001at 6:06 p.m. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of the meeting has been posted in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. All board members are present. And first, we will have our invocation by Mr. Knight. You bow with me, please. >> Father, we just give you this thanks and uh for this opportunity that we're able to get together like this, Father, and and meet and also just honor our staff, our children, uh Father, everyone that's associated with our our school district, our town. Uh you blessed us richly with everything. uh just be with us as decisions are made um and just uh everything you do for us, Lord Jesus. Amen. >> Amen. >> Okay.
002>> Next, we will have our pledges of allegiance. Is our pledge leader here? [clears throat] >> Okay. If not, then Mr. Anderson, will you lead us in the pledges? Min stand. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for alliance to Texas. Okay, we are going to move into the recognitions portion of our meeting. And if you would parents, please wait until all the recognitions have been done before you leave because if not, we've got trying to call the children's names and there's commotion and then their parents can't hear. So, if everybody will just wait and then we'll take a short break and let everybody go. So, first we have our annual holiday card and Miss Sanford, if
003you'll explain about that. >> Yes, I will. Uh, Mr. Anderson, if I'm going to have you to go down front to help with the presentation, but each year, Red Oakd celebrates the holiday season with our business partners, organizations, elected officials, other ISDs, and ambassadors by sharing a holiday card designed with student artwork. This is the 18th year of the annual holiday card art contest. Red Oak Middle School and Dr. Joyce Shaw Middle School submitted uh entries this year from their students and the school board chose the top entries to be included on the district card. The students are given were given cards to share with their families, a school board certificate, a gift card from the education foundation for the winner. So, if you'll please come up when I call your name. From Red Oak
004Middle School. Our finalist are Sydney Bosley from Shaw Middle School, Bryson Edison. Come on up if you're here from Red Oak Middle School. Mason Ellis from Shaw Middle School. James Huntley and from uh Red Oak Middle School, Nocttron Tren. Noctran. Go ahead and stay up here. If you received a certificate, stay up here. And the winner for the 2025 holiday card art contest is Kristen McFaden from Dr. Joyce Shaw Middle School. Congratulations. You'll see the beautiful artwork on the screen. It must be the other one. John Bless you. [laughter] No, I've got mine. >> Congratulations. Next, we will have Justin Wood, our band director, and Mr. Sebring will be helping him, and he's going to tell us about our high school band. All right, thank you everyone for having us out today. We're very excited
005to present these wonderful musicians. Um, all of these musicians coming out uh made the All Region Band a few weeks ago, which is a really rigorous process. Just to quickly sum up, they start at the end of uh July. They work crazy amount of time while doing marching band practicing their instrument for a very difficult and difficult like huge chair test. We had two kids make orchestra. We'll show those up here and uh a few kids make area of 14 of them and most of them are here today too. So y'all come on down. Uh we'll start with um a few people are not here so I'll go ahead and say their names. So, Abigail Bergman, Deshawn Briggs, Marcos Curo, Taylor Cheney are not here, but Mason Cheek is. Come on down. Okay. Uh Carly
006Childress. Yay. Alexis Korns, SamJ Cox, Aver Dowry, uh Abby Draper, uh Jackson Eaton, um Ariah Johnson, Harrison Jones, Muel Concincaid, Amanda Lee, Austin Marshall, Payton Morris, Um Austin Oliver, Romeo Reyes, Vivian Ripple, Marco Saborto, Jose Sggerero, Leelia Sanchez, Emanuel Sabajo, Jackson Smith, um Gabby Torres, Saxton Tyler, and Avery Wood. You would like to see what? >> Yes. So, >> while they're switching around a little bit, we did have a few. Well, they're probably pretty much already done. So, anyway, very proud of them. Y'all good? >> Find a picture hole. Make it officer. Y'all don't be shy. Your kids aren't. >> Almost still going down, right? >> Y'all should be having crazy eye, guys. Another round of applause. We're going to come this way band soon. Start going that way. Very excited. Thank you everyone for
007having us. You have to sing with the choir. You have to sing with people. >> Okay. Next, we have Kathy Arrington, our choir director, and Miss Knight will be helping her. >> I don't know. I'm just going to have to row, I think. Hello, I'm Cassie Arrington. This is Reagan Potter. We're the Red Oak High School choir team and we have some of our high achieving students here. These are all students that qualified for an all region choir of some sort. So we had several rounds of auditions and so um we had a couple of them make it we have one that's still um in the running for the fourth round. Some of them made it to the third round and then others to the first and second round. So um we're proud of all
008of them. So first I'm going to read off our ninth and tth grade honor choir members. We have Adeline Johnson, Henry Mastvich, Leila Mccell, and Angel Ramirez. And then our all district choir members, we have Nicole Aati, Ben Gonzalez, Sydney Huntley, Ryan Miller, and Eden Smith. Obviously, they couldn't all be here tonight. unfortunately. And then our all region choir members are Mario Amaton and Dyrie Carter. And both of them qualified for the third round. And Miss Carter is um still in the running for the final round of all state choir auditions. So we wish her the best as she auditions in January. Great job. I'm sure. >> Hello, my name is Ashley Pope. I'm the director for the Hawettes. And last month, the Varsity Hawkeyes competed at the Texas Dance Educator Association fall field assessment
009for the very first time where they earned division one ratings across the board. So, from all three judges, and our girls are making history, not only because they received division ones on their very first try, but also because these TDA competitions are paving the way for drill team to be recognized as a UIL um activity. Yeah. So, uh, here tonight representing our varsity team, we have our dance officers, Trinity Anderson, Lily Doer, Olivia Devidio, Charlie Luna, and Kayla Mloud. Yay. Thank you. Yes. >> Next we have Mr. Jericho Thomas, our theater director, and Mr. Donnie Lutri will be helping him. >> Thank you, Miss Peterson. Um, yes, my name is Jericho Thomas. I'm the um I don't need this. I can project. No, I'm just kidding. I It's just a joke. I know Beth's like,
010"No." Um, my name is Jericho Thomas. I have the honor and pleasure of being the uh the director of Rio Theater alongside Jeffrey Franks, our technical director. Please give it up for Mr. Franks. Um so our first recognitions, we're going to recognize um our uh the company of Pride and Prejudice, which was our varsity fall play um made history for Red Oak High School. We were selected um we were one of six schools in the state of Texas to perform on the main stage at the Texas Thespian State Festival. This was a first in uh school history. So give it up for the company. Um, so alongside being a mainstage performance selection, uh, we also won some awards. We're going to have some representatives there, um, to accept best props. This is Jasmine Morgan. Uh,
011Landon Stover is, uh, accepting best costumes. Uh, Tony Relo Ivory is uh, accepting best lighting. Uh, Landon Willilhight is accepting best makeup. And then Micah Brassard is uh uh getting excuse me, our best tech crew. And then we had an individual award um that we're really proud of. Um, we had an individual who for both shows that were at our particular conference out of all of the students performing was selected as a superior performer and that's Pton Nich. All right, these are some of our representatives for the company of Pride and Prejudice. You're like, "Oh, yes. I'm sure they've done that before. >> Also in our bag, before I uh announce our national qualifiers, I just want to give it up to Jeffrey Franks. Um, if you have ever seen him sew a dress, uh,
012you've seen him sew a bunch of them. Um but he led our our Thread Oak um costume construction class in the costumes for Pride and Prejudice and uh they were awarded with best costume. So I just want to recognize him as well. No, he will not alter your pants. Um all right, next up uh really quickly we have uh we uh we have students that can uh qualify for the national the international thespian festival ITF um in individual events. So that's what's coming up now. um for a uh group scene. They national qualified received superior ratings. Uh Molly Hughes, Indira Waller, and Highly Torres. I know this is out of order, y'all. Uh but national qualifier in his contrasting monologues is Isaiah Wayne. A couple of our technicians that couldn't be here tonight um our
013national qualifiers in lighting design. We have Aiden Todd. Uh, national qualifier in costume design, Miss Pixie Raina. And then national qualifier, taking a break from wonderful acting as Mrs. Bennett for set design is Emily Rodriguez. And these are your International Thespian Festival Troop 7637. These are your national qualifiers. Little Shop of Horrors opens January 23rd through 26. We'll see you at the pack. Bye. >> All right, next up. >> All right, my name my name is Chris Anderson. I'm the athletic director at Reto High School, and it's my honor tonight to have with us two of our teams from the fall that had outstanding seasons. Our first group tonight is Reto High School cross country and coach Brian Reid. Yeah. Uh thank you'all for having us tonight. Again, it is our honor to recognize our
014two young ladies here. Uh again, just a few things about cross country. Again, it's kind of different than other sports. Uh there are individual accomplishments that go along with the team accomplishments, but this year we had two uh of our seniors uh who made it to the regional meet this year. Uh they advanced out of a very very competitive tough district here uh in our area. Uh both top 10 finishers um and they went on to perform at the regionals. First up we have uh Nicole Apati. Uh this is her second year to run cross country at the high school program. Uh she finished 10th at the district meet uh with a new PR of a 1958 and she went on to qualify for regionals as a senior. Congratulations Nicole. Uh our next senior is
015uh Esme Rodriguez. Uh she just finished her fourth year running on the varsity. Uh over the course of four years, according to my math, she had 14 top 10 finishes. Uh she qualified for regionals for four times her freshman through senior years. Uh she had the senior year uh she was top 10 and seven or six of her eight six of her seven meets that she she ran in. uh she finished fifth at the district meet and uh went on uh to again to qualify for the regional. She finished 39th out of 172 runners and she also PR this year with the 1918 at the district meet. So congratulations to both these young ladies as we All right, next group. Next group we have Red Oak High School volleyball and coach Hope Porter. Okay, this
016year's team um ended up 30 and 12 on the season, finished second in district. It's the first time in five years that we've had a 30- win season. So, very proud of these girls and their accomplishments. They um were a great group of girls collectively to work with. They work hard. So, um have nothing but high admiration for all of them. hope to see some of them go off and play at the next level. So without further ado, first we have number three freshman Malia Ellis. Malia was first team all district this year and academic all district. Then we have number four Samantha Taylor who was the utility player of the year for district 155A. She was also the team MVP this year. She did a little bit of everything for us. So, it's going
017to be big shoes for somebody to fill. Next is Mariah Roersonson. Mariah had an honorable mention all district accolades this year. Stepped in when we needed to her to at a point in the season and did a great job for us. Next is Jillian Guinings, senior. Jillian was a DS um for us this year and she was academic all district and um second team all district. No, I'm sorry. Honorable mention all district. I'm sorry I missed that. Next is Simone Reic, sophomore. She was co-blocker of the year this year for the district and she was academic all district as well. then is Destiny Alvareo who was honorable mention all district this year. So if [clears throat] you see the the accolades just keep coming. So that's a testament to how hard they work this year.
018Next we have Jaden Sheffield who is a senior who was first team all district as well as academic all district. And the last one standing over there is Alyssa Williams who is a junior who was also second team all district this year. Just real quick, we have five young ladies who could not make it this evening. Aaliyah Earles is on a cruise. Go figure. She uh she was offensive player of the year in academic all district this year. Um, also not here is Carly Hughes who is a senior who was second team and academic all district. Um, Alexia Mcgru who was also honorable mention all district could not attend tonight. They had previous engagement but this is your varsity 2025 team. [applause] Mhm. Next we have Miss Jeter and she will be giving out the
019FFA along with Brian Sebring and Sean Kelly. [laughter] >> I'm going to introduce our FFA teachers, Angelica Weaver, Ryan Pickard, and Paige Bishop is hiding back there, but he is here as well. They are going to recognize our national winning um program and also our area qualifiers. Okay, I'm a little short. Okay. Hi everyone. I'm Angelica Weaver. I am one of the animal science teachers um and FFA adviserss here at Red Oak High School. Um the first thing we're going to recognize is our national chapter award that we received this year at National Convention. Um a little bit about the national chapter award program. Um it is designed to recognize FFA chapters um that actively implement the mission um and strategies of the organization nationally. Um in order to receive this recognition at the national
020level um they have to go through an application process um after planning um events for the entire school year. Um and then they have to get voted on and approved at the state level and then after that we have to be rated as a gold chapter at the state level and then it will then go to the national level level where they rank us one, two or three stars. Um this year I'm happy to announce that we were recognized as a national three star chapter which is the highest that we can receive in the nation. Um and only about 10% of chapters nationally get recognized as a national three star. So, um, rec we will be recognizing our chapter officers. Um, first up we have Addison Kelly, our chapter secretary. Bristol Marks, our chapter reporter,
021Jacob Worley, our chapter vice president, Casey Adams, our chapter historian, Case Hood, our chapter treasurer, McKenna Johnson, our president, and Paige Sebring, our chapter sentinel. We have two other chapter officers that were unable to make it with us today. Um that is Arena Valkovich. She is our chapter chaplain. Um and then Mackenzie Oliver. She is our chapter parliamentarian. They know the truth. >> All right. My name is Ryan Pickard. Uh this year I had the privilege of coaching three different LD teams that all advanced to area this year. Uh our LD teams are leadership development events. Um, all of these teams get to build their skills in uh different team building projects, um, speech writing, stuff like that that are going to help them in a professional setting later on down the down the road.
022Um, so the first one I'd like to recognize is going to be our senior FFA broadcasting team, which is going to be Mr. Jacob Worley, Pace Hood, and McKenna Johnson. Next is going to be our senior FFA quiz team, which is going to be Miss Casey Adams, Miss Kendall Adam, and then our other two members who were not able to be here tonight is Miss Carly Hughes and Miss Arena Balkovich. And then our last team is going to be our Greenhand FFA broadcasting team. So the first one we've got, sorry, Greenhand quiz team. Um, the first one, Miss Valerie Moreno, Kyra Morgan, Daniel Swearing, and last but not least, Olivia White. There you go. Thank you. Hey, it's also worth mentioning that the the three star rating was actually um we had some great leaders
023who have departed from us, but we had one that anchored this team and these two came in in the last two years and have put that together and Miss Weaver and Mr. Picker to be applauded. Mr. Bishop, good job. Next we have Karen Anderson, executive director of the Red Oakd Education Foundation. Oh, and we have Miss Mon'nique Ballard also. >> Yes. Joining me tonight is one of our directors, uh, Miss Mon'nique Ballard. And then, of course, our president, Donnie Lutri. And Johnny Knight also sits on our board. if you want to come on down, Johnny. >> So, I wanted to give you a recap from our grant program this year, grants for great ideas. We had 44 grant proposals submitted. We awarded 30 proposals totaling totaling $87,89948. Um, I was getting a recap of the
024campuses. Shields received one, Shepman received three, Eastridge uh was awarded five, Rick Elementary three, Wooden two, Joy Shaw Middle School uh one, Reto Middle School six, and Reto High School led the pack with nine grants awarded. And since it's my 20th year with the foundation, I just had to put this out. To date, we have awarded 489 grants for a total of 1,349,63.97. If we could present this to the board, that'd be great. Y'all would come down for a picture. >> [laughter] >> Parents spend it all on one. >> Okay. Now, as promised, we will take a very short break for those of you that need to leave. I think most of them just snuck out anyway. But but those of you that are ready to go now, thank you so much for staying. >>
025Yes. Thank you. [clears throat] Okay, next we'll have our superintendence report. Yes, we're going to start with our construction update uh by Brett Stanford, executive director of support services. All right, let's get started with the playground projects. First, we had some uh ribbon cutting today, so that was two more completed. We have one more to go and so and it's underway. Uh currently, uh Eastridge, their playground is 100% complete. Shutman now is 100% complete. So is Wooden and so is Shields. The uh Red Oak Elementary, they're about 25% done. I'd say they're probably a little bit closer than that. Every day they they are just kicking it. So they're really doing good. Softball complex is about 90% complete. Uh final touches and finishing work are underway. >> Uh the baseball complex is about 50% complete.
026I'm hoping when we get back from break that'll really start really coming together and looking good. and everything is scheduled to be done on time. Right now we're on schedule. Uh Red Oak High School flooring project for replacement with Gomez flooring is scheduled to be completed by the end of the summer. So we're trying to put all that together. I have a meeting this week with them and kind of go over a game plan of how we're going to tackle that and and make that happen. uh districtwide projects. As far as the the rest of the stuff, the stadium, the JB stadium, the new elementary, we're still collaborating with Corgan and Joris on ongoing facility projects. [laughter] >> Y'all hear me? >> Yes. >> Uh our goal is to have everything completed by the fall
027of 2027. So, we are going to be fast and furious over the next uh 18 months. So this is kind of what it looked like before and this is current. So they have done a lot of work up to this point. RPS before and then after. Y'all were some of y'all were out there today and it really looks good and kids can start playing on it tomorrow. shields before and then today or [clears throat] after. And then today we also did a ribbon cutting and so the the students will be playing on that tomorrow and I don't think the cold weather's bothering them. [laughter] Baseball softball. Here's a baseball field. They're putting the gravel down and then uh we're hoping by next week they'll start laying turf. Here's your softball field about 90% complete. Fence
028is up. Turf is down. All the beads. Uh they're just a couple of finishing touches they have to do. That is it. Any questions? Short and sweet. >> Looks good. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate all your hard work. >> Thank you. Busy, busy. >> Thank you, sir. >> And now we're going to have our U chief of secondary schools, Israel Cordderero, and our principal at Shaw Middle School, Loria Washington. They're going to give you an improvement plan update. Good. Just a little shorter than Brent. Not too much shorter, but a little. So, uh, last month y'all heard a presentation from, uh, Chris Thompson ROMs. It was the local improvement plan. Uh, some of you seem to like it. So, Miss Washington got busy right after that, and she's going to present her local improvement plan
029to you today. ROMS is required by the state to do a lip because of their D. Shaw doesn't have a rating, but she has the same students that were at ROMs last year, so she's going to go ahead and follow suit. Uh as of today, the Shaw administrators have done more than 220 walks um more than last year. So 220 more walks as of now than last year. Uh so they have a real focus on instruction. Uh after those walks, the teachers get immediate feedback. Um they go into the classroom, do a fundamental five walk. We talked about that at the last meeting. Uh, and the teachers will get immediate feedback on what was observed, a glow or a grow. Well, one of each, what what one thing they saw that they did well, one
030thing that the teacher could reflect on and improve on. Um, they are capturing teacher trends through the test walkthroughs and the fundamental five, giving the teachers feedback. They're also capturing trends of things that they see that the students are doing, not doing. Obviously, that comes back on how we could support the teacher. Uh but they're capturing all of those trends and they're doing stuff with the data there. Uh they've been analyzing data since the very beginning of the school year. Uh starting with the taper report from ROMs. Um and then every time we've had a CBA, they've been analyzing the data and they've been safe to say digging deeper into data than probably they've ever uh dealt with. A lot of that is attributed to uh not just a campus effort, but a district-wide effort.
031Uh Megan Kors and her team have done a whole lot of work uh with Maril Lee Stone and supporting all of the campuses and so we appreciate you for that work and your team. Um the lip that you're going to see today um you're you're going to see some vulnerability if you haven't read it already. Uh in order for Shaw to move forward or any campus to move forward when they do u these exercises, this one in particular based on the effective schools framework, they have to be honest. they have to sit down and have honest conversations about where they as a leadership team feel that they are and then what they have to do to do better. Uh versus we're doing really well at everything and we have little room for improvement. So, uh,
032you know, we just hope you take that into consideration because we asked them to be extremely vulnerable, be very honest, tell us where you think you are as a team and they were. And so then based on that, the three areas that they picked, uh, they're working on that plan. And of course, they're working on their campus improvement plan as well. Uh, and then the last thing is uh there were five areas uh for them to look at and and Shaw picked three of the five that they felt they needed to work on. I think two of the three are the same as ROMs. There was just one that's a little different. Without further ado, I give you the principal for Shaw. >> Thank you. >> Good evening to the board and to the superintendent.
033Thank you guys for this time. Um I am presenting the Dr. Joy Shaw Middle School local improvement plan. And so the reason that this would be needed is because we do have um groups of students who are low performing or underperforming. And so we have to create a plan of action to address those um deficiencies. Um even though we are targeting all students on our campus, we have two groups of students who need more intensive interventions and those are African-American students and our Hispanic students. Am I not There we go. There we are. >> So again are our African-American students and our Hispanic students. Um you will see historical data on the screen that represents 2023. We were a D campus 23 24 C and then fell back to a 69.2D. That was really hard
034as the first year principal for me to swallow. However, I do own the score and no it's not rated in the state for Shaw but it is our score because those are half of our students and we I do own that. How are we servicing these students? Um we have implemented power hour. Power Hour is pretty much to sum up a double block math for students who did not meet on the STAR test and so we are servicing them in math. Um strategic scheduling of students through teacher placement and soore classes, student data portfolios that we are tracking in student folders so that students are aware of their data and how they are progressing throughout the school year. Um focus tutoring and interventions, soaring after sunset which is our Thursday um initiative to help students
035after school. great sheets and planners and progress monitoring through um all of these actions. Overall rating for 2024 again we were a 69 I keep saying 02 because I am so devastated by that but but learning and growing as a principal and so overall D rating if you um are paying attention to these the current slide um overall for student achievement our students were at a 71 C school progress 71 C and then when we came to closing the gaps we are at a D um academic growth a D as well we are really focused on areas that our students can grow and how we can close those gaps And so every time that we're looking at data, we are focused on what we are doing to ensure that we grow in these areas. The
036reds um the amount of students that either went we went up or down when it comes to did not meet approaches meets and masters on student achievement areas of concern. The C's are even areas of concern because we do want our kids at B or better. we want them to achieve with the caliber of student that we know we have on our campuses. However, we are focused highly on math as you can see D overall sixth grade D 7th grade F and then when it comes to our history um F as well. So with our math again power hour we have blocked those students. We did have some some strategic moves of teachers so that we can support our students in that way as well. And so definitely um focusing on growing our math population
037of students, closing the gaps. Our just to point out of a positive, our um English language students are earning three of the four points. So on track and learning English and doing a great job on representing our campuses. However, we do want to focus on student success where we only receive two of the 16 points and also growth status like what what growth are we showing last year compared to this year. And so focus areas for us to close those gaps. The Texas effective school framework is what we have um chose to utilize and that's like what are we doing to improve what actions are we doing to improve student learning and again as Mr. Cordderero stated we had to have a transparent look at our campus when it comes to self assessing where are
038we extremely weak where can we grow and what are the key areas that we want to improve in. So as we studied the data had collaborative meetings and thank you to our district partners with CNI Miss Dockery just sitting down with us for hours to go through you know what that to help us with the process along with Mr. Cordderero and what that looks like on our campus. So we did choose of the five levers lever 5.2 building teacher capacity through observations and feedback cycles. Um we are again as Mr. Cordderero already stated making sure that we are in classrooms. We've had way more walkthroughs than we've had and this is my fifth year here in Red Oak and so it really is beneficial when it comes to just the overall culture and climate of
039the campus and kids see us, students see us in the classrooms, teachers expect to see us and so it's becoming just a real serious culture builder. We don't want any aha moments but we are here to coach and to help our teachers grow. So building capacity through our observation and observation and instant feedback. So giving the feedback and then going back into the classrooms to see if stu teachers are implementing these strategies and then if not going right back through that cycle so that we're all um making sure that we're growing data driven lever 5.3 data driven instruction teachers modifying instruction based on the analysis of our data whether it's formal or informal everything from bell ringers to CBAs are we use utilizing that data to ensure that we are going back to hit tiques
040that are missed by students and just driving our everyday instruction Level lever 3.1 explicit schoolwide behavior expectations and culture routines. Um we are utilizing PBIS and Texas instructional leadership to train our staff and refine and implement behavior expectations on our campus. We are moving into a new building and so we plan to hit that really hard coming back from January with increased expectations and that's conversation that I have been having with teachers, students and sending out to parents as well. um the expectation changes, you know, and we're we're in a new building and we just want to represent what that building looks like and what it stands for. And so, not only do we want to and you'll see um later in our presentation, not only are we talking to students, we want to include
041the community around us so that we all have equal partnership in the success of our campus. Um priority prioritize focused areas. Central action 5.2 building teacher capacity through observation and feedback. What are our action steps? So identifying the needs and supports of our teachers of course first thing we've calendared um the system for observation and classroom walks and so administrators receive weekly the expectation for the walks that they should get accomplished and [clears throat] we we I as the principal make sure that those are getting done and when they're not then we have conversations around why they are not and making sure that we make up that time um in the weeks preceding we have started to implement um strate strategic or systematic professional development during um departmental times that we have carved out for
042our teachers on campus. And so ensuring that not only um that they don't necessarily have to always stay after school to receive some during the school day embedded PD so that they are growing um in that way and we're not burning them out. We're trying to make sure that we're meeting their needs so they feel like they can meet the needs of our students. And again, the follow-up classroom visits that we are going back once we've given you the feedback. We're coming back to see if you've implemented those things and if not, then continuing the cycle and then making sure that we're addressing any deficiencies that we see. essential action 5.3 data driven instruction through um numerous data meetings administrative PLC's IER and then we're implementing heavily going into the second semester Sirius which we
043have um done some research on and it has proven to be really successful in the state of Texas when it comes to student success on STAR and so we will be studying that data as well and using it as an instructional resource so that our students are ready for STAR when the testing time comes and not only ready for STAR but just being successful overall on the instruction that we're delivering every day. And essential action 3.1 again um explicit schoolwide behavior expectations and cultural routines, action steps. We're communicating and reinforcing the vision, mission, goals, and values. And so that's something that we communicate weekly, daily um kind of um aligning, I'll say, our own campus model, soaring with purpose, achieving with pride, with the district mission, vision, and goals. making sure that our students own
044that we're hawks and that we soar and that every single day we need to come with that mission and so definitely um reinforcing that daily. We are building partnerships and we did start the the um grand opening of the building was a great way to start building some partnerships with the community where it when it comes to the mayors in the area and people who just want to come in and engage with our students. And so we plan to do some town halls so that um they can get their questions answered um give us some advice or some even um suggestions because parents do have those as well and they want to be heard and we want them to be heard and feel like they're a major part of what we're doing at Shaw. And
045we are reviewing safe and civil schools information for possible implementation so that we take our schools to the next level when it comes to overall behavior and culture. Um, it is my goal to see Shaw with a culture of high expectations. And so my teachers are aware, students are aware, and parents are aware. And we're all on the same page. And we we plan to hold them to that. So what are we monitoring to ensure all of these levers are being um successful? We have coaching plans that we revisit weekly. Um things that we're expecting for teachers to do and we're tracking that progress on those plans. our walkthroughs that we've been really um much better in this school year. So, a huge difference from the years um preceding. We um our data meetings that
046we've already kind of talked about creating action plans and kind of looking at that data each day and not well weekly. And not only are we looking at data, students also have data folders that they are reviewing as well. So they know for themselves what they how they've performed on assessments, what areas they need to work on and they can can communicate that with teachers and parents and they are aware. You know the a big part of growing them is do they know where they are? Do they know where they need to go and have they bought into what we're trying to we're attempting to do for them? I ready data review. I received some more of that today. And so I'm really I really am thankful for the district people who are making sure
047that we have the resources that we need, the data that we need so that we can be successful. And again, serious um we we're just getting some training with our reading department specific to increasing our serious usage and we will get that um going heavily for the second semester. Our 3.1 we're monitoring it through our daily climate. What does it feel like in our hallways? is how do teachers feel? What are their what is attendance like for our students? Big district initiative um the the money for coming to school. We have kids who are pushing through that and really want to be at school. Um my daughter is one of them refuses to miss school and doesn't want dentist appointments during school and as a parent I wholeheartedly support it and am scheduling around and
048so a lot of our parents are really pushing their kids to be there because attendance matters and so we want to keep um emphasizing that. failure reports. We do look at those every three weeks and we make communication with parents based on what we can do to ensure that they're not failing at the end of the six weeks. And so being um very intentional about how we proceed this year so that again we have a culture on our campus that says a culture of excellence. Um thanks to Miss Korn's and the discipline dashboard as well as the um the walkthrough dashboard for fundamental 5. It's a really easy resource that we're able to just pull data from weekly so that administrators are aware of trends when it comes to discipline so that we implement things
049that can address the trends that we see that are not trending in the direction that we would want them to be. Raptor volunteers something that we really want to work on as a campus. I feel like once we are in our building and we're on the side that's kind of conveniently located for our parents, we'll we'll see an increase in those volunteers. But again, we do want the community to own in partnership our campus. Any questions? Again, I thank you for your time and we are working really hard to um ensure that our middle school at Dr. Joyce Shaw is better. Do I hear? >> Go [clears throat] ahead. >> So, so I got a couple questions. >> Okay. >> One is When you're doing your walkthroughs, you give give them feedback, immediate feedback. How
050would you grade out the Because you say you're going back and seeing are they taking the instruction? Are they taking the the advice or the uh the feedback >> and making some changes? How would you grade out uh on your campus? How well teachers are actually doing that? They're they're listening to you. they're taking your feedback or are you finding that there's there's some areas that were struggling a little bit um you have to go back and repeat that cycle one one or two more times. How would you say that's going on your campus? >> Okay. So overall whenever you're increasing um visibility in classrooms and raising the expectation it gets tough um initially for teachers and so we have had to have some conversations um about expectations and I do find though the majority
051of them are open to the feedback that we give and when we are going back then of course as an administrator there are just tough conversations that we have to have when we don't see those things we attempt to implement professional development specific to what we see or we don't see so that we're saying that we're supporting them as well. >> Okay. So, taking that to the next level because you talk about making a culture change uh and it's and it's hard to make a culture change with a group that you already have, >> right? >> So, are we documenting some areas that we need to improve on? And not just for maybe moving somebody down the road, >> but it's also when you get to the end of the year, you can show a
052teacher or a person, hey, this is where you grew, right? >> We had these conversations, but >> this is where you are now, right? So, are we having those those documentation? >> Absolutely, we are documenting and we have witnessed some growth. And so, we do praise those teachers who are meeting the expectation and growing even compared to last year. We show them their data. we we share it with them and then even seeing like um trends that are acceptable and so we definitely are taking having those conversations and celebrating their successes. >> Thank you. >> Yes sir. >> Yeah. Um this great uh report to us and I I really appreciate uh the effort that you put into this. Just a couple of questions or comments. One, I think that town hall uh idea is
053a great idea. I think that would really help engage the community. What is it? What is exactly a data folder and what's in that? >> Okay, so every student on our campus has a folder that has their CBA scores and it tells them the TEICS that they um did well on or did not do well and it gives them an opportunity to set goals for the very next CBA and so they're able to revisit to see whether or not they achieve their goal or whether or not they need to work harder the next time. And so we've recent well actually second six weeks we kind of implemented it coming down the pipe and so um really beneficial for them because they see they're able to say okay I did meet my goal I did not
054um that's one of the things that I really commend the elementaryaries for because my students as elementary students at Shutman they know they know from the beginning of the year what they need to work on and they come home and they're either really bummed because they didn't make it or they're really excited because they get a pajama day and they're able to celebrate their successes. So, we mocked some of that so that we celebrate our kids as well because they're in middle school. They just left elementary, but we want them to be praised for their efforts as well. So, they're able to just kind of review their data. We have a folder for reading and math. And so, students are tracking in both of those as well as science and social studies for eighth graders.
055>> That's that's a great idea. And you talked about a Raptor volunteer. I'm maybe I'm just not clear on that. Okay. But what do we mean? So when volunteers come to our campus, they sign in through Raptor and so the hours that we have volunteers on our campus, we would like to increase because I think we're really low at this point and so we just want but we as a campus have said that we need to create more opportunities for them to be able to come out. So that is something that we're definitely looking into creating those opportunities for volunteers. I >> I think you're right. Once you're kind of in your home and close to them, that will help. >> Right. Any further questions? >> I do. I got a question. The um the
056data that you had on on slide on slide five um is that the are those the numbers that are already split or is that the same slide from what what we got from Thompson last week? >> So it's the same slide um because it's the students collectively. However, we do have individual student data for our Shaw students and are able to be specific to our individual kits. >> Okay. I'm I was trying to remember if that was the same slide or or not, but Okay. >> Okay. Thank you for this time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, M. Washington. >> I have one more. >> Okay. >> Well, but I I really want to ask this to both both the principles if here. I know you kind of had to do this process, but
057what would you say was the positives coming out of the process itself? >> Okay. I'll start off by saying one of the positives is having a clear realistic look at where we are as a campus and then the collaboration from the team. Um a lot of times um principles make decisions but the buyin from the assistant principles and the collaboration with CNI um was really big for me knowing where we are knowing where we what we need to work on and making sure that we're implementing these things and not just saying we're doing them but actually getting them done um with the accountability piece is big. And so those were the positives for me. >> Okay. >> I think that's a great question. I I would say for me, uh I have a lot of
058opinions. I mean, that probably doesn't surprise people that know me. Like I think I know what the problems were. I think I had an idea of it. But working with a group of people, some that were outsiders that weren't on my campus last year, others that were in the district but not on my not living and breathing right middle school every day was very beneficial for me because then I get to see not just what my gut tells me and what my eyes tell me, but what other people are seeing when they look either uh at data pieces that didn't stick out to me but do stick out to them or if it's even more just what we're seeing in the hallways. And so, uh, I think having so many folks come together to help
059come up with this type of plan really does give you a good sense of, okay, which direction are we going? How do we get there? >> Do you do you either have a sense of how things are going >> now that you have the plans? >> I mean, to speak for RO Middle School, I think we're heading the direction we need to go. I mean, I really do. Um, we're seeing some some uh improvements on every assessment that we're that we're that we're giving students as we go. Um, you know, today we did a really brief uh impromptu not quite a pep rally, but we brought students into the uh into the gym for the first time as a whole campus student body just for a a presentation from the Red Oak High School step
060team. I will tell you those kids acted right. They were they I told them how I wanted them to walk in the halls. I told them how I wanted them to walk in the to leave the stands and they did it. And I I was praising I said, "Oh my goodness, you guys are doing what we told you to do." Um, and I'm excited for that. I really am. >> You feel the same? >> And I feel the same. Definitely seeing some improvements. Um, work to do there. There's work to be done um heading into the f the second semester. However, we do have the plan. We have the data and we know where we're going. And I think that's more than half of the battle. >> Yeah. You guys seem to have some positive
061excite, you know, some excitement about it. >> Yes. Well, there there are to to speak to that. Both of you guys are really building up your brands, right? Blackhawks, Greyhawks, and and you're getting pride behind that. There's buyin from the students. There's buyin from the campuses. It also helps that you're both individually like we're dealing with half the students that we were all collectively dealing with before. And and that class size and just density that was there before was ridiculous. We apologize. state community apologizes, but the uh you can see it in in and around the community when you're on on the campus, when you're in the building, when you stop by that there's a different level of behavior. How how how students behave in the halls now is completely different and it's just because
062they weren't on they're not on top of each other, right? But I I love to see you guys taking ownership of what our our past failures are and I love to see that you're both you guys are aiming high. I feel like the trajectory is there and I think that you guys put together two good plans that are going to help us get where we need to go. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you. >> Thank y'all. >> Thank you. >> Just a couple of quick um little announcements and then I will turn it back over to you. Uh Red Oakd, in case you didn't know, was going to be closed for winter break uh from December the 19th through January the 2nd. Staff will return on January the 5th and students will return on
063January the 7th. Uh coffee talk will take place that day that we return. Um the students return on Wednesday, January the 7th at 7:45 a.m. and of course that's virtually. Our next mobile food pantry will be Thursday, January the 8th at 4 p.m. here at the ESC. And our next regular board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 20th at 7 p.m. >> Thank you, Miss Sanford. >> Thank you. Do we have anybody sign up for Okay. If not, we will move to consent agenda. Do we have items that you would anybody would like to pull from consent agenda to talk about separately? Are y'all thinking everybody look serious? If not, then do I have a motion? We'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda if presented. >> All those in favor, please raise
064your hand. >> Second. >> Oh, sorry. >> Okay, that's a that's a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Sebring. All those in favor, raise your hand. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes 70 and Do we have anything else before close session? Okay. If not, the time is 7:14 and we will go into close session.