LJISD Board Meeting 2.26.25

001[Music] good evening everyone February 26 our board meeting welcome to everybody that's here today and those that are viewing it is 6m and our meeting will begin item number two is roll call I'm going to ask if you state your name from my right and we will end to the left godos Margo present alisaa present rosala Hernandez present celo Gomez Jun presid okay so let the record state or show that Anita Chavez who's our vice president is not in tonight and neither is Jessica Ooa U but we do have Quorum next item on the agenda ladies and gentlemen is our Pledge of Allegiance if you're able to do so please stand and face the flag I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands

002one nation under God I liy and Justice you may be seated all right this this is exciting so I think this is part two of our La Hoya ISD Centennial committee I'm looking forward to this presentation I know they did one a few weeks back or months back so if I could have uh our presenter make her way sorry sorry thank you Blanca looking forward to the presentation so thank you you may proceed good evening Mr President Dr senson board members members of our community we are very excited today to bring our second presentation for our decades Decades of Excellence this time around we're doing 1946 to 1965 and so we have Mr Amano Chapa and Mr Ivan Silva that are come going to come up here and do their presentation nice to see you

003gentlemen again welcome gentlemen welcome we're we're very excited to have our our second installation all right good evening everyone we're very excited to be back here today uh continuing the work of our Centennial committee as we go down um just a trail of our history that let us to the Excellence that we're trying to continue providing for our community and our students so today we're honored to present the second installment as M GES P said we're looking at the year 1945 to 1965 this era actually witnessed a remarkable growth educational advancements postwar political shifts and the Resurgence of competitive Athletics in the district these two decades that we're looking at the La Hoya ISD uh saw significant growth in student enrollment the establishment of new schools and the emergence of influential leaders like superintendent HC

004Baker and the long long serving board president elberto Rena student activism also played a significant role in shaping the district as we reflect today on this Rich history we are reminded of the resilience and dedication that laid the foundation for the district that we recognize today and to delve deeper into this historical part of our district going to hand it over to Mr Chapa so he can walk us down this uh part part of our history history okay our era uh begins obviously it's a postor War II era and the period that we're covering uh unfortunately there were three Wars conducted during the time period between 1945 and 1965 obviously the end of World War II the Korean War and then the beginning of the war in Vietnam um we had uh as uh on

005the 19 the class of 1945 in their yearbook they dedicated to the veterans from our school district this is a sample page the one that that right there that had it there were 12 pages of of veterans all in uniform all La Hoya graduates some very recent graduates and and which goes to show that this has always been a very patriotic uh community and continues to answer the call of its country okay here's a good example um also in the class of 44 had listed the as many of the veterans that were there this uh gentleman uh H Norris was the principal of the high school he uh you can see him in his uniform he he had to leave his position we don't know if he was drafted or he volunteered but while he

006was employed with the district uh his life changed in other words he entered uh the Army Air Corp and he wrote a letter A parting letter uh dated 1943 to the class of 44 wishing them well congratulating them and persevering in in their education uh in light of the hardships that came along with a wartime uh economy and a wartime effect on all communities throughout the country he wished them a a life of of Peace but he also mentioned to them that should your country call upon you may God give you the courage to answer the call Mr Hugh Norris okay and at this point in our history around 1945 our our district had grown to an enrollment at approximately 850 students and at this point we also saw many of the veterans starting to

007return from World War II where Educators had served as as well uh by 1947 our district um of course was demonstrating his support for veterans with vocational and nutritional training as they reincorporated back into the ranks of working within the district and our community I'd like to add to that and that uh the district lend its facilities and its equipment um on two fronts they had programs specifically uh directed at the women in our community they had a program that dealt with how uh cooking with a pressure cooker and um canning and it said that the programs were directed at mothers wives sisters and Daughters of our veterans uh additionally for the veterans that were returning uh there was a a constru instruction class that was held the district was asked by members of a

008veterans program at the county level if they could use the school equipment uh in those training sessions so the district set up night classes uh vocational classes for them and so that was another contribution uh in the postwar era these uh the the educational administrative leadership we had as was mentioned earlier uh significant an individual that's very significant to this District was Mr elto Rea he served on the board of uh trustees from 1942 to 1964 for a total of 21 years he served 13 years as president of the school board and what's very interesting is that of those 30 1 years that he served as president he served 11 consecutive years as president of the board so you can imagine the influence that he had on matters of the Board of Trustees and matters

009of the district uh some of our key figures again uh Mr AB Martin uh served also as superintendent and principal we also had principal Mr Hugh Norris which I mentioned before and teacher coach uh Johnny e langerhans these and these three men also left around the same time the thing that they had in common they all signed up for the Army Air Corp and they left their positions with the district the only one that returned uh was coach langerhan and around this time we arrived at 1954 and that's when we had additions of schools to our school district we had uh Memorial Elementary School at it 1954 which is currently uh next door to us it was previously home to Tabasco and also to Hope Academy that building still stands and then in 1960 we

010had the addition of John F Kennedy Elementary which is also uh to our to our left from here uh that school uh housed janif Kennedy for years and then eventually the school was relocated and the building was also used to uh host some our othery uh in our most recent history a little note on on Memorial Elementary because it has a little bit of political history to it it started out as Memorial Elementary um a few years later uh it was renamed EB Rea Elementary and then when we had a political shift uh in in the 60s the the then new board came in they took the name e Rea off and and entitled it Memorial Elementary again uh in honor of the veterans and then you'll see later in in our presentations later on

011as we get into the 60s that this school district again chose uh under the pow shift in in the On The Board of Trustees decided to rename a brand new school in honor of e Rea uh this is another very just interesting uh I had a visit One Time by a gentleman who had been a next student back uh in the 40s and he was looking for information on a Mr Smith that used to be a vocational teacher here uh in in La Hoya and he told me he said did you know that Mr Smith would fly his airplane from mission to La Hoya and land his plane right right across the street right across this building that we're in and so that's Mr Smith with some of his students and that's his airplane so

012that's one of the colorful characters that we've had come through our our district all right again keeping with the theme of of the War uh during the War years there was a suspension there was a decision made by the Board of Trustees and I'm sure with the input from coach langerhan and the then superintendent and principal that they would suspend uh participation in athletics again I think because of a lot of our young men going off to War and the pressures that that some of the the uh the student athletes would having students uh the with with the wartime uh pressure so it was suspended uh in I think it was in late 1942 then in 1947 coach langerhans was back and it was decided that La Hoya would get into Athletics again and as

013you can see uh of note in in this process was again coach Johnny e langerhans okay uh this uh pictures a little bit out of place we'll get to it later all right this is uh about the time laa got back in this is one of the 1940 teams and uh we we showed it as an example because one of the players next to the catcher there to the to the right of the catcher is a gentleman by the name of Max Diaz Max Diaz was a longtime agriculture teacher here we have one of our elementary schools Diaz VI is is named after Mr Diaz he was a very popular teacher but when he was in high school he was one of the outstanding baseball players for La Hoya and he got a try out

014with the St Louis Cardinals all right these are three individuals that have contributed to the athletic Legacy of our district um the the player with a baseball bat that's Mr Macio wio Salinas he was an outstanding baseball player Letterman um team leader and uh he was an individual that also had the opport can you imagine being drafted to play for in the the uh farm team of the Chicago White side a country boy from La you can imagine what a population was back then this was in the late 1950s and I would just simply like to point out that we're honored and privileged to have Mr Salinas in the audience we and and of course uh two of the men that that had really uh always given us uh uh a strong involvement in athletics

015were coach Leo Rara who had many championship and District teams in baseball and again coach langerhans um these are examples of three we know that there are many individual many coaches that contributed but these are examples of Excellence of people that were very proud uh that they were associated with our district okay and in the decade of change we had some situ well there was uh there was an effort in the late 50s I think there were about a hundred families that had signed a petition they wanted a roughly um 10 square mile part of the district on the that bordered the Mission School District they wanted it to merge with mission in other words cut that piece of of of land and Seed it over to Mission ISD uh that was voted down it

016it didn't pass the the County School Board that that existed at the time voted against it on a very tight vote uh there were accusations again at at the county level that politics was involved the then superintendent of mission was a gentleman by the name of J Mill Al and we'll talk about him a little bit later um also one of the one of the individuals that spent a lot of time in his career here Mr H Baker uh passed away at the time uh Mr Baker was related to Ay Baker who was uh I don't know to some people a notorious political force in idalgo County back in the in the 20s and uh had had a lot of political influence throughout the county and with many school districts and then um you'll see

017the score of our Alma moer which was written in the late 1950s by a u the new band director a man by the name of clay demer who who I think was hired around 1950 he scored the music and we're pretty sure that he also did the lyrics to our Alma moer and so that's how long our our alado has been around and that's a gentleman that we credit with that okay this um uh just an example the band that's there uh this will show you that out of our music programs here uh this uh this was a beginning some of these kids were in in school in the 60s and eventually this was one of the first uh popular Tano bands that would got a recording contract and then as we make other reports

018you will see how vibrant our fine arts program was and how many group uh uh musical groups professional groups came out of the La Hoya Fine Arts Band program and then off to the side you will notice that we have a copy of the minutes um and and we'll get to that in just a few minutes when we get to yeah okay 1963 actually uh 1962 I take it back uh the Board of Trustees decides they make a motion to changeed the name from Tabasco Consolidated Independent School District to the La Hoya Independent School District there was a tie vote there were two members of of the Board of Trustees that voted no and two for and then the Mr Frank E root who was the chairman of the board at the time broke the

019tie in favor of changing the name to La Hoya ISD and then this uh the state of Texas formally recognized the name uh in September of 1963 okay and this says let's see all right this is part of the minutes of the when the name the motion was made to change the name name it's just something that we got out of the minute book uh but because people keep asking that that was one of the questions that has always come up when did it change from Tabasco to La Hoya and so we've got it in the minute books of The District student protest and walk out 1963 uh a very popular teacher at the district was notified that her contract uh would not be renewed for the the coming school year uh members of the

020student body a couple of the officers um I I I'll just interject uh I was a sophomore at the time I was approached to write a petition to circulate to the students at called for a walk out after the Lunch Period to protest we we had Tred to get a hearing with the principal he wouldn't meet with us and so the student body decided that they would walk out they would not turned to class uh after the lunch bill rang and so that was uh this was before a lot of the Civil Rights uh student walk out but so here in the little community of La Hoya we had we had that and then we um we got uh we asked for a hearing before the Board of Trustees which was granted uh to representatives

021of the student body um and I'll just briefly tell you that um the board stuck to its guns they heard us out uh they didn't change uh the vote that they had T taken on on the non-renewal of contract but the principal that that that had requested the teacher be terminated uh didn't expect that he would be terminated at okay 1965 there was a political shift and this uh our district has has had a very rich vibrant political history uh mostly among local factions as as uh I pointed out the number of years that Mr eie Raina was a a major influence in our district did a lot of good things he also Mr Rea also served uh it was allowed back then he served as a county commissioner uh simultaneously as while he was

022serving on the school board and another interesting facet of his life is that he acquired a um I wouldn't say a Perpetual lease but uh I know in the beginning was a 99 year lease you may be familiar with the only hand operated fery still on the Rio Grand in losos well Mr Rea got that concession it has been in his family since the 50s and so what happened is there were there were these at every school board election we would have what they call the Leo faction versus the Rea faction 1965 the Leo faction finally comes into control of the school district the gentleman at the bottom is Mr Leo J Leo though never serving on the school board he was again another influential personality in this part of idalgo County the picture at

023the top uh I think is very significant because even though Mr Leo and Mr Rea were constantly battling for influence at the school board at the board of trustee level and they were recognized as the two political parties in this area they buried the haget to honor Mrs Nelly Leno and as a matter of fact Mr Leo is the person that recommended to the Board of Trustees that they name a school after EV Rea so they uh after years and then again this is just a little bit of history on Mr Dana about all his accomplishments the number of years that he served and and this immemorial again uh you know this would be unbelievable to people that were involved in those political struggle struggles between the two men this is a tribute that Mr

024Leo wrote in honor of Mr eie Rea all athletic highlights again uh coach langerhan had a lot to do with with uh uh leading our Athletic program set setting the standards in 1942 as I pointed out one of the players who's there Mr Max theas uh and he got his try out with the St was Cardinals and uh again our our sports program was reinforced starting in the fourth another gentleman uh from the 50s late 50s to the early 60s again we have Mr Mauricio wio salz who I introduced to you coach Gara and then this man here raldo Nano faras probably one of the most outstanding football players to come out of La Hoya he got a scholarship to Southwest Texas State Marcos he was the leading scorer rusher in the Lone Star conference

025uh he was an All-American in that League he got a try out with the Dallas Cowboys he ended ended up playing semiprofessional football for the San Antonio Toros went on to be a super a coach principal Los Fresnos uh and and an individual that was a four-year Letterman in all sports probably one of the most outstanding athletes that this uh school district has ever produced this is one of Coach goddess's Champion uh championship teams uh in double A you could only go to Regional there was no state playoffs so uh in this picture are uh pictured Mr Francisco uh Santiago and also Dr Robert Samora who's also with us here some water if you would and um they they were they had a lot to do uh with with leading our teams um to get

026to the highest level possible I don't know if the picture is there the next one that that we that we were talking about this one okay uh in 1963 a an all Valley team was put together they won the World Series of Colt league and what we were very proud of is on the first row number nine and number six that's Dr Samora and Francisco Santiago ball players here at La Hoya that were on that World Series championship team and brought a lot of Pride to the sports program here in La Hoya again there's Mr deer who wrote the uh the alma mater and Coach Leo who had a lot to do with coaching these young men and then in conclusion again uh the superintendent of mission that was there that was in favor of

027annexing part of our district to Mission ended up being our superintendent and closing out the 1965 year I I know I went over time thank you for your patience and uh we hope that our next two presentations uh will be as interesting and and that and thank you for sharing the pride that we take in in this district and thank you for your leadership thank you well before you leave do any of our board members have any questions no but I do have a comment um I think it's awesome that we're highlighting um Athletics right I think there's a lot of people here in the district that have deep roots to our athletic system and this is proof that for years and years and years we've been cultivating um just the the the motto of

028of excellence and going above and beyond just what we can do here in our community so thank you for showcasing this thank you yeah Mr cha Mr Silva how cool it is it must be kind of exciting for you guys to be looking at these pictures and and seeing old friends and and family members that that were once here you know walk the same Halls that we're walking to this day yeah thank you so much and um I think I hope that we we have conveyed the passion that we have and that passion for the history of this District pervades the members of the Centennial committee and and and we're very glad that the superintendent has been a very active member with us uh on that committee as as well as Mrs Gomez pz so

029thank you so much for your time thank you for your attention gentlemen thank you very much have a good evening and thank you to our athletes again what a great presentation by these individuals and we look forward to uh part three um our next item on the agenda is public comment um do we have anyone signed up for public comment tonight um we do not have anybody signed up tonight for public comments okay great so noted that we have no one signed up for public comment tonight uh next item on the agenda is uh item number six which is the superintendent's updates and announcement Dr senson thank you thank you board president and before I get started again just want to pause and um thank um Mr Choppa and Mr Silva for your dedication and

030your time I know that there is deep passion and love behind every presentation that you give um but I also know that it takes a lot of time and energy to put it all together um as a former history teacher um each time that I watch these presentations it really really is like a lesson in history but also a lesson in love so thank you so much for doing this for us with us and to celebrate our 100 Years of educational Excellence so thank you so much um so where I'm going to go tonight um I am going to do our district priority update we haven't talked about these in a little bit but that doesn't mean that we haven't been living them every single day as a cabinet and as a district I want

031the board to know and understand and the community to know and understand that at the beginning of every single principal meeting I start conversations with the district priorities every single week when I meet with the executive leadership team I start with conversations around the district priorities every meeting that I open with executive leadership here at the district whether that be principles because I keep saying it all the time the district priorities are all of our priorities not just those of central office but when we talk about things around customer service that needs to live and breathe on our campuses as well and so we start principal meeting with that we start executive leadership team meetings with that and we also start cabinet meetings talking about District priorities so um also wanted to bring an update

032not only to the board but to the public on where we are with our district priorities um as a whole so uh again I won't read all of this to you but for me the purpose and Status determination overall is again rooted in the core of the district priorities it is to provide transparency to the board and to stakeholders on our current state of the district priorities from my perspective and this perspective is informed by a process that I go through with executive cabinet about every six weeks where we kind of do a status on where we are with what I call work streams um things that we're working on to improve the processes the systems the the services um across the district so not only is this a perspective of myself but it is

033informed by my executive cabinet as well it is also to ensure that District priorities remain front and center um it is incredibly important that we all embody these District priorities in the way that we talk the way that we walk the way that we answer the way that we respond and the way that we serve we are servant leaders here in La Hoya ISD and we need to make sure that our customers which is our students our parents our families our employees all feel that from us um and also to hold myself and the executive leadership team members including principles and assistant principles accountable to the highest standards of leadership um as I'm doing strategic plan I am getting a lot of feedback around leadership and it really being a need for us in terms

034of um growing capacity making sure that we are holding ourselves to the highest level um of instructional and educational leadership as well as customer service um and then also to continue to live these priorities how we show up every single day matters it impacts culture it impacts how employees feel as we're talking about enrollment at this point it impacts whether parents make a choice to come back and when we're talking about 100 Years of educational Excellence it is our duty to make sure that our families continue to choose La Hoya ISD every single day and every single year and so making sure that educational Excellence is the right of every student is not just a motto but it is a way that we live it is a way that we behave so that is the

035purpose for um us continuing to bring these updates to the to the board and to the community also wanted to clarify for the board and the community how I am determining our status um on track very clearly means that the district priority action has already been achieved we've already done it we've done it well um it's implemented or will be implemented by end of year without any significant intervention by the superintendent and executive cabinet slightly off track means that the district priority action has been implemented with varying levels of success varying levels of fidelity and in order for the district priority to be achieved intervention and attention from either the superintendent and or division leadership is required is required off track means that the district priority action has not been implemented and or implemented with

036little to no levels of success or Fidelity in order for the district priority action to be achieved intervention and attention from superintendent is essential and division leadership will be required to adjust actions immediately that means these are areas of incredible high priority and if we want to see change they require actions from not only the superintendent but division leadership any questions there before I go on no okay so again just putting the priorities um and the subsequent bullet points in front of everyone Priority One being customer service and that's to restore a customer service oriented culture that puts our students and our stakeholders at the center of our work and again I won't read each one of them unpacked underneath but there are the subsequent actions that I am holding not only myself but my

037executive cabinet too um and our executive leadership but please note that when I talk about Priority One in customer service and I talk about restoring a customer service oriented culture that puts our students and stakeholders at the center of of our work that is how I expect it to show up on campuses so while these bullet points underneath are how we will hold ourselves AC accountable there specific actions for central office when we talk about it with principles and when we talk about it with assistant principles or when we talk about it with executive leadership there are specific points for them as well that being said I broke down each one of those four items and as you see um I put a status by each one of those so for one provide ongoing training

038and support for District employees around best practic and clear expectations we're on track um that means we have taken significant action to do these particular items so there has been training held for various support system roles there's professional learning for counselors and social workers and attendance and treny folks and parent Educators that's ongoing right we have professional learning for instructional support and for educators and that's all ongoing but we're on track in terms of of providing training and support we do that every very often um we still need to do more we need to provide more but we are on track um in providing that kind of support for our employees um create and clearly communicate District systems that allow our employees parents and community members to deeply know and trust which central office divisions

039to communicate with and rely on when assistance is needed um slightly off track and for me one of the key words that I lift up here is know and trust know and trust um we have to continue to work to build trust and that comes with continuing to provide clear roles and responsibilities of Divisions at central office that means that there we have to be consistent in terms of how we provide customer service that means that we have to make sure that our actions or inactions from our central office divisions cannot be Road trust and so how we respond matters and each time that we do not respond that erodes trust now again I always say this to every every member of my team customer service does not always mean that it ends with the

040customer getting their way I'm going to say that again customer service does not always end with the customer getting their way but it means that we respond honestly with care with Clarity that we answer in a timely manner that we are transparent in our why and that we are supportive to help our customer whether that be our students our families our employees understand whatever answer it is that they are seeking number three administer customer service surveys so for this I put slightly off track and for this you know that I shifted this priority to strategic planning input and also as a superintendent constraint um so to date um not only do we have two customer service surveys out there in terms of strategic planning and um the district survey that's out there but I am

041also getting a lot of feedback in terms of the individual Focus Group group but I also am holding myself to launching a districtwide um culture and climate survey at the end of the year um we also have a survey out right now around calendar start and end times um for Ina input and feedback for next year so we are seeking feedback um and then lastly division of operations and infrastructure will administer their own surveys twice a year to measure employee satisfaction that is on track Dr Gary um came to the board also showed that they completed their beginning of year um survey they will execute their end of year and compare results and they will also share those um publicly and then they will reflect and adjust and continue to move forward any questions before

042I move on to Priority two members no questions no question okay priority two is trust and transparency um and this is around rebuilding trust and transparency through ongoing listening sharing of information and authentic stakeholder engagement and although the top header is about authentic stakeholder engagement and listening and sharing of information there are specific actions that we said that we would engage in um including here we talked about a um parent engagement plan and we talked about a Communications plan and and so there are some very distinct actions under here oops so um we have created an implemented districtwide Communications plan for this one slightly off track um implementing some areas within each of the five goals outlined in the plan and remember I said that there's inconsistency that's what defines slightly off track um some

043goals are stronger in implementation than others for example boldly telling our story versus bridging Community to the district so we do boldly tell our story they do an incredible job in terms of boldly telling our story um our our Communications team just won 12 awards at a state conference so they're doing an incredible job but where we aren't yet fully doing the best job is bridging Community to the district we still need to continue to work there and one of the ways in which we've been inconsistent is the district newsletter release um has been inconsistent um Crea and Implement a districtwide parent engagement plan um led by the division of student family and Community engagement um we are off track here so we are not implementing most goals and areas that are outlined in the

044plan in that plan there were very specific parts that the campuses were to do and that central office were to do those actions have not yet been implemented not not at the campuses and yet not at central office um and we have had consistent low attendance um at whether it be the qsa sessions whether it's um my parent advisory committee whether it is through strategic planning and so we're not yet there um with parent engagement I would also add that there is a lack of clarity around the role of parent engagement Educators um parent Educators across the district if you ask principles what they're to do and there is an inconsistent understanding of their role three host Town Hall meetings focus groups and superintendent advisory committees I'm very happy to say that I am on

045track there you hear my voice it's probably because I am spending nearly every night I'm in town hall meetings and focus groups and and superintendent advisory committees um and there's my evidence there or I can just show everybody my calendar um and then leveraging student staff and parent Community feedback again on track and we've hosted focus groups for special education Fine Arts Athletics CTE prek um I did Educators last week um I have all of my um surveys going out I have my student advisory that I just love and adore um and then I will continue to host Town Halls through April with a community design day scheduled for early May so that we have a strategic plan next year any questions for priority to Dr senson yes quick question U yes sir since the

046parent engagement is off track I mean that's obviously concerning what can be done I mean we need our parents we need the community engagement what is being done what else can we do uh collectively to get this back on track um we have to implement the plan as it was designed um it takes a partnership with our campuses um in order to engage parents's parents as our partners boots on the ground and so we've got to do our part um in terms of meeting our parents where they are right so if they are in the community that's where we need to go um in order to fully engage our parents if we need to create more events in the community then that's where we need to go in order to meet our parents we also

047need to listen to our parents and hear what it is that they want from us and then we need to actually meet that need the other side of the parent engagement plan um was around um what campuses were to do to deeply engage their parents and so we haven't yet fully enacted all of the things that campuses were to do outlined in the plan in order to engage our parents and so we've got to get to that um we are in the process though of talking about um how do we need to re-envision this space going into next year um knowing that this is currently not working in its current format but some very simple tasks is implement the plan as it is written thank you good question Dr Margo and I appreciate Dr senson

048that when you identified what you're laying out in front of us you're being transparent and you're being open about where we're deficient so I appreciate that and I think the audience does as well so thank you for that yes I mean we know that parents are our partners and without them we are not as strong as we need to be um they are with the exception of students um they are our number one stakeholder um I mean we obviously want to care for and wrap our arms around our employees but our parents are the ones every day that choose to entrust us with their children and so we have to do a better job of engaging them at the highest levels as they have choices about where they send their children to school so thank

049you Dr Margo you and priority three high quality instruction commit to evidence-based instructional practice across all grade levels to ensure all students engage with rigorous daily content learning experiences and work-based learning opportunities that prepare them for college career and Military Readiness and fulfilling lives again here are the bullet points um I will leave them here for a second so that everyone can see them and then as we get into um unpack packing them implementing high quality instructional materials um we are on track all campuses have access to new hqm and weekly data is shared publicly with campus leaders on levels of implementation Dr little sends something that's called implementation insights he sends it every single week um on how campuses are doing um in terms of implementing um new initiatives across the district around the

050use of high quality instructional materials um we also have a coaching tool that we collect data on um on the implementation of um the curriculum and so we are monitoring implementation our next step will be around um Fidelity of instructional um models redesigning our dual language program to a two-way model so we're slightly off track and I say this not because we don't have the program in place but because we have a additional work to do in terms of purchasing of core resources support for teachers and ultimately developing understanding of the benefits of the program with parents and Community um as we now enroll another group of prease students um we want to make sure that our parents and families continue to understand the benefits of dual language um in order to make sure that

051our students are by literate um and um bicultural and that they are all Al you know able to read write um and answer text qu complex text questions um in both languages and then um as we move on focus on delivering highquality daily instruction where students engage with grade level standards again I think you saw from our gpms and our presentations we still um really need work in terms of test and test in its relationship to student outcomes and so we're continuing to provide professional development on high quality instruction and research research-based instructional models but again we have established board goals and goal progress measures and so um and we have professional development in place where Educators get voice and choice in terms of the type of professional development that they engage with aligned to

052our highquality instructional materials and lastly um create structures to elevate professional Learning Community models on track um there is um bi-weekly professional learning for principles and assistant principles around professional learning communities we have relaunched professional learning for principles on instructional leadership teams and then we also have developed a rising leaders program with support for campus and central office leaders so that they can become leaders on their campuses around professional learning community any questions there Dr Shon for um the Dual language program I see that we do have to do additional work when it comes to purchasing more resources um and support for the teachers is this something that we're hearing directly from the teachers and the principles y absolutely and some of that will also come as we lean into a literacy adoption for next

053year um how do we support dual language with the new literacy adoption making sure that they have both gar and esar resources so that they can Implement with Fidelity in the classroom to make sure that kids are genuinely getting a dual language experience thank you absolutely anything else okay priority four excellence and Leadership again ensuring that all campus leaders model and maintain a high standard of Excellence that creates a campus culture that places students at the center of our work where adult learning is the norm relationships are collaborative and respectful and we deeply partner with our parents and Community um and again Dr Margo here's where again where we deeply partner with our parents and Community as we think about um how that work is taking place on our campuses as well so again um

054and that goes back to us you know in that particular P space being off track um but in these four um these three subsets provide professional learning sets um professional learning for all principles on teacher evaluation systems um so while we have done this um and we have provided test training for all of our principles and assistant principles we still see that it is not in alignment yet with student outcomes and um leaning back into loan our governance student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change and so we really need to lean into what I was talking about last time when we talked about test around this culture of coaching not just evaluation how are we supporting our teachers as they continue to grow and as we continue to ask them to do new things

055with new curriculum and so it's not just about did we do the training because then I could easily say yep we're on track it has to show up in our behaviors and it has to show up in how our students are doing and so and how our teachers are perceiving this right are they feeling coached or are they just feeling evaluated and I think that that is is something we need to continue to work on I'm leveraging the division of school leadership and academics to support Monitor and provide ongoing professional learning and feedback to campus leaders so ASL that's academics and school leadership shares weekly data with campus leaders on District initiatives and then ASL responds with support and monitoring structures ASL designs bi-weekly professional learning and provide support for principles and assistant principles for

056immediate implementation on campuses so for example if we see attendance dropping at a particular campus the executive directors of school leadership go out and have conversations with principles about what are their systems and structures that they have in place to approve attendance we've been working on um what is called offsp which is um basically getting students to recover their minutes and recover their days um and where we see campuses not implementing with Fidelity right we have the executive directors of school leadership going out and having conversations with principles around the why and why not and how do we support you in doing that n workor we have members of Miss Gomez pes's team going out providing that attendance support and so it is a it's a shared partnership in that way um and then lastly

057the ASL team will continue to lean into supporting campus leaders to promote culture of coaching um and so that is something that we need to continue to support our leaders with and then lastly um implementing leadership pipeline programs so human capital and talent development has launched a rising leaders program human capital Talent Development launched steps to leadership program and human capital and talent development launch the pathways to principal ship program all three have been launched and I'm really proud of this because developing and retaining La Hoya Talent um to have La Hoya leaders is so important to me as the superintendent it's so important to my administrative team and so we want wanted to have multiple Pathways to leadership here in La Hoya ISD and so these leadership pipeline programs are essential to making sure

058that we are growing our own leaders um to run our schools and become um executive leaders at central office any questions on priority four members of the board no no okay and lastly priority five I always call this one the the miss crbo um but but it's it's ours um priority five integrity and accountability um continue developing systems and structures to ensure fiscal transparency financial responsibility compliance with legal policy that increase District accountability so again you see what we have here and then priority five I'm really proud of this um cuz this to me is one of the core reasons that we're here is around integrity and accountability um so conducting an audit of finances District procurement processes and accounting systems um business finance and administrative Services has launched a financial audit and will have

059results by April so I'm very excited about that we've also aligned multiple processes this year um that allowed for appropriate Financial priorities so around procurement and Staffing and revenue generation you heard about some of those at our at our last presentation um provide continuous updates to the public on our financial status again just demonstrated at our last board meeting but that wasn't the first time that Miss Crespo and her team stood before the public um and the board and presented publicly on how we were doing and what the plans were for moving forward to bring us to a more sound financial space um and her and her team are working really hard every single day with all of us um but she's really leading this work um to make sure that we are in compliance

060um with with all of the legal policies and procedures that we need to as we move in this direction um realign the calendar for District's budgeting process I'm happy to say that we are in a much better place in terms of the budgeting process this year than I was last year thank goodness um but again that has been shared publicly with the community and with the board um with our principles and with campus leaders and so um and we're continuing to provide professional learning for campus leaders on budgeting process and academic return of investment campus needs assessment zerob based budgeting all new Concepts here um in terms of budgeting here in La Hoya ISD um and then lastly I'm conducting an external audit of special Education Services and the superintendent that would be me has

061launched a special education audit findings will be in late March early April um superintendent will share those results publicly um implementation plan for 25 26 and Beyond will be created um and I have aligned my constraints and constraint progress measures um and I will do that once we have the audit findings to make sure that I am held to the highest level of accountability for what we find in that audit so I'm really proud that in terms of integrity and accountability we are on track for these particular items that I named at the beginning of the year um but that we're not done we're never done um because until we have public trust and because until we have high levels of Engagement and until we have um our our stakeholders um in in deep partnership

062with us um we will never be done and so we continue to engage with strategic planning so that we can create a strategic plan for 25 26 and Beyond so really wanted to um show these slides here that I have Elementary parents tomorrow um but then High School parents and Middle School parents are coming up uh March 10th and March 25th and then I have a whole bunch more coming up um I have facilities energy and Warehouse I have custodial I have Child Nutrition Services I have transportation I have central office and campus admin support I have central office instructional and and student supports That central office folks um and then there will be more after that this I could only ask Blanca to do so many slides she's like do I want to put

063them all I was like no only do this many for right now because I'm going to do another round of Educators and I'm going to do another round of parents um to make sure that we have as many um folks as we can get so I will pause there for question questions from the board members of the board do you have any questions for Dr senson at this time and Dr senson you said that all on one breath real good good job I mean that's really good and again as I've stated many times I appreciate the fact that that you're going out there in the community and you're not only listening to our parents but also to the students and members of our staff so thank you for that it's greatly appreciated no questions no

064okay we'll go ahead and go to the next agenda item Dr little you can take yourself to the podium so we're going to be discussing the summer academic programming presentation again while he's making his way Dr senson appreciate the the report thank you sir Dr little can I just say one word here before you introduce this so last year um in the months that um felt like a blur um we promised the community that we would do something very different for summer school um and we promised that if we were going to ask the community to extend the calendar that we were going to deliver on a promise of a summer school that looked felt sound and different in terms of what the student experience would look like and so I am super proud of

065that team led by Dr little but that team sitting right there um the academics and school leadership team but in part partnership with a very large cross functional team that meets every other Friday like clockwork um to make sure that our students our students and our families um really get the benefit of that promise of delivering on a summer school that looks sounds and feels different um but still amps up the rigor and complexity that we know that our students need in order to continue to grow academically so I just publicly if you don't mind sir would really like to commend the team those that are in the room and those who are not right now for your work on putting this together for um our students families and um our Educators across the district

066thank you yes let's give him a round of applause great job Dr little so if you had a chance to meet all of them I know we've most of them have had an opportunity to speak if you can take this opportunity to introduce him if you'd like yeah happy to um starting here is Miss Tamar alvur who's our Deputy Chief of school leadership then we've got Miss Melinda Flores who you've seen before uh again longest title in the district she does a lot of important work for us miss Marta Castillo who right now is serving as our interim executive director for special education so she is kneed deep in that special education audit and then backro on the left Miss Brenda Garcia who leads Math and Science Miss Myra Ramos who leads Early Learning uh

067Miss Anette lazano who you've also heard from before who leads Humanities Miss Irma Zuniga who leads bilingual and migrant programming and Miss jod adir who is one of our Network EDS so she supports Network 1 schools along with some Network 2 schools right now and we do have a few uh other team members who are doing other District business uh tonight as well thank you Dr L that's very much appreciate okay you may proceed board president I did also just because they're all sitting there part of this cross functional team though every week is we have folks from human capital because we have to staff summer school and we have folks from transportation and Child Nutrition and custodial because we've got to make sure that the buildings are there and that kids get there and

068Heim is just like okay great I just got here and so how do I help support all of that great I'm happy to do whatever you need me to do um and then we've got Miss Crespo who is like okay how much is all this going to cost and great what do you need and how do I make all this happen for our wonderful children families and Educators and then we've got Miss Gomez Petes who from a counseling lens and from a student family community lens is like let us get the community excited about this let's get our parents excited about it let's get kids in seats um and so we are super excited that this cross functional effort is here and then right over here I've got Miss Blanca and her team who make

069sure to message all of this out as often and as clear as possible so that it is exciting and fun and available um for our families to you know get excited about so it truly is a cross functional effort what you're about to see I'm super excited about it absolutely thank you Dr senson so to build on that excitement summer really is about exciting opportunities for students and so what we're going to lay out over the next few slides is really different programming opportunities that not only keep students engaged academically but really keep them engaged period so they can explore and experience things that maybe they've never done before but certainly may not have had the chance to do during the regular Academic School Year yes we do want students to come back in August

070with the benefit of Summer learning as well so we should see uh we call Summer slide you heard the superintendent talk about that last year with the adsy calendar adoption uh we should see less summer slide from students coming back this school year to next school year with what we're doing uh but we really want them coming back really excited for next school year as well I I will share that the team has actually done several rounds of Engagement with parents and with Prin principles uh on these programs it would have been fun if we would have done one of those exercises with you tonight like parents were like can I come every day can I volunteer like this is going to be great uh we had principles competing over who could build the highest

071like spaghetti and marshmallow structure and there's science behind that uh so lots of fun stuff going on we'll begin here with our elementary school programs and the biggest thing that we're doing is obviously our adsy summer program a couple of structural changes here which are really important compared to years past you'll see on the next slide in a second the hours of the program have been intentionally shortened to really focus on a summer camp like experience so we want students to think every day that they're coming to La Hoya ISD Steam summer camp not that I'm going to oh I got to go to summer school again like the total sort of messaging the experience the day day-to-day feel will be very different Asing as a reminder are the additional 20 days that we have

072on our school calendar to really impact student learning and engagement that will be uh pre- to fifth grade and we are anchoring that around this summer steam Camp uh activities so every day there will be some reading and some math and then there's going to be a lot of exploration and engagement and each week has a different steam related theme that they're going through so they're designing they're cooking they're building they're doing lots of engineering opportunities uh and we'll be providing all the resources to schools needed uh to make that program happen in addition to the core adsy program we will also have 10 schools that offer additional Services supports and opportunities to students so that is where our formal bilingual prek andk program will be housed every District in the state that has um

073I think it's actually only 10 districtwide emergent bilingual students has to offer this program so we certainly want to do that as well uh so that'll be at those 10 schools that will go for a longer school day option so if families want to a little bit of a longer time it's available there and then continuing to partner with our after school Ace here not to be confused with the other Ace uh that will exist at those 10 schools as well so there's additional enrichment there for students as I mentioned we made a few structural changes here so the core ay program is really a 4 to 4 and a half hour program with meals so it's 8 to 12:30 this was one of the things we actually heard in our parent uh focus group

074that they appreciated the shorter day so folks were excited about this uh there are some statutory requirements with that bilingual program it has to meet for at least 120 hours of programming so that's part of the reason why at those 10 schools where ACE also operates and has some hour requirements to meet that will be an option for a longer day up to 2:30 but families will get to choose am I coming just to the 8 to 12:30 part or am I staying at those 10 campuses for the rest of the day that's what we have at our Elementary uh campuses you will see a ton of cool pictures and projects and all sorts of things going on most important thing we want the community to know right now is it's time to start signing

075up campuses are getting flyers and registration information out to families starting tomorrow and then next week during the Texas public school week open houses that we're having this will be a big conversation that our elementary campuses are having with their families so they can get registered and signed up for the summer all right shifting to the Middle School space again the core program here is really what we're doing for students who need additional support and opportunity but just like in the elementary space again we're bringing in enrichment and exciting opportunities for them as well uh but they're really there because they didn't achieve that Ong grade level standard in Star so we're working to make sure that we close any gaps we recover learning as much as possible and really set those students up for

076Success whether it's returning to another Middle School grade or even thinking about moving to High School uh as a freshman next year the other three opportunities on here are all enrichment and so those are things that students are recruited into uh and participate in we've got English language enrichment camps that are really helping to build out listening speaking thinking sort of Reading Writing uh in a dual language context we got more stem Camp specifically focused on sixth and seventh graders and then text prep is a partnership with utrgv you'll see this again at the high school level but students go through a pretty rigorous process to to do that program so they apply they take an assessment they get screened embeded and then they get to take coursework over the summer and really be exposed

077to folks who are doing stem careers day in and day out just like in the elementary context again made adjustments to hours here based on feedback so it'll be at 850 to20 program four host sites so deala Garza and Richards and JD Selenas will be the locations for summer Middle School programming and then rounding us out here at the high school level again a mix of things that we're doing to really focus on academic support as well as enrichment uh the first one just like in the Middle School context we're thinking about those students who need a little extra support to pass one of those EOC exams uh and really make sure that they're Meeting those graduation requirements we've obviously talked a lot about early college and improvements that we need to make with associate

078degree attainment there that starts before they actually even show up in August with Summer Bridge opportunities for early college and PTEC getting students exposed to coursework what they need to do to be ready talking to them about TSI uh so that will occur in June for our incoming freshmen and then we're going to have like a pretty revamped and improved TSI summer camp I I've shared data with you multiple times now that shows we got a long way to go in helping students to to pass those TSI exams and really be on the path to college readiness and so we're doing things right now uh this semester and then we're going to revamp what we're doing in the summer to help students as well and then our partner ship with gearup continues as well so

079again we've got two high schools uh with gearup programming right now they're also doing additional programming to support students uh with post-secondary Readiness and stem opportunities then just like in the Middle School space we have text prep again partnership with utrgv at the high school level and then our Partnerships with STC students are are in some cases actually going to the STC campus uh to take courses over the summer in the Dual credits and then we continue to have dual credit offerings uh as well here similar program at the high school level the thing I would note is as we get into the high school space not all things happen on our campuses so again you got students going to SEC you got them going to utrgv uh so the district is supporting transportation to

080those locations uh but for the programs happening in our buildings this will be the the time frame that we follow much like middle schools 850 to 120 and then the other quick thing we just wanted to note here so I just sort of did a quick run through if you're the programs that we have but there's other services that we're offering to students as well really regardless of of those programs uh the superintendent just uh mentioned this alphabet soup more simply called Flex previously called SATA for for folks who are still using that terminology but this is uh sort of attendance recovery program that we participate in it's available to districts across the state it helps students recover time that they missed from school more importantly recover learning uh that they miss in those cases

081and we can continue to support them through that in the summer uh Miss uniga and her team really focus on additional supports for migrant students as well so they do some additional Recruitment and targeting uh supports for migrant students and then the last two with dyslexia and extended school year that's for special education and dyslexia services so if I'm coming to ad or if I'm in that middle school program you know really focusing on reading recovery or whatever it may be if I need special education services or if I qualify for disle will continue those services for the student throughout the summer as well so they're not going just to dyslexia class or just to a special education course that's being built in uh so we just wanted to clarify for folks that those continue

082to be provided for students in the summertime and with that that's our quick run through of what's going to be happening members of the board do you have any questions Dr Marco do you have any questions what courses are going to be offered from STC I'm curious no I'm actually curious if you have well you did say transport ation will be provided to off campus I mean to other institutions of higher ed right that's I heard correctly you did hear that correctly so that is an investment that we make and a support for the students so our transportation team buses them to STC or to utrgv uh in the tech prep situation we also have chaperon so we have staff who are going with them as part of those programs as well and so working

083with STC in the summer there's sort of a dedicated pickup and drop off time at the campus uh that we work with those students around and we can obviously discuss this later but this is just a scenario I was thinking about while you're presenting is transportation for some work-based learning opportunities for high school students Juniors and seniors perhaps in the future and I'm just kind of want to throw that out there now I'm just curious if the if the district would be able provide transportation for students who are involved in maybe some college courses that require some work-based learning with some employers but I know you don't have the answer right now but uh something we can discuss but um it's something I think worth looking into I know Mr ales we had discussed that

084already uh certain occupational training programs but when you mentioned transportation to off-site training or classes for the summer I'd like to have the discussion in the future to see if that includes or could potentially include some employment opportunities for high school students yeah we look forward to talking about that thanks um Dr little for the students that are signing up is there a cap for how many students can sign up any prerequisites or any of that stuff for students that want to attend these program for some of the middle and high school enrichment programs there are program caps so like utrgv for example sets a cap for us and other districts for our core programs like AI for example in the elementary space it would be amazing if every single student showed up to participate

085this summer so there's no limit there thank you yeah that's a great question for our for our elementary students uh the do the parents have the choice to either send them to the Ace Program the 10 schools for the Ace Program then is transportation provided how would that be managed yeah so just like our typical transfer process if if you're at one of the schools that's not doing the 230 option and you want to go to one of those 10 we're certainly happy to support you to do that it will be at your own transportation so you would have to be zoned to one of those 10 schools to get District provided transportation and we based that they were a schools um based on like their their grade you know like our F schools yeah

086that's that's a great question the 10 that were identified are currently partnering with the ace after school program so that's already their locations so again because they have some Grant and statutory requirements in their hours that's where it made the most sense to also pair the bilingual program which has to meet the same number of hours as well so that's how the 10 campuses were chosen for those longer hours in those additional programs so they were already implemented they were yeah thank you I have another question um I do see that we have time for uh breakfast is uh lunch also part of this or is it just breakfast yeah so that's part of why it's actually a 4 and a half hour day is to make sure that we can feed students lunch before

087they go home thank you yeah and you got everything covered as the superintendent said we have an amazing team yeah it's not all just Dr little thank you very much to you and your team it's never just Dr little so you always give such informative presentations I mean I'm always in awe when I'm hearing your stuff so congratulations to you and again to your team uh I know you got agenda item number seven so president can I just add one thing so I'm going to um prep you guys for um something that will be upcoming around summer programming um so I just had a conversation with Miss Gomez Petz um the what two Saturdays ago maybe on how we are going to lift up Athletics over the summer and so um in a subsequent um

088board meeting we will hear about how how do we lift up and create this Camp feel right and so kids will go to adsy but then how do we lift up Elementary Athletics or how do we lift up Middle School athletics and create maybe some Athletics camps um as well across the district um and kind of become our own Park District right um and so um we talked about it when we were enrolling kids for prek on Saturday I said y That's our charge um think big so here and mad's like think big um yes so we want our kids engaged in athletics as we you know prep them for high school right we want competitive athletes and so how do we start preparing them at the elementary and middle school level and how do

089we continue to create this camp-like feel and so I'm excited for what um the Athletics team will bring forward thank you Dr senson Dr little uh agenda item seven is our Lone Star governance uh item 7.1 update report on goals 2.1 2.3 grade 6 through 8 math and high school algebra one you may proceed thank you board president so again back with our next LSG update structure here is exactly what you've been seeing so we'll go through some of this a bit more quickly since we're sort of grounded in that uh tonight's is on goal two so specifically looking at our early grades math but as before will be transparent in other parts of the district as well so we've added some additional data in there but the two official gpms that we're looking at

090are how our first and second graders did with middle ofe map so I will say we're not going to learn a ton more here than we did two weeks ago because that was also middle ofe map data instead of looking at reading we're now looking at math but the storyline is very similar overall um with one one key difference which I'll show you the other thing we just wanted to remind um the board and the community about because this was a helpful reminder as we talked to principles uh almost a month ago uh about this is as we think about how students show improvement over time with map it's hard for educators to like wrap their head around this part it's not about getting more questions right on the test we normally think about hey

091I got a 80% so I got eight out of 10 questions right and I'm trying to get to 100 remember because map is a computer adaptive assessment it's always going to figure out the boundary of what you know so any student is roughly only going to get 50% of the questions right so it's not trying to get a higher letter grade like I want to move from a c to a A in that context from 70% correct to 100% correct it's at what level of rigor or what level of challenge can you answer questions consistently correct so it's finding that place where we get that green sort of check marks leveling out in that score and then again we're looking really for this upward curve to say hey our growth has exceeded that 50th percentile

092projection therefore my achievement is going up last time I showed you that we were on this downward slope here where growth was actually less than it should have been so achievement was declining and in data tonight we'll see in math is very similar I did note there's one difference here and so uh let's unpack this slide a bit it's a lot of bar charts on here uh but just trying to do some comparison leftand part of this slide is growth percentiles by grade level so reading is in red math is in gray one of the things we can immediately notice here is those gray bars are higher than those red bars and all but one case which is eth grade that means we saw higher growth in math from beginning of year to middle of

093year than we did in Reading we have new curriculum in math we've poured in professional learning we've had coaches from our curriculum Partners in our campuses working with our teachers um Miss Brenda Garcia and her team have done a tremendous amount of work uh to support implementation of the curriculum here so this is not surprising that it looks better in math and it does in Reading what we still have to do and we'll end here on the last slide just like we did with reading last time is still improve the overall quality of instruction every day so yes we've gotten really pretty good at using the curriculum how well we're using that and the research based strategies that teachers are using to engage students is where we have room to grow because most of those

094gray bars are still below that 50th percentile for growth now there's one exception and you see that in third grade that gray bar is pretty high it's above the 50th percentile so if we go over to the right hand graph what you notice is achievement in third grade math actually went up so this is what again my favorite slide this one is pointing at when we can exceed growth projections we can improve achievement you see us doing that in this example with third grade math results unfortunately the other reality is all the other achievement bars are in the negative right so they all went down from beginning to middle of year just like we talked about last time we're still seeing that but the other thing we notice is that achievement regression is much smaller

095in math than it was in reading so as I mentioned before and and you'll hear me say probably more than you want to this is a multi-year effort it's not going to get fixed from September to February right now but this does show that we are on the path with high quality instructional material implementation and so over time as we do some more we'll talk about later we will get there uh the other thing I mentioned last time we just wanted to show a quick example the bottom right hand side is impossible to read it's not intended for you to read it's just a meant to show this is a picture that a teacher gets for every student from their math sorry from their map uh test results in this case we're looking at math

096but it's by State standard by Texas Standard remember we talked about last time in our HQ presentation we talked about in our previous map discussions this is really looking at how students are doing against Texas standards the te so by each of those standards it shows where that student is hey I've Master this I'm developing this I'm ready to learn that and then it can connect even more deeply to what that student needs next in their Journey this is incredibly powerful for teachers because then I know how to group students together in my intervention and follow-up support because all of us need to work on multi-digit addition and subtraction while I have other students who are ready to move on to multiplication whatever that may be uh in that grade level but just like last

097time and I mentioned already we do have to improve instructional quality so officially for our two gpms tonight first and second grade uh middle of year attainment we are off track and again just like before we're off track because we aren't seeing the gains yet over over the course of the Year first grade looks a little worse than second grade again you see our our decline in overall achievement in the top line graph we have each School plotted on the bottom uh we do see some schools that did show improvement from beginning of year to middle of year so you see some red bars that are a little higher than those blue bars but again that's a really small population of the total so overall we've got more work to do with our campuses uh

098to improve yes this is about getting better at curriculum implementation and we've seen tremendous growth this year but it's pairing that curriculum implementation with really good instructional strategies today in fact we kicked off research-based instructional strategies training with our principles and representative teachers throughout the district today was actually focused on literacy but they're coming back uh next week to start this in math as well this was one of the things that we told you last time was a big next step and so that's underway as of today second grade again looks a little better here and the reason it looks better is because we stayed flat so we didn't see a a regression in achievement but we certainly didn't see the Improvement uh that we needed to see we do have more schools showing in

099second grade growth from beginning a middle of year than we did in the first grade level uh and again our responses and our reactions here are very similar uh in both grade levels that actually is the official LSG part but we do want to show you a little bit more data going to the Middle School space just like we did in literacy last time we'll look at sixth seventh and eighth grade here uh sixth grade again we see we see declines here from beginning to middle of the Year campus State at the bottom similar response to the literacy space really thinking about how we are using our tier one time so that's the ONG grade level instruction time in middle school and then working with campuses to ensure that students who need additional support are

100participating in those Quest activities that we are ramping up tutoring like schools have added days they've added time uh over the last month in in response to this as well and just like I mentioned we started that research based instructional strategy work with uh principles and some representative teachers today uh there will be more RBS training coming for all teachers uh later in the spring which will help with this as well 7eventh grade similar story here actually we see a bit more regression in the seventh grade space and then in the eighth grade space as well the thing I do want to call out as we look at this eighth grade data and then look at the next slide on Algebra 1 remember that 8th grade students are either taking traditional eighth grade math or

101they're taking Algebra 1 so this slide is only looking at those eighth graders in that traditional eighth grade um track what we see historically not just in La Hoya but in other places those are usually students who've not had as much success in mathematics at this point um and the ones taking algebra by the time they get to eth grade are students who've had much more success and are higher achieving typically in math and we see this show up in the data here Algebra 1 we actually had the growth we needed to improve achievement and so we see that from beginning a middle of year this also includes ninth graders who are Algebra 1 students as well not just uh the e8th grade space the next few slides are exactly what we showed in literacy

102last time but now focusing on math so again improving research-based strategies improving our ability to design a classroom to support every type of student that's Universal Design for Learning and yes even in math class improving the use of content-based language instruction how are students talking to each other how are they talking to their teacher and engaging with this content it is not just about x's and y's on a page uh for students in algebra and we see a very similar picture here on the T test again that was one of the things that was slightly off track and what you just saw in the district priority updates is how do we get stronger implementation connection and coherence uh in this work remember each dot represents a school that dark black line going across the middle

103is that 50th percentile growth we want to see our dots above that line and the red dotted line going down the the left hand side is that proficient sort of indicator so on the math just like on the reading we're seeing the vast majority of our schools average ratings at proficient or higher uh but we're not yet seeing student data match those outcomes and then similar story here to to last time in terms of what we learned as I mentioned in the beginning we're not really learning new things we're just seeing it in a different place but we are you know seven months ahead in math to where we are in literacy at this point with implementation so we've got more work to do on the quality of our instruction we've got more work to

104do building our teacher our educator our principal and leader capacity around what that quality of instruction has to look like and what it includes uh and helping our campus leaders provide stronger and better coaching to teachers to to make that growth and to ensure that that coaching aligns with really valid and honest evaluation and observation data as well so everything connects and as a teacher I'm getting really fair but but candid assessments on here's how I'm doing with delivering lessons and supporting students that's helping identify where I need support in coaching which is being provided to me and then over time I'm seeing growth and Improvement just like my students are seeing growth and Improvement so with that a little bit of a quicker tour uh tonight through the data but as always happy to

105take questions members of the boards do we have any questions for Dr little when we identify the students that need some extra help with math how are we helping you did mention some stuff like tutoring and stuff like that but um you said we're going to separate them during class and I'm thinking the teacher needs to follow a curriculum you know stay on TR excuse me stay on track um and sometimes they just don't have enough time in the day but how are we doing that like either in the class or after school programs or mathia stuff like that absolutely and one of the things that again not just La Hoya teachers teachers anywhere the first thing they want to do starting at this point in the year is sort of throw the curriculum out

106the window and say all I'm going to do is just get you ready for the test so we're just going to practice practice practice practice our teams are intentionally reinforcing the need to keep on grade level instruction going in the school year because again yes the April and May star assessments matter but it also matters that you can show back up next school year in the grade level with the requisite skills and knowledge that you need to continue to advance so part of that means what we're supporting campuses with is you know if it's my math time I'm scheduled in my seventh grade math block that is using Carnegie tier one instruction for whatever it is in the scope and sequence that I need to be learning right now but remember middle schools have an

107additional period schedule for certain students Called Quest Elementary schools have specialized Learning Time built in so that's part of where they're getting additional Maia or zern uh opportunities so that's really meeting the student where they are in their trajectory and helping close some of those skill gaps that's also an opportunity for the teacher to pull those small groups to say okay the four of you really need help in this same concept while everyone else is doing their mathio work I'm going to pull you and work more deeply and then yes we have before after school tutoring options as well thank you any other questions okay does that conclude your presentation that's it okay great um are we on agenda item number eight Dr Bara our conservatives uh tea report good evening president ales superintendent senson

108board amazing team and Community um my report is going to be short and sweet as you know I started late November so with monitors and conservators we wait three months to give the first report I will be from here on out I'll be reporting um every month and it'll be once a month just on that month's progress right um and so what I'll be doing is really focusing in the three areas that are the exit criteria areas number one is obviously academics you want to make sure there's uh High student achievement right there's growth number two it definitely is finance we want to make sure that all those systems are in place and the internal controls and all of that to make sure that we are uh spending the community's money wisely and then the

109third one is governance we need to make sure that the laoya ISD Community knows what effective governance looks like it's not just what we have to do right meeting the minimum we want to show what effective governance looks like it's A Cut Above the Rest um and so that's that's my job to report on those three areas and so how I do that is obviously working with the board I attend close session with the board I attend um their board training sessions just being there so anytime the board is convened I need to be there as a conservator um within the district I've been observing meetings cabinet meetings division level meetings and having one-on-one meetings with the superintendent with Chief of Staff with uh president Alvarez and um really just looking at how things are

110going and making sure that what I'm seeing here at the board meetings what they're presenting is really happening and by what are they really talking about and I can tell you that what I've seen so far is man their meetings are fast and furious because they're on a timeline they've got a tight agenda because they're checking on so many things and when you hear these folks like you said man there's so much right it's it's the same way at their meetings it is mindboggling how they keep their divisions running um it's been incredible and amazing to watch and so kudos to all the Chiefs um who are doing the work that they're supposed to be doing to really transform this District uh we've seen it already in a year and I look forward to uh

111seeing more progress in the coming uh months and years does anybody have any questions members of the board do you have any questions I think I can speak for all of us so we're very grateful that you're not giving us a test tonight no no like last month or last meeting uh no questions no Dr thank you very much for for all you do and your continued support ladies and gentlemen next item on the agenda is our consent agenda item do I have a motion I move to approve the consent agenda do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signified by saying I I oppose uh motion carries okay the next item on the agenda will be Clos session um Clos session will be held for the purposes of authorized by

112the Texas open meetings act Texas government code sections 551.071 551.074 55 1.07 6 55112 n and 55182 concerning any and all purposes permitted by the ACT including but not limited to the sections and purposes listed below ladies and gentlemen we are now going into close session and it is 7:30 8 p.m. ladies and gentlemen we're back from closed session it is 9:18 p.m. next item on the agenda is agenda item number 12 um let's see it is 12.1 12.1 action item 12.1 approval of Cs CSP 202- 25 Construction Services job order contract do I have a motion I move to approve 12.1 do I have a second I second all in favor signify by saying I I all oppose motion carries I apologize I think I'm going to need we my glasses next meeting serious

113next item is uh agenda item 12.2 approval of CPS 2020 202- 38 video verification entry systems do I have a motion I move to approve item 12.2 do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries next item on the agenda ladies and gentlemen is 12.3 approval of quotations 202-8972 point4 approval of additional member refers to the La Hoya ISD school health advisory committee do I have a motion I move to approve item 12.4 do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signify by saying I I all oppose motion carries next item on the agenda is 12.5 approval of Texas evaluation and support system t-tess do I have a motion I move to approve 12.5 do I have a second

114I second the motion all in favor signify by saying I I I all oppose motion carries okay next item on the agenda is our calendar March is National nutritional month National nutrition month March 1st 2025 District's annual employee Wellness volleyball tournament I'm looking forward to our board participating in that March 1st 2025 athletic trainers day I remember that from last year champions in healthc care March 3rd through the 7th La Hoy ISD Texas public school week open house March 3rd through the 9 2025 social workers week Social Work compassion and action March 7th 2025 maintenance work Appreciation Day March 12 2025 La Hoya ISD and RGV Food Bank distribution at the LA ho ISD back stadium and on March 12 2025 regular board meeting did I miss any dates or anything break in here the

115did you need to say that where is that one at you have the next next page page oh next page oh okay we that I was going to say everybody want spring break right Miss Miller Miller Miss Miller she do care about spring break she doesn't want spring bre you I you're already on spring break she's she's already on Spring signing up for the volleyball tournament all right Miss Miller we got you get us on the team um March 12 through the 21st 2025 spring break there will be no school March 26 2025 special called board meeting student recognitions we're looking forward to that um Dr senson agenda item 14 do you have any report anything you'd like to report or any remarks before we adjourn just two quick comments one always um a call

116out to the community um Educators parents um everyone facilities custodial Department Child Nutrition Services everybody that has upcoming um Town Hall meetings with me and the team please please please come out I'm super excited to hear from you um your voice is incredibly important as you see um this strategic plan is your voice it's our future and so please come out um we really want you to be a part of creating um our vision for the future so please if um you have sessions on the calendar right now we strongly urge you to come on out the other thing is that this month is CTE awareness month and so really want to lift up our CTE teachers who are doing an incredible job in the classroom every single day we know that work-based experiences um

117really help prepare our kids for careers Beyond high school and Beyond college and so I really want to give a shout out to our CTE teachers who are doing great things for our young people every single day across this district and so thank you for all you do you we see you we know how hard you work and just want to thank you at the close of this meeting thank you Dr senson any members of the board have anything to say no okay well thank you and hopefully everybody travels safely uh Dr senson I just want to take this opportunity to take uh to thank your direct staff those that work in your office for everything they do to accommodate uh our needs especially when everyone's working so late I really appreciate everything that you

118do and I think we as a board do so thank you I wanted to take this opportunity thank you di drive safely back nice seeing you sir here and uh with that said do I have a motion to adjourn I move to adjourn this meeting at 9: 24 p.m. do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signify by saying I I all oppose motion carries we are Journey