001Now, if everybody is ready, I call this meeting of the Red Oak Independent School District to order at 603. Let the record show that a quorum of board members are present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, chapter 551. All board members are present with the exception of Don Knight, Johnny Knight, and John Anderson. So the invocation Sean Kelly, would you give our invocation tonight? Sure. Dearly Father, we thank you for this day and thank you for the time we have to gather here to gain knowledge and make good choices for our for our district. And dear Lord, please just keep blessing us with your presence and have everybody be with you as much as
002possible. Lead, guide, and direct us in the best way possible. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Mr. Sebring, if you will go down to introduce our pledge leader. Good evening, y'all. Our April pledge leader is Lauren Smith. She is 18 years old. Her parents are Jacqueline and Brian Smith. She has three siblings, Paige, Corey, and Deja. Lauren is in the 12th grade at Red Oak High School, and her favorite subjects are government and pre-cal. Lauren is a student council president, Texas Association of Councils, District 3 President, Senior Class Vice President, Secretary of National Honor Society, Treasurer of National Technical Honor Technical Honor Society, member of the Superintendent Advisory Council, member of HOSA, and the Varsity Hocket. It's late, it's full, folks. When Lauren wants to When Lauren grows up, she wants to be a sports
003medicine physician. And the person that she admires the most is Miss Angela, Angela Thomas, her student council adviser. Was she your star? She was also her star teacher last two weeks ago at the start. Something she likes about herself. Lauren really likes how well she addresses time management. She would have to. Lauren has consistently demonstrated outstanding determination and strong work ethic throughout her academic career. Her commitment to her studies is evident in her impressive academic record where she has excelled in a rigorous coursework while maintaining a balanced involvement in extracurricular activities. In addition to her academic activities, Lauren has been an active participant in various school initiatives. She has taken on leadership roles in clubs and organizations where she's not only contributes ideas and efforts but also encourages her peers to reach their potential. Her
004ability to inspire others is a testament to her character and her desire to create positive change in the school culture. Miss Smith. 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, one state under God, one and indivisible. We're going to move into the recognitions portion of the meeting. I know it's very crowded in here for you guys, but if you if you can stay for all of them, please do. If you have to go, please go quietly so that the next set of parents can hear their kids' names be called. Okay. So, we're going to start with the campus teachers of the year
005and the childc care teacher of the year. Missia, if you will come up. Good evening. Good evening. Every year, um, we have nominations for our teacher of the year at each campus and Little Hawks. These nominations reflect each of the teachers and how they exemplify the educator profile of the four talents of the Hawk: prepared, grit, character, and service. Once selected as the campus teachers of the year, they complete information about themselves which is provided to a district committee. The district committee then selects our ROID elementary and secondary teacher of the year which will be announced during our celebration tour in May. These two teachers will go on to our region service center. The Texas Teacher of the Year program has honored excellence in classroom education and showcases many outstanding educators whose efforts and examples
006have inspired students, colleagues, and communities that they serve. We are excited to be able to have our teachers here tonight to celebrate such an honor. As I call your name, please join us in the front and remain standing as I call everyone up for their award. Okay, our first two were unable to be here tonight and so our Little Hawks teacher of the year was Christy [Applause] Armstrong and our Eastridge teacher of the year was D. Allison Dalit. Okay, we're going to start with Red Oak Elementary teacher of the year, Lenel Vaughn. She shared that the four talents cannot be taught without first being lived. When words don't match up with our actions, our students will follow our actions and not our words. Congratulations. Okay. Shutman Elementary teacher of the year, Synica Boseranti. She shares
007she's committed to embracing new challenges and being pushed beyond her comfort zone. I tried to ensure that learning remains relevant and impactful by integrating new instructional strategies and technology. Congratulations. Our shield teacher of the year is Christy Hajski. She shared that students are excited to share what they know and it is her job as an educator to provide the space for them to get excited about their education. Miss Moreno, Wooden Elementary teacher of the year. I understand the profound impact of culturally and linguistically relevant instruction. She's driven to ensure that her students have access to the tools that they need. Congratulations. Our Red Oak Middle School teacher of the year is Tamara Frank Franklin. She shared, "Being able to give my students the best of her is important. The best way she knows how to
008accomplish this is by learning new and effective ways to engage and elevate them." Congratulations, And our Red Oak High School teacher of the year is Thomas Merryweather. He shared he sets clear and achievable academic and behavioral goals for students and provides them with the tools and guidance needed to meet those goals. We congratulate our teachers of the year. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay, next we will have our Spanish spelling bee winners with Miss Magda Davis, our assistant director of state and federal programs and Miss Porter will help with the recognitions. Good evening everyone. We would like to recognize our Spanish spelling bee winners for the district B and region 10 spelling bee participants. Um the district Spanish spelling bee was conducted January 28th um at Wooden Elementary and there is a third grade span and there's
009a fourth and fifth grade span. And so I would like to call the third grade Spanish spelling bee winner, uh, Josiah Bruce. He is all the way from Shapman Elementary. Mom, if you want to come up and take a picture. And Miss Hernandez as well. She is our bilingual instructional coach. She has worked tirelessly to bring this together and help me. And so she's got a lot of sweat and tears in this as well. And for our fourth and fifth grade span, our district Spanish spelling bee winner is Haley Contas from Shutman Elementary. Shutman took the cake on the Spanish spelling bee. We have done this for three years and it is a fierce competition. Um, and so Haley was the third grade winner for the district spelling be two years ago and she is
010still in love with Spanish spelling bee and she's a great speller. We're so proud of her. district elementary to the confront it. Now we have Miss Brenda Sanford is going to tell us about Chophawks and Mr. Kelly if you'll help with this one. Yes. Okay. For the 2425 school year, Red Oakd continues the celebration of students and staff with the Top Hawks and Hawk staff spotlight programs which are sponsored by area businesses and organizations. Each grading period, campuses will select the top Hawks, one boy and one girl, from their entire school board uh school based on the four talents of the Hawks. Academic readiness, prepared, grit, character, and service. Each elementary school winner will receive a $25 gift card and each middle school and high school winner will receive a $50 gift card from our
011sponsor. Thanks to our sponsor for this grading period, which is Chick-fil-A. So, if you will come on up. Who do we have here with Chick-fil-A? Loveless. Nikia Loveless. Here she comes. Come on up. Okay. And elementary students, as I call your name, if you will come on up and you will stay here until all elementary students are recognized and then parents will allow you to take pictures after we get all of these students up here. So, from Eastridge Elementary, that's where we'll start. We have fifth grader Khesi Torres. Eastridge Elementary fourth grader Oliver Gomez. Red Oak Elementary second grader Abigail Cortez. and Red Oak Elementary fourth grader Joshua Taylor. Shields Elementary third grader Sha [Music] Gasolin and Shields Elementary fifth grader Paige Greyber. Shutupman Elementary first grader Coleman Barnett. Shutupman Elementary first grader Ruth Romero.
012Wooden Elementary first grader Miguel Perez. and Wooden Elementary second grader Hannah Flores. Congratulations to our elementary top Hawks. She got your certificates. Hey, don't move. Smile all your Okay. Moving into the secondary, we have Red Oak Middle School, eighth grader, uh Ayla Smith. and Red Oak Middle School 8 eighth grader Cruz Martinez, Red Oak High School junior Gabriella Sagera and Red Oak High School junior Jonathan Stewart. Okay. Oh, heat. Congratulations to our secondary Top Hawk. We also have our Hawk staff spotlight, which is also uh sponsored by Chick-fil-A. And these are from our bus drivers and office staff to principles, custodians, teachers, and more. Our Hawk Nation consists of the best of the best. Every day, Hawk staff go above and beyond in a variety of ways. Tonight's winner will receive a $100 gift card
013from our sponsor Chick-fil-A. Congratulations to our Hawk staff spotlight for the fifth grading period, Natalie Childs from Shutman Elementary, fourth grade teacher. And on her nomination, they shared that Miss Childs is a beautiful angel in disguise. She's patient, loving, and kind, and truly understands my son and his learning needs. My son and I both appreciate all she has done to help him so be so successful while he completes the fourth grade. Okay. and Nikia Loveless, if you would stay here for just a moment. Mr. Troasek was unable to attend the Red Oakd parent volunteer appreciation program. And at this time, we would like to present you with a Chick-fil-A award as the 2425 partner of the year. Chick-fil-A contributes not only as a top hawk hawk staff spotlight sponsor, but they also provide incentives for
014students appreciation items for staff and other district initiatives. We appreciate Mr. Trojac and his team for their support of Red Oakd and the community. Right. Next we will have Mr. Brett Hall, our Red Oak High School principal, and he is going to talk tell us about our Hawk Scholars. And Miss Porter and Mr. Kelly, if you guys will go down. Good evening. I'm excited to announce Hawk Scholars Academy cohort for 2029 or class of 2029. We have 27 rising 9th graders that have been admitted into the program. They have all submitted portfolios, taken the TSI2 reading, writing, and math test and been interviewed by a panel. And when I say a panel, 12 adults from across the district in one room with one eighth grader asking questions. So, they all did a good job. So,
015we're excited about this uh program has been revamped and look forward to seeing graduates every year with up to 60 hours of dual credit andor an associates degree, an associates of arts or an associates of science. Today, we want to celebrate our 27 rising freshmen for their efforts so far in the process. So, if you will hold your applause until we announce all students. Our first student is Joshua Aneru. Darius Lloyd Brown, Marcos Curillo, Gracie Dell, Jackson Eaton, Aniston Henosa, Seven Hutches, Quasai Ibraham, Kylie Corteeklas, Juliana Lozano, Mary Lou Maldonado, Jeremiah Martell, Mason Maddox, Isamar Maha, Hunter Miola, Louise Montilango, Cara Morgan, Elijah Pacheco, Romeo Reyes, Cameron Robinson, Nurangelina Salach, Jose Salggero, Daniel Smith, Michael Smitherman, Vivian Stewart, Maline Taylor, and Samantha Wade. Go to the front. Go to the front. Take two steps forward.
016Thank you all for coming. Please remember to go vote. Smell. Is that girls like So, while we're finishing up pictures, these 27 students will be participating in a summer boot camp that will include a field trip to Navaro College in Corsacana and also a visit to East Texas A&M in commerce. We congratulations and we look forward to working with you over the next four years. Thank you to everyone who hung in here with us. And we'll take like a I got two more break. I got two more. Two more. Sorry. Oh, never mind. Just wait one more minute. At this time, we want to recognize two of our graduating seniors, uh, who will be graduating with their high school diploma, but also in a couple weeks will be graduating with their associates degree from Navaro
017College. First up, we have Katon Blanch and Sophia Flity. Congratulations both of you. A lot of long hours, hard work. into our superintendence report. Okay, we're going to start with a career and technical education update from Israel Cordderero, chief of secondary schools and programs. Good evening, superintendent, board of trustees, and board president. I'll be very brief. Uh Dr. Jeter will be a little longer. Um I just want to tee it up for her. Um there's a lot of things happening secondary, as you all know, uh secondary schools and secondary programs. And um we would be remiss if you know we didn't think about sharing a PowerPoint presentation about a lot of those items that are taking place on an ongoing basis. So over the next uh couple of months at the board meetings uh we
018want to enlighten you with some things taking place at the secondary level. Uh the topic tonight specifically is uh CCMR college career and military readiness. Underneath that umbrella there's a whole lot to say. So tonight uh Dr. Dr. Jeter and I worked on a PowerPoint presentation uh around uh CTE for you. Um next month uh we will follow up with another PowerPoint presentation on CTE and also take a little dive into uh the Hawk Scholars Academy that uh we just talked about this evening. And if you all like the presentations, we'll keep on giving you more secondary stuff. Uh the only thing that I can guarantee you is we will not be topping off Bill's 88 slides. That's the only thing I can assure you. So with that being said, Dr. Jeter. Um, okay. Okay.
019All right. I'm going to talk about CTE. And first I'm going to start off with the growth that is happening in our area. Um, this came from the Texas labor market. Um you can read in the numbers but Texas is the number one growing um state in the US. In that is the Texas triangle. If you have been on social media, you have probably seen this circulating around from the Dallas Fort Worth down to Austin, Houston, San Antonio area is the main growth area that's happening in Texas. Um as you can see in the counties, um Ellis County, we are up there. um we have a percent change of 20% and so when we are asking like hey we need room for growth this is the numbers that is driving that so Gen Z Gen
020Z is the population that is graduating college they are also sitting in our classrooms and so these are the kids that we are serving that we are trying to get into the workplace and so there are some things that are kind of combating that when uh employers are looking at those kids when they're looking at the graduates that we are sending out. So, how are CTE, how are we as a district overcoming this um because there are some stigmas. There are companies and there are people who are hiring who say Gen Z doesn't have what it takes. Um so, you can read on here like 71% of employers say that they don't have um the mental uh workplace attitude to handle being in an office or handle the industry demands and salary expectations. Um, we
021know everyone wants that high salary, but Gen Z thinks they are going to walk into a job and they are going to make over 100 grand starting off as their, you know, level one job. Uh, which would be fantastic, but that's just not reality. And so, we have to look at as um employers as they are demanding that we have these kids ready to go into the workforce, what can we do as educators to help prepare these kids for reality when they graduate? And so on the occupations um in CTE we have to base um our programs as a state they look at it and then as we look at it as a district and as a region. Um so of course number one is nurses uh software developers retail is also coming up there
022and these are requiring postsecary degrees. So this is some sort of certification or an associate degree or even a bachelor's. Um so software developers is up there. You can see that in our backyard with all the development of the IT coming into our area. Um medical will always be up there. Um finance and then of course marketing is coming up which we did introduce that program of study this year and is one of our fastest growing um programs of study. So what do we do here in CTE to help overcome this to prepare our kids ready for the workforce and to be prepared for this demand in industry and employers coming in. So here um at Red Oak we offer up to 43 IBC's across 32 programs of study and with last year we ended
023up with 301 total certifications uh which was an increase of 60% in the past 3 years. Um, three years ago we had 127 IBC's earned. Last year we had 301 and this year we're targeting to beat that number. 86% of the Red Oak High School students are enrolled in a CTE program or in a CTE class. So that could be a principal class up to a practicum, but between that freshman and senior year, 86% are in there. We do offer dual credit through CTE uh with Navaro, TSTC and then next year we are going to try out Tarlington University. So some of our student organizations uh we do have FFA, Taffy, HOSA, Skills USA. These students go and compete and uh they can earn scholarships and all that kind of stuff through these programs of
024study. So I won't read all the programs of study to you but you can see uh we have medical auto cyber security um AP cyber security is actually coming in next year. Diesel is one of our dual credit programs through TSTC. Electrical as well and then health informatics and health and wellness are part of that health science program. We have HVAC is another TSTC program. We have one of our students um should be graduating with their C um in the summer or fall semester depending how fast he finishes. Uh we also have nursing, networking, masonry is one of our biggest programs that's growing. We had a student win district this year in that and of course welding construction. Okay. So our enrollment uh in CTE when you look at 7 through 12 uh we have
0252364 kiddos the ones in high school is 2244. So some of the IBC's earned as of April um that is being updated quite frequently because we are in heavy testing season. Uh but this was mainly things that had taken place in the first semester and the beginning of the second semester. And so some events um if you follow us on social media uh the school district posted this skills USA Masonry David Valdez he won first in district third in state. Our talent uh Inc. our robotics team they did great this year and they competed in the steam competition. They won first in the robotics first in team spirit and third overall. And then they went to the UIL robotics competition first down in Houston and they finished out 39th out of 188 teams. This is
026our national technical honors society. Um students from any sort of CTE program are invited to join. This is the technical part of the honor society. Our HOSA members um they are practicum of health science. They go do observation rotations at Baylor, Scott, and White. And of course, our FFA. Um on the right is our students that earned a level one earlier this year from TSTC. And then on the left is our animal science um program. Okay. So, I won't read everything to you. I'll just kind of go through this, but animal science um they get to work with animals. They can go out um to the barn if they want to and show uh goats, pigs, bunnies, rabbits, all sorts of things. Um but they are targeted more towards the veterary science. Welding, uh we
027do offer welding. They can compete in FFA as well. Um they build trailers, grills, barbecue, all that good stuff. Architecture design, again a TSTC program. Automotive technology is also a dual credit program. It is taught by one of our teachers on campus. Um they do earn their level one by the end of their senior year as well as up to nine um IBC's in the ASSE program. Accounting, business, and marketing. Those are all kind of under your one umbrella. It is a big growing uh program of study. Entrepreneurship has tripled in the past three years. um which is pretty incredible. We already have 50 of those kids certified in the entrepreneurship at BC. Construction um has grown quite significantly. We added in the masonry program and carpentry is also competing actually next week in Fort
028Worth. Um we have introduced a new IBC, the NCC core. The industry demanded it so we are giving that a try. We're looking at about almost 100% getting that completed. Cosmetology and family consumer services. Uh co cosmetology we did a revamp in this program of study. We made it dual credit with our juniors through Navaro. We at the end of this year will have 62 juniors who will be CCMR complete already with 12 hours of college credit. And we also our seniors right now we have 16 that are fully licensed. That is the most we've ever had in Red Oak. So, we have done a lot of work there. So, proud of that. Digital media, this is your Photoshop, um, graphic design, illustrator, and so they're in there making all that fun graphic stuff. Engineering
029is part of, uh, robotics. They kind of feed off of each other. um PLTW program, we have increased that to include aerospace, health science, again one of our bigger programs. Um you saw them earlier. They go on do observations at Baylor Scott White. They also went over to Methodist Hospital as well. They earned three EKG phabbotomy, which we just tested last week and had 80% of those kiddos pass. Uh 24 of those students are now phabotamist. Uh PCT is coming up in May and then we have a retest in May as well. It um these are certified uh tap-on programmers. Um they can learn anything from coding to computer maintenance um anything computer techy. Law enforcement is again another dual credit program. We have seven students graduating from Navaro this year uh with their level
030one certification. manufacturing. It feeds off of robotics and this is the part where they go off and they will go to TSTC to finish up their uh level one teaching and training. Uh this is educational aid and they can earn that after they graduate next year. This is a program that's going through Tarlington. It'll be dual credit taught by our teacher Dr. McDonald. Uh, so they will still be on campus not going anywhere but getting that CCM more credit as well question. Well, I just want to tell you a great job on growing your programs. I know that there's a lot of stuff that that we hadn't had a lot of hump in before. Um, kudos to those kids in masonry are really working hard. Um the cosmetology program is is really stood up and
031and grown a lot and we've had a lot lot of success with getting them across the finish line. Just great job with with growing the show. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we have Dr. Lamb with our construction update. Good evening. Howdy. Okay, so we're ready to give you update on the Shaw Middle School. Uh since the last update, which would have been February, we've had several things that have happened. I'm not going to read them all, but some of the things that uh we're working towards now, the project is about 67% complete. U they've started turning on the AC units. That's a big deal because that means we have electricity and we're starting to seal the building. Uh they have started doing flooring work um
032in the uh D hallway, F hallway. We've also uh started the construction. If you've driven by, you see the construction happening in the front. We're going to widen that street and also for the sidewalk. Not sure uh when the city of Villa will take the street all the way to Villa Road. Maybe never, but we are doing our part uh to increase it. We also have done 21% a third of the utility lines on West Mor. So a lot of things are happening really fast on the site. Of course when it rains it's a mud factory only draw back and it rains quite often. So we go through the pictures. Of course this is when it started pretty quick. And so you can see uh the tennis courts, a lot of tennis courts is done.
033The fence is up. Um the lights up, they put up the nets, they put the ground down. They're working on the football field. They thought they were going to be further along by now. Uh a lot of the concrete work is starting to be done and completed as far as sidewalk around the exterior of the building. That's the back of the building. That's a B bus pick up and drop off. That'll be the back door. The very uh end of the picture. This is a classroom in uh the hallway in February. This is that same classroom. Now, of course, the lighting is bad. You know, I'm not a camera person, so just that epic fail. But, uh if you notice, dry erase board is there. They put the floor down. looks really good. The ceiling's
034held in. Most of the network cables have been run. Electrical outlets been in. What happened to this picture? But it's the restroom. They were installing partitions. I don't know if you saw the pictures from my last update. I just had toilets. So, I wanted to come back and show you what um that's one of the collaborative spaces. Um, that's the ceiling. I watched them put some of the ceiling up. It's really nice. When they finished with that collaborative space, it'll be really nice. And of course, there'll be six collaborative spaces in the building. Three big ones, then two small ones. And this is a science lab classroom. Some shots. This is a art class. And all of the uh things for the art classroom are on site. They just hadn't been put in the classroom.
035This is the library. And that's the door that'll be facing south. This is the wait room. Seems to be shelter. Storm shelter. The small gym. the competition gym. Course I took a picture of the tennis court. I couldn't get close but it was too muddy and believe it or not I had some shoes on. This is the cafeteria stage at the back. one of the courtyards in February. That's the courtyard. Now, that's the front face of the cafeteria window. That's what it looks like today. That's the reception front office. campus when we're done. And that's the front door. Uh, that's what it looks like today. [Laughter] Are there any questions I can answer? Thank you. It's exciting. And I just had a couple of more things. Um, just to remind everyone that the last day
036of early voting will be tomorrow. It's open until 7 p.m. Nine more minutes today. And it's open tomorrow from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. And then election day, Saturday, May the 3 from 7 am to 7 pm. And you can vote at the Red Oak Municipal Center at 200 Lake View Parkway. just to hit on a few things that are going on. Um, you know, we always try to reiterate that even though there's a lot of emphasis on the STAR test, we know our students are more than a test and we know our teachers are more than a test. So, I want to talk about a few things just to highlight things that are going on in Red Oak ISD. The varsity Hawks baseball team 5A UIL by district playoff game will be taking place
037this Thursday, May 1st at 7 p.m. here at the Red Oak High School. The Red Oak uh High School Musical Xanadoo will be performed on Thursday, May the 1st uh and Friday, May the 2nd. Both performances at 7 PM. And again on Sunday, May the 4th at 3 p.m. Teacher Appreciation Week. And my goodness, do we appreciate our teachers is going to be the week of May 5th through May the 9th. Coffee Talk, please take the opportunity to jump on Coffee Talk with me on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:45 a.m. We always push that out on social media. It's on our website. So, make sure that you're jumping on that to be able to talk about things going on in the district. Uh, the next regular schoolboard meeting is scheduled for Monday, May the 12th
038at 6 PM. The next mobile food pantry is Thursday, May 15th at 400 p.m. here at the ESC. Uh, Red Oak High School graduations around the corner is going to be Thursday, May 29th at 4M at Mansfield ISD Performing Arts Center. Our varsity track team is headed to state in Austin this Friday on May the 2nd. And if you uh didn't have the opportunity, you missed out on an amazing Hawette spring show. Uh it was absolutely amazing that they uh performed. It just showed what our students and our coaches and our staff uh are doing. So I think it's just important to highlight uh and talking about CTE, all the many different things that are going on with our students in CTE. There's a lot of things great that are going on at Red Oakd.
039So take the opportunity to jump on our social media and our website and become involved. We're always looking for volunteers as well and just become involved with Red Oakd as we promote our students in every way possible. That's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Next we are on our school continuing education record and per state board of education Texas education code 11.159 Texas administrative code 61.1 and 61.3 completing required continuing education for each year of service is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member. Per policy BBD legal. As board president, I am required to announce the name of each member who has completed the required continuing education, has exceeded the required continuing education and is deficient in meeting the required continuing education. So, the following board members have completed the required board
040training. John Anderson, Shaun Kelly, Donna Knight, Johnny Knight, Melanie Peterson, Michelle Porter, and Brian Sebring. The following board members have exceeded the required continuing education hours. John Anderson exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by eight additional hours. Sean Kelly exceeded the required amount by seven additional hours. Donna Knight exceeded the required amount by seven additional hours. Johnny Knight exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 20 additional hours. Melanie Peterson exceeded the required amount of continuing education by eight additional hours. And Michelle Porter exceeded the required amount by seven additional hours. And next we will move into our consent agenda. Um does any any members have anything you want pulled to discuss separately? If not, do I hear a motion? I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Okay,
041that's a motion by Mr. Sebring and a second by Miss Porter. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. It passes 4 Z. Well, it seems that I skipped open form. Debbie, do we have anybody? Okay, then we will move right along. Thank you, Miss Sanfords. Okay, consent agenda. Ready for me? I am. Okay. Uh, the next thing that we have is the consideration of the approval of a board nomination of a TASBY director candidate. Districts have the opportunity to nominate candidates from their own school board for the TASBY board of directors. This year, those individuals to be nominated for region 10, position A, or region 10 position B. Any candidate in a contested race who receives endorsement from the majority of the districts will be automatically elected to the position. Position A
042is currently vacant. It's a two-year position uh beginning at the close of 2025 and expiring after the convention in 2027. Position B is currently held by Linda Guch of Sunnyville ISD. She's reached her term limit and will be vacating that position at the end of the convention 2025. So her term is for three years beginning at the close of 2025 uh TASA TASBY convention and expiring in the convention of 2028. So if the board wishes to recommend then they may do so. Do we have any volunteers that would like to be on that TASBY board? No. Okay. Well, if we have no volunteers or no nominations, then we will we will take no action on that item and we will move along to our next item which is consideration of purchase of textbook resources for
043instructional materials adoption. And we will hear from Miss Lim Docky, Miss Becky Waller. Surprise. No, we had I'm sorry. I'm just reading away up here. I'm not even looking up. We had a change. Um, so we heard us speak to you about the textbook adoptions. Um, and so every year we look at what materials our teachers are using. And so this year we have several adoptions to bring to you um for your consideration. Um so um each content coordinator is going to go over their specific area. So if you have specific questions about that area, we can answer those for you. Um so we have spent a lot of time looking through resources on uh February 14th for most of the content areas. We brought um those companies in, had presentations for the teachers, let
044them look through them, had them fill out a rubric, um got their feedback on the materials. And so those are the materials that we're bringing for you tonight. Um and then one of them we had various Zoom meetings where we looked at them and she'll talk about those in a minute. So um I'm going to speak to you. Um I'm the co coordinator for elementary. So we're going to talk through um that one first. So the first one we want you to consider is reading language arts um for kindergarten and first grade. Um so SAVIS um is a company that we have been using in kinder or in third through fifth grade. Um we added second grade. So currently second grade through fifth grade have been using the materials. Um we've been pretty happy with
045them. Um, and so this year we brought those materials to kindergarten and first grade. Um, this year was a materials review year for reading and so we were kind of waiting to see what the state was going to do. SAVIS is one of the few products that met the quality standards of the state for their EMR process. And so because we not only were using it and we're happy with it, but the state also agreed that they were good quality materials, we want to add kinder and first grade in order to create that co cohesive and alignment. So, it's got 100% coverage of the teaks, the Elps. Um, when we showed it to our teachers, they were pretty happy with it. Um, and so what you see there is two different option or two different
046uh quotes. Um, so the state because they approved it, it does qualify for the additional a lotment of money. And so the materials that are the teacher, the student editions, the teacher editions, and the digital is the what first quote. And then we also believe that the big books are a good resource for our teachers for kinder first grade. still want that big book experience for our kids. And so that's the second quote that you see on there. Are there any questions about that one? So I did have a question. Yes. What what is the time frame that the teachers who are reviewing the material have an opportunity to look over that before they give you feedback on how they would like to proceed? Sure. So what we had them do is um for kinder
047and first grade we gave them on the 14th we brought the company in. They did the m they did the presentation the materials. Then we picked out a unit and we wrote it into their lesson plans. So they also taught from them. Um and then we gave them a few weeks to kind of think through it, look through the materials. They had the digital access so they could see everything that was in the program. And then um a few weeks later then they gave us gave us feedback. So they had several weeks to look through the materials. Okay. So that that would be my next question is that did they thoroughly look through? My question is are they looking thoroughly through it? Do they have time to thoroughly look through it? And are they allocating
048their own time to be able not to say that they should be doing doing it on their own time, but I hear often times that they don't they get little little small amounts of times to be able to review the material and then they complain about the material not being something that they wanted to approve. So I want to make sure that they're given ample time to review the material before that we it gets brought to us to approve for purchase. Sure. So we did do that. Um, and I think giving them with the online access, teachers have access to more than they used to in the past. You know, before we had just the digital the whatever samplers the company brought us with the digital age, they have access to go in and look
049at everything that's in there. The other bonus that we do have is that second through fifth grade in the building have been using the same materials. They're very similar in format and so they were able to talk to other teachers about it. Um, when we did the survey, 100% of the kindergarten and first grade teachers voted for this material. They were very happy with it. It has a lot of um has a it has a lot of different options. Number one, it's good solid tier one, but it also gives them a lot of options for small group instruction um which at K1 is our target area to try to fill in as many gaps as we might find. And so they found it was very flexible and easy to use um as far as their
050whole group lessons, but then also a lot of other resources for small group instruction. Okay. My my deal is that our shareholders, they they need to have input and need and they need to love it before we're pushing it out to our students and and on the campus level. Yeah. And happy employees make make happy students. Yes. So, yes, when the survey came in, 100% of kinder and first grade voted for this product. Thank you so much. Any other questions? Okay. Um the second one I'm going to bring to you is um social studies. Um so we have been out of adoption in the social studies materials for a couple of years. The state was making changes to the standards and so the companies allowed us to purchase gap years. So we've been continuing to
051purchase those so that we had materials to use. We've been using um those materials for about 10 years now. And so the teachers were ready for a change. Um and so we brought studies weekly to them which is also we brought social studies um from savis to them which is on the same platform as their reading. So this platform has an alignment that will align to their reading. So that reading social studies connection is already very well made for them. Um the content also uses a reading based which is a bonus for the teachers. um when they went through it, it's a it's got inquiry based, which our other one was really lacking in there, and it was it was 10 years old. And so, this one had a lot more online components for them,
052had paper components, it's got reading materials. Um and so, we brought those to the teachers as well. They really liked the alignment to the reading um that the kids are going to be reading about what they're learning in social studies and they have had alignment between the two products within the company so that we can align. what we're reading about. We can align the social studies curriculum as closely as we can to the reading when it when it ties in. Um, when we did the survey of this, we only had one teacher in all of K5 that really was tied to the old curriculum, but there the other 95% said that they really wanted to move to this product. It's on the same platform, which makes it easy for teachers to, you know, they're familiar
053with this one instead of having so many different places to go. Any questions about that one? So, if you have somebody who is adamant about the previous, how are you going to get that person on board with this? We're going to ask her to give We're going to ask her to give us a chance, you know, and look at it. Um, it's hard when you find something that you just really really like, right? Um, I think when she gets into it, when she sees the connection between the reading and the social studies, the other one didn't align very well. And so when you find that you can really align the social studies to the reading, that's one of the things the teachers really were in love with. And so I think once she gets into
054them and the students do have materials in their hands, um I think the kids are going to like the activities and the things better in here because we have a lot of kids that aren't really in love with it either. And so I think the excitement from the kids is going to really help with that. Any other questions? Thank you. My name is Erica Nelson and I am the coordinator for secondary social studies. Like Miss Waller mentioned, it has been quite some time since we have renewed our social studies materials. We are focusing tonight just on world geography and world history. We did purchase for US history last year. Um they are satisfied with Lmen. We did look into Lmen for world geography and world history but they have not built out that content yet.
055So tonight we're going to be talking about Exploros. Exploros is a fully digital curriculum. It is extremely robust which is something that our teachers were begging for. Um oftent times they want current events. they want something that is like updated maps. Um the current textbook unfortunately just does not have that with this digital platform. Everything is const they're constantly adding more and more to it so that they really never run out of new engaging material. It does follow the 5e learning model that makes it to where each student on a in a single lesson they on average will have what we call interactions about 17 interactions in a lesson. Um that means that the te the teachers and the students are constantly engaged. There's a constant feedback loop. That's the one thing that we wanted.
056We wanted something that would ensure that our students are engaged and teachers are getting the immediate feedback so that they could right there in the moment go ahead and clarify any misconceptions. Um, kind of like Miss Waller said, we gave them this back in February. We had Michael, who was the representative, to present to them digitally. They were all able to log in, practice the platform. they were able to go back to their classrooms and because we were able to get demo accounts so that they could practice some of the lessons with their students and the teachers seemed to be very pleased with it. It was unlike traditional textbook. I I think they were really just happy to have something that was going to be engaging for their student. Um that's really I mean are
057there any questions about explorers? Explorer uh the explorers is that just for we're only doing that for the world geography and world history. Who is that going to? Um what grades are is is going to be this. That's mostly our ninth and tth graders. So did we and I know the adoption thing with G or social studies is wailed. Wailed. It's terrible. Um so what are we doing with our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders? Yes. So last year we purchased Lmen for our sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. The teachers did love Lman. So we are going to continue to purchase that. We also purchased social studies success for them and social studies plus which is from lead forward. Um we saw great results with that. Unfortunately they don't have anything for these courses. Okay. All
058of this will integrate these integrate with canvas. Yes. With Canvas and class link. Any other questions? It's fully digital but if you need and by you I mean a student needs book in hand. Is that an option? There's no book in hand but every resource that is there can be printed out. Okay. Okay. I also support LO. So this year we are well for next year we're looking at this is school. This is school is also fully digital. Our teachers love this instead of the traditional textbook because we have seen that our students will complete their four years of Spanish but not be very fluent in the language. And so our teachers have been looking for something that is very authentic that will allow them to really practice speaking. We want to focus on that
059interpersonal and interactive mode um interpretive mode sorry and this is school will allow them to do this. So the students are able to record themselves in this platform. The teachers are able to then immediately give them feedback. Students are able to converse with each other in the platform and it just makes it easier. our teachers. One of the complaints is that they couldn't have all of the students speaking and then them give them immediate feedback. So, this will allow them to do so. Also, our teachers love this because there were so many dialects bec they they watched several videos and it was just so nice because they're like, "Oh, I heard this dialect. Did you pick up on this one?" So, like they may hear Colombian. It's all it's it's just going to expose our
060students so much more to what they're hearing when they're just in the classroom by being able to have this. So, this platform has over 12,000 videos. There's also grammar components. Um, we haven't completely gone away from that. Yes, our students do need to understand the grammar in Spanish, but we want to focus first and foremost on them being able to communicate. The way that the grammar is presented is in kind of short videos so that the focus is seeking and then they learn the [Music] grammar. The lessons can be customized. We wanted something to make sure that we could offer different levels. So we have something that's there for our novice students as well as from for our more advanced students. This is also aligned to college board. So our teacher who teaches AP4, she
061even she loved it. Um so it's very diverse and it will allow our students multiple opportunities to be successful in acquiring this language. Any questions about this school? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello, good evening. I'm Elizabeth How and I'm the um program co program coordinator for mathematics and science. So tonight we're looking at just geometry and algebra 2. You know that we've adopted blue bonnet for sixth through algebra 1. So geometry is primarily 10th grade and algebra 2 is primarily 11th grade. But the depending on the order of the sciences they take, this could all be a little different for the student. Um, so we're looking at agile mind for actually both of them. Um, in the EMRA process and the approved list from the state board of
062education, um, geometry had two options and it was agile mind and another option and algebra 2 only had one option which was agile mind. Um, Agile Mind is actually with the Dana Center or the University of Texas in Austin and they've been around for quite a while. So you see that they have a four-step proven process um that they use in their curriculum and that it's student centered learning and so it develops a deep conceptual understanding and um we that is where we are lacking in our mathematics program is a deep conceptual understanding. We've got the procedural down pretty well, but we need some conceptual. And so, um, when the teachers were able to look at this, this is a digital, um, they have digital access. Um, there is an option for like a consumable,
063but we chose the all digital access, but they can print anything from there, um, as needed. Um, so a 100% of the teachers liked agile mind over the other one in geometry. Um, algebra 2, they kind of only really had the this choice, but they liked it just as well because they do not have a digital option at all right now with their current adoption. It's just um a textbook like they don't have a student digital platform or anything like that. So this brings in the best of both worlds um for their curriculum with the students. Um so do you have any questions? I move to remove proofs. Oh proofs. Yes. I'm sorry but in geometry it's kind of one of those things that has to stay. This lot on that on that one. This
064aotment was I mean it was I guess more expensive. Is it just because it is high school high school only? I mean it the price was significantly difference between I think the digital access is the thing that makes it like there's also reporting for the teachers. So this has a lot of different things like where you can do um formative assessments. The teachers can push out formative assessments and then students take it digitally and then it has reporting in that platform specifically like I know we use Edgeaphoria and stuff for our assessments but it has its own stuff that is built in as well that they can use. We can also use some of that to push out through edgehoria as well. So, it's it's kind of a little bit more robust than just like
065a digital textbook. It has um some things that are like tutorialbased in there um with the lesson. It goes along with the lesson though that the teacher is teaching. So, it's a little bit more robust in the digital process. Okay. So, I'm also here for algebraic reasoning. And so in the lineup of all the math um classes that they could take in high school, algebraic reasoning would fall in between geometry and algebra 2. And it would be for those students that maybe are not quite ready for algebra 2. Um so this would be um a class that they could get a math credit, but they're not quite ready for algebra 2 yet. And so they could take algebra 2 like as a senior. So, I might take this as a junior. Um, if I did
066like algebra 1 as a freshman and then geometry as a sophomore, this would be that option. So, we currently use Consenza and Associates, which is what we're asking for. Um, we currently use that um curriculum. It is a textbook currently. They do not have um digital access. And so with the new adoption and the approved vendor list, the digital part is available. And so the digital part can be automatically updated. So the textbook we will still have but we with the digital access we will automatically get all the updates that they want to do to meet like the newer things like the newer testing types even though they don't have a state test. All of that type of thing will be in the digital platform. Um, and they use the 5e model. Um, and they
067also have videos and detailed explanations that go along in their um, digital access. So, do you have any questions about consensa and associate? Okay. Thank you. And that concludes our presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody have any discussion on that? If not, do we hear a motion? Make a motion that we approve the purchase of the updated textbook adoptions as presented. Second. That's a motion by Mr. Kelly and a second by Mr. Sebring. All those in favor say I. I. I. Oppos. Same sign. And passes or zero. Next. Uh you have information items in your packets. Is there anything you needed to discuss or ask Miss Sford about? Okay. If not, the time is 7:19 and we will go into close session. Thank you. Thank you.