from that standpoint that um um we're we're we're still wrestling with um you know we I think that the second chance Academy that was implemented has been a real positive um which is um uh really based upon both student and parental education programming um but it's it's still a challenge for us I agree yeah and just to clarify again um Dr craft stated a little bit earlier after this again when you're you're teally only talking about violent or criminal incidents is going down because we because what we're trying to avoid is uh is appearance or statements that indicate that the vi the things occurring against teachers and others in the classroom uh we've got to remember
028potentially that is going up if I'm correct at least there's a bigger concern we don't want people to lose that concern if they misread our data okay yes thank you Mr blunt like this doesn't cover the persistent misbehavior some of those other more disciplined pieces and this is specifically in the Education Code this is what it requires for the report but we can provide any other data okay yeah we we'll provide in Friday letter an update just an overview of discipline in comparison to where we were last year uh and we can we can just break it up by pe's codes okay miss the mirrors as you just articulated they're not yeah in included these are these are really fent yeah no I I think the the reason why I'm asking to there's there's a
029lot of discipline Bill bills flowing around and so it'd be nice to match our data to see you know where where we would fall or support her yeah thank you good so this one um actually there are two items tonight to let everybody know that are a little bit different from when I read the instructions on signing up in advance um I'll call out and then we'll see this one say is a public hearing after hearing the material um the two presentations if anybody has any comments uh that they want to make they they'd have the three minutes uh that we could do and the other one is going to be when we get to the the superintendent it's item a on the candidacy announcements again you didn't have to sign up in advance for
030that that's for those that are here to make that announcement but let me let us just deal with this one uh having heard the uh public he report is there anybody that wanted to have any comments made okay good okay thank you thank you all all right Dr craf I think we're ready to to move over to um superintendent report okay there are a few things going on uh the month of February so uh first and foremost good evening to everyone I want to recognize our student ambassadors and if it's okay if we could just take a moment if I can have you guys step to the podium just to introduce yourself and which campus you represent um it's just real quickly I hate to put you on the spot but this is always good
031practice there is to it hello y'all can y'all hear awesome okay my name is Brian Hunt y'all can call me Bri I'm from Clark High School go cougars um I am a proud ND student ambassador also president of Taffy I'm Miss hunt to my little third graders how awesome I know but it's very nice to be here tonight and nice to meet all of you [Applause] thanks hi my name is Abby garado and I go to Harland High School all right hi I'm Olivia Rosas and I go to C teach high school and I am a proud Junior and proud student of north [Applause] side so good afternoon everyone I'm Brian Gonzalez I'm a junior at John J sea um magnet school and I'm very happy to be here [Applause] good afternoon my name is
032Emma Mills and I go to Harland high school we get everybody so um for public consumption the the ambassador's program is a new program we started this year um and really the intent uh was not only to uh assist us um in telling the great stories that uh we know uh transpire each and every day across the district and across our campuses um but they also assist and and the students had the opportunity which I'll talk a little bit more detail here momentarily to attend Rally Day uh PTA Rally Day in Austin uh Jordan Wagner is in the audience she did a phenomenal job of organizing and they agreed Council agreed uh to allow our ambassadors uh to attend that rally but then also uh engaged in the legislative process and so um I think
033it was a great great trip yesterday again uh Miss Freeman Miss sedia and Mr Dr blunt uh were able to attend as well um like I say you guys were the Highlight I don't know if you were aware of this or not but I received so many compliments from individuals uh that are pretty regular uh attendees in the capital and um they were very very impressed um and your Blazers look great so so like I say you'll see them obviously at various events um uh they will assist with um uh stewards they'll uh like I say uh have the opportunity to engage with uh our community and they've proven to be just really gems uh for the district so thank you guys and thank you for being here this evening all right so uh lot
034going on uh Special Olympics kicked off uh Monday uh and it will be through this week um so uh enjoy the beautiful weather if you have the opportunity to uh uh come reach right out the back door to Gus Stadium uh and um support our special Olympians uh be there tomorrow with the opening ceremony and look forward to like I say nice day of weather and like I say getting to watch students have fun and compete um Friday is American heart disease as well as rare disease day um so we're encouraging uh staff to wear red um we have a a very uh special individual at scarrell elementary school has a rare disease and um like I say want to recognize her without breaking any confidentiality uh really point of pride is her uh teacher
035and school nurse just they do do so much going above and beyond to take care of her and her her health needs um last week we had Sphero Olympics this was the second annual Sphero Olympics if you're not familiar this is our Middle School coding um uh um 7th grade GT program and so uh the little circular I call them well they're spheres um these are actually like Many Robots and so the students they will code uh to perform the different objectives and I was kind of watching it I after 45 minutes I still after two years actually I still don't exactly understand what it is they do um but it's impressive um because they do navigate some pretty pretty extreme obstacles I think this year the theme was the kind of the Winter Olympics
036so uh it was really really a great event um high school basketball is starting to wrap up uh we want to congratulate our Brenan lady Bears they had a phenomenal season they came up just a little bit short this past Saturday in the regional championship against sio steel but um went into overtime and it was really really a hardfought uh game um on the boys side Sodor wildcat cats uh they gave up a tough one to Stony Point um and John J uh came up short to Alamo against Alamo Heights here in our Sports Gym but uh they were down about 10 with I believe three minutes left and fought all the way back um within one they just couldn't quite uh finalize the the the deal and then Harland is playing tonight at St
037Mary's against Clement and the Brennan Bears boys have East Central um and San Antonio D at the Alo Convention Center so we wish them the best of luck um there only a couple more weeks U and basketball will be in the books as they say um want to congratulate all our Texas thespians and the theater scholar award recipients uh we're going to be bringing them to a board meeting here in the future but uh we have representatives from I believe seven of our high schools um which is pretty awesome this is obviously recognize not only their scholarly work in the classroom but also their performance on the stage um uh Worley um uh and a um uh and Burke Burke thank you are still like I say they're reading um I know that some of
038you had the opportunity to attend a last week with the chili cook off um I had the pleasure of reading armadil Chile which I had never read before did that's what you it was a great book yeah it was it was fun uh so and then I ate chili so I had to ask was this armadillo uh that I'm um and speaking of reading we had a great event with Library paloa uh Cheryl sto as you probably know I know like I say Miss Adonia Miss Freeman had the opportunity to attend Saturday as well uh it was it was really well attended considering the weather uh it was not ideal obviously this past weekend uh but we had visiting authors that uh showed up and uh it was really neat to see the students that
039um obviously like to read but also kind of future author and just hearing the author's stories and really motivation uh we received a lot of positive feedback uh of note um about 30% of the attendees were actually students from outside of Northside ISD wow um so a lot of students attended uh via bus um from other other school districts in fact as far as Houston uh actually uh so it's a event that continues to grow this year was I believe the 12th annual um and like I say you can see the photo it was a like I say very very well attended event given the weather um so again thank you to our Librarians uh and Library Services uh for all of their hard work and preparing another successful event want to congratulate our uh
040Crest awardees this is the national school counselors award uh we had uh numerous campuses that received Crest Awards again and so um we greatly appreciate our counselors and all of their hard work um and definitely need to be recognized uh we also had um a great trustee former trustee former superintendent luncheon I know this seems like it was probably ages ago at this point but um it was um really neat to to catch up with like I say some of our trustees and former superintendants that um we all learn and grow from um congratulations to our FFA uh and uh really the Walter gerlock uh board they had a really successful auction and this is obviously again a um culmination of a lot of hard work with students uh projects uh they raised a little
041over $1.3 million this year uh that goes towards benefiting uh higher education aspirations and student scholarship funds so um quite quite a bit of money actually was raised um we also want to congratulate our Texas academic uh decathlon Regional winners um Warren High School won the region and so was automatically admitted to the state meet which occurs this weekend um it will be at UTSA oconor high school was second uh and Marshall High School was third um um Clark came in fourth just slightly behind uh 13 points behind Marshall so it was a pretty contested Academic Decathlon so we wish them the best of luck at State along with health careers high school uh which is actually ranked number one uh in the small School Division and they'll be in at Colin C College uh
042Colin County College uh in Frisco for their state state meet also along with academic kathon Diana Johnson uh who is one of the HCA coaches uh she's was named the small uh School coach of the year uh for academic cathlon so congratulations to Miss Johnson appreciate all her hard work absolutely swimming and div wrapped up uh we had uh State uh competitors from all of our high schools actually and so um it was really uh amazing to see the number of athletes that uh competed U so again congratulations to all of our swimming and Diving uh athletes uh cheer we have another national champion this year uh Sodor High School uh was the gold medalist in the novas vary crowd leading um did a great job and like I say all of our cheerleaders um
043and teams uh placed um Holmes second and intermediate non-tumbling uh Jay and third and intermediate non-tumbling the JV and freshman um just to mention a few others Warren second in advanced non-tumbling Varsity crowd leading and Brennan second in the intermediate Varsity performance but they all like I say placed so congratulations to our cheerleaders uh speaking of sore uh we had the privilege of having Justice sore uh attend um and really I thought did a phenomenal job in visiting with the students I think that she was um not not only very very intelligent uh but just left such an impression uh on the students at at soda so uh greatly enjoyed her visit and getting to know uh Justus a sod uh it's really um boy talk about a service uh I knew that there was
044a lot of work that went into uh that type of responsibility but once you have the opportunity to really understand not only the hearing of uh really important matters in in case law um but really establishing precedence with the issuance of the um opinions that that's the part that I thought was just really interesting so um again thanks to our uh Sodor Orchestra culinary art students our police security and really the entire staff uh sod Moore High School they they went above and beyond making that a really special uh visit it um and then again PTA rally day yesterday um uh it was it was a great day beautiful weather uh luckily it wasn't um what we were wrestling with on Saturday um but um I think that like I say our ambassadors uh had
045uh the opportunity to uh visit a not only a student caucus that morning uh the adults had an adult parent uh staff caucus as well and then we went uh to the rally um and then were able to get into the the capital building so you see a couple of photos uh the student ambassadors had the opportunity actually to visit both Chambers both the house uh as well as the Senate uh they had the opportunity to uh hear from one of the legislative AIDS actually in the um House Education Committee hearing uh room and then had the opportunity to visit uh chairman Buckley who is the chairman of public education his office and visit with his staff and uh particularly as Chief of Staff to just kind of gain a little bit better understand of
046how all the legislative process really works um so again thanks to our student ambassadors and uh thank you for all coming back uh we were we were counting uh as they departed counting when they got off the bus and then counting when they got back on so again miss Wagner thank you and Monica falkenberry um Diana elely they served also chaperon and um hopefully it was a great educational opportunity for our students um and then finally you know we're we're watching this legislative session uh very very intently uh today was the first day for the house public education committee to actually meet um and again just as a reminder legislation uh cannot pass within the first 60 days of the session unless it's deemed an emergency item uh so uh long way to go but
047uh bills pertaining to instruction materials um uh elections particularly tax ratification elections or Vaders uh Bond elections um the um star assessment what you just uh the information you just received with the taper as well as House Bill three hang on it it may all get ready it may be getting ready to change once again um I do think that there's going to be a push for more of an interim assessment type uh testing model um as well as military Readiness uh talking about ccmr you know how do we how do we measure ccmr and particularly military Readiness I do think that house bill three and Senate Bill two uh which are the education savings account bills uh deemed as emergency items are are probably going to be taken up here pretty quickly um I
048think that there will be um uh a intermediate form of both bills that will have to be worked out in conference committee um and then we'll see where it goes uh from there uh but I anticipate that those will be taken up pretty quickly and then everything from funding uh special education funding uh Dr harl you mentioned uh discipline uh being reworked particularly with chapter 37 um like I say a there were a lot of bills legislative uh bills our legislative action in relation to public education bills um dropped just this past week um so that's indicative that um we're about to pick up a lot of inertia in both Chambers as it pertains to the legislative session so so we'll be watching and providing updates uh very intently um I think that leads us
049to unless there are any other questions um or any questions um we do have a video video moment uh tonight's video moment highlights our even start program uh which is a federally funded Title One program uh and it really utilizes a family centered model uh empowers families to support uh their child's social emotional academic um and academic success uh by integrating early childhood education adult education uh parent enrichment and interactive literacy activities so um without further Ado I think we're ready to show you exactly what the even start program here in north side I entails sometimes you need a helping hand a community of people who care enough to see you shine that's what northside's even program is all about in the even start family literacy program we help families and their children even start
050coordin Ator Brenda f v says the program teaches English and other valuable skills essential to success so the program is at five campuses in Northside we work with Title One families we're under the whole Child Development Department it also addresses another obstacle some people have when it comes to learning new skills I want to go learn the language but what do I do with my children I have my babies at home the solution is simple create a place where both parents and children can learn they bring their infants tallers than three-year-olds with them and so while they're learning the children are learning as well in an early childhood classroom there's also a parent child time so families can learn together simple activities that they know they can do then replicate at home and do those
051at home and continue teaching their children now to find out if the program really works we talk to three people who've been through it Sarah Elsie and Rosa my first goal was uh take a GD to get a job and continuous um learning and care my babies for Sarah and her children the hard work paid off now my daughter and my son they are doing good in a school and Sarah went from even start student to even start employee I love it I love this job Rosa and Elsie say they're not sure where they' be right now without the program I was like here by myself I don't have any family here so I was like yeah that sounds great like her I don't have a family here so that's amazing for me after the
052program their lives were changed once again when they both got jobs at Burke Elementary and I was excited and also I was nervous because I'm like my English is not perfect but I know I can do a a good job School principal Dr Marissa Peno says hiring them was an easy decision they've been fantastic I think that what sets them apart is their work ethic and their willingness obviously to learn new things we've had some students they come to ESL then they go to GED they want to get their GED after that then they might go to technical classes or they might go to you know a university okay that's great sometimes you just need a helping hand these are easy words I feel like I'm part of the community now I'm not afraid to
053like go out to the store and ask questions a little spark to ignite a flame that helps guide you through the darkness to a world of new adventures we feel that this program um not only helps the adult not only helps the child but it helps the entire family to be successful it's pretty awesome program um you know and again this is just a really a illustration of what we do even well beyond our prek through 12 uh experience and just helping families and the community um raise All Ships so so pending any questions that concludes my report Mr President all right thank you Dr craft there no questions or further comments or superintend report we'll go ahead go over to board member reports any sure we do we'll start over to our right just
054thank you uh I want to thank um the principal and all of the faculty and Leadership at um just High School Soto mayor because they did a phenomenal job hosting that event and she really enjoyed engaging with the students um so just want to thank her um I also I want to thank the students that are in the audience today that are graduate students visiting us to get the experience of a board meeting so M maida and um Vanessa if you're in the house thank you for coming and please um continue to come it's very important that people engage in school board meetings now more than ever I want to also congratulate all the graduates from the February 10th graduation we had um it was really nice to see folks graduate early but then also
055there was students crying so that was very emotive for me because I don't know what it took for them to actually walk that stage and so those are that's an amazing graduation for me every time I do also want to let the community know that uh we have scholarships available right now for high school seniors through the uh seek left.org uh and that goes in the newsletter that Barry sends out so I'll continue to post that because it's a phenomenal opportunity for students to have $2500 to go to college so um I'm involved with that process so please reach out if you need any guidance for that I met a student I ran into a student today that went to Connelly and I was her coach and she's going going to be running for public
056office soon so it's really cool to see her little eyes look at me like I think I know you and I'm like I think I know you too and then finally we we realized she was a bask a great basketball player so she's excited to run for public office which is exciting for us in these times right so thank you all for all you do thank you trusty Don trusty harl you don't have to push anything you do I don't want to get out of um one of my students from cmed got the scholarship and he framed this picture of getting a hug with Carla that's so neat sadly he used the money to go to A&M but I won't hold that against him he's in the core and you know he's very happy so
057I still keep in touch so it does mean a lot so thank you um Dr CRA you were right it was a busy month um just incredibly fun busy though um I just wanted to um announce that Saturday if anyone in the room wants a real um incredible experience John J science engineering Academy has their stemfest it's from 10 to 1 and it's totally student driven and so um get there early because there's so much to see if you get their 11 or 12 you're going to miss some things because they they have so many things and it's just so much fun and we'll keep our fingers crossed that the weather's good because part of it's outdoors it's GNA be great it's at it's at Knack no it's it's at John J oh okay I
058thought I heard Nack okay sorry sorry um I'm I'm not hard of hearing I'm just hearing other things where is it at oh where's it ATN J oh Knack and at okay I got you um I love it the other thing um many other things um I got to be a keynote speaker at this Outdoor Ed education conference where carahan was um part of the panelist and uh Lucy Gomez and her staff blew everybody away with all the things they're doing at carahan um and Lucy tells this wonderful story about um the worms and the compost and her face just like curls up and when she talks about it but they are composting like nobody's business it is phenomenal and so I encourage you to go out and see that they did a phenomenal um
059presentation but Amalia solers who's with our um uh environmental science program here um also helped put it on and um so Northside is really seen as a Northstar in this area um and that was just a real Delight I got to um pass out um the Teacher of the Year Awards at rollinson and it was delightful because um both of the teachers there was a veteran teacher and a new teacher and they both cried together and so I was crying the kids were crying but it was Amy sing who was a veteran teacher and and Jorge Santos he's the assistant band director phenomenal he He even wears Hawaiian shirts that have instruments on them so it was it was terrific um um I got to take a team I think Dr craft and and Dr
060ridgley and I had uh been invited to a mental health conference that Region 20 hosted and I committed to take taking a team to Austin to talk to uh various senators and representatives um and they actually had a mental health and school safety advocacy day so I took a team I took um judge Oscar Kasin from the mental health courts I took um um Jessica Weaver who's the CEO of uh communities and schools along with Jana Margo Gonzales with CIS and um then two students um Jasper and Anna from casti and their principal Erica olivarez went to so Jasper and Erica could talk about their Wellness room that they had started their ninth grade year in Project based learning and how it's almost finished um they received a Northside Education Foundation Grant they were the
061first students ever to receive that and so true to form Dr crap they did not want to although they really did like um judge kase because he's so jovial he's just lots of fun but he actually put money in perspective and they talked about how it would cost about $5,000 to create High School Wellness rooms for students and how counselors were monitoring it so that if there were students coming in on a daily weekly monthly basis they were able to provide um extended services which was a really good thing to hear but he said that only cost 5,000 a year we're talking about um um defendants who come to his courtroom needing $5,000 a week of treatment per defendant and so it really helped the the lawmakers understand that although we only got to talk
062to staff we went to all Senate pbed and it was staff only which is okay but um and then Senator Mendez did mention um the students um by name in his final speeches on um Senate Bill three on the floor which was delightful and also highlighted all the choices in north side so that was a real plus um Bobby I'm still in it to win it on the minutes for reading I don't know where our minutes are but put a competition in front of me and I'm all about it but um Krueger Elementary School invited me to speak with Miss bardo's class and um they were phenomenal we we I do the same book I wish I were a butterfly um and they were all flapping and it it was wonderful and so thanks to
063Krueger uh lock Hill I read to all their third grade classes and um Mr Desmond delion um they wrote a song about um did you ever see Dr Dr harl do a great big snarl and so we all did snarls and that was lots of fun but he actually played music to I wish I were a butterfly so thanks to lock Hill I went to Ellison's fifth grade and read uh a book about fossil Hunters which is uh Mary Anning who's exact same age as a fifth grader and how she found uh was in the 1800s discovered a whole dinosaur body and they were like really in it and we pretended that we were doing that um at 4 in the morning when she would go out but anyway that was lots of fun and
064so thank you to Ellis and um we also there were several of us who went to Clark to see the Cinderella production that was outstanding but what was remarkable was there were um oldies but goodies there um Mr rosenblad who had been the original band director showed up and he was delightful oh my gosh he oh he's just so quick on his feet and then U Chuck Co um was also there and um Chuck is my brother-in-law so I adored that he got to come and so he and Mr Rosen blat were just like reminiscing all about the you know the band programs and how marching has changed and all of that just sitting there and listening to that um but my mother mother my 89y old mom was sitting there and she had tears
065in her eyes and we were talking on the way home and I didn't realize that my dad had proposed to my mom um in high school during a production of Cinderella and so it was just like a real emotional night but um anyway so that that was really neat um I want to thank um gosh Lucy and Lisa and Diana Library paloa I got there I got there late because um there was a diploma Dash before that and I was challenging my students to run it and then nobody showed up except me but um so I got there a little stinky but um it was so incredible and 1200 came I heard on the news it it I don't know if that was the final count but that was phenomenal it was interesting at lunch
066because I sat with the authors and they I was telling them about cinate Bill 13 which will could possibly impact our libraries and they travel all over the United States and so we we are so blessed to have such a robust Library program and incredible Librarians and how the libraries are the hubs and I'm looking at all you guys the libraries are just like our best place right now for um students and staff and visiting dogs who come to get read to or you know um soothe teachers and and students feelings and so emotions and so just kudos to our libraries one thing about Justice Su mayor and and you said it very well both of you did she was incredible she touched all our hearts but there was one question I remember asking her
067about how she was as a student and she talked about um that you know her cousins her aunts and uncles they they they would say you know don't grow up like Sonia because she asked a lot of questions and she she was a different kind of kiddo and she might have even been on this Spectrum you know according to her she was very hyperactive but now they're saying be like Sonia right so you know time will tell but she did say that being in a library and a librarian made a lot of difference in her in her life that reading um and having a librarian that helped her and that that's where she really fine-tuned her English and so that was that was wonderful it was another testimonial to our our Librarians but certainly to
068her as a a phenomenal role model we couldn't have picked a better person um PTA founders day thanks to homes it was really good the kids were outstanding um it it was it was the the PTA founder just keep getting better and better um and I had one other thing um we already said Special Olympics but um um I don't know Valerie's here but um I got some emails about our bowling program and how a lot of students don't particip in it because it's financially not feasible so we met about that and we brainstorm ideas to have fundraisers and some other things Valerie was really instrumental in that we met with the two coaches um and and actually meeting with the bowling um bowling lane owners and trying to bring that price down the the
069interesting thing is is that there there's a large scholarship um Niche for young ladies so encouraging our young ladies to join our bowling leagues was another goal so get the get the price down so we get get more because it'll serve a it'll serve students in another way and bowling just sound maybe sounds a little comical but um as many ways as we can get our kids involved is is kind of what we're looking for so we have our marching orders on that um other than that um go if you want a real jolt go to stemfest and go to um Special Olympics oics this week thank you all right thank I told you it was a busy week it was a busy week you got trusty s yeah I got uh just uh I
070want to thank the principal up at uh and her staff up at Art Elementary think Dr P mentioned about the shil Cookoff I believe they had like 14 entries uh one of the ones I picked was the winner so I I I was surprised that they gave us a little GI back at the end I started looking through it had a a roll of T so I really needed them after 14 little bows of chili yeah it came it came in handy so that's yeah and and on Monday uh my wife and I attended the Opening Ceremonies for the Special Olympics the smiles and the excitement of those kids face was was priceless it was just like they had a lot of fun out there I was surprised that it was a mariachi from Fisher
071elementary I didn't know we were in elementary level now but supposedly there's a club out there were like 20 kids from fish Elementary and they're all dressed up in monasi and I okay well we're getting into Elementary now so yeah we're starting young so I was I had never I knew we had middle school and high school I didn't know we had some in elementary level how was that yeah um another I want to give a on another sad note is um people are thoughts in prayers for Miss Evangelina Roa she was a counselor up at past Elementary she suffered an incident in um in August of up at the school I spoke to her son yesterday she's had 13 surgeries already so she's still still in the hospital the reason I mentioned her she's
072been teaching for over 50 years in the district so she's got dedicated basically her whole life to our district and so I'm keeping in touch with her son I told him to keep me uh uh the status and see how see how it goes but she's been in the hospital since August so it's a long time to be in the hospital so just keep her in our thoughts and prayers thank you okay thank you CH okay busy busy month but I'll start with the NCAA reading contest because huge shout outs to the schools in my district because we've really had fun Thorton roads McDermot me Colonies North housan was incredible because Houseman has the Dual language so I read in English and in Spanish and and all those kids understood everything I was saying I
073was very surprised but it was fun Cable cable has my number they they've had me over there three times already uh Glenn Oaks a at the chili cook off and we read to all of the third grade class so we had them all in the library and I read to all of them and I read nacho nachos had never read that book but it was a true story and it was so much fun when we finished reading it we all wanted nachos uh and then carahan Elementary uh the Dual language program program at Housman was incredible I was so impressed with the teachers the kids you know I was speaking to them in both languages or speaking to me in both languages it was really fun the Justice oo mayor visit gosh I don't think
074that any of us can say enough because that lady shared with us she's 70 years old and Soto mayor has like a twostory Auditorium she walked up the stairs and went all the way to the top so that the kids at the top could see her face close up and every question that was asked of her by a student soon as they were done let me take a picture with you and she would take a picture with the kids she was just amazing with those high school kids and the kids were amazing the school did a great great job I I can't say enough about the staff at s myor because it was an incredible visit Cinderella the musical at Clark so much and those of you who can need to go to our high
075schools and see the performances and if you're a veteran or a senior citizen you get to go free get your gokart and and go to those performances I uh yeah the goard allows them to go to to any of our place uh I visited with a student ambassadors on a Saturday morning here at Knack and I swear Valerie CIS and Dian elely and Monica falkenberry I don't know what else y'all can do but they're they're amazing with these kids and we are so grateful for you all and just love seeing y'all everywhere we go Founders Day at homes was for me especially emotional because that's where I worked for 33 years so just seeing all the videos that they were showing seeing the miai I mean it was just so much fun so thank you
076to that campus mid your grad graduation we can't say enough there were so many kids there who got their diplomas from Travis Academy they didn't give up they got their diploma and then we had so many other adults who got a GED diploma also uh cable I told y'all they have my number I uh I first went to see them at their enrichment day they invited me to come and see them read these were first graders they were reading real books not little papers that are put together that all rhyme they were reading real books I read with one child who did not miss one word and it was a regular child's book but he read it beautifully then I read with another child who was struggling but she would get everything just by doing
077phonics and and she would figure the word out I didn't have to help her she just did it till she got it so our first grade teachers are obviously doing an incredible job teaching our kids how to read because I was amazed and then I had to go back and to cable because they found out I was a math teacher so they wanted me to come and see their math class so I went back to cable and we did math and again it was they're just such first graders student voice one of my favorite events in northsite we've had uh we had one last week and we're having another one this week the chili cook off at a was so much fun because those teachers are very strong competitors they're the ones who make the
078chili and we had to vote on them but it was fun Library paloa Dr harl you're right it it was a really special day uh the PTA rally Jordan you and the PT I don't know where you are but you and the PTA council did an incredible job of getting all of us there taking us to the rally uh having lunch with the kids and then going in to talk to some of our legislators they may not listen to us but that day they had to sit there and watch us and listen to us our coaches like Dr craft said we're coming to an in in basketball but we we just can't thank our coaches enough because takes a lot of time and a lot of hours whether it's swimming or whether it's golf or
079whether it's football basketball uh soccer uh thank you coaches you know I know that some of them are just starting some of them are finishing but we thank you for providing our kids with that opportunity uh congratulations to the Soo mayor band for winning $20,000 in the Metallica contest and then finally I went to the Special Olympics today and the opening ceremony is so incredible it was so much fun to see those kids and then see themselves on the video board so that was an amazing thing to watch today so I encourage the trustees it's still on the rest of the week thank you good thank you trusty San trusty you have anything yeah I'm going to try I'm going to try to get through this really quick white voice never mind don't know who
080that is yeah I don't have a voice but I do want to give a shout out to um uh Warren High School for inviting me to their uh Signing Day for their student athletes on February the 4th on February the 13th uh thanks to homes and inside high schools for inviting me to their family science night and Military very fair night I got to pump Aon Pig's lungs that was pretty neat at that time the following day thanks to Mr avino counselor at Ward Elementary for inviting me to celebrate the pillars of character where I G excuse me the keynote address at two different uh ceremonies uh and I was also made an honorary pillar of the community there so that was pretty neat there's nothing scarier than presenting to a cafeteria a full of
081kindergarteners first graders and second graders but uh so I survived that on February the 18th um I along with trustees blunt and Freeman attended the tasa tasby legislative conference and then went on over to the capital to advocate for public education to advocate for Northside visiting with the Chiefs of Staff for Representatives Bernard Tarico and Garcia and I would have loved to have attended the chili cook off I I I had RSVP but I've been serving jury duty uh for the last four working days so I've missed out on a few things and just a quick personal point of personal privilege I'd like to uh give a shout out to my dad uh he is celebrating his 80th birthday today and uh so happy Birthday Dad love you save me a plate thank you trusty
082go ahead uh truste Freeman thank you Mr blunt um as a point of personal privilege um I have spoken with um someone who is um working on her nurse practitioners license and I hope she's here I was GNA try to find her before Gloria Gloria please stand so we can all see you um Gloria part of her part of her studies um she needs to come to a board meeting and so she had called me and so we've talked about what board members do and we've reviewed this agenda so she um uh knew all about what we were going to discuss and Gloria is actually interested in expanding um school-based clinics much like we have with our Shirley shriber clinic so um perhaps you'll be working with Northside someday um there's certainly a lot that
083goes into that and um but but um thank you Gloria for being here um as you have heard so many things um I will talk about the NCAA read so uh Mr blunt thank you for getting us involved in that um I we can't wait to hear who's in the Elite 8 um soon I I guess um I have had the opportunity to read to several schools including hotus Henderson c um Los Rees scobby and stubing and I I will tell you I've sat on the floor with little kids um we've read in the libraries we've read in C's Corner we've done all kinds of things with the kids and it's amazing how kids just love I mean I read to my grandkids all the time but a large group of kids in a classroom
084how much they enjoy having books read to them so my favorite I got to tell you um legend of rock paper scissors write these down my mouth is of volcano and if I built a school so um those are my three favorites the kids just enjoyed it we interacted and a whole lot of fun scobby and stubing of course were um they have a special place in my heart my kids started at scobby and when stubing opened I had two that that went to stubing and um they truly made it special they they knew that I'd been there and and even there's there are some people there that were there when my kids were there so um very special and I appreciate the what they went to to make me feel welcomed I got to
085put a coin in the book vending machine and and it makes all kinds of noises and it's just really cool and they had balloon things and um great great opportunity to visit with the kids um soda mayor's visit um she she was truly special and and truly when she talked to the kids you could tell she was really interested in what they had to say but I thought what also was interesting to me you know we there was what 2200 2300 at Soto mayor and you I can't imagine being principal you know you've got the the Supreme Court Justice and you've got a whole room full of um an auditorium full of kids those kids you could hear a pin drop in that Auditorium when she was speaking they were so polite so attentive and
086um thank you to all of them the the culinary arts um crew they cooked a wonderful wonderful lunch for us fine it was just it was just a great visit with them and then the band who heard of a Metallica concert right or whatever um $20,000 I hope the school told um just as so to myor about that I know she would be very proud um PTA Founders Day great um great event thanks to um I we you know if it wasn't our ptas and the work that they do at the school um so many things just wouldn't happen and they give of their time and I met so many PTA volunteers as I was reading in the school they were actually part of the PTA board at that school and they were substitute teaching
087so I know many of our many of our PTA um people are volunteer um are are substitute teachers in our schools and they do a whole lot um the Warren board dinner Rec recognition they um during board appreciation month they hosted us and um The Culinary Arts cooked wonderful um a wonderful dinner for us and this was probably the first time we we actually had we actually had a menu to select from so that was real interesting the the food was wonderful the Fine Arts presentations display of artwork school went just all out in welcoming us and um in appreciation and certainly uh appreciated all all their all their efforts the former board superintendent luncheon um you saw the picture of everybody up there I got to tell you I think that was one of
088the largest that we've had in a very long time and we always talk about when we have former board members and former superintendents together we stand on the shoulders of giants and truly um the culture that we've built in this school district um began a long time ago and we continue to build on that culture of Excellence and we learn from those that have gone before us so it was a was a wonderful event to share stories and and also an opportunity for them to learn what uh what's going on in in north side today uh congratulations to the gerlock show the the ffas the um the 4 groups it's a lot of work um on um on behalf of the booster organizations they turn what was a stock show or was a a show
089into all of a sudden auction and moving hay and everything out of that place just takes a a vast amount of work um congratulations to them and those kids in midyear graduation you've heard about um the Tassa tasby ledge conference that we had the opportunity to go to thank you to our own Kelly rasy who's now with um tasby as the um associate executive director for um uh leg uh grass what is her title govern governance government relations thank you very much um went blank for a while she's done a really good job put a a panel of folks together for us to hear and then the opportunity to again go to the Capitol and talk with um staff of some of our um Representatives those friendly those not so friendly sometimes um but we
090we had a really good time at the at the capital Library poooa it's a amazing how interesting these authors are they they tell the kids we one of the things that they do is the authors present to the kids in an auditorium and talk to them about how they became an author and that's a really interesting stories um if you haven't been and I know that in the spring there's something similar for our elementary grade levels it's called Library Fest um Mrs elely I'm sorry story Fest okay so we'll look for that com coming in the spring same type of thing and PTA Rally Day wonderful event I'm so proud of our student ambassadors you were mentioned so many times a Welcome North Side um students ambassadors and it's you were noticed you were very
091professional as you um presented yourself and I got to tell you the the um story that Kate um is it Kat Kat did was phenomenal and y as as speakers and representing um the student ambassadors it was just great job I'm hoping that maybe we can post that um I if it's not perhaps it's already posted on our North Side website but it was a great intro to what happened with at that yes it was just yesterday with the student ambassadors and um Bobby and I had the opportunity to walk into um Senator Campbell's office and spoke to his staffer and the first thing he said he asked us about our culinary arts um group and he remembers that because when it wasn't too very long ago that we invited our Bear County delegation to
092meet at Warren High School in the culinary arts department prepared lunch and he remembered that and he said he still talks about that so at least that made an impression and Doctor more than our conversation yeah um we did talk about we had the opportunity to talk about Senator Campbell's um cell phone bill so um we do know we had heard that that bill has gone from seven pages to four now so less prescriptive more local control um which is what we've asked for I don't know if it's been filed yet but okay all right and um and then rooted um I don't know if any of you know rooted rooted is a an organization is a pro public Ed Grassroots parent organization promoting um neighborhood schools the founder of that program Genevie sagalowsky um
093had a gathering the other night of which Sophie Tores from raise your hand was there and some other people and we were talking about um pro-public Ed events where we are in advocacy what's going on at the capital and parents there looking for ways that um they can help us out um a lot going on that probably is enough Dr Mr thank you trust let me try to do a real fast version of just a couple I y'all covered things extremely well uh something else said we had the department of Eng National Science B competition we we we as North Side sponsored Regional competition it's one of the few that includes public private Char home schools everybody's involved with that came down to basis and and health careers as last year and basis has got
094health careers again this year so they'll be going on to to the National it's a good competition and thanks to Northside science uh Stacy for really organizing and help helping us continue that or soorry 23rd Year by the way some of the major sponsors for it on the Air Force side as well as boo Allen are actually going to be recognized during the north side education found foundations of Partnerships uh because of their long-term service teacher scholarships that the board is doing we had 23 sub medals for the board uh teacher scholarship and board members make sure to look at your mail we're down to to uh looking at the yeah three four three more to look at so we can uh figure out who we're going to be able to get we have one
095that was clearcut okay and we we've got we've got three more and we'll decide whether we give out two or three but it was great so so thanks to the board for providing that opportunity for those students in Northside that want to pursue a teaching opportunity this particular scholarship uh PTA rally as well as uh our tasby visit but both great uh thank you for for doing that Jordan again uh it was fun to the different legislature I I tried to help them out a little bit with some suggestions on some things on how they can help us out with some of the bills and gave them language accordingly we probably never see that again but nevertheless uh we tried okay and then uh the last one that you've heard a couple of time so
096the final four reading competition started out at 307 elementary schools at 9:15 a.m. tomorrow they announce the uh Elite 8 so hopefully Burke I and Worley are with us that but that's going to happen tomorrow and then the trustee one that we're having in parallel if we get out of this meeting uh pretty soon we're going to announce who the our final adars also I just got to add it up at midnight Etc so so it's tough they uh I'm GNA tell yall it's GNA be tough but we'll see how we do in that regard and last thing I'll bring up is it has been great uh I do want to revise or update one statement I'm not going to say the full statement since we're being recorded that I made at the PTA founders
097day uh I I still am taking on that challenge and the word has gotten out um what I said the new goal is or updated goal is I'm going to try to read at all 83 elementary schools by the end of April so we got a little work to do I'm about 23 in so far so we got a little work to do uh but I did say I do that then but but one year from now I did say I want to read to every single student Elementary School student so we'll see if we can uh we can make that and last thing I'll bring up on that it's been great not only for the Reading part of it but I tell you I had a uh we had a debate today I don't
098I don't know how my reading turned into a debate but that's how it goes with first graders 40 against one or whether or not we should have homework for first graders you know who the one was but nevertheless it was a great discussion so we get some other value of it and that's all we have on our uh board members report Mr President the first uh update Harlem 13 Clemens 9 at the end of first oh okay this basketball game so thank you probably more importantly is do we need to issue a directive that there is no more homework for first graders if you ask them they have some and I um the student ambassadors reminded me um Taffy is kind of a new comp not a new competition but um northside's taken it by
099storm and um C had 16 medalists and 10 National qualifiers and that's that's unheard of because it's very small so thank you for bringing that up thanks for being in Taffy whether you're at C teach or any of our other high schools that have Taffy you know how impressive that is so future teachers come back hey thanks all right thank you so I think that completes our trustees report we're very busy as you indicated so next we have our we have our recognitions uh up next so Dr Jordan you want the yeah will join us in front of the dice all right good evening as y'all are walking forward I'm honored to recognize some outstanding leaders in the curriculum and instruction division who are making a notable difference learning forward Texas is a Prof Professional
100Organization focusing on ensuring the professional development of leaders throughout our state each year they bestow an award which recognizes excellence in professional learning and educator development I'm pleased to announce that the 2025 professional learning award from learning forward is being given to our very own professional learning department for their development and implementation of the new teacher Cod coaching program that has resulted in an increase in retention of our novice teachers so this program is truly unique and I know I've been asked about it from uh colleagues and other districts so what it does is it uses the talents of retired Educators to coach and support firste teachers with an emphasis on those who are alternatively certified it was designed by Miss Katie bazani and ardan mlan under the leadership of Natalie gray and Diana elely
101over 3,100 hours of support were provided to 352 teachers resulting in the retention of all of these teachers except for six over a 2-year period and the six that weren't retained some were moving it wasn't uh because because they weren't successful so with us tonight is Debbie tanton business director of learning forward if you'll stand yes so we can recognize you and then of course our amazing coaches if y'all would stand we have Ann bohack Kimberly bundick Selena Chambers Nicole green Jennifer Guerrero Terry cleric Hae leando Crystal r Sandra McKenzie Deborah Spears and Jackie Squan that's a lot of talent right there on these on these two rows at this time I'd like to ask Specialists Katie bazani and Ard mlan and the director of professional learning Natalie gray and the executive director Diana elely
102to come forward for board recognition [Applause] [Laughter] thank you out of your [Applause] each year the Texas counselor Association bestows a counselor supervisor of the Year award to an outstanding counselor at each level to qualify for this award the recipient must have Professional School counseling experience and Leadership responsibilities and supervision professional learning program implementation and program advocacy it is my pleasure to announce our very own Rolando wz as the recipient of the 2025 Texas counselor Association supervisor of the Year award Rolando under the direction of Dr Kimberly ridgley has served in ND for over 17 years in numerous roles including Elementary counselor cluster leader counselor at Glenn and Driggers elementary schools ND Care Clinic coordinator and now he serves as the coordinator of Elementary Counseling Services it is my pleasure to present Rolando Wes for
103board recognition [Applause] thank you this concludes the recognitions oh my goodness watch out three patients okay where we need trying he was yeah St was optimistic yeah won't take the password now said that they sent to reset it again okay we might need to have more to actually research what's going on that one that's fine sorry go I figur it out goward Dr C all right sorry all right so I think we're ready to get back on after our recognitions we have consent agenda next is there a uh we have oh right I'm sorry qu Trix oh okay oh I'm sorry so yeah yeah we do have the report next so Dr craft yeah absolutely um so you probably have uh you remember Nick con uh who uh is with isobar uh he is the
104psychometrician really behind the qualtric survey which is our culture climate survey uh if you recall last year and then again this year uh we conducted this survey really uh to gain a better grasp of of how how well we're doing in providing services um uh from the perspective of our students from our staff uh from our community and so um we're going to use last year's results Benchmark benchmarking to this year's uh results building a dashboard interactive public facing dashboard uh for as a part of the continuous Improvement uh process and so uh uh this year's results I think there's a lot of real positives and then uh there are some areas that we really need to focus on uh opportunities for improvement uh so uh Nick welcome back to Texas I know that uh
105when we originally scheduled nick uh to be here uh it was a tundra frozen tundra um so uh thanks for rearranging your schedule and welcome back to Texas it's uh probably much warmer than it was than we had originally scheduled so it it's beautiful today yeah we're happy to have you thank you thank you Dr craft good evening everyone it's going to be back with you as Dr craft said it was just under a year ago that I was uh with you to talk about the first iteration of our stakeholder survey results uh and so uh I think it's timely to have this conversation tonight given all the wonderful examples we just had of uh incredible experiences throughout the district uh and so as we think about the academic achievement of our students as we
106think about uh all the good things that our staff are doing as we think about uh the ways in which we provide and deliver those experiences to all of our stakeholders uh it's it's opportune to have a chance to hear their voice uh in a little bit different way through both quantitative ative survey data and qualitative feedback uh that we can then uh you know make some determinations about how to move forward from an improvement standpoint to make those experiences even better for all of our stakeholders and so wanted to start tonight the full reports available to the board uh we're also going to at the end share a little bit about the public facing dashboard um but I wanted to highlight just some of the key details and results uh from this year's survey
107uh I wanted to start with the fact that we had over 71,000 responses to the surveys across multiple stakeholder groups and so when you think about uh casting a wide net and G gaining that stakeholder voice uh it's great to have that number of responses come in right from our stakeholders and so uh worth celebrating that alone uh let alone the results we're going to see wanted to talk a little bit about the comparison of this year's results to last year's survey generally speaking the surveys were the same so the surveys went out again uh to our third grade and higher students went out to all of our families who could respond regardless of any students they had in the district and then to all of our staff four surveys total so two student surveys
108one at the younger grade level so that we could tailor that language down a little bit uh one for our upper level students and then again for families and staff uh the questions R uh remained primarily the same with the exception of we did add a couple of safety questions this year to the survey that were not in Prior year and we removed some of the 4-day week uh questions that we had last year so those weren't in the survey this year otherwise the survey questions were the same the time frame shifted just a little bit we were about a month earlier in the survey deployment this year that uh really doesn't matter in terms of the the psychometrics and sort of the design of the survey if we had shifted a full season that
109might have had an impact but that month shift uh keeps us right about where we want to be we did offer the opportunity for families to opt out their students from taking the survey we had 56 students who were opted out of the survey this year and again uh you know Dr craft referenced that in the interest of transparency we're providing a public facing dashboard this year that's going to show those results uh before I dive into the student survey one thing I just wanted to point to if you think of last year is being a new Baseline for us right establishing those surveys for the first time the benefit of year two and Beyond is that we get to compare those results right to Prior years the trick is to understand that if the
110differences we're seeing are significant or not right one to two% shifts and responses not necessarily statistically significant and so I'll highlight for you the significant differences both positively uh and opportunities for improvement within that let's start with the student survey you can see the numbers here uh uptick in elementary responses this year uh secondary remain just about the same uh you can see the breakdown of the question sets here remember last year we talked a little bit about what's statistically significant in terms of response rate anything over 1100 is considered projectable to the entire Community plus or minus 3% even those that did not respond right and so our language is then the language of it's projectable It's representative of the full population if we were to drill down to an individual campus that had
111less than 1100 those percent responses needed to be projectable as much higher and so as a result of that we shift our language to say it's representative of those who chose to respond so above 1100 projectable to the population below that representative of those who responded one of the things that's a little different this year is we did categorize our questions uh into some uh some groups which allowed us to develop categorical averages and so numbers you're seeing here are for the student surveys these are the categories of questions we asked they were on a fivepoint scale so if you think about that fivepoint average from strongly agree to strongly disagree with a neutral midpoint of neither agree nor disagree anything above a three would be considered better than average above a four would be
112considered exceptional in those averages and again you can see those categories here as we go through the survey I'll break down the questions and statements that were made up within those categories just just can can you explain that one more time on a three and a four is that based on and I think I asked you this last year too previous years um based on comparing to others they've done similar or what is that actually based on that three and a four yeah so uh two things one if you think about that scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree right if the neutral point is three anything above that would be considered positive right that fourpoint scale that we see is typically representative of what we'd see around school districts around the country as being
113reflective of what you want to see for something that uh is overly positive right so if you think of that average you have to have a fair amount of strongly agreed to get above that four right if you have some that are below that and so that's the average we would see we also will look at a percent agreement Benchmark of 70% for most stakeholders 80% for staff which is also representative of similar districts across the country so that's where those come okay good yeah thank you you bet in terms of some of the statement again I want to highlight for you just sort of the differences and so what you'll see here is a series of bars the darker blue on top is going to be a year ago the lighter blue below that
114is going to be this year's administration of the survey and as you look to for example the elementary side within this learning category nothing here would be considered statistically significantly different right so the the responses here were pretty much on par from a year ago we didn't make big gains there weren't losses it sort of stayed about the same in terms of culture and climate I did want to point to these three examples within the elementary again we're talking third through fifth grade students primarily what you are going to see here I I mentioned that 70% Benchmark right you're going to notice that the three statements that are highlighted here um not only dropped from prior year but were slightly below that 70% Benchmark and those three statements were I'm happy to be at school
115the adults in my school greet me by name every day and I enjoy going to school the difference between happy and enjoy happiness is an emotion how I feel about being in school enjoyment is about the culture climate and an experience of being there so those statements slightly different also at the elementary level we would encourage staff to want to greet students by name right so when they walk in the building they're feeling that connection and beinging recognized and again not big shifts but enough where that drop was considered statistically significant within the safety category as we look at our elementary results uh two new safety questions I just wanted to highlight if I report a safety concern I'm confident it'll be addressed appropriately you see that's a very high value below that I feel
116expressing unpopular opinions in class that's more about peers and the sort of culture that's provided for students to voice a contrary opinion those are new baselines and so we'll be able to do comparisons off that in the future why is one green and one red yeah highlighting the green being above that 70% Benchmark and the red being below that 70% Benchmark in the learning area at the secondary level you can see just again no statistically significant differences here but wanted to highlight the two lower values by the way particularly High School results we typically see as being much lower than Elementary that's normal um but the two lowest values here the skills I'm learning in school are relevant to my life my teachers often connect what I'm learning to life outside the classroom that speaks
117to relevance and engagement connection last year I'd mentioned that that was a particular area of focus in terms of the results you'll hear me say that again as we get to the results this year in terms of the summary student staff relationships at the secondary level uh again wanted highlight sort of the highest value there in my school adults believe I could learn and then the three lowest values my teachers helped me set learning goals discipline fair and school rules are applied equally to all students again none of the differences here again statistically significant over a year ago um but again wanted to point to those high low values culture climate on the secondary side again two highest statements feel like I am a part of this school the school buildings and grounds are kept
118clean the lowest broken school things at the school get fixed quickly I'm pleased with the food choices available in the school cafeteria and students at the school try to work out their disagreements with other students by talking to them again no statistically significant differences these are the lowest values in just about every secondary program that I work with across the country again some new safety questions and then some uh some older safety questions to compare I wanted to look at the top of this list in the safety category I feel welcome in my classrooms at my school Remains the highest but you're going to see what is considered a sta ially significant drop there that paired with the elementary statements that also dropped around that right suggest that for whatever reason this particular year there
119were segments of students that felt a little less connected and welcome than they had potentially in Prior years below that I feel safe in my school again considered a statistically significant drop um but again sort of above that 50% threshold and then on the bottom end I find it easy to connect with my school counselors if I'm struggling the adults in my school care about me and I feel safe expressing unpopular opinions in class secondary students reflecting what our elementary students told us in that last statement pause there just a second are there any questions about the student results before I move to staff okay moving into the staff results you can see about a thousand less responses this year still a good number again projectable to the rest of the population you can see
120the categorical averages here this is exceptionally High I know I mentioned this a year ago but when we talk about staff in particular we don't see these kind of averages when we look at staff engagement across the board this is a benchmark in terms of what other districts should aspire to in terms of the the numbers you're seeing across the board here and I'll point to some of those highest statements for you but it speaks to I think the excellent job that's being done around Recruitment and Retention of Staff as was just highlighted by that recognition a minute ago in terms of clarity and Alignment no statistically significant differences here we set an 80% Benchmark for staff it's a little bit higher just because of sort of what we see across the country um but
121again all very high scores here wouldn't point to anything as being an area of concern uh in the supervisor area the one area I'll point to here at the bottom is the one that's below Benchmark I received recognition from my principal or departmental supervisor for excellent work these results were rolled out to the leadership team uh about a month ago and at that time we talked specifically about the role of recognition within a school and within a system uh in the importance of a quality recognition program uh and so I'm confident that will continue to see strong numbers there again there's nothing wrong with a 71.5% in that area but it's the lowest value in the category so I highlighted it culture and climate couple of things I'd point to here I'm proud to work
122for the school district that is a key indicator of Engagement and and employee retention so when you see high values there and we're again we're sitting at 86% which is exceptionally high that often is reflective of a high retention rate within the school district and and others wanting to work for the schools last one broken things in my school building get fixed quickly again sort of reflective of what we've heard students say to us in the past in the safety category couple of new statements here wanted to highlight the two highest the first one's new I'm confident what to do in the case of an emergency in the building I think that speaks to our training right around emergencies and how to address them the other new one was if I report a safety concern
123I'm confident will be addressed appropriately again high value there a lot of confidence uh in the way in which those are engaged the other ones I would just point to here again High values and you're going to notice I feel comfortable reporting safety concern no matter how small ticked up slightly from where it was a year ago before I move to the family survey results any questions on the staff I just wonder if you see any higher than 93 for the safety the emergency is that something you see higher than 93 yeah the one thing I would point to here is this isn't just teaching staff this is all staff that are employed by the district and so oftentimes the teaching staff number if you were to hone in would be higher and it is
124in this case if you hone in on the non-teaching staff number it tends to be a little bit lower than that right and so I would say our operational folks tend to respond just a touch differently to that statement um but yeah above 90% is very very strong um some of those were neutral and I think the neutral responses were a result of those saying I just maybe haven't had exposure or training or been connected to Something in My Job role that would necessitate me um knowing what to do in that case so I would like that to be H but because safy is so important yep absolutely any other questions okay family survey results uh we saw a slight uptick in responses from our families just to point to the methodology here a little
125bit on the uh District side there was a district section of the survey that could be responded to one time and then there was a a school specific section that could be responded to multiple times once each child they have enrolled in a school uh and so you're going to see that the number of responses on the school questions will be higher than those on the district questions because they could only respond once to the district questions here are the categories across on the family side again very high values here uh I point to that communication one is a particular strength because it also stood out a year ago do a really good job of communicating with our families they feel very clear about the information they're getting remember on the family survey we had
126two what we call Key driver statements 11o scale statements uh around both likelihood to recommend the district to somebody who's looking for a school district or new to the community and then one around overall satisfaction with the educational program in the school the way again that you think about that is uh respondents on that 11 point scale 0 to 10 are broken into three categories nine and 10 are considered promoters or people talking well about the district seven and eight considered passives are those who are sort of neutral they like most things but there's one or two things they'd like to see improved and then 0 through sixes who are considered detractors or those who are likely to say something negative about the district if you were to talk to them take your percent of
127nine and T your promoters you subtract your percent of detractor 06 and you get your net promoter score or your satisfaction score in this case on a scale from negative 100 to positive 100 if you remember back to last year anything above zero is good 40 is The Benchmark all of your scores are at 40 or above again exceptional I can count on one hand the number of districts that have a net promoter score at 40 and above and so very exceptional for you all in terms of of family uh response we also then because we had those statements can run what's called uh is called a key driver analysis where we take all the other statements of the survey we statistically correlate them with those outcomes and then we say all right of all
128the survey questions for those who rated the school district highly what was most important to them and for those who rated the school district poorly or lower what was most important to them in other words if we we focus on those areas we should be able to improve our outcomes highly rated and important happy with the quality of instruction felt welcome respected and effective communication if I rated the school district highly those were the three statements most statistically correlated on the lower end if I rated the district lower feel connected I feel happy with how it addresses parent concerns and the school supports the social emotional Wellness of my child in other words if I felt disconnected from the district I tended to score the district lower strengths again I know this is a little
129bit hard to read I would just point to the fact that you can sort of take the uh strengths here remember lower number is a higher ranking because I ranked these from one to 10 right um and so if I was a one that average would be lower and so you want a lower number there is a more important uh strength if you break this sort of 24 25 results into three buckets that safe and secure learning environment is being sort of number one that next group of four and then that bottom group of five though they shifted within those groups a little bit from a year ago the groups remain the same and so I would say that these results are pretty static compared to where they were a year ago even though the
130numbers have shifted in the learning category again no real shifts here we're looking at about a 70% Benchmark and so there are two statements below Benchmark however I would point to those particular statements as having a high neutral response rate not a high negative response rate because there are just some schools and experiences that don't have curricular programs or non-curricular athletic programs that parents are seeing their child participate in for example if I had a student in kindergarten I could respond to the survey likely to say neutral there um because I haven't had that experience yet on the communication side we ask in a variety of communication methods uh which ones are seen as valuable or most important these data almost exactly mirror where we were a year ago most families are School messenger emails
131uh District campus newsletters campus website the mobile app as being the primary ways that we get information also on the communication side again very high scores across the board no statistically significant differences I would point to the low value here which is I'm happy with how the district addresses parents concerns however we're very close to that 70% Benchmark on the culture and climate side very high scores three statements same as a year ago that were below that 70% Benchmark recent efforts to improve facilities and campuses around the district improve learning for my children I feel connected to other families parents at the school and I'm pleased with the food choices available to my child in the school cafeteria again coming up with another stakeholder group those other ones again I would characterize as high neutral
132response not high negative response safety two new statements or questions for parents this year if for report of safety concern I'm confident it will be addressed appropriately very high I know what to do if there's an emergency at my child's School 67% I would say that that one is probably on the lower end and so we think about our internal stakeholders knowing what to do in emergency our students and staff our families were a little less confident in what to do if there is an emergency what's the difference between the question safe and secure learning environment and then this last one about the safety yeah what's the difference uh so sorry if you could just restate for me which oh sure if we look at page for example or a slide on family results for
1332425 the safe and secure learning environment yep that rating and then this last because they scored pretty high on this last one about safety right what's the difference between those two questions yeah I think one is relative to things like emergencies uh and like relatively how safe I feel uh safe and secure learning environment to me suggests a little more than just sort of physical safety right it suggests emotional safety it also suggests things like um how well we're providing an effective learning environment for students not just are they physically safe in the building right and so that's how we think about those a little bit different one's a little more instructionally focused the rest of them are a little bit more like physical safety focused thank you okay there were thousands of comments we
134have the privilege of getting to read all of those comments from our students all the way down to third grade to our families and staff within that uh the comments are available to the internal leadership team they will not be a part of the public dashboard uh for a variety of reasons that said we did do a thematic analysis of those so these were the questions that were asked that were open-ended uh they were not required and so they were optional to respond to I wanted to give you uh some of the themes that came out both from a what we do well side and then what we can improve on side from a do well standpoint and again I think this mirrors some of what we saw last year all different stakeholder groups repeatedly
135referred to the high levels of collaboration and individual support that's provided uh families reference that if their child's struggling both their child is getting support and they're getting support at home as a family member staff reported the same and so a lot of good feedback there in the comments about that supportive environment the second was welcoming environment for stakeholders everybody across the board for the most part made some reference to that that commented on this about how welcome they feel right their child feels welcome they feel welcome Staff feel welcome uh lots of opportunities for relationship building which makes sense given theme number two if you're going to feel welcome it's probably the result of relationship building that's happening four districts are safe right we looked at those safety questions the comments reflected that as
136well yes they feel safe I feel safe sing my child to school and then effective communication second year in a row one of the highest commented on areas that was also very positive on the improved side we saw a lot of comments from families and staff about competitive salary and benefits and the desire to continue to elevate that in order to retract uh attract and retain the highest quality staff the second time for collaboration right time is always a factor when we think about the impact of the work that we do people Express the need for more time uh third increase relevance for students and cultivating Innovative opportunities for staff it's interesting this year's survey there were a number of comments from staff members about I need more time with my colleagues to innovate and
137do really creative things so there's a desire to try new and creative things in the classroom but also this feeling of I don't have the time to be able to do it so that came up quite a bit and then the last one Foods food and Facilities again that's no different than every school district I work with across the country but came up here again in the comments so in summary I would highlight four primary areas I highlighted a couple of these last year uh that uh I a of relationship building right you're on a good course there and continuing to identify ways in which you can support uh the well-being and uh sort of instructional needs of families and students and staff through relationship building second relevance and authenticity always a challenge there were
138a number of student comments about how they could see the connection between what they were learning and the next unit in the classroom but they didn't see the connection outside of that so there's a feeling of learning the curriculum for the curriculum's sake which they were invested in but not necessarily what does this mean for me in 3 to five years right and so that that conversation always an opportunity three the operational uh concerns again I know there are a lot of efforts that are made there my question is sometimes how transparent are we being about the changes we're making on the operational side it feels like one of those areas that we spend a lot of time on that we can make rapid Improvement on but just isn't broadcast as much as sort of
139the other things that we do within the operation of the school district and so I wonder how much of that desires just you know a lack of sort of information about what's been done and then last the idea of moving from Project to program I'm a big believer in ongoing experience management the annual surveys are great but let's look for ongoing opportunities to gather information from our stakeholders about the experiences they're having so that we can support them throughout that cycle lastly just wanted to highlight for you that we did uh this year in the interest of transparency produce a public facing dashboard that will be live on the website and so I know I wanted to give an opportunity to just pull up uh via the link here and show it just a little
140bit there you go if you hit that little pin icon to the upper left where it says Pages there that'll pin the navigation bar to the top so if you scroll down you'll see that uh the initial page of the dashboard uh the intention here is for it to be very clean to provide clear information for families who are navigating this and then allow them to see the information in a way that's going to be meaningful for them now obviously uh you know the device you're on and sort of the scale of the the frame is going to determine how some of these things look but it is effective on a mobile device as well what you'll see here is there are five pages on the dashboard you're going to notice this one sort of
141gives you the primary communication based information in some of the response rates and then at the Top If you could just click on that drop down now that says one of five you're going to notice that we have a page built for all of the four surveys that we're administered and if you click on family results uh you'll see how the results look here and so again we'll have those response counts and then as you scroll down you're going to see many of the same charts that you saw in the presentation this evening again with some context provided uh for families as they're looking at and navigating the information the other thing you're going to notice at the top is a series of filters that you can utilize to drill down to the individual School
142level or grade level if you wanted to all the data on the page will shift to reflect whatever combination of filters you hit the one thing I would point to there is there is a response count threshold so if your combination of filters would draw that response down to a number that could be identified it'll sort of error out and say no data is available because we want to protect the anonymity of our respondents and again available uh and we'll continue to update this on an annual basis so as the survey results come in we'll continue to to show those comparativ over time and look for those Trends truste harl real quick I know we didn't get to see all the the questions or the responses but um were there any around um student family
143and employee mental health and wellness than I feel like there were a couple that alluded to it but anything a little more clear-cut yeah so there was no direct question that would I think ask that question the way you're thinking about it uh the questions were more around well-being around engagement connection uh feeling welcome those kinds of things sort of the psychological safety of being in a building longing all that you got it but not that explicit and there's a couple of reasons we don't ask it that explicitly um those sorts of questions the response rate tends to be a little bit lower uh because people feel less comfortable sometimes answering those types of questions and so we try to get at it through other factors that we know Drive engagement okay um thanks thanks
144for that um the part were there anything about administrative support uh so there were questions in the staff survey around feedback uh around being able to sort of trust their administrator those sorts of statements so there were a number of statements in there that specifically got at um and and again we're not always talking building principle there it's just whoever is the supervisor right for the given employee group and is that in would we be able to see those kind of results okay so for example I have the training to you know to do my job effectively um the district administrator super intendent has a right like there's a number of questions in here that sort of get at employer um or supervisor supports and it's also important to note that when Nick presented to
145the campus principals they had their individual campus results oh good to know um so you're seeing the district obviously 50,000 foot view but the campuses all received campus principes all received uh their individual results as well um which they were very engaged um um very interested in not only reviewing the data but then also what are the next steps and that's that's really the point of not just the dashboard um as you well know uh I felt it pertinent that we asked the community we ask our staff and our students to provide feedback well what are the results and then what are the actionables to follow um because that's equally important um they can use it on the campus Improvement plans absolutely absolutely uh in the district Improvement plan we're going to Benchmark uh and
146we've got some ideas on you know how do we articulate work orders being closed out items being fixed the the school nutrition is just challenging uh having to work in and around the um uh Fair nutritional guidelines um is just challenging Thomas they're committed to it uh in fact as you are aware our student voice group serves as our um test cases for uh trying out new Foods um um but but like I say there are some guidelines FDA guidelines that we're having to work through um so so like I say I think that now that we have two years um uh hopefully we're going to be able to like I say work on some areas that we can grow and um continuously improve areas that we're really achieving High trusty Freeman yes Dr Craft
147um considering these results and then um obviously principles just received these uh regarding next steps when is an opportunity to come back to the board and have the discussion as to what we're doing yeah yeah so what are what will those action items be yeah so from a district level like I say um we're going to put in place some work order so like um there are different ways that you can set up QR codes hey this restroom needs service those kind of things so we can provide those actionables um campuses it will be incorporated into their campus Improvement plans so if you kind of think about 132 different actionable plans I know if you want to see that regular yeah I guess not that specific but about how that's happening within the school and
148central office response to that that and then as we look at have to go back and look you know regarding student safety and different things it'd be interesting to find out some of those students where we talked about a significant drop from from last year and I know we didn't ask but what is it that you don't why why is it that you don't feel safe here I mean it would be interesting to know some of that well I think that's where some of the open-ended question and feedback uh can really help campuses we have obviously that open-ended feedback but it's it's it's a lot of information it's it's a lot of openend responses but I think like I say when it Dr it's drilled down to the campus they're going to be able to
149go through and see some of specifically what is it that doesn't make you necessarily feel like you know how to respond in an emergency situation or um overall safe uh at your campus yeah I don't know we need to go into it too much more but but you you mentioned Benchmark so that maybe that's the report to the board or how I I don't know I'm just well it's going to be hard to so when we put together the action plan uh the dashboard is already published um but when we put together the action plan until we survey again um very specific to the questions that have been asked that's going to be kind of difficult to gauge progress Improvement unless we take it to another um Dimension um and create like like could say
150that as we discussed an actual quarterly top report dashboard that uh has measurables like number of work orders opened and those closed and running those percentages I mean there's ways to there are metrics to be applied to anything um maybe let something and just talk about yeah maybe I was going to suggest maybe at academics because I'm wondering too what next steps would be if I was a campus leader and I got um some concerning data about safety or belonging or um whatever what am I going to do with it and is central office staff going to know which campuses and where to go coach guide suggest twist their arm whatever um and and then bring it back to us because these are these are aligned with our board superintendent goals too absolutely well and
151I think it just kind I think it depends um you know we charge our campus principales campus instructional leaders I mean with a big part of the success of their campus academically but then also just in totality is a strong culture climate um and so I think it it depends on each individual campus's feedback uh as to you know what they foresee is the trajectory pathway forward along with their site based teams um as to you know what what training do we need to look at focusing on in the future um now and I say that it depends because like work orders or things that are broken not being fixed in a more time I mean that's more of a district initiative um but the campus culture parts that we were we couldn't get and
152so there's re like out of our right maybe U but but then we maybe we if we recognize this we start trying to order an inventory which we have as a result really of last year surveys building a warehouse of uh inventory of parts that we know are going to uh break so it just like I say I think it depends on each individual campus's results as to what that translates into their their campus Improvement planning process uh going forward I know that um as an instructional leader having this type of information at my fingertips um is a really pretty good barometer as to you know really how are what is the culture and the climate of the the campus particularly with the staff because here's what happens inevitably um there's a there's a there's
153a term the squeak wheel gets the grease and that inevitably is um just in many cases how we fall into this mode of operations well well when you have statistically significant survey data that you can kind of yes that's still a reality in some cases but what is the greater perspective of you know how we're doing um relational how we're doing and um a lot of different aspects that again Drive the campus the health of the campus and culture of and it's so it's not just the 10% that may be SP speaking at staff meetings that happen to be the loudest um EXA which you have to be careful of I would add just a couple things to that on the the point about how you dig a little bit deeper um I think as
154the the organization matures around this sort of um surveying I think we can customize a couple of survey questions at the campus level in the future if we needed to so if the individual campuses were working on something Improvement specific you could sort of GA that way the other thing I always recommend is uh you know every good survey is going to generate more questions than answers often right and so as a result of that let's ask the people who are responding if we need Clarity right so you think about things like focus groups or the ability to pull a group of students together and say hey in the data we saw this drop tell us about that what do you think's happening tell us a little bit more and so you can investigate in
155that way we can just get it straight from the stakeholders pull a parent group together pull a staff group together and ask right if you want to know more um and to the point about sort of the the Action level when we talk about staff in culture CL climate right the engagement of a building is everyone's responsibility it's not the leader responsibility to fix the culture and climate within a building and so the more you involve the entire staff in understanding the data and developing solutions for how it's going to improve the better that culture becomes over time right and it starts with transparency so we're there right and then the second step of that is actually acting on the data uh in a way that could have an impact and again the more you
156involve this the respondents the stakeholders in that work the better the outcomes be for you on the back end I have one another question yeah go ahead TR um so I know this will be posted you showed us where it's going to be posted that's that that's for everybody right that's the district is will the individual campuses also be posted at that same site you can you're going to be able to drill into the individual campus that okay every page has a school name filter at the top and so oh there you go you can drill in at the departmental level and at the school level and then it'll filter the data for you perfect thank you you yeah I I guess one one quick comment on discussion and then and then one General sort
157of question I guess in some ways I see it a little bit different and and I'll tell you why just because of I when I was running operations detect I got had to do surveys all we did all kinds of survey but part of the way I saw it as a a manager is is I saw something that I didn't know about I had to be concerned about why didn't I know that so sometimes it's the process itself it's say Okay separate from having you know surveys are important but on the other hand I may be missing something too or my communication my manag may miss more than what the survey says itself per se so I think that's one other thing that we have to be cautious of um as we continue down um
158but the one question I did have though from a big picture standpoint tell me if I've got this completely wrong so when you're going through in the staff area you said we were like you didn't use the word model but you use exemplary or high right yeah Benchmark District yeah Benchmark District same thing with the uh on the family side right on the Deb promoter questions yes yeah so then it leades me to a question wait a minute we didn't say it on the student side so is there any type of correlation or why isn't that the case or why don't we have that part of the story if we're doing so well with h staff and family yeah I don't want to mislead you your scores across the board are very good the secondary
159data is always challenging right particularly high school students and I think what we see in the highest performing districts across the country on the student side is that relevance indicator right which is a little bit lower for you Which is higher in some of those higher districts right and so that idea of students seeing relevance connection authenticity in the work that often is a key driver of those those outcomes also uh sort of the the the welcome cultural fit right that idea of hey in a building I feel like I belong here welcome right like those are also primary drivers um but but secondary data is all always a little bit challenging Middle High School students dis respond a little bit no you answered but because either if a secondary day we're still comparing to
160others so that's you answered it that helped out a great deal appreciate okay any other board comments questions well good well thanks for uh glad we got you some good weather this time oh I appreciate it yeah thanks for having me last time around it would have felt like home from Wisconsin but I'll take the 70 degree weather any day so thanks Nick thank youall appreciate it all right good it's good to to get that in that's great okay so next we go into our citizens to be heard I think we have uh for the board that knows that three citizens to be heard yes sir so um let me remind our rules for addressing the board um we have our Podium that's set in the front so we believe citizens to be heard is
161importantly meaningful and we'll definitely listen to what you have to say we value your opinions although again we're restrained by law from taking any action uh please address your remarks to the board confine your remarks to ND policy or practice you limit your remarks to three minutes at um the two-minute Point our board secretary will hold up the uh Yellow Card and then uh to wrap it up at a three minute Point hold up the the uh the red card also correct and will we have the uh will the screen also display here TR I make sure yes okay I see a thumbs up somewhere so you also be able to see the screen in front for the time and again do not make personal attacks on individuals and we'll have Dr craft call up
162our citizens yes sir uh first uh signed up uh Patty can too see no they'll adjust don't don't worry they'll adjust the mic no you don't have to yeah yeah okay um good evening Dr craft and members of the board my name is Patty G and I am a proud member of the Northside classroom teacher Association first of all I'd like to thank you for your continued support of students and teachers in Northside on behalf of the officers of Northside CTA we'd like to thank Dr Carol harl Mrs Karen Sania Mrs Karen Freeman and Dr Homer Gada Jr for attending our meeting meeting on February 17th giving um our maners the chance to sit with you to share stories and ask questions with you was priceless it was great to see that your n ND
163priorities aligned with many of ours Mr Bobby blunt thank you for reaching out to us and informing us of your scheduling conflict our Northside CTA was honored to be invited to not just meet with State leaders but to also testify at a senate senate hearing on behalf of Texas teachers this experience was empowering and we are proud to share that fact with you it is my belief that Northside teacher organizations should come together linked by our commonalities and support of all Northside teachers thank you for your continued support for teachers staff and our uh everyone on campus thank you thank you next sign up Christina inlin good evening um I'm a parent uh grandmother and I've come to you uh this evening to address the proposed changes to the Dual language program uh n ISD
164um this was come to my attention at a meeting at wonky Elementary last week as you well know there's approximately 720 children in dual language program uh four of them which are mine and um we were found we were told that it will be changing um for our children as they move into middle school and it will be a program where will have to test out and score high enough to continue in what's called Advanced Spanish when we signed up for the program we made a commitment and the commitment was that we would go with the program we would do what it took to to teach our children whether you were monol language English or Spanish and do what it take and we would continue on through Middle School only to have this be changed
165I want my kids to speak two languages we live in Texas okay um if you've ever been in dual language class it is so heartwarming and you made made mention to it and your survey person talked about relevance if you go into a dual language P class and you see these kids going back and forth my twins are in first grade they're talking back and forth to their their friends in Spanish their Spanish friends are speaking in English one's crying it is so heartwarming that's what I want them to learn your new proposed program is that these children will have to test out in fifth grade to go on to Middle School Advanced Spanish that's not important and that's not relevant we need to keep them in some sort of a dual language program with
166the confines that I realize you guys have the test for dual language is this my granddaughter had a birthday party a child came who was totally Spanish speaking very shy didn't say a word my granddaughter from Nolton takes her little hand Ben Ben took her little hand I'll show you how to bowl it changed this little girl lit up all the little kids got together and went off to play my child's English dominant or used to be that's what we need to see not a test to continue on with our dual language program can we please revisit this a little bit and see how we can maybe make this work without this test because testing doesn't necessarily determine a child's ability to be a lifelong Spanish speaker it certainly didn't for me please thank you
167thank you m inkland we'll we'll follow up with you um we we recognize understand uh all of us there's been a lot ofun yeah it was discussed this morning in an admin uh meeting so we'll follow up again uh uh Jordan Wagner excuse me so much already okay good evening president BL and board trustees and superintendent Dr craft i'm Jordan Wagner representing nor head Council ptas I'm also a parent of a child at Zachary m magnet and um Hoffman Elementary I'm normally in the audience taking notes but I thought it was important that I come up here and do a citizens to speak tonight um so thank you for the opportunity to speak I know it's not school board appreciation month anymore um but I just wanted to tell you guys how much we appreciate
168you guys um coming and showing your support for uh our event yesterday for those in the audience you've already heard um our uh PTA Council went to the Texas capital yesterday for Texas PTA Rally Day trusty Freeman trusty selonia trusty Blount and Dr craft came and particip participated in our appointments with our legislators to talk about uh Public School priorities and the biggest priority was of course School uh public school funding uh trusty selonia reported that in the appointment um where is she there she is um that in the appointment with representative lahood um he admitted he didn't really understand how school funding worked um um and that he would actually read Senate bill to before voting for it so that's nice of him to say um having our Schoolboard members there in those meetings
169was invaluable source for our combined um efforts um for our to to prioritize uh high quality public education to our north side and really all students across the state uh Partnerships is what keeps an organization alive uh we all need Community Partners I'm sure you all agree with it it certain certainly helps when you can call on your partners to help to achieve your priorities um our Council which is uh the biggest PTA Council in the state of Texas with over 24,000 members has been active in the nor in Northside for over for 40 years this year but when Dr Woods highly encouraged every school in the district to have a PTA in Northside in every Northside School it's solidified our partnership even more um it's become embedded in our culture um in Northside um
170so speaking of Partnerships Mr and Mrs PTA AKA AKA Steve Daniels and Jessica par Mar Paula Maris worked with Dr craft to get the 22 High School ambassadors to come and participate in the student caucus and rally at the steps of the capital um the Harland cheerleaders helped lead the crowd um at the capital steps we had over 40 parents and teachers and admin take time out of their days to advocate for our students um so that they can have a safe and Equitable School experience um I had Community sponsors from RBFCU the Emergency Center Apex to feed and clothe our Rally Day participants these Partnerships just helped me helped just helped me worry less about those details and more on what I do best on Council which is to help children reach their potential
171by empowering communities and families to advocate for children so thank you again for your support your continued partnership and support good thank you thank you um well we can discuss but I do want to get clarification because we've brought it up a couple of times about the U the rally yesterday but what we haven't said it wasn't just Northside was there it was about how many about five or six th I don't know the number that was actually there over 3,000 that were actually there so it was really impressive to see that many people there all right so that completes our um citizens to be heard portion next we'll go into the consent agenda are there a is there a motion become before the consent agenda trusty Freeman yes Mr blon I would move approval
172of consent agenda items second okay motion second any uh discussion there are a number of items that y'all notice uh on the consent agenda this time so um if not we are ready to Bobby trusty har um just real quick um Dr Jordan on the campus targeted of improvement plans with uh Cody glass Martin and Jay um and I know if those were based on last year's data but this year's plan so could we at an upcoming um academics just see how they're doing um based on all the things that they had to um the require IR Ms that were needed if you don't mind you bet thank you thanks any other comments question now we move to second that we approve the consent agenda all those in favor certified by stating I I you
173oppose State nay okay motion carries all right thank you all so now we go into our business and finance area Dr craft yes sir first item we'd like to bring to your attention we've had another update with the chars uh program which uh actually came up in one of our conversations with our ambassadors uh yesterday uh with a um legislative staffer um so uh Tiffany is going to uh present budg number two for this fiscal year hi yes good evening oh Tiff I'm sorry Tiffy I think uh we're having a request for about a five minute break recess because people are slowly if that's okay yeah so let's you're about to lose another one so let's uh let's if it's okay let's delay for five we going to be fully attentive so we'll just give
174it about a five minutes back in five back in five sorry for that Interruption but we are ready to continue with our budget amendment number two correct yes sir thank you uh good evening everyone today we have a budget amendment proposal for the general fund and Child Nutrition fund uh there's no proposal to amend The Debt Service fund the budget amendment for the general fund includes like Dr craftman mentioned a reduction in federal revenue for the Char's um uh reimbursement that we uh are not receiving the expected amount that we had planned for and included in the original adopted budget uh in addition to that we are decreasing the general fund expenditures by just over 400,000 so the net impact on operations is a uh increase to the budget deficit by 2.5 million and that
175is the general fund and before I move on to Child Nutrition fund are there any questions about the general fund okay very good and then the Child Nutrition fund revenues are being uh amended to recognize a de a net decrease of a million dollar as a result of less reimbursable meals served during adverse weather conditions and and just um less reimbursable meals in general and then the Child Nutrition fund and um expenditures are amended to recognize a net increase of expenditures of just over $3 million to purchase uh essential equipment and supplies and other improvements in our cafeterias H as part of a fund balanced spend down plan required by the Texas Department of Agriculture so they're just putting the the fund balance to good use and and making some improvements in our in our
176cafeterias and that is the budget amendment number two all right and this one one is scheduled for check for approval corre yes yes sir yeah is there um any comments or question from the board oh no it does say for discussion it says discussion yeah we can sorry it is uh we can bring it back yeah we we can bring it back uh for an agenda item is it on is it updated Monica okay and it went out that way to the okay okay okay all right so um yeah it's just updating our part um so is a motion to come before the board trusty Freeman a motion we did discuss this at finance committee and I want to um also welcome our um oh new CFO who's here today Megan Bradley Megan hi good
177to see you here and you'll be with us beginning March Monday Monday okay yeah March the March ever it is it is March okay well welcome glad you could be here tonight um Mr blunt I would move approval motion motion second any further discussion right move in second that we approve the budg amendment two as presented all those favor cifi by stating I I I and you oppose State nay good motion carries okay all right so now um Dr crafer ready for our next discussion yeah so how to begin this conversation um Miss Freeman's point we did meet with the finance committee uh this past Thursday and we really just started rolling out um what is inevitable and really in front of us um and as promised uh we wanted to work right alongside the
17889th legislative session um there is going to be a uh both Senate bill and House Bill uh School Finance uh Bill uh for um the house bill it's House Bill two um and I think that it's very safe to say uh that what is included with House Bill 2 at this point which will probably be the the funding mechanism um as it pertains to the basic allotment and really school safety uh allotments uh potentially even teacher pay raises uh which are desperately needed um but it's definitely safe to say that uh closing now a $96 million deficit budget we're not going to see the additional funding in order to do so so we've got a very strategically very intentionally go about um a budget reduction strategy for fiscal year uh 206 and thereafter um that
179being said um few things and again these are just really reminders we're going to continue to watch the legislative process um and particularly the school Finance legislation very closely um but our goal really needs to be to try to reduce $70 million out of the operating budget rolling forward um and I'll explain why here here momentarily um objective number one is is to ensure that all employees have jobs um and I'll going to say it as plainly and as simply as I possibly can uh I do not anticipate or foresee a a reduction in force which would have to be uh obviously ratified and implemented as a result of board action uh per policy um a couple of the strategies that have already been employed was we have put uh in place a a hiring
180freeze now I say that uh with the exception of critical shortage areas in fact we just discussed it again today in cabinet if we have the ability to hire a vacancy with a science with a mathematic with an English teaching position special ed particularly self-contained special ed position we're hiring those positions um simply as a result of the vacancies and like I say the critical need uh the other positions that are support we're holding we're assessing um and we're potentially looking at reorganizing SL reprogramming uh going forward um departments have been asked charged with looking at a 10% reduction ac across departments that's not to say that there's going to be an automatic 10% um but we need to assess uh and just look what what does it what is the impact um particularly on
181the classroom in uh potentially making those cuts uh the other item uh that we're spending quite a bit of time on uh last week but again uh senior staff spent yesterday looking at the previous six years growth and Improvement packages um we believe I believe excuse me that there is significant savings um efficiencies that can be garnered as a result of looking at particularly Esser funds that uh were used uh to fund various initiatives looking back okay the SRA funds have since expired and so again what are the implications now that uh we don't have the luxury of those funds uh and scaling those Services back Andor uh strategically abandoning um which there is strategy um um there are some uncertainties um and I'll just go through a few uh one what does the final
182H uh Senate bill or House Bill uh pertain or what does it look like and how does it how does how does it impact ultimately additional funding flowing to schools next year it may be again a delayed decision depending on conference committees um amendments that are going to be attached um so that's why we really need to start taking a look at um really a $70 million reduction now um as we are um the other piece that is really difficult to try to gauge which we've been asked is what what is the impact if a an education savings account voucher program is implemented as early as next year what does that look like um and that's really difficult we're trying to get a grasp on well how many current seats are open vacant uh in
183private schools but that's that's just a that's a difficult number to try to figure out what is that impact I mean it's almost like a charter school opening until we see that impact it's just really diff difficult to project that being said um I think it's safe to say that there probably would be an impact um um I don't know that it would be to the extent of many other communities that have a lot of private school opportunities but there would probably be uh an impact um just as a reminder uh we do have some remaining continuity of instruction designated fund balance um but we need to be careful uh with that funding in the sense of the unknown uh like I say the esa uh what does our enrollment uh do as a result
184uh of a potential uh Esa and so um like I say we're taking those approaches right now uh that's going to really start to pick up uh steam uh in the next uh several finance committee meetings but then also through the budgeting process that will be coming to you really each each meeting uh going forward one of the areas major areas uh along with particularly looking at hiring freezes is um the uh Staffing ratios and so I'm going to go ahead and bring your attention to the uh first and foremost the elementary Staffing ratios uh that we've had resource planning uh develop and um I don't know if we can pull up that first Elementary scenario yep okay if we can just go down to that first chart um and you can start to see
185um what the implication would be if we increase uh student to teacher ratios um with the different scenarios um the midddle uh uh row obviously are the FTE uh that will would would be saved and then of course the cost savings which are approximate numbers uh in association um I will say that um we may have to take a look at hybrid particularly with uh primary years um as we just talked about House Bill 3 and uh third grade mathematics and literacy goals um you know this is not a refined decision nor a recommendation at this point um but there are considerable savings uh when you look at like I say the Staffing ratios um and I'll pause there if there are any questions um and like I say there may be a hybrid formula
186that uh we bring forward uh we asked I asked Debbie mcar simply to just let's start looking at what are potential scenarios and then um cost savings Associated yeah truste Freeman yes Dr craft please explain what you mean by a hybrid formula yeah so it may be rather than going say pre25 k34 25 and fifth grade 26 let's look at prek 22 uh kindergarten through 4th 23 because the likelihood that there's going to be a student absent um and then you know um fifth grade 26 27 um 28 um so it it could be even uh 23 and A2 24 I mean this really becomes you know more of a comfort level um than anything else I I can attest to this especially when we look at secondary uh Staffing um these are these are
187pretty nice Staffing formulas that we have currently um and again when we start looking at just an average attendance rate which we're sitting a little bit below 94% um even though I recognize that it just kind of depends on campus the classroom um illness season I mean there's a lot of variables that go into it but but to have 100% attendance um throughout the entire school year every day that just that's not and this is kind of the debate obviously of do we fund uh from a legislative standpoint do we fund based upon attendance rates which is our current funding formulas or actually actual enrollment uh which is obviously how we're budgeting um so like I say it could morph into um some form of um 23.5 24.5 um to me what we're what we're
188charged with is what can we get to um even though I'm presenting this first what can we get to as far as the savings and then layer this in kind of at the The Last Resort um to close that Gap um because I just don't know without changing some staffing formulas that we can get to $70 million with ancillary support outside of the classroom if that makes sense um I have a question sir um I've seen other districts do the class siiz waivers right so those were still we would have to do still so exactly yeah so so kindergarten through fourth we would have to submit class siiz waivers uh which we currently do um I mean there's this is efficiencies um we do have some not a lot we do have some classrooms that
189exceed that 22 to one yeah and I say we submit waivers under the DOI now I don't do we actually have to submit the waiver to the state still right still do but it's do electronically it's not anything like we used to and we used to report to the board as well so yeah we have we get to go through those but like my question would be the ratio goes up there may not be some waivers that are needed I don't know I'm just presuming I don't know at what point that that we have to request the waivers right at what side it's it's so once it hits 23 K kindergarten through fourth once it hits the 23rd student enrolled in that on that roster not necessarily in attendance but on that roster it it
190it dictates a waiver being being filed so if we change these ratios and increase them we would have to file waivers for everything yes okay well that's gone up keep in mind these are planning numbers yeah yeah so so these are not actual and that's what gets really interesting um if you look at by campus um we have numerous classrooms just as a result of how many sections and then of course the the efficiency or the size of the campus we we even though we're Staffing at 23 to1 there's a there's many cases where there's 16 there's 17 there's 18 on the roster across the district and and and where we start to lose uh efficiency is our smaller campuses because when you say say let's let's we if we have um let's just say
19146 students 46 first graders I'm using this as just an example that's not the case well a couple cases it may be but 46 do you have two sections or do you have three sections because if you have two obviously you can have 2323 but if you add a section that obviously loses that efficiency model very very quickly and that that kind of happens obviously across the board the reason that this is also important is as we get ready to approach uh the height of the hiring season we are going to have to have um the Staffing formula solidified so that uh we can run planning estimates for um uh uh campuses based on their projection based on their projected enrollment uh to start hiring uh especially the vacancies that they know they're going to
192have yeah truste Freeman so I don't I don't know where we are in this whole presentation right now but um the the last day of the legislative session isn't until June the 2nd and that's assuming we don't go any further with additional sessions what we we've not really decided upon a timeline here yeah um we know that we have to start Staffing really soon we start hiring in April um what is what is what is your idea of a specific timeline and when are these options going to be presented to the board or recommend yeah so at the end of April uh the April regular meeting at the latest um but here's here's what we need to be careful of um and I'm going to go back to 2011 because it's similar I mean I
193I don't want to paint this any other in any other light this is very similar to um in 2011 with the 4 and a half billion dollars cut as a result of really the state of economy that's that's not the same situation economically that we're in um but I again I just don't foresee legislation forthcoming that is going to close a $96 million uh deficit uh being potentially rolled forward the reason that I say we we just need to be cautious is because in 2011 um I can say this with pretty good certainty that a lot of school districts cut too much and so then as a result when Economic Times started to improve uh and funding increased um we had some some pretty large vacancies uh to work to feel that um at that
194time it really was a reduction in force and many Educators went on to other professions so I I say that uh knowing that you know we hire now 650 700 new teachers to the district each year so we we I just we need to be cautious and careful of obviously not cutting too deep so I I know um I'm I'm right there on the edge of the seat as well uh trying to navigate and drive but I think that we need to provide a little bit of runway for this legislative session to start to try to play out before we really start reacting and knee- jerking uh too aggressively there's a couple of us that were here in 2011 and the conversations that we had were very very difficult um at this like 2011 our
195goal was that we do not that every staff every person that we had on staff right now still had a job absolutely and we we kept that um but there were some there were some challenges and they were felt across the felt across the district but we were trying in in that attempt to make those budgetary cuts we tried not to make a difference regarding the programming or the the student in the classroom and and the opportunities that they received so we were very conscious about that and trying and every conversation we've had uh not a single program uh nor service that we provide currently uh has been brought up for discussion in regards to being eliminated uh being cut back with the exception of summer school which summer school was really a lot of
196enrichment that was really funded primarily with Esser uh dollarss um we are going to have to make some adjustments to this this year's summer school and probably going forward um providing the required summer school opportunities but probably not as much enrichment trusty um and I'm glad you said that Dr KRA um because there's just been some rumors um going around so when did principles hear about this just so that the rumors could be squashed or in regards in budget reductions yeah uh probably last may possibly oh okay and possibly related staff reductions or program reductions yeah once once the primary elections were uh finished uh last may we started the conversation that there's going to be budget reductions okay thanks any other comments questions you got hit Middle School next or let me yeah let's
197let's look at secondary real quick it's very similar scenario and again um these are not final recommendations um but you can see and again we're currently right now at the middle school level at 23 um uh but average 24 uh to one um and again that's that's that's a that's a very lucrative Staffing formula as well as the high school um and I again I know know that um I'm probably going to get tomatoes thrown at me real soon but I can say this with certainty these are very nice Staffing formulas uh at the secondary level um and so again there's um some challenges particularly when we start talking about building the master schedule uh offering those those Singleton classes um so if you kind of think about uh AP biology I mean you you're
198just you're at a senior level class it's a dual credit AP stack class there's probably not going to be seven sections so it gets a little bit more challenging um but uh there are some savings to be garnered like I say at the high school and middle school if we elect to modify change those uh Staffing ratios as well so um so that's going to be forthcoming and again um the next finance committee uh we'll be bringing in kind of the first blush of what know we've been able to work towards um and then and then like I say some tough decisions and tough conversations are are going to uh come thereafter um but absolutely the goal we want to protect programming we want to protect the instructional core in particular um the cuts need
199to be ancillary to the classroom and classroom direct support um and we need to make make sure that everyone maintains a job I mean that that's the overall objective and um you're going to start seeing we're not alone in this Venture I can assure you you're going to start seeing um districts across the state um starting to take some some pretty um uh desperate action uh in showing up deficit budgets so okay any other comments questions um because this will go to finance committee next and um not all of us can be there at that finance committee and these are really critical not just conversations but information is there a way to have um and so we could discuss it at another time but I would like if I can't make that meeting to have
200something if not that day but pretty close to it instead of waiting for the board meeting or waiting to absolutely we can we can provide the minutes immediately um but further detailed minutes I think yeah I think though that ultimately what I foresee happening is even with the finance committee similar to this uh conversation bringing it back to the full board right because these are these are pretty big decisions a good discussion at the board meeting then and then we could meet oneon-one with you or the finance chair I haven't looked at our board our Board calendar but we in the past have built in budget sessions so we have called meetings in the middle of the month and my thought is that we suggest we attempt to do that I'd be fine if that's
201the way we'd like to proceed yeah yeah that would be think it be in the evening that would be great for the on yeah they they're the called meeting so it'll be like the it'll be the second Tuesday of each month so the four yeah this fourth second yeah the um does any of this also impact like our well we saw if we do a call me I was thinking of a policy committee but this is really administrative policy that's not a the ratio and those type of thing right yeah this is a this becomes a staffing guideline right um but it is our core business so it's if we start to um change modify um looking at um like I say increasing the student teacher class ratios me this is a this is definitely
202a board level conversation yeah I'll be providing a recommendation but I know that like I say there's going to be definite feedback um and believe me I can't promise that any of the recommendations are going to be popular uh because it's going to be change um but again um being charged with proposing uh a fiscal year 26 budget and thereafter they did this the writing on the wall does is not indicative that we're going to receive $96 million in additional State funding in the form of a basic allotment that's not Tethered to some other um program like a school safety allotment uh mandatory teacher pay raise which house bill to just kind of give you an idea any increase to the basic allotment it went from a 30% uh to a 40% uh threshold and
203being applied to directly to compensation for teachers counselors nurses Librarians which I'm great with but that doesn't solve our deficit uh challenge okay uh yeah trusty Freeman uh roughly so what I've seen now it's $220 increase in the basic allotment on the house side um what is that equate to I know okay so with that 40% needs to go to teacher salary increase so what does that leave for everything else um I mean I know that's tough just a rough estimate because there's also an increase to the school safety allotment and there's some other there's some other things that are layered in uh that we'll be receiving runs here very soon um just a rough estimate 20 million rough estimate okay yeah i' um I think it's good discussion um you know emphasize the importance
204that we do have the called meetings and the other element too some of our school choice discussion Transportation type things may also play into that too um when we look at other factors so okay good okay any other comments or questions all right so we'll set up uh in advance let everybody know where those call meetings would be because that is important that we have that opportunity for everybody to be there for much more in-depth conversation good all right so we'll go ahead and that closes out that session next we'll go over next we're in our superintendent area and I'll I'll start this one if that's okay Dr this is I know some of y'all been waiting uh for announcing our candidacy uh the way that we we we do do this part is we'll
205give uh by we'll go and order the the districts themselves and for those candidates that that do want to announce um you'll have three minute time period and it's very similar how we do our citizens to be heard and any everybody signs up so you'll come up to the podium and then you'll have the uh our board secretary hold up the two minute and one minute portion accordingly uh to figure out let me just make sure I just want to check to see who there here this evening um let me just I'm just going to go through the names for for District Two is Homer does Homer one make comments uh Sonja Mary okay and Richard yes okay and and then from District 5 Karan yes okay Laura she's not here okay uh from District
206Six Carol no you want to make comments okay we know what you been presid nicholette here all right same thing got you Karen yes something about District Six K yes and Larisa yes okay so what we'll do is um we'll get call out by district and um youall got the routine it turns into three minutes Etc okay any comments or questions on the process or from anybody on this part I said this part is a little different than how we typically do these type of items okay so Sonia we'll have you go first okay hello good evening Dr craft and the Board of Trustees and Community um thank you so much for the opportunity to speak today or tonight my name is Dr Sonia hoso I'm running for nicd School Board District 2 and I'm
207doing this because I believe that every student in ND really deserves the opportunity to be successful regardless of their circumstances regardless of their background as a first generation um college graduate and also an educational leader for the past two decades I myself have experienced of seen the transformational power that education have for students and I've really have dedicated my career my life to supporting student achievement to advocating for educators and also fostering strong Community Partnerships these are the values that I would bring to the ND School Board I have the privilege right now of working with about 22 different independent school districts I collaborate with superintendents with principes with counselors and with instructors um to really enhance their Student Success models additionally as a university Professor I'm committed to Preparing the next generation of Educators
208and leaders and Beyond the classroom my community involvement includes that I just recently finished serving as the past board president for San Antonio Council on alcohol and drug awareness and I am currently a member of the city of San Antonio affirmative action committee for the past 17 years I've been proud to call NCD District 2 home and I'm deeply committed to the future of our students and our schools my platform focuses on these five key areas which is first the student achievement really expanding academic opportunities addressing the diverse learning needs and ensuring all students are successful second is teacher and staff support So prioritizing the living wage for all Educators and staff and fostering growth and retention of instructors third is school safety so enhancing security mental resources and building a positive School culture fourth
209is fiscal responsibility ensuring transparency on budget and resource allocations for maximizing the student efforts and impact fifth is community engagement so strengthening Partnerships with parents with businesses and with community members to ensure that they're guiding District decisions this selection is about our children and our Educators and our community it really is important that every student ATD has the opportunity to be successful with my experience my leadership and my passion for Education I'm ready to be an advocate for students a supporter for our Educators and a strength for our schools together we can build a future for ND and I respectfully ask for your support and anyone looking for me or getting in contact with me can contact my website at droso for nd.com thank you thank you next we have Mary or [Laughter] may good
210evening everyone back again this year so but uh to Dr craft and also to president blunt and and the board of ND my name is Mary May Allison retired for 22 years although they brought me back for a minute um as a school teacher and special ed assistant principal principal and assistant superintendent I am running for district I am proud to have 11 teachers trained and served under me as instructional coaches assistant principles and principles I was asked to return with saisd to assist in closing the schools and assisting the areas of needs for advising with school district my expertise has been with the organization of the Texas Education policy Institute and that is the area that we work with out of eight out of 10 years we're working with the legislature and we've also
211training Educators across the state to learn what Educators want to learn how to understand and how to be part of the bills become past for our students the 89th legisl is working for the positive for schools the state a board of education is working hard for the state to make sure that they are also working oh my goodness can get out to resolve to have excellent curriculums for the students that what might not be sometime is is not always good but we come back and we work to make sure that all of the students get what is all good for them you want want to know what a School Board needs and be familiar with and all ins and out of all needs that is important that you need to know when you're working on
212the school board you need to know in and out and what do you think will be better in some areas that is needed every year the Texas Association of school administrators and Texas Association of Latin administrators along with tii which is Texas educational policy Institute which is the organization of one of them that um I work with and do and this these are the ones that help us with the panels with the Senators Representatives school boards Commissioners tea and tww that share on recent legislature and how we can make them be part of schools better to all all all people and also all of the district it is first to know so what do the schools we'll have to stop you there thank you that's your three minutes thank you good thank you thank you
213okay uh Richard all right all right so good evening everyone this is a little different normally I'm doing something different in front of y'all so thank you for the opportunity to speak so my name is Richard ogato Jr and I'm honored to announce my candidacy with the support of my family for Northside uh District to so as a longtime volunteer in Northside I've had the privilege of seeing firsthand how education can shape not only our future individual students but also the future of our entire Community Education is the foundation for which our future leaders are built and it's my passion to ensure that every child in this district has the opportunity to thrive both academically and personally on a personal level my commitment to this District runs deep I'm a proud father of the three
214kids who is way past their bedtime has had perfect attendance since prek um all of whom are enrolled in Northside ISD their experiences in the classroom shape their Futures as a parent I understand the hopes the dreams and the concerns of other families in our community and I want to ensure that every child including my own receives the best possible education and a safe supportive but inclusive environment I want to be a voice for All Families to ensure that their children are just as inspired to reach their full potential in addition to my role as a father and a volunteer as you know I've served on various committees here in the district from serving as a PTA president yes guys do it too uh are serving on the Northside Educational Foundation I've chaired the Northside
215School boundary advisory committee um for several years these experiences have not only given me the unique insights of the needs of our students and Educators but further fuels my desire to advocate for positive change so beyond my 15 years of education being an Adjunct professor I've had the I've had the commitment to our Ser excuse me I've had the commitment to serving the broader San Antonio community particularly to the work of military and Veteran Affairs so I chair the city Commission on Veteran Affairs as the mayor's appoint te I am coach chair uh for the va's uh Community engagement M on behalf of the Secretary of va I've worked to bring critical resources to our city as military USA to advocate for families on their behalf these experiences have taught me the importance of collaboration
216problem solving Community leadership skills that I will bring to the board if so uh voted on together I believe we could address address some of the challenges that we have been talking about tonight tonight from teacher shortages to learning gaps due to covid to school safety and to support our incredible Educators and support staff so my commitment to north side is not just professional it's personal and I want to ensure all schools are a place where all students can achieve and be successful so I'm looking forward to working with you all our parents our Educators and our community thank you thank you and Homer no you can make yours from there that's fine excuse me try to this done here good evening everybody my name is Dr Homer gavada Jr and I represent District Two
217On The Board of Trustees of the Northside Independent School District I was appointed to the board in April of 2024 the community has placed faith in me this past year here and I humbly ask for your support to continue on the Board of Trustees for this incredible District as an ND trustee I will continue to lead the Northside Independent School District to efficient effective and student focused School governance by doing the following by providing our employees with wages that support basic living expenses and benefits that reflect current day economic pressures and professional credentials build strong family and Community engage engagement to create optimal opportunities for each child support modifications adjustment strategies and services that may be provided to meet the needs of various exceptional students prevent the diversion of public funds through vouchers tax credits
218and education savings accounts but most of all keeping the focus on students and improving educational outcomes and strengthening public education I am deeply embedded to the Community I'm deeply embedded into education I was born and raised in San Antonio and graduated from souan high school I am in my 24th year here at Northwest Vista college and in my 31st year overall in education I hold the rank of Professor and teach government and economics at Northwest Vista college and a further connection to the community as many as 90% of my students at Northwest vaa College enrolled in my class my classes are North graduates prior to teaching at NVC I was a teacher and coach in the public school sector both at Memorial High School and South San Antonio West Campus High School prior to being
219appointed to the board I advocated for Education with appointments to serve on the undergraduate education advisory committee for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and as co-chair of the education and Workforce Development Council for the greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce where I help lead discussion with members of the Texas legislature and with members of US Congress on all topics of education and Workforce in other service of the community I was appointed by the city council to serve on the CPS Energy board which I bring that experience and audit and fin Financial Services operations oversight health and benefits bonds and communication with ratings agencies I'm married to letia gavana a retired public school teacher who taught for 35 years including the last 21 years in Northside my kids went through school they're all schools at
220every level eventually graduating from war in high school my wife and I have lived in the Northside Community for 34 years my reason for serving as a trustee isn't about is about servant leadership thank you thank you Homer okay so that completes our uh the candidates for single member district 2 everybody was present this evening and had the opportunity to announce their candidates we will now go over to single member district district number five uh this evening we have a Ken those who have been raising money to support candidates against each of us have made serious allegations that have no basis in the truth in the past four years I've had the privilege of working with Karen Freeman Carol harl and Homer gavada and can say without reservation that their values and ideals reflect the
221best of the northsite community they are the reason that the northsite board was selected as the outstanding School Board in Texas just two years ago they represent unparalleled quality experience and dedication these trustees and myself have refused to push political agendas risk our financial stability adopt policies harmful to students or parents or align with political power Brokers outside the Northside ISD on a personal note in my first term I represented northsite as state level conferences I've completed the Texas Association of school boards year-long course of study and have been certified as a master trustee I've attended every board meeting held in those four years as well as all but a couple of the various committee meetings held every month more importantly I've been president at more than 850 District activities which include visits to our
222campuses and Facilities I've also had the opportunity to assist in the initiation of several programs that are impacting thousands of our students the vast majority of the more than 2,000 hours that I've spent as a volunteer in the district have been during the normal work day this has only been possible because I'm retired and can invest in those aspects of life for which I have a true passion frankly I don't believe that the district is well served when trustees have time constraints that keep them away from important meetings and District activities the bottom line is this I believe that most of the people who have known me as a classroom teacher department chair assistant principal academic Dean and school board and Schoolboard trustee will echo my assertion that I bring a known value to this
223position of trust and awesome responsibility the San Antonio Express News has stated that this election is a pivotal election and could be a shift to a union back majority on the board I don't see that shift to be in the best interest of our students and their families if you are a voter in District 5 and agree that I have brought value to our district I would appreciate your support in this reelection campaign thank you okay thank you Karan so that completes uh for single member district five um we had one of the two that announced this evening so now we'll go to single member district six and nicholette you want to go first up here at the podium you're good they'll justify don't yeah no you're fine either way all right well good evening
224everyone uh Dr craft all of our board trustees um it's an honor to be in front of you this evening and as somebody who is running for a Schoolboard position I really do appreciate again just the fact that uh you've invited all of the candidates up to your because that's democracy in action right we understand that all of us that are running to serve are are doing a duty for the community that we want to serve and I do want to commend Dr har for all of her years as a school chusty I called her before I decided to run to share and also learn from her what she's done so far and what is she's most proud of so again thank you Dr har for even answering my phone call on a Friday afternoon
225um again my name is Nicollet ente I am running for Schoolboard district for uh district 6 and I'm not only running just for you know the community we serve at hand I'm running for this Collective this Collective embodyment of what north side is to our community y'all have said it multiple times tonight and seeing the joy in everyone's face when they come into this building is a testment of that I'm running because I believe that again democracy and action allows for community members to to come up and be like I want to I want to run and I want to serve in this capacity I wish to be honest I could flip so I could talk to all of y'all um so that way y'all can also see me but the the idea here is
226that we're all committed to north side we're all committed to public education and being a strong Advocate means that we're both showing up in the Schoolboard meetings but also showing up in the communities showing up for our community members who may not have children in the district but also um recognize that our neighbors and our precincts and and everybody who makes our lives more successful are all because we're a part of this Collective so again I'm running for school be school board because I I believe in San Antonio I forgot to mention I'm not originally from here so sometimes my Jersey accent will come out when I say coffee or when I say office but I moved here in 2012 and I've never looked back since ever since my parents keep asking me to go
227move back home to New Jersey but with that being said I have the passion I have the determination I want to continue serving in this capacity using my own lived experiences as being a community advocate for being a community leader and showing up in spaces for folks of our community to know that someone is looking out for them we know that today the work that's being done today in this room and from day from here on out especially with the legislature uh underway that the success of the future of Texas starts with us in this room starts with the people behind me the community members that believe in all of us but also depends on our support today so again thank you for the opportunity to speak and I look forward to talking with you
228all very soon thank you okay and next for District s Carol thank you and yeah Nicola thank you so much for reaching out that made that three-hour drive back home wonderful so anytime you've got my number and we did talk about um kind of a mentor relationship and Carla will tell you um about what a a mentor shouldn't shouldn't do so anyway but um thank you for being here tonight and thanks for I love democracy and action as well so thanks for being part of this great group that's here um I'm very excited and honored to announce a c my candidacy candidacy for the Northside Board of Trustees district 6 my name is Dr Carol harl and my love for Northside began as a student at John Marshall High School and continued as an employee
229here actually in this building at one time when it was organizational and staff development um and as a parent and now grandparent our children graduated from uh sander Deo Conor High School and our grandchildren attend Bonnie Ellison elementary school and are in the Dual language program giving back in gratitude to Northside as a trustee um and volunteering countless hours in board work continues to be a p primary reason I want to continue being on our esteemed board there are several more reasons why I want to continue to serve and should be considered the best choice as your trustee as a LIF long and I always say I'm a forever educator I've been blessed with many classroom school and District level leadership experiences I've been an elementary middle school teacher and administrator a professional development specialist
230again here an executive director for school Improvement and an assistant superintendent for curriculum instruction into two different districts my leadership experiences span four San Antonio isds providing unique and diverse educational leadership perspectives and experiences upon leaving the school district leadership I was chosen to work with low performing schools and school districts throughout Texas for several years currently I work with a nonprofit cast schools as a director for school and uh School experiences we partner with public school districts to form thematic schools I also teach future teachers at UTSA which is also a a passion of mine and my life's work has been and continues to be focused on improving and enriching the lives of public school students and all those employees that surround them uh with love and care again my passion for serving children
231and their families began as a daughter of an Air Force pilot uh and public school educator my mom we moved every three or four years and lived in several countries giving another perspective um about making the world a better place I continue to um I'm committed uh excuse me my commitment energy and passion continues to be focused on providing the best learning and working experiences for our children their families our employees and Community while valuing and supporting all the employees and Educators that care for them continuing an unwavering focus and dedication to ensuring our student and staff sa safety and well-being is a priority in addition to recruiting retaining and supporting our Educators and staff additionally I'd like to expand opportunities for students employees families and community members to offer input and have conversations about
232Northside practices programs and public education in general ultimately having our children Educators and employees at the heart of our collective decision making is a gift I do not take lightly and committed to ensuring Northside continues to be where students and families learn and Thrive from the bottom of my heart thank you for continued support thank you amen it thank you okay so that um both our candidates in for District Six have announced their candidat see we now move over to single member district 7 and Larisa you'll go first good evening thank you so much Dr craft president blent and Board of Trustees and again I want to thank youall for your service and the many years that you have all served to make ND a great District uh see sorry so the reason so my
233name is LSA Martinez and I am applying are running for an ASD district 7 the reason why I'm running is because I've always always been a firm believer of the power of Education to transform lives while I am not a product of ND I am a product of public education I graduated from SD however I know what it means to be in school in in an underserved District but it gave me the resilience and grit that I needed to to move forward and with the path of my life I served in the United States Air Force and I proudly served and was honorly discharg discharged after 8 and a half years I learned invaluable lessons of service before self integrity and an excellence in all we do that I have continued to use to this
234day I hold a bachelor's in information technology and I also am currently on path to graduate from sorry Dr Hall School Texas M school of law this summer 2025 in um m in getting a m Masters in legal studies and with a concentration in employment law so as a parent and as a community leader I also am the founder and executive director of a nonprofit called circle of arms where our mission is to promote mental health awareness through education filling gaps advocacy and breaking stigma primarily among veterans women and minority communities as a parent and Community leader I understand the value of of advocacy for change I also have two two sons that graduated in what we call the Alamo Ranch triangle one graduated from Taff one gradu graduated from Harland and my son here
235will soon well not soon he'll be graduating from Soto he's at folks middle school right now so I definitely understand what is needed and what are the concerns that students have teachers have in in our district I've also been a resident of ND for 20 for 20 years so some of the things that I would like to work on and I apologize that I'm stammering but I some of the um platforms that I want to work on are just like mostly everybody else we want to make sure that we have livable wages for our teachers and staff we want to make sure that we have um Mental Health Access to Mental Health Resources for our students and teachers and Educators we want to make sure that we have promote sustainability which means you know Effectiveness
236in green going green um and also any got to stop you thank you thank you okay and uh next Karen I'm Karen Freeman a medical technologist uh by degree over the years I've worked in hospital and doctor office medical labs when my husband retired from the Air Force after 20 years had worked as an office manager in a medical office practice we spent most of his military career in San Antonio all four of our children started kindergarten and Northside at scobby Elementary in 1987 and all graduated from o' Conor High School I found my niche as fundraising chair on the PTA board when my kids were in elementary school and did the same for band boosters um in o'conor high school I've been honored by the PTA with a Texas lifetime membership also before board
237service I volunteered for and served on several North Side committees as strategic planning committees boundary committees and school advisory committees I've been actively involved in every Bond campaign since 1995 I was encouraged to run for a seat on the board in 2005 and have served on the board ever since during that time I also served on the board of directors for the SE Texas Association of school boards and termed out after 12 years of service I also served seven years on the board um for the hotus chamber and was honored with their chamber Lifetime Achievement Award I've attended leadership tasby and graduated as a master trustee since I've served on the Northside board Northside was honored with the very first large school district HB excellence and education award I was equally as proud when two
238years ago this very board won the HB excellence and education governance award where our community engagement initiatives were recognized and I'm proud proud to say that we have one of the highest um pay scales for teachers in Bear County we're about third highest in in Bear County since I've been elected um Northside has passed all the proposed Bond elections and this is important because it's evidence that we have the Community Trust that we've earned the Community Trust and I will say that we have never taken that for granted we continue to work on it I attend as many events um as some of my fellow trustees as I can because I know it's important for the community to know that we care it's important to show up we are transparent in what we do we
239listen to our parents in our community and we take care of business this has been part of a longtime culture on this board and we work to continue to build on it public Ed represents the heart of our community and our future we talk with lawmakers those friendly and not so friendly tough decisions lie ahead perhaps more challenging than we've ever faced I serve because I love north side love what we do it's about serving our kids our staff and our community I want I would like to continue serving in this role and I got to tell you all we have to do it's very simple we must teach our kids support our teachers in order to build our future boards do matter and I would appreciate the support of our community thank you thank
240you so that also completes um a single member of district 7 both candidates have announced their candidacy for for those that attend this evening and announce your cany uh thank you all for doing that okay so next we'll go ahead and we'll go ahead to move over to our future agend items uh led by Dr craft yes sir uh so March 25th um uh will be our next regular held meeting we'll have uh like I say WS to include Tim vase thespian Awards um and then I want Jinx basketball but um uh we're have two teams in two two are moving on to play Friday Haron uh W 5350 and I believe brenon W bron bron squeak by so um congratulations to them and like I say4 it'll be exciting 8749 har I believe was
241513 5350 okay so um we'll have a review our summer programs as mention unfortunately we're just going to have to scale back uh for this summer school uh programming um we are going to bring forward the schematic design uh for Marshall High School uh this one's a pretty complicated project and uh it's coming along very nicely uh as mentioned earlier another budget update um and like I say we'll likely include uh um at least a first iteration of uh recommendations um like to say budget uh reductions um and then we'll have another round of school safety audits um and we may have a couple of um uh recommendations uh as far as uh employment recommendations for um associate principles or uh maybe director possibly that's what I have like I say in the works for
242the 25th of March which seems like it's a long way away but it'll be here pretty quick with spring break all right Dr craft uh trusty Freeman uh Dr craft did you include um um our um now I'm get I'm gonna get getting ahead for this um our awards that we have coming up in Saturday the oh the AC thank you AC AC we can um I believe I had a that's right what month are we into now this is March right I was trying to when you I thought you asking a different question I was trying to remember when we have to announce the uh trustees training that's usually come up about this time correct before Board election is it later in the spring okay so nevertheless it's coming up though so trustees let's
243make sure that we uh before Board election are taking looking at that April okay so that's coming up fast so if you got anything missing let us know okay any other need any help getting hours just let us know we'll try to get you the right resource any other future agenda item conversations okay so uh so the Board of Trustees on February 25th 2025 meeting at 9:45 will conven and close meeting in accordance with the Texas government code sections 551 that listed the discussion will take place on the uh the items that were also listed okay okay so we're going to go ahead and go in a close session uh and then once we complete that we'll come back out in an open session all right so the Board of Trustees beginning at 10:17 will
244convene an open meeting action can take place on the items that were listed out is there a motion to come before the board I move that we accept the recommendation for training our teachers uh for our staff and students all we need is admin yeah that was that that never mind minutes I was Mak sure I said did the minutes off uh I move that we accept the recommendations by uh Dr Glendo hold on I think we're okay hey do you mind if I um Let me let me change your wording just a little bit can you the administrative appointment the appointments yeah okay okay as present okay and delete what I said before okay they got to do that and still the second on administrative appointments yes okay all right any discussion n move
245a second that we approve the administrative appointments as discussed and close all those in favor signifi by stating I I those opposed motion carries thank you all