0016:00 we'll go ahead and get started. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance or do we have any? It's after that. Uh pledge of allegiance by Mr. Chapa and the board mission statement by Brian. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor of the Texas flag to the Texas one and indivisible. Yeah. The Tulsa Midway ISD board mission statement. Through high expectations and equitable opportunity, TMISD will focus on the whole child by providing a safe environment and highquality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences. Okay. Uh we have no public comment, so we'll move into the next item and that's recognitions. We have some student recognitions today. We sure do, Mr. President.
002Members of the board, we're going to recognize our intermediate future CH chef recognitions, our band state qualifiers, uh, academic scholars from UIL Primary and Middle School, and then the two TASBY scholarship recipients. So, plenty of recognitions if you all will join me. Thank y'all for being here. Take as many pictures, position yourself. We're making some memories tonight. We have future stuff right here. How many do we have? We have three. And they're only half. Go ahead and stand right there. Keep walking. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. And nice outfit, too, dude. I like it. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm going to turn it over to Miss Martin representing Sedexico and this initiative and our kids. So, in February, a couple months ago, we had a a competition, cooking competition, and we um had fourth and
003fifth grade sign up at the intermediate. We had 13 um people that applied. We I narrowed it down to six finalists. And these are three of our supp uh finalists and winners. We had some great uh food items. They they did really great. Uh and we want to at this time at the night of the of the uh event, we did give them their prizes and they've already started using their pots and their pans and their cutting boards. What you got? You got kitchen kitchen utensils. Yes, sir. They got some pretty good uh baking and and measuring spoons and it was really nice. It was really nice. But at this point, um, they had everything from chicken alfredo pizza rolls, ramen with eggs, but our first place winner was Emma Mueller with the ham and
004cheese sliders, which by the way, tonight is being fed to the uh board. We did have three board members attend. Told me I'm two years in a row. She making any of that at home. We also had our third place was Herardo and he made a delicious item. Uh it was and they were great. He won third place. He's going to do it again next year. And another of our finalist was Addison. She did some pizza rolls. So it was really great. And so we just wanted to recognize them tonight. They're getting their certificates and their medals. [Applause] Good job, guys. Missbody. The kids are taller than I am. Here we go. One, two, and three. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Got it. Congratulations. To send these to the warrior so you
005don't Please. And we'll get them to the other ones. You want to get in there, chef? All right. Good job, guys. Good. We're good. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay. Pleasure. Good job, guys. You're looking sharp, sir. Take that to the beach with me. Come on in. [Music] Come on. Make yourself no. You want me to get behind the TV? I'll walk you over. What do I need? Hello. Come on in. I have pizza with I know they got excited when they got to come back to the room. Come on in. Come on in. How are you? Good. [Music] Okay. Um, thank you, uh, school board for having us here tonight. We're very excited to show you all our hard work. Um, out of the 23 students, we had, nine students earn places at competition this year,
006and we were so proud of them. We were only a few points shy of getting we were fourth place for sweep stakes. We were so close but we worked really hard and so we are going to recognize them tonight. First up from our creative writing team which is one of our hardest events because there was over 40 students competing in it for in sixth place was Samada Kazada. And then we had music memory and both our students that placed were just shy of having perfect scores but there were so many perfect scores that um there were a lot of ties. So in seventh place was Jeremiah Aosta and in 10th place was Amira Soya. um project. Oh, thank you. We have one of our coaches, Miss Miller, our music memory coach. Um our next uh
007team was our project-based art team. Um and this is a drawing competition for them and we had uh one of our students place first place and that is um Alan Elich Ell. And then in fifth place, we have Milani Gonzalez. And they both did a fantastic job. And then our last one is our chess puzzle team. And um as you can see, we have our full team here because with our students scores, they ended up placing as a team first place. So um so with that we have first we have who got first place overall out of all the students and first place team we have Kayen Pacheco. So he has gotten two medals [Applause] today. Good job. In sixth place, getting a sixth place ribbon as well as first place team medal is Xavier
008[Applause] Gar. And then as part of our team, we have Cecilia Ward. Her score helped us get to first place. Ah, they got tangled. Here we go. They didn't want to leave each other. Give them bullets to her. There we go. There we go. We have Cecilia Ward. And then we also have Seth Cortinez who is also an important member of our chess club. We are so proud of our primary members. Our coaches, some of our coaches could not be here. Like I said, I'm Mrs. Carvajal. I'm the coordinator. Um, also I coach everything when the coaches can't be there. I coach a little bit of everything. Miss Miller did a wonderful job with our music memory team this year. Um, Miss Pettis was our chess puzzle coach this year. This was her first year
009coaching and they came out on top. So proud of them. Um, Miss GTO was our project um, based art coach. Uh, Miss Ramirez was our storytelling. Unfortunately, we did not move to finals for storytelling, but they worked hard. That's a tough event. Um, and they're all they're ready for next year. Um, and then we had Miss Treywood, which was our creative writing coach. So, we had two brand new coaches this year, and we had students place in both of their teams. So, I want to add to our parents. Thank y'all so much for getting them to practice, keeping them inspired and practicing something that's not typically looked at because this is the beginning of what t what happens in TM speech and debate, CTE. That's them. This is the future of TMC CTE. That brand
010new building they're adding on to the high school. That's for them. So, keep it up. Keep them coming to practice. Keep them wanting to get these medals cuz they're not they're going to keep getting these things. So, thank you'all so much for supporting this amazing program. Thank you. Scoot back a little bit and we're going to take a picture. Parents, get where you need to get. Let's move back a little bit. [Music] I can see let's There you go. There we go. There we go. We got to make sure. We did it. Easy. You're going to make me fall on the TV. Thank you. One more. Good job. One more. Hold on. One more. Don't move. Don't move. Sorry, guys. Hold up your ribbons, guys. One, two, and three. Good job. Good job. Thank you.
011Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for having us. We enjoyed it. Can you get up? Yeah. The chair is rolly. Congratulations. Did I get it? Send it again. Okay. All right. Who do I have here? All right, we ready. Come on, guys. Go right through this little hallway right there. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Nice job. Look at you all styling. Nice shirt. Congratulations. Over here. Over here. How you doing? It's been a week here. Congratulations. You're looking good tonight. Good to see you all. How are you? You have a good Easter. Okay. Stay down. Stay down. This way. This way. This way. Come down. Come down. Come down. This way. You want to line up here? Everybody line up on the air. [Music] There we go. There we go. There we go. Okay. [Music]
012This is sixth grade, sir. Here we go. This is what? in. There's one seat over there if anybody wants to jump on that end. Just come on in. We'll find down. There you go. Sixth grade. Sixth grade. Hello. Go ahead. Sixth grade. Sixth grade. We'll make some memories tonight. Sixth grade. You got everybody? [Music] This is one of three. Yes. Uh this way parents can. Is this from our A-rated campus, the middle school? Congratulations. [Applause] Hello. Thank you all parents. Thank you for being patient. Thank you for allowing your children to be in UIL. Our coaches this year did such a phenomenal job. We're thankful that you keep letting them come back to us and we're learning every year a little bit more on how to make it bigger and better as your team. So,
013we're going to get started because I know we have a lot to give out in sixth grade. So, I'm going to bring up Miss Garces, who's our spelling UIL coach. So, we have spelling Jack Frley. Place [Applause] [Music] social studies. We have the social studies team got first place. We have Reed Carvis and Mason Mar. [Music] Now we have social studies individual Come over here. Come over here. So, Mason Marine individual. First place. Here we go. Congratulations. Yes. Back up. Here we go. Second place. Here we go. Don't forget the medals. and Memphis Sanchez fifth place for individual. Congratulations. Then we have science team fifth place with Lucas Gonzalez. Here we go. Good job. I Ben fifth place team science. Now um Miss Yates, Miss Modis, we have number sense team was our fourth place
014and we have Brock Heath. All right. And then we have maps, charts, and graphs. Coach Coach Gonzalez. And we got our team for second place. We have Reed and Troy Garza. Our chest is next. Our chess team got um first place for sixth grade. And we have Luca Martinez. And we have Amos Lee. and Rocky. Our dictionary skills team got third place with Cecilia Lupk. Addison Garcia. We have had oral reading. Our order or oral reading was Nella Esabel for second place. Then we had our modern oratory was Olivia Martinez. First place Natalie McDow was our second place. Cecilia Lucas. [Music] Our ready writing was Cecilia Lucas. Then we had our math team was fifth place and we have Mason Marie. Congratulations. Congratulations. Then we have our impromptu speaking event. Cecilia Lucas, first [Applause] place.
015Here we go. There you go. Congrat ESL. Second place, Sophia Angel. Third place. And then lastly, our maps, charts, and graphs individual. We had Reed again for third place. Congratulations. Good job. Oh my goodness. That is awesome. I know. Okay. And then we also had our listening skills team for first place. Cecilia Lucas, Madison Garcia for those are good job. [Applause] Congratulations. Is there any way we can organize right there facing that way? [Music] We're all friends. You can scoot back a little bit. [Music] Yes. You want to scoot up here? Everybody get a photo. I'll be okay. I already got my selfie. Hey, everybody look over here. Who's behind Mason? Sorry, I can't see you. Find a window, kid. Okay. One, two. Okay. All right. Don't move. I got to take one. Okay. This
016one's fingers. Don't look nervous. Smile pretty. One, two, and three. Let me try to zoom in a little bit. One, two, and three. Good job, guys. Oh my goodness. Good job. Yep. So, we're going to go to your parents and I can't go back to the library. [Music] Thank you. Smile. Pretty. How you doing, coach? Ready, please. Good. All right, sir. Oh, yeah. Yes. Seventh and eighth is together. There's more kids that won. Just not everybody is here. So, they're just announcing the people. I love their shirt. build. That is so cool. [Music] Seven seven. [Music] Is there any way we could get the two high school kids? Is UIL band next? Um, we have Who do we have left? the two scholarship. Let's put the two before the band so there'll be people here.
017Okay, you ready? Hi parents. Thank you so much for being here and we had a very successful UIL season and I know that next year is even going to be bigger and better with your support. We're going to do great good things. So let's go ahead and get started. I know they're not going to get their medal. Okay, ready? We'll start with editorial writing. Lorenzo Sosa, third place. Congratulations. Impromptu speaking. Congratulations with Juliana Arius. First place, [Applause] Carter Plimper, second place. [Applause] and Derek Lucas fourth place. Congratulations. Congratulations. Then we had oral reading. Congratulations. Congratulations with Carter Plimpmper. Second place. Thank you so much. And Mattaline Ellander, fifth place. [Applause] Congratulations. Congratulations. We had calculator application. This was our team event. They placed fourth with Lorenzo [Applause] Sosa and Carlos Gonzalez. Congratulations. Well done. Congratulations.
018Then we had chess team placement for third place with Augustine Gamboa. [Applause] There's gonna delay, but then we had listening skills, listening skills with Lorenzo Sosa, fourth place. This is the team. Yes, I do. There's a box right outside. Okay. Two seconds. One second. Thank you. And they also won first place team. Yes. First place team for listening was Lorenzo Sza and Carlos Congratulations. And then fourth place individual for Lorenzo Sza. [Applause] We had modern oratory with Juliana [Applause] Arius. Congratulations. And then Derek Lucas, second place, we have dictionary skills team at third place. Congratulations, Lorenzo Sza. [Applause] And Carlos Gonzalez. [Applause] Map charts and graphs team event placed third with Remington Gonzalez. [Applause] Carly Gonzalez [Applause] and our social studies individual Remington Gonzalez. And that is our [Applause] Thank you guys. And while we're
019waiting, I'll just tell you a little story. So, um, UIL probably the past 15 years or better. Um, I've been working with that in middle school. A lot of these other people have also. So, we're in a really tough district. Just like with sports, we have Flower Bluff and Cal Allen and Gregory Portland to contend with Seashore Learning Academy at the middle level and they're that they have classes for this. They do it all day long. So if you can get even in the top six, it's a big deal. So if your kid comes home and they're like, "Oh, I only got fifth place." Highly competitive. It's highly competitive. So that's really a good placing. Awesome. Congratulations, guys. [Applause] Augie, Lorenzo, another one. Okay. Not everybody. Remington. Scooch this way. Remington. There you go. Okay.
020One, two. All right. Give me one second. Sorry, guys. Here we go. One, two, and three. Good job, guys. [Applause] Most [Music] people cut. Okay. eighth grade. Eighth grade parents, this is going to be a girl. I think this was Yeah, that's way better. [Music] Okay, ready? Is that over? Is that all the parents? There's no one else. Thank you parents for letting us have your children for so many hours for practices. We've had a really awesome, pretty good um eighth grade UIL year. They were the grade level that placed third in sweep stakes in the district. So, we have a nice trophy for y'all's hard work and effort. So, hopefully next year we'll see all of them back again for another UIL season. We're going to get started. Impromptu speaking. We have walking tier
021third place. We have modern or oratory. Congratulations. Maline VA first place. Helina Miller third place. Congratulations. And Carson Boon fifth place. Congratulations. Our calculator applications team. was fourth place with Alexandria Medina and Autumn Medina for [Music] we have our oral reading with Carson Boon first place. and Selena Miller. Second place, we have our number six team event. Third place with Alexandria Medina and Autumn Medina. Thank you. Then we have science individual. Thank you Maline Bailey. Congratulations. Fourth place. Oh, we have a lot more. Oh, they're not here. Let's get a picture. Well, eighth grade listening skills got third place as a team. There we go. Social studies got first place individual [Applause] Eighth grade impromptu got second place. Eighth grade test puzzle got third place as a team. Impromptu first place and eighth grade impromptu
022speaking. An amazing speaking to congratulations. That's very good picture with all the [Music] coaches. Man, you guys are getting toast. One, two, and three. Got it. Great job, guys. Good job. Great job. Travis, they abandoned me to leave me home. They left me by myself. I know. Yes. picture. Um [Music] obvious if you have to switch switch in front like a little Yeah, just find a window. Okay, here we go. Okay. And now uh Mel, let me get you on this side. All right. Here we go. One, two, and three. Got it. Good job, guys. Great job. Successful because of y'all. Thank you. Great job. I've got to go grab my first promise I'm not stealing your cake. That's everybody's going on. Is that all the Hello. Hello. You have your straight from this party.
023Okay. These are my kids. I get to be teacher. We've had the superintendent advisory council for going on two years now. Initially there was about 160 applicants and they filled out a resume and uh wrote about an essay why they want to be part of leadership and then we had a committee of teachers and they picked 14. Last year I had four seniors graduate and we kept it at 10. And these are my two seniors that'll be leaving me next month. And they've they've had a a wide range comprehensive leadership seminar as well as being directly involved in some of the important decisions we've made as a district. Um last year, uh TLO Midway ISD was selected for a $1,000 Tech Association of School Board scholarship. And this entity uh allowed me to split the
024scholarship and give it to my two seniors, Anokei Baka and Ilana [Applause] Aras. Go around and shake their hands and then we'll get a picture and they will represent Midway. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. If you haven't seen, their pictures are up on the wall over here. I'm just I can't tell you how proud I am of them. As a superintendent, I don't get to have students because I have 30 3,700 of them, but these 10 are are It reminds me of when I was a teacher. I'm just so proud of them. Want to situate themselves? Yeah, there. If we can get the two. Yep. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. All right, sir. Here we go. Got it. Thank you. We can't give them their money tonight because of UIL regulations, but as soon as they graduate, we'll give
025them two checks for $500 each. Congratulations. Going to school. Where you going to school? I'm going to Kingsville. Kingsville. Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you parents. Thank you. It's more of those congratulations. You've earned the right to go to entrance. Thank you so much for everything you do. Thank you for waiting. Come on, guys. We have our band. Yes, sir. Hello, Missifers. Good to see you. Congratulations on your achievements. You know, I love the band. Congratulations. Start line up here and then you'll shake our hand after this. Perfect. Come on in. Bam. Excuse me. Mr. Morouse, before you start, I just as superintendent schools, uh, you have one of the most successful band booster clubs that I've ever been associated with. And I know your work throughout the year, but particularly during our football season, you man
026the home concessions, and I just want you to know how proud I am and thankful for the work that you do in partnership with your school. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. I appreciate you all and thank you for being here. Parents, I do want to take some time to thank the school board and Mr. VMI for taking time from your meeting to recognize your students. Uh tonight we're um congratulating and recognizing students that made either all state um band or have advanced to the all state level for solar ensemble contest. So we got 13 in total, 11 will be presented today. Uh first making All State uh on trumpet is Jared Alejandro. [Applause] Um earning the chair in the also the the all state band and also qualifying on a solo is Anthony
027Flores. Advancing to state ensemble contest in May on flute. Olivia Gatsa. Yay. advancing to state solo ensemble contest on clarinet Bernice [Applause] Casares also on clarinet solar ensemble state qualifier Lanna lasso um the third member of their trio also on clarinet Miss Greta Bay of the saxophone ports in advancing the state solar ensemble contest Dante Gamulations. Another member of the ensemble is Ariandez and also Matthew Martinez. Congratulations. Advancing to state solo ensemble contest on a French horse solo. Kristen Pettis And last but not least this evening, advancing the state solar ensemble contest on a percussion solo is McKinnon Ty. [Applause] The other two students were Natalie that was could not get out of work and another student Francisco Martinez. he was absent today. So, unfortunately, we're not be able to be here. But, um, we're
028very thankful for the support we always get from the upper admin school board all the way down to our campus admin, Mr. Alvarado, the rest of the the staff, our teachers, but more especially our parents. We are very blessed as band directors to have that support. I've worked for five districts now, and I've never seen the support that we get for our band students. So, um, we're looking to continue the progress and the success. So, thank you all very much. Yes. Come on in. We don't bite. We promise. He will definitely be in the back. So, I'm sure I'm sure they know that uh part of the successful uh bond in 2023. Uh we've allocated and spent close to $700,000 investing back into the band program for new instruments. So, thank you and congratulations. Thank
029you. Thank you. All right. Next, we get All right. Here we go. Um, one, two, and three. Congratulations, C. Thank you. [Music] Thank you so much. That's it. We're good. Such a win. Congratulations. Thank you, man. I didn't recognize congratulations. You got one more day. Principal when I was intermediate volleyball coach and tennis coach. Your favorite coach is dad. It's cuz whenever our [Music] He's the only he's got kids. [Music] Thank you. Fancy with your cricket. I know. Golly. Okay. Anybody need hand sanitizer? Have some. You got some. Thank you. Good. How are you? I appreciate that. Let me know if you ever need any. Yes. Thank you. hater in the playoffs now. I I can't imagine that's tough. Nothing. Nothing like was it the valley team? Oh yeah. Hyo pond actually won. All right,
030that was a very good time right there doing some student recognitions. We'll move on to our action items. The first action item is discuss and consider approval of the TEA peak certification for 2025 through 2026. Mr. President, members of the board, this is an annual requirement by the Texas Education Agency. the uh Texas essential knowledge and skills are the state certified curriculum and I'll turn it over to Dr. Sham to walk you through the process. Okay. Um good evening um board president, board members, um faculty and staff. Um yes, this is an annual uh requirement every year that we have to certify to the state board of education and to the commissioner of education that we are providing access uh access to instructional materials that cover um our TEICS and in addition it has to
031be um we're certifying that we also cover all of the subjects with the exception of U PE in addition to this we're also certifying that we are also in compliance with the um child protection act which basically we're making sure that our kids are not exposed to any type of harmful obscene um language or um just material in general. So what you have here is um this is the certification that's for for next year for the 2526 school year. And so as you have the opportunity to review through this um through this form, what you're going to notice is that oops, let me see. is that what they're asking as you go through this form is that what we're doing is we are stating for every um for every content, for every grade level, what
032we are required to do is we have to enter the publisher, we have to enter the the name of the instruction material that we are using for for the next school year. So, as you went through this um certification form, you're going to notice that on the form, you're going to notice that we're implementing Blue Bonnet for the next school year. So, that's going to be K5 Blue Bonnet uh for RLA as well for uh math. Math will also go all the way up to 8th grade. In addition, you're also going to find um one of the new instruction materials. There's only three things. the the RLA for blue bonnet for RLA in math and then for science last year was the proclamation year to order science um instructional materials. We were able to uh
033focus on the lower grades those particularly those testing areas. This year we are going to focus on high school. Um we're needing new biology books, chemistry, uh what was the other one? An Let me interrupt you for a second. We we like to use acronyms a lot. RLA is reading language arts. Sorry. Yes. So, um that's going to be our focus for next year. We want to make sure that we're providing um our high school students with, you know, um with materials. It's been a while. So, like I said, this past year because we didn't have our bianium um aotment, but this year in September, we'll get the allotted amount. So, that's going to help fund and purchase those additional materials. Um we're very fortunate this year because we um in addition to the um
034annual allotment, we also were given two additional um funding buckets. And so in those other two buckets, we were able to purchase uh the blue bonnet material for the reading language arts and for our math um instructional um program. So bas can you talk a little bit about they're aware of HQIM and now Blue Bonnet. Can you talk about how they're actually married? Okay. Yes. So in previous years we or actually with since we've been here the last three years we've been moving towards high quality instructional material HQIM. And so the state came out with amplify. So that year we've moved towards amplify which is HQIM. And so when we came out with amplified and Eureka basically they they bought those intellectual rights. Okay. Um, so they were kind of like used nationwide and so
035the state of Texas bought those intellectual rights and so over the course of these years they've been modifying getting input from teachers uh to make it more to where it's more Texas align. So over the years amplify and Eureka has now modified and morphed into what we're now going to be implementing next year which is the text blue bonnet curriculum. And so this curriculum is more star aligned which is what teachers have been asking. Um and the teaching framework is the same. There have been some modifications to some of the units with uh for instance with RLA. Um Amplify had 10 units with Blue Bonnet. They've condensed it to where now it's nine units. So the stories are very similar. um the focus is still on um internalizations of the lesson. So everything is provided.
036Um they want to say it's scripted. We call it it's support. It's support for the teacher because if you're a brand new teacher, guess what? You have the option of having it scripted out for you to provide you those those um making sure that you're providing those equitable instruction to all of your students. If you are a seasoned teacher, it's great because you know, hopefully as a seasoned teacher, you know what best strategies are, but it's still there. You're still um answering, you're still in charge of answering those comprehension questions that you want to ask your students. So, um like I said, it's pretty much it's just morphed into U Texas Blue Bonnet and so now it's Texas have they own those rights to the instructional materials. So in addition to this, we're also going
037to be piloting the Spanish curriculum for our ELI program. We put in a request to uh to participate in this pilot. So um one of the um requirements is that if you are piloting the this um instructional materials for the Spanish program that you have to your teachers have to be able to provide input. So, I'm thinking what a great opportunity that our teachers are going to have to vet the curriculum and then be able to provide those feedbacks back to um TEA so that they can make those recommendations. Um so that was kind of like a conversation piece. We didn't know whether to go with amplify for the Spanish, but in the end, we wanted to make sure that we were aligned across uh across all the grade levels because we've seen what that
038has the the how would you say it um the benefits of having that alignment using the same curriculum. And it's been it's very noticeable when we get do our classroom walkthroughs for Amplify RLA and for Eureka math. you just see that extra layer being added every year as you go into the different classrooms. So, and the math teachers are saying too right now that they're they're seeing the the students coming up to the next grade level a lot stronger. And so, Amplify, you know, there was that struggle in the beginning, but now we're we're on board. And so, the teachers are excited. They wanted to do the blue bonnet. So, it wasn't just a top-down decision. This was actually input from um the teachers talking to the campus principles and from the campus principles talking
039to us about what what they wanted and what directions they wanted to go to. So So uh so tonight we are asking for your approval um the board to approve uh the TI certification for the 2526 school year. Any questions? Commenting. Mr. President, members of the board, the administration recommends that the board of trustees ratify the instructional materials TESS 2025 2022 as presented. Motion. I'll make that motion that we approve the TEA TE certification for 2526 school year. All right. Do you have a second? Motion by Cam Leo by Leo second. All those in favor carry 60. Thank you for all your Dr. Sean. Thank you. All right. Next uh action item here is update GMP number one readiness profile. Mr. President, members of the board, the next two items are to update the board
040on one of our uh strategic plan goals and then the next item is the teacher incentive aotment. So, Miss Moody um works um spends a lot of her time working on this initiative. Okay. And so for half of you this is going to look very familiar and the other half of you this will be kind of cool and exciting new new information. So um our the strategic goal is goal number one 90% of students will have met standards in the TMISD student readiness profile um which is in three categories academic social and emotional social and emotional as well as the technical skills needed for um the world. And so I'm going to give you kind of what the purpose was behind it. When we wrote that goal, we really um actually started with business and
041industry and we're asking people, you know, what do you want from our graduates? What what would if two students were applying for the same job, a TM kid and a kid from somewhere else? What would put our kids ahead of those other kids? and that those industry partners gave us kind of like soft skills and and different things that our kids all kids really are lacking right now in the in job interviews and things like that. So that's kind of where it all started. We took that and broke those into teachable skills for us, things that we could do with kids and that um and then that gave us those three parts. the academic skills because of course TA is going to hold us accountable for the academic skills. The social emotional skills came from
042the industry leaders saying, you know, they have a rough day, they quit. Uh they show up late, they get in trouble, they don't come back. And then the technical skills are actual hands-on skills that they need in a job setting that's going to make them able to perform the tasks that they're being able that they're being asked to tasks they're being able to complete. Um, one of those skills, uh, was, you know, we want them to show up without an AirPod in for an interview. We want them to shake our hand. We want them to look us in the eye. We want them to have buttons on their pants instead of elastic waisted pajamas, you know, things like that. We want them to be able to pass a drug test. And so, um, those three
043measurable skills, of course, academic was very easy for us to write. TA kind of provides those for us. Um, and then the technical skills really comes from more than our CTE. Automatically we think CTE, but really it's, you know, can they write appropriately? Can they put together comprehensive thoughts on paper or articulate those? Um, and then the social emotional skills is kind of more from our side of things. You know, we're seeing higher anxiety. We're seeing uh less composure when dealing with stress, you know, things like that. And so we wanted to build in those supports for kids. And really what the the graduate readiness profile is, it's a guarantee of the things that we are going to provide for kids. Not that they master them, not that the kid is able to do this,
044but that we as a district provide the opportunity for them to gain the skills that they need to be life ready. We started with the 12th graders. Um, and in our initial phases, this will be at the transitional year. So second to third, fifth to 6th, 8th to 9th, and then of course 12th to life. And so we started with our 12th graders. And we we said, you know, these are the academic skills that they need. These are the social emotional skills that they need to leave. And then these are the technical skills that they need to be to be job ready. We wrote those as transitional staff members. So, our second grade teachers met with our third grade teachers. Our se our eighth grade teachers met with our ninth grade teachers and then our
045senior level teachers met and we had conversation around that. Then we took it to the kids and it was interesting to us that the accountability that the kids wanted to hold each other to was so much higher than the things that we wanted to hold wanted to hold them to. They mentioned things like service learning. They mentioned things like um they should have to uh we do it for NHS, they get hours for it. Uh oh my god. Volunteer service. Yes. Oh my gosh. Um they wanted to have you know tardies be a part of it. So we we took that to the kids through our superintendent uh group and our principal group. And then um ultimately this will culminate in the kids developing a body of work via a website that they produce starting
046their freshman year of high school. And each core content as well as technical content will be contributing to that body of work. So when they leave high school as 12th graders, they will leave with a resume, a digital resume that showcases all of the skills that they have put together. Now, for a welding teacher, that's very easy. They came in not welding. Here's pictures of their welds. That's an easy one. But for a math teacher, that might be a little more challenging. And so, for a math teacher, they could develop an opportunity for kids to work collaboratively, to be a leader of a of a small group, to have a real world math situation that they solve. And so, that's going to take some creativity on our teachers parts. We started training our teachers last
047year on what it is and what's in what it's intended to be. I will be honest, we hit a little bit of a hiccup um in our implementation of it because we're switching our student our student uh our SIS our housing mechanism for all of our data. And so a lot of the information that we need to pull is coming from those systems. Um, and so we wanted to purchase a third-party uh digital housing for that for that information, but we didn't want to roll it into two separate systems. So once we have Skyward going, we'll look at purchasing again the same one that we've been looking at um for how we can keep that digitally. Currently, I kind of went all through that. Sorry. Um, I'll show you what it looks like. Currently, this
048is what it looks like. It's very teenytiny, but you should have it in your workbook as well, so you can see sort of the the breakdown. High school is the only area that broke it into three categories: proficient, exemplary, and uh accomplished. And so, a kid could essentially graduate with an additional cord if they end up in exemplary. Um, and some of those things are some or some of it is already stuff that we're doing, CPR certified interaction with a police officer, but then there's other things that our counselors are going to be responsible for, making sure that they have those small groupoup opportunities for students. Um, the the project based learning opportunities for core content teachers, those skill development things are also listed in there. And so we've not yet developed like what would
049be proficient. How many check marks do you need to be accomplished? Um and so we're still working on those rating scales. We were intending to pilot that this year. What we're going to do is at the end of the year take a baseline measurement of all the things of the percentage of kids that would be on proficient, would be on accomplished, would be on exemplary, and then grow from there. We did have about eight pilot teachers that volunteered to be pilot teachers. Um, and so they'll spend some time this summer revising these rubrics because we have rubrics for 2nd to 3rd, 5th to 6th, uh, 8th to 9th and then 12th. And then in the following school year, not not next year, but the next year is when we'll implement the profile, the digital profile.
050We had intended to do that with this current group of seventh graders. It'll be eighth graders. um and starting that through their college and career readiness in middle school, but we're going to be about a year behind on that. Um many other states require this. Um some of you have seen these videos, so I don't know if we want to spend time playing them or not. Um but I can send you guys the links. When we were researching what it all is, there are many states that require this already. And so one of the states that uh is Minnesota. I called I called this school. It's Byron ISD. And I've met with them several times. Several of us have met with them several times to kind of outline, you know, what it looks like, how
051they implement it, where they're at with it, and where they started. And so we we did some research to get to where we are. Yes. Um we will look at uh the baseline data for this for this school year where where our kids are at and then we'll actually spend the summer refining them and then additionally building those sample opportunities that teachers and counselors can implement. So they'll have some sample lessons that they could do, sample opportunities for our counselors. Um and then we are also looking at purchasing um character strong for u our entire district. Um and that's really that was like very very fast because there's been a lot of work behind this but um that's that's basically where we're at with it is getting the baseline for this year. Sounds like a
052good plan. Great job on building it from ground up because there was nothing for y'all. So, it has been but it's been really fun. I I will tell you the kids were the most interest. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any comments, questions? Question. All right. So, our next uh action item here is the teacher incentive aotment. Mr. President, members of the board, um there were some big initiatives that we undertook when we came into the district. Warp path academy bond um strategic plan and this next one, the teacher incentive aotment. Uh it it doesn't happen overnight. It's it's taken three years. Uh but when I calculate in a matter of weeks, the state of Texas is going to allocate close to a half a million dollars to go to 35 teachers this year
053and they will receive those a lotments for the next five years and then next year um we will add to that. Um it's satisfying but it's it's been difficult. Dr. Dr. Sham has really done yman's work in meeting my expectation for this to become a reality and I'm super proud of you Dr. Sham. You've done a great job. So she's going to give you an update tonight. It's like my baby. I really I really like it. And like Mr. Bad Matri said it I mean every year you're just adding another layer. It's very recursive because just because you you accomplish one phase doesn't mean that that's it. You still have to go back. So, this is just an update and um so I'm going to give you an update and I'd like to always start
054off with what is the teacher incentive aotment for those of us that are new um to the board. So the um teacher incentive aotment came about under house bill 3 in the 86th legislative session. And the goal of TIA was to attract and retrain uh retain our top teachers, provide teachers with with an accessible pathway to a six figure salary and to incentivize teachers to work in high need school and those areas that are difficult to staff uh to position. Um, school districts that are part of TA, you can designate a teacher based on student growth and classroom observation. Um, employing designated teachers. If we're to employ other uh teachers that came with that credential, that would generate funds to to our district as well. And a teacher that is designated can earn one of
055three levels. They can either be recognized, uh, they can be exemplary, or they can be master. Um, and with the the funding is not just it's not one set amount. It depends on the campus that you're at. It depends on your social economic status. That is what determines the amount that that teacher would earn for that particular campus. So just a little background there. Um, so this is our story for TMISD. Uh, TMISD is a part of cohort F of all the school districts in Texas. We started, we were very brave. We started with all five campus. Um, sometimes you start with one, but we started with all five. Phase one, we'll call it phase one, focused on preK through 8th grade reading and math teachers. And we also included algebra 1 and um, that
056should say English one teachers. Last year for phase one was our year to capture the data. And what do I mean by data? What we did is at the beginning of the school year we had our students um whatever assessment they were using they had a beginning of the year assessment and then at the end of the year we had our end of the year assessment. So at the end of the year we were looking for growth from the beginning to the end. Um if it was prek we were looking at circle. That's the assessment that we use. If it was uh kinder we were using uh texkeia first grade through third grade map. That's our assessment that we're using. And then we also included our star tested areas. So at the end of the
057year, we were looking for growth. So TEA provides us this this huge Excel spreadsheet. And so our job was to enter all of the information that for the teachers that were eligible in those teaching categories. So we had to go in and enter all of their test uh data, which is what we use to appraise our teachers. And we're not looking at the full um evaluation um t test. We're only looking for two do two domains, which is domain two and domain three. That's it. And then we include all of their um their growth. And so all that information gets submitted to Texas Tech University and they do their magic. There's like 10 different checkpoints that they're looking at to see if your data is validated. And basically what they're looking for is a correlation.
058they they want to see a positive correlation. And so um so we submitted our data in October of this year and then in February we received notification that our system was approved. So we were very very I mean we're like pins the needle. So let me give you some background there. Not even half of the school districts in the state are designated as a TIA district and we're one of them. Mhm. Um, and not all of our teachers were eligible to be designated for TIA, but that will grow also in subsequent years. And I'll show you down the down the road. Um, so some celebrations from phase one. Number one, our system was approved on the first try because that doesn't always happen. Sometimes you have to go back and do an appeal. Um, from
059our first set of cohort of teachers, we had 33 that were submitted to TEA for a local designation. So, we are expecting approximately or over $480,000 in TTF funding. So, um, wow. 75 will go to the teacher, 15% will go to the non-desated teacher on the campus and anyone that's providing any type of instructional support working with students. And then the other 10% goes back to the district. The 10% we're using that to offset some of the uh the teachers cost like for the TRS and some of the taxes. That 10% will help with in that capacity. Um so everybody on the campus gets a portion of those teachers who were designated. Certainly not as much as what the designated teacher gets, but if they're teaching at least 50% of the day, they'll get a
060a monetary bonus uh as well as the designate. Right. So awesome. Pretty nice. And so right now we are in the process um TA right now is in is in the process of confirming those designated teachers. So, we should hear um something within this week or next week because um by the end of August 2025, we have to pay out our teachers. So, for this year, it is going to be a lump sum. Um the years after that, we are still in conversation as to if we're going to do it in one lump sum or two lump sums. And that depends because what we have to do is we have to pay out the money up front and then the they will settle up with us the following month. So, so what TEA is doing
061right now is the the we know the teachers that are eligible, but there's a there's a a process called a winner submission and through PEMS and TEA is looking at making sure that those teachers that are designated are still working for TM. We had two primary teachers that received, I believe, masters and they retired in December. Oh, wow. and and they won't the money's lost. So that's what's going on right now. And so out of the 33 teachers, we did have one teacher that earned a national board certification. And so if you're a national board certified teacher, you are automatically a recipient of the recognized uh designation. So they'll also receive um funding for that. And then I will say as a district um the teacher that did earn her national board certification there's an
062incentive because if they seek that national certification we will reimburse that they have to pay upfront but we will definitely reimburse them uh reimburse them for um for the test that they paid which comes out to 1900. So um it was a good investment. Um TIA compensation remember what I said it varies from campus to campus. So, uh, recognize the lowest amount would be approximately 46.54. The highest that anyone could receive in our district at the M's level is 28,000. That's a nice check. Absolutely right. It's a nice check. I believe ACC has the highest Yes. of of um on the salary range. But it's your atrisisk students and that that's I mean that goes through payroll and gets tax deductions and everything. Yes. then it counts for TRS2. Okay, awesome. Oh yeah. Um this
063is just a breakdown of designated teachers for phase one and we'll continue to use this as our baseline data for TMISD. So uh what the state is saying is that 5% of our teachers should be at the M's level. We're looking at 20% of our teachers in the state of Texas to be at the exemplary level and 33% of our teachers in the state of Texas recognized. So yes, these numbers are low, but we're going to build from this. This is going to be our baseline data. Um particularly when we include phase two, which uh will be next year. So we had one teacher at the recognized level. Um we had 20 teachers at the exemplary level and then we had 13 teachers at the M's level. Wow. And then that this is just statewide
064data. Uh right now in the state of Texas we have 263 uh,080 teachers participating in TIA. And of that amount we have 26,989 that are currently designated. So if you're looking at the whole state of Texas, that's 1%. That's not very and that just happened this past year. We hit that 1% of our teachers that are designated in the state of Texas. And like Mr. that Matri said we only have 49% of our districts in Texas participating. Mhm. I I don't understand it. I really don't. Well, we hadn't done it till you came. Well, but you all made allowed that to happen, but I just don't understand why uh if the state is incentivizing additional money, why not take advantage of it? Well, it definitely took a tribe to put it all together. So, great
065job, y'all. And I think region two right now we're like at 67% of our school districts participating. So we're not even like in the 80s. So um and it's the same for um a lot of the other regions. Um so we went through phase one that was great celebration but now we're expanding. So we are currently this year we are in phase two. And so let's talk about phase two. So phase two means that our application has been approved for phase two to proceed on. So this year we are capturing data for phase two. So basically what we did for phase two we included we added uh fifth and eighth grade um science because they're star tested areas. We added um English 2 and uh US history. Uh so this is our our year to
066capture that data. And again, we're going to repeat that same process. Come next year of October 2025, we will submit the data. And you know what we do, we just collect the data. You know, we make sure that when we're doing the beginning of the year assessment, the end of the year assessment, it's like STAR. You know, we run it like STAR. It's, you know, we make sure it's like the high stakes testing. And uh so we just collect the data and then we submit to um Texas test. Uh phase three. Uh for phase three, we met this year with our steering committee. So like again, a lot of this is input from our committee members. So for phase three, we met um and so we met to talk about what these are teachers, too.
067Yes, they're teachers. They're admin. And so we try to get an array of representation from all of the different content areas. And so we talked about what other additional categories we wanted to add to uh to phase three. And so I have a chart that kind of show lays out all the different um categories. Um so phase three I had to submit that um last week. So that is pending approval. So hopefully everything will be okay on that one and then we can collect data for phase three the next coming school year. Um and sorry go ahead. Does phase three include everybody in the district? Now, it's we're going to focus on just the noncore content areas and CTE courses. So, we basically added 41 teaching categories. For phase four, we're going to add by
068the time we get to phase four, we will have included everyone. Good. And phase four is we're focusing on the fine arts and the electives, but that's different because next year the goal is to train admin uh because it's a different process. All these previous categories are assessments where we have a pre and a post. Um they're created or district created. When you get into the fine arts and the electives, we're looking more at portfolio. So this coming school year, we will be training our admin. We will be going through the training of what is a portfolio, what should a portfolio look like, how do we we use rubrics. So it's going to be a different type of student growth assessment that we will be using. And so we kind of saved that for the
069last because we're not ready to go there yet. So, but that's going to come next year. Okay. Awesome. Um I know it's teenytiny, but you should all have your um do you all have in your um presentation um you have a list of all of the um categories. And what I mean by categories, it's by the different subjects. And the reason you see um like prek phase one kindergarten reading is phase one K3 math uh reading and math one is because every category uses a different assessment. And so we have phase one. We are currently right now in phase two. Uh and next year we'll um hopefully get our data validated so that we can um continue to designate more teachers. And phase three is what our committee recently uh worked on. And so we
070added 41 more teaching um content areas. So basically we're including all of our CTE and all of the other nontested subject areas. So you have um anatomy and physiology, algebra, geometry. So we've added everything else. So the only thing we have left to add after phase three is your fine arts and your other electives which will require the portfolio. Um and then this is this is just some information that's come about from the 89th legislative session. um from House Bill, we could see possibly an increase to the base dollar amount of the current designation level and they're talking about adding the additional acknowledge designation level. And so what they want to do is those teachers that are nationally board certified, they want to potentially put them under that category. And then when we're looking at
071Senate Bill 26, right now if you they want to increase the um the designated teachers from 30 to 50%. So right now what they're saying is that we should have 30% of our teachers in the state of Texas designated. They want to lift that cap and raise it to 50%. So um and that is an update quick update. But do you all have any questions? Yeah, I have a question. Yes. Um, right now a teacher would get 75%. Yes. How did y'all reach 75 and not say 90? That was a committee decision. Um, at the very when we first initially started this process again, it's pretty much the same steering committee, but we all met together and we talked about, you know, 90% 75%. And we talked about 90 75%. It's like you're working more
072as a team. and the 75% the teacher is getting all of that. That's where that 10% we are helping out with those um the cost for TRS and the taxes because even if you do get 90% a lot of the districts pull all of you know the taxes and the TRS they pull it out of the the 90%. So, we as a district are using our 10% to help offset that cost, but we just thought, you know what, it would incentivize, you know, everyone to work together as a team. Um, and so, you know, you're happy for your coworker because guess what? I'm going to get some of that pie, too. You know, so it's it was as a motivating factor, but it was a consensus when we met at the very beginning um when
073we were starting this process. Yeah. So if I was if I'm a teacher and I get that 75%. If I move to GP, they may pay 90%. So I may want to move to GP, but we don't know if GP is paying that 10% to offset it, right? We don't I mean we don't know that. But a teacher might look at that. Are y'all concerned that we might lose some quality teachers to GP or I don't even know what CC also depends on the socioeconomic geography like Robtown Rob would get more that's correct one of the one of the main uh rationale for it was to help rural schools and so if you're a rural school with high socioeconomic you're going to get the max uh if you're an urban or suburban not so much.
074Um, but uh it was a collaborative decision and I think the basis was uh if you're not old enough to remember career ladder but uh uh the career the career ladder created um uh some cultural issues with those who got it and those who didn't. So the the feeling among the committee was yeah we're going to recognize those that are designated but it let let's take care of the team as much as we can. So that's that's that's the rationale there. Yeah. Yeah. Because I think that we might have some teachers are going to question that. They're going to say, "Why did we get 75%." And I know some school districts that are paying 90%. Why? The good thing% helps. The good thing there is I think we've done a really good job of communicating
075what we're doing and and when we change and when we add to the campuses they go on uh I guess tours on a on a fairly regular basis and you know when there's buy in when they're a part of the process it helps but you do make a good point. Yeah. And we did like after um January, we went to every single campus and we talked to uh rec kind of just recapture phase one and then we talked about phase two and so in May I will be going to all the campuses and talking about phase three. So just to kind of keep them in the loop and be transparent uh when I went in January we have a website. There's a web page already that we created for TIA. So you have our handbook.
076We we've kind of said, hey, this handbook is a living document. It will be updated on a yearly basis. And you know, like you talk about the 90%, a lot of those things are um negotiable. Um we can we have as a as a local district, we can make some of those changes, but those changes would have to come from, you know, the the committee saying, "Hey, can we relook this over again?" You know, can we revisit the 75,510? So, those are those are items that are up for discussion. Yeah. Any other questions? Good job. Great job. All right, that was for update only. Next item on the agenda is discuss and consider approval of consent agendaformational items. Number one is check payment register. Questions? Any comments? [Music] Nice. Apologies for No worries. We're ahead
077of schedule. And it was like sports. It was It was a sports group. I believe it was an BSN. Yeah, BSN. What was that? Is that something to do with uh BSN is is the a major vendor for the majority of our athletic teams. Okay. I mean, those were just budgetary items, not related to the bond. No, they're not sports. Yeah, they're not bond related. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Next item is March 2025 financials. All right. Next item is the budget amendment. Next is the tax collection report. All right, the next one is the enrollment report. And the last one is regular and special called board meeting minutes. All right, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agenda items as presented. Motion make a motion
078second Mr. Chapa. All those in favor can carry to close. All right. The next item is a close session. The board will convene and close meeting as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551071 through 076 uh 083 084 All right, 23 and we are back from close session. Okay, go ahead, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the recommendation, the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees issue an educator probationary contract for the 2526 school year as presented. Okay. Motion reading. I'll make a motion. Not sure what the how phrases exactly, but I'll make the motion. Okay. Probationary contract. Okay. Second, Kim. All those in favor. Motion carry 60. Mr. President, is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees issue an educator
079term contract for the 2526 school year as presented. Motion. Ryan. Second. Second. Chop chop. All right. All those in favor? carry 60. And then the last one. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees approve contracts as presented. All right. Have a motion to the contract. I'll move that we uh approve the contracts. Mr. Chapa and Leo second. Second. All those in favor? Carry 6. All right. Future meetings. Our next meeting is May 19th, 2025. That is means we're ready for a motion to adjourn the meeting. Can make that motion to adjourn the meeting. Second. I'll second Chappa. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. Great job, everyone. Thank you all.