001e e e MERS is present and that the meeting has been duly call and notice the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas open meetings at government code chapter 551 uh the board will now uh adjourn into executive session pursuant to Texas government code sections 551.074 through e e e would you introduce your student and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance therapist at Brown and she's been working with Michaela our student student Michaela Ward and she's going to explain just a little bit what it's um what's going to happen and then um we'll introduce um Michaela and let her get started hello um like she said my name is mallerie Pendergast and I am one of the speech therapists at Brown Elementary um so Michaela uses an AAC device to communicate um
002we've been working together on doing the morning announcements she did the morning announcements all last week um to start the school day and so she's going to show that to y'all today um I did want to explain a few things so whenever she makes a sentence on the device um it'll start out with single words so I'm going to show youall what it would look like if she were to say I want more um it would start with single words I want more and then she presses it and it says the whole sentence I want more so whenever she does the Pledge she starts out by saying please join us for The Pledge and so she'll do the single s the single words and then she'll press it and it'll say the whole sentence so
003just wait until she finishes that one sentence and then um she'll press the pledge and we can all join in um we also do the Texas pledge um in a moment of silence and then she'll introduce herself so just to um give youall a heads up on how she's going to do that so Michaela this is Julie Bard her teacher yes please join us for the pledge please join us for the pledge 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 now for the Texas pledge now for the Texas pledge honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to thee Texas one State under God one and indivisible please remain standing for a moment
004of silence please remember standing for a moment of silence my name is Michaela from Mrs vard's class my name is Michaela from Mrs vard's [Applause] class that was fantastic thank you very much that's a whole lot better than we ever do it so that's as really exciting thank you um and N our our brief introductory remarks will be given by Mrs Conway thank you go bow your head with me heavenly father I thank you for this day thank you for students like Michaela and her courage and bravery I thank you for her teachers I thank you for the teachers of White House ISD Lord I pray that you would be with us with our students and with the families that go to school here Lord I um pray that you would give us wisdom in
005the decisions we make on this board for our district it's in your holy and precious name I pray amen you have our recognitions tonight I do all right good evening I have the uh privilege tonight of introducing uh some exceptional students here that that make up the finest at White House High School coach eids if you could help me out and stand over there so to begin with we're going to start off with um Miss Abigail Jung who's been named a national finalist for speech and debate I'm going to add this is her second year for this so she qualified she's going to is it Iowa that you qualified for perfect she's a part of U academics speech and debate business Professionals of America HOSA National Honor Society youth Community Council Heritage Club practicum of
006Pharmacy um Abigail is applying to numerous universities and plans to attend medical school [Applause] all right good job Abigail all right next I would like to introduce Gabe Rogers for being a state qualifier for the fourth straight year in swim good job coach eids correct me if I'm wrong three school records this past time okay that's awesome all right so Gabe is a part of band and swim for the last four years Gabe is going to attend TJC for two years and applied to Texas A&M he will continue to to swim club and hopefully make the Texas A&M swim team it's a great job Gabe [Applause] all right congratulations good job [Applause] yeah thought Casey was going to say gig him but I thought I'd better help him out you know go cats excuse me
007uh we did not have anyone sign up for open for this evening which takes us to uh our information items and the first one uh is Mrs Porsche and Mrs mcarter talking about our GT program yes so we're here tonight to talk about our wonderful GT program and two of the teachers that are housed on our campus so at Kan and Higgins we have Miss Dennis and at Brown in ston we have Miss Sanchez and they do a great job um they split their time on both campuses and um spend their day with kiddos each day so we're going to talk just a little bit about kind of what that looks like and some of the things they do um on a day-to-day basis so um okay you guys tell us first kind of what's
008a typical day in the life of a GT teacher we're kind of all over the place a lot of days we um we might get up we're we work on two campuses so depending on where we're at that day we're going to see kids um for about half a day usually and then um we'll see a group in the morning and then we'll see a different group in the afternoon and now we're also seeing kindergarteners so we've thrown them in there for a little while um every week and we work on different things with them like we're working with the little ones on um a unit on dinosaurs and but it goes a lot deeper than that and then we're also working on a new we just created on botney with all the older kids
009if we're not um investigating or dissecting flowers or something um we may be finding new students to join our rank through assessments so we'll um conduct the KW or kois in second grade in kindergarten and we also um score all of the tests and results that we get in to help identify new new students to join the program um we also run the academic Rodeo registrations and help the coaches get connected with their students and make sure everything is in line so they can go and compete in those contests the academic Rodeo is really cool we took over 30 something winners um who placed in the over and they have people from far away as three hours who come and compete in the academic rodeo and White House took over 30 winners this year and
010we always dominate the elementary schools always dominate the Mathletics department so we've got some great programs coming yeah all right so what is one thing y'all have implemented this year so one big new thing we started in the very beginning of the year was a social emotional curriculum based just for really GT Learners um just the um the way they're built in their minds they have kind of extremes extreme learning extreme curiosity extreme emotions also and so we provide them with tools to help them recognize those feelings that come on really quickly and how to help them calm and reset themselves and and know that they might have that themselves and we get a lot of that too like I do that all the time you know or oh that's why I do that um
011so just them being able to see yeah that's okay and you're going to be different but there's tools to help you you know calm down and refocus and and be able to do good things with that um we've also got a grant from the Education Foundation for a chess Academy and it's really cool we had overwhelming response we had um tons of kids apply we ended up doubling the number we are originally going to take which was 60 and we have um over 130 kids that come once a month to this chess Academy and they're not just our kids so it's a great way for us to interact with other kids who might be gifted in chess but haven't qualified for our program so that's been a real benefit and the um we get to
012see them actually this week again for the second time and so that's been a great thing that we've been able to do this year um what role do parents play in supporting GT students learning and how do you keep them involved in the process we have really great parents um I've been able to invite I don't know maybe six into my classroom during the school day and they present as experts so I've had a a brain surgeon talk I've had a horticulturist talk I've had um someone who deals with Alzheimer's and different things talk about um different ways the brain works and um it's just neat to oh and a a a fence a fencer when we did times and he brought all his things and that that was the kids's favorite probably he brought
013all these swords and they got to hold fraad swords and just bringing that to life like applying what they're learning in the real world the like the things you're passionate about could be your occupation and so just seeing that come to life is really cool and the parents love being a part of that too we also um started a new thing where we sent out newsletters to parents and it has a lot of information on ways they can help or volunteer and things they can do at home we also have Choice boards that we started this year so every unit that we do has a choice board that goes with it and we encourage all kids to at least choose one but um a lot of them choose multiple to do and these are things
014they're doing at home with their parents and so it's been great to see the families come together and work on these projects and um teach kids about what they're interested in I had a parent email me this week you don't know this is what I've been waiting for my whole life was to do a leaf collection with my child so they just get to do these really cool things that you know we want to do with our kids but we may not always have the opportunity or make the time for and so it's been a good way for us to allow them to make time for that um and do you know they're creating terrariums they're taking kids places that they wouldn't normally take them just because it's something that we've talked about in class
015um yeah and the other side of it we also do um just parent awareness about what is GT what does that mean what does it look like in white ISD so we create um sessions for that we also do a beginning of the year orientation for parents to come and we invite them in it's here um we kind of say what to expect and then we also have a parent advisory committee where we meet quarterly and talk about you know decisions and make sure that we're kind of in line of what the the goals are based on the parent surveys and it's really integrated with parents' needs and and making them pretty aware of what's going on in our program and do a really good job of sending out a newsletter to the staff also
016to keep them informed on what's happening in GT and stuff so the parents are informed but also the staff and how they can um use the things that they're doing in GT in the classroom so last question for y'all is what is the most rewarding aspect of teaching GT students for me it's it's the kids um it's really fun to the style of teaching is very different as I just came out of the regular classroom and um a lot of times I'll present them with the that I'm thinking about they could make um and this is the outcome this is what I want to show what you've learned and they'll come up to me missis can I so and so and so with their own idea can I make it this way or can I
017investigate this instead and I could just say yes and like no we got to we got to do it this way I can just say yes and then they go off the script and create things above and beyond what I was planning and so that's just amazing to me I love getting to see that happen um I enjoy that and I also enjoy um an advocate for kids who are twice exceptional Learners so they probably have some kind of disability it probably stems from my own kids have dyslexia and dis graphia but they also have a high IQ so they're they were in the gifted programs and those kids to me um need someone fighting for them sometimes because they get down on themselves and they need to hear from us that hey you can
018do this you can make it in this class you have these great ideas you are capable of going out and doing these things and so working with those kids and advocating for them and teaching um other teachers about their needs and how they're exceptional is really rewarding do yall have any questions so the the GT designation follows them all the way through once they're identified all the way through through High School how do you transition from what you do at the elementary level to say Holloway to the junior high or the or beyond that we get a lot of there's not a pull out program when we leave fifth grade and so we get to talk to them about there's not but you get to do these things you can take these honors classes you
019can accelerate in math and go faster through your math so that you can take more advanced level math um as you get older we have white house is very fortunate with the career paths that we offer and the things that they can do and the medical field and the way they can Shadow real professions and so we talk a lot about how yeah you may not have a pull out program but you can still accelerate and dive into these areas that you are interested in and Advanced content in those areas even though you're not technically in a pullout class White House does a really good job of serving them through um AP classes and dual credit classes and the specific career paths that we have what kind of numbers are you talking about on average
020like per grade level so in the elementary we've about 250 yeah I serve 152 kids um every amongst all grade levels that's K5 that's and it's just so then she serves that as well and then we have I don't know how many um upper level kids we have but we do identify those kids as well so they they don't only have the opportunity to be qualified for a gifted designation or or referred for that process in K5 they actually can do that all the way through 12th grade and so we at the end of every year when we do referrals for first and third through 12th um we actually go into the junior high and high schools and we um test those kids and if they qualify then they um can use that on their
021um we tell them also sometimes it's good they like to have it for their applications you know like this is my um I was gifted and talented I was in this program and so a lot of them use it for that as well but um they will go and then be qualified all the way through 12th grade they can do that we have a set number of students we accept per grade level no um um that's a great question we do not we um will take whatever kids qualify for that grade level um and it's different per campus um we just qualified kindergarten and we had about the same number on every campus anywhere from 8 to 11 um but there is no set number thank you very much appreciate it right okay okay and
022next one uh Mr spach G focus on our our dual credit program all right it looks like you brought reinfor brought a crowd tonight so yes tonight I have the uh privilege of spotlighting um our our dual credit program and a few of our teachers here tonight and kind of walk you through some of the things they're doing uh and some of the growth we've had in in the program so right now we currently have um six academic dual credit teachers four here tonight to had had prior commitments with kids um and we're looking to add two more next year so we're looking to expand it to eight teachers overall we have Miss rouso right here English Dr Spates US History Miss Weaver also English and Mr Gray does some government and economics for us
023so they're here tonight they're going to answer some questions all right so if you look on the screen these are our current offerings and going into next year what we offer here at White House High School um we have a a pretty vast offering of dual credit here in East Texas not not too many schools rival us with that um we have a total of 44 hours our students could earn if they wanted to now that might not be for every kid but there it's available for every and our counselors do a great job meeting with the individual kids kind of push kind of showing them a pathway that might be best for what their interest are um if you look up there we're adding macroeconomics Mr gry will be doing that next year um
024you want to tell them a little bit about your credentialing and because you're you're fairly new coming in yeah um I went through or I'm going through West Texas A&M University i' I've already got my political science it's an inter disciplinary Masters and I get my econ I'm I've got two more classes to go and summer one I'll be finished with econ and I'll be able to teach that next school year so so we're in the process of trying to get more teachers credential because uh it's a good problem to have but what we're having we've had a large increase in dual credit enrollment and some of our current teachers are almost maxed out in what they can teach like English and US History are our two largest ones right now and these teachers they're
025they're a full day of dual credit um so there's not a lot of room for growth those and Mr Gray we're adding him to uh the Dual credit government econ uh coach AR who is not here is going through the East Texas Annon program he'll be credential next year and they had a a program where they would contribute 500 a semester to help a teacher get credentialing can y'all tell me how what is the credentialing how many hours do we need to be you have to have a master's degree and then you have to have 18 hours if you have the master in subject you're teaching then that's fine but um like I have an education master's degree I'd have to have 18 graduate level hours of English in order to teach English but I
026also now have the master's degree in English so that covers and a lot of our teachers already have a master's degree so sometimes it's just about getting the 18 hours in the core subject that they can teach that that that that helps us and before I get ahead of myself we are partnered this year with East Texas A&M you know that is new for us um and they had different course offerings as well and they had the the program that would contribute the $500 per semester for teachers that wanted to try and get the credentialing so this is one thing that that we brag about here um our instruction is provided by teachers physical teachers in the classroom where a lot of schools probably smaller than us they do what's called a proctored setting where
027kids go in they're in a computer lab uh and that's all they do they see the computer they'll have a a professor assigned to them from University but they probably never meet that that professor and and that Professor definitely doesn't know the ins and outs of White House High School the daily operation and so on so we can brag about we have a teacher this year we had our only Proctor class was dual credit art appreciation and we actually have a teacher that can teach that next year so once we have that teacher we are fully staffed with a physical person in a room with dual credit so so one question might be because have that um Advantage um having you guys in the classroom how do y'all um kind of navigate the um problems
028dual credit students might face and what are some of those problems that dual credit students face well I think sometimes the problems they face are the expectations of a college level class um they're used to late grade policy and makeup tests and we don't do that in college so the you know when they're gone to their track me still have to meet the requirements of something that's due um so that's one of the ways that they struggle and of course the rigor of the class you know goes up exponentially because you know some of them are skipping a couple of grade levels worth of work to go into a college class so kind of helping them bridge that gap between what high school students do and what college students do without dumbing down the college
029expectations because we're not allowed to do that in any way shape or form so it it's a lot of maybe providing examp or scaffolding than a college professor might so kind of the goal the the vision here is to offer a pathway is what we call Core complete okay core complete is 42 credit hours and you can see the makeup there on the left side these 42 credit hours is what every student will need to obtain a bachelor's degree and the core hours will transfer to any public school in Texas so we are are pretty close to offering this now this might not be the the best pathway for every kid but we would like to at least offer it to where kids can pick and choose what they want out of this pathway and
030if you look at this um you know if you go back to other side we offered 44 credit hours so we offer a lot of additional math classes that a kid might take based on a certain pathway we offer additional English classes a student might might might could take so we offer a few extra hours uh we're we're sh the 42 here for state government and Mr Greg you can teach that so we're looking to add that in the next congratulations we got a teacher for that one um life in physical science is what we're we're lacking and that that's a harder one to to get you have to find somebody that has the credentialing in science and those are few or far between um but we could possibly have teachers on our campus that
031want to work towards that pathway so it's lining that teacher up with a partnership encouraging them along the way to get the 18 hours and when we satisfy that we're we're we're qu complete based on what the state of Texas says so one question would be say there's a kid that that might not um want to go to college right now what would be the benefit of taking a dual credit class if you're say playing to do a trade school I think a lot of those kids still want higher level even though um they may not be uh College Bound and in trade school you're still need some of that you need the analysis you need the evaluation you need to know how to do that and um I have seen non-traditional students who went
032off and said I don't want to go to college but then later they decide that they they want to come back and go and then they have those hours already and that's a good point because a lot of our kids will tell us they know what they want to do but everybody in here remembers 18 most of us do not so our goal really is to equip them with everything they will need when they do change their mind at some point so to give them all the information and all the skills we can when that time comes this is just some enrollment numbers um that that coming from the fall and this year now if you go back and you look um five years ago um we predominantly offered some some English we've added some
033English Miss Weaver was an addition a few years ago Miss rouso came in and started some of the Dual credit we we've added a few math classes but we we've grown over time history and English by far are the biggest ones uh that that students take and we'll see a uptick probably of government and economics as those coures um get established um have y'all had any students ever come back and and give you some of their experiences with dual credit I have a a former student at UT Tyler right now who um she's pursuing a major in English double major English in education and even reading some of the same pieces that we did in dual credit and so it's like reading it a second time through she kind of had that foundation and then
034the research process also I think some of the scaffolding that we do taking it step by step kind of prepares them for just getting thrown in you know out well I think I've had like note taking like a lot of kids are you know the the skill of taking notes they don't know how to do that when they get to college and I think a lot of them are thankful that you know they've learned that that skill to to be able to take notes and take really good notes so they can test the water and still be in a high school setting and still get get prepared for for the rigor that they're going to approach all right questions I had a quick question those students who want to get an associates degree I guess
035through TJC how how many other classes do they have to take through TJC can they get the majority of these through these dual credits Associates is usually 60 hours so you're going to get offer 44 that it would depend on what specialty they're getting that Associates in as to we'll offer the core of that but then what what above that we might not offer that would be more specific to the pathway we take ways potentially yes they they would still have a good ways to go yeah and I think also uh truste say Well we'd have to find a cooperating uh junior college that would sign off on that and award the associates degree and and we have begun conversations about trying to figure out how can we partner with a local university community college
036would say hey yeah we we can we can we can fill in that Gap and then be a part of awarding that Associates grp yes sir yes sir another question I have is obviously we changed Partners this year for our dual credit courses and one of the primary reasons that we changed Partners was that the way it was structured this year was is going to cost teachers money and we didn't feel like we could afford to let it cost our teachers money to do what you're doing so by doing this that ostensibly would not happen so I guess my question is are you happy is it working the way it's supposed to and I think going through the fouryear university especially for English the kids are getting I think a much stronger foundation for when
037they go off to University especially like the English 1302 class completely different than what it was before and they're doing their own research project and they have to go and do interviews and all kinds of stuff so they're getting a lot of research skills that were not available through our other partner do you feel like the quality is better do you feel like you're getting compensated fairly oh yes thank you for that and I'll give you some feedback not for me personally but for our kids and that is just simply that between dual credit and um and AP classes you know our oldest two had 6 something hours of credit when they left White House and you can't do that everywhere and it's a huge deal because if you think about it just from an
038economic standpoint you know those are that's two years of school you're not paying for them to go live somewhere you're not paying University tuition I mean for dual credit we did pay tuition but not anything like you'd pay if you were going somewhere else it made a huge difference to them too in the amount of flexibility they had they could take other things because they already had this the 60 hours of core classes so it was a huge deal so thank you all for that thank [Applause] you and then Dr Bass you to talk with us about the teacher in c l all right so good evening uh tonight I'm going to be providing an update over our teacher incentive allotment uh it's also called the Tia most of you already know what it's about
039but just uh broken down into its most simple form it's uh incentive pay for high performing teachers based on student growth and teacher performance the student growth is the student performance end of it and the teacher performance is the evaluation that's given by the principal so specifically the plan that tea has for Tia is to incentivize and recognize the top 33% of teachers as recognized the top 20% of teachers as exemplary and the top 5% is Mastery if you move to the right you'll see some green font there and that is the average earnings per designation level in the district meaning across the board last year uh a teacher in wi house if they earned a recognized rating would have earned on average about 4,57 $ and you move on down exemplary teacher would have
040earned on average about 8,300 and then Master would have earned around okay so as of uh 2025 that's that's in may we have 66 teachers who have earned designations that's threeyear cumulative right um so that means that in May 66 teachers will make additional monies or stiens right so for 2025 we had 18 new designations and then we also had seven improved or higher designations meaning they they moved from say a recognized level to an exemplary level or from an exemplary to Masters some jumped all the way over the middle so um now you guys have a list we're not going to share it here but it has some green and blue on it that you probably seeing those are the list of the teachers for 2025 who earn new or improved designations and it
041should tell you the campuses they're on and their designation levels so here's some more uh good information uh this particular slide compares the number of designations that were earned uh based on 2024 designations and 2025 designations um just going to kind of walk you through this uh for new and recognized designations in 2024 we had 10 in 2025 we had 18 so we improved by eight right um improved designations we had three for 2024 we had seven for 2025 so four more people earned improved or hired designations uh as far as exemplary designations we had five in 2024 had three in 2025 you're saying well that's a lower number well what happened was two people from 2024 the next year the Masters they bump that Masters up from 1 to four so uh that explains
042that dip there but so what you're seeing is is is Teachers um are performing and students are performing and it's telling us that our you know our systems working and it's certainly resulting in some good outcomes for our students because uh growth is a big part student growth is a big part of uh this designation system all right so you're probably wondering how much money's gone out right uh we're going to focus on these first three columns but if you look at 2022 23 there were 41 teachers that had designations um those teachers were able to earn collectively $235,000 in addition to their paychecks if you look at 2023 24 we had 52 do ated teachers which is greater than 41 and um they were able teachers were able to earn or designated teachers were
043able to earn $285,400 th000 so over a three-year period it's pretty easy to say that teachers will have earned an additional at least an additional $820,000 so pretty good chunk of change all right as far as next steps uh we just this last Thursday had our Tia committee for the district shared with them some of this same information we just went a lot deeper into the system uh in April we're going to submit well um the expansion modification is due and and we're going to add English one as an eligible teaching field that'll put us up from 24 to 25 eligible teaching Fields um during the latter part of April te is going to communicate the allotment amounts with the district and at that point uh in May we'll send stopen letters to the teachers
044informing them of the amount of money that they'll be receiving in their May paycheck and they'll get one lumpsum paycheck in May so any questions you how we compare to our competition in the East Texas area in terms of we had 66 for numers teachers L yeah I I I don't know I don't know I can get that information for you though if you'd like once a teacher gets to recognize status or exemplary status is it easy to stay there or do they have to continue to qualify each year well um it lasts for five years uh they get paid for five years on that one designation all they can do is just move up they can move up in that five years or they have to wait till the five they can move up
045they can move up the next year and um but they're they're good for five years to or if they move up does that restart the five years I believe it restarts the five years and then do you have a sense of how we compare as a district in terms of what we're paid or what designated teachers are paid within our district compared to some of those Sur District um I can tell you it it's based on uh the rural status of the school and it's also based on the uh socioeconomic status or the uh the needs of the students on that campus so if you if you went to Tyler you're were a school there they would they would probably pay quite a bit more just like uh Brown here pays more than than Kan
046would for a recognized designation campus by campus not District by District Camp I didn't hear you I'm sorry offic say I think the in the in the exception the idea behind Tia was uh to incentivize good teachers to stay in Rural and and uh higher socioeconomic areas and because that need is greater for maybe a a a more distinguished teacher it was to incentivize them to stay in those harder to teach areas so to speak and so um you know some of those school districts that that have very low socioeconomic uh numbers it's probably not beneficial to go through the Tia process it does take multiple uh variables and factors and departments to kind of uh to work together to to put all that together but but I think um we've got a good plan
047and we're trying to make sure that we get our teachers as much money as possible uh and reward uh student growth 33 right I mean all teachers yeah so um we have um 141 teachers that are intia eligible subjects so it's 33% of that 141 and you know you don't hit it exactly every year you have uh some teachers for instance that have uh earned a designation and they moved into say art at the elementary level or to PE so uh we're I think we're right at about 40% of that 161 ta eligible teachers not all subjects right right we have uh we have 20 24 Tia eligible subjects we have the same number of eligible subject as every other school no it varies some some have special ads some have CTE some some have
048uh different it's all based on how you can assess them is that correct or how is that how's it decided what subjects are going to be well it's it's left up to the district but you do have to have you do have to have an assessment that will determine growth you're saying you're adding English one this year yeah we're adding English there some on the radar that you plan to add over the next right um the year after that make sure I get you the the numbers right we have we have a three-year plan and um so 25 26 will be English one 2627 will be biology US history at the 8th and 11th grade and then 27 28 if I got my numbers right it's the one after that will be prek and at
049that point we will have our um acad mic core Corridor covered in Toney possibilities those are certainly not insignificant yeah uh and then that takes us to our tasby staffing survey and this Matthew's going to Enlighten us all right uh Dr Robbie Dr Whittle uh School Board members uh we talked about in the fall that we were going to look at doing a staffing review with the Texas Association of school boards uh their HR Services team is a really great partner for most districts they are able to do uh which we have done every year as a compensation review uh they also do an HR Services review for HR departments to make sure that we're efficient uh but this year we focused on a staffing review and the reason for that is to make sure
050that we are aligned with other districts um and that we are staffed properly especially when you're talking about that uh maybe enrollment is kind of flat right now so we want to make sure that we're staffed appropriately and that if there's any areas that we can adjust we would be able to do that with some benchmarks that they're able to provide uh so this aligns with our board goal to practice fiscal efficiency and transparency and partner with the community to address current and future needs so the project goal and objective is to make sure that we make informed and data driven decisions uh like I said they will uh compare us to other districts we can address our current needs uh they align us with other districts of similar size and the next slide will
051tell you what uh districts they have compared us to and we can clarify any issues or concerns with current Staffing uh we can discuss any strategic changes that we want to achieve uh by maybe program um offerings that we're going to do in the future whatever that is we can look at that they also look at our current budget and they look at our demographer report to make sure that what our enrollment will be over the next several years so that's what they look at these are our peer districts you can see they're 12 peer districts these are not the districts that they compare us to with compensation because normally when you're looking at compensation you want to make sure your neighboring districts are aligned with you so they take into consideration Tyler and larger
052districts around us uh but these are going to be the 12 districts that look similar to us uh based on our economically disadvantaged and our Limited English proficient numbers um also with enrollment and staff sizing so that's the ones that we're looking at and then the project timeline you can see that it's already started uh the HR team started working with tasby uh at mid-February and um our principes and directors were given a survey and I know they've all been doing a great job is of it was a kind of a tedious survey that they had to fill out they had to really look at their staff uh see where they had see what uh things they felt like they needed uh so they had a good opportunity to be able to communicate with the
053tasby auditor to make sure that they really had a good picture of what is at their individual campuses and then the directors did that um at a districtwide level so we did that uh those were due on March 7th and then from the 10th through the 14th it's just follow-up conversations the auditor will look at them uh make sure if they have any questions that they have uh that we can address those and then we'll do a bunch of data analysis and that'll be uh with HR and tasby doing that and then our Target date would be um Mid April to do a first draft and we'll be able to make revisions and edits and then have a final report uh for April to share with you so that's what our goal is do you
054have any questions nothing okay thank you for doing that yeah no problem we obviously got it ahead of time time to review so I think we I know so thank you um and then uh the last one information items is the empowering ecse Educators to improve student outcomes Grant Miss pan has talk to us about that that is just an intent it's just information on a intent to apply for a grant through um region 10 that's a uh ecse Grant um that is just focused on um classroom Behavior it's um a professional development grant that is just focused on classroom Behavior so we'll um I do know when we'll get notification of that Grant yeah so the due date was March 7th it's been submitted so once we get notification of that we'll let you
055know okay we may not be leading the group in acronyms but we're close oh and this one escapes me what is the ECS early early childhood yeah okay all right that that is I know what that okay all right thank you very much okay that takes us to our action action items and the first of those is our consent agenda you obviously have those uh any questions or discussions on any of the consent items no okay I have a motion to approve motion Mr fling second by Dr confetti to approve the consent agenda um all in favor okay motion carries um that'll move take us to our action on Clos sessions and uh the first one is consider renewal of contracts to our for our professional employees um do I have a recommendation to review
056the contracts of our professional employees as presented in the executive session for the 2025 2026 school year Mo made Mr flang second M Conway uh to approve the contracts um for professional employees any comments or questions about that all in favor motion carries we're glad to still have y'all yes um and the second is to consider approval uh of our Guardian plan participant U obviously discuss that we have a motion to approve please second Schnider uh to approve our Guardian plan participant uh all in favor motion carries um we will not have an election this may because our two incumbents are running unopposed thank you both for coming back and congratulations so um so we'll need a motion to approve the certification of unopposed candidates as presented Mo Mr Flanigan second by Dr complety uh
057all in favor motion carries um and then we need a separate motion to cancel the election do have that motion second you to think about that a while yeah motion is kind of way second by Mr Flanigan uh to cancel the election uh all in favor all right motion carries and that takes us to our reports of the superintendent uh Dr will uh yes sir we're uh I guess four sleeps away from spring break uh and so that's that's exciting stuff but that means when we get back uh we enter into that mad dash of uh land the plane and and school kind of uh gets done uh unfortunately or fortunately that that also kicks off kind of our testing season and that goes from our benchmarks that are that we've already started uh into
058our star and EOC and AP and sat and so uh that's all about to to begin and so um you know that that's sometimes uh you know you test and and and sometimes that's just uh Just One Day One Moment In Time and we know there's a lot more involved in educating kids but it is part of necessary evil that the state requires so we'll begin that process and then uh the second thing uh just wanted to make sure everybody knew is that uh graduation is uh May 23rd at 8:30 p.m. at the stadium and just like last year and the previous years uh should inclement weather uh come uh we'll move it to the we'll move it to the next the next night same time same uh bat Channel and try to get that
059done but uh we're excited I know the seniors are excited and uh it's kind of once you get back spring break it's that renewed uh energy and and optimism and hope that're we're going to get across the stage so uh we're just thankful for the the principls uh to lead their staff through for the testing and then the high school to to get the get the kids across the stage even when they don't want to we got to pull and drag them across so uh we're excited to be a part of that and sharing that Milestone it is an exciting time of year it is yes sir it is that includes our concludes our agenda for the evening uh do I have a motion to adjourn motion made to Mr Flanigan second by Dr confet
060to adjourn all in favor motion carries we are adjourned