Northwest ISD Board Meeting - May18, 2026

001I call this meeting of the Northwest Independent School District to order at 5:00 PM. With the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that the notice of the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551. The board will convene in close session pursuant to Texas Government Code Chapter 551, including sections 551.071, 071 consultation with the board's attorney and 551.072 real estate matters 551.074 personnel matters and 551.076 security devices or security audits if you are being recognized and still looking for where to go. So, you're part of the recognition, not a family member. Eaton Basketball is in the boardroom lobby. Northwest JV Sidekicks are in PDCB and everything's down this hallway over here to my left. Vertical

002robotics team from Eaton is in the Big Ben conference room. Leadership in ISD is in PDC room C. And volunteer award winners are in PDC room A. Just another quick reminder for those of you who may have just walked in. If you are being recognized tonight, eaten basketball is in the boardroom lobby. So where you walked in from this side, JV Sidekicks are in PDC room B. And everything is besides that group is on this hallway over here. Eaton Vertical Robotics is in Big Bend. Leadership NISD is in PDC C. Volunteer award winners are in PDCA. And if you're a family member, you're in the right place. >> Everybody got so quiet. We're trying to wait just a couple more minutes. One of our kiddos who's doing the pledge is running behind. So, we'll be

003going in just a few minutes. So, go back to talking. Okay. Thank you for your patience, everybody. We will now reconvene our regular meeting at 6:37 p.m. We will now do the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. I would invite you guys, would y'all please stand? I'm going to open us up in a word of prayer. If you'd like to join me, uh, please do so by bowing. Heavenly Father, we come to you humbly, Lord, with with great thanksgiving. Thank you so much, Lord, for the trials and tribulations of this school year, but also for the triumphs, for the opportunity to see the human spirit and the meaning of community when we have struggles. Lord, we thank you for uh this school year and the opportunity to learn and to grow, to invest in our

004kids and our staff. And Lord, this summer we pray for safety. We ask you to put your hedge of protection around our kids and our and our staff and our families and our community. Um help us to be safe and to come back in the fall uh ready to learn. And Lord, we just again thank you for the many many blessings you showered upon us. We pray for wisdom this evening for the Lord uh for the sorry for the board um to do their work in public. Um and and again we we close this prayer in thanksgiving to you. In the Lord's name we pray. Amen. >> All right. Thank you. Stumbled through that. Stay with me for just a second. I'd like to introduce you to a couple of folks that are going to

005um do the pledges for us this evening. Weston Jennings, a fourth grade student um from Lizzie Curtis. come on down Weston and his partner tonight, Kala McGomery, a fifth grade student uh also uh from Lizzie Curtis Elementary. And Kala's parents, Victoria and Sage Montgomery. Thank you guys for being here. Um her favorite subject is English language arts. She loves to read and rollerblade. Great combination. Don't do them at the same time. Uh very important. Uh also her proud uh principal, Miss Putman, said that she's a Cal is a leader on campus. Um she models what it's like to be a legendary leader. She's a hard worker. She's respectful, goal oriented, and a friend to all. So, thank you. She's going to lead us in one of the pledges. And then Weston Jennings is with us,

006as I said, fourth grader. Thank you, Christopher and Stephanie Jennings, Miss Jennings, for being here with us. His favorite subject is science. He also likes to play video games and play with his dog. Uh, and the principal said Miss Putman said she nominated him because of the character that he exhibits at Curtis Elementary. He's a hard worker, also a team player and a friend to all and his teachers say that he brings kids together in the classroom. What a great attribute you have there. So, will you guys lead us in the pledges, Callum? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas.

007One state under God, one and indivisible. >> Thank you guys. Y'all may be seated. You guys hang right there for just one second. Miss Murphy, our board president, is going to come down and give you guys a small token of appreciation. And so Kala and Weston, can y'all stay right there at the podium? And all of us, can we give them a big round of applause for doing that? Awesome. Thank you. Last week, the school and they showed up to help us this evening with our board meeting. So, thank you all for being here. >> We'll turn it over to Mr. Toy and team for recognitions. >> Good evening, President Murphy, Dr. past members of the board. Tonight we have a lot of recognitions and we'll begin with our extracurricular activities. So we'll start with

008Joel Johnson, executive director of athletics to discuss the Eaton High School boys basketball team's accomplishments this year and immediately after him we'll have Kevin Lacefield, executive director of fine arts to discuss the recent championship of the Northwest High School JV Sidekicks. And I'll turn it over to Joel. >> Good evening board. Dr. Faustst, it's my privilege to be able to introduce our eaten boys basketball team. I'm going to jump right into this because like Anthony said, we have a lot. I'm going to get them up here real quick. Real quick and say a few words about them. So, we'll start with uh Mitch. Come on up, Mitch. Joshua, KJ, Davin, Jed, Michael, Jagger, DeAndre, Damian, Jaden, Ephraim, Caleb, Carter Steven, head coach Tim Thomas, assistant coach Brad Harmon, and 12th assistant to the assistant, Doc,

009principal Stacy Miles. [sighs] So, hey guys, thanks for being here. Just a few words about this group. I got to see them play a lot of games this year. And uh last year this team did not qualify for the playoffs. The year before they did. They've had three straight winning seasons. The year before they qualified for the regional semi-finals, then back again this year for the regional semi-finals. So watching these guys play and watching them go about their business, uh my word for this group would be intent. Uh there was a core nucleus of guys back this year from a team that didn't make the playoffs and you could tell that they were very very intent about everything that they did. Open gyms, practices, warm-ups, tournaments, game plans, defense, offense, all of those things. They

010didn't just go through it. you could tell that they had a plan and they were intent about executing that plan. And and a few things about this team. Um it's the first district championship for boys basketball in Eaton school history. They were 14-2 in district. They had the most wins of any team in the history of Eaton High School with 28 wins and the best season overall record. Their record was 28-8. They advanced to the regional semi-finals for the second time in school history and for the second time in three years. And I know some of you guys were on that team three years ago, but great season. Um, you guys made Eaton very, very proud. You made Northwest ISD and Northwest ISD athletics very, very proud. So, looking forward to you guys have set

011the standard and we're looking forward to everybody coming back to continue to match that standard. So congratulations to eaten boys basketball. There we go. Ready? One, two, three. Well, good evening, Dr. Fost, President Murphy, members of board. It's my privilege to introduce to you the JV sidekicks from Northwest High School. They're going to go ahead and make their way here to the stage. But while they do, I'm going to talk a little bit about their accomplishments this year. The junior varsity sidekicks took first in the junior varsity division at the Showtime Grand Nationals in Galveastston, Texas on Sunday, March 29th. They placed first in palm, contemporary, hiphop, and jazz. They also won a state title back in February, winning first in every category, first in the JV division, and get this, even outscoring several varsity

012teams that were participating, coming in second place over the entire contest in the atlarge division. This is the JV Sidekick's third national title in the history of the program. And the JV Sidekicks are under the direction of Dr. Leila Romeo. I'm going to have them introduce themselves, starting over here with Ashton. Hi, my name is Ashton and I'm a sophomore. >> My name is Molly and I'm a sophomore. >> My name is Aubrey and I'm a sophomore. >> My name is Tess and I'm a freshman. I'm Nadea. I'm a freshman. My name is Anna and I'm a sophomore. >> My name's My name's [laughter] My name is Kend. I'm a sophomore. >> My name's Sydney and I'm a sophomore. >> My name's Isabella and I'm a sophomore. My name is Tori and I'm a freshman.

013>> My name is Jamie Dalis and I'm a sophomore. >> My name is Hope and I'm a sophomore. >> I'm Dr. Leila Romeo and I am not a sophomore. [laughter] [sighs and gasps] >> Congratulations JV Sidekicks. All right. Go. One, two, three. Next up, students from Eaton High School's Aviation and Aeronautics Academy recently earned top regional and national honors for their robotics program. This school year, the Aviation Academy students competed in the Advanced Vertical Robotics Competition. This national competition for high school students teaches industry-based skills for long-term workforce development. So, they learn how to design, code, build uh these vertical robotics. They they do a lot of engineering and it also involves teamwork. So, with a total score of 541.3 points across six categories, the Eaton team finished third in the entire nation. To put

014their accomplishment into perspective, they were one of only four teams to score more than 500 points. This is a large increase over their 2024 finish when they finished with 419 points with which earned them fifth place last school year. The year before that they scored 381 points and uh finished seventh in the nation. So they're definitely on an upward trend. And now I'll let each of them just as we did for last group introduce themselves and their grade level. >> Hi, my name is Papi Pell and I am a junior. >> Hi, my name is Hana Hammed and I'm a senior. >> My name is Kisha Gum and I'm a senior. >> My name is Sron West. I'm a freshman. My name is Skyler Freemire and I'm a junior. >> Hi, I'm Lexi Pierce and

015I'm a junior. >> I'm Sophia Bacon and I'm a junior. >> Hi, my name is Schllo Bruma and I'm a junior. >> Hello, I'm Gerard Sanchez. I am a senior. >> I'm Ariana Deville and I'm a senior. >> I'm Bryson Hollowman. I'm a junior. >> I'm Colin Crump and I'm a junior. >> Uh I'm Mr. Nees, one of the teachers over at the aviation aeronautics academy and I have the privilege of allowing these students to make me look really good. So, thank you very much guys. [groaning] So, next up we have one of my favorite groups, our leadership NISTD graduates. not just because I lead the group, but because they do a great job uh every single year. And this year was especially uh great because we've had more people go through the program than

016I believe at any point in Northwest ISTD history. Uh so there are 36 graduates of the leadership in ISTD program. I was looking back, it's very rare that we get more than 30. So we had a a very ardent group of supporters this school year. So each year, if you're not aware, uh we have our campus principles recommend people to serve on this group. There are people who want to learn more about Northwest ISD and we don't just ask for fluffy like tell us all the great things happening. We ask for their honest feedback and they definitely give it to us because we make a lot of changes based on their input. Uh every department leads a presentation and we hear it's two-way communication. We hear they hear from us, we hear from them. Uh

017and we've made lots of changes over the years based off this group and I'm sure we're going to make many changes going forward based off of what this group had to say. But I will walk over there and I will have each of our graduates say their name and what campus they're representing. >> Hello everyone. Uh my name is Barat Sharma and I represent Hassler Elementary School. Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Sheri Miller and I represent Nance Elementary. >> Good evening. I'm Amber Smith and I represent Carter Elementary. >> Hi, my name is David Cado. I represent Cinderea Elementary, Truit Wilson Middle School, and Braton High School. >> Tony Carter Northwest High School. >> I'm Ryan Smithy. I represent James M. Steel Early College High School. >> Karen Davis, 7 Hills Elementary. Evelyn Holden, Jane

018Pike. >> Britney Dwire, OA Peterson. >> Holly Laser, K Granger Elementary. >> Jennifer Crane, the K Granger. >> Jared Losano, the K Granger Elementary. >> Alexandra Davies Lassard, the K Granger Elementary. >> Kristen Booker, Worthington Middle School in Eden High School. Shila is um I have four kids so I represent Nance Elementary, Adams Middle School, and Eaton High School. >> Sarah Dreza for Parent Elementary. >> Sophia Ashby. I have four kids as well. So I'm here for Parent Pike and Northwest. Da Rodriguez Farmer and I'm here um representing Le View Elementary and Baron Nelson High School. Terry Trainer for Byron Nelson High School. >> Jenny Anne Blair for 7 Hills Elementary. Ashley Smarl for Rowan Oak Elementary. >> Jean Brown Wilson Middle School. >> Ces Maria Prairie View Elementary. [cheering] >> Curtis Fowler, Nance Elementary.

019>> Aaron Sierner, Nance Elementary. >> Amber Wells, Hlet Elementary. Liz Cotton, Lance Thompson Elementary, and Byron Nelson. >> Kayla Elkins, Justin Elementary. >> So, as you can see, we definitely had more graduates this year than I think we've ever had. I'll double check on that, but it was a a great group this school year. right over here. Congratulations. [groaning] Oh, next I'll turn it over to Candle Pierce to recognize our top volunteers and one of our top employees. >> Good evening, President Murphy, Dr. Fast, and members of the board. It's my honor to help recognize several deserving individuals this evening. First, I would like to recognize the Spring Gem Award, also known as the Going the Extra Mile Award. NISD places a strong emphasis on the importance of providing excellent customer service to ensure a

020positive experience for families, community members, and staff in Northwest ISD. This award recognizes one central office staff member who has provided just that and has even given above and beyond in their role in the district. One of the nominators had this to say about this semester's winner. They work tirelessly to find a solution that will significantly impact daily processing in several departments with increased accuracy and efficiency. They have accomplished all of this with a smile and constant attitude of how can I help and how can I make it better. This semester's gym award winner is technologies very own Christy Little. Congratulations, Christie. Volunteers are an important part of each of our schools and our schools would not be the same without them. This year, our district has logged 131,182 hours of volunteer service. Tonight, I

021would like to recognize our volunteer of the month, volunteer campuses of the year, and our top volunteers of the year for each of our campuses. Our volunteer of the month for April is Isabella Cho from Schlutoter Elementary. Principal Raundo said, "Isabella has dedicated an incredible amount of time to supporting the Schlutoter Library. She played a key role in reorganizing and labeling the entire space, making it easier for students to find and enjoy the books they are looking for. We are so thankful for her time and love her for Schlutoter. Thank you, Isabella, and congratulations. [groaning] Next, our elementary volunteer campus of the year with a whopping 11,718 hours is the K. Granger Elementary. Principal Michelle McAdams will be accepting their honor. Everybody else that's here with us. >> Yes. Anybody else from K Granger come

022up too? I'm drinking this. One, two, three. Our secondary volunteer campus of the year with 3,753 hours is Tidwell Middle School with principal Jeremy Martin and the rest of their PTA accepting the award. And last, but certainly not least, I would like to recognize our volunteers of the year for each campus. From Beck Elementary, Jacqueline Eubanks. Not everybody is here. We're just going to say their names. [laughter] From Birkshshire Elementary, Angela Miller from Carter Elementary. Tiffany O'Neal from Cox Elementary. Katherine Hussy [sighs] from Curtis Elementary. Stephanie Jennings from Daniel Elementary. James Schrader from Granger Elementary. Jared Lasano from Hasslet Elementary. Allison Loveless from Hatfield Elementary. Caitlyn Houston from Hughes Elementary. Brittany White from Justin Elementary. Nicole Smith from Lake View Elementary. Samantha Ellis from Lance Thompson Elementary. Taran OD from Love Elementary. Christina Davenport from

023Nance Elementary. Kelly Ghart from Peterson Elementary. Erica Dunn from Prairie View Elementary. Elizabeth Escalano from Rowanoke Elementary. Ashley Smurl from Schlutoter Elementary. Natalie Melo from 7 Hills Elementary. Christy Christy Loose from Thompson Elementary. Sarah Roses from Adams Middle School. Michelle Tommpkins from Chism Trail Middle School. Mindy Duncan [groaning] from Medlin Middle School. Bushra Mustad from Pike Middle School. Tabitha Hyink from Tidwell Middle School. Brian McClendon from Wilson Middle School. Tony Kanyas from Worthington Middle School and Northwest High School. Edie Abalino from Byron Nelson High School. Brenda Mononttoya from Eaton High School. Christy Kado and from Still Early College High School. Lesie Price, >> Parin Elementary, Sophia Ashby. >> Okay. From Parin Elementary, Sophie Ashby. [groaning] Go ahead. >> Squish. All right, here we go. >> Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers for the

0242526 school year. And that concludes recognitions for tonight. >> This is for you. Oh my goodness. And she sent me the sweetest card. I appreciate y'all. Okay, we will continue with our agenda. We will go to item number six with this public testimony. Public comment on agenda and non-aggenda items. And we have two this evening. I'm going to read the statement first. Public testimony and public comments are an opportunity for the public to address the board on an any agenda item or matter not on the board agenda. The board may place reasonable constraints in the length of presentation so long as it does not unfairly discriminate among speakers based on viewpoint. People who wish to speak must have signed up and complete a public request to speak form before the meeting begins and identify the

025topic they wish to address with the board. Each presentation is limited to three minutes. Speakers requiring language translation will be limited to six minutes. Speakers should refrain from mentioning by name an employee or student with whom they are complaining. Our first speaker, Ashley Majors, will you please step to the podium and state your name and address. Okay, try to do this without crying. Okay. Ashley Major and 200 South Dogwood. Okay. I'm just here to say thank you. Good evening, school board members and administration. I would like to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for the incredible education my son has received from Northwest ISD. [sighs] He will not only be graduating next week, he will also graduating from the aviation academy with his drone pilots license that he did receive as a junior.

026This is something my son This is something that my family is incredibly proud of and also my son holds with honor. This is something this is what's all possible because of the vision and dedication as well is a forward-thinking leadership and continued investment that each of you have given to our students. I would also like to recognize a truly remarkable teacher and mentor, Mr. Neeves, who has played a pivotal role in my son's education over the last four years. Seeing him awarded teacher of the year came no surprise to me. His dedication, encouragement, and passion for the students has left a lasting impact. I will always be grateful for the difference he made in my son's life. My son is just not graduating. He is stepping confidently into the future and that is cannot say

027thank you enough for what y'all have done. [sighs] Also, [gasps] Jennifer is not here, but thank you to Jennifer with Nef because she has blessed our teachers. Thank you to Anthony for keeping us informed on social media and on the phone calls when the kids didn't want to go to school. [laughter] So, thank you. Thank you to each of you one by one on the school board again for being the visionaries and I couldn't say less and thank you to Slutter for what you have done over the years. I have given you a little bit of trouble here and there personally, [laughter] but [gasps] thank you for all that you have done for generations. But again, you have given all of not just my children, but all of the children in Northwest ISD the best

028education. Thank you. Thank you, Ashley. Our second speaker this evening is Cindy Barksdale. Would you please or would you please step to the podium and state your name and address? [clears throat] >> Cindy Barkstdale um 583 County uh film row 3433. Um good evening. First, I just wanted to say thank you. My dad served for 24 years on school board where in my hometown and through him I learned that the challenges and the rewards of this job. I also learned that often it's not um it's a thankless job and I wanted to make sure to begin with gratitude. Also I want to thank you personally as I will retire after 30 years in education and including the last eight years here at Northwest ISD. Thank you for allowing me to serve students, staff and families

029at Chism Trail. The reason I wanted to speak to you tonight is because of a being a parent with dis a child with dyslexia. One of the things I learned over the years is this data rarely tells the story or the answer. It is often asked the question. As someone who's built a master schedule for nearly two decades, I know what the numbers look like. Dyslexia classes may have five to eight students while an ELA class will have 30 or more. Looking at the data for a story, someone might look at the MTA class and and think that they need to be be combined and made larger. But the question is why are those classes smaller? This that begins my daughter's story. We knew Camry was dyslexic in second grade. She began a dyslexia program

030and then in fifth grade when I came to Chisum, she came to Prairie View and began in the SIPs program which helped maintain her skills, but it did not move her forward in reading. Then in sixth grade during co year, she came to to Chisum and began the MTA program. In seventh grade, we were driving down the road one day and I looked at a billboard and I asked her a question about it and she said, "I can't read that. I can't read um billboards. I can't read road signs." And my heart broke because here's my child making A's and B's in honors classes and she can barely read. I spoke with her teacher, Miss Shat, her dyslexia teacher. I hope y'all have paid her in pure gold. She told me she's making progress. She's

031very dyslexic. She's very diff it's very difficult for her, but she's very smart and works hard. So trust their process. And I did and I prayed a lot. In eighth grade, she read something to me and I thought, "Man, that's fluent." And then she read a billboard to me and I think my entire body exhaled because finally after six years, there was progress in her being able to read. Later, Miss told me what she was completing in kit 6 and I realized kit kit 6 is where the rubber meets the road. And because individualized instruction works in MTA and small groups work, this week, Camry will graduate with honors with nearly 30 hours of dual credit and more than $30,000 in scholarships. This is the same child who couldn't read a road sign in seventh

032grade. So, is MTA worth the money? Is um trained teachers and smaller class worth it? This mom says yes. That um [snorts] thank you for putting the questions before the data and for putting kids first. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. That concludes our public comment for this evening. We will move to item seven which is administer the oath of office. Okay, now that that pomp and circumstances out of the way, we'll move on to eight which is the election of officers. >> Madam President, >> Mr. I would first like to thank my committee Jeff Daring and Mr. Steve Sprouls in this very difficult decision that I'm going to make a motion for. So I move to nominate Jennifer Murphy as the president of the Northwest ISTD Board of Trustees. >> I have a motion

033by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Mr. Sprouls to nominate Jennifer Murphy as the president of the Northwest ISD trustees board of trustees. Sorry, I'm having a minute. Sorry. Um, any discussion? Uh, I ask you to cast your vote. All in favor, raise your hand afterwards. Okay, that's 50 Z to and one abstain. So, [laughter] I mean, >> I don't think I vote for myself, right? >> It would be a little weird. [clears throat] >> Thank you, board. Mr. Schlutoter. >> Uh, Madam President, I move to nominate Lillian Rouse as the vice president of the Northwest IC Board of Trustees. >> Second. I have a motion by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Mr. Sprouls to nominate Dr. Lillian Roush as the vice president of the Northwest ISD board of trustees. Any discussion? All in

034favor, please cast your vote and then raise your hand. >> Okay. All right. Perfect. 5 0 and one. Mr. Schlutoter. >> Uh, yes, Madam President. I move to nominate Judy Cop as the secretary of the Northwest IC Board of Trustees. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Mr. Sprouls to nominate Judy Cott as secretary of the Northwest ISD board of trustees. Any questions? Any discussion? All in favor, please cast your vote and raise your hand. Five to one. 5 Z to and one abstain. Thank you guys. Thank you, Mr. Schlutoter. And thank you to the nominating committee for taking care of that for us this year. Okay. Well, now um are we going to are we drawing for seats or does everybody want to stay where they're at?

035>> Okay. So, we're not going to draw for seats tonight. All right. Everybody stays where they're at. That's easy. Okay. So, we'll move to item number nine, which the or which is the organization of the board of trustees. Um, consider consideration and approval of the board's nominating committees. Recommendation for the designated nation of signitories. Dates and times for regular monthly meetings. Delegate and alternate for the 2026 TASBY delegate assembly. Voting representative for the City of Fort Worth tax increment reinvestment board meetings. Voting representative for communities and schools. Voting representative for the Northwest ISD Education Foundation. And two trustees along with the board president to serve on the Northwest ISD Safety and Security Committee. Madam President, >> Mr. Sprouls, >> I move to approve the board nominate committee's recommendation for designation of signitories as a president

036and secretary with the vice president as the alternate and authorize the district to continue to use the present check signing plate until a new one can be secured. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Spurs and a second by Mr. Schlutoter to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation for designation of signitories as the president and secretary with the vice president as the alternate and authorize the district to continue to use the present check signing plate until a new one can be secured. Any questions? All in favor cast your vote then raise your hand please. >> All right, that is six to zero. Thank you, board. One absent, >> Madame President. >> Mr. Sprouls, >> I move to approve the dates and times for regular monthly meetings as recommended by the administration. >> Second.

037>> I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Mr. Schlutoter to approve the dates and times for regular monthly meetings as recommended by the administration. Questions? All in favor? That's 61 absent. Thank you very much. >> Madame President, >> Mr. Sprouls, >> I move to approve the board nominations committee's recommendation to designate Mrs. Dian Hatfield as a delegate and Mr. Jeff Daring as the alternate to represent the district at the 2026 Tazby Delegate Assembly. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Mr. Schlutoter to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Deian Hatfield as the delegate and Jeff Daring as the alternate to represent the district at the 2026 TASBY delegate assembly. Any questions? All in favor? That's 611 absent. Thank you. >> And Madam

038President, >> Mr. Sprouls, >> I move to approve the board nominees committee's recommendation to designate Steve Sprouls as a voting representative from the board of trustees to represent the district at the city of Fort Worth tax increment reinvestment zone number two board meetings. Second. >> Go ahead. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Dr. Roush to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Steve Sprouls as the voting representative for the board of trustees to represent the district at the city of Fort Worth tax increment reinvestment zone number two board meetings. All in favor? 601 absent. Thank you, >> Madam President. >> Yes, Mr. Stroles. >> I move to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Mr. Mark Schlutter as a voting representative from the board of

039trustees for the North Texas Council of Government Government's General Assembly. >> Second. I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Mrs. Hatfield to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Mr. Mark Schlutoter as the voting representative for the board of trustees for the North Texas Council of Government's General Assembly. All in favor at 6 with one absent. Thank you. And madam president, >> Mr. Sprouls, >> I move to approve the board nominates committee's recommendation to designate Dr. Lillian Rous as a voting representative from the board of trustee trustees for communities and schools. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Mrs. Cop to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Dr. Lillian Roush as the voting representative for the board of trustees for communities

040and schools. All in favor? That's five. There we go. Five zero and one abstain. Thank you board. And Madam President, >> Mr. Spurs, >> I move to approve the board nominated committee's recommendation to designate Mrs. Judy Cop as a voting representative from the board of trustees for the Northwest ISTD Education Foundation. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Dr. Rous to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Mrs. Judy Cobb as the voting representative from the board of trustees for the Northwest ISD Education Foundation. All in favor? Five. None against one abstained. Thank you board. >> And Madam President, last one. >> Mr. Sprouls. I move to approve the board nominating committees recommendation to designate Mrs. Judy Cop and Mrs. Deian Hatfield along with the board president

041to serve as members of the Northwest ISD safety and security committee. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Dr. Roush to approve the board nominating committee's recommendation to designate Mrs. Judy Cop and Mrs. Deianne Hatfield along with the board president to serve as the members of the Northwest ISD Safety and Security Committee. All in favor? Okay, that will be five, six, and six to zero. Thank you. One absent. Thank you board. Thank you for being patient everybody. Okay, we will go on now to item 10, which is the consent agenda. Uh Madame President, it is my understanding you would like to pull item F. Is there any other item any other board member would like to pull for discussion at this time? >> Just F, please. >> Seeing

042that, I move to approve the consent agenda as submitted with the exception of item F. >> Second. I have a motion by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Mrs. cop to approve the consent agenda as submitted with the exception of item F. Any questions? All in favor? This should be six to zero. Thank you board. Okay. Item 11 is to consider any item removed from the consent agenda. Um, I have asked for item F, partnership agreement with Communities and Schools of North Texas, Inc. to be pulled because I work for Communities and Schools, another affiliate, but um the same mission. So, I would uh like to abstain from the vote on this. I have no problems with it. Um, but I'd just like to keep the division. >> Madam President Oh, go ahead, Steve. >>

043Madam President. Mr. Spurs, >> I move to approve the partnership agreement with Communities and Schools of North Texas Incorporated as recommended by the administration. >> Yeah, we'll do this one just by hand since we pulled it. Okay. So, I have Excuse me. I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls. Excuse me. and a second by Mr. Schlutoter to approve the partnership agreement with Communities and Schools of North Texas Inc. as recommended by the administration. Any questions? All in favor? That's five and I will abstain. So that's a 50 and one abstension. Thank you board. Appreciate it. Okay, we will now move on to um 12 which is our discussion action agenda for the evening. And the first item on the agenda is the naming of the principal for Johnny Daniel Elementary School. >> Madame President, um

044the administration would like to recommend Sloan Heath as the principal for Johnny Daniel Elementary School. >> Madame President, Dr. Roush, I would like to motion to name Sloans Heath as principal of Johnny Daniel Elementary School. Second. >> I have a motion by Dr. Roush and a second by Mrs. Hatfield to name Sloan Heath as principal of Johnny Daniel Elementary School. Any questions? All in favor of 6. Thank you board. Okay, we will move on now to item B, which is the 2026 2027 professional learning plan. All right, good evening. Every year I get to bring you our professional learning plan, so I'm excited to do so. Again, we use several different areas to determine where to focus our attention for professional learning. So here are a list of many of those. And of course we

045always adhere to our strategic goals as well. And then we also after every professional learning we always um survey our staff to see how we did. And you can see here that what we're offering them is hitting the mark. But we still always ask what else do you need or what else do you want to see? So we this year we had 11,62 responses. Now, they didn't always ask for something additional, but even through all those responses, it's great to see that they understand, our staff understands that staying current um is important for effective education. But when we take all of those responses and we look at our original areas of what we need for professional learning, these are the areas that really rose to the top of what we want to provide for our

046teachers as far as professional learning goes. And all these fall in that support of strategic goal one. So the first thing that we want to make sure is we offer a lot of choice for our teachers and they have a lot of options but not only in choice in what they are getting but also choice in how they get it. So of course we offer a lot of face-toface options but we do offer some online options. We offer book studies, some face to um some self-paced options, and then of course um outside experts come, but our best um offers are from our NISD practitioners themselves. And then planning and collaboration, that was one area that you saw in that slide of what came to the top. And so NISTD intentionally added two more planning days

047specifically for teachers in our calendar this year. And so on top of our teacher work time and PLC time, teachers will h now have two additional planning times along with March 12th that is really adhering to their time for planning. Coaches, coordinators, and other experts will be available to them during that time if they need it, but really just for planning itself. And then within the area of curriculum and instruction and really honing in on content, we have a math adoption. So, we made sure that we were intentional and had dedicated time throughout the summer for teachers and provided them many options to get that training during the summer and then of course at back to school and then we'll follow up throughout this year um to provide additional training for them for that math

048adoption and that is also for teachers and administrators. [sighs] And then AI and technology was another area that surfaced for us. And so really with a focus on efficiency, effectiveness, and enhancement in technology, we'll make sure that we offer sessions throughout the summer and at engage. But then at back to school, we're going to make sure that we have a intentional focus that is um a alignment and has provides a clear understanding for all staff that focuses on that foundational overview that's going to build AI literacy that's going to introduce an AI student framework that really establishes best practices for all students and for our teachers to help understand what that looks like moving forward. And then in November, we'll take a deeper dive for all staff. That's going to move beyond that basic literacy

049and explore deeper classroom integration and what that looks like and also understand really what AI ethics might look like in the classroom too. So just to build a foundation and then help everybody be on the same page and support. Behavior and discipline is always an area that teachers ask for more support with. So we are going to continue with our work with our behavior framework and next year we will be adding that tier three specialized support. We will continue with coaching and support for our teachers and administrators in tier 1 and two and then adding that tier three support as well. Of course I can't go without mentioning engage. Our 11th annual engage conference is this year and this year we're really excited because we're going to do it at Northwest High School. So, it's

050the first year to do it there. On the right, you'll see all the additional topics that are being offered at engage and those are hit also all those areas that were requested or found to surface as a need for the district. And then really one of the best way to support our teachers is to make sure that we have a strong curriculum. And so, one thing that we did and are doing is we are providing a curriculum writing academy for all curriculum writers. And so this is going to ensure that our curriculum is aligned to our NI NISD instructional framework. It's aligned to district initiatives and instructional tests and that we practice strong instructional strategies within the curriculum and then within the training we provide teachers. And then supporting our new teachers is also very

051crucial. We want to make sure that we continue to do that and that's one of the most important things that we do. Our retention of new teachers continues to be extremely high, especially with the amount of teachers that we hire. We continue to have a retention rate of over 90% for our new teachers. So, we're very proud of that. And those pillars show you the things that we do for our new teachers. Welcome home, our new teacher academy continues to be what our new teachers say is the biggest support for them. And then, of course, our instructional coaches, our mentors, and our new teacher specialists continue to support them. And then these are what TEA says we are required to provide for teachers. And so this just shows you what those requirements are, the hours

052and the areas that they're required to um provide. And then this shows you how we provide them in the format that we provide them in. And that is it. Any questions? Any questions, board? >> Okay, I think we do not have any questions. >> Madame President. >> Yes. Uh, Mrs. uh Cop, >> I move to approve the 2026 2027 professional learning plan [snorts] as recommended by the administration. >> Second. I have a motion by Mrs. Cop and a second by Dr. Roush to approve the 2026 2027 professional learning plan as recommended by the administration. All in favor that should be six to zero. Thank you. I appreciate it very much. Okay, we'll move to item C, which is to review and consider the Northwest ISD legislative priorities. >> Yes, ma'am. Miss Murphy and uh board

053members, I'm going to present um just a a brief overview of the legislative priorities that we're working on. This is a first draft. Uh between now and our next board meeting, um we're open to feedback and we can make adjustments on these. These are kind of broad top topics that um have some very specific language, but I I want to hit the broad categories first. We shared this in DT last week, and let me tell you something that's unique or different about this u legislative cycle. TASBY has changed their model um where they're not accepting specific resolutions from school districts. Um they are encouraging us to have our legislative priorities, but then also to give feedback through the grassroots meetings. I think Mr. BS may be able to reflect on that, but when they get

054to the delegate assembly, that's where they're going to have an opportunity in September to hash and mash and and get to um the final list of priorities for TASBY. In the meantime, u things that are important to us locally, we want to name those, claim those, and chase those with our uh legislators that that serve us in our area and maybe even legislators that don't serve us, but that serve um Texas as a whole. So, I'm just going to try to quickly uh go through uh several of these priorities. Let me make sure my down is up. Okay, that's me. Um so, uh broad categories. There's uh six that I'll share with you. Adequate public school funding. I'll add specificity. Classroom behavior discipline and mental health supports. Uh more information. Limited state government and maintaining

055local decisionmaking or or as we call it local control. Another category, eliminate or reduce recapture. Um protect the voice uh of public education. Other words, um what some people call taxpayer lobbying. Uh but allowing us to have folks advocate on our behalf. And then finally, meaningful accountability and assessment reform. Uh we would posit that we haven't seen that yet with the updates to the new uh system. So to go a little bit deeper on each of these broad topics, um we we've been told we can ask to increase the basic aotment, but under no circumstances will that this 90th legislative session actually consider increasing the basic aotment. Um especially to try and meet meet inflation. Um it's we've been told it's not going to happen. Doesn't mean we won't ask. We will still place it

056here. Um but we've been told that's not the appropriate way to ask. we should be asking for additional funding through specific pathways, buckets or means. And so that's where you see on the rest of these bullets um us um trying to name some of those specific pathways that we need additional funding. So expand and strengthen teacher retention aotment um to go beyond just the narrow definition of teachers that te TEA provided and provide competitive compensation for all of our school employees. We also are going to ask the legislator uh legislature to increase special ed funding specifically. We have a new funding model that's coming out, but we spend far beyond uh what we were allotted each year and far beyond what's required. And so we're going to ask them to continue to meet the needs

057of our students um and increase that funding. Also, we're going to ask that they fund fully fund preK. I don't know if our citizens know this, but we receive half-day funding for prek. As of 2026, all four-year-old prek students are required by law to be in school for the full day. We still are scheduled to only receive half-day funding or half half student funding. Um, so we're going to ask them to fully fund that. We also want to ask them to fully fund school safety requirements based on local costs. So, our costs were approximately 2.5 million this budget cycle. Um, we received about 1.7 million uh in funding from uh TEA or from the state. So, it's really an underfunded mandate. Um, we're going to ask to to fund on based uh based on local

058costs. And then finally, uh increase transportation funding. So, we hadn't had route appreciable route mile increases, but I can assure you the cost of tires, the cost of buses, the cost of gas has increased since 1984 when the when the aotment was originally a dollar a mile. So, we'll continue to advocate there. As far as classroom behavior discipline and mental health supports, one of the hottest topics um that we have uh in in in our district and really across the state, we're going to ask for um additional weights or weighted funding um for campuses so that we can add additional positions to support kids with their mental health. So, we can add behavioral staff to work directly with kids and to work with teachers and coach teachers on how to work with kids who are

059struggling with behaviors. Again, we're asking for specific funding uh for that in this next legislative session. We also want to ask for resources and supports for um kids that are entering school um with unmet school readiness needs and behavior needs. So, as they come to us um in the early ages, we need additional supports for our youngest students and helping them to be school ready. Um and we're going to again ask for specific funding for that in a bucket. And then finally, um there is a state law uh in this last legislative session that says we are not permitted to use recess as any type of consequence or punishment. Uh we've heard feedback this school year that it turns out that was the most uh functional uh punishment or consequence that modified behavior in an

060elementary classroom. And so we're going to ask the legislature to uh reconsider um that we we've lost something that was important under limited state government and local decisionmaking. Really, we want to protect the authority of this school board, which our community elected to be able to call bond elections in November or May, not just a uniform election date. Those are local decisions. Um we also want that's the second bullet as well, maintaining flexibility in election uh timing. There's an idea in the state legislature to have supermajority for bond elections. In other words, right now, if this community says we want a home stadium concept and a new high school, this community goes to the polls and votes for a home stadium concept or a new high school. That home stadium concept, Prop B, in the

0612023 election, there were 14,000 votes. It passed by 129 votes. It passed. And by the current law, that we were allowed to sell those bonds and build those stadiums. And you see the construction work happening right now. That's the community deciding the community having a healthy debate and making a decision at the polls. But there's some legislation that's going to be proposed that you have a 67% or super majority. In other words, two out of every three voters in a community have to say yes to a proposition before it moves forward. Right now, that's cities, counties, and um government subdivisions like school districts. Um, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up just being on school districts and not cities and counties. Um, I've also heard some flexibility in the percentages where it may move

062from 67% to 60% or even 55%. There's a law on the books in California that ISD bonds or school bonds have to pass with a 55% majority. Again, that's that's a heavier weight or burden on school districts that particularly if you're a fast grow school district and you need schools in a certain timeline, you lose that local authority. And so we're going to advocate for that local decision-making and let our community decide and tell us at the polls. Um and then finally, local discretion on use of funds uh and pro programmatic decisions. And again, um we are given so many unfunded mandates or so many mandates that are unfunded. We have to pull money, maintenance and operation funds from other opportunities like academy programs or a future program that we're striving for like ROC to

063meet these underfunded mandates. And so again, we'd love to have that local discretion in how we use our funds. So those are some things that we're going to advocate under local discretion. Obviously, I'm not going to say much here, but we would really like to eliminate recapture. Uh we've been in the sweet spot for a couple of budget cycles. Uh we've also had years where we gave more than $20 million in local tax dollars back to the state budget without any certainty of where that those dollars are actually uh going. And so uh we we'd like to to uh eliminate or reduce recapture. The next one, protecting the voice of public education. We would like to be able to choose our curricular materials and not have a statemandated curriculum pushed upon every school district in

064the in the state or tell us which assessment tools we have to use to assess on that state statemandated um curriculum. So again, local discretion or local control is what we're going to advocate for in this next session. Um and we we'd like to be able to choose um which partners we use or engage in to train the school board um to advocate to train our teachers. Um again, we don't want those things d uh dictated on a statewide um basis. Finally, meaningful accountability and assessment reform. So, we did have a new assessment uh bill. There was a there was a good one. They got killed during the session and we got something different. What I like to call STAR 2.0 know there is a uh beginning of the year, middle of the year, and

065end of the year assessment. Uh but the accountability system and and the assessment tools that we're hearing about are essentially just a continuation of the previous system which we feel like fails on on a number of different levels. So, uh, we'd like to be able to have local control, and this kind of overlaps into those assessment bases, um, to where we can use a tool that we are familiar with and comfortable with, such as MAP testing for our, uh, beginning of the year and middle of the year assessments. And we want those to be able to um, help us build towards an endofthe-ear assessment, one that's meaningful for our students and not based on a specific curriculum like the Blue Bonnet curriculum. if they build an assessment that's based only on one curriculum and and

066all the scope and sequences on that one curriculum that's supposed to be aligned to the TEICSS, if we don't prep for that curriculum, then our kids will be a disadvantage and our district will be a disadvantage on our accountability system. So again, we'd really love to see meaningful, thoughtful accountability reform. Uh we know what that can look like. We saw House Bill Two in the last legislative session. Uh it became unpopular and got crushed. We'd love to see something like that, a version of that come back in this next legislative session. So, I'm going to I'm going to stop there and open it up for questions, but those are our six broad categories that we're going to advocate for this cycle we'd like to advocate for. By the way, this is not an action item

067this evening. We'll bring this back in June um for reconsideration after making edits and adjustments. >> Dr. F, I know that we were supposed to share this with Tazby, correct? Is that what you said? Well, we used to um that cycle has changed and this year we do not the board does not have to pass resolutions to share with TASBY, but we can share ideas through the grassroots meetings. >> So, can we reach out to our local representatives and senators? >> Absolutely. >> Okay. So, I didn't know if we were prevented from doing that. No, sir. Okay, cool. Gotcha. >> Yeah, Dr. F. Uh, [clears throat] excuse me. A few things. Uh, I guess for the rest of the board, y'all know, uh, I think it was last month or in March, I can't remember,

068but I went down to Austin to sit in with the TASBY legislative advisory committee and talking about the different things, you know, trying to get the TASBY um, legislative priorities figured out. But, but like Dr. FA said is the basic aotment argument is probably not going to happen. It's it's it's going to stay what it is. Um but but I did learn some of the ask we should be doing is on underfunded and unfunded mandates being very specific with with our dollars. So, so with this this two pager that we have here, the draft got no one understanding who our audience is for this. Seven representatives, two senators, we need to make it and you would think that as long as they've been doing their positions that they would understand public education, specifically finance. It's

069obvious based on their social media post and their their art their interviews to to media that they don't. So I it's the military phrases. We got to dumb this down to where this is show this is educators talking to educators. We need this to be us talking to representatives and put it in language that they can understand to where it's not just words, but when you have um like special education funding, this is how much we get, this is how much it costs, and this is how much we're losing. Uh fund pre kindergarten, this is how much we're losing. Put a dollar amount so they can see the financial impact. So, uh, so if if because when when when if they're looking at this while they're in session, they've got bills left and right, committees,

070uh, voting on things, they they don't have time but to to speedread this. So, we need to to put the things in there that grab their attention right away. And right now, they're already talking with the the interim things on both the Senate and the the House, uh, on the these pages that they have for education. That's what they're talking about right now. So, if we're not advocating now, we're too late. If if if we're not if we're going to take our legislative priorities and advocate once you're in session, it's too late. As we found out with the Senate, they had already voted on the education bills before they were finished driving to Austin. So, by the time we got there, there was no reason to talk to the senators. And so, I I would

071like to maybe if we can kind of gear to or take a closer look at what's going on with the interim charges and what our needs. So some of these things I'm kind of wondering are we still looking backwards trying to get things when they're already looking at something else down the road and do we need to adjust to that? So there's a part of me I I wanted I would like to see if we can get the our advocacy committee together and share this with them get some input on it and if it's not in person maybe at least through email to submit feedback from them so that we can see what what their thoughts are because they're out there a little more. Yeah. You bet. Before you're saying before we bring this back

072in June, so you can get some other ideas. Yes. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. And I because I think the the big thing is, you know, when I was reading this, I was kind of putting myself in their shoes like what am I reading? and knowing, you know, assuming that I'm busy being pulled in different directions, being told what to do by different people up in the uh down in Austin and I just sort of got lost in the words, but if there's something there visual that can draw me in and I can see the actual impact that it has on Northwest ISD, I think it would be more impactful because again, you got to know know your audience. It's it's not educators talking to educators. It's educators talking to politicians. Yes. Thanks. [laughter] That

073that uh think they know they understand what's going on, but it's obvious they don't. >> So, thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? Well, we will work on this and we'll continue to refine these and we'll bring them back to one of the June meetings. Correct. >> June 8th, hopefully. >> Okay. Perfect. Okay, we will go ahead and that concludes our discussion action agenda for this evening. We will now move to 13 which is the reports. So um the first report on the agenda is the demographic report. >> All right, good evening um President Murphy, Dr. FA trustees, uh my name is Stuart Kio. I'm coming to you from both Zonda demographics as well as down the road as a proud parent of two great Lance Lions. So very very happy to see you

074all again. I feel like it was uh just a couple months ago we were talking about all of our demographic changes and updates, but I have a mountain of information to share with you all today. On top of our typical housing report, we also added in mobility. As everyone knows, this year has been um dynamic, we can say, as far as the changes with public education and and housing and mo and and student choice and school choice and vouchers. So, we've been working really hard to provide the most up-to-date data that we can to help you inform all of your decisions. So, I have a lot of things. I'll move quickly through the things you're more familiar with and spend a little bit more time on the things that might be a little bit newer

075uh as we go here. Oh, think hit the wrong button. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Um so again, economic conditions um are changing very very rapidly. As quick as we, you know, update some of these things, everything is uh evolving very quickly with gas prices, uh home prices, things like that. But the big thing is, um that there's still a lot of growth within our area. Unemployment is still very low, uh comparable to other areas. So we're in as far as a housing market goes, that's really really great news. Uh demographics, we pay pay pretty close attention to this as far as if there's massive shifts in anything demographically, but as you can see over the last few years, things have remained pretty stable. So, we're we're continuing to see uh kind of the status quo

076of of of what we have here in the district, there hasn't been any major swings within our student demographics. Our density report, which uh if you overlay the locations of the schools on here, it's a lot of where this the schools are. So we can see where our growth is, where the space to grow is uh within um ROR, Parin, Justin, Prairie View, Seven Hills, those areas obviously have lots of lots of growth happening. Uh Justin, especially down 407 with all the different neighborhoods coming up. Um but we can that's always a handy map to see where everyone's living. Uh most of the students are are Fort Worth proper trophy club is the next one. And we have about 568 students that are currently living outside the district. The majority of those I would imagine

077are are teachers, kiddos that are choosing to Northwest to bring their kiddos in. All right. So, mobility. So, uh this is very um very new that a lot of districts are really looking into this and how to you know open transfers and all sorts of things. So we dug into the research uh earlier this year and looked at all the peerreview studies on what actually is happening not only you know regionally but nationally what are the trends and and really we came to these three big points and it was that the there was already starting a trend of student mobility and student choice uh and aggressive marketing for students before the pandemic but the pandemic really forced a lot of folks hands and what it did was it uh changed perspectives on the work from

078home you working relationships, what family dynamics are going to look like. Um, you know, for instance, I went to a homeschool conference this year to kind of get a vibe of what's going on. And there's a whole community of folks that are uh homeschooling out of convenience because the car line is long and things like that. And fifth grade, they'll be back, but first through fourth, they they feel like they've got it. So, there's just this big growing uh change on on on school choice and everything like that. It is really kicked off by the pandemic which also led to a rapid evolution in technology. Whereas prior to the pandemic there was 15,000 kids learning virtually in Texas, today we're over 75,000 and I think next year personally that will be over 100,000 students in

079the state of Texas on some sort of virtual program. Uh it would not be unheard of for us to get there. But on top of that, tech uh technology and e, you know, edulearning and or or the edute tech and all that sort of thing going on. Um, of course, we are none of us are immune to um the social media and TV ads and things that are specifically targeting public schools. Um, and so of course with that and safety concerns, there are parents that are looking uh at what their options are, whether it's keeping their kids at home for for virtual and and things of that nature. So, it's it's really those three factors that have have had the biggest influence on some of our student mobility over the last couple years. We do

080have some data. Um, I went the wrong way. We do have some data uh kind of showing what's happening there, but Texas has been growing. We did slow down this last year. Uh, so as we we were growing by a pretty good uh clip initially, we're down to about 1.2% which is the slowest since 2021 after a lot of very fast growth. And here's what's very this is what's telling about this. And it looks like the percent Oh, nope. It's all good. Okay. Um, as we've grown in population, historically, we've also grown in student body. So, it was it was about um, you know, 50,000 students a year prior to the pandemic. We were just, you could expect with the with the increase in population. This year we gained 300 uh almost 400,000 people to

081the state and we lost 76,000 students in enrollment. I know there's a lot of press around this number recently if you read the Dallas Morning News Star Telegram, those things. There's a lot of talk about it and what's going on. Um but it it is we still have folks moving to the state but the amount of students enrolled has decreased for the first time since the pandemic. So the question is where did they go? um charter schools have been increasing. So we've increased charter schools uh from that 6% to the 8% which when you're looking at the millions of students we have in Texas that is quite a few quite a few students are moving towards that charter school number still a majority of them picking public school 94 uh% or so uh in that

08292% currently for public school traditional public school with our charter changes um the biggest charter changes aren't really in the Dallas or in the Fort Worth area, we're seeing a majority of the charter changes over in Dallas, Houston, down in the valley, and in San Antonio. They have a massive growth in charter in those four regions. Austin and Fort Worth are comparable in our charter growth. Um, but for our region, again, the amount of students that changed since COVID and charter was about 2,300 students. Here's the number I referenced earlier with virtual enrollment. So again, just over 15,000 for the 2019 2020 school year, over 70,000 this year. So again, that's a a 56,000 student increase since then. And if you've been noticing some of the trends around the schools, we are seeing a lot

083of local school districts add on some virtual programs and things like that. Here's our transfers for uh Northwest. So this last year we added in 48 students and we had about uh 2689 transfer out. And I'll break these down for you all here. So where they're coming from as we transfer in. So majority we're getting from uh Keller in Eagle Mountain Sagenol. Those are the big two that we're getting students from. Also a handful from Argyle, Birdville, um Denton, Springtown, and then we have some other districts. Obviously with the change this year in policy with the limited open enrollment, we can expect those numbers to change quite a bit. I do get those updates every Friday and dig into those as well about uh how that is how that is progressing. So that's been interesting

084to watch. And where students are going, um, a majority of the transfer out are going to Carol and Keller with a handful also going to Grapevine and Argyle and Eagle Mountain Sagen. For the charter for the charter schools where there is a lot of students transferring over to, we do have the ILT, the International Leadership of Texas Charter School, there's a couple campuses not nearby or not too far. There's uh one in Sagena and there's also one I believe in North Richard Hills and there's a couple more towards Fort Worth. We also have Great Hearts uh in Westlake of course just down the road here, Texas College Prep and Premier High Schools that's drawing some students. For our virtual students, it's Hallsville, Fort Stockton, and Rosco Collegiate that are pulling some students as well. So,

085um the biggest change again when we look at from COVID to now virtual enrollment was 46 for COVID. Now it's up to 28. 150 student uh gain over that time which is pretty significant. Charter school enrollment has also doubled from COVID till now. Knowing moving pretty quick. If there's any questions about this as I move forward please since you did that I'll I'll talk now when charter schools obviously um students are transferred in but what's how long do they stay in charter schools before they come back? Do you'all have data on that or is it >> We don't have that. I can I can dig in and see what data is available for that >> because because when you mentioned like ILT that's through the years since ILT's been open there's a lot of students

086go there but then they come back so >> I don't know if that's part of your transfer in data as well because I just see ISDS but what's the transfer in for those that were in charter schools before is that part of the data >> I can find that out for you >> okay thank you quick question >> on the online and virtual school programs is that mostly the older kids or do you know an age group or is it >> it it it typically has trended older but that is shifting a little bit as as families are exploring some options in the whole work from home or work from anywhere environment you are seeing more and more younger kids trend that way um I believe just anecdotally it's um founders has a has a

087charter or has an online program as well that elementary schools are um engaging with and so uh but I think a majority of those are students that are older that are just for there's various reasons for that. Some, you know, like to work, some are um you know, trying to graduate early and things like that. So, um it it is it is a very evolving, you know, quickly evolving environment. I think um it's going to be interesting to see when the accountability comes out how sustainable some of these models are and how hands-on they're going to have to be moving forward. So, that's going to be really interesting to watch these numbers fluctuate uh over the next few years with the online programs. All right. So, uh just a list of a couple of the

088the private schools and and charter schools in the area and um their overall size and capacity. Again, we have the ILT Westlake Academy. Um there are a couple of private um um private schools in the area. Legacy Christian um of course we have Liberty um just down the road here. Um Primrose and all these other ones with early early ones. We're really digging into this data right now to try to figure out where all these students are going. Uh, and that's something we're continue to work with and work for is finding out, you know, exactly where every single one of these kiddos is. So, there's a lot to digest on this slide. Um, we could spend way too much time on this, but I'll kind of give you the highlights of what's happening. Uh, so

089when we look at the students that transferred out, 58% of them are kids that physically move from the district. they they do no they no longer live in Northwest ISD. So that's that's a a positive thing. Of those a majority of the kids that moved outside of the the district remained in a public school district. So they got up they live now in Bedford. They go to HBISD, you know, or they moved wherever. So they're staying within public school. That's that that big thick blue band you can see that's kind of shifting up towards public ISD. I know it doesn't feel like a win, but the fact that they're remaining in public ISD, you would assume that they would stay with the Northwest if they didn't physically move for work or whatever else. The other

090bands that we look at are that top blue band is students that are still living within Northwest but have chosen to attend another school district, which we said Keller, Carol are are the two two big ones over there. And we have the purple band, which are kids that live here within the district that are choosing Charter. And then again, the bottom purple band is the group that left the district and chose Charter. Um, when we got this data, something that I, you know, I paid close attention to is there was not a massive, you know, flow of students into private and home school. It really is the other the other public schools and charter schools where we're seeing these kids move to. So again, this is something you can kind of choose your own path

091and follow this all along and and get a lot of data out of, but we won't spend too much time on it. All right. So, voucher data, it's this is really, really, really early voucher data because the state has kind of trickled it out. They haven't given us any kind of comprehensive data source where we can see, you know, which exactly which kids are going and everything. The biggest takeaway um that we've seen so far from the big data release is that almost 80% of the students that have applied for vouchers are currently attending private school. So, we aren't seeing uh we are seeing students that are in public school apply, but again, we don't have that uh micro data to really digest and dissect what's happening uh at that level just yet. But we

092do have some interesting data going on. As you can see from this chart, a majority of the students that are applying for the vouchers or families rather that are applying for the vouchers are elementary age, even maybe to sixth grade. When we hit seventh grade and on, uh that number drops off pretty quick. It'll be interesting to track this as we go forward. what happens uh with that. But uh 77% are looking at private, 23% of these applications have been for homeschool. Uh and as we get more and more information from the state, we're going to be pulling it together to try to find out, you know, every detail we can about who and who and what are applying. >> When you do get that data from the state and you come back and talk

093to us or I'm not this might be a you question, this might be a Dr. F question. Could you break that down by the tiers that qualify? So I guess the tier one I think there was four tiers. >> Could you show like what percentage was tier one? Because my guess is it's going to be tier four as we're a large percentage. >> Yeah, it'll I I think we'll we'll definitely dig into whatever the state will give us. I know that there's been many public uh information requests already for this data and so we're kind of just waiting on the comproller to to release it. But I'm I'd imagine once everything gets awarded I'm I'm hopeful that they're going to give us a big data dump where we can really dig into that. Dr. house.

094>> One of the things I'm really curious about is how many of these vouchers are awarded and then the family goes out to try to find a seat >> or a seat that they can afford and they they either can't get into Liberty Christian because there's not a seat available or they don't have the other 16,000 that it's going to cost to be, you know, an eighth grader there. So, >> I'm curious to see the data a year from now. Um, again, where did the vouchers actually land? And I think you've said it tier four most likely. And a year from now, I think the it's going to go from a billion dollars to four four bill three or four billion for the next year. So, it's just going to keep going up. >> There

095there are some projections about that about how how the increase is going to go just based on the number of applicants. So, that's definitely something that we're going to um with with the legislative session that comes up is pay attention to that that dollar amount that comes through. Um and again, we can kind of see by grade level where those applications are coming in. Uh, and again, I'm I'm really hopeful that they give us a large data dump so we can pop it into our software and really start digging into the numbers and make it very school specific. Really difficult right now to do that because it's it's all aggregated. It's very difficult to break down. Uh, most of the most of the vouchers are coming from the metro areas. We are seeing that as

096a trend. Uh, but a lot of that's just due to lack of availability of private schools and the choice for them uh in those more rural areas. So, any questions before I go to our normal our housing update? All right, perfect. That was all new information for y'all as kind of a added bonus for the spring here. So, our uh housing housing update is actually when I looked when I saw our our first quarter, I was really happy. I was pleasantly surprised because a lot of other districts I I just finished with a neighboring district of y'all's and last year their starts and closings were half of what they were in uh the 23 or 24 school year. So the fact that we maintain stability within this district and held steady is is really great.

097Uh this year we're already up on our starts and closings in that first quarter, especially our closings, which is great because there we were sitting on a pretty good amount of inventory in the district. And sometimes as the inventory starts to back up, builders slow down a little bit, but um closing almost a thousand homes in the first quarter uh has been really really great for this housing market. In fact, it it is one of the better ones that I've seen in any of the presentations I've done in the spring. uh as far as being up, most folks are down this first quarter or or lower. So that's that's really positive news that the houses are moving here. I know the builders are offering a lot of incentives, buying down interest rates and things like

098that so they can get these houses moving. So let's hope that that continues over the summer. Home prices, uh as you all have seen this trend in the last couple presentations, but those new homes are uh more affordable than the existing homes. uh which you probably wouldn't have said that a decade ago that you buy a new home for cheaper than an existing home, but that's the trend right now. Builders are offering a lot of those incentives and and things. So, that's been really really positive for the fast growth areas out there uh just west of Justin and the western part of the district. Uh home sales did decrease uh you know, kind of gradually. We're starting to kind of call it our postcoid bubble, that 21 to 23 year where everyone was just buying

099up houses and moving as quickly as they could. Housing prices went up and everything. there's this mad dash. It's cooled everywhere since then. So, we are seeing kind of a a cooling, but I think there's a for this district for for Northwest, we've seen more of a moderation than a cooling, which has been very positive as well. Again, most of our uh most of the growth I I kind of call it the when I look at the map, it's the question mark. So, it's that northern corridor all the way up from ROR to to Justin and then kind of curls back around uh down through Prairie View. Uh so most of the new uh the future homes are sitting over in Justin and in Prairie View. We also have a lot of lots available, a

100lot of futures in Seven Hills. Uh I also pay close attention to the inventory. So again, 1523 in inventory means that the builders have built them and they're ready to be sold. So that's an important number, too. So if folks are looking for houses, you guys have 1523 sitting here ready to go. Um which is not too high. There's districts that are fast growth with y'all that have double that number. So, that's that's actually pretty good. That's not too high comparable to other areas. Uh 100 uh 1,072 homes under construction closed just south of a thousand last quarter, which is really great. Our housing activity, we'll go through this. There hasn't been I asked our research team if there's been any new developments that have broken ground since the last time we met. Uh there

101hasn't been anything new that has happened since uh a few months ago. uh that popped up on our radar. So, uh again, it's just the the 7 just just the 71 active subdivisions, over a thousand under construction, 6,000 almost 6,000 rot lots ready to be built on. So, again, depending on how fast they're selling those uh that inventory, there are lots ready to go for these uh for these builders this summer. Uh 31 potential future subdivisions, almost 40,000 single family lots still available. you all are always sitting at the top of that list of uh you know, North Texas and uh fastest growing districts as you all know. >> And Stuart, you did say um in the future is a new development pops up, we'll change the color or maybe outline it in some way.

102>> Yes, sir. I talked to our research team and I said with, you know, 71 divisions, it' be really helpful for the board to be able to see, I've seen these 71, we now have 72. Which one is it? So, we're going to work on a way to make sure we make that pop pop for y'all so you can see where it is and know what's happening uh as we plan for some of these new schools and and boundary work. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. Uh we have Alpha Ranch. Uh it's going to be almost 4,000 4,000 uh lots right over by uh Carter. Um already ground work underway. You can see the satellite from April. They're moving moving dirt pretty quickly over there. moving dirt as well in Aenddale Nance uh Nance Ranch. It's

103hard to say. Uh about 800 lots total over there. Haven't announced pricing on that area yet. We also have Oliver Creek which is going to be just over a thousand lots. Lots of ground work happening. Uh you can see they're prepping roads and things in for these lots. Should be moving on this pretty soon hopefully. And we have of course Tavella I think we spoke about last time where those roads are in those lots are being developed. They already have um 340 vacant lots available to start building on. You can see those houses on the western side have already been put down. Uh so they are moving pretty quick over there starting in the low 300s in that neighborhood. Multif family, uh we did something a little different this this one with multif family where

104we kind of looked at it by age group as far as the buildings go, but again nearly 5,000 future rental units are are in various stages of planning. Uh and then, you know, the newest ones are these uh these 200 single family rental units, which we're we're still trying to understand exactly how those are being or who's living in those houses and things, but it's uh it it's surprisingly been more families than we were uh than we initially would have thought with those ones. So, again, uh one of the things I want to bring your attention to is just the age of the apartment building and the yields. I know we we focus a lot about yields here so we can plan but one of the things we have noticed if we break them down

105is these apartment buildings that were built prior to 20 or prior to 2000 have a yield of almost 2728 and our more recent 2020 plus uh units are about that 0.14. So again, when we try to look at and digest which apartments are are generating most students, it's going to be our older units, which tend to also be more of the more affordable units as well as ones that have two and three bedrooms, whereas some of the newer ones are studios and onebedrooms. All right, so a couple of the ones that are coming up, we have 139 units over at HP Bonds Ranch, HPI Bonds Ranch, sorry. They uh are expecting leasing early 2027. Looks like they could be on track for that. We also have Trails at Champion Circle, 341 units. They're already uh

106got roofs up on building, so they should be uh early 2027, I think, is very reasonable for them. They're moving pretty quick on that area, just on the other side of 35. And uh our annual enrollment forecast and changes. So, this has been uh the same that you guys all saw last time. So, as a lot of the questions that school boards have been asking us lately is, you know, how what are you What are some of your considerations as you're making these forecasts because it's it's changed so much in the last couple years with everything. So, just a couple factors we're paying attention to and one that not a lot of people are talking about. The big first big one is birth rate. There's been a lot of articles and major publications lately about

107the national birth rate. It's down, y'all. It's down a lot. That's one of the things that we look at with our kindergarten cohorts is, you know, district-wide births, um, net immigration, things like that, people coming in. So, we pay close attention to that and that birth rate is dropping. So you'll see in a lot of our forecasting, we kind of soften a little bit on those on those kindergarten numbers um just because of the birth rate. We're also looking at the student mobility data trying to, you know, understand as districts have open enrollment where kids are going as the charter schools, the private schools, the home school. Um we could be looking at 500,000 homeschool kids in Texas next year. So uh there's there's that that piece as well. And then we're looking at the

108housing market and as well as you know, how many homes are being built? are we still building at the same rate, which Northwest I y'all are building way faster than most folks? And so it's it's all these factors and all these different push and pulls that we're really paying close attention to to get as accurate data to y'all as we can. Um because again that always comes in are you thinking about this or thinking about that? And it's the answer is absolutely we are. So again, our total forecast by grade level, uh, we're looking at, you know, overall over the next couple years, somewhere between one and two% growth, at least until the 2030 2031 area. That's really where we're looking. Somewhere in that 1 to 2% growth, I think, is very realistic, assuming um,

109you know, the housing market continues like it is. We'll pay close attention and monitor with the vouchers and and school student mobility and birth rate and things like that. Um, but we're we're comfortable with that number moving forward uh, annually. And then uh this forecast of course includes uh ROR which will be opening next year somewhere around 409 students. Uh we have you know a lot of the schools are going to be kind of they they they they're built where they're going to kind of close to that uh that 850 number at the elementary and then kind of slow down from there. So a lot of those schools are going to be right at that right capacity. There is going to be some um you know Justin's going to be one that grows pretty fast.

110Parin as well as in the future, you know, ROR and Prairie View in those fast growth areas more to the west on our little question mark right in the middle of the district. There we go. Uh at the secondary level, of course, we have um new Barksdale coming online next year, about 773 students. That's right over in my neck of the woods. So, kiddos are excited about that. Um, we also have Adams and Pike that are going to be uh getting a little snug here in a few years as well as Chism Trail. At the um at the high school level, of course, we have uh Davis uh that'll be uh opening up in the 27 school year. So, that'll provide some relief to a couple of the schools as boundaries haven't been, you know,

111done yet. It'll be too early to tell which schools, but obviously we have Byron and and uh Eaton that are uh pretty full right now and in the future with all the construction going over in the Parin and Justin area northwest will uh start to get a little snug as well. >> You mind going back to that slide? I just wanted to point out um something that we are paying close attention to is our aggregate capacity at each uh grade band. And I can assure you uh the state of Texas is requiring us to report our capacity for each facility. So when you look at just for example middle school capacity, we have 9,500 seats available. You can go out to 2035 36 and see that we're leveling off right around 8,200 82 and a

112half something along those lines. Um so the data on on these projections and again a lot more accurate close the further out we get the less we know. There's a lot of factors that can change just like 10 years ago. Um, a lot of factors have changed, but it suggests [clears throat] we don't need middle school number nine for quite some time uh based on this trajectory of growth. And so what we have to get our community comfortable with is we receive these sets of data and we get them quarterly. Um but when we receive this data and we start planning forward whenever the next time is with long range planning committee is our boundaries have to move because you see the yellows and greens are still there. They're going to be pockets of rapid

113development and we need to get comfortable with the idea of we we have a lot of capacity. We shouldn't be building another middle school. We need to adjust our boundaries and and maximize the utilization of our facilities. So just not something we would would have discussed 10 or 15 years ago because our district was in a different place. But there is a what they call the life cycle of a fast growth district and we're experiencing that and we're not on the front end of it. So again just ways of thinking that have to modify uh and and we need to be nimble and try to think forward two or three years maybe four if we can uh to make decisions um ahead of what might be coming down the road. >> Yes sir. That's a

114great point. And um you know, my my mentor Bob Templeton, I was in a meeting with him with a a district the other day where he said we used to say you could kind of set it and forget it for five years on boundaries, 5 to 10 years. He said right now anyone that asked him, he'd tell him two to three years and you're probably looking at trying to, you know, right size is the word some districts use, but just try to move students so that we're maximizing um the the facilities and making sure every kid has all the space they need. So that's a great great point, Dr. Fa. Um, the boundary shifts in a fast growth district are are almost never ending. So, I understand that. All right, with that, um, I know

115I threw a whole bunch y'all's direction. I I tried to answer some questions as we went, so it's kind of fresh. Um, I was I was happy to be able to provide some of the, uh, mobility in addition to the housing with y'all just as a little bit extra help some decision- making moving forward. But, I'm happy to answer any questions. Um >> yeah, Stuart, earlier you mentioned declining birth rates. I was looking at that presentation that was done with that was given to the public education committee down at the at the house >> and it talked about it's not on your slide here but it's um one of the slides I showed the birth rates and for birth rates for women uh 30 and above has actually increased from 2009 to 2024 where 29

116and below has decreased. So are it it's my takeaway from that is that women are waiting longer to before they you know do their careers have fun early in their 20s >> and then settle down with the family later in life. >> Are we in a little lull then like say a five 10 year lull to where at once these these women that are in their 20s now get into their 30s and they start settling down birth rates will get back to normal in a sense or or is there a different way to look at the data? It's it's a yes and um I would not claim to be an expert in that data uh precisely, but one of the things that has shifted is where families were having on average I think it was

117like 2.6 kids per family 10 years ago. Now it's down to like 1.3 per household. So they might be waiting later and it it kind of could be a delay, but people just aren't having as many kids, too. So that's affecting that birth rate as well as you're just seeing smaller families. Yeah, that's a good point because they the slide before what I was just looking at, they do show the uh uh >> was I close on the number? >> Yes, they they showed the rates AC across all demographics have gone down >> from uh 2000 well here 2007 to 2024. So >> yes, sir. Y >> any other questions board? >> All right, >> that's a lot to wrap our heads around, but thank you. We appreciate it. My my kiddos would appreciate the

118thoughts for the rain to stay away for field day tomorrow. So, if y'all can uh make that stay away, they are their bags are packed for field day. So, >> we can try >> as always [laughter] as always. I appreciate y'all and uh we will see you next time. >> Thank you. We appreciate you. Okay, we'll move on to report B, which is the Northwest ISD Council of PTA's end of year report. >> Good evening, Dr. FAST and school board members. Uh my name is Kimberly Hart and I'm currently and I'm currently serve as president of Northwest ISD Council of PTAs and it's my pleasure to present our state of the council report. See if I Oh, I hit the right button. Um as you know our PTAs, um you know who we are, but

119we are we make up 34 we are 34 we represent the 34 district or 34 local schools in our district. And um currently we will be chartering uh two new PTAs at Barkstdale and at ROR within a few weeks. Um this year our work was guided by our dedicated team of council board executive members. Uh as you can notice our list um we have members on our board throughout the district um who help serve and guide our local PTAs. Um, PTAs matter a lot to our district. Um, they strengthen our school communities. Um, what I noticed is that we have a lot of volunteers and as you saw here, we help uh foster the school spirit and encourage these the volunteers that we do have to help um do things like uh I was wanted

120to give examples. We we have like Tuesday Thursday team that come in and on different schools um and they do the copying and they do the laminating um and also help what they can at the schools. Um we inspire engage families uh such as programs that we have um such as donuts with grown-ups and tears and cheers. Um we provide programs that support school student success such as the reflections program uh math and science nights um to help and we also help recognize um student recognition when they do succeed at these levels. Um the other thing we do is advocate at the local, state and national levels um with our membership and our advocacy missions and purposes. The purposes of our dis our PTAs are to obviously unite and support our local PTAs across the

121district in advancing the mission of PTA which is to make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. The council works to support and strengthen local PTAs, provide leadership training and resources, uh promote collaboration among the PTAs and schools, uh encourage family engagement and volunteerism, advocate for the education, health and safety and well-being of all children and facilitate communication between local PTAs, school districts, the school district and Texas PTA. And one of the most important ways council fulfills this purpose is by investing in the leadership development. This is done by every summer the council president attends uh goes to Austin and attends the lonear leadership weekend that is provided by Texas PTA. Um our council board is led by has a orientation that's led by our

122field service representative. Uh we also attend launch. Um not just the council, we also um our locals are also also attend launch which there is we were provided with different leadership uh trainings and like just basic trainings for our members on being a treasurer or being a president. Um we also have local leadership trainings that we host and online trainings through Texas PTA. And um something new that was started this year is we do council uh le roundts for presidents uh VP of membership and etc. So we can hit those people during the month of a lot of times they occur during lunch. We do call them lunch and learns. Um they've been pretty successful. Our mo the most important part of our this tonight is to recognize what our our PTAs have done. our

123PTA this year, our our district P of all our members, we have 11,010 members this year and this is the 11th straight membership increase for our district. Council has of those because we have the 11,10 members, council has a 40% of the student population um which is makes us the top seven in the state of Texas. uh 24 of our 34 PTAs, which is 59% of our schools had a membership increase this year and 17 of our 34 schools received the golden apple reward award, which is meaning that they had 100% membership of the school faculty, which is impressive. Um I want to really reach out uh applaud Lake View Elementary and Rono Elementary. They received um the platinum voice for every child, which means that they recruited members equal to at least 100% of

124their student enrollment, which is amazing because it's very rare to have so many in one district. As far as what we have accomplished this year, um we leadership development, 95 of our PTA leaders um from 26 schools attended launch this year. Um, of those 39 members, 39 of those were actually first-time attendees to launch, which which is an important thing. It's kind of like the training there and it gets you all motivated and pumped to be able to continue on the next year. Um, you come home from launch and you're just so excited um to get everything c get everybody together and say, "Hey, this is our game plan. Um, this is what we learned." Um, our council board orientation was held on August 19th to equip uh, and it's just basically to go over

125what we as a council needs to do um, from Texas PTA. And then of course, we also, like I said, we provided local trainings throughout the year related to local board orientation, bylaws, standing rules, membership, etc. Trying to meet our PTAs with where their needs are. um grants and pro grant programs. In November 25, 2025, we received the Tik Tok create with kindness grant thanks to a successful grant application written by Michelle Smith. This was presented on May 4th and we received an amazing turnout from NISD students. Um this grant had a limit of um students had to be 13 and up to attend um and their families. And we needed we wanted also to thanks thanks to uh Dr. Dr. Jamie Farber and her team for attending this event um and supporting us through

126this. It was amaz It was amazing because we also had the student wellness ambassadors come in um and also talk about you know the importance of being uh kind and not have cyber bullying that occurs that we see that occurs on online stuff. Advocacy and Action Council passed a resolution supporting the district's Vader um on October 15th with representatives from 25 local PTAs in attendance. Um we also hosted Texas PTA straight talk here at the district uh raising the AI generation. Um we had an amaz we had it was an amazing uh tool that we had um because Dr. Car Dr. Cara, did you know you have a doctorate now? Uh Cara Carter and Jimmy Dr. Jamie Farmer Farmer, I am telling you, Dr. Jamie Farber uh were there and helped us lead uh the

127a meaningful dis discussion in what the district is doing in AI. Um, it was amazing because it was I would like to have another we talked about having another one of those because one question would lead to another question would lead to another question and it was such good feedback for a lot of our families and for ourselves of like I learned something new that I didn't know AI could do. So, it's amazing. Um, Back the Future memberships. Uh, we do this every year and they allow individuals to join all the PTAs or PTA feeder patterns in Northwest ISD. Um, because every membership we get strengthens our collective voice and enhances our ability to advocate effectively for every child. Um, we wanted to thank Alyssa Pry, Jennifer Burton, Dr. Anne Simpson, Steve Sprrows, Jennifer Murphy,

128Chris Roby, and Haley Walker for joining this year. Another program that we're uh significantly proud of is our arts and education area. Uh this is our reflections program that is printed on by national PTA. This year national PTA every year they have a slogan or that they have and this year it was I belong. Um we received 143 reflection submissions from local PTAs. Um of those 143 um 19 of those submissions went on to state. Uh we h held a reflections gala on March 3rd um to celebrate the students who advanced and participated at the district level of the reflections program volunteers and fundraising. Um volunteer hour worth is estimated at $34.99 in the state of Texas. According to the dog good institute, our PTA volunteers log 17,820 hours this year, which means that equals

129$623,531.80 back to the district. Uh we had a special events and awards meeting at our council delegate meeting which was held on May 5th. Um, we recognized, of course, we didn't just recognize our PTA leaders. We also recognized uh our district leaders as well because without our district leaders and our support from our admin teams, it makes our work difficult and we want to be in partnership of course with those leaders. Um, and when we have successful partnerships, it makes everything work. So, it's just wonderful. Our elementary volunteer of the year was Kate Hussie. Our middle school volunteer of the year was Chrissy Jenkins. Our high school volunteer of the year was Eddie J. I I'm sorry, her last name. Uh, our elementary staff of the year was Nate Rob. Secondary staff of the year

130was Natalie Childress. And our admin staff of the year was Cara Carter. U, we wanted to thanks uh to Hutcherson Barbecue, uh, Outback Steakhouse and Raising Canes because they their generous for their generous support for the event. They helped cater our food. Um, at that board meeting, we also held our elections and this is our board for our 26 27 year. Um, we have added some new names as you can see and we've also added even more members throughout the district uh to represent our different areas of the district. Is there any questions? >> Thank you. Quick question. It's not a question. Would you recognize these uh magnificent people that you brought with you tonight? >> I will. This is Rebecca Ba. She is sorry. She is membership this year and she is taking over

131as our um ways and means committee or ways and means vice president. Sorry. And this is Michelle Smith and she is our VP of advocacy. She also wrote our grant. Um, she also presented a lot of stuff on our grant for our Tik Tok awareness grant. Thank you. >> And I just want to say thank you'all to the PTA for what I'll do for our schools and community and looking forward to going down to Austin with y'all during this next session because that was fun, especially in uh one of the rep's office where got a little little testy. It >> was amazing. >> And I said I got some street credit with the PTA moms after that day. So So I can't wait to go down there and do it again. So >> yeah, and

132we also have just so you know um if you're interested we can have people go with us to launch and learn more stuff more things about PTA. Like I said it's like a big I don't know and we didn't go our f my first two years I didn't go and then the sec the third year I went and I was like I don't know why I was miss why I didn't go the first two I was really missing out. So let me know if you you guys anybody has any interest of going. >> Thank you ladies. We appreciate you very much. Okay, we'll move to item C in the reports agenda, which is the the student health advisory council, the shack annual summary report. >> Good evening, Dr. FA and school board. Um, doing our

133yearly shack report. So, I'll get started with um our school health advisory council's role for Northwest. There we go. support the district in aligning with our local community values, play a crucial role in the intersection of health and learning, and strengthen the knowledge and skills essential for promoting a healthy lifestyle. Our leadership for this past year, we had um Heather Harrison was our chair for the last six years and she has been a part of Shaq for 14 years. She has twin boys that have both now graduated from Byron Nelson High School. Whitney Milson is our vice chair. This is her third year in that position and she has been part of Shaq for six years and she has both of her boys attend uh Cox Elementary School. And then we have Julie Wright. She

134has been in that position as well for three years but has been a part of Shaq for 14 years. Um she has two daughters who both are graduates of Northwest High School and Julie works for Texas Health in the community involvement for Denton and Wise County. our shack members as approved in the fall. We had a good mix of not only parents uh NISD staff but also community members and I think they did a great job working well together and we truly do appreciate the time that they invested in our um shack this year. some of our shack presentations, some of the highlights from this year. We had airmark their food services presented and they would present at all they presented at all four of our meetings and they would go through some of what's

135new with student nutrition, some of um what's some refreshing updates, some of the limited time offers they provided, and then they would kind of talk about um highlights from menus that we just had and some um new items that were coming on the menu. I think it was um valuable for them as well as our parents and our NISTD staff because they kind of got to give feedback of their kids or their students what they said was good, what was working, what wasn't working. And I think it was valuable feedback for for our food services, but also oops but also was good for our parents and staff to kind of to put their input in as well. We had Sarah Theof from Project ADOM um who is the Texas coordinator for them. She um came

136and kind of explained Project Adam and how it empowers schools and communities to um prepare for sudden cardiac arrest. um that she went through the 12 criteria necessary to be a project atom school and to be one of the hearts safe schools and also was happy to announce that all of our NISD schools are hearts safe schools which um the council was really pleased to hear that um we then had u Jennifer Langston from the parenting center come and present. It's a um 50-year-old organization in Fort Worth and it provides strategies and resources for parents and their children. It also has opportunities for individual and group programs for both parents and children as well. And then um for the parents, it offers a monthly lunch and learn for them to come and attend um which

137the council loved. Their only question was can that be on a zoom which right now it's not but they're hoping to move to that. So, those were our highlights for that. Um, some of our shack accomplishments, of course, were starting with the reindeer romp. We had a number of volunteers and support in the weeks leading up to it with our packet pickups and things like that. Um, we had over 2400 participants this year, which was the most um since we've had it at the Alliance airport. So, we were pretty pumped about that. Raising over $12,000 for our PE programs. And if you can see in that top left, we did a uh tent competition with our elementary PE teachers for decorations and activities and of course they had hot chocolate food, all the things there,

138which um our kids and their parents loved. Of course, seeing their PE teachers, but having those little areas to hang out as well. That corner is actually part of the lamp team from Schlutoter. They did a really good job um getting theirs together. And of course there were prizes which really up the game on most of our PE teachers too. Um you'll also see in the top right was at the starting line. Um Rudy the reindeer was there. He did a great job one on that day but um in the weeks leading up to it he went to a number of schools and promoted it which the kids loved and then he also went around to all of our sponsors and um really blew up their social medias with that. So, we appreciated his efforts

139there. Okay. So, I want to talk about this. The Elsa, the picture with the young lady with the white shirt and the antlers. That was 10 years ago. And that young lady this year was our Elsa. Um, so kind of a full circle moment there. And she is a Northwest High School graduate. So, that was kind of a cool a cool thing that happened. Okay. our American Heart Association starting with the handsonly CPR and the AED training that we do with our eighth grade classes in their LEAP class and we did that at all of our middle schools in the spring. We also go to the prof u professional communications classes at all of our high schools both in the fall and in the spring and while we are there we catch our December and

140our May graduates who have not yet completed that requirement. Um again with our and then we go to our kids heart challenge up at the top that is Peterson Elementary. Some of those students that participated in that. Uh we had um our schools that participated raised over $25,000 for American Heart which they did a great job. And then the bottom picture is actually at Schlutoter and the kids there that raised at least $100, they had the opportunity to um slime teachers. So any teacher that was willing to sit up there, um the kids could would grab a cup, they would scoop it up, of course, with as much slime as they could, and they could go to whichever teacher or teachers of their choosing, and they could slime them. Um that actual p picture is

141the lamp team slimming the uh campus principal, Mrs. Ramunda, which what a great sport to allow that to happen. But um so anyway, we appreciate all that they did there. All right, our uh 21-day challenge with our kids teaching kids through Medical City, we had um 2300 or over 2,300 students participate in that. Um and with their final assessment, there were at least um 40% reduction in chips, candy, sodas, and energy drinks, which to me is the biggest one. But um and then also they um you can see the activity and wellness videos are on each page. There was at least they did at least 50% of them uh watch the activity video hopefully actually did the activity and then also watched the wellness video with their parent. So um that was a pretty good

142outcome. Um, I'm showing that actual recipe because if you can see it in the corner, that is the one that was in this past year's recipe book for our students that was done by Byron Nelson Culinary Kids, which was uh pretty awesome. When this 21-day challenge started, um, I'm going to guess about 8 10 years ago, it was just in the greater DFW area. So, a handful of districts. Now, it's throughout the whole state of Texas. And so a number of kids, culinary kids, CTE are um presenting their or um presenting their recipes and it has been impressive that every year Byron Nelson has had one in there which uh really says a lot for that program and not only did they have it this past year, they will also have one this coming year

143as well. So um they did a great job there and in turn the 21day gave funds back to our CT cte program as well. So, so this is um again part of the 21day. This is actually at Schlutoter which we had a number of schools do this but uh they love to do all their social medias and take pictures there. So that's why I have a lot of theirs but um they did during their 21 day they um would go through a recipe at the beginning of class and then do their activity and they encouraged them go home choose one of the recipes with your parents have them send us a picture. So, uh, they would and then while their classes were going, they would just kind of roll those pictures. So, y'all know how

144that goes. Once they see their friends picture, they want their picture up there. So, then that just created a whole um slew of kids posting their pictures and bringing them up, which um was great for Schlutoter and the activities they did. They also had um the PE parah there, her name is Miss Jackie, and she would do weekly videos of her doing it and eating her snacks and all that. It was called Snacky with Miss Jackie, which they loved as well. So, um I know I'm demonstrating schlutters here, but again, there were so many PE teachers that did activities similar to this or different ones that really promoted this program. And that was recognized by Medical City and they gave seven tapered memberships to our PE teachers and then also eight scholarships to the annual

145tapered conference which we really appreciated and it and I appreciate them acknowledging the hard work of our PE teachers there. Um and in doing that and in addition to the CTE funds they provided, they gave our district back over $8,000 this year. So, we appreciate uh medical city recognizing all that as well. Uh we did a 21-day challenge at work. So, that was for our NISD employees. Uh we had an increase of 25% this year of participation, which I um was grateful for. And the big one there that you can see on nutritional habits was that u 50% reduction in soda comp uh consumption. That's kind of huge when um you know, everybody wants their caffeine in the day. So that's that's really quite the sacrifice. Um and then they also although they have the

146same recipes, their videos are different. So they do a lot of health education videos as you can see listed there. And um you can also see our biggest one was the mental health content was what our employees really uh focused on when they were going through these recipe books. Um, I put Schlutoter up there because um, another good thing that uh, Medical City did was if you had the most participants of your employees for your school in your school district, uh, Medical City and Lumline provided a lunch for your entire staff. Not just the ones that participated on your campus, but for your entire staff. So I surely did want to give them a shout out as well, not only for Schlutoter but Medical City and La Madeline for providing that. Okay. Our employee wellness

147we did um WTober in the month of October for our individual step challenge. We had over um 500 I well we had exactly 577 participants um with a total of the district those that participated stepping 83.5 million steps for that uh 4-week time period and averaging over 12,000 steps which averaging the 12,000 steps a day is is pretty remarkable within itself but that was a thousand steps per day more than what we did last year. So, I thought that was pretty impressive as well. Um, we changed it up a bit and of course we continued with our weekly winners and then as you can see there our overall winners, but uh we also did random winners this year to kind of help encourage those who might not be at the top of the uh leaderboard

148but still be uh still uh putting forth a lot of effort. So, we wanted to give those people a shout out. So, anybody that um in that weekly time frame that uh did at least 10,000 steps a day, they were put into that drawing for um a weekly prize, which um I everybody's when it it went over very well at the uh in our end of challenge survey. Uh and then we have there our overall our three overall winners. Diana Baski from Rowan Oak, Ethan Gordon from Mland, and then TJ Hyde from Midland as well. Uh when I went to see her, I quickly realized why she was the winner. Um she was dealing with um kindergarteners all day. So I was like, "Okay, well that makes complete sense." So um anyway, good job to

149them. And of course, I always want to thank NEF, very generous in giving their gift cards and goodies for not only our winners, but also our random winners and everybody and all of our weekly winners as well. And then our uh spring challenge is our team fit don't quit employee wellness challenge that we did for four weeks. This this year we had um over 300 people participate u with over almost 470,000 minutes of activity um with that being on average 86 um minutes a day of activity and then we added back um a step piece to that and over 10,000 steps a day which uh again I think is pretty impressive. Um again we NEF gave uh we appreciate them giving the gift cards and the goodies for that. We did random winners for them

150as well. And then Rise provided the t-shirts for our winners who are pictured there which are how Ya from uh Carter from the um Cardi Carter Coyotes. So um they did a really good job. And also a special shout out I know the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. So, I appreciate y'all participating. That was that was a nice treat to see. And then, of course, we did our weekly winners, which some of those were also our overall winners. Uh, with Hal Yao winning week one, sped speedsters week two, um, Dark Hour athletes three, and then the Gritty Fitty We won't quitty week four. So, there's some interesting names, but anyway, we let it go on that. [laughter] Um, but again, I think overall it was a great opportunity for people to get involved with

151their teams on their in their hallways or on their campuses. So, we had good feedback as well there. All right, that was it. Does anybody have any questions? No, I don't think so. But that was amazing. We appreciate you very much and everything you do. Thank you. Okay, we'll move to let's see E, which will be Oh, no. D, sorry, I almost skipped it. I almost skipped your turn, Anthony. Communications district effective effectiveness report. >> Yeah. >> Good evening again, school board. [sighs] We have done quite a few things this year, uh, past few years, and I'll go through several of those. Uh, I won't go through all of our team members. You know, most of them. I will highlight that we added Hannah Casease this year and Israel Perez. Most of you have gotten

152to know Hannah Casease. Uh, probably not as much Israel as he joined our team in the last two months. Uh, but they're both great additions. Uh, they fit in very well to our team. The other two people I would highlight is next year Melissa Shawn will be celebrating her 30th year in Northwest ISD. I always joke with her that she needs to go for the 50-year pin, and she doesn't really joke back. Uh, and then Cindy Metting, if she uh, she doesn't joke about this, but if she makes it two more years, cuz she's looking at retirement, she will celebrate her 30th year after Melissa. So, this year there have been many new state mandates as many of us are well aware of, especially Christy Hobbs, Cara Carter. Uh, so we've played a role in

153many of those. Uh, I've highlighted some of them here. The one I would highlight most is probably the online course syllabi because Melissa has really done a huge amount of work on that. She stayed late two weeks in a row just getting that done. Uh she did such a good job that one of our former Tesper presidents, so Tesper is our professional organization in school communications, uh called me and said, "How did you do that before the deadline?" Like, "How did you get it done?" I was just like, "That's that's Melissa Shawn. That's someone on our team who did a great job." Uh so we definitely got a lot of people watching that and seeing how we got it done so quickly because she uh she spent a lot of time on that. Uh we

154have a a saying in our department started about seven years ago. Someone just said crushing it and then someone else chimed in for the kids. So Melissa Sean's definitely crushing it for the kids I would say. Uh we also did our emergency communications plan uh a year ahead of schedule. So it's due next school year or at the end of next school year I should say. So we've already got that done going into the upcoming school year. So that's ready to go. When we had the new cell phone standard bill in terms of students not using their cell phones and electronic devices, we helped with posters and communication, uh, social media post, parent square post, all that sort of thing. And then the consent forms was mainly done by technology, but we definitely helped getting

155that out there in terms of communicating it to our public. Uh, it was very challenging this past school year. It's going to be much more easy going into the upcoming school year now that it's built into the enrollment forms. Emergency communications is something we've tried to highlight even more this school year. Uh last school last semester our focus obviously was on the election. So we wanted to hit the ground running with this uh this semester and Stephanie in our department has led this initiative. Uh there has been a parent square post each week about uh our SRP standard response protocols. So what do you do when there's a hold? What do you do when there's a secure? Because even though our students train for it, our parents don't necessarily know what that means. They're all

156used to just hearing the term lock down. Well, we don't really use that term anymore for the most part. Uh so we explained to them there's differences in what our SRPs are. Uh we are continuing with this program. Stephanie and Israel have been over at Love Elementary School this week shooting video to give more of a visual element to the program. So next semester, so the first semester of next school year, we'll be highlighting that for our families. Supporting our schools. It's definitely been more challenging this school year uh just with budget cuts and things like that going into the school year. So, whenever we have meetings, we talk about how can we make it easier on our campus staff, whether that's principles, APS, teachers. So, some of the things we've done are a whole

157lot more in terms of writing. Uh it used to be just crisis or emergency letters. Now, if a principal contacts me and they need help because they they're just juggling so much, I'll definitely help them out, drop what I'm doing if I can. Uh same with Stephanie. She'll do the same thing. social media engagement support. If they have something going on on their Facebook page and it's gaining steam, but they're busy on their campus, we'll go in there and help them because typically we know what's going on on the campus level. And if we don't, we'll reach out. We'll talk to them on the phone. Then we'll we'll help them out uh replying as their page for them to make it easier for them going forward. One of the big ones, the ones that I'll

158highlight on this this slide right here is classroom and library support. Uh, we've talked about the challenges with the lamp rotation for librarians, just them getting used to it. So, Trish, who's on this slide, she had an idea of what if I just take time out of my day and I schedule it into my workday. Not every day, but every so often, I'll go out, I'll help out the librarians, I'll send out a form, I'll figure out what librarian needs help. So, most people don't know that she does that, but she definitely does that. She does a great job helping our librarians. I would also uh point out that this photo is from our Teesprer conference this year. She won the Crystal Award, which is the top award in the entire state of Texas, for

159one of her community service programs, which was Watchd Dogs. Uh, she wasn't sure what she was going to submit for the award, and I kept saying, "Watch dogs, watchd dogs, watchd dogs." Because for her, she thinks that every school district does this, but it's something that she put a lot of effort into. And every school district doesn't do that, but she did a lot of work getting that support to our campuses in terms of a toolkit, messages they could send out, posts that they could make to social media just to get more volunteer support for our Watchdog program. Telling our story is something that I put put on this presentation every single school year because this is a presentation I give to you at the end of each school year. Uh, but it's something that

160I would say that we do just in my opinion uh as good if not better than anyone in the state of Texas. We go to tons of events every school year. The person I would highlight for this would be Matt in our department. He's constantly going to schools, whether it's during the workday, after the workday. So this year, as with last year, we attended more than 300 events. Uh just getting photos, getting videos, not always photos and videos, but those are primarily the two things that people would notice most often. Uh it's not just Matt. Stephanie goes, Hannah goes if I have time. uh and they because I'm not as good of a photographer as they are, I'll go uh just to give them some relief, but they definitely do a great job on this

161area. Limited open enrollment is a program that we began and we're just dipping our toe in the water. Uh there are some neighbors that we have that are really trying hard to to take enrollment. That's really not what we're trying to do. who we're trying to offer the opportunity if families are in another district and they see that, hey, Northwest ISD is a district I've been thinking about, uh, they have the opportunity to enroll. So, we made sure to promote that via social media posts and, uh, also online search engine posts. So, Google, if you search for Northwest ISTD on Google, it will be one of the things that pops up. Uh, Hannah Casease did a great job on the graphics for this. If you've opened Facebook in probably the last four months, you've probably

162seen these graphics at some point. We did uh we looked around our district and again not trying to steal from any other community but it is it does look at our district as well as the surrounding area because if you're looking at coming here you probably live relatively close to Northwest ISD. Event locations has probably and changes to events has probably been one of the more challenging aspects of this school year. We wanted to make sure that uh we were lessening what we're doing or not what we're doing that's not the right way to say it. we were taking some of the funds that we would traditionally put into our events and we were using them better. Uh we were doing more events on our district property in this room right here. Uh so it's

163a lot more work to do that because I wouldn't say that any of our events previously prior to the school year were turnkey by any means. There's a lot of work that goes into them. But whenever you're hosting the events on your location, it is much harder, especially that first year where you're getting used to everything, what works, what doesn't work. So Candle Pierce did a great job of this. uh she really spearheaded what do we change? What do we need to make better? What do we what makes this event stand out? How can we make sure that holding it in this room right here in this boardroom is going to be just as nice as going to the Marriott, going to Texas Motor Speedways ballroom. Uh so she did a great job on that.

164Uh, one thing that she also did, she did many things, but one of the things that I would highlight is on the Angel Tree program this school year, she added drop off locations at all three of our high schools or McCra for Northwest High School. Uh, so that made it much better for families to drop off uh their donations for our students in need. We had a a much higher turnout. we didn't have as much families that we students in need that we had to shop for going forward because every year we do Angel Tree there are those kids who get adopted who for whatever reason uh someone just doesn't bring the gift and we have to go out and shop for them. So there was much less of that this school year and it's

165a lot of work whenever you add two more locations you need more people to go there you need uh transportation to get all the gifts we had box trucks running back and forth so she did a great job on that. This would be the other thing I mentioned that uh telling our story is one of the things that I think we do just as good if not better than anyone in the state. I think our events is definitely in that category as well. I don't know a communications department in the state of Texas that does the amount of events that we do and that's something we're very proud of. Uh not just for our department but for Northwest ISD as a whole. We want our community engaged. We want uh whether it's staff events, whether

166it's PTA events, whether it's something for volunteers, we definitely want to have families coming out here. Uh it it's not just the things that you would think of. Uh the example I would give on this is we just did board of trustee awards. Michael does a fantastic job of recognizing the pronunciation. If she doesn't know how to do something, she'll get the card ahead of time. But one thing that we don't think about is who makes those cards, who looks at pronunciation ahead of time. So Cindy Metting uh our administrative assistant goes through each and every uh one of the 1,00 plus submissions. So she will if she thinks the pronunciation is hard, she will send it back and say, "Hey, give us some some feedback here, like how do you say this name?" Because

167that's part of the electronic form is how do you pronounce this name? So we try to get that ahead of time to make it easier, but she does a great job of catching those. She goes again through more than a thousand entries hand by hand or line by line, hand by hand. and then she goes through, she cuts all the cars. So, she does a great job of that. She's been doing that for again 30 years almost and she's a tremendous asset for us to have on our team. This was a big one this school year and I'm definitely glad we don't have to do it again because as you can see there, there are a lot of bullet points and I don't want to have to do those every single school year. Uh so,

168it's good that we got it passed this time, but three elections in three years is very challenging. Uh luckily, everyone on our team uh really bought into this. They understood the need for it. They understood that if we do this, it's going to help with class sizes. If we do this, we're going to be able to provide raises. Uh which is something that thankfully we were a able to provide. But there was a lot more direct communication this school year. Uh it did require spending a little bit more money. Uh so there were things like door hangers. So we had door walkers going around or block walkers going around and they would target uh households in Northwest ISD. Obviously, you don't want people not in Northwest ISD. and if they couldn't reach someone knocking on

169the door, they would leave a door hanger just as one more point of direct communication, direct contact. We also had much more uh in terms of direct mailing, in terms of direct parent square posts. So, it's more of reaching out directly to our families, directly to our community, even though we did all the broadspectctrum things that people think of of the the generic things that reach everyone. It was more direct communication this time. We definitely had lots of help. Uh we had help from our principles. We had help from cabinet. Uh, but the people on the communications department, they really stepped up. Uh, if I couldn't make an event, I knew that I had Stephanie there. If she had to bring her kids with them, her because she couldn't find babysitting duty, she would do

170it. Uh, but it it was a great team effort and everyone had a role to play in this. Uh, one person who has left our team, he moved on to a different industry, but Seth did a great job with videos. Uh, they played at our football games, we posted them to social media, we sent them out again via direct communication via parent square. So, it was definitely a team effort and everyone played a role. Obviously, we mentioned that it got approved. So, that was great news and I think it really helped with our our morale on our campuses. They knew that, hey, we're we're biting down hard this school year, but next school year it's going to be better. Uh so, I think it was a great uh way to end the first semester, almost

171at the end of the first semester in terms of them knowing that, hey, relief is coming. There's going to be some improvements thankfully with additional funding. I'll close out with our intern, Khloe. She is a Northwest High School student. Uh I know at least one of you know her. Uh I know I think this photo is actually yours, Mrs. Hatfield. Uh you saw her on campus. Uh she has done a great job this school year. She has really enjoyed coming to the events. One of the things that she said because we asked her like what was the thing that you enjoyed most? And she said she had to think about it and she said well getting to know the people behind the post because I always see Northwest ISD but I don't know who does

172it. And it's so exciting for her to know that like, hey, that's a career. That's an industry. I don't know if school communications will be what she wants to do. She likes fashion. She likes different areas, but it could be. I think she really enjoyed it. Uh she took initiative. Uh when we were at our Teespr conference in February, and the uh aquatic center across the street had the middle school, I'm forgetting what it's called, but it was like a boat arm motto where they they'd make their boats and they'd test if they could uh uh swim and all that kind of stuff. She was the one who went over there when we were at our conference and she took the photos and she wrote the story and she did a great job on that.

173Uh Stephanie has overseen her. She's done a great job. Stephanie is a former teacher as is Candle, but Stephanie Stephanie led this and she gave her assignment. She gave her a little bit uh of each area of our department whether it was community relations, photography, writing. And one thing I would say that we don't always think about is uh I was CCD on a few emails from Khloe. She did a great job of corresponding with our staff. It would be very easy as a high school student just to be very lax and very uh laxidasical when you're communicating with our staff, but she took it very professionally. She did a great job with that and uh she'll be graduating next week. We're excited for her. Uh but she was a great asset to our team

174and I'll take any questions you may have. >> Any questions, friends? You guys do such a great job. We appreciate you very much. appreciate it. >> Okay. >> Can I add one thing, Anthony, before you leave the podium? Um, and as you come up, Sarah, but go ahead, sir. Um, one thing that he mentioned was the communication for open enrollment. That was not on the agenda at the beginning of the year, and that was a huge initiative. Anthony um grabbed a hold of that uh in midyear. Um, organized meetings, got the right people in the room. And I've told you this before, but I just want to say publicly when you had all the other stuff, as if that wasn't enough to add that to the agenda so that we could open enrollment and compete

175with districts around us. Um, great job on on leading through a challenge that wasn't on the list. So, thank you for all you do. >> Thanks. >> Okay, we will go on to the next report and the final one is facilities planning and construction monthly report >> board. Dr. FA, thank you for letting me present tonight the facilities report. I do understand the time and so I will be going quickly through this but please stop me if you have any questions. U just our our new um visual or our delivery road map just to give you guys an idea of when our projects will be finishing throughout the year. Um and then Barkstdale it it looks like a clean site. It's getting there. We're almost done, almost getting the trailer out and getting the contractors

176out, but we'll be moving in next month um into that building and just the library, the individual meeting spaces are being installed right now. As you can see in the library on the left, you can see the uh front entrance. That's the entrance of the building with the library behind you. And then on the right hand side is the cafeter or the kitchen for the cafeteria. Then we have the collaborative areas in our academic wings. It's a two-story opened air volume area. Uh the bottom has a large collaborative area where on the right hand side you can see the second floor collaborative area. We've got our athletic areas. Um gyms are almost complete with all the staining and painting that goes on on the floors. We've got our locker rooms ready for the kids. The

177left is our acade our athletic hallway and then the right one is our academic hallway. As you can see, our our hallways are pretty wide. just preparing for the crowd that comes through um every day through those uh classrooms. Dr. Romer Elementary, you can see the the playground is installed and the ground is is installed around it. They're just working on the grass currently um around that area. Colors are coming to the school. We have purple skies and pink clouds in honor of Dr. Romer in the library. We've got purple carpet. Woohoo. in the classrooms and then the uh clinic is on the right hand side. You can see the mill work being installed on the left. You'll have the collaborative areas that are outside the grade uh each grade level and then the cafeteria

178and then we have Dr. Hicks Early Childhood Center. I promise you this building will be opened. Um it it doesn't look like it but um our trespa is coming next month so that'll be starting to be installed in the outside of the building. So that'll probably be our last thing that goes up with the landscape at the same time um for this building. And then something exciting um exhibit concept sent us pictures last week. This is our submarine for our ocean um classroom for the kids. And then you can see in each collaborative area all the finishes are going up. The last thing that's that hasn't gone in as uh due to finishes are the flooring just because there's a lot of work happening in each area. playgrounds being installed and we have the playground

179that's in the middle of the of the building. It's in a courtyard to help um keep children from running. With them being so little, we wanted to make sure that we had them um surrounded and not running away from campus. Our facilities building, they progress daily. We have front drive. This the second part of the front drive, I believe, will be finished hopefully if there's no rain um this week, but I I don't know if that's going to happen. But um this is the entrance to the facilities department where the open uh class uh open office areas are in the forer and the uh door into the building is on the uh in the perimeter of the or the back of the picture. The right hand picture is a space for our maintenance guys. It's

180one of our trades areas. They have an open um workspace. They're really excited to move into this um building. They've never had a place actually designed for them. they've just been stuck in a place and they've made it work for a long time and so it's definitely something that they've been they've earned to have this space. This is their lounge from both directions. They have some great windows um sunshine coming in and then the other side is their work area. Two weeks ago um Miss uh Deer was able to have a a sneak peek of the pack. The pack's open. we were able to welcome the two mayors of Ron Oak and Trophy Club as well as some theater students um in that sneak peek and just to look on the faces of those kids

181makes it worthwhile. Um it it's what we do here and um it they were so excited. A lot of the kids went directly to the control room so they could figure out the new controls and just kind of play with it. It was fun to watch them. Then we have Byron Nelson Cafeteria. Northstar's moving pretty fast out there. They've been working on the outside of the expansion of the cafeteria with a separation wall in between the um occupied space versus the new space. And come Friday at 1:00, I believe that wall's coming down so they can start connecting those spaces. Here we have Eaton's performing arts center just have a site view and then we have the inside showing that glasses in finishes are going up. Here's just another angle of the foryer for um

182for Eaton High School and we're expecting that to open at the end of next month. Any questions? Thank you Sarah. Okay, we'll go to the pres the board president's report now. The only thing I have is the TASBY SLI conference is June 18th through 20th. Um most of us I believe are going. We'll go ahead and move to 15, which is the superintendent's report. >> Yes, ma'am. Couple things. Um, we heard the demographers report and um decline of birth rates. I just want to say thank you to a family. Uh, thank you for your business. These are two folks that were in previous and current uh leadership in ISD. Is that I think I have that accurate. And their five children. Uh, so we appreciate you very much and thanks for hanging in this meeting.

183We'll get you out of here. Graduation Friday for Steel, Tuesday for the rest of our high schools. Uh Friday's a half day for our kids. Can you believe it? School's out for the summer as of Friday. So, thank you guys. Have a good night. >> Move.