[ I. Call to Order]
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LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT AND THAT NOTICE OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO START OFF WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BEING LED BY THE COLLINS ELEMENTARY CHOIR.
IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE.
BEFORE WE DO ANY INTRODUCTIONS, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BRING OUR STUDENTS FROM OUR CAMPUS TO COME AND PERFORM.
ALSO, A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS.
I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS EARLIER, SO I FORGOT TO SAY THANK YOU, BUT WITHOUT YOU GUYS, WE WOULD NOT HAVE PERFORMANCE HERE TODAY.
SO THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE.
I SERVE AS THE MUSIC TEACHER AT NEWTON COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHERE IT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO SERVE THE STUDENTS BEFORE YOU TODAY.
AND EVERYONE ENROLLED AT OUR SCHOOL.
THE ARTISTS BEFORE YOU TODAY ARE STUDENTS SELECTED FROM THEIR PEERS FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING BEHAVIOR AND MUSICIANSHIP DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.
TONIGHT WE WILL BE PERFORMING TWO SELECTIONS FOR YOU ALL, BOTH IN SPANISH.
THE FIRST IS TITLED LINDO PES, AND THE SECOND IS TITLED PAJARITOS EN MI VENTANA.
WE HOPE YOU ENJOY OUR PERFORMANCE.
LINDO PEZ, LINDO PEZ DÓNDE ESTÁ TU CASITA? LINDO PEZ, LINDO PEZ DÓNDE ESTÁ
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TU CASITA? MI CASA, MI CASA DEBAJO DEL AGÜITA MI CASA, MI CASA DEBAJO DEL AGÜITA PALOMA, PALOMA DÓNDE ESTÁ TU CASITA? PALOMA, PALOMA DÓNDE ESTÁ TU CASITA? MI CASA, MI CASA EN LAS RAMAS DE UN ÁRBOL.MI CASA, MI CASA EN LAS RAMAS DE UN ÁRBOL NIÑITO, NIÑITA DÓNDE ESTÁ TU CASITA? NIÑITO, NIÑITA DÓNDE ESTÁ TU CASITA? MI CASA, MI CASA DÓNDE ESTÁ MI CAMITA MI CASA, MI CASA DÓNDE ESTÁ MI CAMITA.
PAJARITOS EN MI VENTANA PAJARITOS A LA MAÑANA CANTAN EN MI ALMOHADA TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MI CABEZA TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MIS PIES TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MI PANZA CANTAN EN MI ALMOHADA PAJARITOS EN MI VENTANA PAJARITOS A LA MAÑANA CANTAN EN MI ALMOHADA TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MI CABEZA TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MIS PIES TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MI PANZA CANTAN EN MI ALMOHADA PAJARITOS VUELAN, SE ESCONDEN PAJARITOS DE MIL COLORES CANTAN EN MI ALMOHADA TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MI CABEZA TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MIS PIES TIPI TIPI TAPA EN MI PANZA CANTAN EN MI ALMOHADA DEJAN EN MI CASA PLUMAS POR EL AIRE EN MI CABEZA, EN MIS PIES, EN TODOS LADOS SE VEN.
[III.A. Superintendent's Students of the Month]
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NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS A SUPERINTENDENT STUDENTS OF THE MONTH.IT IS MY HONOR TO BEGIN THIS EVENING BY RECOGNIZING OUR STUDENTS OF THE MONTH.
THE SPECIAL RECOGNITION ALLOWS US TO CELEBRATE THE EXCELLENCE AND POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.
THESE STUDENTS EXEMPLIFY OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, STRONG CHARACTER, LEADERSHIP, AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO LEARNING.
THEY TRULY REFLECT THE VALUES OF DEL VALLE ISD AND HELP CREATE A NURTURING, SUPPORTIVE, AND HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL.
GOOD EVENING, PARENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, PRESIDENT GUADIAN, DR.
GUTIÉRREZ, AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
WE ARE REALLY HONORED TONIGHT TO RECOGNIZE...
OUR MARCH SUPERINTENDENTS, STUDENTS OF THE MONTH.
THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE BEING CELEBRATED FOR THEIR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND THEIR VITAL CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS OUR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS IN MATH, READING, AND COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS.
WE ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THEM FOR BEING A GREAT COMMUNITY MEMBER IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.
PARA LOS PADRES QUE ESTÁN AQUÍ, ESTAMOS MUY ORGULLOSOS DE SUS ESTUDIANTES.
WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND BEGIN WITH THE FIRST STUDENT, AND WE'VE GOT CREEDMOOR ELEMENTARY, AND IT IS YAIR ESCALANTE VEGA.
FROM DEL VALLE ELEMENTARY, PATRICK SMITH.
FROM GILBERT ELEMENTARY, JULIANA SAMUDIO.
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FROM HILLCREST ELEMENTARY, LANA PURCELL.FROM OJEDA MIDDLE SCHOOL, FREDERICK UBUBE.
FROM DEL VALLE OPPORTUNITY CENTER, FRANCESCA DURIETTE.
FROM POPPUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MAX SEBUNKAM.
I'M FROM SMITH ELEMENTARY, NARALI YANIEL RODRIGUEZ.
SO LET'S TAKE A GROUP PICTURE.
AND PARENTS, IF YOU WANT TO COME UP AND TAKE A PICTURE AT THE FRONT AS WELL, WE'LL DO A REALLY QUICK GROUP PICTURE.
SI LOS PAPÁS GUSTAN PASAR A TOMAR FOTOS, POR FAVOR PASEN.
AND WE HAVE ONE MORE THAT'S JOINING THE GROUP HERE FROM HORNSBY DUNLOP ELEMENTARY, JOSIAH DESHAY.
THIS CONCLUDES THE RECOGNITION ITEMS FOR THIS EVENING.
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THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR FAMILIES FOR JOINING US.WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOUR STUDENTS.
GRACIAS A TODAS NUESTRAS FAMILIAS POR ACOMPAÑARNOS.
ESTAMOS MUY ORGULLOSOS DE SUS ESTUDIANTES.
[IV. Public Comment]
NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMENT.INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT SHALL SIGN UP BEFORE THE MEETING BEGINS AS SPECIFIED IN THE BOARD'S PROCEDURES ON PUBLIC COMMENT AND SHALL INDICATE THE AGENDA ITEM OR TOPIC ON WHICH THEY WISH TO ADDRESS THE BOARD.
ACCEPT AS PERMITTED BY BOARD POLICY AND THE BOARD'S PROCEDURES ON PUBLIC COMMENT AND INDIVIDUALS' COMMENTS TO THE BOARD SHALL NOT EXCEED THREE MINUTES.
SECRETARY WEGNER WILL GIVE YOU EACH SPEAKER A ONE-MINUTE WARNING.
AND OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS MICHELLE ESTRADA, SPEAKING ON RETAINING HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT GUADIAN, SUPERINTENDENT GUTIERREZ, AND ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS MICHELLE ESTRADA, AND I WORK AT DEL VALLE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I HAVE BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT FOR 10 YEARS AS A JOB COACH TEACHER.
I AM HERE TODAY BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PROPOSED $3 PAY RAISE FOR THE 26-27 SCHOOL YEAR.
AS YOU KNOW, OUR DBA PRESIDENT, JESSICA MARQUEZ, BROUGHT THIS UP IN LAST MONTH'S MEETING.
I TRULY BELIEVE WE DESERVE THIS PAY RAISE DUE TO THE HIGH COST OF LIVING IN THE AUSTIN AND DEL VALLE SURROUNDING AREAS.
AT LEAST EVEN A 10% RAISE OR SOMETHING WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
AS LAST YEAR'S RAISE WAS ONLY 1.5%.
I AM SPEAKING UP ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND ALL THE EMPLOYEES WHO TRULY DESERVE THIS PAY RAISE.
AS AN EMPLOYEE OF DEL VALLE, WE AS A PARAPROFESSIONAL TEACHER ASSISTANT, WE WORK WITH OUR STUDENTS DAILY FOR EIGHT HOURS TO ENSURE THEIR EDUCATION AND SAFETY.
WE ASSIST IN THE CLASSROOMS WHILE THE TEACHER IS TRYING TO CATCH UP ON DOCUMENTATION, PREPARING FOR UPCOMING ARD MEETINGS, CLASSROOM WORK, AND ANY OTHER DUTIES AS NEEDED.
I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE CLERKS, THE OFFICE STAFF, THE SECRETARIES, PARENT SUPPORT SPECIALISTS WHO WORK WITH OUR STAFF AND OUR PARENTS.
THEY SET UP OUR PD AGENDAS, ORGANIZE FOR AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, WORK EXTRA HOURS TO ENSURE SCHOOLS ARE UP AND RUNNING.
FOR OUR BUS DRIVERS, TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES, THEY'RE THE FIRST TO SEE OUR STUDENTS AND THE LAST TO SEE THEM AT THE END OF THE DAY.
THEY WORK EXTRA HOURS AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IN ADDITION TO THEIR ROUTES.
THE STAFF WORK HARD LONG HOURS TO GET BUS ROUTES AND NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND STUDENTS TO AND FROM SCHOOL.
FOR OUR CAFETERIA WORKERS, THEY MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS ARE FED DAILY MEALS.
FOR OUR MAINTENANCE AND AUXILIARY WORKERS, THEY WORK TO KEEP OUR SCHOOLS MAINTAINED ON A DAILY BASIS.
FOR THE CUSTODIANS WHO REALLY HAVE THE HARDEST JOB IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, THEY CLEAN OUR SCHOOLS, MOVE FURNITURES IN THE SUMMER, AND WORK HARD ON A DAILY BASIS.
WHO WORK HARD TO PROTECT OUR STUDENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. THEY WALK ALL DAY TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF OUR STUDENTS. I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US WHO MAKE OUR SCHOOLS SUCCEED ON A DAILY BASIS THE. ONE MINUTE. DEDICATED DEDICATED EMPLOYEES WHO COME TO WORK EVERY DAY TO GIVE 100% TO OUR STUDENTS.
WITH THE OPENING OF THE NEW NORTH DEL VALLE HIGH SCHOOL AND FUTURE SCHOOLS FOR THE DEL VALLE DISTRICT THE RAISE WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND DESERVED. AND IT WOULD MAKE EMPLOYEES LIKE ME AND OTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT FOR LONG YEARS TO RETAIN OUR EMPLOYMENT INSTEAD OF LEAVING TO OTHER JOBS AND TO PROVIDE FOOD ON OUR TABLES.
WE ARE SUPERINTENDED TO BE ON BOARD WITH OUR STUDENTS.
WE WORK AS ONE TEAM TO MAKE OUR SCHOOL SUCCEED.
AS MY STUDENT SAID TODAY, AS I GAVE THIS SPEECH DURING OUR ENGLISH CLASS IN THE STRUCTURE OF LEARNING, BETTER PAY, MAKE WORKERS STAY.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JASON WILEY SPEAKING ON EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION.
SUPERINTENDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, MY NAME IS JASON WILEY.
I WORK AS AN ORGANIZER FOR THE TEXAS STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, AND I WORK CLOSELY WITH DVEA.
ONE-PARTY RULE IN TEXAS HAS UNDERFUNDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
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LED TO A MYRIAD OF SCHEMES TO UNDERMINE THE SYSTEM.SUCH SCHEMES INCLUDE AN ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM BUILT AROUND A RELENTLESS TESTING REGIMEN THE GOALPOSTS OF WHICH ARE CONSTANTLY MOVED.
A DISTRICT OF INNOVATION SCHEME THAT IS DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE REGULATION AND LOWER THE BAR FOR PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS.
A VOUCHER SCHEME DESIGNED TO SIPHON MONEY AWAY FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO SUBSIDIZE PRIVATE EDUCATION FOR WEALTHY POLITICAL DONORS.
BOGUS PAY FOR PERFORMANCE SCHEMES LIKE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT, WHICH PROMOTES COMPETITION AMONG TEACHERS.
A SCHEME WHICH SEEKS TO END THE BASIC MORAL OBLIGATION TO REWARD TEACHERS FOR THEIR HARD WORK BY LINKING SALARIES TO STUDENT OUTCOMES AND TESTS WHICH SAY NOTHING AND CARE NOTHING ABOUT THE HOLISTIC EDUCATION OF THE CHILD.
ALL OF THE SCHEMES HAVE ONE COMMON END GOAL TO SET UP THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR FAILURE, SO THAT CORPORATE INTERESTS MAY MOVE IN TO PROFIT ON A PUBLIC SERVICE THAT ACCEPTS EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND A SERVICE THAT HAS HELPED BUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS.
PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES ARE INDEED BEING SQUEEZED.
ACROSS TEXAS WE'RE HEARING THE DRUMBEAT ABOUT DEFICIT BUDGETS.
IN DEL VALLE THE PROCLAMATION OF DEFICIT LOSES ITS FIRE WHEN WE SEE THAT THE DISTRICT HAS FINISHED THE LAST FIVE YEARS WITH A FUND BALANCE SURPLUS.
THE SURPLUSES MAINTAINED ARE SIMPLY TOO HIGH AND DENY THE USE OF FUNDS THAT COULD BE USED FOR STUDENT PROGRAMS AND EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION.
RUNNING A FUND BALANCE AT 40% OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR'S BUDGET EXPENDITURES IS NOT NECESSARY AND IS SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER THAN MOST NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS.
THE VEA HAS LAID OUT ITS COMPENSATION GOALS FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
IF DISTRICT LEADERSHIP CONSIDERS THESE COMPENSATION GOALS TO BE UNFEASIBLE, THEY SHOULD RESPOND IN WRITING AS TO WHY.
THEY SHOULD ALSO PUT IN WRITING A COMMITMENT TO THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUING A PAY STRUCTURE OF GENERAL PAY INCREASES, AS OPPOSED TO OFFERING THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT AS A REPLACEMENT METHOD OF PAYING TEACHERS.
LASTLY, PLEASE STOP BLAMING THE FORMER ADMINISTRATION FOR ALL OF THE DISTRICT'S CHALLENGES.
THIS LINE OF REASONING HAS BECOME OLD, AND ONLY SERVES TO DENIGRATE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE GIVEN LOYAL SERVICE TO THE DISTRICT FOR MANY YEARS. AND ALSO THROWS SHADE ON TRUSTEES WHO HAVE HAD LONG TENURE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JESSICA MENCHACA, SPEAKING ON COMPENSATION AND BUDGET.
GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT, SUPERINTENDENT DR.
GUTIERREZ, AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.
I STAND BEFORE YOU AS A 20-YEAR VETERAN OF DEL VALLE ISD, ONLY EVER WORKED IN DEL VALLE ISD BY CHOICE.
I AM A COMMUNITY MEMBER, AND I HAVE FOUR GODCHILDREN IN DEL VALLE, AND TWO OF THEM, ONE'S AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND ONE IS GRADUATED.
I AM VERY INVESTED IN THIS SCHOOL.
AND IN THE THAT I WORK AT AND IN THIS DISTRICT.
I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO URGE YOU CONSIDERATION OF A FOUR PERCENT RAISE FOR OUR DEDICATED CAMPUS LEVEL STAFF SPECIFICALLY THOSE THAT ARE LEVEL ONE THROUGH SIX UNDER THE DEL VALLE ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL PAY PLAN.
RECENT DATA FROM EDUCATION WEEK RESEARCH CENTER RELEASED THIS YEAR IN 2026 HIGHLIGHTS A CONCERNING TREND OVER 1,000 PRE-K THROUGH GRADE 5 TEACHERS HAVE REPORTED INCREASING NUMBERS OF STUDENTS THAT ARE IN SCHOOL AND THEY ARE LACKING BASIC SKILLS, ESPECIALLY IN BEHAVIOR, EMOTIONAL REGULATION, AND FOUNDATIONAL MILESTONES THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR A DAILY CLASSROOM ROUTINE.
THESE TEACHERS ALSO NOTE THAT TODAY'S STUDENTS STRUGGLE MORE WITH COMPLETING DAILY TASKS AS COMPARED TO THEIR SAME-AGE PEERS JUST TWO YEARS AGO.
BECAUSE OF COPYRIGHT ISSUES, I CAN ONLY PRINT YOU THE TITLE AND AUTHOR AND THE DATE OF THE ARTICLE THAT YOU CAN LOOK UP FOR THESE SPECIFIC STATISTICS FOR YOURSELF.
SO WHO IS ON THE FRONT LINES ADDRESSING THESE GROWING CHALLENGES? IT IS OUR CAMPUS-LEVEL STAFF, SPECIFICALLY OUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND BEHAVIOR SPECIALISTS, SUPPORTING THESE TEACHERS, GUIDING THE STUDENTS, AND MANAGING THE COMPLEXITIES THAT COME
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WITH THESE INCREASED NEEDS.THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES HAVE GROWN DRAMATICALLY, YET THEIR COMPENSATION HAS NOT KEPT UP.
THE 4% RAISE IS NOT JUST A MATTER OF FAIRNESS.
IT IS A RECOGNITION OF THE VITAL ROLE THAT...
STUDENTS SUCCESS AND CAMPUS STABILITY PLAYS.
WHEN ELEMENTARY BEHAVIORS INCREASE, IT SPILLS OVER INTO SECONDARY CAMPUSES, MEANING INCREASED NUMBERS OF STUDENTS IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION, OUT-OF-SCHOOL SUSPENSION, AND DAP PLACEMENT.
THIS IS TIME STUDENTS ARE AWAY FROM LEARNING IN CLASSROOMS. LET'S MAXIMIZE THE DIRECT STUDENT SUPPORT BY PAYING OUR CAMPUS LEVEL STAFF.
STAFF WHO WORK DIRECTLY WITH STUDENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO POSITIVELY INFLUENCE THEIR ATTENDANCE, THEIR LEARNING AND THEIR OVERALL PERFORMANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
THIS HELPS MAXIMIZE YOUR STATE AND FEDERAL DOLLARS ALLOCATED IN FUNDING TO OUR SCHOOLS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND CONSIDERATION.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRITT COVINGTON, SPEAKING ON COMPENSATION.
GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT.
GUTIERREZ AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
I LOVE FOLLOWING SUCH WONDERFUL SPEAKERS.
THEY HAD GREAT POINTS, AND I WOULD SECOND EVERYTHING THEY SAID.
TONIGHT I AM GOING TO READ A STATEMENT BY ONE OF OUR MEMBERS WHO WAS CUT OFF FROM THE SIGNING TIME, SO IF YOU WILL ALLOW ME, AND THEN I'LL SAY A FEW WORDS OF MY OWN.
THIS IS FROM MARISSA DE LA ROSA.
I'M A SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WITH 19 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE UNDER MY BELT, 14 OF THOSE YEARS IN CALI, AS WELL AS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATION FOR DEA.
LAST YEAR, I CAME BEFORE YOU ALL TO TALK ABOUT TEACHER RETENTION AND EXPRESS MY CONCERN ABOUT TEACHER BURNOUT.
SURE ENOUGH, THIS YEAR, WE ARE DOING MORE WITH LESS.
WE ARE BEING ASKED TO DO MORE WITH LESS DESPITE NOT RECEIVING FROM THE DISTRICT.
BURNOUT IS A REALITY, AND IT SHOULD CONCERN YOU.
WE WILL BE LOSING TEACHERS, AND IF CUTTING COSTS DUE TO ATTRITION IS GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN, YOU ARE GOING TO PUSH TEACHERS TO A BREAKING POINT.
WE NEED MORE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR STUDENTS, MORE SUPPORT ON CAMPUSES, MORE TRUST IN US AS EDUCATORS.
BUT WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ARE PAYING OUR EMPLOYEES APPROPRIATELY.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE FINANCIAL BURDENS, AND I HOPE THE DISTRICT HAS LEARNED TO STOP MAKING DEALS WITH THOSE THAT DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO GET OUT OF ACTUALLY PAYING UP.
TEACHERS ARE NOT MAKING SIX-FIGURE SALARIES LIKE SOME, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE THE ONES.
INFLATION IS RISING, AND TIA IS NOT THE ANSWER TO TEACHER PAY THAT YOU THINK IT IS.
I MYSELF WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR TIA UNTIL YEAR THREE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO ASK TEACHERS TO JUST DEAL WITH STAGNANT PAY AND HOPE THEY GET TIA DESIGNATIONS.
YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE REMAINING.
WHEN OUR VETERAN TEACHERS, WHEN THEIR TIME COMES, WE ARE SIMPLY ASKING TO BE COMPENSATED APPROPRIATELY, ESPECIALLY OUR VETERAN TEACHERS WHO HAVE STAYED WITH THE DISTRICT WHEN MANY CHOOSE TO LEAVE EDUCATION ALTOGETHER.
WE'VE SAID TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT VETERAN TEACHERS HAVE NOT SEEN TRUE RAISES EVERY TIME ONE IS GIVEN BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS AT THE MIDPOINT.
GETTING LESS THAN TEACHERS WHO ARE UNDER THE MIDPOINT.
THE BACK END OF THE PAY SCALE NEEDS WORK AND IT NEEDS TO BE.
I ONLY HAVE 30 SECONDS, I KNOW.
I'M SURE YOU ALL GET TIRED OF THE SEASONAL CYCLE.
WE'RE HERE ASKING FOR PAY RAISES AGAIN.
HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN DOING THIS? HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN SEEING THIS CYCLE? IT DOESN'T MAKE THE NEED ANY LESS, THE ISSUE OR THE NEEDS ANY LESSER.
I KNOW YOU HAVE THINGS TO BALANCE, CONSIDERATIONS TO BALANCE.
WE'RE ASKING THAT YOU BE HONEST BROKERS AND GIVE US THE 4% RAISE THAT WE NEED.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JANIE CONTRERAS, SPEAKING ON HOURLY INCREASE.
EXCUSE ME, TURN YOUR MIC ON PLEASE ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
SUPERINTENDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, GOOD EVENING.
MY NAME IS JANIE GUINTERAS AND I WORK AS A RECEPTIONIST AT
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DEL VALLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.I ALSO SERVE ON THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF DEL VALLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
I AM ADDRESSING THE BOARD THIS EVENING TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO LIFT UP OUR EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS REGARDING THEIR COMPENSATION.
THE HIGHLY ESTEEMED MIT LIVING WAGE CALCULATOR DETERMINES A LIVING WAGE IN THE AUSTIN-MITCHELL AREA TO BE $23.71 PER HOUR.
TOO MANY OF OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES ARE NOT EARNING THIS LIVING WAGE, AND MANY WORK SECOND JOBS TO END NEEDS.
THIS IS A MORAL ISSUE WHICH DESERVES ATTENTION.
ALL WORK SHOULD BE REWARDED, AND NO ONE WHO WORKS FULL-TIME SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE IN POVERTY.
THE CURRENT YEAR'S PAY INCREASE OF 1.5 PERCENT FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES REPRESENTED JUST CENTS OF THE DOLLAR.
AUSTIN ISD HAS A MINIMUM WAGE OF $20.25 PER HOUR, WHILE DEL VALLE IS AT $18.27 PER HOUR.
THE DISTRICT MUST BE THE DISTRICT MUST DO BETTER.
ALL DVISD STAFF SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH THE DIGNITY AND ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH.
DBEA DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO PROVIDE LIVING WAGES FOR ITS EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS, BUT BOARD OF TRUSTEES, YOU DO.
EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ARE THE SPOKES ON THE WILL OF OUR DISTRICT.
THEY ARE THE SECRETARIES, THE TEACHER AIDES, THE CUSTODIANS, THE RECEPTIONISTS, AND THE FOOD SERVICE WORKERS, THE BUS DRIVERS, MONITORS, AND MANY MORE.
OUR SCHOOLS CANNOT FUNCTION WITHOUT THEM.
THEY ARE THE FIRST PEOPLE THE STUDENTS SEE IN THE MORNING AND OFTEN THE LAST TO SEE THEM AT THE END OF THE DAY.
PLEASE RECOGNIZE US BY IMPLEMENTING DBEA'S PROPOSAL OF A $3-HOUR RAISE FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
OUR LAST SPEAKER IS JESSICA MARQUEZ, SPEAKING ON TEACHER-LIBRARIAN PAY.
GOOD EVENING, BOARD PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND SUPERINTENDENT GUTIERREZ.
MY NAME IS JESSICA MARQUEZ, AND I AM A MATH TEACHER AT DEL VALLE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I AM SPEAKING TONIGHT AS PRESIDENT OF DEL VALLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
LAST MONTH, I SPOKE ON MOVING THE LIBRARIANS AND NURSES BACK TO THE TEACHER PAY SCALE AFTER THEY WERE LEFT OFF OF THE STATE RAISE LAST YEAR.
AND DVA'S ASK WAS A 4% PAY RAISE BASED ON THE TEACHER'S SALARY AND NOT THE MIDPOINT.
I WANT TO REITERATE THAT THIS PAY RAISE IS ESSENTIAL TO RETAIN AND RECRUIT HIGHLY QUALIFIED EDUCATORS TO DEL VALLE ISD FOR OUR STUDENTS.
THE COST OF LIVING CONTINUES TO INCREASE RAPIDLY, AND WE FEEL THAT THIS IS VITAL TO KEEPING OUR VALUABLE EDUCATORS SO THAT OUR DISTRICT AND OUR STUDENTS CAN CONTINUE TO GROW AND BE SUCCESSFUL.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THE STATE CONTINUES TO CUT FUNDING FOR PAY RAISES AND PUBLIC EDUCATION, HENCE THE PUSH FOR TIA.
HOWEVER, WE CANNOT DEPEND ON THE STATE TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR OUR EMPLOYEE RAISES.
DBISD NEEDS TO INCLUDE PAY RAISES IN THE BUDGET, SO WE DO NOT HAVE TO DEPEND ON THE STATE.
LASTLY, RETENTION OF STAFF IS ESSENTIAL IN DELIVERING A CONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND WILL SERVE TO IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES AND ENHANCE STUDENT SUCCESS.
THIS CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
[V.A. Superintendent's Comments]
NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS INFORMATION ITEMS, AND WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO DR. GUTIERREZ FOR HER SUPERINTENDENT'S COMMENTS.I HOPE EVERYONE HAD A RESTFUL AND RELAXING SPRING BREAK.
IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO GO BY TOO QUICKLY, BUT IT WAS CERTAINLY WELL-DESERVED FOR OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF.
BREAKS LIKE THESE ARE AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO RECHARGE, AND I KNOW THEY WILL SERVE US WELL AS WE ENTER THE HOMESTRETCH OF A SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR.
I'D LIKE TO FIRST RECOGNIZE OUR BOYS' SOCCER TEAM AS THEY ADVANCE TO AREA AT THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS.
FOLLOWING A 2-0 VICTORY OVER ROUND ROCK WESTWOOD LAST WEEK, THIS ACCOMPLISHMENT IS A TESTAMENT TO THE HARD WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND COMMITMENT OF OUR STUDENT-ATHLETES AND COACHING STAFF.
IN SAN ANTONIO TONIGHT AT 7 P.M.
AND WE WISH THEM THE VERY BEST AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR PLAYOFF RUN.
BEFORE SPRING BREAK, CAMPUSES ACROSS THE DISTRICT PARTICIPATED IN READ ACROSS AMERICA.
A CELEBRATION THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF JOY, THE JOY IN LITERACY.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT A PRE-K CLASSROOM AT HORNSBY DUNLAP, WHERE I JOINED MS. CASTRO'S CLASS TO READ TO STUDENTS.
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IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE TO SEE OUR YOUNGEST LEARNERS SO ENGAGED AND EXCITED ABOUT BOOKS.BITTINGLY, I AM PROUD TO SHARE A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THAT WAS REACHED IN MARCH.
OUR DISTRICT HAS ALREADY SURPASSED ITS ANNUAL BEANSTACK GOAL OF 3 MILLION MINUTES OF STUDENT READING.
REACHING THIS GOAL AT THIS POINT IN THE YEAR SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE CULTURE OF LITERACY THAT WE ARE BUILDING ACROSS CAMPUSES IN OUR DISTRICT.
OUR STUDENTS ARE NOT ONLY MEETING EXPECTATIONS, BUT THEY ARE EXCEEDING THEM.
THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR READING IS INSPIRING, AND IT REINFORCES THE IDEA THAT WHEN STUDENTS OPEN A BOOK, OPPORTUNITIES EXPAND, IMAGINATION GROWS, AND LIFELONG SKILLS ARE STRENGTHENED.
FINALLY, OVER THE PAST MONTH, I HAVE ALSO CONVENED MY ADVISORY COUNCILS, INCLUDING GROUPS REPRESENTING TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND STUDENTS WITH OUR SUPPORT.
SUPPORT STAFF MEETING BEING TOMORROW.
THESE MEETINGS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY AND COLLABORATION.
AS WE PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING BUDGET CYCLE, WE HAVE INTENTIONALLY SOUGHT BROAD AND MEANINGFUL WAYS TO ENSURE THAT OUR DECISIONS REFLECT THE NEEDS AND PRIORITIES OF OUR ENTIRE SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
I WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THEIR TIME, INSIGHT, AND THOUGHTFUL FEEDBACK.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF OUR STUDENTS, STAFF, AND SCHOOLS.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO FINISHING THE YEAR STRONG.
[VI.A. Committee Updates by Board Trustees]
THANK YOU, DR.AND NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA ARE COMMITTEE UPDATES BY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
DO WE HAVE ANY BOARD, ANY TRUSTEES THAT HAVE COMMITTEE UPDATES? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES SECRETARY WEGNER.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT WHILE WE ALL DO GREAT THINGS, I'D LIKE TO STICK TO THE COMMITTEES THAT ARE FROM OUR BOARD AND NOT OTHER THINGS THAT WE DO EXTERNALLY.
DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATES? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES, I THINK JASON WENT FIRST, SO TRUSTEE SIERRA.
DO WE HAVE THE SLIDES SUBMITTED? NO.
FOR THE SLIDES THE SLIDES THAT WE SENT IN. NO IT WAS AND THAT'S PROBABLY MY FAULT, JASON I MAY NOT HAVE ADDED THEM IN THERE.
OKAY. OKAY. DO YOU WANT ME TO GIVE THE UPDATE? ANYWAY THEY WERE ATTACHED TO THE EMAIL BUT I DON'T THINK DR. CANTU RECEIVED IT'S OKAY AND THAT'S MY FAULT THAT I TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THAT. OKAY, I CAN DO WITHOUT UM BUT I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT THE THE SLIDES IF YOU GET THE CHANCE SO, IN THOSE SLIDES, THERE'S SORT OF A CALENDAR FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS OF THE THINGS THAT THE COMMITTEE WILL BE FOCUSING ON IN ORDER TO SUPPORT OUR WORK WITH LSG.
JUST A REMINDER, THIS IS FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON GOVERNANCE AND GETTING BETTER AT GOVERNANCE.
AND SO, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'LL BE FOCUSING ON IN ORDER TO BRING RECOMMENDATIONS FORWARD TO THE BOARD IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS WILL INCLUDE THE NEXT MONTH WE SHOULD BE ADOPTING THE GUARDRAIL PROGRESS MEASURES AND DEVELOPING OUR THEORY OF ACTION.
AND WE'LL BE FOCUSING ON TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS.
IN MAY, WE WILL FOCUS ON HAVING A GOVERNANCE WORKSHOP FOR STUDENT STAFF IN THE COMMUNITY.
JUNE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BOARD POLICY REVIEW GOING INTO THE BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES REVIEW IN JULY.
WE'LL ALSO DO OUR DATA WALK, AND THEN IN AUGUST, WE'LL REVISIT OUR GOALS AND GUARDRAILS TO SEE IF WE WANT TO MAKE ANY UPDATES, AND WE'LL RETURN TO TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS.
THE OTHER THING THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING AS A COMMITTEE IS WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THE HOUR OR THE MINUTES THAT WE'RE SPENDING ON STUDENT OUTCOMES WITHIN THESE MEETINGS.
AND SO WE'VE STARTED TRACKING THOSE BASED ON THE AGENDA ITEMS. CERTAIN AGENDA ITEMS COUNT TOWARDS STUDENT OUTCOME MINUTES AND SOME DON'T.
THIS IS JUST A WAY FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON THE RIGHT THING IN TERMS OF OUR ROLE AND OUR GOVERNANCE.
THINGS THAT WOULD COUNT TOWARDS THOSE MINUTES ARE THINGS LIKE THE PROGRESS MONITORING REPORTS THAT WE GET, ANY INFORMATION GATHERING THAT WE DO.
COMMUNITY AND THEN ALSO THE RECOGNITIONS ALIGNED TO THAT SO JUST GOOD NEWS OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS WE'VE AVERAGED 41% OF OUR TIME HAS BEEN SPENT ON STUDENT OUTCOMES IF YOU LOOK AT THE SIX MONTHS PRECEDING THAT WE HAD ONE MEETING WHERE WE HAD 20% AND THE REST WE HAD 0% MINUTES SO WE HAVE MADE A HUGE TURN IN TERMS OF HOW WE'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT OUR TIME AND HOW DURING THESE MEETINGS AND WE'LL CONTINUE DOWN THAT LANE.
THERE IS A RECOMMENDATION IN THE SLIDES FOR HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS.
THIS WAS JUST FOR INFORMATION.
I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT IT BEFORE THE APRIL 7TH MEETING.
THAT'S WHEN WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS.
CURRENTLY, THIS UPDATE IS UNDER, WELL, IT'S LISTED AS AN UPDATE.
AND THE NEXT GO-ROUND, WE'LL HAVE IT MORE
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OF A DISCUSSION ITEM TO WHERE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATION THE BOARD IS GOING TO MAKE.AS A PREVIEW, ONE PIECE OF THAT IS THE LISTENING PART.
WE ARE GOING TO ASK IF THE BOARD IS WILLING TO COMMIT TO ATTEND TWO EVENTS IN APRIL AND MAY, EACH MEMBER, AND ASK A FEW QUESTIONS OF FOLKS THAT THEY MEET AT THOSE EVENTS.
IT CAN BE SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE ALREADY ATTENDING LIKE A PTA MEETING, A COMMITTEE MEETING, A SOCIAL GATHERING, STUDENT GOVERNMENT OR SPORTS EVENT, AND THEN WE'LL ASK THAT YOU JUST ASK WHAT'S GOING WELL, WHAT COULD BE GOING BETTER, WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE? THAT'S A RECOMMENDATION.
AND THEN IN TERMS OF HOW WE TELL OUR STORY, THE TWO RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD ARE ONE IS A POSTCARD THAT WE COULD HAND OUT AT THOSE EVENTS THAT WOULD HAVE OUR GOALS AND GUARDRAILS ON IT, AND THEN THE SECOND IS A SH...
OKAY, IF YOU CAN GO FORWARD A FEW SLIDES.
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE BRINGING FORTH ON THE APRIL 7TH MEETING.
SO ON THE LEFT, YOU SEE THE LISTENING PART OF THIS, ASKING FOLKS TO ATTEND TWO EVENTS.
ON THE RIGHT, THE POSTCARD, AND THEN THINKING ABOUT A SHORT FORM VIDEO RECAP AFTER WE DO OUR PROGRESS SESSIONS, JUST TO SAY, WELL, WHAT WERE THE HIGHLIGHTS? WHAT DID WE LEARN? WHAT ARE WE THINKING ABOUT GOING FORWARD? THAT WAY WE CAN CONTINUE TO TELL THAT STORY.
ACTUALLY, IF YOU CAN GO BACK ONE SLIDE JUST TO SHOW.
SO THIS IS THE GRAPH OF OUR STUDENT OUTCOME MINUTES.
AND I THINK THE BOARD HAS JUST DONE A FANTASTIC JOB OF MOVING TOWARDS SPENDING MORE TIME TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT.
SO TALKING ABOUT OUR GOALS, TALKING ABOUT STUDENT OUTCOMES, TALKING ABOUT LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS AND CCMR. SO I CONGRATULATE THE BOARD ON MAKING THAT SHIFT.
AND THEN THANK YOU FOR THAT JASON AND I DO WANT TO SAY THAT WE DO WE'VE KIND OF ALREADY STARTED JUST I KNOW MELINDA AND I WENT TO A SPECIAL EDUCATION PAC MEETING AND I'LL LET HER GIVE THE UPDATE ON THAT BUT WE DID GO IN AND TALK ABOUT OUR OUTCOMES.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES VICE PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. YES, SO, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO UH SIT ON THE SPECIAL EDUCATION PARENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE UM THAT TOOK PLACE THIS MONTH. IT'S A NEW COMMITTEE UM AND WE DISCUSSED OUR PARENT JOURNEY HERE IN THE DISTRICT AS WELL AS CHALLENGES PHASE JUST IDEAS THAT WE HAVE.
IT WAS A REALLY GOOD TURNOUT, WE HAD A LOT OF OUR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY THAT CAME IN PERSON AND ALSO JOINED VIA ZOOM. SO, THAT WAS GOOD. I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THE GROWTH OF THIS COMMITTEE. I WANT TO THANK MISS NICOLE ROBERTS AND ALL OF HER SPREAD TEAM FOR PUTTING THAT TOGETHER.
TO BE MORE INVOLVED, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE FRANCO.
THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO SAY, REGARDING THE MEETING MINUTESOR RATHER, THE MINUTESSPEAKING ABOUT STUDENT OUTCOMES, I WANT TO GIVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE NOT JUST TO THE BOARD AND THE LSG WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, BUT TO VICE PRESIDENT CISNEROS FOR LEADING A LOT OF THIS WORK ON THE LSG COMMITTEE.
BUT ALSO TO OUR STAFF BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN THIS IS A LEARNING PROCESS TOGETHER, AND THEY'VE BEEN VERY GOOD AT PRESENTING INFORMATION IN A WAY THAT HELPS BRING OUT THE STUDENT OUTCOMES.
ARE THERE ANY MORE UPDATES? ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? OKAY.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY? SO THERE'S A LOT OF COMMITTEES THAT ARE BEING BROUGHT UP.
DO WE HAVE A NEW LIST OF THESE COMMITTEES THAT WE ARE CREATING THAT ARE BEING CREATED? BECAUSE THE ONLY ONE I HAVE ARE THE ONES FROM OUR NOTEBOOK THAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY CREATED, AND I DON'T RECOGNIZE ANY OF THESE, OR A COUPLE OF THEM FROM THIS MEETING AND THE LAST MEETING.
THE LAST MEETING, WELL, IN THE LAST MEETING, IT WAS THE MOSBA, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT CAME AT MOSBA.
YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO SIGN UP FOR THAT.
IT GOES TO, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.
BUT TO GO BACK, THAT WAS SENT OUT TO EVERYBODY.
ANOTHER ONE WAS SENT OUT JUST TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, WHICHEVER WANTED TO SERVE ON THE AUSTIN 2030 COMMITTEE.
FELT THAT SINCE I WAS A PRE-ELECTION, IT SHOULD BE THE LAST PRESIDENT, AND THEY SENT IT OUT TO US. THAT'S FINE.
I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF WE WERE GOING TO GET AN UPDATE ON THE SPECIAL ED COMMITTEE. THERE WAS AN EMAIL THAT WENT OUT TO SEE IF ANY OF THE BOARD MEMBERS WANTED TO JOIN THAT. SO, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET AN UPDATE? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON,
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WE'RE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION.WE JUST ASKED SANDY TO HELP US ON GETTING LIKE THE SPED COMMITTEE AND A LOT OF THOSE THAT WE SERVE ON RIGHT WHAT THE GUIDELINES ARE BECAUSE THOSE AREN'T BOARD COMMITTEES.
THEY'RE MANDATED RIGHT SO JUST SO EVERYBODY WHEN THEY'RE ASKED IF A BOARD MEMBER WANTS TO JOIN THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING INTO SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.
AND IF YOU CAN SEND US AN UPDATE JUST WHEN YOU GUYS HAVE TIME SO WE CAN.
AND I KNOW THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY OF US WORKING TOGETHER AS A GROUP TO SEE WHO'S GOING TO DO WHAT.
AND WE KIND OF DID THAT ON THE DYES, BUT THAT FELL THROUGH.
SO I KIND OF WANT TO SEE IF WE'LL ADD THAT TO THAT DISCUSSION WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE CISNEROS.
YEAH, I JUST WANT TO ADD TO THAT.
SO WE DO HAVE AN INTERNAL GOOGLE DOCUMENT.
WE ALL HAVE ACCESS THAT HAS ALL OF THE INFORMATION ON THERE WHAT COMMITTEE IS ACTIVE WHAT'S INACTIVE WHO SERVES ON THAT COMMITTEE I'M NOT SURE IF THAT I KNOW THE THE LATEST COMMITTEE WHICH IS THE SPED ONE THAT JUST GOT CREATED AND JUST MET THIS TIME THIS MONTH FOR THE FIRST TIME I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S BEEN PUT ON THERE BUT WE DO HAVE A DOCUMENT THAT EVERYONE ALL EVERYONE HERE HAS ACCESS TO. YEAH, I CAN RESEND IT TO YOU.
[VII. Consent Agenda]
ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON WITH OUR AGENDA.VICE PRESIDENT CISNEROS MAKES A MOTION.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY MAKES A SECOND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES.
UNANIMOUSLY. NEXT UP WE HAVE OUR
[VIII.A. Board Self Evaluation]
BOARD SELF-EVALUATION. DR. CANTU GOOD EVENING. SO, WE'RE AT THE QUARTERLY UPDATE FOR THE BOARD SELF-EVALUATION.AS YOU ALL RECALL, IN DECEMBER, WE WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS AS A BOARD TO EVALUATE OR SET THE BASELINE EVALUATION.
AS PART OF THE LSG MODEL AND THE FRAMEWORK, WE ARE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH THE SELF-EVALUATION EVERY QUARTER.
BACK IN DECEMBER, WE SET A BASELINE.
NOW THIS IS THE SECOND EVALUATION.
THIS AGAIN JUST MEASURES AGAIN OUR CURRENT GOVERNANCE BEHAVIORS ALIGNED TO OUTCOMES, ESTABLISHING OR ENABLING THE BOARD TO REFLECT ON STRENGTHS, ALL THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENED UP UNTIL NOW, THE AREAS OF GROWTH OR OPPORTUNITY, AND OF COURSE THE NEXT STEPS.
AND SO WITH THAT, I WILL SHARE THE SCORING RUBRIC FROM THE LAST TIME THAT THIS OCCURRED IN DECEMBER, ON DECEMBER 2ND.
AT THAT TIME, YOU CAN SEE THE CATEGORIES ON THAT FIRST COLUMN WHERE IT SAYS FRAMEWORK.
SO FOR VISION AND GOALS ONE, IT WAS AT A 12, VISION AND GOALS TWO, A 12, AND THEN IT WAS ZERO ALL THE WAY UNTIL SYNERGY AND TEAMWORK.
YOU ALL ALSO SAID, IF WE'RE REALLY AMBITIOUS, WHERE CAN WE GET TO? AND YOU CAN SEE THE TARGETS WERE SET AT 15 FOR THE FIRST TWO, 10, 4, 15, 00, 4, 1, 9, WITH A TOTAL POINT OF 73, KNOWING THAT THERE'S A TOTAL POSSIBLE OF 100.
AND SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT BACK OVER TO THE BOARD SO YOU CAN GAUGE IN THE EVALUATION FOR TONIGHT AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT CONTENT.
IN YOUR PACKET, YOU SHOULD HAVE THE RUBRIC.
AND THEN ALSO IN YOUR PACKET, IF NECESSARY, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S IN YOUR PACKET, BUT I'VE GOT SOME ADDITIONAL TARGETS.
THESE DON'T NEED TO BE INTRODUCED TODAY.
JUST IN CASE THEY COME UP, I WANT TO HAVE THEM READY.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO THE BOARD.
AND I AM GOING TO ASK FOR GRACE.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'LL BE RUNNING THIS EVALUATION.
AND SO TO START OFF, THE PURPOSE OF THE SELF-EVALUATION IS TO HELP THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REFLECT ON HOW WELL IT IS IMPLEMENTING THE LONE STAR GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK AND TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS THAT WILL STRENGTHEN THE BOARD'S FOCUS ON IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES.
THIS PROCESS IS NOT ABOUT BLAME OR CRITICISM.
IT IS ABOUT LEARNING ALIGNMENT AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.
SO TONIGHT, WE WILL CONDUCT OUR BOARD SELF-EVALUATION AS PART OF OUR LONE STAR GOVERNANCE IMPLEMENTATION.
THE GOAL OF THIS CONVERSATION IS SIMPLE, TO REFLECT HONESTLY AND HOW WELL WE ARE IMPLEMENTING THE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES THAT HELP BOARDS IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT JUDGING INDIVIDUALS.
THIS IS ABOUT ASSESSING OUR COLLECTIVE WORK AS A BOARD.
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WE WILL FOCUS ON KEY LSD BEHAVIORS, SUCH AS MAINTAINING FOCUS ON STUDENT OUTCOMES, USING DATA TO MONITOR PROGRESS, STAYING ALIGNED TO OUR GOALS AND GUARDRAILS, RESPECTING GOVERNANCE ROLES, WORKING AS ONE TEAM WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT.OUR GOAL IS TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND WHAT PROGRESS WE WANT TO MAKE BY THE NEXT QUARTER.
SO NORMS FOR THE CONVERSATION.
TO ENSURE THIS CONVERSATION IS PRODUCTIVE, LET'S KEEP A FEW NORMS IN MIND.
FOCUS ON BOARD BEHAVIOR, NOT INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEES.
SPEAK FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE.
FOCUS ON CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, NOT PERFECTION.
KEEP OUR ATTENTION ON STUDENT OUTCOMES.
IS EVERYONE COMFORTABLE PROCEEDING WITH THESE NORMS? OKAY.
SO WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE LSD INTEGRITY INSTRUMENT.
IT'S ON PAGE 22, BUT WE HAVE IT IN FRONT OF US.
SO FOR EACH SECTION WE WILL BEGIN WITH THE DOES NOT MEET FOCUS COLUMN.
THE PROCESS WORKS LIKE A LADDER.
WE START WITH THE DOES NOT MEET FOCUS COLUMN.
IF THE BOARD AGREES THAT ANY ITEM IN THAT COLUMN IS TRUE, WE STOP IMMEDIATELY.
THE BOARD ACCEPTS THE SCORE FROM THE PREVIOUS COLUMN.
IF NONE OF THE ITEMS APPLY, WE MOVE TO THE NEXT COLUMN.
WE CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS THE COLUMNS UNTIL WE REACH THE POINT WHERE AN ITEM IS NOT MET.
THAT DETERMINES OUR CURRENT SCORE FOR CATEGORY.
SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
WE'LL START WITH VISIONS AND GOALS.
SO IF WE LOOK AT THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS.
DO YOU NEED ONE? NO, SHE DIDN'T REALIZE WE WERE DOING IT.
MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I CAN JUST ASK ONE THING.
YES, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE FRANCO.
I BELIEVE THIS IS ALSO IN THE AGENDA.
MAYBE WE CAN HAVE IT UP ON THE SCREEN SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN FOLLOW ALONG.
I FIGURED IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR FOLKS TO FOLLOW ALONG.
SO THE FIRST COLUMN IS TO NOT MEET...
MEET FOCUS. THE BOARD DOES NOT MEET FOCUS IF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE. THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE A VISION, THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE GOALS, THE BOARD DOES NOT CONSISTENTLY DISTINGUISH BETWEEN INPUT, OUTPUTS, AND OUTCOMES. WHEN I DID MINE, I KNOW WE HAVE ALL THOSE THREE. DOES EVERYBODY AGREE? OKAY, SO WE'LL GO ON TO THE NEXT COLUMN. IT'S PREPARING TO FOCUS. THE BOARD IS PREPARING TO FOCUS IF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED A VISION STATEMENT, AND WE HAVE, RIGHT? READY? OWNED THE VISION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WHILE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT.
WE DID HAVE A WORKSHOP ON THAT.
ADOPTED THREE TO FIVE GOALS AND OWNED THE GOAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WHILE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT.
AND I KNOW WE CHOSE TO STAY WITH THE CURRENT VISION AS IT WAS DISCUSSED IN THE WORKSHOP.
WE CAN CHECK ALL THOSE OFF ON THAT COLUMN.
GOING ON TO APPROACHES FOCUS, THE BOARD APPROACHES FOCUS OF ALL PRIOR CONDITIONS AND THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE.
ALL GOALS ARE SPECIFIC, QUANTIFIABLE STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS THAT INCLUDE A POPULATION, A FIVE-YEAR DEADLINE OF A MONTH AND YEAR, A BASELINE OF A MONTH AND A YEAR, ANNUAL TARGETS, AND ANNUAL STUDENT GROUP TARGETS.
DO WE AGREE? DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT? DOES ANYBODY FEEL THAT WE HAVE NOT MET THOSE? WE'RE GOOD? ALL RIGHT.
MOVING ON TO THE NEXT COLUMN, MEETS FOCUS.
THE BOARD MEETS FOCUS OF ALL PRIOR CONDITIONS, AND THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE.
ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AGREE THAT THE STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS WILL CHALLENGE THE ORGANIZATION.
REQUIRE ADULT BEHAVIOR CHANGE, ARE INFLUENCEABLE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, AND ARE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S FIRST PRIORITY FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION.
THE BOARD RELIED ON A ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS COMPREHENSIVE STUDENT NEEDS ASSESSMENT OR A SIMILAR RESEARCH-BASED TOOL TO INFORM THE IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF ALL STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS.
I CHECKED BOTH OF THOSE OFF BECAUSE WE DID DO A DATA WALK IN ONE OF OUR WORKSHOPS.
SO TO ME, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANOTHER OPINION OR THINKS THAT WE DID NOT MEET THOSE? WE'RE GOOD? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.
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I DON'T THINK WE'RE QUITE THERE YET, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GO OVER THEM.ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT HAVE COMMITTED THE VISION AND STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS TO MEMORY.
I KNOW THEY'RE THERE, BUT I HAVEN'T.
KNOW THE CURRENT STATUS OF EACH STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL AND AGREE THERE IS A BROAD COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP OF THE BOARD'S VISION AND STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS THROUGH INVOLVEMENT.
STUDENT STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SO I THINK WE WERE NOT QUITE AT THE MASTER'S FOCUS I DO FEEL THAT BY THE NEXT SELF-EVALUATION AND THE NEXT QUARTER.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MASTER THIS, ESPECIALLY IF WE GET BEHIND ON AND DO OUR TWO-WAY COMMUNITY SESSION COMMUNICATIONS AND LISTENING SESSIONS. THAT SHOULD COVER THIS SO I WOULD SAY WE HAVE A 12 ON THAT DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? WE'RE GOOD? ALL RIGHT.
SO ARE WE CLEAR? ARE WE OKAY ON WE KNOW WHAT WE'VE GOT TO DO TO MOVE FORWARD? THANK YOU.
THE NEXT ONE UP IS VISION AND GOALS.
THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED GOAL PROGRESS MEASURES ALIGNED TO EACH STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL.
WE HAVE THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE GOAL PROGRESS MEASURES.
THE BOARD IS TREATING THE ANNUAL TARGETS FOR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS AS IF THEY ARE GPMS. AND WE DO HAVE THAT.
WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT COLUMN, PREPARING TO FOCUS.
THE BOARD IS PREPARING TO FOCUS IF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE.
THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED GPMS FOR EACH STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL.
THE SUPERINTENDENT OWNED THE GPM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WHILE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE BOARD.
AND THE STATUS OF EACH ADOPTED GPM IS ABLE TO BE UPDATED MULTIPLE TIMES DURING EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
SO WE FULFILLED THAT FIRST COLUMN.
SO THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO APPROACHES FOCUS.
THE BOARD APPROACHES FOCUS IF ALL PRIOR CONDITIONS IN THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE.
THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED NO MORE THAN THREE GPMS FOR EACH STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL.
ALL GPMS ARE STUDENT OUTPUTS, NOT ADULT INPUTS OR OUTPUTS THAT INCLUDE A POPULATION, A FIVE-YEAR DEADLINE OF A MONTH AND YEAR, A BASELINE OF A MONTH AND A YEAR, ANNUAL TARGETS, AND ANNUAL STUDENT GROUP TARGETS.
I PERSONALLY CHECKED BOTH OF THOSE OFF.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING DIFFERENT? DO YOU ALL AGREE? ARE WE GOOD? ALL RIGHT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO MEETS FOCUS.
THE BOARD MEETS FOCUS OF ALL PRIOR CONDITIONS AND THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE.
ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AGREE THAT THE GPMS WILL CHALLENGE THE ORGANIZATION, REQUIRE ADULT BEHAVIOR CHANGE, ARE INFLUENCEABLE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, AND ARE ALL PREDICTIVE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS.
DO I HAVE ANYBODY THAT HAS A DIFFERENT OPINION ON THAT? I DO HAVE A QUESTION.
JUST GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL, COULD YOU JUST REFRESH MY MEMORY? AND WE'VE SEEN IT, BUT JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S PURPOSES OF OUR ANNUAL STUDENT TARGET GROUPS, JUST WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
THOSE ARE USUALLY WHEN YOU PRESENT RIGHT AND WE HAVE THE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS.
THE BOARD MEETING POPULATIONS BEING THE SUBGROUPS WITHIN EACH OF OUR SUBGROUPS, SUCH AS HISPANIC, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE.
THANK YOU AND TO MASTERS FOCUS.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE QUITE THERE YET.
IT SAYS ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AGREE THERE'S A BROAD COMMUNITY OF THE GPS OR INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS SO WE HAVEN'T REALLY STARTED OUR TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION OR LISTENING SESSIONS, BUT I THINK THAT BY THE NEXT QUARTER, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MASTER THIS. DOES EVERYBODY AGREE WITH THAT? THAT'S WHAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING TO MOVE FORWARD. ANY COMMENTS, DISCUSSION ON THAT? ALL RIGHT, SO THAT'S A 12.
THE NEXT PAGE IS TEXAS FRAMEWORK, PROVISIONING GOALS. THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED CONSTRAINTS, DOES NOT BE FOCUSED. THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE CONSTRAINTS, AND WE DO. PREPARING TO FOCUS, THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED ONE TO FIVE SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINTS AND OWNED THE CONSTRAINTS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WHILE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT, AND WE HAVE DONE THAT.
APPROACHES FOCUS. EACH SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT DESCRIBES A SINGLE OPERATIONAL
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ACTION OR CLASS OF ACTIONS THAT SUPERINTENDENTS MAY NOT USE. AND WE DO HAVE THAT. I FEEL ANYBODY THINK ANY DIFFERENTLY? MEETS FOCUS. THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED ONE TO FIVE BOARD SELF CONSTRAINTS, AND WE'VE ADOPTED THOSE. THE BOARD, WHERE APPROPRIATE, RELIED ON A ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS, COMPREHENSIVE STUDENT NEEDS ASSESSMENT, OR TOOL TO INFORM THE IDENTIFICATION OF AND PRIORITIZATION OF SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINTS. I THOUGHT WE DID DISCUSS THAT EXTENSIVELY AT WORKSHOP. ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AGREED THAT THE CONSTRAINTS WILL CHALLENGE THE ORGANIZATION TO FOCUS ON THE VISION AND HOLD COMMUNITY VALUES, AND I DID CHECK THAT OFF. DOES ANYBODY FEEL DIFFERENTLY? WE'RE GOOD. NO, BUT IF ICAN JUSTTHE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE FRANCO.JUST ONE FOR THE PUBLIC, FOR THE PUBLIC, FOR THEM TO KNOW THAT THIS MEETS FOCUS, WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO DO THIS AND MASTER THIS IS BECAUSE WE HAD THE LISTENING SESSIONS WHERE EVERYBODY GAVE, WHERE THE PUBLIC CAME AND GAVE THEIR INPUT.
AND WE BASED OUR BOARD CONSTRAINTS AND SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINTS ON THE PUBLIC'S INPUT.
AND THE MASTER'S FOCUS, WE'RE NOT THERE YET, BUT APRIL 24TH, WE'RE HAVING OUR THEORY OF ACTION WORKSHOP.
I FEEL THAT, SO THAT ONE, THIS IS THE BOARD IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS ADOPTED ONE OR MORE THEORY OF ACTIONS TO DRIVE OVERALL STRATEGIC DIRECTION.
AND WE'LL BE HAVING THAT WORKSHOP APRIL 28TH, 28TH, NOT THE 24TH.
ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AGREE THERE IS BROAD COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP OF THE CONSTRAINTS THROUGH INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENT, STAFF, AND MEMBERS.
HOPEFULLY, SESSIONS OR COMMUNICATIONS GET SOME UNDER OUR BELTS BEFORE THEN, BEFORE THE NEXT QUARTER, AND I THINK WITH THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MASTER THAT IN THE NEXT QUARTER. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE SIERRA. I DO AGREE THAT WE GOT THAT MEETS FOCUS. I THINK THE SECOND PIECE UNDER THAT, THAT TALKS ABOUT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS, COMPREHENSIVE STUDENT NEEDS ASSESSMENTS, SIMILAR RESEARCH-BASED TOOLS, I THINK WE COULD GO DEEPER THERE WHEN WE REVISIT THE GUARDRAILS OVER THE SUMMER. I THINK WE REALLY RELIED ON COMMUNITY INPUT AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAD SEEN AS A BOARD, BUT GOING DEEPER ON THAT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS AND GETTING SOME MORE DATA.
SO, SECRETARY WEGNER, WE GOT A NINE THERE.
THEN WE GO ON TO VISION AND GOALS FOUR.
THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT, PROGRESS MEASURES, CPMS. AND ON THIS ONE, THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT PROGRESS MEASURES, CPMS. I STOPPED THERE BECAUSE WE WERE NOT QUITE THERE YET.
I KNOW YOU ALL ARE WORKING ON THEM, AND I THINK WITHIN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, WELL, WE SHOULD HAVE THEM PRETTY SOON, CORRECT? YOU HAVE THE DRAFT ALREADY.
SO WITH THIS ONE, WE'RE GOING TO STAY AT ZERO.
TO MOVE FORWARD, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED CPMS FOR EACH SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT.
THE SUPERINTENDENT OWNED THE CPM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WHILE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE BOARD.
THE STATUS OF EACH ADOPTED CPM IS ABLE TO BE UPDATED MULTIPLE TIMES DURING EACH YEAR.
SO ONCE WE HAVE THOSE CPMS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO MOVE ON FORWARD.
AND I THINK THE BOARD HAS MOVED TO APPROACHES.
I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY GET THERE FOR THE NEXT QUARTER.
I ACTUALLY THINK THAT BY THE NEXT QUARTER, WHICH IS IN THREE MONTHS, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MASTER IT.
ONCE HAVING THOSE CPMS, WE CAN GO PRETTY QUICK.
DOES EVERYBODY AGREE? THINK THAT'S DOABLE? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE SIERRA.
DO WE HAVE A TIMELINE FOR WHEN WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THOSE? YEAH, I THINK YOU WERE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROCESS, SO I WAS CURIOUS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY.
THE REASON THEY'RE STILL IN DRAFT IS AS WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE SYSTEMS, THE SYSTEMS ARE, ONE, EITHER NOT FULLY FLESHED OUT OR NOT FULLY DEVELOPED, OR WE DON'T HAVE A BASELINE.
SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO AS AN ADMINISTRATION TEAM IS REALLY DECIDE, ARE THESE CONSTRAINTS? THE MOST APPROPRIATE BECAUSE WE NEED BASELINE DATA.
AND IF WE DON'T HAVE THE BASELINE DATA, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT IN MOST OF THIS IS SURVEY DATA.
THE SURVEY WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, RIGHT? IT'LL HAPPEN BEFORE SCHOOL IS OUT.
SO ONCE WE'VE GOT THAT SURVEY DATA, WE'RE ABLE TO APPROPRIATELY SET TARGETS.
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WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO, AND YOU'LL NOTICE THERE'S SOME, AND SOME I HAVE XS AND SOME I PUT A PERCENTAGE JUST BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW FOR EACH OF THOSE DIFFERENT AREAS.BUT WHAT I DON'T WANT TO DO IS CREATE ANY FALSE SENSE OF HOPE, EITHER GOOD OR BAD.
I REALLY WANT TO COME TO US TO SAY, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS TRUE BASED ON THE DATA THAT IS GATHERED FROM X, Y, OR Z, RIGHT? WE KNOW THAT A LOT OF THIS IS SCHOOL CLIMATE DATA.
AND SO THAT SCHOOL CLIMATE DATA THAT GOES OUT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE SET IT OUT FOR...
APRIL. YEP, SO APRIL IS OUR TIMELINE THAT GOES OUT. THEN WE USE THAT DATA TO SET THAT BASELINE DATA.
NICE TO FOLLOW. GO AHEAD, TRUSTEE SIERRA. APPRECIATE HAVING THESE TO LOOK AT, AND I UNDERSTAND WE'RE NOT GOING TO SET THAT. DO YOU WANT FEEDBACK FROM US ON THIS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, OR DO YOU WANT US TO HOLD THIS AND WHAT CONVERSATION LATER? WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US? I THINK WHEN WE DO THE THEORY OF ACTION, I'M GOING TO ASK THE LSG COACH TO BRING THIS UP BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE WOULD ALL SEE THEM TOGETHER SO THAT WE CAN WORKSHOP THEM.
NEXT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY, THE BOARD INVESTS AT LEAST HALF OF ITS TIME TO IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES.
SO THE FIRST COLUMN IS THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS, GPM, SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINTS, SUPERINTENDENT CPMS, OR ANNUAL TARGET.
THE BOARD DOES NOT TRACK ITS USE OF TIME IN BOARD-AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS.
THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE A MONITORING CALENDAR.
AND SO I STOPPED HERE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE CPMS YET, BUT I THINK BY THE NEXT QUARTER WE SHOULD HAVE THAT AND BE ABLE TO MOVE ON.
AND I THINK WE WILL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO AT LEAST GO OVER TO HOPEFULLY ONCE WE HAVE THE CPMS, IF WE GO ON TO THE NEXT COLUMNS AND THEN APPROACHES IS 10% OR MORE OF THE 20 MINUTES AND BOARD AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS WERE INVESTED IN IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES ACCORDING TO THE TIME USE TRACKER.
AND I THINK WE'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD.
WE'RE DOING BETTER THAN 10%, RIGHT? MELINDA, WE'VE GOT, I THINK THIS LAST MONTH WE DID REALLY WELL.
YOU WANT TO SPEAK A LITTLE ON THAT? YEAH, ACTUALLY, I DO HAVE THAT INFORMATION HERE.
SO WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE, PROGRESS, FROM 2025 TO 2026.
AND I'LL JUST BRIEFLY GO OVER THAT.
SO STARTING JANUARY OF 2025, WE HAD 0%.
ZERO MINUTES TOWARDS STUDENT OUTCOME FOCUS MINUTES IN THAT BOARD MEETING.
FEBRUARY, WE HAD 23%, A TOTAL OF 42 MINUTES, WHICH WAS THE TAPER REPORT.
MARCH, WE WERE AT ZERO PERCENT.
WE HAD 300 MINUTES, AND THOSE WERE THE GOALS, SETTING THOSE GOALS AND ADOPTING THEM.
60 MINUTES WERE THE LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WE HELD.
AND THEN OCTOBER, WE WERE AT 34%.
44 MINUTES WERE FOR THE VISION AND GOALS, THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD ON THOSE.
247 MINUTES WERE THE LISTENING SESSIONS.
AND THEN DECEMBER, WE WERE AT 42%.
73 MINUTES WERE THE GPMS AND LISTENING SESSION RESULTS.
AND THEN FOR THIS YEAR OF 2026, JANUARY, IT WAS 20%.
29 MINUTES WERE SPENT ON GPMS. AND THEN LAST MONTH IN FEBRUARY, WE WERE AT 47%, 116 MINUTES DISCUSSING GPMS. WE HAVE DEFINITELY COME A LONG WAY.
I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE PUT IN PLACE TO BE MORE STUDENT OUTCOME FOCUSED IN OUR BOARD MEETINGS MONTHLY.
THANK YOU, VICE PRESIDENT CISNEROS.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES SECRETARY WEGNER.
TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF THAT, I WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO FELLOW TRUSTEES BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN JUST A YEAR.
WE ARE PUTTING IN THE WORK STILL AND AGAIN.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO OUR DISTRICT, OUR STAFF AND OUR.
AND I DO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING THAT WHAT WE'RE WORKING WITH L.S.G.
IS TOWARDS EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE, WHICH IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE WORKING TOWARDS TO IMPROVE AND BECOME BETTER.
LSG IS JUST THE FRAMEWORK THAT
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WE'RE USING TO GET THERE.SO WE DID, WHICH ONE ARE WE ON NOW? I FORGOT TO FLIP IT OVER.
SO THE NEXT ONE IS PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
TWO, THE BOARD EVALUATES BUT DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH PROGRESS TOWARD IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES.
AND DOES NOT MEET FOCUS ON THAT COLUMN.
YOU HAVE ANY INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBER DOES US KNOW IF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS IN LOW-PERFORMING STATUS AND FOR HOW LONG.
AND WE DO BECAUSE OUR ADMIN DOES A VERY GOOD JOB OF KEEPING US UPDATED ON THAT.
ANY INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBER DOES NOT KNOW IF ANY CAMPUS IS IN LOW-PERFORMING STATUS AND FOR HOW LONG.
ANY INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBER AGREES THAT THEIR FIRST LOYALTY IS TO STAFF OR VENDORS RATHER THAN THE VISION, COMMUNITY VALUES, AND IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES.
THE BOARD HAS NOT VOTED TO APPROVE A SELF-EVALUATION WITHIN THE PAST 12 MONTHS.
WE DID THE FIRST ONE, AND WE APPROVED THAT ONE, SO WE HAVE DONE THAT.
AND WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT COLUMN, WHICH IS PREPARING TO FOCUS.
THE BOARD HAS PERFORMED A SELF-EVALUATION WITH THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS USING RESEARCH-ALIGNED INSTRUMENTS, AND WE DID.
PERFORMED A SUPERINTENDENT ANNUAL EVALUATION NO MORE THAN 15 MONTHS AGO.
BEEN PROVIDED COPIES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S IMPLEMENTATIONS.
PLANS THAT INCLUDE CAMPUS GOALS TO MAKE PROGRESS TOWARDS THE STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS, AND WE DO THAT RIGHT WHEN WE HAVE.
THOSE ARE THE, THOSE ARE THE, YOU GET THEM BASED OFF OF EACH GOAL WHEN DR.
BAILEY SHARES HERE'S WHAT'S WORKING HERE'S WHAT'S NOT WORKING.
AND THEN NOW, I THINK IT ALSO, I THINK I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IT IS ALSO PART OF OUR DISTRICT IMPROVING PLANS THAT ARE CAMPUSES.
NOT VOTED TO APPROVE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, SO THAT'S REQUIRED BY LAW, BUT WE'VE DONE THAT.
SO, NO, ACTUALLY, IS APRIL 1ST GOING TO BE THE FIRST TIME, WE DO THAT? TONIGHT, WE HAVE DR.
BAILEY'S PRESENTATION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ACTION.
SO IF YOU WANT TO GIVE YOURSELF CREDIT AHEAD OF TIME, IF IT STILL HASN'T HAPPENED TECHNICALLY, IT'S A POINT.
NEXT QUARTER, WE'RE GOING TO GET THERE.
I THINK, YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK THAT BY THE NEXT QUARTER, TO ME, I THINK, DOES EVERYBODY AGREE, I THINK WE CAN GET TO MEETS FOCUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE DO THE, WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON THE STAFF USER TRACKER AND STUFF, RIGHT? SO WE'RE DOING THE SELF-EVALUATION TONIGHT.
SO I THINK WE CAN GET TO MEETS FOCUS.
I'M GOING TO SHOOT FOR MASTERS, BUT OKAY.
WAIT, JUST A CLARIFICATION QUESTION.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S POSSIBLE.
JUST FROM A CALENDAR PERSPECTIVE, IT SAID, BECAUSE ON APPROACHES FOCUS, IT SAYS THE BOARD PERFORMED A SELF-EVALUATION NO MORE THAN 45 DAYS PRIOR TO THE MOST RECENT SUPERINTENDENTS EVALUATION, BUT WE DON'T EVALUATE THEM UNTIL LIKE AUGUST OR.
I'M JUST SAYING CALENDAR WISE, I DON'T THINK WE CAN GET THERE.
I THINK THIS ONE WE DO, WELL, ACTUALLY IT'S GOING TO BE A ZERO BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THIS ONE YET.
SO NEXT UP WE HAVE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES.
THE BOARD OPERATES IN A WAY THAT ALLOWS US TO.
SEND IT TO ACCOMPLISH THE VISION.
SO THE FIRST COLUMN, THE BOARD HAS NOT RECEIVED A MONITORING REPORT.
THERE WERE SIX OR MORE BOARD-AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS, SO WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT.
ANY MEETING OF THE BOARD LASTED LONGER THAN EIGHT HOURS.
NO BOARD MEMBERS DID NOT RECEIVE THE FINAL VERSIONS OF MATERIALS TO BE VOTED ON AT LEAST THREE CALENDAR DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE BOARD-AUTHORIZED MEETING.
I THINK WE HAVE THAT, BUT PREPARING TO FOCUS, WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE...
THE BOARD RECEIVES AND VOTES TO ACCEPT MONITORING REPORTS THAT INCLUDE THE STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL AND GPM OR CONSTRAINTS CPM BEING MONITORED THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL AND GPM OR CONSTRAINT AND CPM COMPARED TO PREVIOUS ANNUAL AND DEADLINE TARGETS THE SUPER INTENDED INTERPRETATION OF PERFORMANCE AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION THAT DESCRIBES ANY NEEDED NEXT STEPS AND WE BY APRIL 7TH, WE SHOULD HAVE THE CPMS RIGHT, SO WE CAN'T REALLY MOVE FORWARD ON THAT COLUMN YET.
SO THAT ONE, I THINK WE HAVE TO STAY IN ZERO.
DO YOU ALL AGREE WITH THAT? RIGHT.
JUST TO BE CLEAR, BY APRIL 7TH,
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YOU WILL HAVE THE GPM MONITORING, PROGRESS MONITORING REPORT IN ACTION.WE WON'T HAVE THE CPMS BY APRIL 7TH.
THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.
SO WE KNOW WHAT WE'VE GOT TO DO TO MOVE FORWARD.
YES, TRUSTEE SIERRA? THE WAY I READ THIS, IT SAYS WE HAVE TO VOTE TO ACCEPT THE MONITORING REPORTS, WHICH HAS NOT BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING.
SO THAT'S WHERE I THINK THE GAP IS BECAUSE IT SAYS IT COULD BE THE GPMS OR THE CPMS, BUT WE HAVE TO VOTE TO ACCEPT.
IS THAT SOMETHING WE'LL START DOING? IN APRIL.
IF WE WOULD HAVE FLIPPED IT, WE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE POINT.
OKAY, AND THEN WE'RE ALMOST DONE, GUYS.
NEXT ONE IS ADVOCACY AND ENGAGEMENT.
THE BOARD PROMOTES THE VISION.
THE BOARD HAS NOT PUBLICLY COMMUNICATED THE BOARD ADOPTED STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS.
THE BOARD HAS NOT ARRANGED FOR ANY COMMITTEE ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES DURING THE PREVIOUS 12-MONTH PERIOD BEYOND PUBLIC COMMENTS DURING BOARD-AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS AND REQUIRED HEARINGS.
AND WE HAD OUR LISTENING SESSIONS AND ALL THAT, SO WE'RE GOOD THERE.
THE BOARD HAS A TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE THE BOARD MEMBERS AT LEAST ONCE PER YEAR LISTEN FOR AND DISCUSS THE VISION VALUES OF STUDENTS AND LISTEN FOR AND DISCUSS THE VISION AND VALUES OF THE STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
AND WE DID THAT WHEN WE SET THE GUARDRAILS AND HAD OUR LISTENING SESSIONS.
PROVIDED TIME DURING REGULAR SCHEDULED BOARD AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS TO RECOGNIZE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF ITS STUDENTS AND STAFF REGARDING PROGRESS ON STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS. AND WE DO HAVE THAT. WHAT'S STOPPING US IS THAT WE HAVEN'T HOSTED A COMMUNITY MEETING TO DISCUSS PROGRESS FOR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS. SO, THIS IS WHERE THE LSG COMMITTEE IS GOING TO WORK ON SCHEDULING SOMETHING, LIKE THAT SO THAT WE CAN SHARE WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS.
SO IT SAYS THE BOARD HAS A TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND YOU SAID WE'VE DONE THAT ALREADY, SO WHY ARE WE SPENDING TIME CREATING ANOTHER TWO-WAY SYSTEM? IT'S NOT CREATING.
I SAID WHAT WE DID, WE'VE BEEN, WE HAD SOME TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION, RIGHT? WE ADOPTED THAT.
IT'S ONE OF OUR GUARDRAILS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THESE COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS AND LISTENING SESSIONS AND GET INPUT FROM STAFF AND THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITYSTUDENTS, STAFF, AND PARENTS, RIGHT? SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. WE HAVE TO CONTINUE HAVING THOSE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO HAVE THOSE MEETINGS, LIKE THE TOWN HALLS, WHERE WE ACTUALLY DISCUSS THE OUTCOME GOALS AND WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE REPORT BACK TO THEM, SO IT'S TWO SEPARATE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION ITEMS. NO, I THINK, MATT, IF I MAY.
YEAH, NO, I THINK JUST FOR CLARIFICATION. ONE IS THE FACT THAT WHEN WE ADOPTED OUR GUARDRAILS, WE SAID THAT WE WERE COMMITTED TO TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC. WHAT WE WERE PRESENTED EARLIER TODAY BY TRUSTEE SIERRA IS OUR PLAN FOR CARRYING THAT OUT. SO THEY'RE THE SAME THING.
THEY GO HAND IN HAND IN OTHER WAYS.
JUST SOME MORE CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
SO WE'VE ALREADY ADOPTED THE GUARDRAIL THAT WE ARE GOING TO A COMMUNITY.
THAT'S WHAT JASON TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, THE PLAN THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO THE BOARD.
SO ON THE 7TH OF THE NEXT BOARD MEETING.
AFTER YOU REVIEWED THAT RECOMMENDATION, THEN THAT'S WHEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND PUT THAT ACTION, THAT PLAN IN PLACE.
SO WE HAVE TO HAVE THE PLAN AND WE HAVE TO EXECUTE IT.
OKAY, BUT WHAT ARE WE SAYING THAT WE MET THIS FIRST ONE? WE'RE SAYING THAT WE MET THIS FIRST ONE.
THE BOARD HAS A TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE THE BOARD MEMBERS AT LEAST ONCE PER YEAR.
I KNOW WE HAD A TOWN HALL AND WE DID THAT TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION, BUT THAT'S NOT A SYSTEM.
SO THE SYSTEM IS A TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION, RIGHT? SO WE HAD THAT EVENT.
IT SAYS WHERE THE BOARD MEMBERS, AT LEAST ONCE PER YEAR, LISTEN FOR AND DISCUSS THE VISION AND VALUES OF THE...
AND LISTEN FOR AND DISCUSS THE VISION AND VALUES OF THEIR STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
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RIGHT? SO THEN TO MOVE FORWARD, WE PROVIDED TIME DURING REGULAR SCHEDULE FOR AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS TO RECOGNIZE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF STUDENTS AND STAFF REGARDING PROGRESS AND OUTCOME GOALS.AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO WHEN WE RECOGNIZE STAFF AND WE RECOGNIZE OUR STUDENTS.
WHAT WE HAVEN'T DONE SINCE THOSE TOWN HALLS IS HOSTED.
ANOTHER TOWN HALL COMMUNITY MEETING TO UPDATE THEM ON WHAT WE'VE DONE AND WHAT OUR PROGRESS IS ON THOSE STUDENT OUTCOMES OKAY, SORRY, I APOLOGIZE.
I THINK I'M JUST GETTING CONFUSED THE WORD YEAH IN THERE.
I THINK THE SYSTEM IS JUST YEAH OKAY, THANK YOU.
I AGREE. TRUSTEE SIERRA. I KNOW YOU LET THAT GO, BUT I AGREE THAT WE HAVE NOT SYSTEMATIZED AND I AGREE THAT WE PROBABLY ARE.
WE DID ONE, AND THAT'S A PRETTY LOW BAR TO DO IT ONCE A YEAR, I THINK.
AND WE WANT A SYSTEM THAT WILL ALLOW US TO DO THAT IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY.
SO I WOULD PERSONALLY BE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH A ZERO HERE THAN A ONE.
I THINK IF THERE'S ANY DOUBT THAT WE'RE DOING THIS, LET'S GO BACK.
BECAUSE THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT TO HAVE A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN PLACE, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR PUBLIC AND LISTENING SESSIONS.
SO IF ANYBODY FEELS WE'RE NOT THERE YET, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE ON BOARD.
LET'S GET 100% ON BOARD WITH IT.
THANK YOU, TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY, FOR POINTING THAT OUT.
SO WE'LL GO WITH A ZERO ON THAT ONE.
AND OUR LAST ONE IS SYNERGY AND TEAMWORK.
THE BOARD WORKS COLLABORATIVELY AND WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT TO LEAD TOWARD THE VISION.
THE BOARD HAS NOT ADOPTED BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE A POLICY THAT CONTAINS A TEMPLATE OF ETHICS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST STATEMENT.
WE DO HAVE THAT BECAUSE WE SIGN IT EVERY YEAR.
THE BOARD HAS NOT ACHIEVED A QUORUM IN TWO OR MORE BOARD AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS DURING THE PREVIOUS THREE MONTHS.
BOARD MEMBERS SERVE ON COMMITTEES FORMED BY SUPERINTENDENT STAFF UNLESS SERVING REQUIRED BY LAW.
WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE ALL SERVE ON DIFFERENT BOARD COMMITTEES.
A BOARD MEMBER VOTED ON AN ITEM FOR WHICH THEY HAD A CONFLICT OF INTEREST AS DEFINED BY THE LAW DURING THE PREVIOUS THREE MONTHS, AND I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY OF US DOING THAT.
SO IF WE MOVE OVER TO PREPARING TO FOCUS, THE BOARD IS PREPARING TO FOCUS IF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE.
THE BOARD OF FIRMS THAT AT LEAST EVERY TWO YEARS IT HAS REVIEWED ALL POLICIES GOVERNING BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
REVIEW POLICIES, RIGHT? WE DID WHEN WE DID THAT, RIGHT? SO I GUESS, AND THEN WE'LL BE HAVING A POLICY PRETTY SOON, SO WE'LL BE GOOD.
AFFIRMS THAT ALL MEMBERS HAVE SIGNED THE ETHICS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS.
AGREES THAT A COMMITTEE'S ROLE IS TO ADVISE THE BOARD, NOT TO ADVISE THE STAFF.
AGREES THAT A BOARD OFFICER'S ROLE IS TO ADVISE THE BOARD, NOT TO ADVISE STAFF AND MAINTAINED DECORUM THROUGHOUT ALL REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETINGS FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS. I DO FEEL THAT WE'VE MET ALL OF THOSE. DOES ANYBODY THINK DIFFERENTLY? NO COMMENTS. ARE WE GOOD? SO, IF WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. APPROACHES FOCUS. THE BOARD AGREES. THE BOARD AGREES THAT EVERY MEMBER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OUTCOMES OF ALL STUDENTS, NOT JUST STUDENTS IN THEIR SCHOOLS.
AND I THINK THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR.
WE ALL, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS, WE WORK FOR ALL THE STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT.
MAINTAINED AN AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF 70% OR HIGHER THROUGHOUT ALL REGULARLY SCHEDULED BOARD MEETINGS OVER THE PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS.
I MEAN, WE BARELY HAVE, LIKE, NOT TONIGHT, BUT YEAH.
BUT IT SAYS OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS.
HAS SET THE EXPECTATION THAT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO ONE BOARD MEMBER IS PROVIDED TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS.
DO WE AGREE ON THAT ONE? OKAY.
SO, THE NEXT COLUMN IS THE BOARD MAINTAINED AN AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF 80% OR HIGHER THROUGHOUT THE PAST BOARD MEETINGS OVER THE PREVIOUS THREE MONTHS.
AGREES THAT ALL MEMBERS HAVE ADHERED TO ALL POLICIES GOVERNING BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES, AGREES THAT EVERY MEMBER HAS COMPLETED ALL STATUTORILY REQUIRED TRAININGS, AND RATHER THE SUPERINTENDENT LED THE COMPLETION OF LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TASKS.
I DON'T THINK, I DON'T FEEL WE'RE QUITE THERE YET, BUT IF ANYBODY ELSE FEELS DIFFERENTLY, ANY COMMENTS?
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SO, BUT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE 80% ATTENDANCE IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS.WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? I'M JUST NOT SURE.
IT AGREES THAT ALL MEMBERS HAVE ADHERED TO ALL POLICIES GOVERNING BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
DID WE TICK US OFF ON THAT? I'M JUST GOING TO SAY, AGAIN, BECAUSE IT IS AN INTEGRITY DOCUMENT, IT'S VERY EASY TO GO BACK AND MATHEMATICALLY FIGURE OUT HOW MANY TRUSTEES WERE HERE FOR EACH MEETING AND SAY WHETHER OR NOT WE'VE MET THE 80% THRESHOLD.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET TO THE PERCENTAGE WE NEED.
I THINK WE SHOULD GO BACK AND ACTUALLY SET UP A SYSTEM TO SAY HOW MANY BOARD MEMBERS WERE HERE.
WHAT DOES THAT GET US TO? SO WHAT'S 80% OF NINE? I MEAN.
AND A LITTLE OVER SEVEN, LIKE THE SEVEN OF US, I FEEL LIKE SEVEN OF US ARE ALWAYS HERE.
I MEAN, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TONIGHT, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TONIGHT, REGULARLY, I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE HAD ONE BOARD MEETING WHERE THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SIX.
BUT REGULARLY, WHEN YOU DO THE AVERAGE, I THINK WE WOULD BE AT 80%.
I KNOW, BUT THE ENGINEER IN ME SAYS THERE'S A SPREADSHEET WE CAN PUT TOGETHER THAT SAYS WE CAN COUNT HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP.
WE WANT TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE.
ANYBODY ELSE AGREE WITH THAT? ARE YOU OKAY WITH MOVING FORWARD OR LEAVING IT AT THREE? SO, IS THIS A VOTE OR WHAT ARE WE DOING? BECAUSE I'M NOT OKAY MOVING FORWARD.
YEAH, SO I HAD A SET THREE ON THIS ONE ONLY BECAUSE I DIDN'T.
I FEEL LIKE WE DON'T MEET FOCUS BECAUSE OF THE LAST SECTION THERE, RATHER THAN THE SUPERINTENDENT LED THE COMPLETION OF LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TASKS, WE HAVE NOT COMPLETED OUR TASKS THAT ARE ON OUR TIMELINE. WE'RE ACTUALLY BEHIND, ESPECIALLY WITH THE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION.
SO I DID NOT CHECK THAT ONE OFF.
SO FOR ME, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE NOT AT NINE YET.
SO I SUPPORT TRUSTEE FRANCO'S STATEMENT ON BEING AT THREE.
AND TRUTH BE TOLD, I DID SPEND TRAINING FOR THIS TO DO THIS PRESENTATION FOR YOU GUYS.
I DID SIT WITH CINTO FOR CLOSE TO THREE TO FOUR HOURS, TWO SEPARATE TIMES, RIGHT, GOING OVER THIS AND GOING BACK AND FORTH AND STUFF.
AND I DID AT THIS ONE, WE DID LEAVE IT AT THREE.
AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, NEXT THREE MONTHS, WE'VE GOT A GOAL TO MEET.
SO THIS IS A COMPLETION OF LONE STAR GOVERNMENT TASK.
WE CREATE TASKS EVERY SINGLE TIME WE GO OVER THIS.
SO DO WE HAVE SPECIFIC TASKS? BECAUSE WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET DONE BECAUSE SOME OF THE TASKS ARE NOT GOING TO BE DONE UNTIL JUNE, JULY, AUGUST.
SO IS THAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING? OR ARE WE PUTTING A TIMELINE ON CERTAIN TASKS FOR WHEN WE HAVE COMPLETED ALL OF THE ITEMS UP UNTIL WHEN WE DO OUR SELF-EVALUATION? BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE CASE, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET DOWN TO THE END OF THIS PROGRAM.
BECAUSE WE HAVE A TIMELINE, RIGHT? THERE'S A TIMELINE.
SO IF WE HAVEN'T REALLY MET ALL THOSE TARGETS, I WOULDN'T GIVE US THAT.
OKAY, SO MY QUESTION IS GOING TO BE THEN, GOING FORWARD, WE HAVE A TIMELINE.
WE HAVE A TIME WHEN WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO SELF-EVALUATION.
DO WE MEET THESE TASKS BY THE TIME WE HAVE TO REVIEW THIS AGAIN? WELL, THAT IS UP TO US AND HOW COMMITTED WE ARE TO GET THERE TO THE NEXT COLUMN, TO WORK, LOOK AT THE TASKS, LOOK AT THE TIMELINE, AND SAY THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO GET DONE AND REALLY WORK HARD TO GET THERE.
THAT'S A COMMITMENT THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE.
IF WE WANT TO, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO AND WHAT ARE WE WILLING TO DO TO MOVE FORWARD? MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE CAN EXPLAIN THIS A LITTLE BIT.
SO WE DO HAVE A LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TIMELINE.
ON THAT TIMELINE HAS THE CALENDAR, THE 12-MONTH CALENDAR, AND EACH MONTH HAS TESTS THAT WE NEED TO COMPLETE.
SO FAR, WE'RE IN ALIGNMENT WITH EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION.
WHEN WE ADOPTED THE GUARDRAIL BACK IN NOVEMBER, WE ADOPTED IT WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT
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EVERY THREE MONTHS, EVERY QUARTER, WE WERE GOING TO GO OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND PROVIDE UPDATES ON OUR GOALS AND GPMS AND HAVE THAT LISTENING AND GET THOSE LISTENING INFORMATION.THAT'S WHY I SAID WE'RE BEHIND.
YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN LIKE FOUR.
WE'RE GOING ON THE FIFTH MONTH.
SO THAT'S THE TASK THAT WE'RE BEHIND ON, THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T SCORE US ON THAT.
BUT EVERYTHING ELSE SO FAR ON THAT TIMELINE WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED. SO OTHER THAN THAT THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT THAT WERE BEHIND THEM. GREAT.
WE ALSO HAVE A BUNCH OF THINGS.
WE'RE ADDING TO THE TIMELINE RIGHT WE HAVE THE BOARD OPS WE HAVE A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF, SO IF WE DON'T COMPLETE THOSE ITEMS THOSE ARE TASKS AS WELL, SO THEN WE THEN BASICALLY RESTART WE STILL WON'T MEET IT IF WE'RE BEHIND ON THOSE TESTS.
SO WE'LL MEET AGAIN IN THREE MONTHS, OUR NEXT QUARTER.
SO HOPEFULLY BY THEN IF WE STAY, IF WE STICK TO THAT TIMELINE, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET THE NINE, BUT THAT'S ONLY IF WE STICK TO THAT TIMELINE.
I KNOW WE HAVE A WORKSHOP SCHEDULED NEXT MONTH THAT'S GOING, THAT'S ONE OF THE TASKS WITH THEORY OF ACTION AND THEN AFTER THAT THE POLICY DIET AND THE BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES WILL FOLLOW, BUT THAT'S WHY IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO STICK TO THAT TIMELINE.
SO WHEN IT COMES QUARTERLY TO EVALUATE OURSELVES, WE'RE GETTING THE POINTS FOR IT.
SO THEN ARE WE GOING TO BE ADDING ANY MORE TASKS INTO THIS CURRENT TIMELINE? ARE WE SAYING THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING, THIS IS IT? OR ARE WE GOING TO THEN, AFTER THREE MONTHS, ADD MORE TASKS AND THEN WE DON'T MEET IT BECAUSE WE JUST ADDED BETWEEN NOW AND THREE MONTHS? MADAM PRESIDENT, I FEEL LIKE WE WILL NEVER BE DONE IF WE JUST KEEP ADDING TASKS.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE WHAT WE'RE DOING.
TRUSTEE FRANCO? AND JUST FOR CLARITY, YOU'RE CORRECT.
WE ARE ADDING TASKS TONIGHT BECAUSE ANYTHING THAT WE AREN'T ABLE TO GET TO A ONE, A TWO, A NINE, THOSE ARE THINGS WE HAVE TO DO.
SO LIKE NEXT MONTH'S MEETING WHEN WE DO ADOPT OUR CPMS FOR SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINTS, THAT'S A TASK THAT WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE TO ACCOMPLISH.
WE HAVE TO HAVE OUR BOARD CONSTRAINTS MEMORIZED.
EACH ONE OF THESE THINGS, WE'RE GOING TO ADD, YOU'RE CORRECT, WE ARE ADDING TASKS TO OUR LIST, BUT THAT'S THE GOAL IS TO GET TO AT LEAST NINE, RIGHT? HOPEFULLY 10 ONE OF THESE DAYS.
SO THE NEXT COLUMN TELLS YOU WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GET THERE, RIGHT? AND THAT'S WHAT YOU, IT'S TO KEEP MOVING THAT NEEDLE FORWARD.
YEAH, I JUST, FOR ME, I'VE JUST WORK.
FOR ME IN MY HEAD, I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT.
WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET PAST NINE BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO ALWAYS HAVE MORE TASKS ADDED.
UNLESS WE HAVE A TIMELINE THAT KIND OF COINCIDES WITH IT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CLARIFY WHAT TASKS ARE AND WHAT WE ACTUALLY NEED TO GO THROUGH.
AND WE CAN ALSO COVER ALL THAT IN THE THEORY OF ACTION.
WELL, ALSO, I THINK YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE BIGGER PICTURE, RIGHT? LIKE JUST OVERALL.
SO, NO, THE LSG FRAMEWORK IS A FRAMEWORK.
IT'S ALREADY LAID OUT ON WHAT'S REQUIRED.
NOW, THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE UNLESS OUR COACH HAPPENS TO CHANGE HIS FRAMEWORK TO IT, BUT I DON'T THINK SO.
SO LSG, IT ALREADY HAS ITS TASKS.
ADDING MORE TO THAT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO UNLESS THE PROGRAM CHANGES.
BUT THE SMALL TASK TO GET TO THAT.
TO COMPLETE THAT FRAMEWORK, YES.
JUST LIKE TRUSTEE FRANCO JUST MENTIONED, YES, WE'LL HAVE THOSE ADDITIONAL SMALL TASKS THAT ARE GOING TO GET US TO COMPLETE THE BIGGER TASKS.
I THINK MAYBE THE CONFUSION IS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT LIKE THE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION, THE LISTENING SESSIONS, AND ALL THOSE AS TASKS, RIGHT? I'M TRYING TO CLARIFY WHAT TASKS MEAN BECAUSE LONG-TERM TASKS WILL BE WELL, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET THAT IF WE JUST TAKE TASKS AND ADD THINGS TO IT.
SO I WOULDN'T GO FORWARD THEN BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
AND ONCE WE GET CLARIFICATION, THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO.
IS EVERYBODY IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT? YEAH, AND IF I CAN JUST ADD, I THINK, FOR THE YES, TRUSTEE FRANCO.
MAKE A NOTE FOR US IN THE LONE STAR GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TO PUT TOGETHER SORT OF A TASK LIST SO IT'S MORE CLEAR FOR ALL OF THE TRUSTEES.
THANK YOU, TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET THAT FOR YOU. ALL RIGHT.
SO WE'LL STAY AT A THREE ON THAT ONE.
AND I THINK FOR THE NEXT QUARTER, YES.
WILL SOMEONE CHECK THE ATTENDANCE SO THAT WE CAN CLEAR THAT ONE OFF, THE ATTENDANCE, THE 80%, JUST SO WE CAN DOUBLE CHECK THAT ONE? YEAH, BUT THE THING IS WE CAN'T GO FORWARD TO THE COLUMN UNTIL WE COMPLETE ALL OF THEM, RIGHT? SO I THINK FOR NEXT QUARTER TARGETS.
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SHOULD WE BE OPTIMISTIC OR SHOULD WE BE A LITTLE RESERVED AND JUST SAY WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE NEXT COLUMN? I RECOMMEND BEING REALISTIC.I THINK WE NEED TO BE REALISTIC AND HAVE EVERYONE REVIEW THE TIMELINE.
HE WAS ON THERE WHAT WE'RE APPROACH WHAT NEEDS TO BE WORKED ON.SO THAT WAY, THE COMMITTEE WILL WORK ON CREATING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO SET FORTH THESE TASKS THAT NEED TO TAKE PLACE TO TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS ON OUR QUARTERLY PROGRESS TRACKER THOUGH.
WE'VE GOT TO COME UP WITH WHAT OUR NEXT QUARTER TARGETS ARE.
SO, BEING A LITTLE CONSERVATIVE, WE CAN SAY WE'LL GO UP TO THE NEXT FOLLOWING COLUMN.
SO, IF WE HAD A 12, I THINK WE SHOULD SHOOT FOR MASTERING IN THE NEXT QUARTER. WOULD THAT WORK FOR EVERYBODY? I MEAN, I THINK IF WE DO BETTER, THAT'S GREAT, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS DO.
CAN YOU CLARIFY WHAT SECTION YOU ARE? THAT WE WANT TO, SO WE'VE GOT TO DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO FOR THE NEXT QUARTER.
NO, BUT WHAT SECTION IS IT? YOU KNOW, GO TO THE ENERGY AND TEAMWORK.
SO, LET'S START FROM THE BEGINNING. VISIONING GOAL, WE'RE A 12. I SAY WE SHOOT FOR MASTERS. 15 FOR VISION GOAL 2, WE'RE AT A 12.
DO WE WANT TO SHOOT FOR 15? I THINK THAT'S DOABLE BECAUSE ONCE WE START THE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION AND ALL THAT, WE'LL MASTER THAT ONE.
OKAY, NEXT ONE OVER WE HAVE, WHERE DID WE GET TO THAT ONE, DARLA? NINE.
SO WE'D GO FOR A TEN, RIGHT? WE'RE AT ZERO ON VISION GOALS FOUR.
YES, TRUSTEE SIERRA? I THINK WE SAID WE COULD GET TO THE FOUR.
BECAUSE THE FOUR HAS, I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN GET THAT QUALITY, BASICALLY A QUALITY METRIC IS WHAT WE SAID.
WE'RE MISSING THE CPMS. THEN WE HAVE IT BY THE END OF NEXT QUARTER.
YEAH, THEY'LL BE READY IN THE NEXT QUARTER.
OH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR THE NEXT QUARTER TO GET TO A FOUR? YES, I AGREE.
YES, THANK YOU FOR THAT, TRUSTEE SIERRA.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE, WE HAD, WHAT WAS THAT ONE? ACCOUNTABILITY ONE, WE HAD A ZERO, SO WE'RE HOPING TO GO TO A ONE.
I THINK WE SAID 12 BECAUSE WE CAN GET 25 PERCENT OR GREATER.
YEAH, LET'S DO 12 ON THIS ONE.
ON ACCOUNTABILITY 2. CAN I GET A REAL QUICK, CLARIFICATION QUESTION ON THAT ONE? ON WHAT 12 MEANS FOR PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY? IT SAYS 25 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE TOTAL QUARTERLY MINUTES IN BOARD-AUTHORIZED PUBLIC MEETINGS WERE INVESTED IN STUDENT OUTCOMES ACCORDING TO THE TIME USE TRACKER. SO, IT'S NOT REGULAR MEETINGS. IT'S BOARD-AUTHORIZED. THAT'S EVERY MEETING? WELL, I THINK WE'RE HITTING THAT TARGET.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT OUR GOAL IS, RIGHT, FOR THE NEXT FOR SURE, BUT I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS ONE THING IS FOR US ONLY TO BE TRACKING OUR REGULAR BOARD MEETINGS.
THE OTHER THING IS FOR US TO BE TRACKING ALL BOARD-AUTHORIZED MEETINGS, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE SPECIAL MEETINGS THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY, WOULD IT NOT? OR EVERY OTHER TUESDAY MEETING THAT WE HAVE IS A SPECIAL MEETING.
THAT'S A BOARD-AUTHORIZED MEETING.
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRACKING ANYWAY.
AS FAR AS THE MINUTES AND WHAT WE SPEND ON STUDENT OUTCOMES.
WHAT ABOUT WORKSHOPS? I GUESS FOR THE MOST PART, ALL OF THOSE ARE STUDENT OUTCOMES.
THERE'S AN EXCEPTION FOR, LIKE, FACILITIES AND OTHER THINGS.
OKAY, SO THIS ONE WOULD BE A 12.
ACCOUNTABILITY 2, WE WERE AT ZERO.
WILL WE HAVE ANY IMPLEMENTATION? I THINK IT'LL HAVE TO BE A 1.
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ON THAT ONE BECAUSE WE STILL NEED TO DO THE EVALUATE SUPERINTENDENTS PART OF THE RESULTS OF PROGRESS FOR THE STUDENT OFTEN GOALS AND WE MAY NOT WE'LL HAVE TO WE COULD SHOOT FOR THAT, BUT WE'RE NOT SURE WE'LL HAVE IT QUITE AT THE AT THE QUARTER, RIGHT? AND SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES WE ALSO HAD A ZERO. I WOULD GO TO A ONE BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS BECAUSE IT SAYS ALL CONSENT ELIGIBLE ITEMS REPLACED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AND MORE THAN 70% OF THE ITEMS WERE VOTED ON USING A CONSENT AGENDA.WE CAN SHOOT FOR FOUR, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN.
STICK TO A ONE ON THAT ONE BEING REALISTIC. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS? TRUSTEE PANTOJA.
FROM THE NUMBER, FOR THE SECOND ITEM, NUMBER FOUR COURSE AS THE ADOPTED MONITORING CALENDAR HAS NOT BEEN MODIFIED DURING THE PAST QUARTER. YEAH. WHICH MONITORING CALENDAR? BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S TWO. WHICH ONE? WE HAVE THE MONITORING CALENDAR? WHERE THE MODIFICATION COME CAME IS WE DID TAPER EARLY, SO WE COULD SPLIT BENCHMARK INTO. SO THAT WOULD BE A MODIFICATION.
SO, WHAT ARE OUR TARGETS? SO 1 OR 4? VICE PRESIDENT CISNEROS.
FOR SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES, I WOULD STICK WITH REALISTIC AND A ONE.
WE'LL GO WITH THE ONE WITH THAT.
AND THEN ADVOCACY AND ENGAGEMENT.
ARE WE GOING TO HAVE ANY STUDENT OUTCOMES? WE'RE HOPING TO.
ARE WE PLANNING THE LSD COMMITTEE TO HAVE SOMETIME BEFORE THE NEXT QUARTER A HOST COMMUNITY MEETING TO DISCUSS THE PROGRESS OR STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS? AS SOON AS WE CAN GET, WE'VE ALREADY PROVIDED THE RECOMMENDATION TONIGHT.
SO AS SOON AS WE CAN GET THAT FEEDBACK, THEN WE CAN PUT THAT PLAN INTO ACTION.
SO THAT'S THE SLIDES THAT WERE SHOWN EARLIER THAT TRUSTEE SIERRA SPOKE ON. OKAY, I WOULD SAY A THREE, MAYBE A NINE. WHAT I'M A LITTLE IS HAS LED OR CO-LED AT LEAST ONE TRAINING ON LONE STAR GOVERNANCE FOR ITS COMMUNITY DURING THE PREVIOUS SIX MONTH PERIOD. BUT THAT WOULD BE MORE THAN SIX MONTHS, RIGHT? BECAUSE WHEN WE HAD THE TOWN HALLS WHY? WITH A THREE. A THREE, WE'RE GOOD WITH THREE? OKAY.
AND THEN SYNERGY AND TEAMWORK, WE SAID? THREE.
SO I GUESS THE NEXT STEP IS WE MOVE TO APPROVE AND ACCEPT THIS RIGHT? DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE OUR REPORT? I'M SORRY.
TRUSTEE CISNEROS? I'M SORRY, PRESIDENT GUADIAN, CAN YOU PLEASE GO BACK THROUGH THESE AGAIN JUST SO THAT WAY EVERYBODY'S IN ALIGNMENT, EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME TARGET NUMBERS, AND WE'RE ALL IN ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN WITHIN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS? THANK YOU.
SO CURRENTLY FOR OUR FRAMEWORK OF VISION AND GOALS ONE, WE ARE AT A 12.
WE ARE TO HOPE FOR A 15 ON OUR NEXT QUARTER TARGET.
CURRENTLY A THREE ON VISION AND GOALS THREE.
I'M SORRY, CURRENTLY A NINE VISION GOALS THREE.
VISION AND GOALS FOUR, WE ARE AT ZERO.
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QUARTER.CURRENTLY A ZERO AT PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY ONE.
NEXT QUARTER, PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY, TWO, ZERO, HOPING TO BE A ONE.
NEXT QUARTER, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES, CURRENTLY A ZERO, HOPING FOR A FOUR.
NEXT QUARTER, ADVOCACY AND ENGAGEMENT, A ZERO, HOPING FOR A THREE.
NEXT QUARTER, SYNERGY AND TEAMWORK IS A THREE.
THIS QUARTER, NEXT QUARTER, WE WOULD LIKE TO BE AT A NINE.
AND NEXT QUARTER IS 66, HOPEFULLY.
VICE PRESIDENT CISNEROS? THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION, SECRETARY WEGNER.
SO THERE'S THREE ITEMS ON HERE THAT I DISAGREE WITH.
SO THE FIRST ONE IS GOING TO BE VISION AND GOALS NUMBER FOUR.
I THINK THAT'S AN UNREALISTIC TARGET FOR THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.
PROGRESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY, ONE.
THAT ONE ALSO IS UNREALISTIC FOR ME.
AND LASTLY, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES.
I THINK THAT'S AN UNREALISTIC TARGET.
THOSE ARE THE THREE THAT I HAVE DISCREPANCIES WITH, AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T SET OURSELVES UP FOR FAILURE.
WELL, THESE ARE JUST TARGETS, RIGHT? WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND MEET THEM.
YEAH, I THINK ON THE FIRST ONE YOU MENTIONED, VISION AND GOALS.
I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT IT, IF YOU LOOK AT THE FIRST COLUMN, IF THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED CPMS FOR EACH SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT, THAT'S COMING.
THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE CPM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WHILE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE BOARD, THAT'S COMING.
THE STATUS OF EACH ADOPTED CPM IS ABLE TO BE UPDATED MULTIPLE TIMES DURING EACH YEAR, AND WE'VE ALL AGREED TO THAT.
WELL, TONIGHT, RIGHT? AND THEN WHEN YOU DO APPROACHES, THE BOARD ADOPTED NO MORE THAN THREE CPMS FOR EACH SUPERINTENDENT.
INTENDED CONSTRAINT WE'VE GOT THAT ALSO PM TO INCLUDE A ONE TO FIVE YEAR DEADLINE OF A MONTH AND YEAR I THINK THEY I MEAN I THINK THAT'S FEASIBLE A BASELINE OF A MONTH AND A YEAR AND ANNUAL TARGETS AND I THINK STAFF HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD ABOUT DOING ALL THAT RIGHT AND THE FOUR IS ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AGREE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT CPM'S WILL CHALLENGE THE ORGANIZATION WILL CHALLENGE THE ORGANIZATION TO UPHOLD COMMUNITY VALUES, ARE ALL PREDICTIVE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CONSTRAINTS, AND ARE INFLUENCEABLE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT.
DO YOU FIND THOSE NOT REACHABLE? AND I'M ASKING STAFF.
FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF HAVING THE DATA TO BE ABLE TO SET THE TARGETS, WE SHOULD HAVE THE DATA AFTER THE APRIL SURVEYS THAT GO OUT.
GIVE US A MONTH AFTER THAT MAY AND THEN THIS WOULD HAPPEN IN JUNE.
I THINK IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT WE COULD BE THERE.
WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MEET THOSE THREE.
AND THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, WELL, AND THAT'S PART OF. IF I MAY. I APOLOGIZE , AND THAT'S PART OF A TARGET IS TO HOPE FOR. WE DON'T WANT IT LIKE. OH, I MEAN, CHECK THE BOX, WE'RE DONE. BUT WE DON'T WANT IT SO UNOBTAINABLE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUNE AND WE'RE STILL SCRAMBLING. SO, I THINK THAT THESE ARE REALISTIC GOALS.
AND, PRESIDENT GUADIAN, IF YOU'RE READY, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT IT.
SO, I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE PROGRESS TRACKER.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY MAKES A SECOND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE.
ALL THOSE AGAINST? OKAY, FIVE, TWO.
WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE EVERYBODY SIGN THIS, AND THEN WE WILL TURN IT OVER TO CINTO FOR HIM TO...
SUBMITTED TO EA. YES, TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY. SO WAS IT RECOMMENDED BY OUR COACH THIS DIRECT REGULAR BOARD MEETING IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE DECIDE? I'M SORRY.
I JUST BECAUSE IT'S A VERY LONG PROCESS.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING WHERE THAT CAME FROM.
BECAUSE I THINK LAST TIME WE DID IT IN A WORKSHOP.
BUT YEAH, THESE ARE DONE DURING BOARD MEETINGS.
AND I THINK THE NEXT ONE WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT IS THAT WE WILL SPLIT UP IN PAIRS.
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RIGHT? AND THEN WE COME TOGETHER.THIS WAS JUST BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST ONE THAT WE ARE LEADING.
[VIII.B. Teacher Incentive Allotment Compensation Plan]
ALL RIGHT.SO NEXT UP ON THE AGENDA, IS THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT COMPENSATION PLAN.
GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT GUADIAN, DR.
GUTIERREZ, AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
THIS EVENING'S ACTION ITEM IS THE COMPENSATION PLAN THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT'S TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT APPLICATION.
SO TO RECAP THE PURPOSE OF THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT, THIS PROGRAM ALLOWS US TO IDENTIFY AND REWARD EXCELLENCE USING A COMBINATION OF STUDENT GROWTH AND CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE.
THE DISTRICT'S 90-10 COMPENSATION PLAN FOLLOWS THE STATE-MANDATED MINIMUM BREAKDOWN.
AS A REMINDER, 90% OF THE ALLOTMENT IS PAID DIRECTLY TO TEACHERS, AND 10% IS RETAINED BY THE DISTRICT TO BUILD THE PROGRAM AND ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SYSTEM.
SO TONIGHT, THE DISTRICT ASKS FOR THE BOARD APPROVAL OF THE 90-10 COMPENSATION PLAN.
AS PRESENTED, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY.
I THINK THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION BASED OFF OF SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE THAT WE WILL NOT BE GIVING RAISES.
THIS IS A AND IF OR MAYBE KIND OF SOLUTION.
IF YOU'RE NOT IN IT, YOU DON'T GET IT.
IS THAT TRUE? I THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD STILL BE DOING RAISES FOR THOSE THAT AREN'T PART OF THIS PROGRAM.
CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT SO WE CAN...
GET IT OUT THERE. I'LL, I'LL CHIME IN ON THIS ONE, AND, UH, IT JUST DOESN'T TAKE AWAY FROM THE EFFORTS THAT THE DISTRICT'S GOING TO MAKE TO DO SOMETHING WITH COMPENSATION. UM, THIS IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY SEPARATE.
THESE ARE DOLLARS THAT ARE AVAILABLE THAT WE SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE ALL OF THE DISTRICTS AROUND US ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT, AND WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE RETAINING AND RECRUITING THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF TEACHERS.
BUT THIS DOESN'T TAKE AWAY FROM OUR EFFORTS TO INCORPORATE SOME TYPE OF SALARY INCREASE THROUGH THE BUDGET CYCLE, SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR TOO.
TEACHERS WHO ARE PART OF THIS PROGRAM WILL, IF THEY QUALIFY AND THEY GET ALL THIS, THEY'LL GET THIS PLUS ANY SALARY COMPENSATION THAT THE DISTRICT WOULD APPROVE.
THAT IS CORRECT. IF THERE IS ANY TYPE OF SALARY INCREASE, THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE STEP SCHEDULE AS TEACHERS ADVANCE ON A STEP SCHEDULE AND ANY SALARY INCREASE THAT THE DISTRICT WILL DO IN THE FUTURE.
MADAM PRESIDENT. CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE FRANCO.
YEAH, I STILL HAVE THE SAME QUESTION THAT I HAD FROM LAST WEEK'S OR OUR LAST MEETING AS FAR AS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THOSE RANGES CHANGE.
HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THE TEACHERS, THAT THEY STAY AT THAT HIGHER SALARY? IF THEY'VE ALREADY EARNED MASTER'S LEVEL, FOR SOME REASON THAT DESIGNATION CHANGES AT THE CAMPUS THAT THEY'RE AT, HOW DO WE NOT BRING THEM DOWN? BECAUSE ONCE YOU GET USED TO PAYING...
HOW DO WE COMPENSATE THAT THAT DELTA IF THAT GETS IF THAT GETS BROUGHT DOWN? THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION THE SECOND ISSUE THAT I HAVE WITH THIS AND THIS IS JUST IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF HOUSEKEEPING AND SOMETHING I BROUGHT UP LAST LAST MEETING, BUT I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE FIRST PAGE HERE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WANT TO CALL THIS IT'S BEFORE THE ENTIRE PRESENTATION AND GIVES A DESCRIPTION OF THE OF THE THE WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED? AND IT SAYS FISCAL IMPLICATIONS, IS THERE A COST? AND IT SAYS NO.
AND WHILE I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE, FOR THE MOST PART, IS NOT A COST BECAUSE THERE IS, THIS IS MONEY PROVIDED TO US BY THE STATE, THERE IS AN INITIAL COST TO SET THIS UP, AS YOU DESCRIBED IN LAST MONTH'S OR OUR LAST MEETING.
AND THE ISSUE THAT I HAVE WITH THIS IS THAT THIS IS SAYING THERE IS NO COST.
WE ARE GOING TO BEAR THE COST TO SET THIS INITIAL PROGRAM UP, THE STUDIES, ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
AND YOU EXPLAINED THAT TO US AT OUR LAST MEETING.
WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT COST IS.
AND THE CONCERN TO ME IS THAT IF WE DON'T REACH THE LEVELS THAT WE WANT AS FAR AS THAT 10%, THEN WE DON'T EVER GET THAT MONEY BACK.
SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW MUCH THIS IS COSTING US FOR THE INITIAL SETUP.
YOU CAN'T PREDICT THE COST OF THE SETUP BECAUSE FIRST WE NEED TO BE APPROVED BY TEA AND THEN WE DETERMINE WHAT STEPS WE NEED TO TAKE IN ORDER TO CREATE THE SYSTEM.
SO WE'VE GOT THE COMMITTEE TOGETHER THAT HAS OUTLINED WHICH GROUPS WE'RE GOING TO TARGET IN YEAR ONE.
AND THEN WE CREATE THE SYSTEM WHICH IS SPECIFICALLY GOING TO
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OUTLINE WHICH DATA SETS WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT, HOW WE'RE GOING TO INCORPORATE THE TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEM.SO, WE CAN'T PREDICT WHAT THIS COST WILL LOOK LIKE EXACTLY, BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS ALLOCATE AT LEAST 10 PERCENT OF THOSE DOLLARS TO BE PREPARED FOR THE LAUNCH OF IT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
OKAY, WELL, I'M EXPLAINING IT IN A WAY THAT I CAN'T PREDICT AND SAY THAT IT'S GOING TO COST $50,000 TO LAUNCH IT.
WE FIRST NEED TO GET APPROVAL OF THE BOARD FOR JUST THE 90, 10, THAT'S IT TODAY, AND THEN, ONCE WE SUBMIT OUR APPLICATION AND IT'S APPROVED BY TEA, THEN WE CAN ACTUALLY MAP OUT SPECIFICALLY. WE CAN'T MAP OUT THE WORK YET BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE APPROVED BY TEA.
SO I GUESS TO PUSH BACK A LITTLE BIT ON THAT IS THAT FOR MOST OTHER THINGS THAT GET BROUGHT TO US, IN MANY CASES THERE ARE BENCHMARKS FROM OTHER DISTRICTS, AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, WE'RE LEARNING FROM OTHER DISTRICTS ON HOW THE PROCESS GOES.
WE'RE INQUIRING OF OTHER DISTRICTS HOW THEY'RE SETTING UP THEIR SYSTEMS, AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE WOULDN'T ASK GENERALLY A BALLPARK RANGE.
HOW MUCH IT'S COST THEM TO IMPLEMENT THEIR PROGRAM.
SO, I'VE DONE. IT IS NOT TRUE.
THANK YOU. I'M NOT DONE SPEAKING. PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT. SO, IT IS NOT TRUE THAT THERE IS NO COST TO THIS. THERE IS A FISCAL COST TO IT, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL ON BOARD. I WANT TO REMIND THAT WE NEED TO KEEP THIS RESPECTFUL. I, I. PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT WHILE I'M SPEAKING. I'M DONE.
I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED WHILE I'M SPEAKING.
ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY.
SO, WOULD IT BE OKAY TO SAY THAT IF IT'S OVER $50,000, YOU WILL HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE DISTRICT, TO THE BOARD, FOR APPROVAL? OKAY, THANK YOU.
AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT 10% IS FOR THE STARTUP, RIGHT? OKAY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS.
YES, FOR CLARIFICATION. MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS IS THAT THE MONEY WE GET IS BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF TEACHERS THAT MEET THE DIFFERENT LEVELS.
JUST FOR EASY MATH, AND MAYBE I'M MISUNDERSTANDING THIS, BUT IF WE HAD A TOTAL OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND WE HAD THREE AND AT WE HAD FOUR TEACHERS IN THE ENTIRE DISTRICT, RIGHT, AND EACH ONE OF THEM COULD GET UP TO TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
WE DON'T GET IT IF THREE OUT OF THOSE FOUR DON'T MEET THAT MASTER'S. WE ONLY GET SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
WE DON'T GET THE EXTRA TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND. WE WOULD GET WHATEVER THE FOURTH TEACHER WAS DESIGNATED AT.
IF THREE TEACHERS WERE DESIGNATED AT MASTER'S AND THE FOURTH TEACHER WAS DESIGNATED AT RECOGNIZED, WE WOULD GET WHAT THE STATE HAS ALLOTTED FOR THE RECOGNIZED DESIGNATION.
SO IF THAT FOURTH TEACHER, FOR EASY MATH. IF THAT FOURTH TEACHER GETS NO DESIGNATION WHATSOEVER, WE DON'T GET ANY OF THAT MONEY.
SO MY CONCERN IS THAT IN THE FIRST YEAR, WITHOUT KNOWING HOW MUCH THIS IS GOING TO COST US, IF NONE OF OUR TEACHERS, WHICH I HOPE IS NOT THE CASE.
BUT IF NONE OF OUR TEACHERS MEET THOSE DESIGNATIONS, WE'RE FOOTING THE BILL FOR THIS. I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT TOTAL COST IS. THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TO.
I'M GOING TO INTERJECT HERE. I DON'T THINK THAT QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED AND ANSWERED. THEY CAN'T SPECULATE RIGHT NOW OR GIVE YOU A NUMBER, RIGHT? AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE BRING IT TO A VOTE AND WE GO BY THE MAJORITY.
TRUSTEE PANTOJA. MADAM PRESIDENT, CAN YOU CONFIRM WITH ME THAT THE DISTRICT CAN SPEND WITHOUT THE BOARD APPROVAL UNDER 49,999? YEP. I'M JUST WANTING TO GO ON RECORD THAT THE DISTRICT CAN SPEND WITHOUT THE BOARD APPROVAL FOR 49,999. ANYTHING OVER THAT DOES HAVE TO COME.
SO IF THERE WAS ANY POINT A DOLLAR OVER, A DOLLAR OR ONE OVER, WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT IT, CORRECT? CORRECT. THAT IS CORRECT.
MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE 9010 COMPENSATION PLAN FOR DEL VALLE ISD'S APPLICATION TO THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT.
SECRETARY WEGNER MAKES A MOTION. TRUSTEE LEDESMA-WOODY MAKES A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED? ONE. SIX TO ONE. MOTION PASSES.
[VIII.C. GPM Monitoring - Goal 2 (GPMs 2.1-2.3) and 3 (GPMs 3.1-3.3)]
THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE THE GPM MONITORING GOAL 2, DR.KATRINA BAILEY. I WAS TRYING TO GET A SCORE UPDATE BEFORE I CAME UP. I THINK WE'RE STILL AT 00 WITH 20, 30 MINUTES LEFT, 27 MINUTES, SOMETHING
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LIKE THAT.ALL RIGHT, SO TODAY I'M SHARING OUR SPRING 2026 READING BENCHMARK RESULTS. WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT PROGRESS TOWARDS OUR BOARD GOALS. I'LL HIGHLIGHT WHERE WE'RE IMPROVING, WHERE WE STILL HAVE A GAP, AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO NEXT TO CONTINUE IMPROVING WITH THE DISTRICT.
I DO WANT TO APOLOGIZE. I BELIEVE IN THE ABSTRACT IT SAYS THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON GOAL TWO AND THREE, BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY FOCUSED ON GOAL ONE TONIGHT, AND SOME OF THAT GOT LOST WHEN WE HAD SOME OF THE AGENDA CHANGES OR BREAKING THIS ONE APART. SO, IT'S GOAL ONE.
SO, THIS SLIDE ANCHORS OUR WORK. WHEN WE SEE FLAT OR DECLINING PROFICIENCY, WE LOOK AT HIGH-QUALITY TIER 1 INSTRUCTION, HIGH-QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IMPLEMENTED WITH FIDELITY, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE PLC STRENGTH AND INTERVENTION ALIGNMENT.
AND SO, WHENEVER WE SEE FLAT OR DECLINING PROFICIENCY, WHAT WE ASK OURSELVES IS, WHAT DO WE DO AS THE ADULTS? BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN ADULT ISSUE. IT'S A SYSTEMS ISSUE, AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SYSTEM IS RESPONDING TO WHAT OUR STUDENTS NEED.
AGAIN, THIS FOCUSES ON EARLY LITERACY, GOAL ONE, AND AS A REMINDER, OUR FOCUS IS LONG-TERM. SO INCREASING THIRD-GRADE READING FROM 32 PERCENT TO 60 PERCENT BY THE YEAR 2030. THIS BENCHMARK HELPS US TRACK IF WE'RE ON PACE TOWARDS THE GOAL AND IF AND WHERE ADJUSTMENTS NEED TO BE MADE.
SO, THIS PARTICULAR BENCHMARK WAS A SPRING BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT.
SO, WE GIVE OUR STUDENTS A RELEASE PRACTICE STAR ASSESSMENT. SO, WE GIVE THEM THE FULL ASSESSMENT TO SEE WHERE THEY ARE AT A PLACE IN TIME. AND SO, THIS PAST YEAR, WE GAVE THE 2025 RELEASE READING BENCHMARK.
SO, AS YOU CAN SEE, AS THE PROGRESS TOWARDS OUR GOALS.
OUR GRADE THREE, GOAL ONE. THE DISTRICT IMPROVED FROM 19.8 PERCENT TO 28 PERCENT, AN 8-POINT GAIN COMPARED TO THE 2025 BENCHMARK. WE'RE IMPROVING, BUT WE'RE STILL ABOUT 10 POINTS BELOW THE TARGET. OUR EMERGING BILINGUAL STUDENTS IMPROVED BY 6.7 PERCENT, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN OUR 2025 BENCHMARKS, BUT THEIR GAPS STILL REMAIN AMONGST STUDENT GROUPS, SPECIFICALLY OUR EMERGING BILINGUAL STUDENTS, OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE ECONOMICALLY DEPENDENT, AND ALSO THOSE THAT ARE RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATION.
WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR THIRD-GRADE READING BENCHMARK BY CAMPUS DATA, YOU CAN SEE THAT GRADE THREE SHOWS STRONG BENCHMARK-TO-BENCHMARK GROWTH ACROSS ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES.
MOST ARE PERFORMING BETTER OR NEAR THEIR LAST YEAR'S PERFORMANCE ON THE BENCHMARK AT THIS POINT IN TIME, BUT SOME CAMPUSES ARE STILL SLIGHTLY BELOW THAT 38 PERCENT TARGET OR WELL BELOW THAT 38 PERCENT TARGET.
THIS IS OUR MOST CRITICAL GRADE FOR LONG-TERM OUTCOMES, WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE THAT AS A BOARD GOAL AND A FOCUS, AND WE'RE TRACKING OUR GPMS LEADING UP TO THIRD GRADE.
AN INTERESTING POINT THAT I WANT TO MAKE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR DATA, AS WE DIG FURTHER INTO THE DATA AS A TEAM, IS THAT WRITING PERFORMANCE REALLY IMPACTS OUR CAMPUS SCORES. AND SO, ALTHOUGH IT'S A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF THE OVERALL SCORE ON OUR READING LANGUAGE ARTS ASSESSMENT, IT HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE OVERALL CAMPUS SCORE WHEN WE DIG INTO THE DATA.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, MOST OF OUR CAMPUSESWE WOULD, ACTUALLY ALL OF OUR CAMPUSESWE WOULD GET AN INCREASED PORTION OUT OF THE ACTUAL. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, BEATTY WOULD INCREASE BY 10 PERCENTAGE POINTS IF WE TOOK THE WRITING COMPONENT OUT OF THE ASSESSMENT. HORNSBY AND POPHAM WOULD INCREASE BY 20 PERCENTAGE POINTS IF WE TOOK THE WRITING OUT OF THE ASSESSMENT.
AND SO, THIS SHOWS THAT OUR STUDENTS CAN READ AND COMPREHEND, BUT WE NEED MORE INTENTIONAL AND TARGETED SUPPORT IN BOTH READING AND WRITING TOGETHER. SO, WE NEED OUR STUDENTS TO BE READING, WE NEED THEM TO BE TALKING, AND WE NEED THEM TO BE WRITING ACROSS ALL SUBJECT AREAS.
WE SEE WIDER GAPS WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR FOURTH-GRADE DATA. SO, MIXED RESULTS. SOME OF OUR CAMPUSES SHOW GROWTH, SOME SHOW DECLINE AT THE FOURTH-GRADE LEVEL.
OVERALL, WE'RE STILL BELOW THE TARGET, SIGNALING INCONSISTENCY ACROSS OUR CAMPUSES AND ACROSS CLASSROOMS, EVEN ON THE SAME CAMPUS.
SO AGAIN, AN INTERESTING POINT HERE IS THAT IF WE TAKE THE WRITING SCORES OUT, WE'LL SEE ACROSS ALL OF OUR CAMPUSESNOT AS SIGNIFICANT AS WE WANT TO SEEBUT, IN PARTICULAR, DEL VALLE ELEMENTARY, GILBERT ELEMENTARY, AND HORNSBY ELEMENTARY WOULD SEE A 10 PERCENT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS RISE IN THEIR SCORES IF WE TAKE THE WRITING COMPONENT OUT. AGAIN, SIGNALING JUST HOW IMPORTANT THAT WRITING COMPONENT IS TO THE OVERALL SCORE AND HOW OUR CAMPUSES WILL PERFORM.
ANOTHER KEY THING TO BRING INTO THIS PARTICULAR DATA IS JUST HOW IMPORTANT THE ACTUAL WRITING COMPONENT IS. SO, IT'S NOT THE SAME WRITING PROMPT
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YEAR TO YEAR, AND SOMETIMES IT ISN'T EVEN BASED IN THE SAME GENRE.SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE 2025 BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN BASED ON A 2024 RELEASE, OUR STUDENTS HAD TO WRITE AN INFORMATIONAL RESPONSE TO THAT PARTICULAR GENRE BASED ON ONE STORY. WHEN WE MOVED TO THE 2025 BENCHMARK RELEASE, WHICH WE GAVE THIS YEAR, IT WAS A PAIRED PASSAGE. SO, THE STUDENTS HAD TO WRITE AN INFORMATIONAL RESPONSE, EVEN THOUGH THE GENRE WAS THE SAME.
SO INFORMATIONAL TO INFORMATIONAL.
IN THE 2024 SCHOOL YEAR, STUDENTS HAD TO WRITE THEIR RESPONSE BASED ON A SINGLE STORY. WHEN WE MOVE TO THE NEXT YEAR, IT'S A PAIRED PASSAGE, SO THE STUDENTS HAVE TO READ TWO PARTICULAR PASSAGES AND WRITE THEIR RESPONSE BASED ON THOSE TWO.
SO, THERE ARE NUANCES IN HOW WE LOOK AT THE DATA AS WELL.
BUT REALLY, WHAT THIS TELLS US IS THAT OUR STUDENTS NEED TO BE WRITING. AGAIN, THEY NEED TO BE TALKING. THEY NEED TO BE READING. THEY NEED TO BE WRITING ACROSS A VARIETY OF GENRES AND READING AND WRITING ALL THE TIME SO THAT WE DON'T COME TO THESE NUANCES AND THESE COMPLEXITIES IN HOW THE ACTUAL ASSESSMENT IS GIVEN, AND THEN THAT IMPACTS HOW OUR STUDENTS PERFORM.
SO, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADJUSTING AND THAT WE'RE GIVING OUR STUDENTS ACCESS TO THAT LEVEL OF RIGOR AND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE TEXT AND ACTUALLY WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SEE ON THE ASSESSMENT, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW FROM YEAR TO YEAR WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR FIFTH-GRADE DATA, WE SEE VERY SIMILAR RESULTS.
WE DON'T SEE AS WIDE OF A VARIANCE AT THE FIFTH-GRADE LEVEL. WE SEE THAT OUR CAMPUSES ARE, FOR THE MOST PART, PERFORMING PRETTY WELL. MOST OF THEM WILL ALSO SEE AN INCREASE IF WE TAKE THAT WRITING COMPONENT OUT. IN PARTICULAR, HILLCREST ELEMENTARY WOULD SEE A 10 PERCENT GAIN IN THEIR WRITING SCORES IF WE TAKE THE WRITING COMPONENT OUT.
WHEN WE GET TO OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WE SEE A DECLINE FROM LAST YEAR ACROSS THE DISTRICT. WE DID DO OUR TEST A LITTLE BIT EARLIER IN THE WINDOW, AND WE DID AT THE SAME POINT IN TIME THE YEAR BEFORE. WE DO SEE THAT OJEDA IS STILL PERFORMING AT THE SAME LEVEL THAT THEY PERFORMED THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR, AND THEN WE DO SEE SOME DIFFERENCES IN WHERE BOTH DALY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND DEL VALLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ARE PERFORMING.
AND AGAIN, WE SEE THE IMPACT OF THE EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES. THE WRITING COMPONENT OF THIS PARTICULAR ASSESSMENT.
THE YEAR BEFORE, THEY WERE WRITING AN INFORMATIONAL PIECE, AND THIS YEAR THEY WERE WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIVE PIECE. SO AGAIN, THE NUANCE OF THE WRITING ASSESSMENT AND HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE RESPONDING TO ONE TEXT COMPLEXITY, HOW THEY'RE ABLE TO WRITE AND RESPOND TO DIFFERENT GENRES AND DIFFERENT PROMPTS, IS GOING TO BECOME REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND AGAIN, I'LL KEEP SAYING THE SAME THING, AND IT'S GOING TO BECOME A BROKEN RECORD: OUR STUDENTS NEED TO BE TALKING, THEY NEED TO BE READING, AND THEY NEED TO BE WRITING ALL THE TIME ACROSS ALL SUBJECT AREAS.
WE SEE THE SAME THING AT THE SEVENTH-GRADE LEVEL.
AGAIN, OVERALL, WE'VE DECREASED. WHEN WE LOOK AT PERFORMANCE AT A SNAPSHOT IN TIME FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR, WE SEE A DECREASE IN OUR CAMPUS PERFORMANCE, AND THAT'S ACROSS ALL THREE OF THE CAMPUSES AT THE SEVENTH-GRADE LEVEL.
SOMETHING THAT I KNOW IS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS IS THIS IS THE GRADE LEVEL WHERE, EVEN IN OUR MATH AT THIS PARTICULAR GRADE LEVEL, ABOUT 50 PERCENT. ESPECIALLY AT DALY AND DBMS, ABOUT 50 PERCENT OF THE TEACHERS AT THAT PARTICULAR GRADE LEVEL ARE NOT CERTIFIED, OR IT'S WHERE WE HAVE THE MOST NUMBER OF VACANCIES ACROSS THE DISTRICT. THAT PARTICULAR GRADE LEVEL AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS REALLY CHALLENGED WITH STAFFING.
AND A LOT OF THE DATA, EVEN WHEN WE HAVE CERTIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE GRADE LEVELS, THEY OFTEN HAPPEN TO BE NEWER TEACHERS. SO AGAIN, LEARNING THE CURRICULUM CAN ALSO PLAY INTO WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE DATA.
SO, WE NEED TO BE WORKING WITH OUR CAMPUS PRINCIPALS ON PLACEMENTS OF TEACHERS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE PLACING TEACHERS IN THE RIGHT POSITION SO THAT THEY CAN GET THE OUTCOMES THAT WE WANT TO SEE. BUT STILL, NO MATTER WHERE WE PUT A TEACHER, IF IT'S A NEW TEACHER, IF IT'S A NOVICE TEACHER, A NON-CERTIFIED TEACHER, OR A LONG-TERM SUB, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT SUPPORTS TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEM, SO THAT WE CAN SEE THE OUTCOMES WE WANT TO SEE FOR OUR STUDENTS.
AND AGAIN, WE STILL SEE THE SAME CHALLENGES WITH WRITING WHEN WE BREAK DOWN FURTHER INTO THE DATA AND HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE PERFORMING IN THIS GRADE LEVEL AS WELL.
WE SEE LESS OF A VARIANCE AT THE EIGHTH-GRADE LEVEL.
SO, AS A DISTRICT, AS A WHOLE, WE'RE SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN WHERE WE WERE ON THE EIGHTH-GRADE BENCHMARK THE YEAR BEFORE. SLIGHT DIFFERENCE AT DALY MIDDLE SCHOOL. AGAIN, WE DO HAVE SOME NEW TEACHERS IN THAT PARTICULAR GRADE LEVEL, TOO.
DEL VALLE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS PERFORMING ABOUT THE SAME. IN OJEDA I'M ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING, AND I PROBABLY SHOULD NOT SAY THAT.
NO, WE'RE PROBABLY BEING RECORDED TONIGHT. BUT OH, HEY, THAT IS DOING A REALLY FANTASTIC JOB.
I REALLY JUST WANT TO COMMEND THOSE PARTICULAR TEACHERS BECAUSE THEY REALLY TAKE OWNERSHIP OF EVERY SINGLE STUDENT IN THAT PARTICULAR GRADE LEVEL.
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THEY FLEXIBLY, EXCUSE ME, GROUP STUDENTS ACROSS THAT GRADE LEVEL. THEY PULL THE WHOLE GRADE LEVEL OF STUDENTS IN A PARTICULAR PERIOD INTO THE LIBRARY. THEY WORK A LOT WITH PARENTS ON SENDING HOME THE STUDENT WRITING SAMPLES. THEY HAVE THE STUDENTS ACTUALLY SIT AND GIVE EACH OTHER FEEDBACK.SO, THERE'S SOME REALLY STRONG INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES THAT ARE HAPPENING AT OJEDA MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WE WANT TO REPLICATE ACROSS THE OTHER CAMPUSES. AND WE HAVE TAKEN TEACHERS FROM THE OTHER CAMPUSES TO GO AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING AT OJEDA. AND SO, WE'RE HOPING THAT THAT'S GOING TO HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AT THE OTHER CAMPUSES.
SO, WE SEE SOME REALLY STRONG INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES, AND HOPEFULLY THOSE EIGHTH-GRADE TEACHERS AND IF THEY'RE NOT, AND IF YOU KNOW THEM, PLEASE LET THEM KNOW THAT WE REALLY JUST WANT TO COMMEND THEM ON THE JOB THAT THEY'RE DOING AT OJEDA BECAUSE IT'S REALLY PAYING OFF WITH THE WORK THEY'RE BUYING INTO. THEY'RE BUYING INTO THE WORK, AND IT'S SHOWING UP AND IT'S PAYING OFF.
ENGLISH ONE DID NOT TAKE ON THIS PARTICULAR BENCHMARK, AND THAT IS BECAUSE THEY WERE DOING A LOT OF ASSESSMENTS AT THE TIME, AND AT THIS PARTICULAR SNAPSHOT IN TIME, THEY WERE TAKING THE REQUIRED FIELD TEST. SO, THEY DID NOT TAKE THE ENGLISH ONE BENCHMARK. BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR ENGLISH ONE EXIT TICKETS AND DATA, WE SEE THAT THEY'RE PERFORMING ABOUT THE SAME AS WHERE OUR ENGLISH TWO DATA IS, AND WE'RE SEEING SLIGHT INCREASES IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA, TOO.
SO, AT ENGLISH ONE AND IN ENGLISH TWO, WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU IS THAT WE'RE SEEING INCREMENTAL GAINS IN THOSE PARTICULAR GRADE LEVELS, WHERE THEY'RE PERFORMING ABOUT THE SAME OR BETTER AS THEY WERE AT THIS POINT IN TIME LAST YEAR.
SO, PROGRESS MONITORING. WHEN WE LOOK AT STRENGTHS ACROSS THE DISTRICT, WE KNOW THAT OUR LITERACY PERFORMANCE SHOWS POSITIVE MOMENTUM ACROSS SEVERAL GRADE LEVELS, REFLECTING AN IMPACT OF THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR LITERACY TEAM. SO, SHOUT OUT TO THEM AND TO EACH ONE OF OUR TEACHERS.
WE SEE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGH-QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. GRADE THREE IS SHOWING DISTRICT GROWTH, AND WE HOPE TO CONTINUE TO SEE THAT IMPACT AS OUR STUDENTS MATRICULATE UP. FIVE OF THE GRADE LEVELS WHO HAVE TRACKED PERFORMANCE FROM LAST YEAR'S BENCHMARK TO THIS BENCHMARK ARE DOING PRETTY WELL. THEY'RE OUTPERFORMING LAST YEAR'S BENCHMARK. AND THEN, OUT OF THE FIVE TRACKABLE COHORTS, 60 PERCENT DEMONSTRATED GROWTH FROM 2025 TO 2026.
AND THEN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS ARE DEMONSTRATING A STRENGTH IN THE COMPREHENSION AND REPORTING CATEGORY OF THE RLA ASSESSMENT. AND SO, THAT'S WHEN WE TAKE THAT WRITING PIECE OUT. WE KNOW THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE STRONG COMPREHENSION WHEN WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE PORTION.
AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY. CAMPUS RESULTS INDICATE VARYING LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT ACROSS GRADE LEVELS, INDICATING THE NEED FOR CONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION OF STRONG INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES. AGAIN, WE'RE SEEING THE USE OF CURRICULUM RESOURCES AND MATERIALS WHERE WE NEED TO GET TIGHTER, BETTER, AND MORE ALIGNED, AND HAVE REALLY STRONG PRACTICES AT THE INSTRUCTIONAL LEVEL.
SO, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE INDIVIDUAL CLASSROOMS. WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT HIGH-QUALITY INSTRUCTION AND I'VE ALREADY SAID IT, NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM EVERY DAY.
DEVELOPMENT OF GENRE STUDIES, SO FICTION AND NONFICTION UNITS, ADDRESSING HIGH-LEVERAGE AND LOW-PERFORMING STANDARDS, AND REALLY LOOKING ACROSS THE DIFFERENT GENRES OF WRITING AS WELL, TOO, BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING THAT'S WHERE OUR STUDENTS ARE STRUGGLING.
IF WE'RE ONLY FOCUSED ON ONE PROMPT, THEN OUR STUDENTS ARE ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO WRITE IN ONE WAY, AND WE REALLY NEED TO SEE OUR STUDENTS HAVE THOSE PRACTICES ACROSS MULTIPLE GENRES OF WRITING.
WE NEED TO INCREASE OUR CHECKS FOR UNDERSTANDING, AND WE'VE ALREADY STARTED WORKING ON WHAT DOES CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING LOOK LIKE IN THE CLASSROOM. IT'S NOT JUST, "DOES EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND? DO YOU GET IT? GIVE ME A THUMBS UP, GIVE ME A THUMBS DOWN?" BUT BEING REALLY INTENTIONAL ABOUT HOW WE'RE CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING IN THE CLASSROOM.
AND THAT'S NOT JUST IN READING, BUT THAT'S ALSO LOOKING AT OTHER SUBJECT AREAS AS WELL, TOO, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE AN INTENSIVE PLAN OF SUPPORT FOR CAMPUSES WITH GREATER OPPORTUNITY. AND I'VE HIGHLIGHTED SOME SPECIFIC CAMPUSES HERE. BEATTY, CREEDMOOR, AND ALSO POPHAM ELEMENTARY. WE'VE ALREADY STARTED PUSHING HEAVY SUPPORT INTO THOSE CAMPUSES SO THAT WE CAN IMPACT THIS YEAR'S OUTCOME AND ALSO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THOSE CAMPUSES.
ONGOING PROGRESS MONITORING BY UTILIZING DISTRICT-CREATED DATA CHECKS AND CONDUCTING OBSERVATIONS USING INSTRUCTIONAL LOOK-FORS. AND THEN THE LAST TWO. AGAIN, IDENTIFYING CAMPUSES WHERE CONSTRUCTIVE RESPONSES ARE IMPACTING GROWTH, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY DONE, AND IMPLEMENTED TARGETED SUPPORT TO STRENGTHEN PROMPT ANALYSIS, PLANNING, AND WRITTEN RESPONSE DEVELOPMENT. AND THEN LASTLY, BEGIN STRATEGIC PLANNING TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR TO STRENGTHEN OUR HQIM IMPLEMENTATION.
AND SO LASTLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOUBLING DOWN ON INSTRUCTION, ESPECIALLY LESSON INTERNALIZATION, STRENGTHENING PLCS AND COACHING CYCLES, INCREASING LEADERSHIP MONITORING AND SUPPORT. SO, MAKING SURE THAT OUR CAMPUS PRINCIPALS KNOW THE LOOK-FORS IN THE CLASSROOM AND MAKING
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SURE THAT THEY'RE COACHING FOR THEM EVEN WHEN WE'RE NOT THERE.ALIGNING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING DIRECTLY TO CLASSROOM PRACTICE.
AND THEN IN SUMMARY, AGAIN, WE'RE IMPROVING, BUT WE'RE NOT YET ON PACE TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE AS A DISTRICT AS A WHOLE.
AND THEN OUR NEXT STEPS ARE FOCUSING ON STRONG INSTRUCTION IN CLASSROOMS. AND WITH THAT, I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.
YES, MA'AM. BOARD MEMBERS, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? VICE PRESIDENT, CISNEROS.
THANK YOU, DR. BAILEY. I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR GPM UPDATES. SO MUCH INFORMATION TO GO OVER. AND I REALLY LIKE THAT YOU PROVIDED WHAT THE ROOT CAUSE OF THOSE AREAS THAT WE SHOWED A DECREASE, THIS BENCHMARK.
BUT MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, I KNOW SCHOOL YEAR 24-25, WE WERE AT 30 PERCENT. WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO REACH THAT 32 PERCENT BY THE END OF THIS YEAR FOR GOAL ONE? TO REACH THE 32 PERCENT? THE 32 PERCENT, ABSOLUTELY. I THINK THAT WE'RE ON TRACK TO HIT.
TRUSTEES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY.
UM, SO I WANTED TO ASK YOU EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT WHY DID WE TAKE OUT THE WRITING PORTION? SO, WE DIDN'T TAKE IT OUT. THE SCORES THAT YOU SEE RIGHT HERE ARE WITH THE WRITING PORTION, AND WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS BREAK IT DOWN AND UNDERSTAND HOW THE WRITING PORTION WAS IMPACTING THE OVERALL CAMPUS SCORE. SO, WHAT I SHARED WITH YOU FOR THE DATA THAT YOU SEE HERE, THIS IS THE DATA.
SO, WHAT I WAS SHARING ABOUT THE 10 TO 20 PERCENT INCREASE FOR THOSE PARTICULAR CAMPUSES WOULD BE IF WE TOOK THE WRITING PORTION OUT, THEN WE WOULD SEE AN INCREASE, SO REALLY TO SEE HOW IT IS TRULY IMPACTING THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CAMPUSES AND ALSO HOW IT'S ALSO IMPACTING OUR STUDENTS.
WELL, SO THE DATA SHOWS ALL OF THE OKAY, PERFECT.
I HEARD YOU TOOK IT OUT OR SOMETHING, AND I WAS JUST LIKE, WAIT, I WISH I WOULD HAVE ASKED IT EARLIER, SO I WOULD HAVE BEEN ON IT, BUT THANK YOU.
AND HONESTLY, I DO WANT TO SHOUT OUT OJEDA, BECAUSE A 10% GROWTH IS REMARKABLE. SO NO SHADE TO EVERYBODY ELSE. GREAT JOB. EVERYBODY'S DOING WONDERFUL, BUT GET A 10%, AND I'LL SHOUT YOU OUT TOO, BUT GO OJEDA. GOOD JOB.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? TRUSTEE? TRUSTEE SIERRA? YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW TEACHER PERFORMANCE IN THIRD GRADE. I WAS NOT HERE LAST YEAR, BUT I THINK ONE OF THE DECISIONS THAT WAS MADE ABOUT THE CALENDAR WAS TO SORT OF FRONT LOAD SOME OF THE NEW TEACHER PREPARATION AND HAVE MORE TIME FOR THAT. I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT WE'VE SEEN WITH NEW TEACHERS AND WHAT THAT'S MAKING YOU THINK ABOUT SORT OF TEACHER PREPARATION IN GENERAL, UM, IN THE DISTRICT AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
YES, I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO BRING OUR TEACHERS IN FOR A BOOT CAMP EARLY, UM, IF WE WON'T CLOSE HER EARS IF WE HAVE THE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO BRING OUR TEACHERS IN SOONER, AND, AND ONE, IF WE COULD, WE COULD GET OUR TEAM COMMITTED TO BEING ABLE. I DEFINITELY THINK IT'S AN AREA OF FOCUS FOR US, AS BEING ABLE TO GET TO OUR TEACHERS.
ONE, GET THEM HIRED A LOT SOONER, GET THEM INTO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT A LOT SOONER, AND BEING ABLE TO GET THEM WELL PREPPED AND PREPARED FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR. BECAUSE THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR CAN BE CHAOTIC. YOU'RE TRYING TO SET UP A CLASSROOM.
YOU'RE TRYING TO JUST UNDERSTAND HOW TO LOG ON TO A CHROMEBOOK OR NOT A CHROMEBOOK, WE HAVE MACBOOKS NOW OR A LAPTOP, OR YOU'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO YOU TAKE GRADES AND ATTENDANCE. USUALLY, TEACHERS AREN'T REALLY THINKING THAT DEEPLY INTO THE CURRICULUM AT THAT POINT BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY OTHER NUANCES TO IT.
AND SO WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO DO. AND WE DO BRING OUR NEW TEACHERS BACK, NEW TO THE DISTRICT TEACHERS BACK A LITTLE SOONER THAN WE DO BRING OUR RETURNING TEACHERS.
BUT I DO THINK THAT WE NEED, WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT'S KIND OF FOLLOWING THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF BRINGING OUR TEACHERS BACK, ESPECIALLY GIVEN WHAT WE'RE SEEING. HAVING TEACHERS THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONALLY CERTIFIED OR THAT ARE ALTERNATIVELY CERTIFIED, BEING THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF TEACHERS THAT ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, COMING INTO THE PROFESSION NEW, AND SO MAYBE NOT EVEN CERTIFIED YET.
AND SO I DO BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A GREATER INVESTMENT IN THAT EARLIER, BUT THAT MEANS GETTING OUR TEACHERS HIRED A LOT SOONER SO THAT WE CAN ONBOARD THEM IN A BETTER WAY AS WELL, TOO.
BOARD MEMBER, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? TRUSTEE FRANCO? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND I ECHO VICE PRESIDENT. HE SENT US HIS COMMENTS. I LOVE HEARING YOUR PRESENTATIONS.
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FANTASTIC, AND YOU ALWAYS DO SUCH A GOOD JOB OF PRESENTING IT. TOUCHING ON YOUR. AND AGAIN, THANKS TO EVERYBODY, TO ALL OF OUR TEACHERS, FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES THAT THEY ARE.BUT TOUCHING ON THE OJEDA COMMENTS YOU MENTIONED, AS WE LOOK AS A BOARD, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS MORE AROUND, AS A BOARD, WHAT CAN WE BE LOOKING AT TO DO DIFFERENTLY? MAYBE WHETHER IT'S AMENDING OUR CALENDAR OR LOOKING AT BUDGETING TO HELP IMPLEMENT SOME OF THOSE SYSTEMS EARLIER OR MORE EXPANSIVELY, SUCH AS THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AT OJEDA.
IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN BE DOING? AND IF THERE IS, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AS A TEAM IS MAYBE OUR APPROACH TO SUMMER SCHOOL NEEDS TO LOOK DIFFERENT. MAYBE IT'S MORE OF A JUMPSTART VERSUS AN END-OF-THE-SCHOOL-YEAR SUMMER SCHOOL. SO MAYBE WE BRING STUDENTS BACK EARLIER TO GET A JUMPSTART ON THE CURRICULUM, TO GET THEM STARTED, OR TO MAYBE WORK ON SOME OF THE GAPS THAT THEY HAVE A LOT SOONER THROUGH A DIFFERENT APPROACH.
SO WE TALKED ABOUT MORE OF A JUMPSTART TO SUMMER SCHOOL AS A POSSIBILITY AS AN END-OF-THE-SCHOOL-YEAR, WHERE THEN THEY'RE IN SUMMER SCHOOL IN JUNE AND THEN THEY STILL GO AWAY FOR A GAP, AND THEN THEY'RE COMING BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. SO WE TALKED ABOUT MAYBE INVESTING HOW WE'RE DOING SUMMER SCHOOL A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY FOR OUR STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF WHERE OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS ARE.
I DEFINITELY THINK INVESTING IN MAYBE NEW TEACHER TRAINING ACADEMIES IS AN AREA OF FOCUS FOR US AS WELL, TOO, AND MAYBE A DISTRICT, SORT OF A DISTRICT APPROACH TO THAT. WE ALSO PARTNER WITH OUR REGION CENTERS AS WELL TO DO TEACHER MATH ACADEMIES AND TEACHER READING ACADEMIES, AND SO MAYBE WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AS A GREATER INVESTMENT FOR OUR, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE ONBOARDING OUR NEW TEACHERS AS WELL, TOO.
I KNOW I'VE PERSONALLY BENEFITED FROM A WHOLE MONTH OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER MY FIRST YEAR AS A BRAND-NEW TEACHER AND LEARNED SO MUCH THROUGH THAT TIME AND THAT INVESTMENT. AND SO I DEFINITELY THINK THAT ONBOARDING OUR, ESPECIALLY OUR BRAND-NEW TEACHERS IN A DIFFERENT WAY CAN REALLY HELP WITH CLOSING SOME OF THESE GAPS, BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS TRYING TO CLOSE THE GAPS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR OR AS THE SCHOOL YEAR IS GOING ON WHEN THERE'S SO MUCH OTHER THINGS HAPPENING. AND THE TEACHERS WILL STILL NEED THAT ONGOING SUPPORT, BUT I THINK OUR ONBOARDING PROCESSES COULD BE COULD LOOK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY.
THANKS FOR THAT, DR. BAILEY APPRECIATE IT. TRUSTEE SIERRA, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. I THINK TRUSTEE CISNEROS HAS ASKED ABOUT 32 PERCENT, BUT I THINK THE TARGET WAS 38 PERCENT. WHERE ARE YOU SAYING YOU'RE CONFIDENT ABOUT 32 OR 38? I'M VERY CONFIDENT ABOUT 32.
I'M CONFIDENT ABOUT 38 AS WELL, TOO. BUT WE'RE STILL 10 PERCENTAGE POINTS AWAY FROM THAT. BUT I AM CONFIDENT BECAUSE I'M ALWAYS OPTIMISTIC AND I KNOW THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM.
THAT'S SORT OF A TRAJECTORY THAT WE'VE SEEN FROM THE 20 TO THE 28 TO THE NEXT 38.
AND THEN I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION. VICE PRESIDENT CISNEROS.
TRUSTEE SIERRA, SO FOR GOAL ONE, WE SET OUR PERCENTAGE AT 32% FOR THE END OF 24. I'M SORRY, 25, 26, NOT 38. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT I WAS ADDRESSING GOAL ONE AT 32%. WHERE ARE YOU SEEING THAT? I'M SORRY. ON THE STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS.
OH, IT'S FROM 32% TO 60%? 60% AFTER, YEAH, THE FIVE-YEAR MARK.
FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR, 25-26, WE SET OUR STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL FOR GOAL ONE AT 32%.
SO 32% IS WHERE WE SET THE BASELINE FOR THIS YEAR'S DATA.
YEAH. 38% IS THE END-OF-YEAR GOAL FOR THIS YEAR.
SO THIS, YOU MENTIONED IT WAS, WE WERE ADDRESSING, GOAL ONE.
SO THAT RED LINE IS THAT 38% IS WHERE WE WANT TO BE AT THE END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
OKAY. SO WE'RE ADDRESSING GOAL TWO. GOAL ONE. BECAUSE GOAL ONE IS THIRD-GRADE MATH, AND I HAVE US AT 32% AT THE END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
I KNOW YOU ARE ADDRESSING GOAL TWO ON HERE AS WELL. SO GOAL TWO IS 38%. GOAL ONE IS 38%.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, SO GOAL TWO IS MATH, AND I'M SORRY I DON'T HAVE THE MATH BREAKDOWN IN FRONT OF ME, BUT IT'S 32% FOR THIS YEAR FOR LITERACY.
THAT'S WHERE WE LOOKED AT THE FALL. SO WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO GET AT THE END OF THIS YEAR IS TO THAT 38%.
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FOR 24-25 SCHOOL YEAR. WE WERE AT 30%. SO WHEN WE SET THE STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL ONE, THIRD-GRADE MATH. WE AGREED THAT AT THE END OF THE 25-26 SCHOOL YEAR, WE WOULD BE AT A 32%. THAT'S FOR MATH, BUT TODAY IS READING DATA.I THINK THE, I'M SORRY. THE GOALS ARE FLIP-FLOPPED ON THE PRESENTATION. SO IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE PAGE THAT HAS THE GOALS OUTLINED. GOAL ONE IS MATH, AND GOAL TWO IS READING. AND READING THE BENCHMARK IS 32%.
CORRECT? THAT'S WHAT'S POSTED ONLINE.
DOES IT SAY GOAL TWO? SO THE ABSTRACT SAYS GOAL TWO.
YES, IT SAYS GOAL TWO AND GOAL THREE. BUT TODAY WE'RE LOOKING AT GOAL ONE. SORRY. AND THAT'S MY FAULT.
NO. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED? I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE INFORMATION AS PRESENTED.
SECRETARY WEGNER MAKES A MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? TRUSTEE SIERRA MAKES A SECOND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[VIII.D. Consider and take action to approve Guarantees Maximum Price Proposal No. 3 for additional infrastructure work associated with the North Del Valle High School Construction Project. (Part 1 of 2)]
OKAY. NEXT, WE HAVE TO CONSIDER AND TAKE ACTION TO APPROVE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE PROPOSAL NUMBER THREE FOR ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH MOLDOVELLI HIGH SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. MR. WILLOUGHBY.MR. WILLOUGHBY, IF I CAN INTERRUPT WHILE YOU'RE FINDING YOUR PLACE, I JUST WANT TO NOTE THAT THIS WAS A VERY MESSY INHERITANCE. I MEAN, THE LAST SUPERINTENDENT ACTUALLY SIGNED THE CONTRACT BEFORE THE BOARD ADOPTED IT.
SO THANK YOU FOR THE DILIGENCE AND ALL OF THE WORK GOING INTO THIS, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IT'S NOT IDEAL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
TRUSTEE WEGNER, I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU FOR THAT, FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THAT.
GUTIERREZ, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD, THIS IS AN AGENDA ITEM TO CONSIDER AND TAKE ACTION: TO APPROVE A GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE PROPOSAL NUMBER THREE FOR ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THE NORTH DEL VALLE HIGH SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
SO, THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION IS, AS PART OF THE LAND PURCHASE FOR THE NORTH DEL VALLE HIGH SCHOOL SITE FROM CLUB DEAL 120 THAT WAS EXECUTED IN DECEMBER OF 2022, THE DEVELOPER AND THE DISTRICT ENTERED INTO A POST-CLOSING CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT THAT DESIGNATED THAT THE DEVELOPER WOULD DELIVER CERTAIN INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH INCLUDE ACCESS ROADS, ELECTRICAL SERVICE, AND A PERMANENT WATER LINE TO SERVE THE NEW SCHOOL.
IT HAS BEEN REVEALED MOST RECENTLY THAT CLUB DEAL WHISPER VALLEY, CLUB DEAL 120 WHISPER VALLEY, HAS BEEN UNABLE TO SECURE THEIR FUNDING SOURCE AND APPROVAL FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN IN ORDER FOR THEM TO PERFORM THIS WORK, WHICH IS CRITICAL TO THE OPENING OF THAT CAMPUS AND HAS CAUSED SOME EXTENSIVE DELAYS. SPECIFICALLY, THE WHISPER VALLEY FUNDING PROVO PROPOSAL WAS REJECTED BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN, SO IT PUT THEM BACK AT SQUARE ONE IN ORDER TO RECEIVE FUNDING TO PERFORM THAT WORK.
SO, THE DISTRICT IS AT A CRITICAL POINT IN THIS CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPLETION IN TIME FOR A FALL 2027 OPENING. I WANT TO JUST POINT OUT THAT THERE ARE TWO OBJECTIVES IN THIS DISCUSSION. OBJECTIVE NUMBER ONE IS, LET'S MAKE THE CAMPUS WHOLE, WHICH MEANS LET'S GET THE CAMPUS TO A POINT WHERE WE CAN SECURE IT, WHERE WE CAN LOCK IT, WHERE IT HAS CONDITIONED AIR, PERMANENT POWER, SO THAT WAY IT BECOMES WHOLE.
OBJECTIVE TWO THEN BECOMES THE FOCUS ON ALLOWING US TO BE ABLE TO GET IT OPEN IN TIME FOR 2027.
THEREFORE, AS PART OF THE FIRST OBJECTIVE TO MAKE THE CAMPUS WHOLE, THE DISTRICT IS SEEKING, OR IS PERFORMING, OR ASKING TO PERFORM THE OPTION TO EXECUTE THE SELF-HELP OPTION, WHICH IS DESIGNATED IN THE POST-CLOSING CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT, BY TAKING RESPONSIBILITY TO INSTALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THEN SEEK TO RECOVER THE COSTS PLUS INTEREST FROM THE DEVELOPER.
NOW, THIS SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDES A PERMANENT WATER LINE TO THE CAMPUS, A PERMANENT POWER SOURCE TO THE CAMPUS FROM AUSTIN ENERGY, A TEMPORARY ROAD BY WHICH
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TO INSTALL SOME TEMPORARY POWER UNTIL THAT UNDERGROUND POWER CAN BE INSTALLED, AND SOME MASS GRADING AND DRAINAGE FOR THE SITE.THIS INITIAL SCOPE OF WORK OF THE PHASE 8A AGREEMENT WOULD ALLOW US TO REACH OBJECTIVE ONE, THAT IS, TO MAKE THE CAMPUS WHOLE, MAKE IT SECURE, LOCKED UP, AND THAT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THAT PART IS COMPLETE.
SO, IN THIS RECOMMENDATION, OR THIS ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION, WE RECOMMEND THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT TO EXECUTE SUCH DOCUMENTS AS MAY BE NECESSARY SO WE CAN ACCEPT THE ASSIGNMENT TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN CONTRACTS RELATED TO THE PROJECT. THE AMOUNT IS $6.9 MILLION, AND THE FUNDING SOURCE WOULD BE THE 2022 BOND INTEREST EARNINGS.
SO, JUST A LITTLE MORE BACKGROUND INTO IT. WHEN I STARTED TRACKING THIS PROJECT IN JULY OF AUGUST OF LAST YEAR, IT BECAME EVIDENT TO ME THAT THERE WERE SOME ISSUES AS FAR AS WHISPER VALLEY WAS CONCERNED IN GETTING THEIR FUNDING APPROVAL FROM THE CITY. SO, I KIND OF STARTED TRACKING THAT BACK AT THAT TIME. BUT BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER, EARLY TO MID-OCTOBER, IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT WHISPER VALLEY WAS NOT GAINING TRACTION. THEY WERE NOT MAKING PROGRESS IN THEIR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CITY. I HAD EVEN REACHED OUT TO THE CITY TO INQUIRE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE COULD DO TO ASSIST THEM.
BUT IT BECAME EVIDENT IN OCTOBER THAT WE NEEDED TO GET INVOLVED.
AND SO, IN MID TO LATE OCTOBER, THAT'S WHEN I STARTED THE DISCUSSIONS FOR US TO EXERCISE OUR SELF-HELP PERFORMANCE. THIS WORK IS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE CAMPUS WHOLE. SO, AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN UP TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.
CHAIR RECOGNIZES TRUSTEE SIERRA.
I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA. I'M JUST, SO I'M TRYING TO READ THE BUDGET, BECAUSE IT LOOKS, ALL THESE THINGS I COULD READ, THIS WATER. I'M JUST CURIOUS, WHERE DOES THE ELECTRICAL SHOW UP? NOT IN THESE NUMBERS? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
MADAM PRESIDENT, CAN WE TABLE THIS AND CONSULT WITH LEGAL DURING EXECUTIVE SESSION? I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T HEAR YOU.
CAN WE TABLE THIS AND CONSULT WITH LEGAL DURING EXECUTIVE SESSION? LIKE LAST WEEK? OH, FOR THE ATTORNEY? WE'LL COME BACK OUT.
ABSOLUTELY. OKAY, WE'LL COME BACK OUT.
TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY? SO, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS GOING TO BE, GOING FORWARD AND I'M NOT TOO SURE HOW THIS ALL WORKS WITH DEVELOPERS IN THE DISTRICT. THERE ARE A LOT OF COMMUNITIES THAT ARE POPPING UP IN OUR DISTRICT RIGHT NOW.
AND, UM IS THIS A LESSON LEARNED FOR US WHEN WE GO INTO THESE KINDS OF CONTRACTS WITH THE DEVELOPERS? WILL WE BE DOING THIS AGAIN, WHERE WE EXPECT THEM TO PROVIDE CERTAIN THINGS? IS THAT A COMMON PRACTICE, OR IS THIS JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS DECIDED AND IT IS WHAT IT IS? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, AND I APPRECIATE THAT. I'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED THIS LEVEL OF CONFUSION BEFORE IN ESTABLISHING A PROPERTY. MY EXPERIENCE IN PREVIOUS DISTRICTS AND PREVIOUS WORK HAS BEEN TO CLEARLY ESTABLISH THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN SECURING A SITE FOR A SPECIFIC PROPERTY. I CAN'T SPEAK TO THIS, BUT KNOWING WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH NOW, IF WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN, WE WOULD TAKE EXTRA STEPS TO MAKE SURE THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN.
I THINK THE OTHER THING IS ENSURING THAT, IN THINKING ABOUT A PREVIOUS DISTRICT AND SECURING LAND TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL, ENSURING THAT THERE WAS INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT IT. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE DID, AS WE LOOKED AT PROPERTIES FOR GROWTH, ENSURING THAT THERE WAS INFRASTRUCTURE THERE. AND THIS WAS A CASE WHERE IT WASN'T. AND SO, THERE'S CERTAINLY SOME LEARNING THAT WE CAN TAKE FROM THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR US WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THIS. FOR OUR DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, AND SUPERINTENDENT FOR SURE.
OKAY. SO, I STILL DO HAVE A LOT OF CONCERNS THAT WE'RE HAVING TO FIT THIS BILL OF SIX MILLION DOLLARS, CONSIDERING WE HAVE A LOT OF FACILITY ITEMS THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS WITHIN BUILDINGS THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW. MY QUESTION IS THIS RECOMMENDATION. IT SAYS, YOU
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KNOW, ALLOWING THE SUPERINTENDENT TO EXECUTE SUCH DOCUMENTS. ARE WE SAYING THAT IT'S NOT TO EXCEED THE SIX MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS? THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.THIS SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION FOR ACTION WOULD BE TO ALLOW THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INCREASE THE GMP BY $6.96 MILLION SPECIFICALLY. I'LL HAVE TO GET THE INFORMATION FOR YOU AS TO WHY IT WASN'T POINTED OUT CLEARLY, DESIGNATED IN THIS PROPOSAL. I KNOW IT'S PART OF THAT NUMBER. WE'VE DISCUSSED THAT SEVERAL TIMES.
YEAH, NO, IT'S A GREAT. NO, THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT BUT I CAN GET YOU THAT INFORMATION.
SO, THIS DOES SAY UTILITY SERVICE PROVIDER FEES AND COSTS TO ESTABLISH OR UPGRADE SERVICES ARE NOT INCLUDED, BUT IT INCLUDES THE METER, THE IMPACT, CAPITAL RECOVERY FEES, AND ANY INSTALLATION COSTS.
DOES THAT NOT COVER THE ELECTRICAL? SO, THIS WILL COVER THE INSTALLATION OF THE ELECTRICITY UNDERGROUND TO GET TO THE CAMPUS SO WE CAN HAVE PERMANENT POWER. THE COST OF THAT PERMANENT POWER, JUST LIKE OUR ELECTRIC BILL, THEN WOULD BECOME OURS ONCE IT'S WON. ONCE IT'S COME.
TRUSTEES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? TRUSTEE FRANCO.
I GUESS, JUST TO CLARIFY AND THANK YOU FOR THAT, TRUSTEE WEGNER. BUT TO TRUSTEE SIERRA'S POINT, THERE'S NOT A LINE ITEM FOR HOW MUCH IT'S COSTING US TO PUT IN ELECTRICITY. DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S BUDGETED IN HERE, AND THAT IS A CONCERN.
I DO AGREE WITH TRUSTEE SIERRA THAT, IN EACH ONE OF THESE LINE ITEMS, NONE OF THEM REFERENCE THE ELECTRICAL OR POWER.
YEAH, AND I'LL HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH CODY TO SEE WHY THAT WASN'T INCLUDED. SO, MY APOLOGIES FOR THAT. I'LL GET YOU THAT INFORMATION.
AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION REGARDING THIS IS, COULD YOU CLARIFY WHAT YOU MEAN BY, I THINK YOU SAID "MAKE WHOLE"? SO, YOU SAID WE CAN CLOSE THE DOORS AND HAVE AIR CONDITIONING, SO WE DON'T GET A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY.
SO, THIS OBJECTIVE WOULD MAKE THE CAMPUS WHOLE, WHICH MEANS WE CAN SECURE THE BUILDING. WE HAVE PERMANENT POWER. WE HAVE PERMANENT WATER. SO THAT WAY, WE CAN COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITY ITSELF AND LOCK IT UP AS WE NEED TO.
BUT THAT DOES NOT ALLOW US TO GET A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT IN ORDER FOR US TO OCCUPY THE BUILDING.
AND I GUESS I DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONCERN WITHOUT KNOWING.
I TRUST THAT THIS IS THE AMOUNT TO PUT IN ELECTRICITY, BUT WITHOUT HAVING THAT AMOUNT IN HERE, THIS IS A LITTLE CONFUSING. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME BACK LATER ON AND SAY, "WELL, NOW WE NEED ANOTHER $4 MILLION BECAUSE WE DIDN'T INCLUDE THE ELECTRICITY." IT'S SUPER CONCERNING.
AND AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE. I'M NOT SURE WHY IT WASN'T DESIGNATED OR CLEARLY DEFINED IN THIS PROPOSAL, BUT THAT SCOPE OF WORK IS INCLUDED IN THIS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW RECESS TO EXECUTIVE SESSION AS AUTHORIZED BY CHAPTER 551 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE.
DO WE NEED A MOTION TO TABLE THIS AFTER EXECUTIVE SESSION? OKAY.
OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS UNTIL AFTER? TRUSTEE PANTOJA MAKES A MOTION.
[IX. Closed Session]
SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES.WE WILL NOW RECESS TO EXECUTIVE SESSION AS AUTHORIZED BY CHAPTER 551 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE UNDER SECTIONS 551.071, 551.074, AND 551.076.
[VIII.D. Consider and take action to approve Guarantees Maximum Price Proposal No. 3 for additional infrastructure work associated with the North Del Valle High School Construction Project. (Part 2 of 2)]
COMING BACK INTO OPEN SESSION. THE TIME IS 10:08.AND I KNOW WE HAD TABLED A MOTION ON ITEM D IN THE ACTION ITEMS, AND I THINK MR. WILLOUGHBY WILL BE MAKING SOME CLARIFICATIONS.
GUTIERREZ, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO CLARIFY THE EARLIER INFORMATION. SO, I WAS ABLE TO GO BACK AND FIND SOME ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION AS IT RELATES TO THE PERMANENT POWER THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR.
SO, IN OCTOBER OF 2024, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF AN ACTING SUPERINTENDENT, THE BOARD APPROVED A PAYMENT TO AUSTIN ENERGY IN THE AMOUNT OF $979,646 SO THAT THE UNDERGROUND PERMANENT UTILITIES, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, COULD BE INSTALLED. SO THAT WAS BOARD APPROVED IN OCTOBER OF 2024.
THERE HAD TO BE SOME ADDITIONAL
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PERMITTING AND IMPROVEMENTS AND DESIGN APPROVALS BY AUSTIN ENERGY WITH AMERICAN CONSTRUCTORS. THAT WAS COMPLETED IN OCTOBER. ONCE WE GOT ALL OF THOSE APPROVALS FINISHED, WE SUBMITTED PAYMENT TO AUSTIN ENERGY ON DECEMBER 10TH OF 2025 IN THE AMOUNT OF $796,000 FOR THAT TO TAKE PLACE. SO THAT'S BEEN DONE.THIS RECOMMENDATION FOR THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT GETS AS TRUSTEE SIERRA EXPLAINED. GETS THE OVERHEAD LINES FROM TAYLOR LANE TO THE SWITCHGEAR AND TRANSFORMER THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED SO THAT WE CAN PERMANENTLY POWER THE BUILDING. NOW, IN THE FUTURE, IT IS UNDER THE SCOPE OF WHISPER VALLEY TO TAKE THOSE OVERHEAD LINES AND PUT THEM UNDERGROUND, BUT THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT. ONCE WE GET THESE POWER LINES INSTALLED FROM TAYLOR LANE TO OUR SWITCHGEAR THAT'S ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED, WE'RE GOOD TO GO.
SO, THIS RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL OF THE GMP IS FOR THAT INSTALLATION OF THE TEMPORARY ROAD TO ALLOW FOR THE OVERHEAD POWER LINES TO COMPLETE THE PERMANENT POWER CONNECTION. IT INCLUDES THE TWENTY-FOUR-INCH WATERLINE, MASS GRADING, AND ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE TO ALLOW THE SHEET FLOW OF WATER OFF OF OUR SITES.
WE CAN BOARD ANY QUESTIONS WITH THAT BILL.
HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SECRETARY WEGNER MAKES A MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? HOLD UP. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION NOT TO EXCEED SIX MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE GMP PROPOSAL NUMBER THREE.
SECRETARY WEGNER MAKES A MOTION. TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY MAKES A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? ALL THOSE AGAINST? MOTION PASSES SIXONE.
[X.A. Discuss, Consider and Possibly Act on Superintendent's Recommendations for Contract Renewals for Teachers, Librarians, Nurses, and Counselors with Chapter 21 Probationary and Term contracts for School Year 2026-2027]
DO I HAVE A MOTION FOR SUPERINTENDENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONTRACT RENEWAL FOR TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, NURSES, COUNSELORS IN CHAPTER 21? PROBATIONARY AND TERM CONTRACTS FOR SECRETARY WEGNER MAKES A MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? TRUSTEE PANTOJA MAKES A SECOND.ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? TRUSTEE LEDESMA-WOODY MAKES A
[XI. New Business/Future Board Agenda Items]
MOTION.TRUSTEE PANTOJA? OH, THAT'S RIGHT. I'M SORRY.
ANY NEW BUSINESS? I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
SORRY. OH, GO AHEAD, VICE PRESIDENT.
YOU'RE THEI MEAN, VICE PRESIDENT.
I'D LIKE TO ADD WHAT TRUSTEE SIERRA MENTIONED EARLIER, THE RECOMMENDATION PLACED ON THE AGENDA FOR APRIL 7TH.
SO THAT WAY WE CAN GO AHEAD AND THANK YOU.
TRUSTEE FRANCO. I'D LIKE TO ADD, AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, A DISCUSSION ON THE POSSIBLE CREATION OF A FACILITIES COMMITTEE TO OVERSEE OUR DISTRICT FACILITIES, OR AT LEAST HAVE MORE OVERSIGHT ON WHAT'S GOING ON SO WE CAN GET AHEAD OF SOME ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE.
THANK YOU FOR THAT CONSIDERATION.
ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER FUTURE BUSINESS? ALL RIGHT. NOW, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN, PLEASE.
TRUSTEE LEDESMA WOODY MAKES A MOTION TO ADJOURN. TRUSTEE PANTOJA SECONDS THE MOTION.
MEETING. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE TIME IS 10:13.
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