001we'll call the meeting to order at 11:30 um Dr Ball please stand if you're able Lord we thank you for this time and for this day at Southwest SD we ask you to bless us with your spirit of wisdom as we discuss the business of our district bless this meeting today all those president all those present as well as those lives of those that we encounter afterward ready to make us ready to make every moment count enable us to draw upon the wisdom and experience of yesterday as we respond to the questions and concerns of tomorrow all we ask all these things in your name amen 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
002for all honor the Texas flag I pledge aliance to the Texas one State under God one and indivisible thank you Roger thank you um do have anybody signed up to speak okay let's see um oh I'm sorry yes that's that's fine okay we'll take a break to if so everybody can get their plates okay um we're gonna restart uh the agenda item four consider approval of the GMP for package two of cald Road School of the Arts yes ma'am Marksman General Contractors accept the bids on this project from their subcontractors our District staff met with them uh Marksman with the architect Huckabee uh looked at all the bids from the subcontractors uh and so today we're recommending uh that the total pack of the gmp2 in the amount of 14,846 168 be approved uh and
003allow the district to still negotiate DET terms and conditions of the GMP this is actually quite substantial savings in this budget but the construction budget we thought actually what was the budget it was actually a little over 16 million I thought it was like 16 awesome okay board members I move I'll second uh we have a first and a second uh any questions if not all those in favor say I I oppose no thank you motion carries um consider approval of 95 phonics yes after looking and cting the thir implementation have also interest and so we at rolling it out the fourth grade and so now that we do have some fending that add okay uh do we have a motion we can ask questions if somebody will give a motion I second any questions
004I have a question we do pass when does this come when will we get this oh after we're looking at putting in the order as we get the approval so we will be get also during time Daniel I was just that uh because I saw the the billing for it at 69 but it says not to exceed 80 I was just wondering what the so you the additional would be right so the additional we're looking at the where we came to the board for the cap and so right now with the numbers we are looking at the that's going to be div Elementary so this is why we're bringing it back so metri and this additional oh this is additional to the okay but originally the board had approved not not to exceed over 50,000
005but now we're bringing it back to you since it is exceeding 50,000 and so just that the total price is K through four not just and the other piece to it is as like today we're saying that we're GNA order for this amount of kids but like by the time we order we may add five or six kids to fourth grade so gives us room to add with the additional kids that are coming in enrollment okay okay and then uh when you say with the success ESS of the roll out um are we seeing like what some of the information St from the teachers noticing how the students already piing up sounds with 95% okay just recently the teacher triple she approached and she said how they're loving implementation the roll up and so we
006do celebrate that that we know that we continue to roll it out Fidelity with Fidelity we're going to some sucess awesome because of that um teaching and learning director Bonnie Robinson she visited neighboring school district and they we're also um excited to see the growth in the fourth and fifth graders so right now it's fourth grade and then we're going to be able to actually awesome oper bil too is it just straight up so 95% is just an English component but weish comp okay any more questions if not all those in favor say I I oppose no thank you um consider approval of opposition letter of Section 504 lawsuit sure so so this is in response to a lawsuit that attorney tax it along with a couple of other filed in regards to section essentially
007the lawsuit was filed because of some additional components that were added but ultimately what the lawsuit is BAS to be unconstitutional in its entirety which of course calls it the question how we're going to address disability rights in general because 504 of course encompasses all individual of disabilities so the recommendation is that the board move forward with submission of a letter to the attorney general just strong okay and then um they're saying it's unconstitutional because it's an unfunded mandate that's right not because of what's in the Bible for like the wording and they've all there has been longing argument over because it is unfund but the reality is it's still re right yeah okay um so the state of Texas is upset that they're receiving unfunded mandates which we receive all the time yes okay
008I just want to clarify okay um if there any no other questions uh I need a I mean all in favor say I oppose no thank you consider approval of overnight trip for the fourth grade students of medoc Creek and Bob Hope to attend uh outdoor education at YMCA Camp had two campuses that already the appr fs we opened it up to all the cuses because Lim TN okay I Mo I'll second thank you any questions did we hear back from Big Country and um whatever other one was uhuh did we hear back from the teachers or the kids the kid I heard back specifically from the kids at Big Country they loved it many of them said this was the first time that they've ever gone camping okay so it was a very positive
009experience awesome okay all those in favor say I I oppose no thank you uh items of information delinquent tax collection presentation yes today we have with us Lilia Gibson and Julian Casas from linberger they are our attorneys that help us uh you know go out and talk to folks and gather our delinquent taxes and so Julian's gonna kind of talk about the end of report for 2024 nice to see so many fa here want to say first off congrats on all the growth youall are going through Brandon was nice enough to show me the the new football Renovations and the media media center so can't wait to come but let's get started with the report I will be brief but uh please if you see anything you want me to stop and answer any questions
010please don't and then you have a booklet that they have with the reports in there so on page uh page one is the first page uh the last our last calendar year we uh we brought in 2,380 539 uh that figure can be seen on page 22 uh we'll eventually get to that but let's move along and uh on page four this is just a summary a snapshot of the tax collection um at turnover um just shows you how much of the base tax levy is due U for the 2023 tax here most recently and for all the remaining years just keep in mind that when we're collecting we're not just collecting for the last year we're also collecting for all years due and also um like look at that if you want to look
011at that 2013 number that 45,000 that's more than likely a number that we can't touch uh number 65 referral so when you when you're living at the property with a homestead exemption you have a home over 65 or a disability deferral or a veterans uh ex deferral we're not allowed to touch that money and same goes with bankruptcy so that's pretty much all exhausted and every year we'll get closer to that uh closer to zero and 99.9% if you want to jump to the next page this is page five uh this is a snapshot of our Delinquent Tax portfolio with the litigation um that represents uh the biggest percentage of uh what we have going on right now that's 344 accounts representing 31.2% um which is a healthy amount um we always make sure to
012call and order title and and send out letters before we do file a suit um we also encourage everyone to get on a payment agreement payment agreements prevent a suit from being filed and from a foreclosure taking place um everything below the over 65 it's just uh funds we cannot go after in touch they're protected whether it be bankruptcy or the over 65 I highlighted already or just an uncollectible account where we've exhausted every every resource we probably already got a judgment and abstracted that judgment um so we on those few accounts it only represents 2.5% but those are just the uncollectible accounts I was marked and then there's also you 3 49 accounts that have less than $25 so we'll still try to get those but uh we can't file a suit on anything
013that way um the next Pages just include our collection activity with our phone calls and mailings um as well as our bankruptcy activity but I'm GNA want to jump to page 19 unless anyone has a question page 19 is my favorite page just because we get so much information one page we have to turn it off over this just really highlights the growth the district has gone through I mean if you look at 2009 tax year and we adjust a tax levy of 18 million and where we're at right now um that's mid 7s it just shows you the growth of the the district is going through which is really which is really great this also this page also shows the receivable balance at turnover uh in July of every year the tax office sends
014us a list of accounts that we are now uh allowed to proceed on and collect on behalf and represent the school district so that's just the amount at at July uh that we're able to start collecting um and just like that first page we highlighted this just shows you we're not just collecting that that last year every year we're collecting all of the accounts that are due and we're trying to get to that 99.9% and as you can see we go all the way down to 33% and more than likely that's just over 65 referral so we're really trying to collect everything and right now we have that one a little over 1 million almost $1.1 million for that 2023 tax year um more than likely they just continue in in cycles that they'll probably
015be two3 of a million the next year but we're really striving to get that 99.9% um if you go to the next page uh we have our fiscal year break down so the next few pages will kind of be be the same um sta except the way broken down I know it's important for for Brandon and his team to know which uh to have a fiscal year broken down and we also collect by the calendar or Show You by the calendar year but for the fiscal year uh the 2023 2024 had some really big collections uh historically big collections so we're we're doing everything we can to match those uh for this fiscal year uh but just keep in mind that that that 2023 2024 was was a very strong the strongest collection year we've
016ever had so we're doing everything in our power to get to that number again if you want want to turn to page 22 uh this is just the calendar year breakdown and that 2ou 2, 380,000 is what I referenced on that first page which is the total collection of Base tax and penalties and interests uh sometimes it's good to know exactly the dollar amounts that are coming in uh each year not just the base tax but also the penalties of that approved for each account and we've included uh the notable collections we have 14 of them so if you have if you want to know why one month was uh stronger than the others in particular it's just it's just we we've listed that account so we've had some big accounts in this District uh
017recently so that's great for the collection and if you notice if you notice the notable accounts for who they are you can see that they're some of our developers yeah sorry no um and I think that's really all I have for the numbers um the rest is just our our game plan our work plan which really doesn't change too much um obviously we don't want to get into litigation but that is a collection tool that we use to bring to make sure all the money is collected for the school dist uh we have our own research team our own collections team we have our own bankruptcy team at the office um and if youall ever have any questions please don't ever hesitate to reach out to our office and ask for me and I'd be
018happy to go through any indiv individual account or uh or at the macro level um whatever youall prefer but yeah that's that's really all I have I think I just wanted to make sure I got all the highlights questions board members do you have any questions yeah okay thank you so so much appreciate it Daniel can you move your microphone okay um Bob Hope Elementary addition and renovation project update yes today with us we have James Mo from OCR and Paul Ron from Kon they're GNA give a quick update on H the construction progress at Bob Elementary thank you everyone welcome um so Bob Hope Elementary School uh just kind of as a construction update uh we started about five months ago six months ago we're about just over halfway finished with construction at this
019point uh so the site plan as you recall we added a couple of portable buildings for it to facilitate some movement of students in internal of the building uh so I gave a overall map of the the school to try to keep us on track so right now confession is is almost finished on the whole area e uh the the area e renovation area has already been occupied the new building or the new portion of building e is about 60 65% complete construction at this point uh the other big area of construction that that's going on right now is the library addition renovation area uh so you can see from the the construction photos the tile and the wings coat and the hallways have been going on all the classrooms have been outfitted with uh
020all of their ceilings all the HVAC um components above the ceiling um all of the painting has been done just waiting for some window installation and the flooring to go back in um the bathroom oh excuse me the bathrooms have already been tiled the toilets and everything has been going on the only thing that's left to be installed are like the toilet partitions and the accessories and they were received today uh in the library area you can see that the all of the ceiling work uh that kind of identifi all of the areas within the library has been going on all of the above ceiling stuff has has been done and tested uh some of the admin areas have already been uh drywalled and just just waiting for finishes to go in and that quter
021connection out to the exterior of the campus is almost complete uh the other area that's been going on is area C and those are the go four classrooms that Corridor uh where the hallway uh where the storages used to be the hallway is is under construction currently and those classrooms are going through the renovation process as well can you hold on just one second yes ma'am we can't really see either screen can yall no I I can see this but I mean we can't see [Music] that I just don't know if we're going to need a for something else yeah we will okay how about there that's perfect thank you go ahead I'm sorry sorry so again as I was saying we're still on budget uh we're just over uh 50% we're at 58% by
022the pay application and the upcoming events are just finishes going in on the rest of the areas at this point any questions oh y'all are moving right along appreciate it okay um discussion on Intruder audit findings is that something he needs to talk about right now and then later or yeah go back to C oh I'm sorry that's okay oh I'm sorry Southwest ISD supper feeding program yeah I'm gonna have Kylie and Winston come up and uh they have this Innovative program they'd like to bring to Southwest ISD and so we're going to let them kind of introduce it and talk about it good afternoon board members and Senior staff thanks for having us um so today we have an item information of a new feeding program we're going to be starting um very soon
023I'm going to kind of go through our timeline and our goals and what it's going to look like but so what is this upper program so what we're looking at is adding an additional feeding program eventually districtwide which will offer a third free meal for our students before going home at the end of the school day it is going to be under a different feeding program still under our USDA guidelines um but just it's under this um child and adult care food program and what that looks like we just have to do a different state application which actually got approved on Monday so we have the thumbs up to go forward with it and it's just claimed under a different category and it has different um compliance and steps for starting the program as well
024this program does require an enrichment activity um to be going on to be able to feed all of our students but it is an all-inclusive program so as long as there's some enrichment and that looks like tutoring at a campus um the ChalleNGe Program chess club anything like that which actually occurs at most of our campuses as long as students are involved in that and that's going on we're able to feed all of our students districtwide and then just a another information once we do do start this program since it's going to be a brand new program for our district it will trigger an audit So within the first 90 days of operation we will have a state audit on this new program and then since the audit is going to be coming we're trying
025to get our ducks in a in a row um so we've been completing multiple trainings um Winston met with the principls I believe two weeks ago we just trained sh oh my goodness trained our Child Nutrition Staff last week we're introducing it to the board and Senior staff today um there will be one more required um Step that we'll need y'all's help with we need all board members to complete a civil rights training um which is about a 20 minute training it's on our safe schools are the vector trainings we currently use um I believe Mr crisp and Mona are going to work with varing out the best way for yall to complete that um and we just need that completed hopefully by March 18th before we get the program rolling just to make sure
026we're in compliance before we get started um and then we will be hosting a campus staff training um today tomorrow and Thursday via Zoom just to make sure all of our campus staff and principles are trained and ready to go on the program and then so what our implementation our goals and our timeline look like so right now we do have an after school snack program that offers all of our students in those like tutoring and challenges after school right now we give them about two to three meal items um with their snack but after spring break our goal is Tuesday March 18th to transition to more of a super snack or supper menu so immediately it'll still only affect the students we're currently feeding but it'll offer them a little bit more food um
027we're looking at more of a like five items so we'll be able to fill their bellies a little bit more as they're going through that after school snack program um and so right now we have about 14 campuses with the after school snack program so we're looking at transitioning the 14 campuses which is all 11 elementaries MC not McNair McNair is the only middle school right now without it um but it'll molof scobby um and Resnik so those 14 campuses will do our initial transition and then later in the spring about an April May timeline we're looking at running two pilot schools so the fairest way we could decide was picking the two are the elementary and the middle school with the highest um socio economic levels um so those two campuses that were chosen
028were hid in Cove and molth so we've been in contact with those principles and we're trying to set up meeting dates when we get back from spring break just to kind of go over what that's going to look like at their campus um to be our pilot school so we're at the elementaries we're going to be triing a supper in the classroom so um with a goal of the supper in the classroom will let us impact the most students and feed the most kids before they go home at the end of the school day and then middle schools and eventually high schools we're looking at doing supper through the cafeteria lines so hopefully we get the pilot schools going we're able to work out some Kinks to finally end up at our final goal which
029will be starting supper program districtwide at all campuses for next school year um and what that will look like it'll hopefully reflect our pilot programs um with supper or supper in the classroom with our elementary schools there will be a slight schedule shift we'll have to work with senior staff principes um in all the campuses on and what that kind of looks like is just we need about 10 minutes at the end of the school day for the end of the instructional time to end and then have 10 minutes to feed the kids before they're released to go home and on the buses as long as we're able to make that work in the schedule we're in compliance and we could hopefully feed more kids and then middle school and high school we'll just at
030the end of school day the bell will ring and we'll be able to just open the serving lines to feed those kids again before they go home at the end of the school day and then some great opportunities that starting this program outside of just feeding more kids um that we'll be able to offer now is this program actually lets us feed on Saturdays which we have not been able to do before so any tutoring or clubs that are meeting on Saturdays will be able to leave snacks for them and completely free to the student so hopefully that'll help out with some Financial burdens and then as long as there's an enrichment activity occurring um we will be able to feed our athletes before they go to practice or games or we could even send
031them with food on the bus as long as we have the correct paperwork and then just another um fun thing that they thought was interesting if we are hosting any athletic events U competitions um chess club competitions anything like that we could actually feed any students visiting our district 18 or younger through this program and completely free nobody will have to pay unless an adult wants to pay um so just to summarize the program there must be an enrichment activity going on for us to operate and feed the students and it must be after the end of the regular school day so that main thing is just trying to figure out that Elementary schedule shift um and then all food must be consumed on Southwest istd Campus grounds unless it's we have the correct paperwork
032for like a field trip if they're going to an athletic competition or something um and then overall the main goal will be to increase the amount of students that we're feeding before they go home at the end of the school day and then some large takeaways just we are looking at our forecast and numbers of how many students will be able to impact so right now with our current after school program we're feeding about 14,500 meals per month so we'll feed those kids just a little bit more right now with the Pilot School we're already looking at increasing about 10,000 meals per month and then overall when we get districtwide um which will really resemble our breakfast in the classroom numbers right now we'll be looking at a feeding 147,000 meals per and then overall
033because we are increasing the students we're feeding we'll increase our Child Nutrition Revenue which will there in therefore impact our program and will be able to offer more opportunities to our students moving forward and that is all I have does anybody have any questions or comments yeah we have a few questions go first I I'll go first um so what does it look like right now say it hidden Co use you we're feeding them snacks it how how how does that look right now we're just doing after school snack program one snack milk juice and who's doing like labor wise is that the cafeteria ladies or is that the teachers that are in charge of the after school or is that YMCA who's actually doing that c staff makes the snack leave ice chest and
034then whoever's doing the after school snack program is in charge of get the names checking them off us okay so then it be the same the cafeteria staff will make snacks for 450 kids at Hidden Cove I don't know the number I'm just making it up and then the teacher will feed them the after school supper or right now with just our small transition it it will basically resemble what we're doing right now it'll just give the kids a little bit more food when we pilot the school it'll look very similar to the breakfast in the classroom but now it'll be in the afternoon where we prep all the meals we actually um we'll be ordering these carts with things to keep food hot and cold so there'll be one of these per classroom um
035and we'll deliver this to the classrooms and then teachers will roll it in feed all the kids check them off the roster and then we'll get all the food back at the end of the day so we will have to once we get here we'll either have our staff working overtime if they want to that'd be our first option or we'll have to hire separate staff specifically to run this program since it'll run later than our typical hours and then I'm just thinking I'm a teacher and I have 22 kindergarten kids and I'm going to be cutting 10 minutes off my day of teaching so that I can feed 22 kids in 10 minutes and then still get the ones that are going to go to the bus and then I just don't know I
036don't see how that's happening in 10 minutes I'm so we went and visited East Central and that's kind of where we were able to see how the program ran um handson and we were kind of skeptical about the 10 minutes as well and they had no problem and students who actually were in the classroom and if they're going to an after school program they could take that meal with them as long as they're just not getting on the bus or heading home as long as they're on campus grounds they could take it with them and still consume it can they consume it while they're in the bus line as long as they're still on school grounds they can't so then the bus driver will just have to say no food on the bus yeah if
037there's a trash can there they could sit while they wait and consume their the rest of their meal if they didn't finish and then just throw it away before they get on the bus to middle school and high school are they sitting down in the cafeteria or tables are not going to be out chairs put up they walk into the hallway eating um the idea is that we have the cafeteria set up so we have the table and chairs we'll work with custodian staff um to make sure that happens and then if if there and we know there's some instru extra instructional minutes um because we've met with a senior stop about it so there are extra minutes somewhere in the schedule and maybe it's just a little Shift versus like creating a whole extra
03810 minutes because we know there's not much extra time in a day um so it'll be kind of a schedule shift um if anybody want to pipe in if I said that wrong feel free abely right okay and that's why we're able to actually feed them while they're still here versus going home if we didn't have that extra extra time it'd be completely after school um and some an idea we've been throwing around which it will 100% depend on what the principles can work with us with and what works at their campus um is maybe if they have the extra minutes at the middle schools and high schools to allow our bus students to be able to come and eat if they have extra time maybe send them a little earlier um but that's going
039to be a principal's call we're not going to ask them to take minutes away um to make sure those students get extra the trick is it's got to be after school so there's got to be like some kind of Bill or music or something to let know that start those minutes already built skes yes ma'am Sky remember blueberries little blueberries and it and it worked out great I mean the kids knew what to do she was eating her little blueberries as she walked out the hall and the principle didn't have a problem said go outside the main thing we want to do the pilot to make sure that get all the Kinks up before we do and we're we're piloting with two schools yes one Elementary will be heading Cove and then mola will be
040our Middle School I think the Middle School of it to I guess exciting as far as if you have like I have a daughter seventh grade there's that time frame where they're leaving to go to a game they have 20 minutes between 3 and 320 for us as parents to take them food if not they're until after the game so I think that that's going to be awesome especially their home game when they're sitting around for a hour that's actually how get a phone call from one of the Middle School parents and so then we went ahead and visited also the high school and of course we saw our coach Bru doing sand witches before the students went on their field trip or their game in the fall I followed up with Mr winon and
041also Brandon to just have some conversation around this as other school districts and in my experience as a campus principal we had this amazing opportunity for our kids where the parents didn't have to come especially in our local you know low Eco disc that I sered at the time parents didn't all have time to come and afford an extra meal so this is actually once WECT this we can turn around and even see a hot meal K could have a hot meal not just a snack and so that's something that we're excited about I think it's an awesome opportunity I just want to make sure that we're not um putting any more undue stress on the teachers that have I mean I can see a fifth grader grabbing the lunch and being happy but I'm
042just worry about the little four or five year olds classrooms awesome any more questions no mine was along the same just staing especially like at the high school I mean because like we do know they close all that down before so we going to have people obviously staying and making a few things but staying throughout or leaving and I'm guess that's stuff you guys going work out they have to sticking around I mean I'm sorry what will the staff have have to stick around after as far as our Child Nutrition staff um so that'll depend we're going to offer overtime to our current staff if they would like to work extra hours because we have a lot of staff that actually work two jobs so this will allow them to get more hours more income
043um but if we don't have enough staff to work that over time then we will be looking to hire to make sure we're fully SED and this is a new Revenue stream uh and we found through these programs that I mean the revenue for Child Nutrition has actually been pretty strong awesome uh so I new Revenue stream to bring in more Revenue which could tell us hiring some extra folks to to make sure we run this good that's thank you thank you Dela for bringing it up awesome thank you good good luck with the implementation okay um yeah he'll have to read a statement okay uh discussion of intruder detection audit findings ta recently conducted protction our campuses this a t whether cus is accessed individuals also helps our district identify how cus improve Safety
044and Security we acknowledge that parents and community members are like very interested in the details of the AUD however it is in best interest students discussed session today and it was discussed last month of our district safy andity thank you Mark okay so we will um go to can can they hear on the recording when they stand at that little Podium the record the people the recording I'm pushing it this way so let's just move that Podium just so people don't think that that's the the place to stand it's a good idea but yeah yeah I don't know how it um math instructional framework yes yes so we had another opportunity to apply for for so have just give us a historical overview of how the state has allowed us an opportunity to recover after
045Co and so we also have some great work that brought thank you all right um Madame vice president Este steem board members Dr Ball So today we're going to be talking about the math instructional framework and specifically about the lasso three Grant also so just a little overview since covid has happened te has had a number of grant opportunities for districts to apply for so over the past five years we've had in 2020 and through 2022 we had the resilient schools uh support program and 22 to 24 we had the T class the Texas covid learning acceleration support Grant and then 23 to 24 we had the first lasso Grant the learning acceleration support opportunity where we had had our strong foundation's literacy framework development and then most recently in 2024 2025 we had lasso
0462 where we had our strong foundations planning for Math and most recently just in the last week we were uh it was announced that we have been awarded lasto 3 for two areas the strong foundation's implementation for secondary math and the strong foundations Implement implementation School Improvement PLC Grant so those two portions of the also have been awarded to Southwest so I'm going to turn it over to Veronica so you she can tell you more about the math instructional framework so this right here is a recap of what Lisa just talked about this year um Elementary has been working with NI on developing the strong foundation's planning Grant um and then next year we will be moving to the implementation and PLC supports so this right here shows you that the work that we have
047been doing this year um is basically creating our vision for math uh in the district and then also um what does that look like as we begin to implement that math instructional framework so you'll see here that there are three components to the math instructional framework the first one being uh creating a vision statement for math for our district and it's really that desired outcome that we have for all of our students the next part of it is creating belief statements and these belief statements are aligned with the research based instructional strategies which we call RBS um and basically it's that high quality instruction in the content area of math lastly um it's about creating stakeholder actions so what are the actions that we want our leaders our teachers our students and even our families
048in order to accomplish our vision so you'll see that this is the math instructional framework you do have a copy I believe it's after the PowerPoint slides um and you'll see that we start with our vision statement and so in the vision statement that we created it says Southwest ISD is dedicated to fostering a community of curious resilient and critically thinking mathematicians who are able to navigate complex problems that impact our world the next part is those belief statements and you'll see that there are four because there are four RBS or research-based instructional strategies and I'm not going to read those but you can reference them in your packet lastly we create those stakeholder actions and so B basically we have um the actions that we would like our students to take our teachers to
049take our instructional leaders and our families also and so there is one for each of the belief statements that we have set out so we're happy to report that we actually submitted our um instructional framework to te um it was approved and we're happy to say that it was given a rating of exemplary um by tea um and so when talking to our approved provider in IET one of the things they said is now that they will be using our framework as a model for other districts um so we're really happy to report that and so as we continue this work um you will see that uh now what we're going to do is we have facilitated the math instructional framework going over it with our principles last week we went over it with our
050assistant principles and vice principles and um starting this next month we are going to start delivering it to campus teachers so we want to make sure that everybody knows what are those action steps that we need from every stakeholder in order for us to accomplish our vision and so we will be visiting campuses and rolling that out myself Bonnie and Sonia uh will be delivering that uh to elementaries by staff meetings so we have those scheduled already and that's what we will be doing to present it to the campus teachers and now I'm going to turn it over to anra well we are happy to say that the middle school did get approved for the strong foundations grant for 6 through eight and algebra of $296,000 so what is the strong Foundation implementation Grant the
051purpose is to provide funds to the campus to uh to enhance instruction but 70% of that those funds are tied to a partnership with a provider we are going to continue that partnership with NAIT because they've already laid the framework with Elementary and jump on board to start delivering that math framework to the rest of the district we're also um excited to say that we also were awarded the PLC supports which was $215,000 um which would is 100% back to the provider this support is for McNair Resnik and scobby they will provide 20 ons sites professional development for those teachers during that time they're going to help teachers to really look into the lesson and internalize the lessons instead of thinking of what I'm going to teach now how do I go about to teach
052it lastly the other pieces for this grant is they're going to work with District leadership myself and and Bonnie and instruct and the campus teams to create action plans around um math instruction so that we see that Improvement of long long-standing achievement throughout even when the grant has surpassed the 20 20 plc's on site and then learning walks we will have four different times during the year they will provide learning walks um with myself and campus leadership so that we can walk alongside them to see is the implementation of that high quality instruction being implemented and what other additional supports are we're going to need because we will still have that $76,000 left after providing it to the to the provider thinking about what what else do we need we've already started thinking about for
053the summer we've mapped out some dates to bring in the teachers to provide training and they will be compensated for their time with through the use of the Grant in addition um we're also looking at do we need to hire Subs throughout the year and in the event when we do our walks if there's something that our teachers are missing could that nit U provider come in and do some quick PD with them and provide some subs for them as well an NRA real quick um you said three of the middle schools yes you say m no it is McNair Resnik and scobby um they are targeted Improvement campuses okay and so because of that but um I did speak to the provider because um We are continuing the the partnership they charge per day
054not by person and so I will be able to invite Malla to sit in so that they would get the same supports as well awesome thank you and this is in your packet it's just a reminder of what is hqi qim and we have decided to move forward um with blue bonnet learning we had an opportunity to provide U samples of the three resources that ta deemed as high quality instruction materials which was agile mines stem Scopes and blue bonnet um principles looked at the materials first and um in a small group and they were all in in favor of blue bonnet then we met with all the math leads and they too were all in favor of of blue mon Blue Bonnet and then we met with all all campuses through plc's 12 out
055of the 14 groups at Middle School were in favor of blue bonnet and so we are already um piloting at seventh grade and so the feedback from teachers is that it's very TurnKey it has everything that that they need it they just need the time to internalize the resources the two out of the you said 12 out of 14 and the two groups that didn't like it did they give a reason why they didn't like it um they they were looked at it at the lens of a student and so we had to remind them they had to look at the lens as a teacher if I was a brand new teacher coming in would this resource be able um to support me to be able to deliver the lesson and so the other two
056the other two that chose the other one it looked more kid-friendly but it didn't really give enough information for the teacher to be able to deliver the lesson okay thank you and that is all I have any questions but do we current we already currently use blue Bonet M we name of theur is eure okay eure they went ahead and created more Texas version of it called so it it's it's your plus okay okay have and bnie and we want to give the aimp in regard this is the most recent data and additional assessments and that has been something that we have heard from our teachers so much testing and so each piece of the assessments have a different purpose and so that's something that we do want to just make sure that we iterate
057and share with the board that every assessment has a purpose and so good afternoon so I do have your packet um to make it because we are going to go through a lot of data I made it to simplify it a little bit just to buy color coding so my color coding system is if it's red that means it's more than 10% of where we were last year everything is being compared to Star last year um so we star Remember is an end of a year assessment so this assessment we do have for all the subjects except for math was a February assessment so we still have time to make up that difference so if it's red it was more than 5% if it's green it's within 10% and if it's blue we've already surpassed
058what we did on Star last year so if you look at the third grade scores we're very close we were 11% when it come came to the approaches level for all students um and then 28% and 8% when it comes to Masters if you look at the subgroups again you can see the numbers there for our emergent bilingual we were all within 10% of the numbers and for special ed we're surpassing where we were for approaches last year um and then we're within 10% of the other two and then our Spanish numbers again we are falling behind when it comes to um where we should be for for third grade we have to remember that one third grade it's the first year that they're they're um taking the star test so that's an adjustment another
059thing is they have smaller assessments but the The Benchmark is the first time they take a 4-Hour test which a lot of that has to do with endurance um and so we are work working with with all our students making sure that they have what they need um I currently do not have a reading coordinator but I've been going out and providing training uh for the students and talking to the teachers and clarifying things um and so we're aware of it and we're working hard and putting into plans to to help close that Gap when it comes to fourth grade elar this was again was uh the beam which we just took in February as you can see um all green and blue um which is good to see um and it's nice to see
060too that we are very close to what we received on Star last year so it just means we're going to get even higher just because again it's an end of the year assessment and they have from now until April to be able to make those scores go even higher and then the last one is fifth grade for elementary again blue and green um you have to remember this is now the fourth graders they have taken it taken it once so they've had that experience fifth graders have taken it twice um and so I think that those that time and that that experience and being able to experience a long test really does help with those grades plus maturity level um I taught fourth grade most of my career and students really do grow from after
061Christmas to Before Christmas to after Christmas so I'm really proud out of our fifth graders any questions with the elar before we move forward okay so then middle school again very proud we typically take a dip when it goes from thir fifth grade to sixth grade um but in this case we're not we're holding steady so that's good the reasons for the dip is because they're moving from an elementary setting to a middle school setting and it's just a different Atmos atmosphere for them but as you can see all the way down we're in blue lots of blue and green um so we're really excited for what our our middle school students are going to do for us in Star for high school again just like we have a dip uh from fifth grade to
062sixth grade sometimes we have that same from eighth grade to nth grade because they're moving from a middle school setting to a high school setting um again it that's that transitional year um and so again my my coordinator Chris ainger is working very closely with the English one teachers making sure that they have what they need looking at the materials um and and again coming up with plans that will help us to get from where we are now to to start and then 10th grade English to um again it's it's their second year of being in high school and they're doing fine uh they're in blue and green there too for science science has been something that that has always been a concern of mine um as we are moving more into um high quality
063instructional materials in Star 2.0 it's imperative that a fifth grade test is no longer just a fifth grade test it is a K5 test so we're really trying to show the importance to our our K4 teachers that they need to be teaching science on a daily basis because the fifth grade test they teach uh they test third grade tis fourth grade teaks and fifth grade teaks when we did some digging into this data for fifth grade the tis that were low considerably low were the third grade and the fourth grade TI on that test so again we're going to have some uh Lindsay is going to have every W Tuesday or Wednesday I can't remember which state it is um but she's going to have a training on the loques um and and teachers are
064able to come to those training and she'll have them every every Tuesday I think it's Tuesday every Tuesday between now and star um just talking about what is this teak and tail what is the vocabulary that the students need and how is it that we can raise those scores when it comes to Middle School uh yes ma'am to help support you and and getting those teachers to come I think it's again just helping us to get the word out and you putting uh just talking to the principles and saying it's very important that we have them attend that t should we tell the principles that have no choice because looking at these SCS I don't want us to be at the end and I it would be be Wonder wonderful if you did that I
065think that that would really help let's do that to to support Bonnie because if Lind putting in all this effort to do the trainings let's say that each principal let's pick a number whatever y'all think is best you're the expert let's say every campus has to send five or three you pick the number and if you want me to deliver the message I want to support you because I know that this isn't what you want to see inside I didn't mention it but in the same respect I'm providing a training after school on the 18th 19th and 20 to improve ECR scores which is extended constructed response that's the writing portion where the students actually actually have to write an essay which is worth 10 points of the of the scor which is about onethird
066and that's where we see a decline as well and so that would be another area that I would really want uh the third fourth and fifth grade teachers to attend that the same thing because you're the expert at this the teachers need to hear from you and see it so then we have too many new teachers that aren't hearing and seeing it from you the expert the other training is during the day the other train all of the training will be after school U with the training with uh we're having it for math as well so that's why I said it was either Tuesday or Wednesday Tuesday will be science uh and Lindsay will perform that for all we'll have that for all fifth grade teachers but then Sonia my math coordinator is going to
067have it on Wednesday and that's going to look at how are teeks linked from third to Fourth to 5ifth because they are linked and she's going to be doing training like on problem solving and how do you use the redraw right strategy to uh help them to unpack that so she'll have a series of them as well uh all of the trainings I think are from like 4 to five o'clock minus from four to five o'clock um but the ones Lindsay and um Sonia's will be virtual mine I wanted it face to face because there's a little bit more interaction so another message I think s right Tron is that this is going to prepare the teachers to tutor their kids so we can pay them because this is preparation right so deliver that message
068to the principles and let them know we'll pay the teachers and y'all could help us to please um we'll pay the teachers to come to this because then we expect for them to redeliver what you share with them thank you so much no thank you bnie for all this extra work yeah it does the virtual really work we we don't even know if they're paying attention it well yes and no I think that they're I think that it helps people to where they're not driving and they're able to to to have have a place um it all depends on the individual but it can be the same thing for a face Toof face you can have individuals that come but they're just sitting there and sitting in a chair so um yeah and yes on
069their phone so can I say one is better than the other I've done both I person personally prefer face to face because I feel I'm a better presenter when I'm looking people in the face and in the eyes um where virtually I just sometimes stumble and I don't feel comfortable so I just had told Veronica I prefer face to face is this something in the schools that we can Target and say okay you're really low is this something that we could actually pull the teachers out during the day and like admin or somebody could go in for that hour or whatever it is and then they would have to attend because it's during the school day I'm not saying every school but maybe we maybe lunch maybe we tell them okay on your lunch hour
070we're gonna do this training and we're gonna I'm sorry but we'll provide lunch and then they have to go because they're at the school already and so can really we could look into that and come up with a plan um because then that would assure that everyone with this e training that I'm doing I did pilot it at a campus just to see because I haven't been in the classroom for a while they ALS because I said I'm looking at as Theory you're going to look to see if it has the practice and they all came back and said what you told us works completely so then that's when Veronica had said let's take that out so um there are a couple of other campuses that I'm going to the campus Because I want to
071make sure everyone gets it well maybe we just Target those that are just really critical and we do it during the day and then whatever maybe during their planning period I don't know well the planning period yes but their conference and their lunch are kind of SEC time let's do the planning period and this will be your on this day this is your planning period yeah because I was going to say I mean I know that they have plcs daily I'm assuming they do a lot of the campuses have it from 7:30 to 8:30 in the morning it's different with Elementary yeah most of them have it from 7:30 to 8:30 but we probably could talk to those campuses and I'm sure the principles would allow us of 2% yeah I think it's easier to
072get substitutes to do this because after hours I it's harder to get people to stay even if you pay them and that no I know because I mean maybe they have to get their kid from the daycare I mean maybe they just can't stay um but somehow we could do it during the day not necessarily to every single Elementary but the ones that we feel really need it we'll definitely look into that thank you for the suggestion social studies um um we do again with this is the the the beam that they took very proud of our eighth grade that they have surpassed where they did in Star um as a disclaimer for US History it is a very long test 64 questions um and taking an assessment in February is not covering all the
073te so that's where we are with us history they still have a lot to cover um I was informed by Oscar science our our uh social study specialist that the 90s to today is the biggest section that is tested and they're just getting into those units now um so one of the things I wanted to do um and zelene knows this that we're going to pull on Friday we're going to zero out any of the questions that has to do with those that time period of the 90s to the 2000 up to date we're going to pull those out rescore uh because this has all of the questions look to see where we are with everything that is taught and um I'm sure that our scores will go up okay for the math we this
074is still December data uh because math is the we take uh star in stages it's first elar and then it is science and social studies and then it's math so we don't take them all in one week we spread them out for a in about a month's period so that's kind of um daunting for the war the campuses to be kind of in testing on for a month um so they are taking we're getting the math scores in as we speak so campuses are taking those assessments today and tomorrow so this is what we have in December um again the uh we had just one area fifth grade that we were a little bit nervous about but they are the grade level that has a math elar and science so they have three tested areas
075so a lot of times we see that little bit of a dip just because there's three three tests that they have to score when we do get our beam scores in there probably will will be um a lot quite quite quite a bit of red again because it we take the test right now in March but it is an end of the year test and they still have Concepts that they need to teach and that is always the way it's been even when I was in the classroom so as a math math teacher I would know which teeks have been taught and which haven't so we're aware of that and then the last is secondary um again that's December data the last that's that is our most recent data for our common assessments and again
076we have um a lot of blue and green which is good to see um and then algebra algebra 1 does have that 58 um and that includes our middle school students and our high school students but it's just the students who are taking it for the first time not R testers and that's all I have for the data if there's any questions that you have I just want to say uh obvious that y'all are working super hard um thank you Delila for supporting whatever I don't know what y'all are doing but it's nice to see not a lot of red and anytime we you see red we we' come up with a plan to figure out how we can make that to be a better color thank you so much okay um do we need
077a Clos session yes we do okay so uh as permitted by SEC SE d55146 of the Texas government code we will go into close session okay we'll go back into Open session at 109 and there are no actions on closed session so Dr Paul do you have one more thing I do we have a lot of great events going on today at 2 o'clock if any of the board members would like to go we have a teacher from Resnik that's being honored for HB Excellence so today at two o'clock after the tour if you'd like to attend that then tonight we have an amazing art show by our students so that's at Southwest High School that starts at 5:30 and that is tonight uh tomorrow we have the food distribution if anybody wants to help
078out with that we will be having that um Friday Friday night we have a soccer game it's going to be a great game because for sure we will win either way we have Southwest High School and Southwest Legacy plane so either way and we will be upstairs and we'll have food if anybody wants to join us for that um at Legacy Legacy if anybody wants to join us for that and then on Saturday it's the second annual see her lead but this year it's at the holiday in on 151 at 9 o'cl if anybody would like to um attend that event and then just a reminder you do have this this is for today's art show and then Resnik is inviting U the board to this event on March the okay that's all I have
079that all okay Friday wow awesome I guess we'll bring bringing them to the boardroom yeah sometime soon okay and the basketball team and the basketball team all right any nothing else then we're going to adjourn at 111