Aug 18, 2026 Board Work Session

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GOOD EVENING. I'M LAUREN

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ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYONE.

AT THIS TIME, I WILL ASK SUPERINTENDENT DR. THERESA WILLIAMS TO PLEASE VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT REGARDING THE NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TYRA. I VERIFY THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT. THANK YOU, DR. WILLIAMS. THE SEGMENT'S BEING RECORDED IN COMPLIANCE WITH TEXAS SENATE BILL 413, WHICH AMENDS SECTION 11.0621 OF THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING WILL REFLECT EACH MEMBER'S ATTENDANCE AND THEIR VOTE ON ANY ITEM.

ADDITIONALLY, THE APPROVED MINUTES, ANY ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS, AND THE RECORDING OF THIS MEETING WILL BE POSTED ON OUR DISTRICT'S WEBSITE NO LATER THAN SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS AFTER TODAY'S MEETING.

TRUSTEES, WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE ROLL CALL. KINDLY PLEASE RESPOND WHEN YOUR NAME IS ANNOUNCED. LAUREN TYRA. I AM PRESENT. NANCY HUMPHREY. I'M PRESENT. KATHERINE GOODWIN.

PRESENT. TARRAH LANTZ.

PRESENT. SAM JOHNSON.

PRESENT. MICHAEL COOK IS NOT PRESENT. HE WILL NOT BE ATTENDING THIS EVENING. AND ELISA KLEIN. PRESENT. THANK YOU. TRUSTEES, I'D ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE STAFF SEATED AT THE DAIS TO MY LEFT, SUPERINTENDENT DR. THERESA WILLIAMS. DR. SELENDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS.

ON MY RIGHT, JOHNNY HILL, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR BUSINESS, EMPLOYEE SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY. LISA WILSON, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING.

DR. PATRICK TANNER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. IVAN CANTU, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STRATEGY AND INNOVATION.

DR. JENNIFER MILEY, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES, AND DR. DUANA KINDLE, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR EMPLOYEE SERVICES. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON

[2. PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION - AGENDA ITEMS ONLY ]

[3. CLOSED SESSION ]

[4. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION ]

[5.1 2022 Bond Program Update]

TONIGHT, I'M PLEASED TO PRESENT THE AUGUST 2026 UPDATE ON THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM. SINCE OUR LAST UPDATE IN FEBRUARY, THERE HAS CONTINUED TO BE A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY ACROSS THE DISTRICT. WE'RE NOW ALMOST FOUR YEARS INTO WHAT IS A FIVE YEAR BOND PROGRAM. AND WHEN YOU LOOK ACROSS PLANO TODAY, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THAT INVESTMENT TAKING SHAPE. WE'VE COMPLETED THE NEW HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE NEW CTE CENTER REMAINS ON TRACK FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION IN OCTOBER, AND THE BUILDING IS ALREADY BECOMING A PROMINENT PRESENCE AT THE CORNER OF ALMOND PARK. PHASE CONSTRUCTION IS WELL UNDERWAY AT EACH OF OUR THREE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, AND WE'RE ACTIVELY CONSTRUCTING PROJECTS AT CAMPUSES THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.

AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE DESIGNING THE NEXT GROUP OF PROJECTS. SO TONIGHT I WANT TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF MOMENTUM, A SENSE OF THE MOMENTUM WE'RE SEEING ACROSS THE PROGRAM, HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE REALLY MOVING RIGHT NOW, AND ALSO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE WORK HAPPENING ACROSS THE DISTRICT THAT ISN'T ALWAYS VISIBLE. SO WHERE ARE WE TODAY? THIS SLIDE GIVES YOU A PRETTY GOOD SNAPSHOT OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROGRAM. WE'RE WORKING IN MULTIPLE PHASES AT THE SAME TIME. WE'RE FINISHING PROJECTS, WE'RE ACTIVELY CONSTRUCTING PROJECTS, WE'RE DESIGNING THE NEXT GROUP OF PROJECTS, AND WE KNOW WHAT'S LEFT. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT MAKES THIS POINT IN THE BOND PROGRAM SO BUSY.

WE'RE ESSENTIALLY MANAGING SEVERAL DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE PROGRAM SIMULTANEOUSLY. I'LL START WITH A FEW OF OUR LARGER PROJECTS THAT ARE REALLY SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF THE BOND PROGRAM. WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL IS ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS. THIS IS THE SECOND PHASE OF THE WILLIAMS MASTER PLAN, AND WHEN IT'S COMPLETE, VIRTUALLY EVERY MAJOR AREA OF THIS CAMPUS WILL HAVE BEEN RENOVATED OR SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED. AT THE RETURN OF STUDENTS THIS FALL, WE WERE ABLE TO TURN OVER A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE PROJECT, INCLUDING THE NEW KITCHEN AND CAFETERIA, THE BAND HALL, THE WARRIOR CENTER, BOTH FLOORS OF THE SCIENCE WING, THE ADMINISTRATION AREAS, AND THE PRIMARY CORRIDORS.

WE'RE CONTINUING TO TURN OVER ADDITIONAL SPACES. THE COMPETITION GYM IS SCHEDULED TO BE READY NEXT WEEK, AND BOTH THE LOCKER AREAS AND THE

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WITH THE FIELD HOUSE CURRENTLY PROJECTED FOR COMPLETION IN OCTOBER, WILLIAMS CONTINUES TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT A LARGE RENOVATION LOOKS LIKE.

TOWARD THE LATTER PART OF CONSTRUCTION, YOU HAVE SPACES ALREADY BEING USED BY STUDENTS AND STAFF WHILE OTHER AREAS ARE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND BEING COORDINATED AROUND THEM.

HAGGARD IS ANOTHER PROJECT THAT DESERVES SOME ATTENTION AS THIS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BUILD OUT SUCCESSFULLY OPENED ITS DOORS FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME LAST WEEK. THE SCHOOL ALSO HOSTED A WELL-ATTENDED REDEDICATION CEREMONY LAST NIGHT, WHICH WAS A NICE OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE NEW SCHOOL WITH THE HAGGARD COMMUNITY.

STUDENTS AND STAFF WERE WELCOMED INTO A BRAND-NEW STATE OF THE ART MIDDLE SCHOOL.

APPROXIMATELY 108,000 SQUARE FEET DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY AROUND THE NEEDS OF TODAY'S STUDENTS AND STAFF.

THEY WALKED INTO BRIGHT, FLEXIBLE LEARNING SPACES, NEW SCIENCE LABS, THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED FINE ARTS AND ATHLETIC SPACES, A NEW CAFETERIA AND KITCHEN, AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND BUILDING SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT. WITH THE NEW HAGGARD BUILDING COMPLETE AND NOW OCCUPIED, THERE WILL BE A BRIEF HIATUS BEFORE WE COME BACK TO COMPLETE THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE PROJECT.

FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS, BUILDING H, THE EXISTING HAGGARD BUILDING WILL REMAIN NEXT DOOR AND WILL BE IN USE BY PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AS SWING SPACE WHILE CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES ON THAT CAMPUS. ONCE THAT USE IS COMPLETE, WE'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH DEMOLITION OF BUILDING H AND THE REMAINING SITE IMPROVEMENTS, INCLUDING THE NEW TRACK AND FIELD THAT WILL SERVE HAGGARD. PLANO SENIOR IS PROBABLY THE BEST EXAMPLE OF THE SCALE AND COMPLEXITY OF THE WORK WE'RE TAKING ON THROUGH THIS BOND PROGRAM. THE ATHLETIC EDITION, WHICH INCLUDES TWO NEW PRACTICE GYMS AND THE STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER, WAS HANDED OVER AT THE START OF SCHOOL AND IS NOW BEING USED BY STUDENTS AND STAFF. THE COMPETITION GYM AND NEW LOBBY ARE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND ARE SCHEDULED TO CONTINUE THROUGH OCTOBER.

AT THE SAME TIME, WE MADE A MAJOR TRANSITION OVER THE SUMMER IN THE EXISTING CAMPUS.

BUILDING B WAS COMPLETELY MOVED OUT OVER THE SUMMER AND THE CONTRACTOR IS NOW IN THE BUILDING AND WILL BE THERE FOR APPROXIMATELY THE NEXT YEAR COMPLETING THE RENOVATION.

STUDENTS AND STAFF WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY USING BUILDING B, OR SORRY, STUDENTS AND STAFF WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY USING BUILDING B HAVE FOUND A NEW HOME IN BUILDING H, THE FORMER HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL. WE'RE REALLY SEEING THE PHASING OF THIS PROJECT PLAY OUT.

WE'RE COMPLETING ONE AREA AND PUTTING IT INTO USE WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY MOVING INTO THE NEXT PHASE OF RENOVATION. ANOTHER PROJECT BUILDING EVER INCREASING EXCITEMENT IS THE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER.

THE EXTERIOR IS REALLY STARTING TO COME TOGETHER AND INSIDE WE'RE MOVING THROUGH THE FINAL STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION. A LOT OF THE MAJOR BUILDING SYSTEMS ARE IN PLACE AND WE'RE NOW SEEING THE CLASSROOMS, LABS, SPECIALTY SPACES AND COMMON AREAS BEGIN TO LOOK LIKE THE FINISHED FACILITY.

WE'RE FOCUSED NOW ON COMPLETING THE REMAINING FINISHES, EQUIPMENT TESTING AND COMMISSIONING, AND GETTING THE BUILDING READY FOR OCCUPANCY. OCTOBER REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE AS WE REACH SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF THE BUILDING AND WHEN YOU DRIVE BY ALLMAN PARK TODAY, YOU CAN REALLY BEGIN TO SEE THE FACILITY THAT WILL SOON SERVE STUDENTS FROM ACROSS OUR DISTRICT. AND THEN WE HAVE PLANO WEST WHERE WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE SIGNIFICANT PIECES OF THE PROJECT COME ONLINE.

THE NEW TWO-STORY CLASSROOM WING IS COMPLETE AND IS NOW BEING OCCUPIED BY STUDENTS AND STAFF. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION SUITE IS ALSO COMPLETE AND THE NEW MAIN ENTRY OFF WILLOW BEND IS NOW OPEN AND SERVING AS THE PRIMARY ENTRANCE TO THE CAMPUS. THE NEW 12 COURT TENNIS COMPLEX HAS BEEN OPEN FOR PRACTICE AND HAS ALREADY HOSTED A TOURNAMENT.

AT THE SAME TIME, CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES ON THE NEW PRACTICE GYM, LOCKER ROOMS AND OTHER ATHLETIC SPACES WHILE RENOVATION WORK CONTINUES WITHIN THE EXISTING CAMPUS.

WE'RE NOW SEEING STUDENTS AND STAFF BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE SOME OF THE NEW SPACES FIRSTHAND WHILE THE LARGER TRANSFORMATION CONTINUES AROUND THEM. PLANO EAST IS ANOTHER CAMPUS WHERE WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF ACTIVITY WITH SEVERAL PIECES OF THE PROJECT EITHER RECENTLY COMPLETED OR APPROACHING COMPLETION. WE'RE FINISHING UP THREE NEW CTE FOOD SERVICE LABS IN BUILDING 3, ALONG WITH AN UPGRADE TO THE IDF ROOM, BOTH TARGETED FOR COMPLETION THIS MONTH. THE NEW TENNIS COURT COMPLEX IS ALSO NEARING COMPLETION.

AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE CONTINUING TO WORK THROUGHOUT THE EXISTING CAMPUS, INCLUDING LED LIGHTING REPLACEMENTS IN BUILDINGS B1 THROUGH B4. THERE'S STILL MORE TO COME, INCLUDING THE EVENTUAL TRANSITION OF THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM INTO BUILDING F CURRENTLY ANTICIPATED FOR NEXT SPRING, AS WELL AS CONTINUED DESIGN AND PRICING FOR THE NEW CAMPUS CONNECTORS.

ANOTHER PROJECT UNDERWAY IS THE NEW TRANSPORTATION FUELING STATION NEAR CLARK STADIUM.

THIS IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT WILL MODERNIZE AND REPLACE THE DISTRICT'S EXISTING FUELING OPERATIONS.

CONSTRUCTION IS NOW ACTIVELY UNDERWAY AND PROGRESSING.

EXCAVATION FOR THE UNDERGROUND FUEL TANKS IS COMPLETE WITH TANK INSTALLATION SCHEDULED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

WORK IS ALSO ADVANCING ON THE FUEL CANOPY WITH ALL OF THE FOUNDATION PEERS SUCCESSFULLY PASSING THEIR REQUIRED INSPECTIONS. CANOPY COLUMN INSTALLATION IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SOON. WE'RE ALSO COORDINATING THE REMAINING PERMIT FOR THE ATTENDANT KIOSK AS WE CONTINUE WORKING TOWARD COMPLETION AND OPERATIONAL READINESS. THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPORTS THE DISTRICT'S DAILY TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS. AT

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THE HVAC SCOPE INCLUDES NEW CHILLERS, NEW ROOFTOP UNITS AND NEW HVAC CONTROLS. MCCOWN GORDON WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE ESSENTIALLY ALL OF THAT WORK BEFORE STUDENTS RETURNED, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE LONG LEAD ROOFTOP UNIT SERVING THE GYM. THAT RTU IS EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER. THEY ALSO WORKED HARD TO GET THE TEMPORARY SERVING LINE INSTALLED AND OPERATIONAL BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED, ALLOWING THE CAMPUS TO BEGIN THE YEAR WITH THAT TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENT IN PLACE WHILE THE LARGER KITCHEN WORK CONTINUES. THAT WAS A REAL PUSH BY THE CONTRACTOR AND IT ALLOWED THE CAMPUS TO START THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH THE MOST CRITICAL PIECES OF THE PROJECT IN PLACE. WE'VE ALSO GOT A LOT OF TARGETED PROJECTS UNDERWAY ACROSS THE DISTRICT THAT HAVE VERY DIRECT IMPACT ON INDIVIDUAL CAMPUSES LIKE MURPHY. WE'RE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS IN A NUMBER OF OUR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES AS WELL.

AT SHEPHERD, THE INITIAL CLASSROOM AND FIRST PHASE RESTROOM RENOVATIONS ARE COMPLETE ALONG WITH THE FIRE ALARM, SPRINKLER AND HVAC CONTROL UPGRADES. ONE PLAYGROUND IS COMPLETE AND THE SECOND IS EXPECTED NEXT MONTH WITH THE REMAINING INTERIOR PHASE BEING THE THIRD-GRADE RESTROOM AND CAFETERIA RESTROOM SCHEDULED TO WRAP UP BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AT BEVERLY AND STINSON, TEMPORARY SERVING LINES WERE COMPLETED BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED. THE CONTRACTORS ARE NOW WORKING BEHIND CONSTRUCTION WALLS IN THE DEMOLITION PHASE AS THEY BUILD OUT THE NEW KITCHENS.

AT WELLS, WE'RE MOVING THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE RENOVATION THAT INCLUDES THE KITCHEN, HVAC, RESTROOMS, FLOORING AND ROOF.

THE PROJECT IS BEING CAREFULLY SEQUENCED AROUND AN OCCUPIED CAMPUS AND LONGER LEAD MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. AT BARREN, ALL EIGHT NEW ROOFTOP UNITS WERE INSTALLED, STARTED UP AND COOLING THE BUILDING BEFORE SCHOOL BEGAN. FINAL INSPECTIONS WERE APPROVED AUGUST 10TH AND THE CONTROLS WORK IS NOW DOWN TO FINAL TIE INS, PROGRAMMING AND CHECKOUT.

AT OTTO, THE CONSUMER SCIENCE LAB IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE, THE WEIGHT ROOM FLOORING IS COMPLETE, THE BUILDING CONTROLS ARE COMPLETE AND THE NEW BACKFLOW PREVENTERS HAVE PASSED INSPECTION. WE'RE DOWN TO A SMALL NUMBER OF REMAINING ITEMS AND AT RAZOR, THE NEW BOILERS COMPLETE AND THE CONTROLS REPLACEMENT IS NEARING COMPLETION WITH THE REMAINING WORK PRIMARILY BEING FINAL CONNECTIONS AND CLOSEOUT. A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THIS PHASE, SIGNIFICANT PART OR WORK UNDER THIS BOND PROGRAM IS HVAC CONTROLS AND OTHER BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE. EXAMPLES OF THAT WOULD BE AT SCHIMELPFENIG WE COMPLETED THE CONSUMER SCIENCE LAB RENOVATIONS, FIRE PROTECTION UPGRADES, RTU REPLACEMENTS, DOMESTIC WATER WORK, HYDRONIC PIPING AND BOILER INSTALLATION BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED. THE NEW FIRE ALARM SYSTEM IS INSTALLED AND BEING TRANSITIONED WHILE THE LARGER CHILLER, AIR HANDLING CONTROLS AND ELEVATOR WORK IS BEING SEQUENCED INTO NEXT SUMMER. AT SHEPTON, THE NEW RTUS WERE OPERATING BEFORE SCHOOL START ALONG WITH SUBSTANTIAL ELECTRICAL AND CULINARY CLASSROOM WORK. THE REMAINING WORK IS PRIMARY FINISH WORK IN THE FINAL CULINARY BUILDOUT.

AT THOMAS, THE NEW CHILLER IS UP AND RUNNING AND THE MAJORITY OF THE WORK WAS COMPLETED BEFORE SCHOOL. THE REMAINING WORK INCLUDES SOME OF THE LONG LEAD PUMPS, BOILING PIPING, FIRE ALARM AND CONTROLS. AT JASPER, ALL THE NEW RTUS WERE OPERATING BEFORE SCHOOL WITH THE REMAINING WORK FOCUSED ON PLUMBING INSTALLATION, ROOFING TOUCH UP AND SOME DUCTWORK, PLATE REPLACEMENT CONTROLS AND FIRE ALARM. AT SAGLING, THE NEW RTU HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE MID-JULY. CITY INSPECTIONS ARE COMPLETE AND THE CONTROLS ARE ESSENTIALLY COMPLETE PENDING THE FINAL DATA CONNECTIONS.

AT MCCALL, 1 CHILLER AND THE ASSOCIATED PUMPS HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH STARTUPS SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW. THE SECOND CHILLER WILL FOLLOW AFTER THE FIRST HAS BEEN OPERATIONAL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK, WITH ONE CHILLER CAPABLE OF MEETING THE BUILDING'S CURRENT COOLING DEMAND. CONTROLS WORK IS ALSO ONGOING. AND THEN AT RICE, THE CHILLER INSTALLATION WAS COMPLETED BEFORE SCHOOL WITH INSULATION CONTROLS, TEST AND BALANCE AND COMMISSIONING NOW WRAPPING UP. THIS IS WORK THAT PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY SEE, BUT THEY FEEL IT EVERY DAY, A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF MAINTAINING THE CAMPUSES OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF USE EVERY DAY. WE'RE ALSO USING JOB ORDER CONTRACTING JOC TO ADDRESS SMALLER TARGETED PROJECTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

JOC GIVES US ANOTHER TOOL TO MOVE MORE QUICKLY ON THINGS LIKE CHILLER WORK, ROOFTOP UNIT REPLACEMENTS, IDF IMPROVEMENTS AND SMALLER CTE RENOVATIONS. THE CHILLER REBUILD AT WEST IS UNDERWAY.

CHILLER 2 HAS BEEN OPERATIONAL SINCE LATE JULY AND THEY'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON NUMBER THREE. OUR SALVAGE ROOFTOP UNIT REPLACEMENTS ARE COMPLETE AND IDF CLOSET IMPROVEMENTS AT SEVERAL CAMPUSES ARE ALSO COMPLETE.

TOGETHER, THESE PROJECTS REPRESENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK HAPPENING ACROSS OUR EXISTING CAMPUSES THAT COMPLEMENTS THE LARGER BOND PROJECTS. AND BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS THEM INDIVIDUALLY AND MOVE THEM FORWARD AS NEEDS ARISE, JOC GIVES US ANOTHER TOOL TO KEEP THAT WORK MOVING THROUGHOUT THE BOND PROGRAM.

MORE EXAMPLES OF OUR JOC PROGRAMS. WE CONTINUE TO MAKE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. THIS IS

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WE'RE ALSO COMPLETING ATHLETIC IMPROVEMENTS WITH NEW SYNTHETIC TRACKS AT SCHIMELPFENIG AND RICE MIDDLE SCHOOLS. SCHIMELPFENIG IS NOW COMPLETE. RICE ENCOUNTERED AN UNFORESEEN UTILITY CONFLICT DURING CONSTRUCTION THAT AFFECTED THE TRACK WORK, BUT THAT ISSUE HAS NOW BEEN RESOLVED AND THE PROJECT IS BACK ON TRACK WITH TURNOVER CURRENTLY EXPECTED IN OCTOBER.

UNTIL THEN, WE'VE WORKED WITH THE CITY TO ESTABLISH AN AGREED UPON PRACTICE LOCATION AT THE ADJACENT RUSSELL CREEK PARK FOR RICE FOOTBALL. AND AS WE LOOK ACROSS THE DISTRICT, WE'RE ALSO STARTING TO SEE SOME OF THE BOND PROGRAM'S EARLIER WORK REACH ITS FINAL CHAPTER. WE'VE COMPLETED DEMOLITION AT DAVIS, FOREMAN AND ARMSTRONG AND THOSE SITES HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE CITY.

CARPENTER MIDDLE SCHOOL DEMOLITION IS ALSO COMPLETE.

WITH THE SITE MOVING INTO RESTORATION. THE TENNIS COURTS LEFT ON OUR CARPENTER SITE ARE NOW OPEN FOR PLAY. THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF A LONG-TERM FACILITIES PROGRAM. WE'RE NOT ONLY BUILDING NEW SPACES.

WE'RE ALSO RESPONSIBLY CLOSING OUT FACILITIES THAT HAVE REACHED THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIFE. SO, AS WE LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE TONIGHT, I THINK THERE ARE REALLY THREE THINGS THAT I'D WANT YOU TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS UPDATE. FIRST, THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM IS MOVING. WE'RE ALMOST FOUR YEARS INTO THE PROGRAM AND CONSTRUCTION IS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.

SECOND, THE SCALE OF THE WORK IS SIGNIFICANT.

WE'RE COMPLETING MAJOR PROJECTS LIKE HAGGARD, CT AND WILLIAMS MOVING THROUGH THE MAJOR RENOVATIONS AT PLANO SENIOR AND PLANO WEST, AND AT THE SAME TIME ADDRESSING DOZENS OF TARGETED IMPROVEMENTS ACROSS OUR ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS. AND THIRD, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF US. SO, THANK YOU. THAT'S THE END OF MY REPORT. THANK YOU, TONY.

TRUSTEES, THIS IS A REPORT.

SO, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FOR THE TEAM? WELL, I HAVE A COMMENT EVERY YEAR I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS REPORT AND SEEING ALL THE NEW PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. SO, THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT.

THANK YOU FOR THE TEAM WHO CARRIES THIS WORK OUT. AND IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN HAWAII THEY HAVE THESE LITTLE THINGS CALLED MENEHUNES. THEY'RE LIKE FAIRIES THAT DO YOUR WORK FOR YOU OVERNIGHT. AND I FEEL LIKE YOU GUYS ARE THAT IN IN THE SUMMER BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT. YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU DEMO AND TAKE DOWN WALLS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL AND THEN BY THE TIME SCHOOL OPENS, EVERYTHING'S PRISTINE AND WORKING AND AMAZING. SO, THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OUR COMMUNITY PASSED A BOND IN NOVEMBER OF 2022 WHICH HELPS FUND ALL OF THIS. WE'RE IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF THAT BOND. AND SO, I THINK IT'S JUST A KUDOS TO OUR COMMUNITY FOR INVESTING IN THE FUTURE AND OUR STUDENTS.

SO, IT'S ALL EXCITING. AND I ENJOYED SEEING HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS SUCH A WARM RECEPTION. THAT WAS TRULY AN AMAZING PROGRAM. SO, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK YOU GUYS HAVE DONE. THANK YOU. I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, I WAS AT PLANO EAST AND MR. JONES WAS SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED TO SHOW MR. HILL AND LOUISA LEINER FROM SLI THE NEW THREE FOOD SCIENCE ROOMS. AND I DIDN'T REALIZE AFTER WE LEFT THAT ONE, I'M LIKE, WAIT, THERE'S TWO MORE.

AND SO, IT WAS. AND FOR THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT DON'T KNOW THIS IS FOR THE TEACHER TO BE. THERE'S LIKE A COOL PROJECTOR THAT COMES DOWN AND THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, CUT, DICE, WHATEVER THEY DO, PREPARE A MEAL AND THEN THE STUDENTS CAN BE AT THEIR OWN STATIONS AND EVERYBODY CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. SO, IT'S REALLY NEAT, THE INVESTMENT THAT WE'RE PUTTING INTO THE STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO LEARN THIS. AND I THINK THAT THIS WILL TEACH THEM GREAT LIFE SKILLS. AND THEN WE WENT OVER TO MURPHY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND OF COURSE THE FIRST THING MR. HILL WAS WAITING FOR WAS LIKE HE WALKED IN AND HE'S LIKE, HOW'S THE AIR CONDITIONING? THAT HAS BEEN TOP OF MIND. AND SO, YES, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S WORKING ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

AND I CAN REPORT THAT EVERYTHING WAS GOING FINE, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED SINCE. SO, I HOPE IT'S BEEN GREAT. I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING, SO I ASSUME IT'S GOING WELL.

IT IS. I JUST HAVE TWO QUICK COMMENTS. I THINK I WAS AT THE HAGGARD REDEDICATION LAST NIGHT AND I THINK THAT MR. RUTLEDGE HAD THE COMMENT OF THE EVENING WHICH WAS, I WANT TO GO BACK TO MIDDLE SCHOOL SO I CAN COME HERE.

SO, I AGREE, I AGREE. I WANT TO GO THERE TOO. NO, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK ON THE PLAYGROUNDS BECAUSE I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE CHANGES AND EVERYTHING, HAVING THEM NOT JUST BE ALL WEATHER BUT ADA ACCESSIBLE. I LOVE THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT ALL OF OUR STUDENTS HAVING THE ABILITY TO USE, UTILIZE THE PLAYGROUND. SO THAT'S WORK THAT'S JUST VERY INTENTIONAL AND I LOVE THAT.

SO, THANK YOU. SO, IF WE'RE

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THIS SEEMS LIKE A VERY SMALL THING, BUT I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW EXCITED THEY ARE AT BARRON ELEMENTARY TO HAVE AN ELECTRONIC SIGN AND HOW LONG THEY'VE WAITED AND COMPLAINED THAT WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? WHY DON'T WE GET ONE? AND SO, WE ARE SO EXCITED. AND AGAIN, I THINK THOSE, THE ELECTRONIC ONE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO ALLOW THEM TO COMMUNICATE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, WHICH REALLY HELPS. WE'RE RIGHT ON, YOU KNOW, RIGHT ON THE MAIN ROAD THERE. AND THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE BETTER WITH THE COMMUNITY IS WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT. I JUST HAVE TWO QUICK COMMENTS AND ONE OF THESE, TONY, YOU'LL HAVE TO PARDON ME BECAUSE I'M A LITTLE BIT SALTY ABOUT IT. I CONTINUE TO BE FRUSTRATED BY THE RUMOR MONGERING IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL IS ACTUALLY A SECRET NEW FOUR-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL TRANSITION PLAN THAT WE HAVE ALL COOKED UP AND ARE LYING TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT.

HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO LET ME ASSURE THE COMMUNITY HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL IS A MIDDLE SCHOOL. THERE ARE NO SECRET PLANS TO TURN THAT INTO, YOU KNOW, PLANO SENIOR HIGH INTO A COMPREHENSIVE FOUR-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL. IF SOME FUTURE, YOU KNOW, 10, 15 YEARS WHEN I'M NOT ON THE BOARD ANYMORE, DOES THAT, THEN THINGS CHANGE.

BUT I CONTINUE TO BE VERY, VERY FRUSTRATED WITH THE RUMOR MONGERING IN THE COMMUNITY ON THAT. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE SEEING AND HEARING PARENTS OR STAFF MEMBERS SAY THOSE THINGS, THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU THE TRUTH. SO, I'M JUST GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE BLATANT THAN I WAS LAST TIME BECAUSE IT CONTINUED. I CONTINUE TO BE ASKED THIS QUESTION THE SECOND.

AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AND I WERE LIKE ALL OVER THE DISTRICT ON THE FIRST DAY SCHOOL. I MEAN WE WERE LIKE AS FAR EAST AS MURPHY, AS FAR WEST AS WEST. AND WE SPENT A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME BOTH AT NEW HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH IS ACTUALLY MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND PLANO SENIOR HIGH AND SPENT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME WITH PRINCIPAL AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH, THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND ASSOCIATE PRINCIPALS, ALSO MR. STEVE EWING, WHO'S IN JOHNNY'S DIVISION, REALLY SORT OF UNDERSTANDING AND STUDENTS.

WE HAD A BUNCH OF STUDENTS WANT TO COME UP AND TAKE PICTURES WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS THE BEST THING EVER, THAT THE STUDENTS WERE SO EXCITED. BUT WE, WHAT IS APPARENT TO ME, AND I HOPE THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS AND APPRECIATES IS THAT PRINCIPAL ROBERTSON AND HER TEAM, TONY AND NEW CONSTRUCTION AND HIS TEAM, STEVE, OUR TRANSPORTATION TEAM, EVERYBODY IS WORKING TO TRY AND GET THIS RIGHT FOR THE KIDS. TRANSITIONING BETWEEN THE MAIN CAMPUS AND BUILDING H. AND WHAT MY UNDERSTANDING FROM KENITRA IS THAT FOR ABOUT 80% OF STUDENTS, THEY CAN STAY IN BUILDING H HALF THE DAY AND THEY CAN STAY, YOU KNOW, AND TRANSITION TO THE OTHER HALF OF THE CAMPUS. BUT 20% OF STUDENTS, BECAUSE OF ELECTIVES, AP COURSES, SPECIALIZED COURSES, HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE BACK AND FORTH, RIGHT? AND IT'S A CHOICE, RIGHT, IN SOME WAYS BETWEEN TELLING STUDENTS LIKE, YOU MAY HAVE TO GO BACK AND FORTH A LITTLE BIT MORE OR I'M SORRY, YOU CAN'T, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THE COURSES AND THE ELECTIVES YOU WANT, RIGHT? AND LEAVING THAT UP TO THE STUDENTS TO CHOOSE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. BUT WHAT WAS APPARENT TO ME ON THE FIRST DAY IN SEEING THE WORK THE STAFF WAS DOING ON THIS AND TALKING TO THE TEAM AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH IS THAT THEY ARE DEDICATED TO MAKING THIS WORK FOR YOUR KIDS. AND SO, I HOPE OUR PLANO SENIOR HIGH PARENTS, RUTLEDGE'S GRANDSON, WHO'S A SENIOR AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH HAD WORDS FOR ME ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT AT THE BUILDING. AND SO, I WAS TELLING HIM ABOUT HOW I GREW UP AT PARK AND CUSTER, ONE MAJOR INTERSECTION AWAY FROM PLANO SENIOR HIGH, YET I WAS ZONED FOR PLANO EAST AND SCHLEPPED MY WAY ACROSS TOWN EVERY DAY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, HE THOUGHT THAT WAS RIDICULOUS ALSO. BUT I JUST HOPE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS AND APPRECIATES HOW COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED OF A PROJECT THAT THAT PLANO SENIOR HIGH RENOVATION IS AND IS GOING TO BE AND UNDERSTANDS AND APPRECIATES. THE CAMPUS STAFF AND THE DISTRICT STAFF ARE ALL OVER IT, WORKING VERY, VERY HARD NOT ONLY TO GET YOUR KIDS BACK AND FORTH, YOUR STUDENTS BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN BUILDING AND BUILDING, BUT ALSO ACCOMMODATE THE COURSES YOUR STUDENTS ACTUALLY WANT, RATHER THAN TELLING STUDENTS YOU DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE OF BUILDING ISSUES. SO JUST HOPE TO REASSURE THE COMMUNITY, THE CAMPUS STAFF. WE'VE SEEN THOSE COMMUNICATIONS GOING OUT FROM THE PLANO SENIOR HIGH ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM TO EVERYONE AND APPRECIATE THE COMMUNITY'S PATIENCE ON THAT. IT'S A REALLY, REALLY BIG PROJECT.

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AWESOME. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU TO THE WHOLE NEW CONSTRUCTION TEAM. ALL RIGHT,

[5.2 Accountability Update]

AND I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO LISA WILSON, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, TO PLEASE PRESENT. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TYRA, SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS AND THE BOARD. I'M PLEASED TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO SHARE SOME INFORMATION WITH YOU ABOUT THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS RELEASE THAT TOOK PLACE LAST WEEK. SO TONIGHT I WANT TO COVER A FEW THINGS. WE'LL LOOK AT THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS AS THEY LANDED. WE'LL ALSO LOOK A LITTLE BIT AT SOME SUMMARY DATA THAT IS BEHIND THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS. ALSO WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT STRATEGIC PLAN METRICS BECAUSE WE ARE MORE THAN JUST ONE SCORE ON A STAAR TEST. SO, I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AND THEN WE'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT OUR DISTRICT SUPPORT TEAM PROCESS AND HOW WE SUPPORT CAMPUS CAMPUSES. AND A COUPLE OF NEW THINGS FOR THIS YEAR ARE DIFFERENTIATED ACCOUNTABILITY GROUPS AND THE 100% CLUB. SO, LET'S TALK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY DATA FIRST.

IF YOU WILL RECALL, BACK IN 2022, THE TEA REDEFINED THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.

AT THAT TIME, THEY TOOK THE RATINGS THAT WE HAD IN 21 AND 22 AND THEY PUT OUR SAME SCORES SO THE EXACT SAME TEST RESULTS, THE EXACT SAME SCORES THROUGH THE NEW METHODOLOGY.

SO, WE WOULD HAVE A WHAT IF RATING. AND THAT WHAT IF RATING WAS OFFERED AS KIND OF A BASELINE FOR WHAT OUR, THE NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM WOULD, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, SPIT OUT FROM ITS FORMULA ON THE NEW SYSTEM. SO BACK IN 21-22, THAT WHAT IF RATING WAS AN 84. AND THEN YOU'LL RECALL THEY PUT IN A NEW STAAR EXAM.

THEY STARTED CHANGING CCMR. YOU'LL REMEMBER THE DRASTIC CHANGE IN CCMR EXPECTATIONS.

AND WE WERE IN 84, IN 22-23, IN 23-24, AND EVEN IN 24-25, WE HAD SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO, YOU REMEMBER THE MACHINE SCORING, SOME ISSUES WITH SOME OF THAT. SO NOT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN THE SAME. YOU CAN'T, IT'S REALLY NOT APPLES TO APPLES. I DIDN'T BRING OUT THE FRUITS AGAIN THIS YEAR.

BUT OVER TIME YOU'LL NOTICE THAT OUR RATING THIS YEAR WAS AN 85, WHICH IS THREE POINTS OVER LAST YEAR AND REALLY THE HIGHEST THAT IT HAS BEEN SINCE THE RATING SYSTEM HAS CHANGED.

I DID NOTE AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT SLIDE, ONGOING INCREASED CCMR EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE IT REALLY IS A NEW BALLGAME EVERY YEAR. AND NOT ONLY DO WHAT THEY WILL ACCEPT CHANGES, ALL OF THE DIFFERENCES THAT REALLY MAKE IT A HIGHER BAR EVERY SINGLE YEAR OVER TIME. SO, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS. SO, THE HIGHEST RATING SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2022, HUGE INCREASE IN CCMR. I SEE DR. EDNEY OUT IN THE AUDIENCE. DR. EDNEY AND HER TEAM REALLY WORKING WITH CAMPUSES TO INCREASE THAT CCMR RATING BY 11% FROM THE CLASS OF 24 TO 25. AND IF YOU SAY TO ME, BUT LISA, IT'S 2026, IT'S BECAUSE YOU WILL RECALL THAT THAT CCMR CALCULATION IS A YEAR IN LAGGING BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO FINALIZE EVERYTHING. THIS YEAR, 33% OF OUR CAMPUSES RECEIVED AN A.

73% WERE A B OR ABOVE AND 93% RECEIVED A C OR ABOVE. AND WE WERE VERY PLEASED THAT NO CAMPUSES RECEIVED AN F RATING THIS YEAR AND IN STAR PERFORMANCE. AND YOU'LL SEE THIS IN JUST A MOMENT. WE DO EXCEED THE STATE PERCENTAGES OF STUDENTS AT THE MEETS AND MASTERS LEVEL AND REALLY BY DOUBLE DIGIT FIGURES IN THOSE MEETS AND MASTERS AREAS, DOING VERY WELL FOR OUR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.

BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE AND ALTHOUGH THE STATE DOESN'T NECESSARILY CALCULATE THIS IN ACCOUNTABILITY KIND

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WE'RE PROUD OF OUR CAMPUSES. I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT RATINGS BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THE CALCULATIONS AND THE RATINGS. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT TONIGHT. AND WHAT I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME HIGHLIGHTING TONIGHT IS THE WORK OF OUR STAFF, THE WORK OF OUR TEACHERS TOWARD THE PRIORITIES THAT YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED AS A BOARD, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT GROWTH AND A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE. AND SO, AS WE'RE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE WE WANT TO, WE REALLY, THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT. JUST ONE THING TO NOTE ON 24, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN THE 2324 SCHOOL YEAR. WE HAVE FOUR MORE CAMPUSES FOR THE 2425 AND 2526 LESS THOSE FOUR CAMPUSES. AND SO JUST NOTING THAT THE PERCENTAGES AND NUMBERS MAY NOT EQUATE, BUT JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. YES, THANK YOU. ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT 25 AND 26 ARE FINALLY TWO YEARS WHERE WE CAN SAY APPLES TO APPLES. SO, IF LISA WERE TO BRING HER FRUIT BASKET BACK TO THE TABLE, WE CAN FINALLY REALLY THE TRUE COMPARISON WOULD BE THE 24-25 AND 25-26 BECAUSE AT THAT POINT WE HAD THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS AS WE SEE IT NOW, ALSO THE MACHINE GRADING AND THEN THE NEW REVISED ASSESSMENT. SO REALLY WITH 23-24 WE WERE LOOKING AT A DIFFERENT PIECE OF FRUIT. AND WASN'T THAT ALSO WHEN THEY DIDN'T THEY START HAVING ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION FROM THE STUDENTS, WHICH. THAT CAN BE HARD. YES, ABSOLUTELY.

SO, I DO ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT, YOU KNOW, THE STATE ASSIGNS A LETTER GRADE AND WHILE THAT'S GREAT, THAT IS A VERY COMPLEX LETTER GRADE.

AND SO, I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF PUTTING A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DISTRICTS UP HERE. I HID THE NAMES OF THE DISTRICTS. PLANO IS ON THE LEFT. BUT THERE ARE TWO OTHER DISTRICTS THAT ARE UP THERE THAT ARE A B OF APPROXIMATELY THE SAME RATING AS WE ARE. AND I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE IN THOSE RATINGS. WHEN YOU DIG INTO THOSE RATINGS, WHAT YOU WILL FIND ABOUT EACH OF THOSE DISTRICTS. FIRST OF ALL, YOU'LL NOTICE OUR PERCENTAGE OF APPROACHES, MEETS AND MASTERS EXCEEDS BOTH OF THOSE OTHER BS THAT SHOWS UP IN OUR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT BEING HIGHER, EVEN THOUGH ONE OF THE OTHER TWO DISTRICTS HAS A B.

BUT WE DEFINITELY EXCEEDED THEM IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA. IF YOU'LL RECALL, THE SCHOOL PROGRESS SCORE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IS BASED ON THE BETTER OF DOMAIN 1, WHICH IS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, OR DOMAIN 2A OR 2B, WHICH IS STUDENT ACADEMIC GROWTH AND RELATIVE PERFORMANCE. IT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU DIG INTO THE THREE THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A HIGHER SCORE IN ACADEMIC GROWTH THAN THE OTHER TWO. WE ALSO HAVE A HIGHER SCORE, A HIGHER CALCULATION IN DOMAIN 3 FOR CLOSING THE GAPS THAN THE OTHER TWO. WHERE THE OTHER TWO FIND THEY ARE AHEAD OF US IS IN RELATIVE PERFORMANCE. AND I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT RELATIVE PERFORMANCE HAS A DIFFERENT EXPECTATION PER DISTRICT. SO, THERE IS A DIFFERENT BAR TO REACH A CERTAIN RATING BASED ON YOUR PERCENTAGE OF LOW, YOU KNOW, LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC.

SO, IT'S KIND OF A SLIDING SCALE. SO, WHILE WE EXCEEDED IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, ACADEMIC GROWTH, AND CLOSING THE GAPS FOR BOTH OF THE DISTRICTS THAT YOU SEE THERE, AND YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE GRADUATION RATE IS HIGHER, WE END UP WITH THE SAME RANK OF A B. SO NOT ALL BS ARE THE SAME. AND I'M NOT. I'M NOT PUTTING DOWN ANY OTHER DISTRICT BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING GREAT WORK. AND I DO NOT WANT TO STATE IT THAT WAY. I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THIS IS A VERY COMPLEX SYSTEM WITH VERY COMPLEX CALCULATIONS.

AND SO, A LETTER GRADE SPITS OUT AND IT DOES NOT TELL THE WHOLE STORY. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT. OUR KIDS ARE MORE THAN A SCORE.

OUR TEACHERS ARE MORE THAN A SCORE. AND THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO BRING YOU THE WHOLE STORY ABOUT THE ENTIRE DISTRICT AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN. CAN WE BELABOR THE POINT ON THE GRADUATION RATE FOR A SECOND? I AGREE WITH YOU. SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF SLIDES AND

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I THINK THE WORLD OF THEIR SUPERINTENDENTS. I THINK THEY'RE DOING EXCELLENT WORK.

OKAY, BUT MIDDLE DISTRICT HAS A GRADUATION RATE OF LIKE 86%.

WE'RE 10 POINTS HIGHER.

DISTRICT ON THE END THERE IS LIKE 92.7%. AGAIN, WE'RE 4 POINTS HIGHER THERE. AND SO, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, I MEAN THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS ALMOST AS COMPLEX AS THE SCHOOL FINANCE SYSTEM AT THIS POINT, EXCEPT INSTEAD OF GOLDEN PENNIES AND COPPER PENNIES, IT'S LIKE DOMAIN.

RIGHT. AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE I'VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE ASK ME LIKE, WELL, PLANO GOT THE SAME LETTER GRADE AS THIS DISTRICT AND THIS DISTRICT. AND I WAS SURPRISED.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS DATA AND YOU LOOK AT THESE METRICS, IT FRANKLY IS SORT OF SURPRISING THAT WE WOULD HAVE THE SAME NUMERICAL GRADE AS A DISTRICT WITH A GRADUATION RATE THAT'S 10 POINTS BELOW 10 PERCENTAGE POINTS BELOW OUR OWN GRADUATION RATE.

AND YOU KNOW, OUR STAR PERFORMANCE IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER ACROSS APPROACHES MASTERS MEETS, YOU KNOW, AND CLEARLY A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS ON OR ABOVE GRADE LEVEL THANKS TO THE WORK THAT OUR CAMPUSES ARE DOING EVERY DAY. AND SO, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

THE POINT THAT YOU MADE ABOUT WE, THIS IS ONE MEASURE OF DATA AND ONE MEASURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. BUT IT'S JUST MORE REASON THAT THIS LETTER GRADE DOES NOT DEFINE THE WORK THAT OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STAFF ARE DOING ON OUR CAMPUSES EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND SO, WHILE I AGREE, LIKE NOT HAVING ANY FAILING SCHOOLS, THAT'S A HUGE CELEBRATION, SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT. BUT THAT THE WORK IS NEVER DONE, FIRST OF ALL.

BUT SECONDLY, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF CAVEATS TO THIS AND IT FEELS OVERLY COMPLICATED ON PURPOSE LIKE THE FINANCE SYSTEM. IF I MAY JUST ADD ONE MORE THING TO THAT. WE BELIEVE IN ACCOUNTABILITY. IT'S IMPORTANT. AND WE'RE GOING TO ALWAYS RISE TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY OCCASION, WHATEVER IT IS, BECAUSE WE KNOW IN TEXAS IT HAS CHANGED. I'VE ONLY BEEN IN TEXAS MY ENTIRE LIFE AS A KID AND NOW AS AN, AS AN EDUCATOR. AND SO, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE SOME KIND OF STATE ASSESSMENT, AS THERE SHOULD, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT STUDENTS IN TEXAS ARE LEARNING AND GROWING.

WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE COMPETITIVE BEYOND TEXAS BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT CHOOSE TO GO TO SCHOOL IN OTHER STATES. WE HAVE LOTS OF STUDENTS THAT WE COULD PROUDLY SAY DECIDE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GO TO PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES ALSO WITHIN, BUT ALSO OUTSIDE OF OUT OF OUR STATE. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS ARE GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE AS WELL. AND SO HAVING MULTI MEASURE, SO STATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND ALSO LOOKING AT OUR NATIONALLY NORM ASSESSMENTS, STARTING IN KINDERGARTEN ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE 12TH GRADE, ARE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. IF YOU WERE TO TAKE AND YOU WERE TO MEASURE OUR NATIONALLY NORMED ASSESSMENTS AS PART OF OUR ACCOUNTABILITY, I THINK YOU WOULD SEE A VERY DIFFERENT, PERHAPS A VERY DIFFERENT LETTER GRADE OR DIFFERENT CALCULATION, BECAUSE THAT HAS BEEN AN AREA WHERE WE DO HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF STUDENTS TRADITIONALLY AND STILL TODAY THAT ARE PERFORMING EXCEPTIONALLY WELL. SO, WANT TO NEVER WANT TO COME ACROSS AS THOUGH WE'RE DISREGARDING ANY OF OUR ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT IT IS A PART OF WHAT WE DO. BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY THING THAT WE DO. WELL SAID. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. SO JUST VERY QUICKLY, YOU HAVE SEEN AS A BOARD OUR INDIVIDUAL STATE ASSESSMENT SCORES AT EACH GRADE LEVEL, EACH CONTENT AREA. THAT'S A LOT. AND I CONDENSED THE SLIDES, SO THIS ACTUALLY IS A LARGE NUMBER OF TESTS COMPILED INTO ONE PERCENTAGE HERE. SO, THIS IS ALL READING TESTS, GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT, INCLUDING OUR ENGLISH ONE AND ENGLISH TWO EOCS. JUST TO ORIENT YOU TO THESE SLIDES. THE SOLID LINES REPRESENT PLANO'S PERFORMANCE. THE DASHED LINE REPRESENT OUR REGION 10 PERFORMANCE, AND THEN THE DOTTED LINES REPRESENT THE STATE. AND FOR EACH ONE, THEY ARE STACKED WITH APPROACHES AT THE TOP, MEETS IN THE MIDDLE, AND MASTERS AT THE BOTTOM LEVEL. AND WE'RE VERY PROUD. YOU KNOW, I MENTIONED OUR PERFORMANCE IN MEETS AND MASTERS. YOU KNOW, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN OUR COLLEAGUES IS REALLY GREATER, EVEN AT THE MEETS AND MASTERS LEVEL.

SO THOSE ARE OUR READING SCORES. ABSOLUTELY. SO RED IS

[00:40:05]

WE HAVE A GREAT PLAN FOR THIS YEAR TO IMPROVE THAT.

BUT STILL SEEING US EXCEEDING OUR REGIONAL AND STATE PEERS IN BIOLOGY LOOKS LIKE MAYBE THEY'VE GOT THAT GRADE 5 AND 8 SCIENCE TEST FIGURED OUT. YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE HAD A TRAJECTORY UP THIS YEAR, BUT WE REMAIN AHEAD OF OUR PEERS AND AHEAD OF THE STATE AND IN SOCIAL STUDIES. BEEN PRETTY STEADY OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

BUT AGAIN, WE CONTINUE TO OUTPERFORM THOSE MASTER'S NUMBERS AT 42% IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE IN OUR SOCIAL STUDIES SCORES.

SO, WE PUT THE COMPARISON TO STATE AND REGION NOT NECESSARILY AS A BRAGGING.

RIGHT. ALTHOUGH WE DO OUTPERFORM BOTH OF THOSE COMPARISONS.

BUT IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE, WHEN YOU SEE ANY MOVEMENT EITHER UP OR DOWN, ARE WE SEEING THE SAME MOVEMENT ACROSS THE STATE? IF WE SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT AT THE REGION AND THE STATE, THEN WE KNOW THAT PERHAPS THAT MAY BE A CURRICULAR ISSUE THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS INTERNALLY. SO, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE JUST NOT ONLY OUR RESULTS, BUT THEN HOW THEY CAN MAKE PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES OR CURRICULAR CHANGES AS NEEDED. THIS IS PROBABLY THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF THAT. SO GOES THE STATE AND REGION.

SO, GO. SO THAT'S MORE OF A TESTING, YOU KNOW, A TESTING CHANGE VERSUS A CURRICULUM ISSUE. ALL RIGHT? AND IT'S. ALTHOUGH THE STATE DOES NOT BOTHER TO TAKE THESE NATIONAL TESTS INTO THEIR CALCULATIONS, THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO US. AND THEY DO CALCULATE INTO OUR CCMR RATINGS BECAUSE IF OUR STUDENTS DO WELL ON THESE, THEY CAN MEET CCMR THIS WAY.

BUT AGAIN, THE BLUE LINE AT THE TOP OR THE SOLID LINE REPRESENTS PLANO. THE GOLD IN THE MIDDLE IS THE NATION.

THAT INCLUDES ALL STUDENTS TESTING. AND THEN THE STATE IS IN THE RED OR THE DOTTED LINE OR THE DASHED LINE AT THE BOTTOM. THIS IS HOW OUR STUDENTS PERFORMED ON THE PSAT 9. AS A REMINDER, WE TEST ALL 9TH GRADERS IN PSAT 9. THOSE COMPARISONS OF STATE AND NATION ARE NOT NECESSARILY ALL STUDENTS TAKING THAT. SO, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT YOU'LL SEE THOSE MEETING THE BENCHMARKS FOR BOTH READING AND MATH ON THE LEFT OF EACH YEAR. THE MIDDLE SCORE FOR EACH YEAR IS THOSE MEETING THE ENGLISH READING WRITING BENCHMARK. AND THEN ON THE RIGHT THE MATH BENCHMARK. SO, DR. WILLIAMS MENTIONED. SO GOES THE NATION.

SO GOES TO THE STATE WHEN YOU SEE CHANGES. AND THOSE INDICATE THE DOTTED LINE BETWEEN 22-23, 23-24 IS JUST A REMINDER WHEN THE COLLEGE BOARD CHANGED THEIR TESTING FORMAT AND WENT TO AN ONLINE ADMINISTRATION, WE SAW, I THINK YOU'LL REMEMBER DR. EDNEY TALKING ABOUT SEEING A DIP ACROSS THE BOARD. SO, YOU'LL SEE THAT IN ALL OF THESE RPSAT 10. AGAIN, ALL OF OUR 10TH GRADERS TAKING THAT, WE'RE STILL OUTPERFORMING OUR PEERS, NOTICING THE SAME TRAJECTORY THERE. AND THEN OUR PSAT NMSQT STUDENTS. SO THOSE ARE OUR NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP QUALIFYING TESTS.

THESE ARE STUDENTS WHO SELF-SELECT TO TAKE THIS TEST. THAT'S WHY YOU'LL SEE THE DISTANCE GET EVEN GREATER. THAT'S WHY THOSE OTHERS ARE SO IMPRESSIVE. AND THEN OF COURSE OUR SAT SCHOOL DAY BACK TO WE TEST ALL JUNIORS IN THIS WHERE OTHERS ARE SELF-SELECTING TO TAKE. SO HUGE KUDOS TO OUR TEACHERS, TO OUR STUDENTS, FAMILIES, ALL TAKING THIS TEST VERY SERIOUSLY AND SCORING SO WELL. I WON'T STEAL KEVIN'S THUNDER, BUT I DID WANT TO MENTION AP EXAM RESULTS BECAUSE THEY ARE PART OF OUR CCMR. AND PLANO JUST CONTINUES TO BE A SHINING STAR IN THE AP WORLD WITH NOT ONLY THE INCREDIBLE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO TAKE THE EXAMS, BUT ALSO THE INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE THAT THEY SHOW.

AND THIS MAY BE IN KEVIN'S PRESENTATION LATER, BUT LAST YEAR AT 84%, THAT WAS THE HIGHEST WE'D EVER HAD, AND WE ARE AT 84%. SO EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WENT DOWN, I THINK 150, THE DIFFERENCE IN TESTS WAS LIKE 50, WHICH MEANS EVEN WITH LESS STUDENTS. OUR STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY TAKING MORE TESTS AND CONTINUING THAT 03, 4, OR 5 QUALIFYING SCORE.

AGAIN, HUGE KUDOS TO OUR AP TEACHERS,

[00:45:01]

BUT I THINK THAT POLICY HAS REALLY PUSHED THESE NUMBERS THAT WAY, AND I THINK OUR STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM THAT. WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE HESITATION.

I THINK THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE A LITTLE CONCERNED FOR A WHILE THAT MAYBE OUR SCORES WOULD GO DOWN OR KIDS WOULD NOT DO WELL.

BUT AGAIN, TESTAMENT TO OUR INCREDIBLE TEACHING AND LEARNING GOING ON IN THOSE CLASSROOMS. ALL RIGHT, THIS IS A QUICK SUMMARY OF THE CCMR DATA. YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE, BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO SAY THAT 2026 CCMR RATINGS, WHICH IS THE 2025 GRADS, HAS FINALLY BEEN FINALIZED AT 87%. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL.

THAT'S WHAT CALCULATED INTO OUR ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS THIS YEAR. REMEMBER, WE NEEDED THAT 88 FOR AN A. WE WERE JUST ALMOST THERE. OKAY, BUT I HAVE TO BRAG, LIKE 76, 87, 93. AND Y' ALL REMEMBER WHERE WE WERE.

I MEAN, THIS HAS BEEN MASSIVE JUMPS IN A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. AND AGAIN, THIS IS ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM CHANGING AND US RISING TO THE OCCASION. I THINK ACCOUNTABILITY IS GOOD.

DEFINITELY THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME WITH CCMR BECAUSE IT IS LAGGING, HAVING SOME PREPARATION TO MAKE SURE THOSE COURSES ARE THERE AND WE'RE ABLE TO PROPERLY SCHEDULE KIDS IN CLASSES. YOU KNOW, OUR CHANGE CAME INITIALLY AFTER KIDS HAD ALREADY GRADUATED.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE COULD DO ABOUT KIDS THAT ALREADY GRADUATED. BUT NEVERTHELESS, THE TEAM. BIG KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU, TO OUR COUNSELORS, TO EACH OF OUR CAMPUS PRINCIPALS THAT ROLL THEIR SLEEVES UP TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT KIDS ARE.

THAT THEY HAVE A PLAN. AND I'M SUPER EXCITED TO CONTINUE TO SEE THE WORK THAT WILL OCCUR AS WE HAVE A NEW CTE CENTER. AND WE'RE ABLE TO INCREASE THOSE LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT I'M GOING TO FOLLOW LAUREN'S TREND. YOU SAID BACK ON SLIDE FOUR THAT IT'S A NEW BALL GAME EVERY YEAR FOR CCMR. CORRECT. SO JUST SO THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWS AND CAN PUT INTO CONTEXT THESE MASSIVE JUMPS THAT ARE BEING MADE IN CCMR EVERY YEAR ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. DO WE HAVE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE FOR THE YEAR? WELL, THAT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO SAY BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT DOES CHANGE. BUT WHAT THE DIFFICULTY IS WHEN THEY MAKE A CHANGE THAT IMPACTS A STUDENT WHO'S ALREADY IN THE MIDDLE OF A FOUR-YEAR TRAJECTORY.

SO, IT MAY NOT SEEM BIG WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY IN THE MIDDLE OF A PLAN. IT IS BIG. AND NO, IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING YOU JUST FLIP THE SWITCH AND CHANGE. FOR EXAMPLE, I WANTED TO POINT OUT THE INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS. IT'S NOT THAT WE HAD FEWER STUDENTS TAKING INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS, IS THAT THEY DECIDED TO RAMP UP. WELL, NOT ONLY DO YOU GET THE CERTIFICATION, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO HAVE A SERIES OF COURSEWORK THAT FITS UP TO THAT. WELL, THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN THEY MADE THEIR PLAN. SO THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT IS THE CHANGE. IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T KNOW IT PER SE, IT'S THAT THE CHANGE IS MADE TOO LATE TO BE ABLE TO IMPACT AND GET KIDS TO THAT POINT. WELL, AND THIS IS ALSO REFLECTIVE OF THESE WERE APPROVED CERTIFICATIONS THAT STUDENTS COULD EARN THEN THAT CHANGED MID-COURSE.

CORRECT. SO, THIS IS, YOU SEE THAT IMPACT THERE? WE DO HAVE ONE CHANGE WITH COLLEGE BRIDGE IN MATH THAT WE'RE TRYING TO WORK ON A SOLUTION. SO, WE I GUESS MAYBE ALMOST KNOW EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO KNOW. HOWEVER, THIS IS STILL ONE THAT HAS NOT BEEN COMPLETELY SOLVED THAT COULD AND IS AN IMPACT TO THESE RESULTS. LOOKING AT WHAT I GUESS WOULD BE ON THE 28 ACCOUNTABILITY. SO THAT IS SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE PREPARED TO PRESENT THAT TONIGHT.

BUT CERTAINLY, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PUT IN A BOARD UPDATE AS SOON AS WE KNOW OR WHEN DR. EDNEY GIVES A CCMR UPDATE. SO, I GUESS FOR AN EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY YOU'RE A COLLEGE STUDENT AND YOU'RE GOING TO MAJOR IN X AND YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE ALL THESE COURSES TO GET TO X. ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE COLLEGE DECIDES, NOPE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HONOR THAT

[00:50:01]

AND THAT IS ALSO ONE RIGHT NOW AT THE STATE LEVEL THAT THERE ARE SOME POTENTIAL CHANGES FOR THAT. SO, WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON NOT ONLY ADVOCATING WITH TEA, BUT ALSO AROUND IF WE ARE TO ENSURE A STRONG WORKFORCE THAT'S RELATIVE TO EACH PROSPECTIVE, EITHER REGION OR AREA OR SCHOOL DISTRICT, THAT WE'RE ALLOWED THAT FLEXIBILITY. OTHERWISE, THERE COULD BE, IT COULD BE PROBLEMATIC IN THE FUTURE. SO, GOOD POINT.

ALL RIGHT. WELL, NOT PERFECT. I WANT TO BRING THIS BACK TO.

THIS WAS A VERY, VERY INTENTIONAL EFFORT ACROSS NOT JUST CTE, BUT YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN I GOT ELECTED FIVE YEARS AGO, PLANO HAD A VERY COLLEGE READY MENTALITY. RIGHT. AND THE INCORPORATION OF MORE DUAL CREDIT PROGRAMS, THE INCORPORATION OF THE TSIA AND EXPANSION OF THE TSIA TESTING AND OTHER THINGS THAT Y' ALL HAVE INTENTIONALLY IMPLEMENTED.

RIGHT. WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN STRONG IN APIB EXAMS, RIGHT? ALWAYS HAVE. THAT'S, YOU KNOW, STEADY TO INCREASING. BUT SOME OF THESE OTHER INTENTIONAL CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, NOT NECESSARILY TARGETING OUR HIGHEST ACHIEVING POPULATION, BUT TARGETING ALL KIDS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE OFFERING THE ABILITY TO BE CCMR MET IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WAYS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY LACKING FIVE YEARS AGO. AND IT IS SHOWING IT LIKE THAT WORK IS SHOWING IN THE DATA AND IT'S HERE.

THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THAT.

IN FACT, YOU KNOW, AS THAT GOES THE, YOU KNOW, THAT SHOWS THE TENSION SOMETIMES BETWEEN YES, WE VALUE ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT WE ALSO VALUE OUR COMMUNITY. AND I CAN REMEMBER SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING CONVERSATIONS AS WE WERE DREAMING AND DESIGNING THE CTE CENTER WAS WITH OUR INDUSTRY PARTNERS AND ASKING THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED AND WHAT, WHAT WAS IMPORTANT. AND WE WERE VERY OPEN TO THAT. NOW, I THINK TO LAUREN'S POINT, WE HAVE ALWAYS OFFERED DUAL CREDIT, BUT HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO EITHER EARN AN ASSOCIATE'S OR EARN UP TO 60 COLLEGE CREDITS THROUGH A DUAL CREDIT PROGRAM IS. WE'RE STILL FAIRLY NEW AT THAT. OUR WILDCAT COLLEGIATE ACADEMY STUDENTS THAT THE VERY FIRST COHORT, THEY ARE JUNIORS THIS YEAR.

SO, YOU'LL START TO SEE THE IMPACT OR THE FRUITS OF THAT LABOR AND WORK IN A COUPLE OF YEARS. OUR VERY FIRST COHORT FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING OPENED THIS FALL OR LAST WEEK, I SHOULD SAY AT JASPER HIGH SCHOOL. SO, EACH, IF YOU'RE A STUDENT AT PLANO EAST CENTRAL OR ON OUR WEST CLUSTER, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITY WITHOUT HAVING TO TRANSFER SENIOR HIGHS. AND OF COURSE, ANY

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BUT THAT AND THEN OUR ON RAMPS IS ANOTHER WAY TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO EARN THEIR CCMR DESIGNATION AND ALLOW STUDENTS TO START TO EXPERIENCE COLLEGE COURSES.

MAYBE THEY DON'T HAVE QUITE YET THE READINESS, BUT IT PROVIDES THAT SUPPORT SO THAT WE CAN GET THEM READY. SO, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. ALL RIGHT, I WILL PUT THAT ONE TO REST FOR JUST A MINUTE AND MOVE PAST TO TALK A LITTLE BIT. WHAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE KNOW THAT ACCOUNTABILITY IS IMPORTANT.

WE KNOW THAT'S ONE THING WE MEASURE, BUT WE ALSO KNOW WE HAVE A VERY SOLID STRATEGIC PLAN THAT THIS BOARD OUTLINED SEVERAL YEARS AGO. AND WE CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND WORK TOWARD THAT. OUR FOCUS AND OUR COMMITMENT STILL REMAINS ON THESE THREE PRIORITIES.

STUDENTS ON GRADE LEVEL OR ABOVE OBTAINING ONE YEAR OF ACADEMIC GROWTH AND MAKING SURE THEY'RE ALL ON TRACK FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS.

AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT NOT DEPENDING TOO HEAVILY ON ANY ONE SCORE, BUT WE BELIEVE IN MULTIPLE MEASURES. WE BELIEVE IN MONITORING THOSE MEASURES AND REALLY HELPING EVERY STUDENT ACHIEVE THAT POTENTIAL, WHATEVER THE DREAM MAY BE FOR THAT CHILD. WE HAVE SHARED THIS WITH YOU BEFORE.

WE DO A VERY SPECIFIC METRICS THAT WE MONITOR FOR THOSE THREE PRIORITIES THAT ARE CONNECTED TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.

WE JUST LOOK AT THEM MAYBE A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY RATHER THAN A LETTER GRADE. SO JUST AS A REMINDER, AGAIN, YOU'VE SEEN THESE METRICS BEFORE, WHAT WE MONITOR IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, GROWTH AND FUTURE SUCCESS. BUT WE ALSO HAVE AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST, I WOULD SAY, OF METRICS THAT WE MONITOR FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN PILLARS.

WE MONITOR THOSE. WE BRING YOU REPORTS OVER THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR, KEEP YOU UPDATED WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING BASED ON THE WORK THAT TAKES PLACE ANNUALLY IN EACH OF THOSE FIVE PILLARS. AND WE TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY. WE ALSO HAVE A DISTRICT SUPPORT TEAM. I WANTED TO JUST AGAIN, REMIND YOU OF THAT WORK. WHEN WE HAVE A CAMPUS, WE THINK IS IN NEED OF A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THEIR PROGRESS, WE PUT THEM IN WHAT WE CALL OUR DISTRICT SUPPORT TEAM. AND IT IS A COMPREHENSIVE GROUP THAT WORKS, THAT MEETS TOGETHER.

IT'S REALLY FOCUSED ON PROFESSIONAL LEARNING, REALLY IMPROVING THEM BY INCREASING THEIR CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND BOTH PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS. AND WE WORK CONTINUALLY WITH THAT. YOU'LL REMEMBER WE TALKED TO YOU LAST YEAR ABOUT THE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS FRAMEWORK AND OUR WORK WITH REGION 10 AND WHAT THE GOAL OF THAT IS TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THE LEVERS THAT REALLY LEAD TO SUCCESS.

AND EACH OF THOSE LEVERS THAT IS DEFINED IN THE FRAMEWORK HAS BOTH DISTRICT COMMITMENTS, ACTIONS THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN, FOUNDATIONAL ACTIONS, AND THEN THOSE KEY PRACTICES THAT WE WANT TO SEE ON CAMPUSES. AND WE DID HAVE 24 CAMPUSES BEGIN THAT TRAINING LAST YEAR, AND MANY OF THEM IMPROVED THOSE LEVERS, IN CASE YOU DON'T REMEMBER THEM. STRONG LEADERSHIP, STRATEGIC STAFFING, GETTING THE RIGHT TEACHERS IN THOSE CLASSROOMS, BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS, THAT SCHOOL CULTURE, WHICH IS JUST EVER SO IMPORTANT. HAVING HIGH-QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND ASSESSMENTS AND THEN REALLY HAVING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION IN EVERY CLASSROOM. JUST WANT TO MENTION AGAIN, I KNOW I'M GOING BACK TO RATINGS FOR A MINUTE, BUT 75% OF OUR CAMPUSES THIS YEAR EITHER IMPROVED OR REMAINED IN A OR B IN 2026.

THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD CHUNK OF EITHER STRONG MOVEMENT UP OR ARE STAYING AT THE TOP. 48% OF THOSE IMPROVED OR REMAINED IN A. SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, A PRETTY GOOD AND IMPRESSIVE NUMBER. BOTH CAMPUSES THAT HAD AN F IN 2025, ONE OF THEM IMPROVED TO A C AND THE OTHER IMPROVED TO A B. SO HUGE WORK. KUDOS TO PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS, CAMPUS SUPPORT, SLI LEADERSHIP, EVERYONE WHO WORK TOGETHER TO SUPPORT THOSE CAMPUSES.

BUT I WANTED TO MENTION THIS BECAUSE I TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DOMAIN SCORES, AND EACH DOMAIN IS UNIQUE IN WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND HOW IT OPERATES AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO IMPACT IT. SO, WE'VE REALLY DUG INTO THOSE DOMAIN SCORES THIS YEAR, AND WE HAVE DESIGNATED DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS. SO, IF YOU NEED TO WORK ON RELATIVE PERFORMANCE, THAT MAY LOOK SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN IF YOU'RE WORKING ON GROWTH. SO, WE HAVE DUG INTO THOSE RATINGS AND DEDICATED SOME DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS TO REALLY HELP THEM TARGET WHAT THEIR NEXT STEPS WILL BE.

TO HELP US DO THAT. WE TALKED WITH OUR CAMPUSES WHO HAD SOME SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT THIS YEAR, AND WE ASKED THEM WHAT WORKED.

WHAT IS IT THAT YOU DID THAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE? THEY TALKED ABOUT INTENTIONAL PLANNING

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WE CANNOT DUMB THINGS DOWN.

OUR KIDS ARE CAPABLE, OUR KIDS ARE READY TO LEARN.

AND SO, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ARE INCREASING THAT RIGOR AND INCREASING THOSE EXPECTATIONS IN EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM ACROSS OUR DISTRICT. WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR EMERGENT BILINGUAL LEARNERS AND OUR STUDENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, MAKING SURE THEY ARE GETTING THAT GRADE LEVEL STANDARD. THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT PURPOSEFUL SMALL GROUPS.

THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN A TEACHER WITH A SMALL NUMBER OF STUDENTS REALLY ABLE TO DIG IN AND WORK ON THE SKILLS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH THE INCREDIBLE DATA SETS THAT WE HAVE TO HELP THEM DESIGN THAT.

SPEAKING OF DATA, THAT CONSISTENT USE OF DATA, JUST EFFECTIVELY MONITORING OVER TIME, ADJUSTING AS NEEDED, IT'S NOT A, YOU KNOW, HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY. YOU JUST WAIT TILL THE END AND HOPE IT GETS THERE. YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND GETTING OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

YOU KNOW, ARE OUR STUDENTS IN THE RIGHT CLASSROOMS? ARE THEY BEING SERVED IN THE RIGHT PLACES? ARE OUR TEACHERS TEACHING THE RIGHT THINGS IN THE RIGHT PLACE? AND THAT IS SUCH A, A HUGE THING FOR PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS AND CAMPUSES TO REALLY GET RIGHT.

AND I KNOW THEY'RE TAKING THAT WORK VERY SERIOUSLY. SO, THESE DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS, NOT TO BELABOR IT, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THE AREAS OF NEED. WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON EDUCATION AND SUPPORT, BUT REALLY, WE'RE GOING TO WORK WITH THEM ON LOOKING AT THEIR DATA, UNDERSTANDING THE NEXT STEPS, AND COACHING THEM FOR THOSE POWER MOVES LIKE WHAT'S NEXT? AND FINALLY, THE 100% CLUB. SO, THIS IS EXCITING. IT'S STILL IN BETA PHASE. WE'RE STILL DEFINING AND REFINING THE METRICS. BUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS GET SOMETHING EXCITING FOR OUR TEACHERS TO WANT TO JOIN THIS CLUB. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE SUPERINTENDENT AWARDS THAT FOCUS ON GROWTH. THAT'S ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES. WE HAVE OUR POWERED BY LEARNING AWARDS THAT FOCUS ON GROWTH. BOTH OF THEM REALLY HIT ACHIEVEMENT AS WELL. THAT SUPERINTENDENT'S AWARD IS REALLY ABOUT ACHIEVEMENT. AND NOW WE WANT TO LOOK AT OUR 100% CLUB. THAT REALLY HITS ALL THREE OF OUR PRIORITIES. SO, WE WANT TO HAVE A LITTLE ELITE RECOGNITION, LITTLE BRAGGING RIGHTS FOR OUR TEACHERS, WHICH WILL REALLY HONOR SOME EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVITY. AND I WAS ONE OF THOSE WEIRD TEACHERS THAT IF YOU TOLD ME I WAS GOING TO GET INTO THE 100% CLUB, I'D HAVE BEEN WORKING MY TAIL OFF TO TRY TO GET THERE. AND THEN WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT CRITERIA SO THAT EVERY TEACHER WHO IS ELIGIBLE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY HIT THAT METRIC. SO THESE ARE SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS. AGAIN, WE'RE STILL FINALIZING THIS, BUT A TEACHER WHO GETS 100% OF HIS OR HER STUDENTS AT APPROACHES GRADE LEVEL OR HIGHER, THAT'S THE 100% CLUB, LEAVING NO STUDENT BEHIND. AP EXAM EXCELLENCE. MAYBE YOUR STUDENTS ARE ALL ENROLLED, THEY TOOK THE TEST, THEY ALL GOT A 3 OR HIGHER.

THAT'S YOUR INTEREST INTO THE 100% CLUB. MAYBE IT'S ON GROWTH. YOUR STUDENTS AREN'T QUITE THERE ON THE ACHIEVEMENT, BUT BOY, YOU'RE GROWING THEM. SO, 100% OF YOUR STUDENTS MET THAT GROWTH METRIC. YOU ARE IN THE 100% CLUB WHERE WE CAN PUT SOMETHING IN ABOUT LEVELING UP IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, MAKING SURE THEY GROW ONE PERFORMANCE LEVEL EACH YEAR.

IN FACT, WE HAVE A LITTLE CAMPAIGN FOR THAT THIS YEAR AS WELL.

AND THEN CERTIFICATION EXCELLENCE, THAT INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATION, NOT ONLY DO YOUR STUDENTS ENGAGE IN THE CERTIFICATE, THE EXAM, BUT THEY PASS IT. SO MULTIPLE WAYS INTO THE 100% CLUB. WE'LL BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE SOME OF THOSE IN THE SPRING WHEN WE GET THAT DATA. BUT SOME OF THEM WE WON'T HAVE THE DATA UNTIL THE SUMMER. AND SO, WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE FALL TO DO THAT.

WE'LL HAVE A CUSTOM LICENSE PLATE THAT SAYS 100% CLUB THAT CAN EITHER BE PROUDLY DISPLAYED IN THEIR CLASSROOM OR ON THEIR CAR, WHICHEVER THEY CHOOSE. WE'LL ASK CAMPUS TO DO SOME VIP PERKS FOR THEM, TO JUST CELEBRATE THEM AND THEIR EXCELLENT WORK WITH STUDENTS AND HAVE SOME KIND OF LITTLE WALL OF FAME IN THEIR CAMPUS. AND THAT IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT. ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEES, THIS IS A REPORT. I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSION THROUGHOUT WHICH FOR SOMETHING IS CORE TO OUR MISSION IS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. I THINK THAT'S A OKAY. BUT DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR LISA AND THE TEAM? SAM, GO AHEAD. I JUST.

ESPECIALLY ON THE TWO SCHOOLS THAT MOVED NOT ONLY OUT OF THE F CATEGORY BUT TO C AND B. AND I'VE MENTIONED THIS TO DR. WILLIAMS AND MAYBE TO YOU ALSO, LISA. I THINK THAT THE WAY THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS PULLED TOGETHER, REALLY. I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT PACKAGED AS A CASE STUDY AND HOW A DISTRICT COMES TOGETHER

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NOT FOR US, NOT FOR A GRADE FROM A STATE AGENCY, BUT FOR THE KIDS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. ABSOLUTELY.

MAKES ME THINK OF THAT. YOU KNOW, THAT PICTURE WHERE ALL THE BOATS ARE ROWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. THAT'S WHAT WE HAD TO DO. AND IT DOES TAKE ALL BOATS, SO APPRECIATE THAT. WELL, I THINK. I THINK YOU SAID THIS EARLIER ABOUT CCMR, AND I KNOW THE TEAM WORKED YEOMAN'S WORK TO GET US FROM THE SCORE WE HAD PRIOR TO ALMOST THAT 88 THIS YEAR.

THAT WAS INCREDIBLE. AND THEN WITH THE PROJECTION OF HAVING 93, THREE COMING UP NEXT YEAR.

SO THAT WAS. YOU DON'T MOVE A SHIP ON A DIME. AND Y' ALL HAVE DONE THAT. Y' ALL HAVE REALLY TURNED THE CORNER ON THAT. THE MINUTE WE GOT THAT NEW ACCOUNTABILITY CCMR METRIC THAT WE NEEDED TO MEET. I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE TEAM AND THE SLI DEPARTMENT AND EVERYONE ELSE INVOLVED, THE TEACHERS, EVERYONE WHO GOT US THERE, AND THE STUDENTS WHO PROBABLY ROSE TO THE OCCASION. BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT CCMR IS SO IMPORTANT AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SERVING ALL KIDS. THAT'S RIGHT. I HAVE A. OH, YOU CAN.

SO, ON ALL OF OUR BUDGET AND FINANCE REPORTS, I ALWAYS POINT OUT THAT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A BLOATED CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF. THAT IS NOT THE CASE. THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO OUR. WHAT IS IT? TWO POINT. IT'S 2.3. 2.3% OF OUR DOLLARS GO TO CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF.

BUT THIS IS REALLY A TESTAMENT TO THAT SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP THAT HAPPENS BETWEEN CENTRAL STAFF WORKING WITH CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS WORKING WITH TEACHERS, WORKING WITH THE STUDENTS. AND IT'S JUST CIRCULAR. AND I JUST.

IT'S REALLY FASCINATING.

AND I'M SO PROUD OF THE WORK FOR ALL THE TEACHERS AND STAFF THAT ARE LISTENING.

THE PRINCIPALS, THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, EVERYBODY IN THE DISTRICT WORKING TO HELP MAKE THAT POSSIBLE.

EVEN THE JANITORS ARE HELPING WITH THE CULTURE AT THE SCHOOLS. AND SO, IT'S THE LUNCHROOM. IT IS EVERY PART OF THAT SCHOOL BUILDING IS REALLY HELPING EACH OF OUR STUDENTS FEEL WELCOME AND LIKE THEY CAN LEARN. AND TYING THIS BACK TO THE BOND.

THEY'RE IN BUILDINGS THAT THEY KNOW ARE BEING IMPROVED, THAT THEY WANT TO BE PROUD OF, AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HELP THEM LEARN. SO, I HOPE OUR COMMUNITY IS PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THIS DISTRICT IS DOING, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH IT'S A B, IT'S AN A FOR ME, SO. AND I'M SO PROUD OF PLANO EAST. GOT TO GET A SHOUT OUT TO OUR SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'RE AN A THIS YEAR, SO THAT'S EXCITING. SO HOPEFULLY TO PUSH THIS OUT EVEN FARTHER, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE TO OUR COMMUNITY, TO FOLKS WHO ARE OUT THERE LISTENING, WHO ARE OUR STUDENTS, WHO ARE MAYBE DON'T HAVE STUDENTS IN OUR DISTRICT RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND ABOUT YOUR TAX DOLLARS AND YOUR SUPPORT. WHAT WE DO FOR OUR KIDS IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO, EVERY KID IN THAT SCHOOL IS BEING SUPPORTED BY OUR COMMUNITY.

AND THAT'S THE MAGIC RIGHT THERE. AND I WILL SAY, AND I'M JUST GONNA PUT IT OUT THERE, HAVING A BOARD THAT IS COLLABORATIVE AND ALL FOCUSED-ON STUDENTS, AND WHAT'S THE BEST THING FOR THOSE STUDENTS TO BACK UP A SUPERINTENDENT THAT'S WILLING TO MAKE HARD CHOICES AND PUSH HARD BECAUSE SHE'S GOT THE SUPPORT. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THESE RESULTS POSSIBLE. SO, I THANK OUR COMMUNITY FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN ALL THE WAYS TO MAKE OUR KIDS GROW. LISA, YOUR COMMENT ABOUT THE BOAT THROWING ALL IN THE SAME DIRECTION. IF Y'ALL HAVE NOT SEEN THE VIDEO, I THINK IT WAS SIGLER'S PTA.

SO, SHOUT OUT. THANK YOU TO PTA FOR THE GREAT WORK ON THAT CAMPUS.

BUT I THINK IT WAS THEIR PTA PUT OUT A VIDEO ON SOCIAL MEDIA OF THEIR PRINCIPAL ANNOUNCING, LIKE, AT THEIR FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL MEETING, THEIR CHANGE IN ACCOUNTABILITY SCORE. AND IT, LIKE, IT MAKES YOU TEARY, YOU KNOW, AND SEEING HOW EXCITED ALL THESE PARENTS WERE AND TEACHERS AND THE PRINCIPAL

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BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT WOULD BE RECKLESS AND IRRESPONSIBLE OF US TO NOT HAVE SOME MEASURE OF GROWING KIDS. WE HAVE TO PROVE THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS A WAY THE STATE OF TEXAS HOLD US, HOLDS US ACCOUNTABLE, AND WE'RE NOT AFRAID OF THAT, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO DO IT. BUT BETWEEN THAT AND MAP, WE HAVE TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW THESE STUDENTS ARE GROWING EVEN BEYOND JUST THAT TEST SCORE.

AND WHILE I KNOW PARENTS SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE IT'S AN OVERBURDEN ON TESTING, I DON'T KNOW OF A BETTER WAY TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT ARE WE GROWING THESE KIDS.

THERE'S JUST NOT ANOTHER STATISTICALLY VALID MEASURE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. AND SO, WHILE I'M A LITTLE BIT OF A FRENEMY OF ALL THE TESTING MYSELF WITH MY KIDS, BECAUSE I HAVE TWO KIDS THAT ARE POLAR OPPOSITE. I HAVE ONE THAT COMES HOME AND IS, LIKE, ACED IT, YOU KNOW, AND I HAVE ANOTHER THAT COMES HOME AND THINKS HE'S FAILED EVERYTHING. AND HE HASN'T. HE HASN'T FAILED ANYTHING. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS BY THE KIDS OF THIS COMMUNITY WITHOUT LOOKING AT THIS AND SHARING THIS WITH THE COMMUNITY. AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE AMOUNT OF SOPHISTICATED DATA SCIENCE THAT THE TEAM DOES, NOT ONLY FROM UNDERSTANDING THE STATE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM TO LOOKING AT OUR OWN MAP SCORES AND LOOKING AT EVERYTHING ELSE. AND SO, I KNOW IT'S A HUGE LIFT IN YOUR DEPARTMENT, BUT I. I APPRECIATE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO IT IN SUCH A SOPHISTICATED WAY AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A PRINCIPAL THAT CAN GO BACK TO HER CAMPUS COMMUNITY, AND WE, AS WE AS A DISTRICT CAN GO BACK TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY AND SAY, WE HAVE IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE.

WE ARE GROWING YOUR KIDS. WE ARE GETTING YOUR KIDS ON GRADE LEVEL. WE ARE GROWING YOUR KIDS ONE YEAR, AND YOUR KIDS ARE GRADUATING WITH A PLAN. SO JUST A BIG THANKS AND GO CHECK OUT THE SIGLER PTA. I THINK IT'S THE PTA, LIKE, 90% SURE. WELL, AND THOSE ARE OUR EXPECTATIONS, RIGHT? ACHIEVEMENT GROWTH. AND SO, WE INSPECT WHAT WE EXPECT, AND THAT INSPECTION OFTEN COMES THROUGH THOSE ASSESSMENTS AND ALLOWS US TO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS WELL.

AND THAT SOPHISTICATED DATA ANALYSIS DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED.

SO, THANK YOU TO ARPE ACCOUNTABILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM EVALUATION. IF ANYBODY DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ARPE IS, AND I GUESS Y' ALL HAVE A TEAM OF THOSE LITTLE MENEHUNE ELVES THAT GET THESE NUMBERS LATE IN THE, YOU KNOW, THE SUMMER, THE FALL, AND THEN YOU PUT IT ALL INTO DIGESTIBLE SLIDES. SO, THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT HARD WORK. SO, I WANT TO GO BACK TO LISA'S COMMENT ABOUT EVERYBODY ROWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, AND TO SAM, YOU KIND OF STARTED SOME OF THIS AS FAR AS, LIKE, THE GROWTH AND PROGRESS THAT TWO OF OUR CAMPUSES, ONE NEEDED TO MAKE, BUT REALLY MADE. IT STARTS FROM THE TOP AND FROM OUR GOVERNANCE AND FROM A BOARD STANDPOINT. AND I WILL TELL YOU, 18 MONTHS AGO, YOU ALL WENT TO TRAINING, YOU ALL DEVELOPED A THEORY OF ACTION. YOU ALL PUT THE STAKE IN THE GROUND AND SAID THESE THREE THINGS DESPITE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, THE CURRENT ONE, THE LAST ONE, OR THE FUTURE ONE. IT IS ABOUT STUDENTS ACHIEVING.

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO ACHIEVE.

AND BEYOND GRADE LEVEL, EVERY STUDENT NEEDS TO MAKE ONE YEAR'S ACADEMIC GROWTH. AND SO, SCHOOL SHOULD BE A VALUE ADD.

AND SO, WE SHOULD SEE, AT A MINIMUM, AT LEAST ONE YEAR'S GROWTH. WE KNOW SOME STUDENTS THAT WE NEED TO GET THEM CAUGHT UP. AND Y'ALL WERE, WE'VE ALL BEEN REALLY UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT THOSE THINGS. THE OTHER THIRD PIECE IS WE'VE SAID CCMR STARTS IN PRE-K AND WE START MEASURING THE ACADEMIC TEAM TOOK THE SAT AND DID BACKWARDS MAPPING. AND WE KNOW THIS KINDERGARTEN RIT SCORE PUTS THIS CHILD ON THIS TRAJECTORY. AND THAT HAS BEEN A METRIC THAT WE'VE MADE OUR TEACHERS KNOW. AND THAT IS PART OF THE GOAL SETTING FOR KIDS AND GOAL SETTING WITH PARENTS SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND. YOUR MAP SCORE ISN'T JUST A MAP SCORE AND A TEST THAT WE'RE GIVING, BUT IT'S ALSO TO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PUSHING THE RIGOR FOR STUDENTS. AND SO THAT'S, I KNOW THAT Y' ALL HAVE BEEN SO GRACIOUS TO TALK ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE. THIS BOARD

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON POLICY. BECAUSE WHEN WE HAVE THAT POLICY, KATHERINE, TO YOUR POINT, THEN WE ARE ABLE TO PUSH. WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS. WE ARE ABLE TO DIG INTO THE DATA. AND SPEAKING OF DIGGING INTO THE DATA, ANTONE'S NOT WITH US TONIGHT, BUT ANTONE, HAVING BEEN A PRINCIPAL AT A SCHOOL THAT EXCEEDED THEIR OVER, HERE'S WHERE THEY WERE EXPECTED TO PERFORM, BUT HERE'S WHERE HIS CAMPUS CONTINUOUSLY PERFORMED. HE'S VERY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HIS APPROACH AND THE DATA ANALYSIS AND THE SUPPORT FOR PRINCIPALS. AND SPEAKING OF SUPPORT FOR PRINCIPALS, THE TEAMWORK IS NOT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR CENTRAL OFFICE TEAM, IT IS ACADEMIC SERVICES. TWO AMAZING LEADERS. I MEAN, I'M TALKING ABOUT OUR TEAM THAT'S NOT WITH US AT THE DAIS, LISA, BUT TWO AMAZING LEADERS WHO HAVE BOTH BEEN PRINCIPALS, SUCCESSFUL PRINCIPALS, WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR PRINCIPAL SUPERVISORS AND HAVING LISA AND SELENDA WORK HAND IN HAND WITH OUR DST CAMPUSES. AND SO, THEY'VE BEEN IN LOCKSTEP. THEY ARE SPENDING TIME COLLABORATING. THEY'RE SPENDING TIME LOOKING AT THE DATA. AND THEN I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT ALSO TO OUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TEAM AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE PUTTING THE SUPPORT AND THAT ADULT LEARNING IN FRONT OF OUR TEACHERS THAT ARE NEEDING THAT ADDITIONAL SUPPORT. SO, LOTS OF TEAM EFFORT. I'M REALLY PROUD OF OUR PRINCIPALS.

THEY'RE EMBRACING THIS WORK.

OUR TEACHERS ARE EMBRACING THIS WORK AND COLLABORATION ALL THE WAY THROUGH. AND THAT'S A LOT TO BE PROUD OF. ALL RIGHT.

UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, GREAT REPORT. SUPER EXCITED TO SPEND TIME ON THAT AND REALLY GO THROUGH IT IN DEPTH

[5.3 2025 - 2026 College Board Report]

DR. MOORE, THANK YOU, DR.

TYRA. DR. WILLIAMS, TRUSTEES AND CABINET. I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE SCORES THAT WERE RELEASED OVER THE SUMMER FROM OUR 2026 COLLEGE BOARD AP EXAMINATIONS. I'LL ALSO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PSAT AND SAT AND SOME THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON OVER THE SUMMER AS WE'RE LAUNCHING INTO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. THIS IS COMING RIGHT AFTER OUR REPORT ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND SOME COMPONENTS OF CCMR. JUST WHEN WE GET TO KNOW CCMR REALLY, REALLY WELL, TEA LIKES TO KEEP US ON OUR TOES BY CHANGING IT. SO, THIS YEAR, STARTING WITH THIS YEAR'S FRESHMAN, WE ARE ALREADY BEGINNING THE JOURNEY TOWARDS THE CLASS OF 2030, WHICH WILL BE INVOLVED IN OUR 2031 ACCOUNTABILITY REFRESH FOR CCMR, WHICH IS JUST KIND OF WILD TO THINK ALL ABOUT THESE YEARS THAT WE NEVER DREAMT OF EXISTING WHEN WE WERE KIDS.

AND HERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS IN ADVANCE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY PURPOSES.

WE'LL START WITH A SLIDE THAT I BRING TO YOU EVERY YEAR, WHICH JUST SHOWS SOME OF OUR RAW NUMBERS IN TERMS OF AP STUDENTS AND THE NUMBER OF AP EXAMS THAT THESE STUDENTS TAKE. AND I'LL GET MORE INTO THE WEEDS ON THAT IN A MOMENT. BUT I DO WANT TO DRAW YOU DOWN TO THOSE THAT SECOND SET OF NUMBERS, WHICH ARE AP SCHOLAR DESIGNATIONS. THE COLLEGE BOARD PROVIDES THREE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF RECOGNITIONS FOR STUDENTS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF AP EXAMS THEY TAKE AND THE SCORES THAT THEY RECEIVE ON THOSE AP EXAMS. SO, THE NUMBER THAT YOU SEE AS THE LARGEST NUMBER IS ACTUALLY THE HARDEST DESIGNATION TO GET, WHICH SHOWS YOU THAT OUR KIDS ARE REALLY CHALLENGING THEMSELVES, NOT ONLY IN THE COURSES THAT THEY'RE TAKING, BUT THE SCORES THAT THEY'RE MAKING ON THOSE EXAMS. IT IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO RECEIVE ANY OF THESE UNTIL YOU'RE AT THE SENIOR HIGH, JUST WITH THE AMOUNT OF COURSES THAT ARE OFFERED IT IS POSSIBLE AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS, BUT REALLY, YOU'RE NOT REALLY HAVING A SHOT UNTIL YOU ARE A JUNIOR OR A SENIOR. SO, I GAVE YOU SOME NUMBERS UP THERE. AND REALLY THE TAKEAWAY IS THAT WE HAVE JUST ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF OUR JUNIORS AND SENIORS THAT ARE EARNING ONE OF THESE DESIGNATIONS FROM THE COLLEGE BOARD, WHICH IS JUST INCREDIBLE. OUR STUDENTS ARE NOT JUST TAKING ONE AP EXAM AND THEN GETTING OUT AND SAYING, NOT FOR ME BECAUSE THEY HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE. THEY'RE DIPPING THEIR TOES IN EARLY, AND THEY ARE CONTINUING TO ADD MORE COURSES AND DO BETTER ON THESE EXAMS AS THEY GO BECAUSE THEY LIKE THEIR TEACHERS, THEY LIKE THE CONTENT OF THE COURSES, AND THEY KNOW THE VALUE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL THAT THESE COURSES CAN BRING TO THEM. THIS SHOWS YOU JUST THE TRAJECTORY OVER TIME OF OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF AP STUDENTS. THESE ARE

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THIS IS NOT ONLY IN TERMS OF DECLINING ENROLLMENT, BUT IN THE FACE OF OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. WE HAVE GREAT DUAL CREDIT PROGRAMS. WE HAVE ON RAMPS. THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO EARN MORE COLLEGE CREDIT BESIDES AP, AND WE DO SEE KIDS THAT ARE CONTINUING ALONG AP. WE SEE A GROWTH IN THESE OTHER PROGRAMS AS WELL.

THAT'S JUST SHOWING US THAT THERE IS A SPOT FOR ALL KIDS.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU WANT TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF ON, THERE IS A PLACE FOR YOU TO GO. LOOKING AT OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF AP EXAMS, YOU WILL SEE A SIMILAR TREND.

24 TO 25 WAS OUR BIGGEST JUMP, A SLIGHT DECLINE FROM 25 TO 26. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU AGAIN LOOK AT OUR TOTAL OF PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL AP EXAMS, WE HAVE STUDENTS ARE PERFORMING VERY, VERY WELL. SO, WE SAW, WE HAVE MAINTAINED FAIRLY STEADY FROM 2025 TO 2026. A 3 ON AN AP EXAM IS CONSIDERED A QUALIFYING SCORE. THAT IS THE LEVEL OF SCORE THAT COLLEGES WILL GIVE YOU SOME KIND OF COLLEGE CREDIT IF YOU SCORE AT LEAST A THREE OR HIGHER.

AND SO, WE ARE VERY CONFIDENT THAT OUR TEACHERS ARE ALLOWING OUR STUDENTS TO MAKE THE SCORES ON THESE GLOBALLY NORMED EXAMS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THAT COLLEGE CREDIT.

THAT IS DONE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING. SO, IT'S NOT JUST AN ARBITRARY GRADE.

ALL OF THOSE RUBRICS ARE NORMED EVERY YEAR DURING THE AP EXAM GRADING SO THAT COLLEGES CAN BE CONFIDENT THAT WHEN A KID IS COMING IN ONTO THEIR CAMPUS AS WELL, A FIRST-YEAR STUDENT AND THEY ARE PLACING OUT OF CERTAIN COURSEWORK, THEN THE COLLEGE IS CONFIDENT THAT THAT IS DUE TO THE LEVEL OF EDUCATION THEY GOT IN AN AP COURSE EVERY YEAR. I LIKE TO BRING YOU THE DATA FROM OUR TOP FIVE AP EXAMS. AND THIS IS JUST IN TERMS OF VOLUME. AND THIS HAS NOT CHANGED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.

WORLD HISTORY, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, US HISTORY, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE REMAIN OUR TOP FIVE TESTED EXAMS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. LIKE LISA SHOWED YOU WITH SOME OF OUR OTHER TESTS THAT GO INTO OUR ASSESSMENT PROCESS, WE DON'T SHOW YOU THE COMPARISON BETWEEN OUR DISTRICT AND THE STATE AND THE GLOBAL AVERAGES. TO BRAG, YES, IT IS GOOD TO BRAG AND KIND OF PAT OURSELVES ON THE BACK, BUT WE DO LIKE TO SEE WHERE THE ANOMALIES ARE.

WE'RE NOT DOING. WE DON'T USE THIS DATA TO JUST SAY WE'RE ON AVERAGE ABOUT 20% HIGHER THAN THE STATE OR THE GLOBAL POPULATION OF TESTERS.

BUT IF WE LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE ANOMALIES, WE DO WANT TO TRACK IT FROM YEAR TO YEAR SO WE CAN LOOK HAS THERE BEEN A DROP, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT OR EVEN OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, HAVE WE SEEN STAFFING CHANGES THAT HAVE IMPACTED ANY OF THESE SCORES? HAVE WE SEEN CLOSING GAPS BETWEEN OUR DISTRICT AND THE STATE OR GLOBAL POPULATIONS? BECAUSE THEN LIKE DR. WILLIAMS SAID, IT MIGHT BE MORE OF A CURRICULUM ISSUE. THE COLLEGE BOARD GIVES YOU A FRAMEWORK SIMILAR TO OUR TEKS THAT WE HAVE IN TEKS BASED COURSES.

BUT THEN IT IS REALLY UP TO A TEAM OF TEACHERS OR SOMETIMES INDIVIDUAL TEACHERS TO MAKE THAT COURSE AND EXAM DESCRIPTION COME ALIVE. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR TEACHERS HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT. I WISH THEY WOULD HAVE HAD JUST A FEW MORE TESTERS BECAUSE NUMBER SIX, Y'ALL IS AP PRE-CALCULUS, WHICH HAD JUST UNDER 900. SO, IT ALMOST CRACKED THE TOP FIVE 90 FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, WHICH WE JUST STARTED AP PRE-CALCULUS IN 2025. CAN'T PRAISE THIS TEAM ENOUGH FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW. A 98% PASS RATE. A 98% PASS RATE.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT Y'ALL.

I DID NOT DO SO HOT IN PRE-CALCULUS WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. SO, THE FACT THAT OUR KIDS CAN DO THIS AT AN AP LEVEL IS PRETTY REMARKABLE.

THERE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL OF AP CLASSES THAT CAN BE TIED TO A SPECIFIC COHORT OF STUDENTS, MEANING THAT THEY'RE GRADE LEVEL SPECIFIC, BECAUSE A LOT OF COURSES CAN BE TAKEN AS A JUNIOR OR SENIOR OR AS A FRESHMAN OR A SOPHOMORE. SO, THESE ARE COURSES THAT WE CAN TIE TO SPECIFIC YEARS. AND I

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THEY COULD HANDLE IT. IT'S NOT ALL THAT BAD. I REALLY THINK I CAN DO THIS. AP THINK. AND I'M GOING TO GIVE IT A SHOT. IF YOU DO SEE SOME SLIGHT DROPS BETWEEN 10TH AND 11TH, THAT'S WHEN WE HAVE SOME OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO EARN THAT COLLEGE CREDIT.

THINGS LIKE DUAL CREDIT THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF. SO, THIS IS KIND OF. YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT. I LOOK AT ALL OF THESE TOGETHER. WE DON'T WANT TO FOCUS ON JUST ONE LITTLE METRIC OF THE DATA WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AP DATA BECAUSE IT MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE MISCONSTRUED OR INTERPRETED A DIFFERENT WAY.

BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT ALL OF THESE THINGS TOGETHER, IT SHOWS US THAT OUR AP PROGRAM CONTINUES TO BE STRONG. IT GIVES US MORE OPPORTUNITY TO FOCUS ON THE AREAS THAT WE DO NEED TO FOCUS ON, BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME OF THOSE AS WELL.

BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO GET LOST IN THE NOISE OF OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT BE HAPPENING AND REALLY CAN FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT ARE MAKING THE BIGGEST IMPACT FOR OUR KIDS. SWITCHING GEARS A LITTLE BIT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE HAVE STARTED OR CONTINUED TO DO OVER THE PAST YEAR OR PAST SEVERAL YEARS, STARTING WITH OUR SAT BOOST CAMP.

THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT CAMP OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR STUDENTS. THE BOOST CAMP IS FOR JUNIORS THAT ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ON THE BUBBLE, MEANING THEY ARE PROBABLY JUST BELOW MEETING THE BENCHMARKS THAT THEY'LL NEED TO MAKE ON SAT SCHOOL DAY IN ORDER TO MEET THE CCMR BENCHMARKS.

SO, THIS IS DONE LEADING UP TO SAT SCHOOL DAY, WHICH IS TYPICALLY AROUND THE VERY START OF MARCH. SO, THIS WAS A FIVE HOUR JUST TRULY BOOST OPPORTUNITY.

WE IDENTIFIED THESE STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR SCORES. IF THEY TOOK THE NMSQT, IF THEY ELECTED TO TAKE IT AS A JUNIOR, WE USE THOSE SCORES. WE KNOW A LOT OF OUR BUBBLE KIDS DON'T CHOOSE TO TAKE IT. SO AS A JUNIOR. SO, WE GO BACK THEIR 10TH GRADE SCORES AND WE IDENTIFY THEM AS EITHER NEEDING MORE INTERVENTION IN MATH OR ENGLISH OR BOTH. AND THEN OUR TEACHERS WERE ABLE TO DELIVER THAT USING MATERIALS FROM THE PRINCETON REVIEW AND THAT WAS DONE. WE HAD TWO CAMPUSES THAT DID IT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY. SO, THEY PULLED KIDS DURING THE DAY.

THEY WERE A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE.

THEY WERE ALREADY AT SCHOOL.

WE JUST SNAGGED THEM, BROUGHT THEM TO A PRESENTATION ROOM AND DID OUR THING. AND THEN WE HAD A COUPLE OF CAMPUSES THAT GAVE CHOICES BETWEEN THE SCHOOL DAY OR A SATURDAY OPPORTUNITY AS WELL.

AND WE HAD 340 JUNIORS THAT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY IN THE LAST SCHOOL YEAR. WE ALSO PROVIDE OUR PSAT PREP.

THIS IS TO OUR RISING SOPHOMORES AND JUNIORS. THIS IS REALLY GEARED TOWARDS MAKING THEM VERY COMPETITIVE ON THAT PSAT NMSQT THAT THEY TAKE AS A JUNIOR. SO, WE ARE NOW IDENTIFYING OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE MORE ON THE HIGHER END OF THE STUDENT SELECTION INDEX SCORE. AND WE INVITE A LARGE GROUP AND THEN WE SEE WHO ACCEPTS AND THEN WE INVITE.

SO, WE KIND OF DROP DOWN THE LIST. AND WHAT WE ENDED UP WITH OVER THIS SUMMER WAS 146 FRESHMEN SOPHOMORES WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY. WE CHANGED SOME THINGS ABOUT IT THIS PAST SUMMER.

EVERY OTHER YEAR THAT WE'VE DONE THIS, THESE HAVE BEEN ONLINE ONLY AND THEY HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FROM CONTRACTED PRINCETON REVIEW INSTRUCTORS.

THIS YEAR WE HAD SOME AMAZING TEACHERS WHO GAVE UP A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF THEIR SUMMER TO SPEND WITH THESE KIDS TO COME IN AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY. SO, WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOUR DIFFERENT CHOICES OF WEEK-LONG SESSIONS FOR KIDS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF. AND I THINK ONCE THE WORD GETS OUT ABOUT THIS AND HOW MUCH DIFFERENT AND BETTER IT WAS THAN THE ONLINE VERSION, WHICH HONESTLY SAW LOW PARTICIPATION.

WE ALL REMEMBER WHAT ONLINE LEARNING IS LIKE, PLUS AN INSTRUCTOR OR FACILITATOR FOR THEIR COURSES THAT THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE A CONNECTION TO.

EVEN THOUGH THIS MIGHT NOT BE THEIR ENGLISH TEACHER, THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE A PLANO ENGLISH TEACHER AND THAT JUST SORT OF MATTERS A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN JUST SOME IDENTITY FREE PERSON BEHIND A SCREEN. SO, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO GROWING THIS OPPORTUNITY IN THE COMING YEARS. ALL RIGHT, LOOKING AHEAD TO THIS SCHOOL YEAR, WE HAVE SOME EXCITING NEW THINGS AND SOME THINGS THAT WE ARE CONTINUING AND WILL BE BEEFING UP AS WELL. WE SPENT TIME OVER THIS SUMMER TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE INTENTIONALITY BEHIND EMBEDDING OUR SAT READINESS INTO TIER 1 INSTRUCTION IN MATH AND ENGLISH COURSES.

SO, WE HAD A TEAM OF ENGLISH TEACHERS, A TEAM OF MATH TEACHERS IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR FRIENDS FROM SECONDARY ACADEMIC SERVICES, AND WE ACTUALLY SAID, HEY, YOU TEACH THESE CLASSES.

WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES THE MOST SENSE TO YOU? AND SO, IT LOOKED A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

SO, WE'VE INCORPORATED SOME PROGRESS MONITORING ASSESSMENTS

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WE HAVE A LIBRARY OF BELL RINGERS WITH AN EXPECTATION FOR FREQUENCY THROUGHOUT THE WEEK TO EMBED THOSE INTO CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION.

THEY ARE UNIT SPECIFIC SO THAT IN A MATH CLASS WE CAN SAY, HEY, WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT THESE CONCEPTS IN THIS SPECIFIC PLANO ISD UNIT IN ALGEBRA 2. NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT TEST THE SAME ALGEBRA TWO RELATED CONCEPTS AND SEE WHAT THOSE ITEMS WILL LOOK LIKE ON A PSAT OR SAT ASSESSMENT.

SO AGAIN, THE INTENTIONALITY BEHIND IT AND THE PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR FRIENDS IN SECONDARY ACADEMIC SERVICES WE THINK IS GOING TO GO A LONG WAY IN IMPROVING THIS EFFORT THIS YEAR. WE ARE ALSO BEING VERY INTENTIONAL WITH HOW WE HAVE DESIGNED THE HIGH SCHOOL ADVISORY CLASSES FOR THIS YEAR. HIGH SCHOOL ADVISORY IS NOT NEW. IT IS A BUILT IN ABOUT 30-MINUTE CHUNK OF TIME DURING THE SCHOOL DAY WHERE STUDENTS ARE ASSIGNED TO AN ADVISORY TEACHER. AND THIS YEAR WE HAVE CREATED A SCOPE AND SEQUENCE WITH FIVE DAYS A WEEK AND WE HAVE REALLY PLANNED OUT WHAT THOSE EXPERIENCES WILL BE EACH DAY INCLUDED IN THAT ADVISORY WEEK. EACH WEEK THERE WILL BE A DAY DEVOTED TO MATH ENRICHMENT AND A DAY DEVOTED TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS ENRICHMENT. SO, STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT IN NEED OF INTERVENTIONS BASED ON LEGISLATION WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SAT PREP.

DURING THOSE TWO DAYS, STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF KHAN ACADEMY AND THEY CAN USE THAT KHAN ACADEMY PLATFORM AS AN INDIVIDUALIZED PLAYLIST. THERE ARE REALLY THREE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT A STUDENT CAN BE USING KHAN ACADEMY DURING THEIR ADVISORY. IF THEY'RE IN NIGHTTIME AND 10TH GRADE, THEY CAN USE THE SCOPE AND SEQUENCE WE HAVE GIVEN THEM.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, DO THIS ON THIS DAY. OR YOU CAN LINK YOUR PRIOR TEST SCORES TO KHAN ACADEMY THROUGH YOUR COLLEGE BOARD ACCOUNT AND THAT WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT PARTS OF THE COURSE YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON. OR YOU CAN TAKE A DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN MATH OR READING AND WRITING.

AND THAT WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO BE FOCUSING ON IN THESE COURSES. SO, WE REALLY THINK AGAIN, THE KEY TO THIS IS INTENTIONALITY. NOT JUST HERE'S A BUNCH OF RESOURCES. IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEM TO NO, LET'S WALK YOU THROUGH IT. HERE'S WHEN WE'RE GOING TO DO IT, HERE'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO KNOW THAT YOU'VE DONE IT AND HERE'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION IF THAT MAYBE DID NOT HAPPEN. SO, INTENTIONALITY IS REALLY WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORK IN OUR DISTRICT IS REALLY WHAT PUSHES IT FORWARD. AND SO, WE'RE TAKING A PAGE FROM THAT PLAYBOOK AND KIND OF AMPING UP OUR EFFORTS AS WELL.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE ARE CONTINUING TO GROW AP SEMINAR THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT THIS YEAR. WE HAVE FOUR HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES THAT ARE OFFERING AP SEMINAR AND WE NOW HAVE TWO SENIOR HIGH CAMPUSES THAT ARE OFFERING AP RESEARCH.

ONE STARTED IT LAST YEAR. A SECOND SENIOR HIGH STARTED IT THIS YEAR. IN 2026, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN PLANO ISD HISTORY, WE HAD STUDENTS GRADUATE WITH AN AP CAPSTONE DIPLOMA. WE HAD 14 STUDENTS FROM PLANO SENIOR HIGH GRADUATE WITH A CAPSTONE DIPLOMA, MEANING THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL IN COMPLETING BOTH AP SEMINAR AND AP RESEARCH AND A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL AP EXAMS THAT ALSO GOT THEM HIGH SCORES.

THIS IS A PRETTY REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT. WE'RE EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO BRING THIS TO STUDENTS AT PLANO WEST AS WELL. AND THIS IS ALSO A PART OF OUR LONGER-TERM PLAN FOR THE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL WHO HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN BRINGING ON AP CLASSES INTO THEIR STRUCTURE. AND WE WILL BE EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE IN PROCESS THINGS IN THE FUTURE. WE ARE ALSO CONTINUING TO MONITOR UPDATES FROM TEA AND THE STATE BOARD ABOUT NEW AP COURSES. THE COLLEGE BOARD HAS ROLLED OUT ADDITIONAL AP COURSES.

THE COLLEGE BOARD I DON'T GET PAID BY THEM, BUT IF I HAD TO BOIL THEM DOWN TO ONE WORD, IT'S OPPORTUNITY. AND THE COLLEGE BOARD DOES A VERY GOOD JOB OF READING THE ROOM AROUND THE COUNTRY AND KNOWING WHAT THE GAPS ARE AND HOW THEY CAN HELP MEET INDIVIDUAL STUDENT NEEDS. AND ONE AREA THAT THEY HAVE REALLY SEEN AS A NEED NATIONWIDE IS TO BEEF UP AP COURSES THAT ARE GEARED MORE TOWARDS CAREER READINESS. NOT YOUR TYPICAL HARDCORE ACADEMIC WHAT WE WOULD TYPICALLY THINK OF AS ACADEMIC COURSES. BUT THEY ARE EXPANDING THEIR EFFORTS. SO, AS WE SEE HOW THOSE COURSES FIT INTO PROGRAMS OF STUDY, IBC'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM HAPPEN. WHAT CERTIFICATIONS ARE REQUIRED ALL OF THAT FUN STUFF, THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHEN THE TIME WILL BE RIGHT TO ACTUALLY START IMPLEMENTING THOSE COURSES. SO, WE ARE BRINGING SOME THINGS TO THE NEW COURSE COMMITTEE THAT WILL MEET THE FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER.

AND SO, YOU MIGHT START SEEING SOME CHATTER ABOUT SOME OF THESE NEW OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. LAST YEAR WE STARTED OUR AP RECOGNITIONS FOR TEACHERS AS WELL AS CAMPUSES. SO, SOME OF THESE TEACHERS ARE GOING TO BE HOPEFULLY A PART OF YOUR 100% CLUB. YOURS IS A LITTLE BIT MORE RIGOROUS THAN MY CLUB, BUT THAT'S OKAY. WE GIVE INDIVIDUAL TEACHER RECOGNITIONS IF THEY SAW GROWTH IN THEIR AP SCORES, IF THEY, IF THEY GET 90% OR HIGHER,

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CAMPUSES GET A BIG COOL POSTER THAT THEY CAN HANG UP. AND WE RECOGNIZE THEM FOR GROWTH AND FOR PERFORMANCE. SO, WE RECOGNIZE THEM IF WE SAW A GROWTH IN THEIR PARTICIPATION. SO, MEANING THAT THERE WERE MORE STUDENTS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF AP CLASSES, WE GIVE THEM RECOGNITION IF THEY SAW IMPROVEMENT IN THE OVERALL PERCENTAGES OF SCORES EARNING A 3 OR HIGHER. OR YOU CAN GET BOTH.

SO, WE ARE ALL ABOUT THE GROWTH IN THOSE, NOT JUST REWARDING YOU FROM MEETING A BENCHMARK, BUT WE ALWAYS LIKE TO, TO SEE IMPROVEMENT WITH INTENTIONALITY. THAT'S KIND OF THE NAME OF THE GAME.

WE ARE ALSO GOING TO BE KEEPING AN EYE ON HOW THINGS ARE CHANGING AS A RESULT OF THE POLICIES THAT YOU HAVE RECENTLY PASSED. SO, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ONE IS PROBABLY EIC. THAT'S OUR POLICY GOVERNING GPA AND CLASS RANK.

WITH THE CHANGES THAT WE HAVE MADE, WE REALLY THINK THAT STUDENTS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO FOCUS ON CLASSES THAT THEY REALLY ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT.

YES, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE MAXIMIZED YOUR GRADE POINT AVERAGE, THAT YOU HAVE THE RANK THAT YOU DESIRE FOR YOUR POST-SECONDARY PLANS OF YOUR DREAMS. BUT ONCE THAT'S DONE, IT'S TIME TO ENJOY BEING A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. SO, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN LEARN THAT LANGUAGE THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN BUT NEVER HAD A ROOM IN YOUR SCHEDULE TOO. YOU CAN TAKE THAT ART CLASS THAT YOU HAD TO GIVE UP A FEW YEARS AGO BECAUSE YOU HAD TO FOCUS ON OTHER THINGS. WE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THOSE COURSES BECAUSE WE KNOW THE VALUE OF THEM AS EDUCATORS AND AS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. AND WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT TOO. AND I HOPE, AND I REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT THE WORK WE HAVE MADE IN OUR POLICY IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO OPEN UP THOSE DOORS FOR OUR KIDS IN THE COMING YEARS THAT'S WHAT I GOT. ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEES, THIS IS A REPORT. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR KEVIN. I SEE.

NANCY, YOU'RE UP FIRST. WELL, I LOVE THE INTENTIONALITY AND I'VE SEEN OVER THE YEARS THE GROWTH AND SUPPORT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND AP AND SAT PREP AND SO KUDOS FOR THAT AND YOUR TEAM. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.

ONE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EMBEDDING OUR INSTRUCTION IN THE MATH AND ELA INTO OUR CURRICULUM, I MEAN THE SAT READINESS EMBEDDED INTO THE CURRICULUM, WHAT DO WE DO WHEN THEY CHANGE THE SAT EXAM? ARE YOU HAVING TO RE EMBED? YOU HAVE TO UPDATE. THANKFULLY, THEY HAVE DESIGNED THEIR COURSE ACCORDING TO A FRAMEWORK. SO, WHEN THEY WENT DIGITAL, THEY'RE ABLE TO SAY EACH SECTION OF THE EXAM HAS FOUR CONTENT DOMAINS.

WITHIN EACH CONTENT DOMAIN THEY PRESCRIBE, THEY SAY THEY WILL BE THIS NUMBER OF QUESTIONS, IT WILL MAKE UP THIS PERCENTAGE OF THE EXAM. AND THESE ARE THE SKILLS THAT IT'S GOING TO ASSESS. SO EVEN IF ITEMS CHANGE, WHAT THEY'RE ASSESSING WILL NOT CHANGE. SO, IT'S REALLY NOT GOING TO HAVE, THANKFULLY TOO BIG OF AN EFFECT ON WHAT WE DO.

ALSO, THE SKILLS THAT ARE ASSESSED ON THOSE EXAMS ARE THE SKILLS THAT ARE ALREADY BEING ASSESSED VIA OUR ASSESSMENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERLAPPED WITH THE TEKS. SO, IT'S THE SAME STUFF. SO EVEN THOUGH THE CHANGE THE EXAM ITEMS MIGHT CHANGE WHAT IT'S ASSESSING, THE SKILLS, THE THINGS THAT WE'RE PREPARING OUR STUDENTS FOR WILL NOT CHANGE. OKAY, THAT'S GREAT. AND THEN ON THE BOOST CAMP, HELPING THE STUDENTS THAT ARE KIND OF ON THAT BUBBLE, WE DO FIVE HOURS, WOULD IT BE BENEFICIAL TO EXPAND THAT OPPORTUNITY TO LONGER PERIOD OF TIME? WOULD WE SEE A BETTER YIELD IN THEIR PERFORMANCE? THAT IS A GREAT IDEA. AND NOW THAT WE HAVE FIGURED OUT A WAY, AND IN PREVIOUS YEARS, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE HAD TO RELY ON OUTSIDE CONTRACTED FACILITATORS. ONCE WE STARTED TRAINING OUR OWN TEACHERS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT INSTRUCTION, IT KIND OF OPENED UP SOME FLEXIBILITY IN TERMS OF LOGISTICS BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY A LOGISTICAL THING BEFORE THAT. NOW THAT WE KNOW IT'S POSSIBLE AND WE HAVE SEEN CAMPUSES SEE HOW BENEFICIAL IT CAN BE, WE CAN SAY, HEY, IF YOU GOT THE TIME, WE HAVE THIS AVAILABLE, SO WE CAN CERTAINLY BOOST IT UP.

BECAUSE EVEN WITH THE 15-HOUR COURSE, WE'RE STILL NOT TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF ALL OF THE CONTENT THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US THROUGH THE PRINCETON REVIEW.

OKAY. BECAUSE THESE SAT SCORES CAN, YOU KNOW, EQUATE MONEY IN THE FUTURE FOR THE KIDS THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS.

ABSOLUTELY. SO, IT'S WONDERFUL THAT WE'RE PROMOTING THIS.

THANK YOU. THANKS. CAN YOU GIVE US A QUICK TEASER OF ONE CLASS THAT MAY BE OFFERED. I'M ASKING FOR. I HAVE A SEVENTH GRADER WHO'S RISING UP AP BUSINESS WITH PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY. I GOOGLED AND THAT WAS ONE THAT I THE FASTEST GROWING NEW AP COURSE.

AND I GET AN EMAIL LIKE PROBABLY ONCE A WEEK FROM A PARENT OR A STUDENT WHO IS WONDERING WHY THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO TAKE THAT CLASS YET. AND SO THAT IS A COURSE THAT WE'LL BE PROPOSING

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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THAT COURSE WILL BECOME ONE OF THE FEW ADVANCED OPTIONS THAT WILL COUNT FOR THAT NEW PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY GRADUATION REQUIREMENT. THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT ALLUDING TO WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT MONITORING DEVELOPMENTS.

THAT A LOT OF JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A BRIGHT, SHINY NEW AP COURSE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT WILL BE THE RIGHT FIT FOR US. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S THE RIGHT FIT AND THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN PLACE TO MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL. WE HELD OFF A YEAR ON AP PRE-CALCULUS. WE DID NOT IMPLEMENT THE FIRST YEAR WE COULD HAVE. WE WAITED, WE TOOK OUR TIME. WE'RE INTENTIONAL AND WE SEE THE RESULTS OF THAT. AND SO, I LOVE YOUR PASSION ON AP SEMINAR AND I REMEMBER US TALKING ABOUT IT WHEN WE FIRST OFFERED IT. SO, WHAT, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE COMMUNITY WE CAN DO TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT IS? THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK OUR AP SEMINAR TEACHERS HAVE ALREADY BEEN WANTING TO DO BECAUSE THEY SEE THE VALUE OF THIS COURSE NOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN TEACHING IT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. AND THEY SAY THIS IS JUST A MATTER OF EXPOSURE. WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT THIS COURSE IS ALL ABOUT. IT IS AN ELECTIVE CURRENTLY. SO THAT IS PROBABLY WHAT IS HOLDING SOME STUDENTS BACK FROM OPTING INTO THAT COURSE. THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LET SOMETHING GO IN THEIR PACKED SCHEDULES.

SO, IF THERE, IF THERE IS EVER A WAY TO GIVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MORE STUDENTS, WE WOULD LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT WITHOUT THE BARRIER OF FREEING UP ROOM IN A SCHEDULE. THANKS. ONE QUESTION AND ONE COMMENT QUESTION AND YOU'VE TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT. CAN YOU GIVE A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ABOUT THE CONNECTION WITH PRINCETON REVIEW? I HEARD YOU SAY WE USED TO HAVE KIND OF CONTRACTED PEOPLE, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE OUR TEACHERS ARE NOW GETTING SOMETHING.

YES. PRINCETON REVIEW IS A 3RD PARTY PREP PROVIDER. AND SO, THEY ARE A BUSINESS. AND SO, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THEIR MATERIALS, NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE TO PURCHASE THEIR MATERIALS, YOU HAVE TO BE AUTHORIZED TO FACILITATE THE LEARNING OF THOSE MATERIALS. AND BEFORE, WHAT WE DO NOW IS WE HAVE A GROUP OF TEACHERS THAT HAVE BEEN TRAINED FROM A PRINCETON REVIEW PERSON THAT THEY ARE NOW AUTHORIZED TO DELIVER INSTRUCTION USING THOSE MATERIALS. AWESOME. YEAH, THAT'S GREAT. SECOND THING, I REALLY LIKE THE STRUCTURE COMING INTO THE ADVISORY PERIODS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS. I THINK THAT'S FANTASTIC. IN GENERAL, I ALSO THINK IT'S FANTASTIC BECAUSE I JUST TOOK DETAILED NOTES THAT MY SOPHOMORE WILL BE HEARING ME ASK ABOUT THIS EVENING. NEXT WEEK, JUST ASK TO TAKE A PEEK AT HIS CAN THIS CLASS. THAT'S ALL. SO, AS YOU WERE SHOWING THE COHORT DATA, I WAS THINKING ABOUT SUNSETTING THE HONORS COURSES. RIGHT. WE HAD A WHOLE GROUP OF HONORS COURSES THAT WE SUNSET AND THE WHILE THERE WAS SOME CONSTERNATION OVER THIS DECISION, THE RATIONALE REALLY WAS WHY ARE WE OFFERING SOMETHING HONORS THAT WE ARE ALSO OFFERING DUAL CREDIT, AP&IB AND KIDS THAT CAN HACK IT IN THOSE CLASSES. IT'S ALREADY IN HONORS. WE KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HACK IT IN DUAL CREDIT, AP OR IB. THEY SHOULD BE TAKING THOSE COURSES AND GETTING COLLEGE CREDIT.

AND SO NOT ASKING FOR ANYTHING ON THE SPOT AT THE MOMENT, BUT LOOKING AT THE COURSES WHERE WE SUNSET THE HONORS AND THE AP IB DUAL CREDIT ALTERNATIVES AND LOOKING AT SORT OF ENROLLMENT OVER TIME BEFORE AND AFTER THAT SUNSETTING AND REALLY SEEING THOSE KIDS, I SUSPECT THEY'RE GOING INTO THE AP IB DUAL CREDIT COURSES AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, DEFAULTING TO AN ON-LEVEL CLASS FROM HONORS. BUT LOOKING AT ENGLISH LANG, THAT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE. SO, IN 11TH GRADE. THAT'S THE, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST HONORS LEVELS THAT WE, THAT WE ELIMINATED AND WE SAW.

WE DIDN'T SEE AS MUCH OF A NOTICEABLE JUMP IN AP NECESSARILY. BUT IF YOU ADD AN AP AND DUAL CREDIT TOGETHER, THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL SEE MORE KIDS TAKING ADVANTAGE.

YEAH, WE DID SEE A JUMP WHEN WE, WHEN WE ALLOWED STUDENTS TO GO STRAIGHT INTO AP PHYSICS 1 WITHOUT NEEDING TO TAKE HONORS PHYSICS. I THINK THAT WAS A HUGE JUMP FOR THOSE KIDS AS WELL BEING ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT COURSE. AWESOME THAT JUST SEEING THE NUMBERS WOULD BE A GREAT THING FOR A FUTURE BOARD UPDATE TO KIND OF SEE HOW AS YOU TALK ABOUT MONITORING POLICY CHANGES, THIS WASN'T NECESSARILY A, A POLICY CHANGE, BUT SUNSETTING OF COURSES. YOU KNOW, JUST SEEING HOW THAT'S GOING. ELISA, YOU HAD SOMETHING? NO, I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE KIND OF A REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE OF HOW OUR AP CLASSES, YOU KNOW, CAN AFFECT OUR STUDENT SCHEDULES WHEN THEY GO TO COLLEGE. SO, MY SON GRADUATED FROM THE ACADEMY AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY AP CLASSES HE HAD, NINE OR TEN.

AND NOW HE'S IN A POSITION WHERE, YOU KNOW, A FULL COURSE LOAD AS A FRESHMAN IS I THINK 12 TO 13 HOURS OR MORE. SO, HE'S GOT ALL

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BUT TO PARENTS WHO ARE KIND OF ON THE FENCE ABOUT IT, IT REALLY DOES PROVIDE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR CHILD AND ESPECIALLY FOR COLLEGE. SO, THERE'S TANGIBLE OPPORTUNITY IN CREDITS AND COST, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO INTANGIBLE OPPORTUNITY IN JUST NOT BEING SCARED OF A COLLEGE LEVEL TEXTBOOK.

WHEN YOU GET TO COLLEGE, THERE ARE A LOT OF STUDENTS WHO SHOW UP TO THEIR FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE AND THEY GET ONE LOOK AT THOSE TEXTBOOKS AND THEY FREAK OUT. I WAS WITH ONE OF THEM LAST WEEK, A FAMILY MEMBER WHO'S STARTING.

HE STARTED TODAY AT LAMAR UNIVERSITY AND HE GOT HIS, BOUGHT HIS FIRST BOOKS AND WAS A LITTLE BIT SCARED BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER SEEN A BOOK LIKE THAT IN THE TOWN THAT HE GREW UP IN.

AND SO, OUR KIDS ARE GETTING EXPOSED TO THAT EARLY ON WHERE THEY ARE PROTECTED BY PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM AND CARE ABOUT THEM AND WANT TO SEE THEM GROW. AND SO, ONCE WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE THEM THAT KIND OF SAFE SPACE, SPACE TO LAUNCH FROM, THEN THEY'RE GOING TO BE SO MORE SUCCESSFUL WHEN THEY GO OUT INTO THE WORLD. ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEES, ANYTHING ELSE OR. I JUST WANT TO FIRST COMMEND YOU, YOUR TEAM, DR. EDNEY, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR VISION, YOUR SUPPORT. OUR TEACHERS CONTINUE TO BE SO IMPRESSIVE IN PREPARING AND REALLY HELPING OUR STUDENTS BUILD THAT CONFIDENCE OF, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'VE GOT THIS AND I CAN DO THIS AND I CAN BE SUCCESSFUL. AND THEN JUST TO POINT OUT TOO, WE SEE THE SUCCESS WITH A 3, 4 OR 5 QUALIFYING SCORE, WHICH ALLOWS FOR STUDENTS TO GET COLLEGE CREDIT. BUT EVEN STUDENTS WHO ARE EARNING A TWO, THERE'S A LOT OF RESEARCH THAT JUST BEING IN AN AP COURSE, TAKING THE TEST. AND EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING THAT QUALIFYING SCORE, THERE'S STILL RESEARCH TO SUPPORT THE LONG-TERM BENEFIT WHEN THEY DO GO TO COLLEGE AND START TAKING THAT COURSEWORK.

SO, I THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF VALUE BEYOND JUST THE 3, 4 OR 5, ALTHOUGH THAT'S THE GOAL.

RIGHT. BUT THANK YOU FOR ALSO THE COLLABORATION WITH ACADEMIC SERVICES. AND I KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN A LOT OF PLANNING AND A LOT OF COORDINATION OF MAKING SURE THAT. AND WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR OTHER, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT FIFTH GRADE MATH OR ELA, WE'RE LOOKING AT HIGH-PRIORITY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS, Y' ALL ESSENTIALLY HAVE DONE THE SAME WORK TAKING THOSE SAT SKILLS AND FINDING WHERE THEY CONNECT WITH THE, WITH THE TEKS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE KIND OF GETTING ALMOST A DOUBLE DOSE OR SOME INTENSITY AROUND THAT PREPAREDNESS. SO, KUDOS FOR THE TEAMWORK AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE NEXT YEAR'S RESULTS. ME TOO. THANK YOU. THANKS, Y'ALL.

[5.4 2026 - 2027 District Improvement Plan Part I]

NOW WE HAVE A FORWARD-LOOKING REPORT. THIS IS AGENDA ITEM 5.4, THE 2026, 2027 DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN, PART 1.

WE'RE HANDING IT BACK OVER TO LISA WILSON, OUR DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING.

PLEASE PRESENT. THANK YOU AGAIN, DR. TYRA, SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS AND BOARD, THIS IS I. PLEASE DO NOT LET THE AMOUNT OF SLIDES OR THE VOLUME OF TEXT ON THE SLIDE SCARE YOU.

I PROMISE I WILL MAKE THIS A LITTLE BIT DIGESTIBLE. WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLANNING? YOU'VE SEEN THIS OPPORTUNITY OR YOU'VE SEEN THIS TYPE OF SLIDE BEFORE WHERE WE TALK ABOUT, WE TAKE OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

YOU'VE OUTLINED THE OBJECTIVES FOR US. WE HAVE A PLAN OF WORK EVERY YEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST THE ANNUAL WORK WE DO WORKING TOWARD THOSE OBJECTIVES, BUT WE ALSO TAKE A REALLY DEEP DIVE INTO OUR DATA AND A COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND SET ANNUAL GOALS THAT ARE TIED WITH THAT STRATEGIC PLAN.

WE ALSO INCLUDE THOSE REQUIRED LEGISLATIVE GOALS. YOU'LL RECALL THAT HOUSE BILL 3, A FEW SESSIONS BACK WHERE WE WERE WORKING ON EARLY LITERACY, EARLY MATH AND CCMR AS PER THE STATE. AND THEN OF COURSE, EVERY CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOLLOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SAME PROCESS. SO THAT IS HOW WE GO FROM THE BOARDROOM AND YOUR VISION WITH AE LOCAL AND THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US ALL THE WAY DOWN TO EACH OF OUR CLASSROOMS. JUST REMIND YOU, WE'VE MENTIONED IT A COUPLE TIMES TONIGHT. THIS WAS REALLY WAS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF POLICY FOR US TO ESTABLISH THOSE EXPECTATIONS. I KNOW THE TEAM HAS COMMENTED SEVERAL TIMES ON THE CLARITY, THE VISION THAT THIS PROVIDES, THE CONSISTENT MESSAGE TO TEACHERS AND TO PRINCIPALS ABOUT WHAT WE VALUE AND WHAT'S IMPORTANT. SO, YOU WILL HEAR US AD NAUSEAM TALKING ABOUT GRADE LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT, ONE YEAR OF ACADEMIC GROWTH AND A FUTURE PLAN FOR ALL STUDENTS.

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WE START WITH A COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ANALYSIS. WE DIG INTO ALL KINDS OF DATA SETS.

WE BEING BOTH THE CAMPUS LEVEL AND EACH OR EXCUSE AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL AND AT EACH CAMPUS, WE IDENTIFY PROBLEM STATEMENTS.

WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS THAT WE SEE IN OUR DATA? WHAT IS IT THAT WE WANT TO FIX? WHAT DO WE WANT TO CHANGE FOR NEXT YEAR? WE ENGAGE IN A ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED THAT IS GETTING IN THE WAY THAT WE NEED TO KNOCK DOWN A BARRIER OR WE NEED TO CHANGE SOMETHING. THEN WE SET GOALS AGAIN, TYING THOSE BACK TO THE STRATEGIC PILLARS. WE SET TARGETS FOR THOSE SO WE CAN MONITOR AND MAKE SURE THAT WE INSPECT WHAT WE EXPECT. WE SET ACTION PLANS AND STRATEGIES FOR MOVING FORWARD AND THEN WE JUST CONTINUOUSLY MONITOR WHICH TAKES THOSE DATA SETS BACK TO A NEEDS ANALYSIS. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT IS HOW WE WORK THROUGH OUR CYCLE. SO, FOR PILLAR ONE, TEACHING AND LEARNING, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THESE PILLARS, THEY'VE BECOME LIKE THE BACK OF OUR HAND NOW. BUT THIS YEAR IN LOOKING AT OUR DATA, WE FOUND FOUR AREAS REALLY THAT WE WANTED TO PULL FROM OUR PRIORITY STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVES. AND THOSE ARE IN GROWTH, CLOSING THE GAPS, ACHIEVEMENT, AND THEN OF COURSE, THOSE GOALS THAT ARE SET BY LEGISLATION. NOW, FOR EACH GOAL, DRAFT GOAL THAT WE HAVE, WE ARE IN THE DRAFT STAGE BECAUSE WE STILL NEED TO GO THROUGH OUR DISCUSSION. WE STILL HAVE SOME WORK TO DO, BUT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE LANDING BASED ON OUR DATA THAT WE'VE ANALYZED. I AM NOT GOING TO READ EACH SLIDE TO YOU IN TERMS OF THE METRICS AND THE STRATEGY SUMMARY. AND I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THESE ARE NOT THE ACTUAL STRATEGIES. THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY OF THE TYPE OF WORK THAT WE SEE OURSELVES DOING WITH THIS GOAL TO TRY TO GET WHERE WE WANT TO GET.

SO AGAIN, NOT GOING TO READ IT ALL, BUT YOU CAN IMAGINE WE ARE. WE HAVE A GOAL FOCUSED ON GROWTH. NO ONE LOOKS SHOCKED AT THE DAIS. SO, WE HAVE A GOAL FOCUSED ON GROWTH. WE KNOW HOW WE MONITOR THAT EVERY YEAR. I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT WE WANT A CAMPAIGN TO MOVE EVERY STUDENT A PERFORMANCE LEVEL.

NOT JUST THOSE WHO HAVE GAPS TO CLOSE, BUT THOSE WHO ARE PERFORMING AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS AS WELL.

AND WE WANT TO NOT ONLY GET THROUGH, HAVE NO FS NEXT YEAR, BUT WE'D ALSO LIKE TO COME BACK A YEAR FROM NOW AND REPORT THAT WE HAVE NO DS AS WELL. SO THAT IS CERTAINLY A GOAL FOR US. THE SECOND GOAL LOOKS AT CLOSING THE GAPS. WE WANT TO LOOK CLOSELY AT OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE SERVED THROUGH ANOTHER PIECE OF LEGISLATION. YOU'LL RECALL HOUSE BILL 1416 WHERE IF A STUDENT DOES NOT IS NOT SUCCESSFUL IN ONE YEAR, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT THE PLAN IN PLACE TO SUPPORT THEM SO THAT THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL THE NEXT YEAR. THIS IS ONE AREA IN OUR DATA THAT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO SEE SOME GROWTH AND SO WE HAVE TARGETED IT AS A GOAL. WE ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT ON GRADE LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT.

AGAIN, BACK TO OUR ONE OF OUR THREE CRITICAL PRIORITIES.

YOU'LL RECALL THAT WE USE OUR MAP DATA TO REALLY MONITOR THIS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE HAVE MATH ROCKS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. WE HAVE NEW MATH RESOURCES WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT.

SPECIFIC PLANS FOR OUR BILINGUAL AND OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS. SO, SOME OF THE WORK THAT YOU'LL BE HEARING ABOUT WITH THAT GOAL. ALSO, THE REQUIRED GOALS FROM HOUSE BILL 3 SEVERAL YEARS AGO, YOU WILL RECALL THAT WE SET OUR GOALS AT THE MEETS GRADE LEVEL STANDARD, NOT AT THE APPROACHES. WE WENT FOR THE HIGHER LEVEL BECAUSE WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BE ON TRACK FOR COLLEGE READINESS. AND SO, WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK THERE.

BUT THAT WORK NEVER ENDS. THAT IS A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR US. I DID INCLUDE THESE.

THESE ARE THE ANNUAL TARGETS.

YOU SET THESE ACTUALLY BACK IN 24 WE ARE NOW ON THE SCHOOL YEAR. SOUNDS CRAZY BUT 26 27. SO THOSE ARE OUR TARGETS FOR THIS YEAR FOR THIRD GRADE READING. IT JUST AS A REMINDER, WHEN YOU SET THESE BACK IN 24, WE ACTUALLY DUG INTO THE FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY TARGETS OVER TIME AND WE TIED THOSE BACK TO THOSE FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY TARGETS BY EACH SUBPOPULATION. THIS IS THE TARGET FOR MATH FOR THIS YEAR FOR THIRD GRADE MATH AND THEN THE TARGETS FOR CCMR. OF COURSE, WHAT WE WEREN'T COUNTING ON IN 2024 WAS FOR THE STATE TO CONTINUE TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE CCMR REQUIREMENTS. DR.

WILLIAMS MENTIONED A MINUTE AGO THEY'RE MAKING SOME CHANGES IN

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THEN FOR PILLAR TWO LIFE READY AGAIN TYING TO CCMR, WE LOOKED AT OUR DATA. WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON THOSE FUTURE PLANS. YOU'LL SEE THE STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVES THAT WE'RE TYING THOSE BACK TO. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT AT PATHWAYS CERTIFICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENTS. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE. WE DEFINITELY WANT.

THIS SAYS 91%. I KNOW THE OTHER ONE SAID 92. WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT BECAUSE OF THE WRINKLE WITH COLLEGE WITH THIS CLASS. BUT WE'LL, COME BACK WITH A FINAL.

WHEN WE COME BACK WITH OUR FINAL PLAN FOR YOU.

BUT REALLY BEING ABLE TO INCREASE THE WORK THAT DR.

EDNEY AND HER TEAM HAVE DONE WITH INCREASING EMBEDDED FACULTY HAS BEEN HUGE. LOOKING AT THOSE ACTION PLANS AND REALLY JUST KEEPING OUR STAFF AWARE OF THE CHANGES TO CCMR, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERY STUDENT HAS A PLAN. IT'S BEEN VERY IMPORTANT FOR US AND I THINK HAS REALLY BEEN MAKING A DIFFERENCE. SO REALLY FOCUSING ON THAT. WE ALSO WANT TO WORK ON CERTIFICATIONS AGAIN, MAKING SURE THE STUDENTS HAVE THAT ALIGNED PROGRAM OF STUDY THAT WILL GET THEM THAT COMPLETER STATUS. WE ALSO, I BELIEVE WE BROUGHT TO YOU SOME CHANGES THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE FOR CCMR FOUR YEARS DOWN THE ROAD. SO, WE'RE ALREADY HAVING TO MAKE SURE WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT WORK WITH OUR FRESHMEN. SO, FOUR YEARS FROM NOW, WE AREN'T CAUGHT OFF GUARD.

AND THEN A REALLY INCREASING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. THIS REALLY IS TIED TO BOTH PILLARS ONE AND TWO, BUT MAKING SURE OUR STUDENTS ARE ENGAGED NOT ONLY IN THE CLASSROOM, BUT ALSO IN THOSE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.

YOU KNOW, MOST KIDS DON'T COME TO SCHOOL FOR CORE CONTENT.

THEY COME BECAUSE THEY ENJOY THE BAND OR THEY ENJOY THE CHOIR OR THE FOOTBALL TEAM OR WHATEVER IT IS THEY DO. SO, MAKING SURE WE GET THOSE STUDENTS ENGAGED AND REALLY HAVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO BE RISING LEADERS BECAUSE WE ARE PRODUCING TOMORROW'S LEADERS. AND THEN IN PILLAR THREE, LOOKING AT SOME OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS IN OUR CLASSROOMS, AND THOSE ARE THE TEACHERS. SO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE'RE BUILDING THAT TALENT, DEVELOPING OUR PRINCIPALS AND OUR LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, AND CONTINUING TO GROW OUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING. WE HAVE A GOAL FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE WE HAVE A HIGHLY QUALIFIED STAFF MEMBER IN EVERY POSITION. THAT SEEMS TO BE INCREASINGLY HARDER AND HARDER. OUR POOLS SEEM TO GET SMALLER AND SMALLER. I DON'T KNOW WHY EVERYONE DOESN'T WANT TO BE A TEACHER. IT'S ALL I EVER WANTED TO BE.

BUT ANYWAY, THAT DOES SEEM TO GET A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT EACH YEAR.

BUT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT PIPELINE. AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK GOING ON IN THAT AREA. THE PIPELINE, THE LEADERSHIP PIPELINE, ALL THE GREAT WORK DONE THROUGH HOLDSWORTH SEVERAL YEARS AGO TO BUILD THOSE LEADERSHIP PROFILES. AND REALLY WORKING OUR SLI TEAM WORKS REALLY CLOSELY, DEVELOPING ASPIRING PRINCIPALS, ASPIRING LEADERS. WE ALSO HAVE ADDED THE ASPIRING SPECIAL ED LEADERS. SO REALLY GIVING THE OPPORTUNITIES. AND IVAN HAS BEEN WORKING WITH US TO DEVELOP CAMPUS ADMINISTRATOR COMMITTEES TO GIVE OUR PRINCIPALS MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET A BROADER LENS AND ENGAGE IN THOSE THINGS. SO THAT'LL BE EXCITING WORK THIS YEAR. AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING, ALWAYS A GOAL FOR US. BUT THIS YEAR WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OUR KICK UP PLATFORM.

IT'S GOING TO ALLOW US TO COLLECT SOME DATA THAT WILL ALIGN BOTH OUR WORK IN INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING AND THE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THAT TEACHERS ARE ENGAGING IN AND REALLY GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO A LITTLE MORE DEEP DATA ANALYSIS THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. AND THEN IN PILLAR FOUR, OUR SAFETY, WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. OUR AREAS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED HERE ARE SAFETY, CIVILITY, ENROLLMENT, WEBSITE AND VOLUNTEERS. I BET NONE OF THOSE SHOCK YOU.

FOR OUR SAFETY, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT MAKING SURE STUDENTS FEEL COMFORTABLE IN SCHOOL, BEHAVIOR IS UNDER CONTROL. ATTENDANCE, WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO GET THEM IN SCHOOL. AND WE'VE. JENNIFER AND HER TEAM HAVE BEEN DOING A GREAT DEAL OF WORK ON SUPPORTING OUR CAMPUSES WITH ATTENDANCE. SO, WE'LL CONTINUE THAT WORK. THE CODE OF CIVILITY IS GOING TO SHOW UP AS ITS OWN GOAL THIS YEAR AS WE WORK TO EMBED THAT INTO OUR DAILY PRACTICE FOR STUDENTS AND FOR STAFF, OFFICE STAFF, ALL OF THE THINGS. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A GOAL FOR ENROLLMENT TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT INCREASING ENROLLMENT. ONE OF THE THINGS WE REALLY WANT

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WE'RE GOING TO LOOK OF COURSE AT BUDGET, THE PARTNERSHIPS AND THEN LOOKING AT SOME EFFICIENCIES. SO, THE FIRST GOAL, TO LOOK AT THAT DEFICIT AND WAYS WE CAN BEGIN TO CHIP AWAY AT THAT DEFICIT. I KNOW JOHNNY'S VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT ONE. AND THEN WE HAVE A GOAL FOR PARTNERSHIPS.

YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T DO WHAT WE CAN'T, WHAT WE DO WITHOUT THE INCREDIBLE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR BUSINESSES AND REALLY EVEN OUR COLLEGIATE PARTNERS. SO, ALL KINDS OF PARTNERS THAT SUPPORT WHAT WE DO. AND FINALLY, TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS THAT NOT ONLY MAKE US MORE EFFICIENT, BUT SAFER. AND THEN THE PIECE I'M EXCITED ABOUT IN HERE IS TO DIG INTO AN UPDATED DATA WAREHOUSE TO HELP US AGAIN DO MORE OF THE DATA ANALYSIS THAT WE WANT TO DO. SO, OUR NEXT STEPS, AGAIN, THIS WAS KIND OF A PREVIEW OF WHAT WE'RE THINKING BASED ON THE DATA WE'VE LOOKED AT, THE THINGS WE'VE IDENTIFIED THAT WE WANT TO IMPROVE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FINALIZE STRATEGIES.

AGAIN, I GAVE YOU A SUMMARY, BUT WE'LL FINALIZE THOSE STRATEGIES AND REALLY TARGET THOSE METRICS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO HIT AND MONITOR THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THAT WITH OUR DISTRICT-BASED IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE WHO'S BEEN FABULOUS OR THIS LAST YEAR. THEY WERE INCREDIBLE.

WE'LL TAKE IT TO THEM TO GET SOME ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK FOR REFINEMENT AND THEN WE WILL BRING THE FINAL DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN ALONG WITH THE GOALS FROM EACH CAMPUS FOR YOUR FINAL APPROVAL. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. LISA. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU READ SO MUCH TEXT SO QUICKLY. KIDDING.

TRUSTEES, QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR LISA AND THE TEAM? I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND YOU KNOW, YOU'VE, YOU'VE SPARKED SOME IDEAS OR CONFIRMED SOME IDEAS FOR WHAT OUR LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE CAN WORK ON. AND I THINK IT'S, IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE MAINTAIN THE ABILITY TO ADMINISTER THE MAPS, THE MAP TEST, IT'S A NATIONALLY NORMED TEST AND IT'S BOTH CRITERION AND NORM REFERENCED.

AND SO, IT'S A VERY USEFUL TOOL.

AND THAT FEEDS ME INTO LOCAL CONTROL WHICH WOULD GIVE US THAT OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR DISTRICT AS FAR AS WHAT TESTS WE CAN USE. THAT HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, THAT COMPARISON TO OTHER SCHOOL SYSTEMS OUTSIDE OF TEXAS, IN FACT. SO THAT MAPS, THAT MAP TEST MEASURES OF ACADEMIC PROGRESS IS SO IMPORTANT. AND THEN LOCAL CONTROL ON THAT CCMR WE TALKED ABOUT, I MEAN, DR. WILLIAMS, YOU HAVE THESE AMAZING SUPERINTENDENT ROUND TABLES WHERE WE LOOK AT DIFFERENT INDUSTRY GROUPS AND WE BRING IN THE EXPERTS. WE LIVE IN A REGION WITH JUST INCREDIBLE EMPLOYERS.

AND SO, WE CAN GET THAT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S USEFUL FOR OUR WORKFORCE LOCALLY AND THEN ABROAD. I MEAN OUR KIDS ARE GLOBAL, THEY'RE PARTICIPATING IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY. BUT IF WE COULD HAVE THAT LOCAL CONTROL ON THE CCMR AND THE STABILITY IN THE COURSES THAT THEY LET US TEACH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE WE WANT TO ADVOCATE FOR.

AND THEN AGAIN, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BUDGET AND CHIPPING AWAY AT A DEFICIT. WE NEED TO ADD, ADVOCATE FOR FUNDING. SO, YOUR REPORT HAS REALLY INSPIRED ME TO DIG RIGHT BACK INTO THOSE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES THAT WE WILL BRING FORWARD TO THIS BOARD SHORTLY. BOTH LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES AND DBIC APPOINTMENTS ARE COMING SOON.

SO HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY'S TURNED IN THEIR PEOPLE OR CONFIRMED YOUR PEOPLE FROM LAST YEAR CONTINUING OR WHATEVER. BUT THAT'S COMING NEXT MONTH FORWARD FOR APPROVAL IN CASE ANYONE'S WONDERING.

ANYBODY ELSE? LISA, GO AHEAD.

YES, I WAS KIND OF

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THERE ARE SOME AMAZING SKILLS CHECKLISTS AVAILABLE WITH THE MAP SYSTEM THAT ALLOW US TO REALLY HONE IN ON THOSE REALLY EARLY ELEMENTS OF READING THAT WE CAN BEGIN WORKING ON AND JUST GIVES US A BETTER OPPORTUNITY. WE DO GIVE THE CIRCLE ASSESSMENT, WHICH IS A STATE REQUIRED ASSESSMENT, BUT IT JUST DOESN'T GIVE US THE DEPTH OF INFORMATION THAT THAT MAP ASSESSMENT WILL GIVE US.

WELL, I'M EXCITED TO HEAR BACK ABOUT IT BECAUSE I THINK THAT TYPE OF DATA IS JUST HELPS US MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. SO, I JUST WANT TO CHIME IN JUST A LITTLE BIT ON THAT.

SO JUST WANT YOU TO THINK BACK TO WHEN YOUR OWN CHILDREN OR WHAT AGE. LET ME ASK THE QUESTION, LET ME GO BACK AND START WITH THE QUESTION. AT WHAT AGE COULD YOUR CHILDREN READ OR HAVE EARLY LITERACY GOALS? FOR SOME OF US IT MIGHT BE AS EARLY AS THREE. CERTAINLY, FOR A LOT OF US IT MIGHT BE EARLY, EVEN SOONER OR EVEN FOUR. SO, OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE COMING TO US, THE MAJORITY OF OUR KIDS THAT WE'RE SERVING IN OUR PRE K ARE 4 YEARS OLD.

AND THE CIRCLE ASSESSMENT, BY THE END OF THE YEAR, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE NUMBERS ONE THROUGH 10, THAT'S PRETTY LOW LEVEL. AND WHEN YOU START TO LOOK AT THE CIRCLE ASSESSMENT VERSUS THE KINDERGARTEN STANDARDS, THE GAP IS ALREADY THIS WIDE.

SO, IF WE ARE JUST USING CIRCLE AS OUR STANDARD, IT'S NOT REALLY A GOLD STANDARD, IT'S JUST A VERY LOW STANDARD IN MY OPINION. ACTUALLY, NOT JUST IN MY OPINION, BUT I THINK IN ALL OF OUR, IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT JUST, JUST A SIDE BY SIDE, JUST THE SKILL OF WHAT'S EXPECTED AND WHERE KIDS ARE.

AND SO, THIS GIVES OUR STUDENTS STARTING AT, YOU KNOW, AS EARLY AS THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, ANOTHER DATA SET JUST SO WE CAN SEE BECAUSE OUR HOPE WOULD BE THAT BY THE TIME THEY ARE OUT OF PRE K THAT THEY ARE KINDERGARTEN READY. AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO BE KINDERGARTEN READY THAN TO HAVE SOME SKILL ATTAINMENT THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MEASURE.

ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT FOR PRE-K STUDENTS THAT IS ONE OF THE GROUPS WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO SUPPORT IN SUMMER A LOT OF THE STUDENTS IN SUMMER SCHOOL. SO, USING THE MAP SKILLS ALLOWS US TO HAVE A MORE MEANINGFUL AND RICH SUMMER SCHOOL EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO THE STARTUP OF KINDERGARTEN.

SO, THIS WILL ALLOW, IF THERE ARE ANY GAPS PRIOR TO STARTING SCHOOL THAT WE'RE ABLE TO REALLY AUTHENTICALLY FILL THOSE GAPS, HAVING GOOD HIGH-QUALITY DATA TO WORK FROM. SO, WE, I THINK OUR KIDS JUST LIKE OUR OLDER KIDS WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU'RE ABLE TO SET A HIGHER TARGET, THEY RISE TO THE OCCASION. AND SO HAVING THIS TYPE OF RIGOR AS EARLY AS PRE-K, NOT JUST THAT, NOT, NOT NECESSARILY THE ASSESSMENT BUT THE WORK THAT WE'RE ASKING THEM TO LEARN AND DO. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO, AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE VERY PLEASED BECAUSE OUR KIDS, THEY'RE LIKE SPONGES AND WE'LL START TO SEE, I THINK A GREAT AMOUNT OF GROWTH FOR THE KIDS AT THIS GRADE LEVEL. SO EXCITED ABOUT IT. NANCY KNOWS EXACTLY WHICH SENATOR NEEDS TO HEAR ALL OF THIS. HE BELIEVES THAT PLANO STUDENTS ARE READING AT A MUCH LOWER RATE THAN THEY TRULY ARE. SO, SENATOR BOB HALL SET UP A MEETING WITH HIM. HE NEEDS TO HEAR ALL OF THIS. I'M JUST GOING TO CALL HIM OUT BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO KNOW THAT ONE OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE AREA THAT HE REPRESENTS IS DOING REALLY WELL WHEN IT COMES TO LITERACY AMONGST THE EARLY LEARNERS. SO YEAH, JUST I'M THROWING THAT OUT THERE. HAVE FUN LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. I WANT TO ADD TO WHAT DR. WILLIAMS WAS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PRE-K KIDS, THE KIDS WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, THAT COME TO US FOR FREE FOR

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SO DOUBLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO THAT. JUST TO PLUG ON THE PRE-K2, THERE'S CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF MILITARY AFFILIATED CHILDREN, FIRST RESPONDERS, POLICE OFFICERS AS WELL AS OUR TEACHERS. THAT WAS A LEGISLATIVE CHANGE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE THINK A LOT ABOUT THE KIDS WHO MAYBE ENGLISH ISN'T THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE AT HOME OR YOU KNOW, FAMILY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, BUT WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER VERY LARGE GROUPS OF KIDS LIKE THE TEACHERS, KIDS IS I THINK PROBABLY A MUCH LARGER GROUP THAN MILITARY AFFILIATED IN PLANO AT LEAST. RIGHT.

BUT THOSE, THOSE GROUPS OF KIDS ALSO ARE COMING TO US FOR PRE-K AND FAMILIES TRUSTING US FOR HIGH QUALITY PRE-K.

SO, ANYTHING ELSE? GO AHEAD, SAM. I AM NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT PRE-K. I HOPE THAT'S ALL RIGHT. NO, I JUST WANT TO SAY I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THE CODE OF CIVILITY IN HERE. I KNOW I BRING THAT UP WHENEVER IT'S ON OUR AGENDA.

SO NOT SHOCKING PROBABLY, BUT I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT IN GENERAL WHERE WE HEAR PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE NEED FOR CITIZENS TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE RESPECTFULLY EVEN WHEN DISAGREEING. AND I'M JUST GLAD TO SEE THAT THIS IS COMING INTO THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN WITH SUCH EMPHASIS AND THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT STUFF. I JUST, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. I KNOW SOME PEOPLE HAVE THIS IDEA THAT WE CAN CONTROL WHAT OUR STUDENTS THINK AND HOW THEY BEHAVE OR ANYONE ELSE, HOW THEY THINK AND BEHAVE. WE CAN'T DO THAT.

BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS THROUGH STUFF LIKE THIS, LIKE APPROPRIATELY TRY TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO BE RESPECTFUL TO ONE ANOTHER. AND, AND I WOULD JUST SAY THIS TO ANY PARENTS WATCHING. THAT IS A SKILL SET THAT WE NEED YOUR HELP DOING. ALSO, OUR STUDENTS WILL LEARN TO BE MORE THOUGHTFUL AND RESPECTFUL TO EACH OTHER IF THEY SEE THAT MODELED BY THE ADULTS AROUND THEM ALSO. SO, I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS. I KNOW OUR ADULTS WILL BE DOING THIS, OR AT LEAST WE EXPECT THEM TO AND EXCITED TO SEE THIS GET FINALIZED THIS PART. I'LL MAKE ONE LAST COMMENT. IT WAS IN AN EARLIER SLIDE. THE GOAL OF HAVING ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES BE A C OR ABOVE. I AM SUPER, TREMENDOUSLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT GOAL AND EXCITED TO HEAR IT. EXCITED TO SEE THAT I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY ATTAINABLE. THERE'S NO REASON WHY THAT'S NOT ATTAINABLE FOR THIS DISTRICT. AND EXCITED TO BE SITTING HERE NEXT YEAR AND HEARING THAT WE MET THAT GOAL. SO, ANYTHING ELSE? ALL

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THE TIME IS 8:48 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2026.

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