001my legit boot have the rest of my life like a storm boot like it's customized to me one day I'm wearing it in 18 hours and it gave me a big old >> we told the about it I can't wait to see it I was like yeah it was really cool the silver like that's cool thing is like the was so comfortable no problem like she didn't have my hips that it was around like I was super excited and then back to the old >> Thank you. You're too sweet. Thank you. for like a whole year. I probably have my impression on it already. >> He had like this really cool pad to put on top so it would be like killing my knee. And so he lend it to me, but I kept it
002all year. He's like, "Hey, I'm gonna have to like order another one because I used it for like a whole year." So, >> it doesn't They just won't put anything born in my body until I'm infection free. Because with them putting the polyurethane implant in there, it's the way it grows, the growing cuz it's meant because what they do is they take out my fibula, grind it up, and then they put wrap over it so that it grows with the bone. Um, and then they put what's called vagina nail in the inside to absorb all the compression. So, it's it's like probably an eight hour surgery that they would have to do. Um, but I'd be up and going in two weeks. But because of the fact that we have to use the bone they
003won't do anything. [Music] Although I have started looking at a prosthetics and so pretty cool about this. >> I was talking with a guy who built my bra [Laughter] >> that you know it's like Bluetooth now to like your watch so you can feel vibration or how you're stepping so that way you know what you're going through. And then like I live on the beach like you know like on the water and he was like no one like compatible and I was like I used to be a big time trier like I would and I was like and he was like yeah he's like he's like it's going to take a while for you to learn your balance again but we could definitely get you Notice is hereby given that a regular meeting of the
004board trustees of the independent school district be held on Monday, October 13th, 2025 at 6 p.m. the boardroom of the north section building 801 North First Street Texas 7830 at which time the agenda item will be discussed in the course of the meeting the board may change the order of business at discretion let notice the first item called to order roll call >> with us right now is Mr. and Mr. Next item. >> Yes, sir. Bow your heads with me. Father God, we thank you both for the opportunity to serve right here in Rosstown. We thank you for your presence this evening. Lord, we ask that you guard and guide us tonight. Give us wisdom and discernment as we make decisions for the children and trusted in our care. And we ask all of this
005in your son's name, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever. pledge of allegiance 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 all the flag Ice to the Texas one state one and indivisible Next item we have our vision and mission statements. >> Our vision is to ignite brilliance and impact lives by providing transformative learning opportunities that empower students for generations to come. >> Mission to empower, inspire and invest in our students and staff, igniting the best version of themselves. Together we positively impact our community and the world. >> Next item, public participation. >> Mr. President, for the record, Miss Lorie Garc, we have awards and recognition. >> Thank you, Vice President Gangos. At this time, I'd like
006to invite Alejandro up and run the recognition for the >> for the record. Also, Mr. President. >> Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Quig, and um our community. Um this evening, we have um it is my privilege to recognize our proud speaker recipient and I would like Mrs. Melissa Mendes Bettis, our dropout prevent interventionist at Rocktown Early College High School to come up. [Applause] Okay. So, your picker recipients are caught going the extra mile. This is what your colleague, Mr. Papard, had to say. Mrs. Mendes Bettis always goes the extra mile. When students have attendance issues, whenever she is contacted about a student's attendance concern, she meets with the student to discover what is causing his or her absence. She reaches out to parents and places students on an attendance improvement plan
007as needed. The most powerful characteristic demonstrated by Miss Mendes Bettis is her consistency in responding to students attendance concerns and following through if the student lapses or falls into poor attendance patterns. Mrs. Mendes Bettis is such an asset to the RACS campus staff and culture. Miss Mendes, I have to agree, every time I'm on the campus, you are hard at work. And so for that reason, we are recognizing you today as a [Applause] I'm gonna take your wonderful photo. One, two, three. Can you turn your bag around? Sorry. Okay, here we go. One, two, three. [Applause] Next up, we have our Heart of Gold Award. And for those of you who do not know, the Heart of Gold Award is awarded to anyone within Rotown ISD who courageously comes to the aid and safety of
008someone or group of people at Roxton ISD. Today we have two recipients of the Harvard Gold Award. Our first one is Coach Marco de los Santos. [Applause] On September 3rd, during junior high football practice, Coach Delos Santos demonstrated exceptional alertness and quick action that potentially prevented a dangerous incident. While supervising students, coach Delos Santos not noticed a strong odor of gasoline and immediately reported his concern. Administration in coordination with law enforcement contacted the gas company, which quickly responded. Upon inspection, the gas company recorded a reading of 100% gas. Thanks to Coach Delos's attentiveness, officials were able to locate the source and safely shut down the gas, preventing what could have been a catastrophic situation. So, coach del Santos, um we want to thank you for being alert and acting quickly and putting yourself in our
009students um as a priority in safety. So, thank you so much. [Applause] >> Oh, no. Can we all take Okay. Mr. Two. [Applause] And our last recipient of the hard golden award is fourth grade student at Robert Driscoll STEM Academy, Jonah. [Applause] >> Just like grandma. All right. Jonah did something amazing. On September 15th, Jonah informed assistant principal Mrs. Rodriguez that a student who was sitting next to him began choking while eating. He hit her on the back. As a result, the peanut butter bar became dislodged. The female student confirmed that the bar came out after Jonah assisted by hitting her on the back and helping. So Jonah, we want to thank you for acting quickly and you know just thinking of your friends and thinking of their safety because at this young age that
010is very important. So I hope you continue to to do that. So thank you so much for being brave. [Applause] Yes, I see everybody. All right. One, two, three. [Applause] Next up, I want to invite I want to invite the Ros Education Foundation for a report that they have. On behalf of Rosan Education Foundation board directors, I am pleased to present couple events to you folks here today. One is for $39,18155. That's to support the first cycle of the 2025 2026 teacher innovation. [Applause] We have a second check to present for 13,500 to support the superintendent district priority initiatives for this school [Applause] that Dr. Qu came to us letting us know what was needed right after that meeting. I think every board member said, "We need to do it. We need to do it
011now." And uh within a couple of days, we we didn't we didn't want to wait uh for our next meeting. Uh we we had a vote email and I mean, we're looking forward to see for me to read, I better read them. So these grants were made possible through the generosity of our community partners who support strengthens education and provides teachers and staff resources to create real world learning opportunities that transform students lives. The district priority mission funds support the superintendent and the board advancement strategicities. The foundation will continue awarding additional innovation grants during the second cycle which is currently open with approximately 32,000 and awards to be announced on November 19th of this year. Through the generosity of our community partners, bank sponsors, and golf tournament supporters, the foundation proudly supports the district's mission
012to empower, inspire, and invest in students. We look forward to seeing the positive impact of these grants, and I'm honored to support Rosson providing a high quality education for all our students. Thank you for your partnership and your support. [Applause] >> Let me say this, judge, how much I on behalf of the district and the administration that's caring a lot and trying to do a lot for our kids. We feel the support and foundation and I appreciate that your leadership judge your visionary leadership and your passion for what we're trying to do as a team here to improve the school system and this this is a major investment and we are going to make sure that we see the fruits of Thank you very much. [Applause] No, >> thank you everybody. Next is the R
013Do we have anything from Dr. Ber's office here? >> Oh, okay. Okay. You want to >> Well, we've got fired up here. We'll bring him up. Yeah. Dr. Borcher, we're grateful to his office and his team for donating $3,500 to cover the cost of the new drops down cotton figure tunnel. And I think we have a clicker here somewhere. here for me. I know we saw this pretty extravagant. Everyone was uh running through it having a good time and it brought us a tremendous amount of joy Friday night. It was a good time. Look at that. Yeah, just Dr. Edward Borchard and his team incredibly grateful. Thank you for your donation. Very generous. >> Just a few others here. I can just cover the donations really really quick. Chad Chad Seagurt with Accelerate Contract Court
014donated $150 to our special education department. John that I'm on donated a refrigerator to the Seal Junior High. Meg engineers donated the Ten Commandments for all classrooms in Rob. We're working on getting those out. The Robstown utility systems donated three boxes of juice to Hattie Martin. The Robstown PD donated to Special Ed Water for the upcoming Nothing to Fear Fest. Walmart donated cases of water for the school district's red days and the MHID Andrea Bella donated $500 to our special ed department. So, we're just grateful for the extravagant generosity of our community. [Applause] >> Our final recognition this evening is a huge one. It is the recognition of our principles for National Principal Month. So, I'd like to invite Mr. Josh Garcia, director of teaching and learning to present instructors. >> Uh, good evening, Madam
015President, Dr. members of the board. Um, I have the honor and privilege to work with some really, really fine educators around the world here and more so our principles, our CEOs of the district. Um, every day we get to work together. I'm so blessed to work alongside with them and we always even at 7 a.m. we're ready to ignite growth at our PCs. But um I really really appreciate their expertise. I really appreciate the time that they put into the students and their staff and just overall just who they are as a person. I'm blessed every day to work with them. So today we're going to honor them for their month uh for National Principal Month and we have some gifts for them. In their actual baskets we did have some survival items for them.
016So things like for stress, for vitamin C, for energy because we know how hard and and exciting the the game is, right? So today we're going to tonight we're going to um present our awards or our gifts for Miss Jaclyn Paria who is the principal of >> We have Miss Giana Morales who is the principal of Robert Drisco. We have Mr. Hime Velasco, principal of Sant. >> We have Mrs. Anisa Chavea, the principal of steel. [Applause] >> And the principal of Rockstone Early College High School, Miss Marin. [Applause] in your baskets. You also have a monogram uh blanket from us as once the uh cold days get here, the one day of the year when we get >> but thank you so much principles again from teacher learning. We're very blessed to be on the
017team with y'all. Thank you so much. Look great. [Applause] Real quick, for the record, Mr. Messa is present. 614. [Music] >> Thank you everyone. Uh, next item on the agenda, uh, president remarks. So, I'm going to go over our continuing education record for November 1st, 2024 to November 1st, 2025. Under state board of education rule, completing requiring required continuing education each year of service is a basic obligation and expectation of any of any sitting board member. 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. The the requirements for training are measured as of the first anniversary of the date of the trustes election or appointment of two year anniversary
018of his or her previous training as applicable. There are eight training areas for board member continuing education. One local district orientation orientation of the Texas Education Code Post legislative update to the Texas Education Code. Team building additional continuing education. Evaluating student academic performance and setting goals, identifying and reporting abuse, trafficking and other maltreatment of children, school safety to the extent applicable to each board member. I will announce the completion or deficiency as to required training. For members who still have time remaining to complete required training, I will announce those board members who have scheduled timely training and those who have not yet scheduled the training. As the conclusion of this announcement, I will announce any board members training in excess of the continuing education requirements. Local district orientation. The following first year board members have
019completed the local district orientation training. Laru senior and eventables orientation to the Texas education code. The following first year board members have completed the orientation to the Texas education code training eventables. The following first year board members have time remaining to complete the orientation to the education code and have not yet scheduled this training. Larry Ku senior post legislative update to the Texas education code. The following board members have completed post legislative update to the Texas education code training. Lori Garza, Bobby Marin, and Ericos. The following board members have time remaining to complete the post- legislative update to the Texas Education Code and have not yet scheduled this training. Mario Messa Vobos Cesa Martinez. Team building. The following board members have completed the annual team building training. Lori Garza, Eric Ggo, Cesa Martinez, Bobby Marin,
020Larry Canu, Maya, and Evette. Guys, we're up to team building because we love each other. Additional continuing education. The following board members have completed the additional continuing education requirements. Lori Garza, Eric Eric Vos, Cesar Martinez, Bobby Marin, Larry Ku, Mario Messa, and Yellowos. Evaluating student academic performance and setting goals. The following board members have completed the Bianual training on evaluating student academic performance and setting goals. Lori Garza, Cesa Martinez, Bob Marin, Laru, Mario Messa, and IO. The following board members have time remaining to complete the training on evaluating student academic performance and setting goals and have not yet scheduled this training. Ericles identifying and reporting abuse, trafficking and other malreatment of children. The following board members have completed the training on identifying and reporting abuse and trafficking. Lori Garza, Eric Gyos, Cesa Martinez, Bobby Marukin,
021Larry Canu Messa, and Iette Yogos. School safety. The following board members have completed the the training and on school safety. Lori Garza, Eric Fos, Bobby Marikin, Cesa Martinez, Martinez, Leu, Mario. The following board members have time remaining to complete the training on safety on school safety and have not yet scheduled this training. I bet yobos exceeding required continuing education. Board member Lori Garza has exceeded the requirement the required amount of continuing education training by 19 hours. Board member Era Dieos has exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 3.5 hours. Board member Cesa Martinez has exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 3.5 hours. Board member Val Marin has exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 7 hours. Board member Larry Ku has exceeded the required amount of continuing education
022training by 6.5 hours. Board member Val Messa has exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 3.5 hours. Board member Evette Gobos has exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 13 hours. Thank you. >> Thank you everybody for still for always continuing to be on up to par on our training. Um I just I would like to point out that I thought you was up to date on everything, sir. I think that you bought the same thing. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you guys. Next item, superintendent report. Dr. Quinn. >> Thank you, Madam President. Tonight's report is also on the screen. Just a brief presentation. As you can see, we like to put the score of Friday night's game 337. So just really want to cover uh
023quickly five five items. One being enrollment and talk through the fieldhouse project briefly a little bit about our academic pillars and strategic plan. Take a look at the the priority initiative grant that was just given to us. I want to mention that briefly and then the state of the budget. So we'll begin with attendance uh last year's to this year's. If you see a green arrow that means we've improved over last year. We could have shown a threeyear trend there and we would have seen three straight years. So kudos to the principles uh the teachers and staff really focusing on increasing attendance. So thank you for for that hard work. It's really really good good effort focused effort. Here's where the challenge comes in is enrollment's down and you can see we're down 84 kids
024compared to last year at this point as we approach uh snapshot. So we are having to be very mindful of this impact of 84 students in the district is roughly a million dollars less. The last two years, see we've increased 6%. So we're on the other side of that, right? And of course we've seen that in the settle up at the end of the year. The settle up this year is about $2 million because we exceeded uh our target on ADA, the average daily attendance, right? So be very mindful of that as we navigate moving forward. That is a million dollars less than we projected, right? 84 kids. Now, if you were to talk about where those 84 kids are, they some have left the district, some have gone to homeschool. Um, we also see
025a decline in elementary. I think at this time, Robert Driscoll, we had about 680 kids. Now we're about 615 kids. So, again, parents have choices now and it's obvious. And also, if you look at demographics across the coastal bend, you'll see the trends out 5 10 years. The birth rates are down too. that's across Texas. So, just want to be mindful of that. We talked about the budget. The fieldhouse project is was launched last week. The rebidding of that. The pre-bid conference is Thursday the 23rd. That will be on site at the fieldhouse. Uh it's been advertised. We're going to be pursuing a a wider net. The first program is you know who do we know and trust? Let's skip five. And of course, that strategy didn't play out as well as we would have.
026Now, the bid opening will be November 5th. The board meeting is on November 10th. The goal is on the 5th to convene the committee together and then come to the board, God willing, with with a recommendation. And you might recall for those that are listening, this did not impact significantly the timeline. So, we feel pretty good about that. Um, I want to emphasize this, and I've said it now, this be the third or fourth time publicly. TEA is asking for a turnaround plan and a target improvement plan for San Pedro. Right? This is going to be due next month. We're way ahead of the game. But just to remind everyone here and our community and the folks watching around the world on YouTube, this is a strategic plan. We haven't deviated from it. We're only
027going deeper with the work. The tier one instruction, the PLC's, the learning walk protocol, and really the coaching. We're going really, really deep with and this is where the grant came in from the foundation that is right here, the priority initiative grant. We're going really, really deep with National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. That's where a lot of the coaching is going to come from. Robert Stell in particular. Uh we love Robert Stell. He's very skilled as a principal and his coaching is second to none. So um this is one that's real critical as we close out here on my report. Coming soon the state of the budget will be given to the community and we talked about potentially moving some pennies over from or some dollars over from ENO to INS with no change
028in tax rate. Do you remember that conversation? If we're going to even consider that, we have to educate the community on what that means and what the budget means. And it's now more important than ever. We look at enrollment trends. And that enrollment trend is not just Robson. It is not just the state, it's national. There's a a decline in in public school enrollment. So that didn't pass the budget. So we have to go tell that story to our taxpayers and broad. Okay. So with that, I questions and say thank you. >> Dr. to quickly open the viz. Can you u send me a link virtually because I won't be in >> Yes, ma'am. >> sir. Uh sir, okay. On the attendance, you said that we lost students to other districts and stuff like that.
029So, >> oh, they they're so we've lost them. So, yes, they're not with us. >> Yes. Now, we've got some transfer in too, >> but it doesn't affect No, no, sir. An honorable. No, sir. >> Thank you, Dr. Quick. >> So, that was that was a Was that all eight? Or this is everything? >> Everything. >> Thank you, Dr. Quick. Next item, presentation,formational items. >> Thank you, Madam President, trustees. Let's invite Josh Garcia back up to the lectern podium here. Yes, sir. >> Good evening again, Madam President. Uh Dr. Jenn, we're going to give a good quick update on all things teacher learning academics here at the school district. Um just as Dr. Pave alluded to, um we are really looking at what our strategic plan is moving forward for the district. of course our
030response to you know the letters the the the images that you've seen of you know the ratings and such but like Dr. Qu said our strategic plan has not changed we are we are going to be looking at four pillars of teaching and learning and really doubling down on those different pillars more so I want to really focus on we're looking at more so the learning loss and that coaching as Dr. alluded to because um with the help and the assistance from the um the foundation we are really investing in making that um we're coaching our teachers and also coaching our instructional leaders at the different campuses um more so with our work with NIT um with Robert Stealth. We are coaching um he is going to be coaching us as district leaders and campus
031leaders and then in turn is going to be helping us coach our instructional um uh teams on the on the different campuses. So, what that looks like, um, we'll talk a little bit about how they're already doing the coaching and in, um, our different campuses, but I want to show you just a figure just to give you a a glimpse of how we're already doing on learning walks and coaching sessions for the school district as of today. Okay, so here's our pillar talk um, for learning walks. As a district, we've completed 324 learning walks and across the district, we've already had 165 coaching sessions between all five campuses. So, what a coaching session is is we go into a learning log, we see a piece that we we feel that we should, you know, revisit
032or talk to a teacher with and we coach whether that's in just conversation, you know, just in there, you know, we can really, you know, focus on this, we can maybe change this strategy in the change this assignment, change this uh tool. And then also um in in written format, we also do that too in emails different. It depends on the principal how they do their coaching as well. But also during conferences too, principal sit down and they actually do a full model teach or um actual PLC with that with that teacher. Um what we're seeing here is in backed by backed by um research the biggest effect size for the things that we do as a to build uh instruction and to improve instruction is coaching. The effect side as as the effect size
033is as far as 1.057 of the effect size what that is going to drive the highest push in uh professional development and actual instruction uh effective instruction which is coaching. So that's why we're really focusing on the coaching piece and investing in that and investing in our coaching leaders. So I do want to um invite two of our leaders up here to the podium. We have um Miss Padilla from Wat Beach and she's going to talk to us a little bit about how coaching is going on at her campus and then Miss Marino from the high school. >> Good evening madame president, members of the board, Dr. Quig. First of all, I want to just thank you for the opportunity to be able to be here and share the great things that are happening at
034our campus. Uh just like uh Mr. Garcia and Dr. Qu me mentioned this year are at speech are we are deeply committed on uh improving student academics and also building teacher capacity and by doing so uh we are focusing on the four pillars. We're conducting learning walks every week. They're non-negotiable and already know that they happen on Mondays that we do our our learning walks or our t test uh observations and uh then after that we coach our teachers and we do face-toface coaching sessions and during our coaching sessions basically we talk to the teachers and we talk to them uh you know share let's talk about what do you think went well in your lesson and so they'll share what went well then after that what is one of the your biggest challenges and
035then that we'll discuss collaboratively together and we'll establish an instructional goal and then we'll look at resources that they may need to accomplish their goal and then us will provide resources for them to uh you know be able to u accomplish their goal. Uh then we follow up with the teachers and I have to say that our teachers are really embracing um the coaching sessions. Just this past week I had a teacher come in and she was so excited she brought in I had to take a picture and send it to Dr. Quinn because she was so excited because during our coaching session she wanted to know how to print out DMAC reports. So went ahead and went over the reports and how to print them. So she came in and she like miss you
036took our test and look I printed the report and don't worry I'm already focusing on what I'm going to do different in the classroom and I'm going to put in our data drive. She was so excited and we took we take any opportunity even during a parade uh we were having a coaching session because like everything like educators we talk about education and so they were talking about our data drive so we I took the opportunity and we had a coaching session as well. So we're coaching nonstop at lot of speech leadership academy because we want to make sure that uh we increase our student scores and that we build the teacher capacity and I know that u the other thing that we are doing that we started last year was our data drives. What
037is our data drive? Our data drive is where the teachers are tracking their data and they if they know their kids and they know where they're at then they're able to plan those engaging lessons and so they I mean first year was a a learning and this year I have to say they are embracing those daily drives they are amazing now they've identified all the special pop students who was retained uh who's who who are their special education students GT and they're amazing because they know their data so they're thinking in they're planning their lessons with purpose and intention and one of the one of the things that we uh when we were at the parade that's one of the things that the teacher uh did say she goes I love our data drive because
038I know my kids and then when I go into art meetings I just pull up my data drive and I'm able to share with the parent and I'm able to share with the committee see how my students are doing. So now they see the purpose and the power of the drugs. So those are some of the great things that are happening in the not speech leadership academy. We're very excited and we're going to continue with our tier one instruction and we're going to continue with our learning walks and our coaching. Thank you so very much. Madame President, board of trustees, it is my privilege uh to be here to talk about what we do at Robstone Early College High School. We've been on this way for the last three years really focusing intentionally on teacher
039pedigogy. Pedigogy is everything related to teaching and how that translates into tier one instruction and building that culture of solid pedigogy that supports tier one instruction. So in speaking with our our my peers the principles and you know Dr. Quig and our TNL it is what do we do you know what do we do at Rosson Early College High School that has been able to get us 72 to an 80 in the last three to four years. Well, that's really focusing on tier one teaching. You know, what is it that students are being subjected to when teachers are delivering instruction? So, everything that we do at Rosson Early College High School supports tier one instruction and we comprise a system based off of the pillars because the pillars are a system in itself. So if
040you look at it we have tier one teaching purposeful PLC's coaching and learning walks are the foundation of tier one that is our checks and balances is what what are we seeing in the classrooms and how do these three other pillars support that so if you look at purposeful PLC's we have purposeful PLC's once to six weeks because for us when we came back to the drawing board common planning was key allowing teachers to plan with their partners so this year along with Miss Chaveeta sec the whole secondary 6th through 12th teachers have common planning in the master schedule and we have all our English teachers that have first period off they do common planning they get together they plan that's where that pedigogy comes to play they talk about best practices they look at
041assessments they look at um you know the cheeks you know and and what is this lesson supposed to be looking like and it's great conversation and great learning among the team then the coaching aspect. The coaching aspect comes in from the administrators doing the learning walks. I take a lot of pride. Last week we did like 18 learning walks among the team getting into the classrooms and coaching. And I coach on the fly. My coaching is different than my other four administrators because we all have different ways and we approach that. Mine is being in the classroom, seeing something, and automatically, respectfully talking to the teacher while kids are engaged, saying, "Hey, you might want to tweet this." And then leaving. But the important thing to learning walks is the followup, the constant conversation that
042happens at Rosson Early College High School. Literally in the hallway, hey, I just went into Mario's classroom. I kind of told him to tweak his objective. It wasn't aligned. Kids were not explaining. They were more identifying. can you go in there this afternoon and make sure that that is happening? Yes, ma'am. He will go and he'll follow up. So, it's a constant communication among administrators um you know and living in those classrooms and making sure that we're in there making sure that this tier one instruction is happening. Um so between the three and what we do because not more is always good. We don't want to give teachers more stuff to do. We want to give teachers opportunities to get stronger at what they're supposed to be doing and that's their pedigogy. Everything related to
043teaching and how is that delivered and how that impacts students. So it's really simple purposeful PC's along with common planning supported by quality coaching and consistent learning walks is a key and that has been what has made us successful. We continue to tighten up. to continue to, you know, have conversations every day about what's happening in the classrooms. I don't let my teachers know when I'm coming in. I don't tell them when I'm coming in. We just come in because teaching should be happening all the time. So, they know it. We've developed a pride culture around learning, learning walks. My teachers are used to people coming in and out of the classroom. I have taken it a step further. I have my instructional leadership team that is comp comprised of seven teachers. Those teachers are
044required to do two learning walks in six weeks just so that they can know and start learning what good quality teaching looks like. We take um our DOIs or DOIs are teachers that did not get the pedigogy in um college. they didn't get to take the student teaching um courses like other teachers did. So we may get a practice to make sure that they go on the learning walks at least once to six weeks as well with us to see what the teaching looks like. It's a constant system because remember if systems fail in any organization is because of the adults and this is one thing we're not going to let fail because we know that it's proven and if you follow these four four pillars you're we're going to continue to be successful and
045we're going to strive for that a >> question. You made me excited to do a learning block >> tomorrow. Come on over, >> Josh. >> Uh, on the district level, what what are what are some trends that you're seeing as far as um coaching? What's the common, I guess, thing that teachers are lacking in that you're seeing at the district level from all those learning blocks? What's the >> Yeah. So, we we usually always, you know, identify, you know, the essentials, which is, you know, student discourse and also having teachers um being able to to release the teachers and have them um more productive struggle for teacher for our students. We're so when you know we're accustomed, we're teachers. We we like to have the command of the classroom, right? And we want to make
046sure that we you know students are you know filing following directions and we're we're hovering and we're actually making sure they they're successful. But students flourish when they actually explore materials their own themselves and they're able to teach each other and and engage with each other. So we are seeing some trends where our teachers they they like to hold they like to hold on to the instruction and like to hold on to the material where not getting enough opportunity for the for the students to really be the experts and really be the teachers also themselves to teach each other and and hold each other accountable. So those are the some of the things that we are all seeing but those are some of the things that we're coaching as well. Um, so we could actually
047be able to have, you know, student leaders and student, you know, have the ownership of their learning in the classroom where student track a student data trackers, things like that are some things that we're trying to instill in the classrooms. But we're so excited for the coaching to continue. Um, we're seeing a lot of great things that the principles are, they have their trackers for coaching. They log their coaching. They actually follow up with with their uh counterparts and say, you know what, like just miss I I go into a learning walk and I let my Hey, I just saw her uh so and so. Can you go check if you know if they need some more assistance? So, they're doing a lot of great things as principles as also the district level. We're doing
048a lot of remarks too. Um actually this week we have Robert S coming in. He's going to actually walk some some campuses with us and we're going to be able to do some coaching for our coaches in real time too. So, we're super excited to build capacity and empower our leaders and empower our teachers this week. [Music] I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We have a t forget that you can journey continues. the whole day today. It was a great day. Um, of course, we shared with you it's a it's a straight a pretty smooth right now and we'll keep it like that for for a little while. This was the information that we shared with you at the prior meeting, but this is where we're at at this point. Our big focus has been going out
049to the campuses and meeting with the eligible teachers. We have shared with you all that we would make some time to meet with every eligible teacher. We're almost done. We started at the high school on September 24th and met with their teachers and then we went on to SEAL. Then we went on to speech and then stopped for a day and we had some calibration training. We did invite consultants from the education service center and they came forth and we visited classrooms and we practiced calibration and that was a great experience and of course we'll continue to do that but that was uh something that we all did with our district and campus leaders and then we resumed again and before we started again we took a deep dive um based on our prior conversations
050and we've really made some time dedicated time to dive deeper into the the data prior to going to the larger campuses which was really Robert Gris was such a large campus and they have many teachers that are that are eligible. So we did that the TIA committee did that and then on um October 10th then we went to Robert Bristol just recently and met with half of their staff that are eligible. We did not complete Robert Driscoll. Today we were at San Pedro and we will be going back to um Robert Drisco to complete the rest of the teachers. I believe we have maybe approximately maybe about 12 more teachers. We do have a couple of teachers that were absent and we'll have to go back and pick up all those uh individuals that that
051were absent. Not too many but a few. It's been a great learning experience. I'm so glad that we are doing this. Teachers have been receptive. They were appreciative of us actually going through the score card and using last year's data and doing a pretend and let's say we would have submitted our data. Where would you have been? So this is what our scorecard looks like. We keyed in their test data and then came up with a composite score and then we keyed in their student growth data and came up with student growth and then we actually took a look and told them this would have been. So they were appreciative at at at least they know the process. We did have our principles available and they sat with us um or an assistant principal also
052so that they could be aware of the process. But it was exciting. It was great. It worked out really well. But I think at least the teachers now know that what the process consists of. So we'll continue. We'll finish up with Robert Driscoll and then we'll go back and pick up those that um that were absent and then The committee will meet. We have our standing meeting every Tuesday. We'll meet again tomorrow. We need to make some updates to our handbook. U because of course we know that the legislators met this this session and they came up with a new designation level which is um acknowledged which now we received uh the cut points for that and it's 50 50% for student growth and 3.5 for so we will be adding that to our handbook.
053We shared that with our staff and then we will be looking deeper because we're also going to have to start I'm saying this planning for next year already and taking a look at everything that we will be using for the following school year and holding another TF committee with a big meeting with a big committee so that we can review uh the assessment instruments that we will be using for that. So, it's an ongoing it's just it's exciting. It's exciting that we were able to meet with all 56 teachers that are >> I know last time you mentioned you had some naysayers. Have you come across any that said oh your mind? >> Yes. >> Said, "Oh my god, I was one that said I want this. I wanted to opt out." Of course, they
054can't opt out, right? But after we explained it to her, it was totally totally different. Yes. One particularly she was like >> she like walked out the door and then came back and said I was against it but she goes to me and with the data but it really takes a lot of time to dig in and be very specific and make sure that that everything is correct. We did the teachers that before we submit anything at the end of the year, we will sit with each one of them and they will sign off. They will verify every student that was in their classroom. They will verify that we actually transferred the correct test data into the score and we will have them sign off. That way they know what is being submitted. the importance
055of >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Next item update, >> Madam President. This time we'd like to invite Mr. Labra and it happens to be his birthday. [Music] >> I couldn't let you get by. Happy birthday to you. >> Happy birthday dear father. Happy birthday to you. >> Appreciate it. Thank you madam president Dr. rest of the board members and your lovely singers in the app. Uh for my birthday, I think I should be able to get away with a short brief. >> Really honestly do not have a lot going on right now. Uh we did get all our warranties in for all the roofing projects. They all came in. I know you saw the email. Dr. SW, one of the things that I'm doing, just so you know, is I I also
056have a book that's created that has all these, you know, warranties in there, all the project scope of work and just for, you know, whoever's next or whatever that time comes. We have that already there. So there'll never be a question on what some of the that we've completed. I think that would be very beneficial for me. Uh so I want to make sure I do that for whatever move forward. Um operations report for transportation is due December 1st. I'll probably start on that in the next week or two. And for the last thing, I'd like to bring up Miss Chetta. Come on up, Mr. >> Let's do it better than me. Uh we have uh >> completed our project at Seal Junior High. Amazing. So, I'm just so grateful because I think it's been
057eight years, maybe 10 years. >> If you use that that gym, that second gym in the first >> one of the first conversations we had was like, when can we put some work into that gym? You know, tonight we're hosting volleyball. >> Um, we're hosting Kingsville and we'll probably be there till about 10 o'clock by the time we run all four games and everybody out the door and clear the gym out. But there was a time when we ran side by side and we would have both gyms open. So we're excited for maybe basketball season to start doing that and then we have a pep rally on the 28th. So if you've been in that gym, if you played in that gym as some of us may have, um it has two bleachers on each
058side. So the room itself is great. And today we took a look at the plat and it was built in 1948. I calculated so it's 77 years old that gym. So we're excited smile off her face [Applause] for us. I told her that was one of the things I really wanted to do. Thank you for all the support with that. I know you've been a key contributor into that. So I appreciate that. Some of the things we did, there was only three or four operating lights in there. They're all operating except for one. We're still working on that one. Uh flooring, there was some some really bad flooring there. you step through it. So, that's all been done. We weren't even able to open the visitor side bleaches because the floor was so wor now
059that is open. Um, we painted all the red and then the back part, the higher part, we scraped it, so it's just exposed. So, um, it looks great uh compared to where it was in June of last year. Um, so I'm really proud of that project. So when you get a chance, you know, go visit a game. Like she said, instead of 10 o'clock, you know, they'll be out two hours earlier. So it's a good thing. Other than that, that is my brief. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Extraordinary. I mean, those maple floors you can't get anymore. 194748 circuit 155. Those floors are beautiful. It was left for dead. Uh there's nothing like a vision coming together, resurrected for a very low cost. And the exposed break looks nostalgic. It looks beautiful. I mean, who's
060yours for might be filmed there? It's that that nostalgic. It has a good vibe to it. So, great work. Great vision. Meta. Thanks for always pushing advocating. Great work. >> You said you're putting a book together warranties, right? Uh, do we I was just curious. Do we have still warranty on the bikes at the baseball field? >> Yes. Yes, sir. >> Yeah, we actually used some of that warranty last year. >> Yeah, >> most I was wondering when the warranties go. >> I I can find out, but um I mean we just used it last year. >> Do we have any any issues with the lights? >> Uh not right now, sir. Not >> is that the same for the football stadium? Yes, sir. >> But we do have some lights out. >> Thank you,
061Mr. Lover. >> Happy birthday. >> You're not leaving, are you? Stay here with us. >> Austin birthday. >> She makes a big deal. >> She should. As she should. Next item on the >> on the agenda, safety report. >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, Chief Todd, how are you, sir? >> President Quig, board members, um, safety update. EFT is still in review. Uh, they have 142 schools that go, I guess, hopefully. So, those get to us. Usually takes a couple months, but we're still waiting. Our district safety committee meeting is set for October 23rd at 2 o'clock here at the administration building. Uh our DAP monthly speaker for September uh was Army and Texas National Authority Captain David Garz. He spoke with our kids in the DAP was motivational plus/occupational any questions that they had.
062He's also husband to our social worker Miss Garza. So come in speak with us. Um we are scheduled for two IDA audits for October and November. They haven't came yet for October. So we're still waiting for that one. And then again, November. Uh, and we also are still uh have several investigations working. I can't go into too much detail, but they are still involved. Listed bills are in your packet for your review. As always, you have questions, please email. Next item, financial statement quarterly investor reports. Any questions on that? Would you like to say anything on that? >> No, just we're yielding about $50,000 a month on current investments right now and we are exploring diversifying a little bit more. I don't think we're doing solid. >> Uh, real quick on the um state of
063the budget, do you know when that's going to be in? >> No, I'm still trying to trying to land. I will definitely come back to you soon. >> Thank you. Uh, next item on the agenda, consent agenda items. >> Madam President, >> thank you, Madam President. On item B, the just so we're clear, the payment to Mr. Pal is for 154,375 >> and it is his first payment, >> right? It's his first payment. He started back in February. >> 154 154 375. Yes. Any trusty? Do I have a motion? >> I have a first by Mr. Mari. Second by Mr. Vos. >> Madam President, do we have a first and a second? I'd like to enter now for Miss Yellows. >> Just Mr. >> Hi, >> Mr. Williams. >> Hi. >> Madam President Carson. >>
064Hi, >> myself. I Mr. Nor >> Mr. Mesa. >> Thank you. >> Carry President. >> Thank you, Trustees. Next item on the agenda, discussion item housing authority payment in L of taxes. Dr. >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, this is just a discussion item. wanted to bring your attention that uh Laura Young, the executive director of the Robstone Housing Authority, uh sent a letter that's enclosed in your packet on page 44. The letter is requesting a reduction of the they call it a pilot payment in L of taxes of a third and currently we receive about $16,000 in le of taxes from them. So this was essentially reduced it by 5,000 or so 5200 around there. She's outlined the reasons like a lot of entities, they're struggling. They're struggling. There's a new subsidy they're required
065uh to have. It's less than what they're accustomed to and so they're having to make some financial adjustments. I just wanted to bring your attention uh to this and see if you have any questions or wonderings about this sort of arrangement. Uh this is the only uh entity of which we have a pilot where the payment room taxes. Uh I was in the process of researching the previous agreement for this pilot. I've been unable to uncover that but Mrs. Wy and I working on that and see if we can locate that. If we don't locate that certainly we can consider drawing. >> Is it something that you're considering or >> I think we're definitely considering required more approval. discuss it. But once you do that, >> just want you to react to it, discuss it.
066That's something that we are working on. Of course, Miss Young will work on her board. This board will have to consider some sort of agreement. I think it's reasonable certain summ discuss and consider approval of purchase order exceeding 50,000 for software skyward. >> Thank you madam president trustees. This is our um student information platform Skyward also our financial platform which we do all our transactions. Uh it's exceeded um 50,000 now everything's going up but it's something that we use in fact Mr. team is training on it this week and so is HR department is also training on it. So it's very very critical to the work that we're trying to do. So we like to recommend the approve that's presented >> for the record to 55 >> 553 and 10ustes. Do I have a motion?
067>> First by Mr. Second by Mr. Mr. Second call for the vote. >> Miss Moser, >> hi. >> Miss Hi, >> Mr. Marta. Motion carries. >> Thank you. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of the request for early graduation from Rocktown Early College High School. >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, we have two uh potential early graduates that have been brought here to me and they have been reviewed by Beth Ramos and Mrs. Tino and here in central office with Belinda, we have two that are considering leaving early. In fact, one year early. They're currently juniors. They would graduate in May if the board approves as recommended and allow them to uh pursue their advanced college uh pathway. So, I'd like to recommend that we approve your graduates. >> I have some
068questions, sir. I'm sorry. Does anyone else have questions? >> Yes. >> Um, so when this happens, what does this do for ranking purposes? Are they ranked with the seniors? Like, so let's say one of them is like ranked two, three, four, anywhere in the top 10. Will they replace are they ranked with the seniors? >> They wouldn't they wouldn't circumvent. Will they still graduate with this code? When I come up with this code, talk about how that graduation because they're allowed to graduate. >> They will be part of the ranking. >> So let's say that we like if I were a student as I'm number 10 and then here come these two graduates and now they're both smart and upper classmen. Now I'm no longer 10. I'm 12. >> Yes. >> That that is >>
069Yes. The rule only applies to anybody that's not here before their junior year that can't be. I don't know if I'm allowed to ask this, but is that going to be a situation for us? >> I can't share that. >> Um, so if I'm a student and I want to graduate early, do I need my parents to come and give me permission to do that or is this the students just coming asking for permission by themselves? >> It's usually the student advocating um, you know, uh, for themselves, but of course it takes parent consent along with principal consent and >> okay finalist clause. So these two students, their parents are aware. >> We've had several several meetings with these parents. >> I mean, everybody has the same criteria like anybody wants to do this exact
070>> as I was mentioning, they're allowed to graduate Hudson board policy with the new cohort. >> Yes. It just makes me sad because I'm a mom and I would hate for my kid to not and that's just me with my feelings. Never mind. As long as the parents are supportive of their students, I just didn't I didn't know we were going to start to get calls from parents. How could you do this without my consent? I wanted the parents are aware and they sat in the meetings and um you know there's a criteria that they have to meet and and they both have. Any other questions? Trustes, do I have a motion? Thank you, Mr. >> First by Mr. Mesa. Second by Mr. Boss. We have a motion and a second. >> Hi, >> Mr.
071Ku. I >> Mr. Hi, >> Mr. Carson. >> I Mr. Marin. >> Hi, >> Mr. Messa. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you, trustees. Next item, discuss and consider approval of memorandum of understanding with the sheriff's department. Dr. >> Thank you, Madam President Trustes. At this time, I'd like to buy Chief K and talk a little bit about uh the purpose and the process, really the payoff for this type of members. Uh this has to do with our EOP. uh the city goes or the school district is part of the city but it also goes into the county. It would be a communication part really with you to the city but we also have access to the the communication through metric to the county. Uh also they are uh speaking with them they they
072will allow resources that they have they have a K9 division that we access like Rob Center has offered before also with the transport issue we've come in the past where we've had arrest normally county will take this we don't have a little bit we have to transport those wars out of the county >> yeah and it's very common to have multiple with entities just how do we broaden our resources So chief brought this along that I thought this is opportunity to broaden our relationships particularly with respect to even transportation deep. >> Yeah. A lot of our officers have security and depending on where we're at as far as how many we have available a lot just takes away from us having to deal with that situation. And this one there's no cost. There's zero cost
073for this. >> I just, you know, um I I'm thankful for this. I think that it's great. The more partners that we have, I think are are great. I just want to make sure that this is not going to interrupt our relationship with our city police. >> I trust that it's not. I just got to throw it out there for the record. Yes, sir. Okay. Can I please have a motion? >> First by Mr. Ku, >> second by Mr. Marin. >> First and the second Missos. >> Hi, >> Mr. Ku. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hi, >> Miss Garza. >> Hi, I M. >> Hi, >> Mr. H. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you, trustees. Thank you, Mr. Tin, Chief Thlin. Next item on the agenda, close session >> first by Mr. Marin. >> Second by
074Mr. >> Motion in a second to go to close session 14. MS >> Mr. Mson I Mr. Mess motion carries >> the board the board now session in accordance to section 551.074 074 of the Texas Government Code. The board will adjourn into close session for the purpose of considering the appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, resignings, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Thank you. >> I have no idea. Definitely get them. We have a bunch of cents left over from last Mr. >> We have a first and a second uh to come back into executive session. I mean regular session 821. M >> I Mr. Goss. >> Hi. >> Miss Garza. >> Hi. >> Myself. Hi. >> Mr. Hi. >> Mr. Mesa. >> Hi. Motion carries. >> We're now back in open session. Uh, next item on
075the agenda, discuss and consider approval of appointments, employments, evaluations, resignation, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Dr. >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, no recommendations this evening. >> Thank you, Dr. Quig. Next item on the agenda, adjournment. >> First, Mr. I'm sorry. >> First by Mr. Ggo. Second by Mr. Mesa. >> First and second to Miss Goss. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hi, >> Mr. Williams. >> Hi, >> Mr. President. >> Hi, >> myself. Hi, >> Mr. H. >> Mr. Mesa. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. 8:22. >> Great meeting. Thank you everyone. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, I think you're Mr.