001good evening to everyone thank you for coming today is Monday March 17th happy St Patrick's Day to you all uh it we do have a quorum present so I'm going to call the meeting to order uh Mr Rick choa is going to do the lead us in the pledge a alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all the Texas pledge the Texas flag Al to the Texas St God indivisible all right and Kim will lead us in the board mission statement through high expectations and Equitable opportunity tmisd will focus on the whole Child by providing a safe environment and high quality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences thank you can thank you Rick uh first
002up is public hearing with Texas Academic performance report 2023 2020 Mr President members of the board this is an annual requirement by the Texas Education agency it's to present in a public hearing the Texas Academic performance report we have Dr Allison sham he's going to deliver that for us Dr sham well good evening board members staff and Community um just like Mr van MRI said today we are here to present the annual tap report for the 2324 school year okay in addition to having to hold a public hearing um it will also be posted on our district website and then also you can also go to the TA and you can um actually retrieve it from there as well um administration building if anyone needs a copy of the tap report um just at the
003end of the slide I have my contact information you can just call me and I can make you a copy of that okay um and if you are interested in a copy um this is what it will look like and so um if you need one just give me a call okay let's begin okay so first of all let's begin with what is the taper report just in case we're not familiar the taper report is the Texas um Texas Academic performance report and this is done every year um there's eight sections to the report a lot of this information that will be be presented tonight is not new um a big part of the taper report covers the um the star the E EOC and so we've had that opportunity to present that data at
004the beginning of the school year but in addition to uh the star it also encompasses the demographics of our student um information on our staff uh financial report and then also like our ccmr information so all of that is just kind of compiled into one big report okay okay so let's talk about c one um I could keep you here all night because there's like we don't want you to you just don't want to be rude thank you we like 6400 data points but what we've done is we've condensed it and we are now going to go through the different sections highlighting the key key information from this report okay so with um section one um it kind of gives you an overview of where we stand with accountability at this time all of that
005has been postponed until further notice so um we don't have an accountability rating at this time as well as special education determination status and as well as any type of Distinction designations here is your star EOC performance and when you're looking at the report it disaggregates it by grade level by content by subpopulation by the different demographics here what you're seeing is just an overall picture of how we perform all grade levels across in all the subject levels if you look at the data pretty much you know we're stable you know there's lots of areas to grow and that depends on the different campuses one campus may need to focus more on math another campus may need to focus on reading but overall when you look at the trend we are pretty stable across the
006line we're actually making progress okay attendance graduation and Dropout rates if you look at tmisd we are slightly above um region the region and a little bit below the state dropout rate we're doing pretty good there you know we have the lowest dropout rate and then also when you look at the fouryear long graduation rate we're also um above the state and the the region college career and Military readiness um keep in mind this year lags two years okay so we're looking at 21 22 22 and 23 um so if you compare it to the state and the region yes we are slightly below but since we are expanding our CTE programs those numbers are definitely going to increase so um but we're we're in the game but we're going to definitely get um do
007a lot better the next coming years it was okay what year was it that we started those CTE programs the first year that's where I thought it was so this is even prior to us even starting those programs yes okay and I think overall right now if you look at our in the P report there's like maybe 213 so that's going to just Skyrocket okay the next section is the financial report and I do have a replacement uh page for that um again this is information that has been presented uh to the board um again it's part of the taper report uh Mr um Philip is there anything that you want to thank you no this is just a summary of what we thank you what our this is basically a recap of the audit
008from 2223 so moving right along section three is a district accred accreditation status um again here this this is just again stating that um posos of Midway when we did have our rating of 2022 it was a b and then it also has the financial rating which was a superior achievement which was an a section four is the campus performance objective here you have uh and this will also be on the website and every um the public can click on these links but what you see here I don't know if I can click on this is the campus Improvement plan and I will just um click on the ACC hopefully that open so when you open the campus Improvement plan it's going to take you to the ACC this um campus Improvement plan was approved
009at the beginning of the school year right now our principles are going in and updating the middle of the year to determine where they are with their objective goals when you looked at the EOC a lot of that information there drives their campus Improvement plan like what what are going to be their strategies to improve their math scores what are going to be their strategies to improve their reading scores so the EOC also drives the campus Improvement plan I hope I can get that to so all the testing that the students just did um on the campus is is going to be what's going to drive going be reflected in here because those uh those scores are received in at the end of the in summer and a lot of them kind of like just
010kind of trickle in and so based on that data they look to determine where their needs are well I think what you're referencing is the interim the inter will they be looking at the interims also yes okay yes and that's you can determine you know okay we have interventionist are they working so you're kind of like monitoring all the different implementation like strategies that you have the programs that you have going so all that will um Bol into this okay and then we'll also have another report where we'll present that information so you can see how we're um doing you know compared from the beginning of the year to the middle of the year and then we'll do the end of the year assessment as well so you'll have that information okay section five is
011a report on violent or criminal incidents um and so so here is a chart I apologize it's very small um but you know we didn't have anyone going to JJ um so that's always good um I guess our biggest um we had 294 um 21s and then we um there's about 34 or 25 cases that were dealing with the vaping okay and I know middle school high school they have you know a plan in place they have that I guess it's the monitor so that that's one of the strategies that um came out of this okay and section um six student performance and post-secondary institution um this is um postsecondary performance for the ACC again keep in mind the data for postsecondary institution is lagging by two years so def definitely going to see an
012increase in these numbers for next year as well as for the high school this is the report that you'll actually see in the actual table report and as you can see we had 52 um this is actually for the graduates we had 52 total high school graduates that pursued um higher education and then for the high school we had 213 and so I went back cuz I wanted to see like okay great we have 23 students that are going to college but how are they doing in college so I would say over 40% of those students are actually doing have a a c or above so um but we want those to go higher because that kind of indicates like how well are we preparing our students for that postsecondary education and are you also
013getting like um how many of them like actually graduate from the universities or the you know colleges um four years that'll be year included it has to be from a state school so it it couldn't be from a a private university but from a state school that should follow them and present that information right priv which we had not been tracking and just started tracking correctly correct and it's very hard because I used to be work for an early college high school and it's very hard to um to get all that information I mean they do phone calls but think send out surveys because they want to know where you're at so a lot of it is probably still skewed at this time we don't have like a a set system for collecting that information
014okay and then section um seven is our progress towards meeting our board adopted hb3 goals and so those board outcome goals we talk about we have goals for Early Education we have our goals for the college career in military readiness and then of course we've also included in this presentation our district strategic plan which is those those eight plans The Early Education um goals um those were set five years ago and so what we've been doing they five years ago they kind of set those goals for you know for the district and so we are slightly under those goals but we're moving in the right direction and it's going to be the same for the college career and Military readiness okay um that is about all that I have on the paper for today if
015there's any questions that you have I can try to answer those questions and if I don't have the answers I will definitely find the answers for you I know we're not probably where y'all want us to be right and I will say but the work in progress and to see where the percentages are now um Kudos y'all right everybody thank you there's a lot of great things going on I I'm I'm proud that you know of where we're at and where we're going um but you know there's still that continued growth that we need to um continue working on thank you Dr any other discussion or questions no okay that's a public hearing it's no no board action is needed uh so now we're on to public comment Christie it's close the public all right
016so it is currently 6:14 and that's your joury adjourning for the public hearing that's correct all righty I'll make that motion that we adjourn the meeting okay second I'll second all right we have a a motion and a second all in favor motion car we we didn't say we were doing the regular meeting at 6:15 did we okay yeah so we just we're right on time one minute sit imagine that the board gets Kudos I mean for for us to be on time they don't try to put that on me though I'm never done 15 minutes huh no we know better no we don't let Philip do the taper report that's strategically planned talking about the the other public hearing I I have to do the first and the the budget we always start at
0176:45 or 5:45 or whatever and you always want me to be done in 15 minutes it's like we can go now we can start the meeting chrisy any public no public comments no public okay so I don't have to read the public all right so let's move on to student recognitions will yall join us swim and Di U and then who are you doing first me we're doing intermediate oh intermediate medals feels good not to be in a booth beet so quiet y'all were out there m r yeah you didn't we were so quiet the whole where do you want these SCH they can line up going all the way to Mr Crabtree and that that wall let's make aine we'll thank you I appreciate you everything [Music] good if we have Stu sitting if
018we can have room for yeah we're going to throw the staff out yeah please make yourself comfortable get the out all right now please all the way to the very end's [Music] there's a [Music] cardinal thank you for in his cohort your in his ready awesome see this [Music] there's a seat if you don't mind scooting one over just so somebody else can have a seat y that's exciting though there's one seat there [Music] [Laughter] okay oh my I'm nervous you didn't know you had a talking part did you ma'am me either yes sir Lucas well first off thank you for being here uh it takes a a strong partnership between the home and the school to raise kids and educate them and you being here um illustrates that partnership and we thank you for
019that um you this lady needs no introduction Miss Lucas the principal of the campus I'm going to let her introduce our teacher sponsor let her talk a little a little bit about the UIL program and then we'll recognize your children and our students miss all right thank you guys for joining us uh we had a tremendous outpouring of students that wanted to participate in our UIL academic events and so we have Miss Retta who took it on as our [Applause] coordinator so organized all the practices make sure parents were notified of everything going on on that actual day Retta there was how many kids oh cuz we took primary with us too so we had about 100 kids with us yes that all met there at like 6:00 in the morning well you guys know
020you dropped them off morning it was dark it was super cold it was rainy uh but they didn't skip a beat they came they competed and they came back with lots of Hardware so yes absolutely okay hi guys I am Marina Rivera um this was my first year doing coordinating for U so I really sincerely like thank you for your patience because it was my first time so I'm learning as I go um we had approximately about 80 students at the intermediate that actually competed and within those 80 about 25 of our students placed top 10 so that's awesome we did have a lot of other placements as well you know top 20 but where we get medals for top 10 so we really wanted to honor these students today so I'm going to go
021ahead and and get started I'm going to start with our third graders and we have uh Miss Jimma Gunter from ready riding and she [Applause] got conratulations parents do whatever you need to do to get pictures we're we're making some memories tonight move out the way go back around yeah cuz we're going to take a group picture okay so you back that way yeah perfect all right then we have Eric Rodriguez he was in Project ER take all right now we have yissa Gomez also Pro and Shake Hands then we have Mr Marcel Ramon from story and I want to note that he got sixth place in his finals but with storytelling they have multiple rounds um so for his first round he actually was in second second place for his group and then moving
022on the finals he ended up with six which is [Applause] amazing then we have let's see here I have David Delgado from chess puzzle from chess puzzle you want to go shake hands sir great job then we have Mr Cole busy who also test pule third [Applause] place make sure I have yours right here sir you get a medal for third and then I'm gonna call back up David and Cole and Mr Eli Hernandez Eli Cole and David took second place as a team for chess puzzle out of I think there were about seven or eight other schools that competed so second place as a [Applause] d put it on Sir congratulations proud of you congratulations deal all right our fourth graders we have Mr Wade Yates from chess puzzle as well 10 great job
023Wade we have Rosalind Del Luna she plays fourth place in ready [Applause] writing miss Emily benas she o got fourth place and I anyone's way guys please tell me to [Music] move congratulations we're proud of and then also in Project based art Miss Rosalie Mendoza she received second put it on and go shake hands [Music] conat moving to our fifth graders we have Miss MAA mangram she scored 10th place in Project B [Music] we have Caitlyn tro from Project B art she we have Emily Zapata from em go right from social studies we got Za Alo social studies music memory AJ Martinez congratulations AJ Isaac was not able to make it tonight but he did receive seventh place in listening skills then we have Casey Collins from M charts and grass we have another from
024Maps charts and graphs that wasn't able to make it Trey he received fifth place then we have our chess puzzle Mr Nico Sanchez he received 10th [Applause] place and I'm also while I have Nico up here I'm going to go ahead and give him his third team yes Nico I have your medal here as a chess team for fifth grade they took third place so here's Nico's medal and then I'm going to invite Cohen Wilson upen team third place so that's all their points together so you going to go around and shake your hands with your members and Josiah [Applause] Martinez awesome job proud and then our fifth grade dictionary skills they really put in some work in this competition our um first one is Hazel braa she received place in Diary Beck at Britain
025he received sixth place in [Applause] dictionary conratulations awesome job nice and then for our dictionary skills we had someone who ended up placing first place individually um Oscar Medina [Applause] first and I'm going to actually call all of our dictionary skills back up because as a team they also took first place as a team so Hazel and Oscar all three of you will receive and Oscar you get another medal for your team reward job [Applause] aome up again show your parents real quick your medals behind so they get picture perfect and that is our let's get our third graders up here only third grade to take a picture with the board just gather around them and miss Lucas get you parents do what you need to do to come up here third grade third graders
026do this you're good Miss you're good here you go parents that's a winner right there okay you don't go anywh okay don't go come on get in there take my we're making memories one two and that's a winning picture right [Music] there conations [Applause] y fourth grade I think I have four fourth graders fourth grade come on up here squeeze on in guys all right parents do what you need to do good Smiles all right graders grade that was the fourth ohy get the picture though I'm sure one of the parents okay squeeze in guys let's see we might have to do some rearranging got [Music] big all right fifth grade parents get where you need to get osar why don't you enle switch babe let her go in the FR there you go big
027smiles get your hands out of your pocket there you go wow we got them all in this yeah gr fourth grade from all right I'll get one from the fourth all right here we go one two and three got it thank you guys [Applause] thank you great job first place conratulations thank you sir thank you all for coming the turn piure Super I'd love that I'd be honored congratulations he was my [Music] offensive do I you sir congratulations hey coach like your sweater you like it was cool [Music] [Laughter] to crawl on top of the chair all right this lady needs no introduction coach you want to come over here and talk about your kids and your and your program that you we're really proud of you and the kids uh this is just the
028St qualifiers they also were District Champions at both the boys and the girls at Region yay at regionals they were region Runner ups for the girls the boys no four at State the boys finished seventh at State and the girls finished 12th so they kind a flip-flop there but they they did an outstanding job very proud of them and uh these are our state qualifiers you do a fantastic job question do we walk around this way or this way come over here get this and then walk around this way and we'll take you're first and then we'll take a group picture okay okay sound good okay so this is Annabelle Griffin she qualified to at state in the 200 medle relay next is my senior lyanna lasso she qualified in the 200 medley and the
029Foreigner free relay conat congratulations and we have another senior Alison betas who call qualified also T medley and the for thank you so much congratulations thank you so much thank you and next is a freshman Sophia Rodriguez she qualifi in the 200 Med 43 and the 100 backstroke fut next is our sophomore Gabriella Santiago she qualified in the 400 free [Music] [Applause] relay shirts I like your nails and next is ay Watkins she qualified in one meter diving she was our one lone diver she thank you congratulations thank you and our last uh girl swimmer is Aubrey Wilson and she qualified in turn medley forer free and the hunter breaststroke and she's also a [Applause] freshman next we'll go to The Voice team is Edgar Hernandez he's a senior he qualified in the 200 medley
030and the 400 free [Music] relay next is our Junior uh Garner garard Morin qualified on the Foreigner free relay and the 200 medle reway sophomore I'm sorry try to he's very matur I know I kept looking at him like next is Sebastian Ramon he was a state qualifier 200 medle congratulations and our last big boy over here is Jared scarupa he's a sophomore he qualified the 200 medley the 00 am the 100 breaststroke and the 400 free relay you [Music] remember babies let's get a picture come on you're fine you're not going to die your knes more more more come on you got to squ down too [Music] muscle and she's got y can stand up for oh there she is she is okay all right here we go let's certificates make sure they're right
031one there we go here we go one two and three got it thanks guys that's a big grou proud of K conratulations bring her back for another I know ay never got hurt C they grow up don't they Coach man you [Music] we're reconvening from our first closed meeting of the evening current time is 7:14 so the next item is to discuss and consider regarding uh retention of K Group I do Mr President members of the board it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the ret ention of k group as presented okay do we have a a motion for that I'll make the motion to consider regarding retention of the K Group okay motion by K we have a second second second okay we have a vote uh all in favor of that
032consideration okay okay the vote is 5 thank you all in favor all right to the next item good stuff discuss and consider guaranteed maximum prize for the CTE building Mr President members of the board this um represents um almost two years worth of work planning the November 2023 Bond um as well as the collaboration that's gone into it between um our Architects our general contractor our campus and our teachers um today we're hoping to move forward um with um uh your approval of a GMP for the CTE building so I'll turn it over to Mr Hernandez and let him run the presentation good evening ladies and gentlemen the board just wanted to add like Mr van said it's been over uh almost two years in the process just to give you an update because only
033two of y'all were on the board at the time uh so we passed the bond in November of 2023 on February 1st of 2024 the board took our recommendation and approved VK uh we got Mr Michael Martinez and L SOA representing um and they were the approved Architects for the project on July 17th uh of 2024 we issued a bid packet uh for the construction of the CTE and the natatorium Renovations on August the 6th they had a pre proposal meeting it was held on site we had prospective biders visit on uh August 27th of 2024 we received the statements of qualifications and the price proposals for three firms and then on August or sorry September the 16th uh the board took action and approved the recommendation for Fulton construction to be the construction manager
034at R for the CTE and the natator renovations and we have uh Roger there representing Fulton construction on February the 20th of 2025 last month or two months ago the uh bids closed for all trades and equipments for the construction of the CTE building and Fon has come to a guaranteed maximum price for this project uh we just kind of uh give you a brief recap we're going to show you a video of the what the CTE is going to look like just to refresh your memory [Music] all right at this time I'm very pleased to announce that through the hard work of VK and their design process and Fulton construction and their relationship with their subcon contractors that we were able to come to a guaranteed maximum price within our budget this has never
035happened for a project this size since I've been here 17 years with TM this is the first I'm so excited that we're able to do this we didn't have to Value engineer anything out uh we we did make a few minor tweaks but it was adjust in or changes in the uh the brick the design of the brick but you won't even notice those um I'm I'm just so happy to to do this if there's any questions I have a VK and Fulton here and I'll let Mr Michael and Roger can you talk a little bit about the project and Lily well it's an incredible project we were very very excited that we were given the opportunity to do this project with you guys it was a tremendous experience with all with Mr Alvarado and
036his staff to go through every and and also coach Alan doing the auditorium upgrades that was a lot of fun it's going to be an awesome project and uh we're very excited to uh We've started construction on the nitorum and we're getting ready to start construction on CTE so it's very exciting and when are we looking at the project being done approximately I won't hold you to it L's gonna get her book ofip that's the magic book October October uh October of 26 right 26 yes ex very impressive that's exciting Roger do you have anything you all did a great job so far yes sir we really appreciate it and uh thank you all for the opportunity and uh we'll see you all at the ribbon cutting we're excited absolutely the rubbing C all right
037are there any other questions or anything no just awesome job it's a big deal yeah where we can save money big deal is awesome anything else okay Mr van matri do you have a recommendation I certainly do um Mr President members of the board it is the administration's proud recommendation that the board authorize a contract with Fulton construction for the TSA Midway ISD High School Career and Technical education building with a guaranteed maximum price of 30, 737,00 all right do we have a motion for that recomend Commendation I will I'll move that we approve the contract with fton construction with that guaranteed maximum price not a second all right Brian okay so everyone in favor of a vote motion carries 5 Z that's congratulations thank you thank you conratulations sir thank you thank you thank
038you all you guys have a great evening than you that's a big deal big deal this is what it has to be super satisfying to be on the board for something like this this is is a game changer for TM no doubt that is okay next item is to discuss and consider the approval of out ofate field trip request for tmhs business Professionals of America students to attend the BPA National leadership conference in Orlando Florida May 7th through May 11th Mr Alvarado thank you everyone uh this trip is our two students who qualify to go to Nationals um for BPA um we're asking that you approve them to go compete at that competition as well as attend the leadership academy um they'll be traveling with uh their sponsor uh Jonathan Galan and Mrs deina because
039both of the their two young ladies that made it to Nations how's it going to be paid for cuz it's not marked um believe most of it is coming from U their fundraising efforts and then some will be some distribu well it's a combination of fundraising maybe a little bit of CT money and Beyond District funds okay and how much is that going to be do you know I I don't you should estimate should be it's right here well no I know how much that I'm saying like break I don't know I don't know the division what pretty good is this CTE Department whatever they canri from their budget and then whatever the activity fund whatever they've raiseed through activity funds and then whatever the difference is I I'll kick in with the Beyond District
040funds but I I do not know the breakdown yet and the Beyond District funds is when they go past District to a competition like this of district is this a first it's been the first in a very long time uh Coach G has really done a good job of bringing vpa back uh it used to be Mr Bravo was here there's been we we've had we've had national champions in BPA we had people that have won national before yeah absolutely is exciting and two very capable young ladies who could probably do so outstanding all right anybody have any other questions or Mr D do you have a recommendation I do it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the out of state field trip requests for the toosa mway high school business Professionals of
041America students to attend the BPA National leadership conference in Orlando Florida May 7th through 11th 2025 as presented all right do we have a motion on that item anyone I'll move that we approve the out of state Bill trip request for the uh BPA uh National leadership conference Orlando all right we have a second I'll second okay we get a vote all in favor okay motion carries 5 Z all righty here we go travel Leisure again number four discuss and consider approval of out ofate field trip request for tmhs spe teach and debate students to attend National Tournament in De Mo Iowa June 14th through the 21st 2025 Mr travado thank you again uh once again these are students our speech and debate students at different group of of kids uh same two girls are
042actually going as well these are all speaking events um but this one is for students who are qualified for Nationals uh through speech and debate um they have to get a certain amount of points to compete um at Nationals um these are all the students who have earned those point points um and once again it's it's a combination of uh local funds and Beyond district and there's 18 students going at the moment but with cheer tryouts and things of that nature that might change oh so it's not 10 to 15 it's 18 students no so we the it's 10 to 15 but that number is probably going to go down as kids qualify for other things they might have to make a choice of which one they're going to go to cheer camps during this
043time um cheer camp and then you got those kids going to uh Miss Gray's event as well the one that they go to International International so this is the maximum amount but we're anticipating 10 to 15 okay so even at that that 25,000 is not even it's not set just yet not just that's the guaranteed maximum price maximum price good [Laughter] any other questions Mr do you have a recommendation I do Mr President members of the board it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the out of state field trip requests for the TSA Midway high school speech and debate students to attend the national tournament in De Mo Iowa June 14 through 21st 2025 as presented all right anyone want to make a motion on that item I move that the board approve
044the out of state field trip request for tmhs speech and debate students to attend the national tournament in De Moes Iowa June 14th through 21st 20125 all right do I got a second I'll second it all right all right all in favor motion carries 5 Z item number five discuss and consider approval of out ofate field trip request for tmhs the Arts students to attend the international thesbian Festival in Bloomington Indiana June 22nd through 28th 2025 Mr John this is the same thing as these students have their state tournament here in Corpus um so we had several kids who qualified at the state level who will now get to move on to Nationals Nationals is once again there um same students at this time but our students will drop down because commitments and things of
045that nature so uh these are most of their funds though are are covered by um the actual program theater program through their various fundraisers and you said what I'm sorry that most of it is through what Mr M Pratt has raised majority of the money any other questions Mr rri Mr President I think this is our last trip for this month it is the it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the out of state field trip requests for the TSA Midway high school Theater Arts students to attend the inter international thespian Festival in Bloomington Indiana June 22nd through 28th 2025 as presented okay do we have a motion on that item I'll do it I move that we we approve the out ofate field trip request for tmhs theater art students to attend
046international thespian Festival in Bloomington Indiana June 22nd to 28th I'll second that all right Kim seconds that all right Mo the vote all in favor by motion carries thank you Mr Al thank you for your support yes thank you thank you okay next item on our agenda item number six report for T chat program Mr President members of the board I don't know if you all have met Miss Amanda Mogi she does a terrific job at TSA Midway high school as our social worker she doesn't work exclusively with high school students um she also works with um children um across the district um and she um is um um um the leason for teat program and mental health is an acute issue in all districts across the state for obvious reasons and we're forun to
047have Miss mogie in this program that I wanted to bring awareness to the board Miss mogie thank you good evening guys so tat is a program that's funded by the state of Texas um it's Grant funded it's the Texas Child Health Access through tele Health well tele medicine um this is our first year to have so essentially they use an iPad to to offer services and this is our first year that we've had it on all of the campuses we finally got it on um our ACC campus thanks our administrator over there um and so we see kids all they see kids from the prek-k level all the way up to whenever they get done with ACC and so um every student can qualify for the service it's free to all students um there are
048some barriers that have come along the way for some students um for instance I had a family who lived with grandparents and there was no court order that they they could live with grandparents so teach acts like a doctor's office and if they didn't have a quar that stated that they could see those kids or that they could um agree to provide services as far as um Medical Services go so there was a a family that wasn't able to participate in those services so I offered services to those kids um but otherwise as long as both parents are on board and consent to Services then the student can receive Services um if there's a parent missing um like a dad but he doesn't have his rights terminated to make medical decisions that becomes a barrier
049too but outside of that um the servic has freed to all the kids um it occurs on campus during the school day so they don't have to leave campus um they're pulled like a doctor's office so the kid comes down to the office we clock them or log them in um make communication with the health provider and then they provide them behind closed doors services and then when their session's over they can get a doctor's excuse so they're excused for that period over and then they go on about their day so it's very helpful for both families and students um we service probably about anywhere from 20 to 25 kids across the district um intermediate is our high population campus at the um prek level well from like prek to second grade they have to
050have a parent that's there on the video chat the whole time or in the the room with the student and so that makes it difficult for those little kids so they don't always do as many at the primary level um intermediates got a high population that sees those Services middle schools little more difficult those kids don't necessarily want to talk to a screen even though there's another person on the other side um I know Middle School utilizes a lot of Community Resources within our community that come onto their campus and provide those services and then at the high school they primarily have me um although if it's outside of my scope or if they're wanting something more confidential or Not by an employee of the school district then I refer them out and so that's
051pretty much what teat does great program um they typically do like short-term services in year for 6 to 12 12 sessions and then after 6 to 12 sessions they either terminate services or they refer them out to a local um community resource so just depends on what the family's needs are and what the child's needs are they also offer outside of therapy they also offer a component of psychiatric services which is huge in this area because we're in a shortage of psychiatrists and so if the child needs Psychiatric Services um then they can get those Services through tat the other barrier to tat Services is if they have a on the outside they don't qualify for the service they don't want dual license dual dipping um but they can still qualify for the Psychiatric Services
052if they don't have a psychiatrist so that's pretty much what they do on a nutshell um you have any questions do are the kids able to get the services as soon as they need them or do we have a wait um weight list it's really primarily based on the parents so they I can refer out but they're going they work like a doctor's office so they're not going to communicate with me they communicate with the parents so how quickly the parent responds to them completes the paperwork does the their initial appointments like an assessment and the parent has to participate either in person or also on screen um and so it's really based on the parents participation so usually if the parents willing to participate it's about a two week weight um maybe four weeks
053at the most but usually within two to four weeks which is pretty good considering in this area the weight list can be months yeah six months now yeah easily and M mie are these uh students are they recommended by faculty or how do they just it just depends on what campus they're on so on my campus um primarily I provide mental services for many of our students however again if it's that's out of my scope or whatever um or depending on the circumstances I may refer them out counselors can refer them um parents can self- request kids can self- request although they have to involve their parents in the situation so if they're not 18 um at the ACC campus we do have students that are over there age of 18 that cons into to
054their own services and some at the high school but primarily it's um through the counselors for the most part okay so they see an issue perhaps that we need to address and then they what happens if if I'm sorry so what happens if if say a high school student who's under the age of 18 wants to come and get help but doesn't want to in include their parents because they just feel like maybe the parents are issue so they need to they want to get help but they can't get they can't involve their parent because the parent is part of the problem so what would you do there so as far as Teck goes they run like a doctor's office so period Point Blank it's got to be the parent um for me as far
055as Services go I usually ask the student can we call Mom and Dad talk to them we don't have to tell them that they're the problem right and kind of discuss what their options are a lot of times parents are willing to because they don't have to take the kid off campus and get them services and they know their kid needs Services even if they don't recognize they're the problem and so a lot of times it's just talking to that parent having them sign the consent form and then I start working with them and if I notice like hey like your kid would benefit for some additional Services it's free so that's kind of how we go about getting them the services yeah okay that's an awesome program yeah so that's good awesome program we're
056grateful to have it yeah kids need grateful to have you thank you app there I love working with the kids great job any other questions discussion okay thank you m report only no board action needed that's uh item number seven report transitioning the primary campus to high quality instruction material for reading Mr President members of the board we are moving for complete and total vertical alignment between our two Elementary campuses this will do that and with us to talk about that initiative which will we will roll out in July of 2025 is uh Dr Allison sham and and Mr Crabtree well again everybody thank you so Mr craftree is um passing out our presentation and those are actually our our kids um those are classroom snapshots from um class visits at the primary um so
057like Mr van major said today um to full uh the purpose of today's presentation is to share with the board members um our plan for rolling out um this HQ plan for the uh primary and of course number two is to be transparent to keep um to keep everyone in the loop um so we kind of know what's going on and this is instruction it's it's important and we know that going this route is going to be the the best decision for for our students okay so again um just to kind of reiterate um we're going to roll out the transition plan for implementing hpim for reading and grades K2 um this will broadly outline um the key action steps that will be essential for a a successful roll out and we're actually starting that
058as you'll see in our timeline like right now Mr V matry mentioned something about our K our K through five and we all know the importance of reading inside the classroom but what we've really focused on is what does third grade look like are they behind the ball are they in front of it and in order for students to be successful we all know that they have to be at or above uh reading level before they eat before they leave second grade so this is in this process will help us make sure that all of our second graders going on to third grade are right on track they already know what to expect the curriculum is not going to it'll get harder but it's not going to be different they already know what to expect
059the pacing of the lesson and that rigor that it's going to take to be successful okay so for tonight we're going to talk about the action steps for implementation um we're going go over these three key steps uh the first one is selection of HQ for reading number two is what are we doing to prepare for this launch and number three what support will be provided um for our teachers as they use this brand new curriculum okay so action steps for implementation first of all let me Define what is hot what is hqm um HQ what it means is that it is um 100% te a line in the past um Publishers could get you know on the approved list even with 80% of their tees being covered in a textbook in order for it
060to be hqm the uh the text the curriculum the instruction has to be 100% tix align to that grade level there's is that is a non-negotiable um in addition it is research based these are best practices over the years you know we learn more and so that's another um criteria it has to be research based a third um criteria is that it has to be able to support all Learners we're not just talking about you know your Genet we have to have um your ESL your sped your bilinguals your GT it has to you have to make sure that you're able to provide that instruction to all different types of Learners um the last one is support for teachers there's been this um like a shift it's a it's a change and in the past
061teachers were you know planning and you know pulling from various resources this new curricul now it's it's there the the lesson plans are there the focus has shifted now for teachers to internalize the lesson plans now it doesn't mean that it's scripted they can still it's like um that movie chopped you know everyone has the same ingredients in their basket but when they go to their classroom you know you might create a sule you might create another another dish but you all have the same ingredients and so that's where teachers add their own flare to their to their lessons um so that takes I mean we've been a teacher you know you know cutting and pasting and Googling and you know just everything is right there at their fingertips and then the last thing is
062that constant progress monitoring the new hqm allows for teachers to to assess are students actually learning um so you know there's that part of it it's quantitative now they have to be able to monitor to make sure that students are understanding so that is when when we talk about hqm that's what it means it it's encompasses all of those um criteria so a little bit of background um two years ago we actually considered using hqm in the lower grades the the thing was is that in the lower grades teachers are self-contained so it was much easier to make that trans transition at the intermediate because the teachers were uh departmentalized so if we were rolling out a reading curriculum well then that was just one curriculum they had to to actually you know get to
063know or if you're a math teacher then you're focusing on Eureka but that was not the case at the primary so two years ago we decided you know what we're going to roll out your R so so we are K5 aligned with our math curriculum and let me tell you the data is showing that it is actually working that alignment is so critical as the students move up the different grade level actually we're K aren't we well K were uh Carnegie yeah so but again HQ yes HQ and so at that time we were also implementing a new phonics program at the primary so that was going to be two new programs that we were rolling out at the same time for our primary teachers we did not want to overwhelm them so you know
064we continued with our wonders you know doing the best that we could and doing a great job but now that they have they hang you know they're doing a great job with Eureka we've been in the classroom uh with Fidelity I mean teachers are using the crew and they're doing a good job so now and I want to say this too when a teacher gets a new curriculum go through all the stages of brief like I like the old stuff now they used to complain about it now they love it like why do you have to change again it's that fear of change so now our teachers have confidence that they can be successful with any new program because they were allowed their two years to really dive in deep into the curriculum has an
065elementary teacher has seen my wife plan every night to see our teachers plan every night for one day of reading instruction it takes a teacher to internalize 3 to four hours for one lesson CU they're really tearing it apart where are the students going to struggle predicting it what vocabulary think we toce what book do I need to pull out of my bag of tricks to help them really understand this where's the vocabulary coming from takes a lot of time so to do two at one time they could do it but what level what quality are we going to have so I'm really grateful without even being here in the past that they were given that time to get their get their foundations in math so now we're ready to go on to the reading
066portion so we're very very exciting well and they teach every subject during the day right every single subject but that's why and now they're comfortable so now we're ready to make that move and provide that HQ for reading so right now the lower grades um of three through eight they're using amplify and so we' had discussion about well do we stay with amplify or do we go with the new hqm which is Blue Bonnet which is a Texas uh new curriculum okay so we um we we and then also we have to consider the DLI program so with blue bonnet there's this whole new process with the State Board of Education so with the State Board of Education they're kind of like revamping it back then you used to have like your Proclamation and you
067would adopt a curriculum for for eight years that is no longer the case the State Board of Education now will be reviewing uh materials every year moving on and so they will stamp it as HQ so there's this whole new list of HQ materials so blue bonnet is the state's curriculum and so with blue bonnet um it is only available K through five so Middle School will stay with amplify until they have um Blue Bonnet as their hqi curriculum right now there is no Spanish for the English component so they will continue with amplify and I'll talk a little bit about the the changes um so we'll we'll continue with amplifying for Spanish last Friday we met with the principles and I shared with them um the alignment the differences between amplify and blue bonnet
068and there's not I mean it's the framework is the same for teaching um and some of the um the topics have kind of like shifted a little bit but it's pretty much so similar but what we noticed on the alignment is amplify is is good stuff but it's not all of our teques and they're in a they're they can be in a different order kind of awkward that we have to adjust on our own Blue Bonnet is star 2.0 align it's ready to go and our teachers who've seen it are like oh this makes more sense it's in a more logical teacher and a lot of times with amplifi they're on a 202 day student calendar we're on 175 so they're pushing they're like cutting Corners to get everything to fit Blue Bonnet set for
069175 student days so the pace is right on track and that's what we really liked about the blue bonnet is the pace of the lesson here's this here's a small example Native American cultures was going to be taught an amplify in February with blue bonnet it's taught in November right around than it's logical for Texas and what we do Texas Public Schools week it has a Texas unit things fit more logically in our te so that's why they were very excited with the U Spanish with our dual language we were very protective like it has to be high quality so with amplify we're going to keep the amplify going or use amplify for rk2 and I and they're going to keep it in third grade too for all of our dual language until blue bonnet's
070ready whenever because right now they're still trying to get the English stuff finished up so they're not ready for the Spanish but we are giving our teachers our dual language teachers some Grace and some extra planning time so they can align it to the blue Bond as close as they can rearrange it a little bit and make it fit with our successful dual language program we don't want to go backwards we have to keep moving forwards with them we're excited about that partnership with third grade to get them continuing with this process so the Dual language program will move over to Blue Bonnet once it's available and once it's once everything is available if the first day of school they're not ready yet we'll keep another year but we we don't want to just turn
071it loose if it's not red it has to be it says it has to be high quality cuz if not our kids are our kids are flying through so we want to make sure it's ready for us okay there's a pilot right now we just don't want our kids to be the guinea pig so we're going to wait until they work out all the Kinks and then we'll move in that direction we don't want our teachers waiting for materials and I've seen that happen with Pilots like you're waiting you're like oh the unit started two days ago we still have our stuff so we don't want to wait yeah okay um so we were awarded the uh Basco uh planning Grant um it was $140,000 and so with that lasso Grant if we wanted to
072use a blue bonnet we have to develop a transition plan and so we will be working on that transition plan in the next coming months and basically what you're doing in that plan is you're you're basically rolling out or um you're describing every one's responsibility in the roll out of the new curriculum at the primary so we'll at that time we'll share that um that transition plan with you because it also has to come to the board for approval so you'll get to see that um I'm going to let Mr Crap tree and talk about the second bullet yes so the next part of this transition plan is collaborating with teachers admin and cenal admin so we've all been working very tightly visiting other schools seeing everything we need to do because whenever you're transitioning
073a curriculum the the most important stakeholder right now is Teachers they have to have Buy in they got to feel confident they got to feel they're going to be supported and we have to not just tell them we have to show them that we're going to give them those supports and what supports they need the most is time so um the first part of is developing a master schedule we've already pulled next year schedule out we've identified all of our professional development days intercessions how we can pull the teachers in more to have that time to plan and not just waiting till July they need need to start with the Hands-On the materials now so that way whenever they leave for the summer they have that confidence I can do this I have what I
074need if I choose to work in the summer which some do some don't but they have all the tools they need to be ready in July and when July starts our teachers need to come in and they need the gift of time they need time to sit down with their curriculum and work it out because that's the only way they're going to be successful that's the most important thing that we can give them um the next part is departmentalizing grade level we've just talked about how traditionally actually I say that primaries gone back and forth for uh few of our first grade teachers remember departmentalizing first grade and a lot of our second grade teachers did as well with the soon Junior High coming and second grade going up to the intermediate we need to
075get them ready we need to get them star ready we need to get them reader ready so we have made a decision our teachers have that they want to go second grade departmentalized next year and order to give our teachers enough time to internalize in order to really focus on the reading we need to have our teachers doing that what departmentalizing means for anyone who's not as familiar with that it's team teaching you're basically going to have one teacher teaching the reading the other teacher teaching the math science and social studies that's how big of a gap it is in time reading is a minimum of 120 minutes a day that's two hours of reading minimum and then math is 90 and then your other hour is your science and soul studies so one teacher
076would plan the reading one teacher would do the math science and soci studies and I had a meeting with teachers today and I was like does anyone feel that fair and the reading teachers was like I know it's only one takes more time to plan the reading than all the other subjects because they're doing writing phonics knowledge skills it's a lot it's like four separate lesson plans so um that's going to be that breakup in time for second grade and first grade we were on the fence about doing first grade but um I think we they even said let's see what second grade does with it so we're going to give them they're going to be our pilot and they're going to they want to watch second grade very carefully and U so what can
077we do for our Kinder and first grade teams that don't have as much time to they're planning everything they're teaching everything is we're giving them more embedded time to plan through the instructional days on the calendar um once a week they're having an extra planning day we've already worked it out how we can do that to give them an extra hour a week to plan together as a team and doing other creative things to give them all the tools they need awesome and then with part of that lasso Grant we'll be able to have funds like if we wanted to give them a day to plan we have the funds to pay for the subs or if they want to come during an intercession we will be able to have the funds to pay them
078so that they can come and plan and get ahead um another crucial um part or reason why we're having these discussion is because we have to order the materials as a uh yearr round campus we start school in July and so we got got to get on it and so um talking with the pa um we teachers will be able to have access to the digital uh platform um and then because it's HQ there's two additional buckets in the past you only had one bucket which was your emat where you purchased all of your um curriculum instructional books now because it's hqm you have two additional buckets you get a funding if you're purchasing hqm and then that third bucket is oer which means for printing so you start off with the Oar bucket first
079and when you deplete that one then you'll move over to the hqm and then you kind of leave that emat um the first bucket for other U instructional materials to be purchased for the district so it's 4020 and it's not just like a primary uses that you get $20 per student it's $20 for the enrollment of the district so that is a big another perk of why we want to go HQ because there's a lot of benefits so right now um in the past when we started out with amp amplify we didn't have the uh materials right there on day one but we were able to make um you know the copies for the teachers they didn't have to do anything cni Department took care of all of that for them so they can you
080know I'm a paper person so I know they're going to want toay paper te so we we can do that if they're not here on time because like I said it's a brand new curriculum that everyone in the state of Texas that's going in that will be using but they will have digital access and actually we're we're going to lead a PLC next week to make sure every teacher creates their free account ta opened it up for all certified teachers they just need their ID number and they can create a free account so they can already get access half my teachers already did it they're eager they earlier the better right so we're going to show them how to how to uh maneuver around the website how to start looking at that because they're they're
081very eager to get started and they just they know they I think they learned through Eureka they wish they would have started earlier and started asking those questions so they're living in Two Worlds right now but they're excited and so we'll have our instructional facilitators as well help them navigate through this new curriculum as well so that'll be another support okay and um finally um embedding planning time we already talked about that embedding extra time for them to plan and internalize you're going to hear that a lot it's not just enough to write it out they have to internalize where the needs are going to be and be prepared for our students by asking um tier three questioning it's not just yes or no questions having students talk to each other really having that that
082peer conversation um on doing ped throughout the year um read instructional facilitators um and also modeling lessons we're very excited um Miss Lucas and I have been talking a lot about our our first and second grade teachers and even Kinder going up to third grade and with witnessing what Amplified looks like this year to kind of know where our students trajectory needs to land so and then modeling lessons for each other if you have showcase they need to they need to go see each other and they've been doing that this year but they're more excited to even do it next year more often and so even like at the elementary we have a lot of good uh teachers that are actually doing a really good job with the Amplified curriculum so having them go down
083and and model for those teachers I'm a visual learner I like to see it in action it's one thing to read it but to see it how all comes together is another thing and so teachers have expressed that to us okay um and this final page this is kind of like this is the road map this is every month from now through the beginning of school in where we're at so in March we're decision making our teachers are giving input in April we're looking at funding and planning out how it's going to look starting our training in May professional development through the summer and then planning and internalization this is kind of the road map because the the thing that can make a program like this fail is fear of the unknown and that reluctance
084that people get to change so they have a cleared road map on where we're going and our why we're doing it we're going to have that buy in and and I'm very excited because our teachers are speaking very very upbeat and positive and some of those people who are kind of like they like the old way they're looking around like I'm going to be by myself I better get on board they are and they're excited they're excited that they're going to give time during the instructional day to to do it they're not expected to do it after hours or not to be paid or anything like that so they already do so much after hours yes they do they do it's a big deal I agree big deal any questions it's exciting I'm excited that
085alignment you know that continuity it's going to be a seamless transition I think we'll be able to have a more vertical alignment um because they're on the same page and so I'm excited for that AB very well done thank you proud done thank you all okay that was a report only there is no V okay item agenda item number eight discuss and consider the second reading of the tenm parent code conduct Mr President members of the board what I've done and I haven't had any comments uh between our last board meeting is I've married the two and put it TMI as deed and it's ready to go for your consideration and possible approval discussion or comments questions has the administrators have they had a chance to look at it and how do they feel so
086so I mean be okay yes sir hopefully with it being in place we won't ever have to enforce it right all righty Mr R Maj do you have a recommendation I do Mr President members of the board it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the second reading of the TSA Midway parent code of conduct as presented do I have a motion for this item I I'll make that motion yeah congratulations you have a second I'll second it Mr jum all in favor motion carries five car all righty next uh item on the agenda number nine discuss and consider the second reading of tasby update 124 Mr President members of the board um this is recommendations from tasby I did not field any questions there's nothing controversial that that I see and as you
087know U we require um two readings um and this is the second reading for uh tasby update 124 as presented anybody any questions comments again Mr van m a recommendation for us certainly Mr President members of the board it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the second reading of the tasby update 124 okay have a motion I I'll make that a motion that we uh approve the second reading of the Tas be update 124 I'll second that second okay okay all in favor all right motion carries 5 Z all right finally uh item number 10 discuss and consider the nomination of of a candidate for tasby board position region two Mr President members of the board and Miss Castillo you can help me with this um you can nominate yourself for from our
088board to be on the board hasby board of directors for region two and this is the initial process to move forward with that have we had a trustee on the board of directors not that I'm aware of PA Mella wasn't everyone no not well to my knowledge anybody interested in taking on more the board discussion only no administrative action no no administrative recommendation I'm not going to I certainly am not going to make a nomination well Christy said we still have more time yes in the email that they sent from tasby they did state that the incumbent Mr uh Moses Al is seeking reelection he is based out of matys high he is yes he's he's been on the for several years he's PhD I think okay so no board dis or board discussion only
089no administrative recommendations so we still have some time I guess we yes move along to the next item is discuss and consider approval of the consent agenda informational items uh check payment register anybody have any questions or comments February uh 2025 financials tax collection report enrollment report regular and special call board meeting minutes okay Mr D Mr President members of the board it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agenda as presented okay do I have a motion by anyone to approve the consent agenda I'll see you uh I move that we approve the consent agenda's informational items I'll second those okay all right all in favor motion carries 5 Z okay so we're done with that now it's time to go into close session the board will convene and close session
090meeting as authorized by the Texas open meetings act to discuss items Allowed by the Texas government code chapter 551.071 083 and. 084 the time is currently 8:09 p.m. he we're reconvening from closed meeting current time is 8:53 p.m. and we're going to take action and resulting from Clos session deliberation Mr President members of the board it is recommended that the Board of Trustees issue an educator probationary contract for the remainder of the 2024 4 25 school year as presented we have a motion I'll make that motion okay okay next motion have a second I'll second it all right we have a vote all in favor 5 motion passes Mr President members of the board it is the administration's recommendation that the Board of Trustees issue an educator dual probationary contract for the 2025 2026 school
091year as presented all right once again anyone to make a motion I I move that we accept the dual contract okay okay Brian all right all in favor motion passes 5 z Mr President members of the board is is the administration's recommendation that the Board of Trustees issue administrative contracts for the 2526 and 2627 school year as presented once again motion I'll make the motion I'll second that Leo all right let's take a vote all in favor 5 motion passes that's all we have okay all right so the future meeting next meeting is April 21st unless we have anything come up before then uh 2025 uh now the next thing on the agenda is adjournment well don't forget we do have the um ground break breing next Wednesday the 26 is it Wednesday or Thursday
092Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday at what time 10 o' did everybody receive your invitation in the mail yes okay then we're going to have a little reception afterward so where do we meet High School in front of the science Wing we'll see um yeah we're we're closing the parking lot off um beginning Monday Monday um athletes will be able to park on the staff because of the Walk buses will stay where they're at they're at they'll be we'll have a guard at the um what what what door number is that 10 10 because it's going to be fenced they're not going to be able to get to the front of the school and then the uh drop off and pickup will be on the by The Natatorium tennis courts and I'm want to I sent that out
093for the eyes to look at it for the ISD you know what am I missing and then um after tonight I'll put that out to the public tomorrow oh my gosh I know I'm like oh my gosh drop off and pick off what drop off and Pickups is going to be a nice I think it'll be I think it'll be better I really do uh Maybe not maybe I'm naive but uh um I think it was bottleneck because of the front parking lot area there and there people would try to do two lanes um but people are always trying to do two lanes in every every direction so we'll see uh we've spent a lot of time on on what can we do because we have to close it off that's where construction is going
094to be but you know you know how it's difficult uh but um yeah it'll be Friday's the last day so they'll have four days to um ask questions and then Monday morning um I'm going to and they still entered through the front doors right because of the metal detectors yes so that's upcoming pray for me all right one more thing adjournment what do we doing here one and two who's going to make a motion oh not me I'm Rick I thought what was it was it you and CA yall figured this out by now hav you yeah it's time it's 9:00 yet okay all right I know ger time is 8:58 before 9:00 great meeting good thing we got a vote we got a vote to adjourn okay that's right that's right I'm sorry all
095in all in favor motion anybody want to stay here no good job good meeting good conversation thank you for your public service