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Good evening. It's 5:30 p.m. And welcome to the regular board meeting of the round rock
Isd trustees.

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present tonight, we have trustee zárate, trustee weir,
Trustee wai, myself, trustee harrison,

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trustee markum, trustee landrum and trustee ross.

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please stand for the pledge of allegiance and the texas pledge.

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I pledge of

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one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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honor the texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee texas.

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one state under god, indivisible. All right. We're starting today with item d.1
Recognitions,

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handing it over to you, annie. Thank you. Good evening,
President harrison. Trustees and doctor azaiez. We're starting this evening's meeting by recognizing and
Showcasing some of our outstanding students and staff.

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if you all could please join us at the front of the dais. We'll get started.

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for our student recognition tonight, we're excited to recognize one of our students who
Has excelled at the 75th annual regeneron international science and engineering fair.

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her research on regenerating nerve cells and the effects of compounds on damaged brain
Cells was showcased and won her the mary sue coleman award for life,

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science and innovation and impact. The students innovative mission is to help find better
Treatments for brain diseases and traumatic brain injuries.

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well westwood student uma sthanu, science fair sponsor,
Avni kantawala, assistant principal brian branch and area superintendent doctor zach

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oldham, please come to the front for a photo [applause].

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please. All right, y'all, one, two, three, and one more

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one. Two. Three

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now on to the staff and department recognitions. We are thrilled to honor the fine arts department for two separate recognitions tonight,
Both being received by our director of fine arts visual,

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tim lowke. The first award for the department. The first award the department received this year is the 2025 texas art education
Association district of distinction award the district has received for seven consecutive

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years. This recognition highlights the direct reflection of the hard work and creativity
Of all of our visual arts, educators,

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and performance programs. The second recognition is the district of distinction
Distinction,

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sorry all, exemplary district by the texas educational theater association.

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this is the third consecutive year we have received this accolade,
Which represents the success of our commitment to raising the standards of theater

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education through excellence and achievement,
Resource development, diversity, and arts advocacy. While director of fine arts tim lokey

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and senior chief of schools and innovation doctor natalie nichols,
Please come to the front for a photo [applause].

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[laughter] one, two, three

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one, two three

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conclude our recognitions to watch our video for the evening,
We want to take a moment to thank our outgoing board president, tiffanie harrison, for her

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dedication, love and strong leadership that she has brought to round rock isd. We are so thankful that you serve this community as an educator,
A trustee and board president.

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thank you truly for the work that you've done and what you've brought to our educators and
Students across the district [applause].

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yes. Will our chiefs and additional leadership area superintendents everybody come up to
The front for a photo.

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all right

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all right

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right. So if you want to

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be here

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any given

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day I mean we won the battle and after that day

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in the front row

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[laughter]. Oh, no. [laughter] thank you. One.

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two. Three

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sorry [laughter]. Come on beautiful

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there we go. No, I'm going to do this one okay. One, two. And one more

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three. And I raise you

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thank you everyone. Trustees, now is your opportunity to share any parting thoughts with
President harrison.

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I was going to say just an

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it's so exciting and devastating at the same time.

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you you mean so much to all of us up here and to the district and to me personally.

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I'm so, so happy for you. And you will be really missed.

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I can't agree more with chuy. I mean, you are one of the person that inspired me,
Inspired me to run for this position,

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and. I mean, everyone knows how much you have done for this district.

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and I just want to say this is a good example we will always look forward to thanks.

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it's not goodbye, but I do want you to know what a legacy you've left here as a student,
As a teacher,

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and as a board member. You leave a huge legacy and it will last for ages.

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I'm so proud to know you. I appreciate the time that I've had on the board with you,
And I'm so happy to see where your life goes from here.

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so thank you so much for serving this district.

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I met you for the first time in 2018 when you were a teacher at round rock high school,
And I was running for the board, and you were an advocate for the district then you were

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an advocate before then, and you're an advocate now. And I know it won't stop just because
You've off the board now,

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but it's been an honor to serve with you, to learn from you,
And to grow with you.

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we have lots of stories nobody would even believe [laughter]. And and I'm glad that I had
You to go through all that with.

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so thank you so much for all that you've done. It's not goodbye,
See you later.

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I don't know how to do this [laughter] thank you trustees. As we're watching our video,
President harrison will make her way off the dais.

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unless she would like to take a moment right now to speak. I just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity to serve this community. It has been an
Honor and a pleasure.

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I stepped into this role because I was a critical lover of our district.

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I love round rock isd, and there are lots of things that we could do better.

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and I'm still sitting here today believing that. And so I am really grateful. Congratulations to upcoming trustee fabian cuero.

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I can't imagine a better representative to step into place 6.

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and so I am so grateful. And I was actually so grateful to have so many great people to
Interview.

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and thank you for my colleagues. Thank you to my colleagues we've been through a lot.

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you're right. There are things that people could never imagine.

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there have been the highest of highs, of seeing students blossom,
Grow in their confidence and their joy in their academics.

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and then there's been some really scary and devastating times,
Like wearing tennis shoes to a board meeting and having to have an exit plan because there

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was threats of danger and violence. And I hope and I pray,
That those are things that our community can continue to move past.

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I hope we don't spend our time arguing against things that are inhumane and that don't
Uplift students.

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and I even where we disagree, I hope that we can honor the humanity of each and every
Person in round rock isd.

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and I hope the legacy is that there's more representation across this district.

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one thing that makes me very sad is that as I depart,
Public education is in an even worse state than when I came.

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but I just want to encourage and charge round rock isd from my trustee colleagues to the
Administration that we are a district of innovation.

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and even though public education looks bleak,
I really believe in round rock isd's ability to reimagine what is possible.

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the best question ever asked to me on the campaign trail was,
Do you have a favorite musical?

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and I actually really love if you've ever seen it on broadway,
Hadestown, and in hadestown,

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it talks about a poor boy, and he had a gift to give,
And it said that he could see the way the world could be in spite of the way that it is.

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and so I know that the way the world is right now is really challenging. The way public education is right now is really challenging.

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but I exit this board with a deep belief in my colleagues and in our community to see the
Way the world can be in spite of the way it is.

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I just want to say thank you. I will miss you. I am very excited about this next part of my life.

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I have children now [laughter] for people that love to harp on me not having children,
And I have always taken it my responsibility to be responsible and thoughtful for this

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community's children to the best of my ability. Not perfect, but to the best of my ability. So such gratitude for the last five years and
Such deep belief in the strength and the ability of round

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rock isd. Thank you so much [applause].

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okay. Thank you everyone. Here's an abrupt tone shift.

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now we're going to watch a video [laughter]. We know our students across the district are
Highly focused and working hard to grow and succeed in their goals.

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tonight's video highlights the great commitment of our animal science students and the
Dedication it takes to succeed in the program.

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let's take a look.

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I'll come in the morning and I'll just feed. I'll sweep their pens. You're okay, buddy. And I'll change water buckets and just make sure their area is clean
And they're being well fed.

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it's a lot of work. It's a lot of time commitment and just making sure we're being
Consistent on everything.

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the bottom of my shoes are all wet. All right off to school. Are you ready? So excited. So excited. Yeah I love aquatic science.

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we made this, like this little hat. One more class? Yes I go to ap u.s history. And what do you do after that?

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I come back to the barn. I do have a lot of time. Like after school. I will walk them for at least,
Like 30 minutes and work with them.

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do you want to work with them to where they're just staying still like this?

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to where you can just walk around them. My lamb. You'll kind of see a difference. He hasn't gotten there yet.

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he's a little escape artist, so he kind of knows how to read from my hand. He just likes to be a little difficult right now.

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come on. Go. He's still making life so difficult. Come on, buddy. After school, I'm usually here until around 6:00 or 6:30.

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weekends, holidays. We're always here. We think we learn a lot from it.

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and we're really fortunate to have the opportunity that we have because,
I mean, it's not something that's cheap.

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it's pretty pricey. So we are really fortunate that we do have the opportunity.

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we have to be able to do this every day. All done.

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[applause] thank you so much. It's always good to see our students in action. And I love
When we bring that here. Okay.

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we're going to move on to item e.1 public comment.

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at each board meeting, the board will set aside time to afford the general public an
Opportunity to speak on items on the agenda.

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we ask that concerns or complaints regarding specific individuals not be raised in this
Public forum.

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specific concerns about employees or former employees should be considered separately
According to applicable board policies.

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the board requests that comments, whether positive or negative,
Be courteous and respectful. I would like to remind the audience and the viewers that the

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comments of the speakers reflect their own positions or opinions. As a reminder,
The board adopted an anti-hate resolution on january 20th,

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2022, where the board reaffirmed its commitment to the well-being and safety of all
People,

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regardless of race, color, national origin, religion,
Sex, gender identity, gender expression,

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sexual orientation, disability, age, or political beliefs,
And stands against speech that incites hatred and violence towards any person.

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please note that while the public does have the right to speak,
That right is not unlimited. Per texas penal code 38.13,

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42.01, 42.02 and 42.05, and texas education code 37.105.

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no audience member or speaker will be permitted to engage in any conduct that is
Disruptive or threatening toward any speaker or other person,

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or to violate the privacy rights of another person. The board shall not tolerate disruption of the meeting by members of the audience. If,
After at least one more individual warning from the presiding officer, any individual

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continues to disrupt the meeting by his or her words or actions,
The presiding officer will request assistance from law enforcement officials to have the

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individual removed from the meeting. The board may not discuss or act upon any matter that
Is not listed under the action item portion of the agenda.

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therefore, board members may not discuss the comments of speakers. Please understand that
A lack of response from board members does not indicate agreement or approval of the

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comments. Each speaker will be given two minutes to address the board.

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trustee landrum, secretary of the board, will be the designated timekeeper. The first speaker is bradley taylor, and you are a parent in the district and you are
Speaking on h.1.

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good evening. Board members, on behalf of access education,
Round rock isd and myself, I'd like to take a moment to thank trustee harrison for her

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service to round rock isd over the past five years.

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being a school board member is not an easy job. As you all know. It comes with personal sacrifice,
Time away from family, late nights, and the weight of making tough decisions that impact

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thousands of students and families. I want you to know that those sacrifices have not gone
Unnoticed.

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what has stood out the most during her time on the board is her professionalism and
Unwavering determination to make sure every student in the district has felt,

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represented and valued. When having to face pandering demagogue,
She showed professionalism and patience when dealing with very difficult and often

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divisive times. She never lost sight of the bigger picture,
Ensuring that round rock isd remained a place where every student,

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no matter their background or circumstances,
Could access a quality education.

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that commitment has been both inspiring and meaningful to the community. I also want to extend a warm welcome to fabian cuero.

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I am excited about the knowledge and experience that you bring to this board,
And I look forward to the ways that you'll help continue moving our district forward in

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service to our students. Thank you. Thank you our next speaker is mary bone.

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and you are a parent in the district and you are speaking on agenda item h.1 and it just
Says others.

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good evening, board of trustees. I watched the interviews last night and was deeply
Disappointed by the board's decision to select a candidate with extreme left leaning

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views, especially following the tragic loss of charlie kirk,
Who was targeted for his beliefs.

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round rock isd had a chance to move away from the radical agenda pushed by activists like
Tiffanie harrison,

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who has refused to pledge allegiance to the american flag alongside trustee chuy zarate
And melissa ross.

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the appointment of fabian guerrero sends a clear message to conservatives. Your values are not welcomed here in round rock isd.

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fabian has repeatedly used this microphone to attack conservatives,
Labeling them white supremacist and christian nationalists.

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such rhetoric risk inciting violence against conservative community members,
As we saw last week.

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someone with these views should not be in leadership role overseeing children and should
Step down immediately.

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if you would like to see fabian's remarks, go to doctor bone number 14tx on x or facebook.

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additionally, concerns have arisen about the district's misuse of bond funds,
Including expenditures on salaries and software that do not meet the legal criteria for

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cloud computing. The board should investigate these irregularities,
Irregularities and consider placing the superintendent and cfo/coo,

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which that's kind of like the fox in the henhouse,
Isn't it? On administrative leave, pending a thorough review,
Tiffany's legacy is while millions are spent on questionable expenses,

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expenses, academic performance is declining. Cd fulkes have received a d rating for four
Consecutive years,

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risking state intervention if it fails again. The board's focus on enriching contractors and administrators over improving classroom
Outcomes is failing our students.

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do better. Thank you so much. Okay, we are going to move on to we're concludes public
Comment.

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and we're going to move on to h.2. We will strike items f and g because we handled that
Business in our board meeting last night.

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and have already voted and selected a new board member.

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so we will move on to h.2 and I believe I'm turning it over to annie.

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yes, ma'am thank you. The next item on the agenda is the ceremonial oath of office.

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oath of office for our newly appointed place 6 trustee fabian cuero.

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it has been our district's practice to have a ceremonial swearing in of new trustees at a
Monthly board meeting and invite their families to participate.

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trustee cuero, will you and your guests please come up to the mic?

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I will have you repeat after me, please, sir. The oath of office. I, fabian cuero, do solemnly swear or affirm.

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I fabian cuero do solemnly swear and affirm. That I will faithfully execute the duties.

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that I will faithfully execute the duties. Of the office of trustee place 6.

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of the office of trustee place 6. Of the round rock independent school district of the
State of texas.

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of the round rock independent school district of the state of texas. And will do the best of my ability. And will do the best of my ability.

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preserve, protect and defend. Preserve, protect and defend.

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the constitution and laws of the united states of this state.

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the constitutions and laws of the united states of this state.

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so help me god. So help me god [applause].

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congratulations, trustee cuero, you may now take your seat on the dais. And this concludes the ceremonial swearing in portion of the meeting.

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thank you and welcome, trustee cuero. Okay, we're going to move into closed session item
I.1 pursuant to texas government code 551.071 and

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551.074. The board will consult with attorneys to discuss the duties,
Roles, and responsibilities of a public officer or employee.

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are we doing closed in here or back there?

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okay, so you guys can remain in here and we're going to go in the back.

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I'm sorry it is 5:54 and we are in closed.

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it is 6:06 and we are back in open. Trustees,
I have a script I'm going to read from, so just bear with me as I get through it.

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board members, we will take officer nominations beginning with president,
Followed by vice president followed by vice president.

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and please, because our buttons are broken, please raise your hand and wait to be
Recognized before making a nomination.

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and as a reminder, you don't need to be recognized in order to second the nomination.

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the board will vote in the order of the nominations. We will open nominations for president, trustee weir.

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I nominate trustee alicia markum for president. Second. I have a motion and a second. Are there any other nominations for president?

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did you raise your hand? No seeing no other nominations? Trustee. Alicia markum is president by acclamation.

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is declared president by acclamation. Okay moving on to vice president.

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I nominate amy weir for vice president. Second. I have a motion and a second. Are there any other nominations for vice president?

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seeing none, trustee weir is named vice president by acclamation.

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and we do not need to vote on secretary because that position is not vacant right now.

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so we will we are going to take a 15 minute recess,
Trustees to rearrange the dais and take a quick

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picture, and then it may be plus or minus 15 minutes and then we'll be back.

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it is 6:08 and we are in recess.

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it is 6:25 and we are back in session. We are going to move to agenda item l.1
Accountability ratings update.

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and I'm going to turn it over to doctor azaiez.

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okay. I gotta get used to president [laughter] markum now right? But good evening everyone. President markum,
Board members, community members.

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I want to again take one more time to also welcome fabian.

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right? Thank you, sir, for chosen to be [laughter] and working with our board here.

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so thank you for your service. So it's that time of the year where we tea released the
Accountability system,

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as you remember there were two pending lawsuits. That kind of did not allow, I guess, tea to release the data for the 2023 and also for the
2024 school year.

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so [laughter] so they pretty much those lawsuits eventually,
I think they, they were dismissed.

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and so tea actually released three years worth of accountability in,
In, within a month.

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so we there was a lot of information that not just our district,
But other districts have to kind of manage and try to dissect and also understand

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so what we're going to talk with you today is obviously talk about the 2025 accountability
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but you're going to see that also, we'll be talking about the 2023 along with the 2024,
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as I said, has changed since then. But with the start staar 2.0,
But also all this data.

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all was released just last month. So with us tonight is doctor nichols,
Natalie, and also erica simmons.

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so will take us through some of this information and explain to you where we're at as far
As academy rating for our district and our schools.

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thank you, doctor azaiez. Good evening, everyone again doctor natalie nichols thankful to
Be here.

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I serve in the capacity of senior chief of schools and innovation,
And I'm proud to represent the work of our principals,

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our staff, area superintendents our various departments,
Accountability, teaching and learning,

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student support services. It definitely takes a village in order to bring this all to
Pass.

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and I thank the parents for having trust in us in order to make sure that we do the best
That we can for their students and make sure we give them a bright future.

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so that being said, let's go ahead and not just report information,
But hopefully add some understanding to what the scores mean.

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and then also talk about our next steps as a district as we move forward in order to
Improve the scores that we need,

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just to get in a more positive light. To start with.

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we really want to make sure that everyone understands the tea accountability methodology.

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there is a domain 1 which is called student achievement.

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domain 2 which is on growth. And then domain 3 I'm sorry,
2.a and then 2.b which is relative performance.

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and then a domain 3. What happens is that the 70% is either based on domain 1,
Domain 2.a

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or 2.b they take the highest of one of those scores,
And then afterwards the remaining 30% is based on the closing the gap domain 3.

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this is for both elementary and middle schools. This is only for elementary schools. This is based on 3rd,
4th and 5th grades for middle schools.

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it's based on all three of the grade levels. In elementary they are tested on math,
Reading and science.

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in middle school, they're tested on math, reading,
Science and social studies.

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for high schools it's very different from other levels. In high schools, we have the same four domains,
But there's a little bit different things that are added to it in high school domain 1 is

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not just staar assessment that we're tested on,
But we're tested on ccmr, which is college career and military readiness.

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and then we'll also have points assigned to us based on our graduation rate.

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that's 70% in domain 1 is made up of 40% in staar,
40% ccmr and 20% for the graduation rate.

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domain 2.a is the same as it is for the elementary and middle we're measured on growth,
And 2.b is based on staar performance and ccmr.

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relative performance and relative performance we are compared. We have schools that are similar to us, and we are compared against those schools to give
A sense of how we're rating and how we're doing in comparison.

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and again, we have domain 3 and domain 3. Again,
Just like in the other levels there's academic achievement and also growth in there

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but specifically for the high school. Also ccmr comes into play again.

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graduation rate comes into play. And of course el proficiency both in all levels where
There's 10% for that.

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so a lot of different things are measured in a lot of different ways for accountability.

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for the 2025 rating we are at 87. You see that it's broken down into three different
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student achievement represents domain 1. We were at an 88 a b.

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school progress at an 80. That was a b, and then after under school progress you see the
Two a and two b that we were referring to academic growth at

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79, which is a c and relative performance which is an 80 or a b.

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closing the gaps, we are at a higher b with an 86,
Again, 70% of the three domain 1 2.a, and

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2.b to take the highest out of the three. And we were at for us that is going to be
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and then the 30% left is closing the gaps. So some overall highlights that we wanted to
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we were very proud of the fact that we were able to maintain over 2024 to 2025 38 schools
Achieved at a b or

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an a. We saw that union hill improve its rating from a d in 2024 to a c in 2025.

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blackland elementary, brushy creek elementary. Terra vista grisham and mcneil improved their rating from a b in 2024 to an a in 2025.

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you had live oak elementary school improved its rating from a c in 2024 to an a in 2025.

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this is the first time in its history that live oak was able to earn an a in reviewing
Their information.

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I think the highest they had received was a b previously,
So we're very proud of that accomplishment.

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and we had five elementary schools where they earned all the available distinction
Designations.

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and so what we wanted to go through is just this is just a different way.

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we all learn and [laughter] understand things differently. So I wanted to represent the domains and just a different look so we know exactly what
We're looking for.

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again you have domain 1. Student achievement. Domain 2 is broken down in 2.a which is based on growth and then relative performance,
Which is 2.b you looking.

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they always take that 70% is based on the highest of those three areas.

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whichever domain is highest is the one that they take,
And that is average with the 30% from closing the gaps in domain 3.

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and so important to know that because oftentimes every a or every b does not represent the
Same thing.

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and so we will go through that a little bit later to understand. Because you're taking the highest of the three.

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and a may mean something totally different for one school than another.

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we have with us as far as our a-rated campuses,
Those are on projected on the screen.

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we had 27 campuses, or 51% of all of our campuses.

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received 27 received an a or a-rated campuses.

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everyone from blackland prairie, brushy cactus ranch to some of our schools.

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mcneil high school. Mcneil high school has been an a previously,
But this is the first time in many years they were able to go back and receive receive an

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a. So very proud of that. Brushy creek for a good many years has been a b.

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I'm very proud of them that they were able to get back to an a again.

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live oak from a c to an a. Purple sage. We had her present sarah nelson,
Principal sarah nelson present doing amazing work in regards to

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early literacy. And we see where it's paying off in regards to purple sage and where it's
Consistently able to earn an a.

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so very proud of many of these schools. Terra vista again went from a b to an a.

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so a lot of great things happening with our schools.

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we have campuses. Let's see

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creek, forest north, jollyville, old town, palm springs,
Redbud, voigt, chisholm, hopewell,

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cedar ridge, and stony point. One of the things that we wanted to point out specifically
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old town, again, a lot of successes has gone consistently,
Even in the new 2.0 staar 2.0.

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accountability has steadily increased every year,
When previously it had been on a downward trajectory.

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so very proud of the principal of that campus where she was able to get that b rating up
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where previously, even in staar 1.0, it was hovering around the mid c's.

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so a lot of great work has gone into that campus as some of the work she's done.

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I just wanted to also wanted to point out, for example,
Forest north, one of our title one campuses she has consistently worked very hard to

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deliver consistent high b's or a's for her campus.

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so again, lots of great work happening where there are things that people are able to
Figure out and do differently based on the resources given to them.

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and we also have voigt elementary for the last two years has been able to consistently
Earn a b.

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we have seen in her reporting in early literacy,
Where she has really put up strong numbers in early literacy,

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which has allowed that campus to really turn the trajectory as far as not just earn a b
Rating based on growth,

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but has consistently because she has put up such great growth,
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where she's turning the tide as far in her domain 1,
As far as the number of kids who are able to pass the test and achieve at higher rates.

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for our c rated campuses that there are ten of our campuses you have from berkman,
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double file. Gattis. Robertson. Union hill. Wells branch. Deerpark. Hernandez. Success high school. You have,
For example, where we have hernandez,

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one of our campuses, who previously in years past has had really struggled.

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and now here consistently, we see that every year they are getting stronger and stronger.

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as far as even though they're a c, there's lots of successes there as far as how much they
Have been increasing their rating and again,

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taking growth every year and turning that around as far as to increase the number of
Students who are achieving in domain 1.

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so a great turnaround story there and really proud of everyone in the work that they're
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we do have, however, some d&f rated campuses.

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we have anderson mill, joe lee johnson, callison elementary,
Bluebonnet, and cd fulkes.

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for our campuses, some of the campuses, this is the first time that they have appeared on
The list and some of the campuses.

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they have appeared multiple times. And so we are.

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we will go through our plan for these campuses and the things that we're doing
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and also talk about some of the differences as far as what are some of the things that
Have gotten some of them there,

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and what system changes that we're making to make sure that they or any other campus don't
End up there again.

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so now we look at distinction designations. There are seven possible distinction
Distinction designations that a campus can earn.

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because at elementary level they take all of the different tests,
But they don't take a social studies test.

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elementary campuses can only earn up to six distinction designations,
While middle school and high schools can earn all seven.

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we have the campuses that have earned all of the designations. Brushy creek, canyon creek, chandler oaks, elsa england elementary and patsy sommer
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that is a huge accomplishment as far as putting up great numbers,
But a huge accomplishment to be able to own all six of those designations so we can

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congratulate them on their success. For reading language arts,
We the campuses, we have 12 campuses who have earned distinctions.

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brushy creek, canyon creek, chandler oaks, elsa england,
Herrington, laurel mountain, sommer,

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pearson, early college, mcneil, round rock high school,
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we congratulate these campuses as well. For math,
We have 16 campuses who have earned math distinction designations.

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brushy creek again, cactus ranch, canyon creek,
Chandler oaks, deep wood, elsa england, laurel mountain,

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sommer, canyon vista, chisholm, hernandez, walsh,
Early college, mcneil, round rock and westwood.

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for our science distinctions we have seven campuses who have earned these distinctions as
Well.

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again, brushy creek, cactus ranch, canyon creek,
Chandler oaks, deep wood, elsa england, forest north,

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herrington, laurel mountain, redbud, sommer,
Voigt, wells branch, cedar valley, mcneil, round rock,

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and westwood. For our social studies, our campuses who have earned social studies
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there are seven of them. Canyon vista, cedar valley,
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and westwood. And again, elementary schools are not able to earn that distinction.

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the test is only given at the secondary level.

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now, for the campuses where you have a top 25% comparative academic growth.

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we talked about the fact that when it comes to domain 2.a,
That all campuses have a set of other campuses that they compared against.

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so in order to earn this distinction, you have to be in the top 25% of that group of
Schools that you're compared with.

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and we see again the campuses who have earned that distinction.

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there are 13 of them. Brushy creek, cactus ranch,
Canyon creek, caraway, chandler oaks, deep wood,

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elsa england, forest north, laurel mountain,
Live oak, sommer, teravista, voigt, wells branch,

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canyon vista and pierson. And lastly, we have the campuses who have earned comparative
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so that's our domain 3, where they are in the top 25% of their comparison groups.

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brushy creek, cactus ranch, canyon creek, chandler oaks,
Deep wood, elsa england, forest north,

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great oaks, laurel mountain, live oak, sommer elementary,
Teravista, and westwood.

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oh, and one more post-secondary readiness. And for post-secondary readiness,
We had 22 campuses who have earned college,

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career and military readiness distinction brushy,
Canyon creek, chandler oaks, deep wood,

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elsa england, forest north, great oaks, herrington,
Laurel mountain, live oaks, sommer, spicewood,

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canyon vista, cedar valley, grisham, pearson,
Cedar ridge, early college, mcneil, round rock,

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stony point, and westwood. I want to do a special call out to our high school campuses.

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they have worked incredibly hard as far as for their post-secondary readiness,
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they have put up exceptional numbers. So, for example,
Westwood, 99% of their students are ccmr ready.

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round rock high school, if I remember correctly. Please shout out if I'm incorrect. I believe they were at 94% or 95%.

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mcneil was at 97%, early college high school 100%,
Cedar ridge high school 94%, and stony point

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96%. Am I lying? No, it's 96%. Because he corrected me the other day when I was wrong.

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so, yes [laughter]. So they've done an exceptional job as far as,
Like doing the work to make sure each and every one of their students are earning

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that ccmr credit. So one of the things I wanted to kind of go through and explain is what
Happened before staar 2.0 and the changes

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that staar 2.0 has corrected. Oftentimes when we're looking at data,
Context is so incredibly important.

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and a rating from before staar 2.0 is absolutely not the same rating.

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for our current accountability from 2023 on. And so you may see the numbers represented in
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but when you dig into the accountability and all the different things that have changed,
There's a lot of nuance to it.

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so we wanted to make sure that we speak to some of those and also point out then for us,
Some of our victory has been really pushing more

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schools towards a's and b's, but also because of the changes,
There's a stress that it creates on some of our campuses where we have some more

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vulnerable learners. So part of what the system is also trying to do is how do we protect
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how do we change systems in order to make sure that they can have and celebrate successes
Along with their peers.

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so again, we had reviewed this many months ago,
But just always good to refresh in staar 2.0 for reading language arts.

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they changed the format for the question. They increased use,
Of course, curricular reading passages.

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there was evidence based writing. Now the students,
Especially in elementary, had to do a short constructed response,

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an extended constructed response. And then there was grading by artificial intelligence.

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part of the issue was that was the fact that we were seeing that the artificial
Intelligence was rating their essays way lower.

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and if we as a district, need to challenge it because we think that the student had earned
A higher grade,

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we first have to put up $50 [laughter] per test in order to figure out,
Can we even challenge it?

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can we afford to challenge it? It's not something that that is going to be cheap.

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it's going to cost to challenge the score. It's a fully online testing.

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the scale scores are readjusted. And so what is passing then is not necessarily passing
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there was an increased number of points and increased number of higher level questions.

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and the higher level questions are worth more points. So for example, think to yourself if you're being given a test you and a peer,
You have the same test.

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you have different teacher, teachers. One teacher gives the test.

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each question is worth a point. Another teacher some of the questions are worth five
Points.

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so on and so forth. So you would get one point,
One question wrong.

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that's worth a point. They get that same question wrong. It's five points. And so it's a matter of there's a difference now in then exactly.

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then how much it costs a student in order to get something wrong. So when we say staar 2.0 we hear staar and we think it's the same test.

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it absolutely is not. Even as it relates to ccmr for our secondary campuses,
Our high school campuses,

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what it took previously in order for them to earn that 40% is very different before an a
And ccmr was I think

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60%? 60%, and you would earn an a, they changed it in the middle of the cycle to 88%.

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so for the high schools to put up a certain number and earn a certain grade is so much
More in order to earn those ccmrs points than before.

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so all that being said is, yes, we're always going to be up to the challenge,
But there has to be a recognition that we're not taking the same test.

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also for math again. New question formats, online testing,
Scale score adjustment, increased number of points,

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increased number of higher level questions, and higher level questions that are worth more
Points.

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now I'm going to go ahead and speak to the last two very specifically.

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so you have a visual of what that means. Now whenever we talk about performance levels
Everyone is very used to knowing that,

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hey, my student, based on the score he or she achieved,
Performed that that did not meet approaches,

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meets or master's grade level. We're used to that,
To that terminology.

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we also understand that if our student scores at approaches,
Meets or masters, that that is considered passing.

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but we also know that we want all of our students to pass at the meets or masters level,
That if they are passing at these levels,

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it means that I have a 60% 60% chance of being college ready if I'm performing
Consistently at meets and a

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75% chance to be consistently to be college ready if I'm performing at masters.

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so the idea of performing at approaches while it's passing it is not what we want.

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we want to push students towards meets and masters meets and masters does not represent
Above grade level.

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it does not represent gt. It is on grade level right now here.

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recently within staar 2.0 that same terminology has been used to explain the level of a
Question.

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so it is possible now where they can write a question,
A staar question, and that did not meets level at the approaches level,

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the meets level or the master's level. And so that when we say that tests are given,
Questions are assigned different points.

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it's because then they're assigning at different points,
Because they're saying the content in the question and or the question format

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is making it more difficult. So now that question is considered a master's level test
Question and is assigned more points.

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now why is that important? Because there has been a change in staar 1.0 versus 2.0,
Where before the number of

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questions written at the meets and masters level was only about 30%.

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and all of the other questions were written 70% of the test was written at the did not
Meet and or approaches level versus in

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staar 2.0. 70% of the test is now written at the meets and master's level.

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so oftentimes it's possible that the board members were may receive emails saying the
Curriculum [laughter] is too difficult.

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the curriculum is written at the meets and master's level,
But because of how things were previously,

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I think system not just ours, but the entire state of texas had gotten used to.

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if I perform at this level, our students will pass. That is no longer the case. We must consistently teach and make sure we get to grade level
Each time we teach the students.

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so we have to make sure that they're used to answering questions in regards to a certain
Level of content and answering the questions in certain ways.

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so for math, for example, it's not a matter of being able to just simply solve.

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sometimes it may ask you about the process. Which of these steps would not be a part of
How to solve this question if you're solving it using xyz?

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and so we really have to make sure that we're teaching in different ways and understanding
What is the what is the state asking of us differently.

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and based on the ticks that we're given. So very important to understand.

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while I know I had said specifically, where is it increased number of points,
Increased number of higher level questions,

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I really wanted to drive home what exactly that means and what does that look like,
And what is the impact on our students as it relates to these tests.

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all right

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and actually then what that means and where we are.

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and then even as far as the fact that some of our campuses were able to move to a b or an
A or some of those very campuses

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where before in 2022, 2019, we were able to earn a c,
That the c is not the same c.

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they have to do better than they did before in order to receive the same grade.

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so now I want to come back to domains and give again a little bit more context and look at
A data story,

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so to speak, to now kind of get a sense of a campus.

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we had celebrated live oak elementary. And so this data story is theirs.

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previous to in 2024 live oak earned a 71 in domain 1,
A 75 for growth, that is, domain

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2.a and a 58. And 2.b relative performance, and a 72 in domain 3,
Which is the closing the gaps.

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and so I want to really speak into what that means. It means that well, I have what, about 75%? Is that the scale score or the

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I'm trying to remember for them. And so what this is saying,
Number one, when you see that 71,

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it means they earned a c in domain 1. That is saying that I got a good percentage,
A decent percentage of my kids not just to pass,

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but maybe some of them to perform at meets and masters. We always want domain 1 to get higher and higher.

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the higher domain 1 is that means we have more students that are performing at the meets
And masters level.

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so it's very possible because I take the best out of the first three that a campus might
Get a b or an a,

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but we're not yet seeing that domain 1 is at a high level.

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when we say we want exponential growth, we have to,
Especially for these campuses to get exponential growth year after year.

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because the whole point is we need to turn around domain 1 so we can get to college
Readiness.

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all right

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it actually is more it's more so the friend of domain 1.

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what that is saying is, I think that this campus,
Not natalie nichols think, but based on how tea sets it up,

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they do an algorithm. And what they're saying is based on the economically disadvantaged
Rate of this campus,

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they can do better, right? They're saying that they're performing at a f level and this
Campus can do better.

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there's more growth that the there's more achievement that they should be enjoying.

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so when we look at scores, we're looking at the entire data story to see what it tells us.

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so it's possible that within all of our data,
I have a campus that's an a, but based on the relative performance,

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I'm like, we can do better. Let's look at specifically then what that means for your
Campus as far as how we need to work with that campus,

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that principal, those teachers, in order to increase that score.

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so this was live oak last year. And this is live oak this year.

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and so this is what allowed them to go from a c to an a,
You see, within growth, they're at a 90.

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and then closing the gap they're at a 91. Remember we choose the highest of the three.

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so growth was the highest. And so that is averaged for 70% with the 91 to give them a
Rating of 91.

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if I remember correctly, I think they were 90 or 91. And so but again you see relative performance.

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it's saying, okay, that domain 1 score that's decent.

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you're heading in the right direction. You're now in a b you this is where you should be
And higher.

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and so the relative performance tells you how much more can you and should you do in
Domain 1 based on your economically disadvantaged rate.

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now I also bring this up to explain something. Every school has very different demographics that they're dealing with.

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and so part of this campus data story was who their students are.

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they have a high percentage of students who are special education and who receive resource
Services.

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and so when you are in resource, it usually means in some way,
Shape or form that your curriculum may be modified.

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many, many years ago, we used to have a staar m a staar modified.

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and what that said, for students who are in special education and received modified
Curriculum,

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then you were allowed to get a modified test that aligned with your iep.

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that got taken away. So all of our students,
Regardless of if you receive modified curriculum,

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take the regular test. And so again, these things and contexts that happen within the
System,

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now that if I have a campus and you have a high percentage of students who are receiving
This needed service,

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it hits the campus very differently. And in order to get them to achieve,
It's a very different prescription and things that we have to put in place to move

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them. The principal had called us in. Doctor mercer was assigned to another campus.

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we had lost the principal. And so we were all doing rotations,
And we usually walk with our principals.

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tier I instruction was absolutely amazing. I'm like,
This is an amazing school.

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you're doing great. Your teachers are doing wonderful. I don't understand how you're a c campus. Can we can you send the data?

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he also worked with one of our other principal. Other area superintendents doctor ephlin in the stony point.

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she's over the stony point learning community to just kind of really look through his data
And see exactly what is happening.

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and so he took the initiative on his own to rethink and the curriculum that was happening
Within his resource spaces.

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and that is what led to the difference. A student cannot do what it is that they do not
Receive.

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and so he worked with his staff and figured out what can we do differently within our our
Learning organization?

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one of the things that we speak to a lot is the fact that it's a symbiotic relationship.

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district may initially teach into something,
But then the system's responsibility is to give us back what works?

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what does not work? Experiment, do something different,
And then you teach us, and then we see what works,

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who's the exemplar, and then we spread it to the system. This has served as one of our exemplars as far as what can happen differently with our
Students receiving those services so that they have a fighting chance in order to

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achieve at high levels. So again, so as you ask for next steps,
I think it was important to kind of give

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that that context to understand then how the system itself has then given us back
Information to figure out what

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to do differently in order to help with campuses. So today, for example, I was meeting with one of the area superintendents and the
Principal discussing his data and his next steps.

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and again, for elementary only 3rd, 4rth and 5th grades dictate your accountability.

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and here are the numbers that he gave me. He has a total of 179 students in those three
Grades.

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of those 179 students, 21% are sped 38 of those students.

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of those 179, 56% of them are emerging bilingual.

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and he has a high mobility campus. When you look at data,
You cannot look at data without the context of what is happening within that school.

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so for each of our campuses, the first thing then we have to do is look at the context.

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then once we look at the context, we use something called effective schools framework in
Order to audit their context.

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so for example, one of the things for some of our campuses,
The issue itself was whether or not they had teachers.

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and so they, they were not able to find all the teachers to hire.

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and so they went a great percentage of the year without teachers within the classroom
Space.

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and, or they had high percentage of people up absenteeism,
Absenteeism for their teachers,

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which, again, if I'm not getting that firsthand instruction from the teacher,
What am I going to do?

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or we have some campuses where a high percentage of the teachers were zero or first year
Teachers and alternative certification.

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so based on that, each and every campus was different. We have to have a different way that we figure it out.

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so the very first thing, what is your specific context.

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and then audit the campus in order to see what to do differently.

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I think that we have celebrated with the community and with the board the fact that we are
At 99.13,

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eddie [laughter] hired for our campuses. One five?

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99.5 I'm sorry, sir, that I cheated you out of your extra point four.

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and so eddie and his team first of all, they were able to give us the data to just kind of
Look through and figure out what is the root cause of

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some of this. Once we were able to study that,
We studied that in january for these campuses.

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we were able to immediately put a plan in place to figure out what to do differently.

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and so very proud of the fact that eddie's team was totally responsive and did some things
Differently.

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so for some of those campuses where the matter is of. I did not have teachers until a certain time within classrooms.

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we started hiring for those campuses in february. And usually we don't hire for next year's contract,
But we knew they were going to take longer.

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and traditionally, historically, our title one campuses have taken longer for us to staff,

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and usually we have our newest teachers less veteran teachers at those campuses.

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so that creates a problem for one of our campuses. Not only were we able to fully staff, but because then they had a high percentage of
Teachers who were 0 to 1 year.

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we worked with a company. It meant then that we would not have enough mentors on that
Campus itself to serve it.

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usually the way then you teach and you bring them in,
You have a veteran person that is on staff,

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and they're immediately able to take someone,
A new teacher under their wing and teach into them and help them.

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so for those campuses, if that's not available,
And we saw that from the data, then for one of our campuses we contracted with,

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in order for each and every one of those teachers to have a personalized mentor that is
Working them through their data,

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their teaching, getting their classrooms set up in order to make sure that they have that
Personalized care,

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where they're meeting with them once a week,
And where we as a district and their campus team is able to say,

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based on specifically what they need to be successful,
Here is what you need to teach into and what you need to do with the campuses and why.

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so again, even though these seem very general,
It's so specific to the campus.

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once we went through that data analysis, we also looked at data analysis by academic
Programs.

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we saw then that campuses had different percentages of students within programs,
And we wanted to see how the students within those programs we're doing versus

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students out of programs in some of the campuses. What we saw is that many of those students were not doing well,
And or but the rest of the campuses was doing fine.

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so we know tier I instruction was working, but there in some way,
Shape or form, there was a reason that these students were not getting tier I at the level

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they needed. For some of the campuses, that might be a matter of the master schedule did
Not facilitate it.

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it may be a matter of hey, did we teach into that staff?

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as far as what the curriculum should look like? Is the student being pulled out during tier I based on the master schedule,
And should they be staying in that tier I space.

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all of those things. Is the student not getting access to tier ii intervention because of
Another service that they're receiving?

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so there were a lot of things when we interrogated even master schedules to figure out
What to do differently.

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so because of that, then I'm looking through at the campuses. There are specific contexts. Doing data analysis.

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we were able to goal set very specific to their issues.

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and and each of those campuses that are d&fs,
It's very different reasons why they're there.

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there's not one single thing. We made sure that we then created a campus professional
Development schedule that was specific to them.

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we have been working with relay, which again,
Their work is based on the effective schools framework,

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which also is aligned with our t test, the teacher evaluation system and also tpes get
Better faster where they're doing

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learning walks with each of these campuses to give feedback and to make sure that they're
All their processes are in line,

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as well as working very diligently with their area superintendents and our teaching and
Learning staff and with our

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research and evaluation staff ed connective has offered with them to teach into making
Sure that they have mentors for the

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campuses where we don't have enough veteran teachers to serve within that capacity.

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and we have also creating very specialized progress monitoring plans where they're not
Generalized or they're waiting for large checkpoints,

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but where we're looking at micro data as we go in order to make sure where we are,
What we're doing,

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and if there's anything wrong within those systems. So thank you for all of your support as always.

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thank you to my team and all the work that they have done and just boots on the ground in
Regards to everything.

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and thank you for having faith in what we have the ability to do. And I will take the first question. Thank you so much for the update,
And certainly always appreciate getting data and reviewing data within

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context. Trustees, we are buttons still do not work.

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so if you have a question, just go ahead and raise your hand and I'll do my best to keep
Up with who is raising hands.

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so I'll open it for discussion. Does anyone have a question? Trustee landrum. So can you help me understand how success high school gets their scores?

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they have a pretty mobile population. It's my understanding the majority are going for
Graduation credits.

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so just a better understanding of how success high school has,
Kids qualifying for testing and things like that.

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so success high school, they're being evaluated on exactly the same things the
Comprehensive.

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what's different though is what number they have to hit to earn an a or b or c.

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where they are also different is this oftentimes in success high school,
Especially as it relates we talked about in domain 1.

528
01:08:51,170 --> 01:08:51,170
for example, ccmr is 40% of domain 1 and success high school,
For example, because most kids only get there in their last year

529
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:01,560
if they're coming, oftentimes without it, that greatly impacts and they don't have a lot
Of runway to impact their ccmr.

530
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:13,000
so for them this year, we've done a lot of things differently. Their area superintendent nancy. Doctor nancy guerrero,
Has worked with her principal ms.

531
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:19,560
blanca valencia, to institute classes to where now we're teaching into tsia.

532
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:25,840
in order to make sure that the students can get that ccmr credit.

533
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,680
I think they're putting an avid class in place. There are lots of different things that we've changed up,
Knowing that that model does not fit in order to help that campus do well.

534
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:41,280
another thing to know that oftentimes students may have already taken all of their tests
And they may qualify for an igc,

535
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:49,280
which is the state says then if you've passed enough test,
You can go through.

536
01:09:54,270 --> 01:09:54,270
and there's an alternate form of testing where you turn in a portfolio.

537
01:09:59,910 --> 01:09:59,910
so what that means oftentimes is there's not a lot of kids who are taking tests that would
Dictate their score in domain 1.

538
01:10:08,550 --> 01:10:12,150
so oftentimes they may have a very small group of kids. And so once they take it, whether they pass or don't,
It really impacts greatly that score.

539
01:10:17,910 --> 01:10:17,910
so they qualify in the same way. But the limit they have to hit is different.

540
01:10:23,870 --> 01:10:23,870
but they also have very special issues that they have to contend with based on how their
Population comes in and the fact that their population usually only comes in the last year

541
01:10:34,030 --> 01:10:34,030
that they're in high school. Okay that helps me a lot,
Because isn't the majority of high school testing done their freshman and sophomore year

542
01:10:42,270 --> 01:10:46,110
when it comes to staar? Right, so they may still have tests that they have to take. But again, it's not going to be usually a lot.

543
01:10:48,430 --> 01:10:48,430
they may have 1 or 2 right. Okay thank you for that clarification.

544
01:10:53,890 --> 01:10:53,890
I really appreciate it. And great job live oak and all the others that have made some
Impressive changes this year.

545
01:10:59,570 --> 01:10:59,570
so thank you for the update. Trustee wei. I was just curious regarding these five campuses
Rating

546
01:11:10,050 --> 01:11:10,050
d and f, do we have any specific plan to help them or?

547
01:11:15,690 --> 01:11:15,690
absolutely. And is there one you'd like to go through specifically or?

548
01:11:24,930 --> 01:11:24,930
so they have presented to the superintendent myself,
Their area superintendent teaching and learning.

549
01:11:33,730 --> 01:11:33,730
and again, each one is different. So for example,
I can go through let's say we're talking about joe lee johnson.

550
01:11:42,330 --> 01:11:42,330
jolie's johnson's case was a matter of they had lost their principal.

551
01:11:47,690 --> 01:11:50,840
they did not even have all of their assistant principals. Neither did they have counselors. They had a lot of teachers that were not hired,
So we were missing a lot of teachers.

552
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:56,800
not only were there a lot of new teachers, but there were also a lot of subs.

553
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:01,560
and so cost a lot of great disruption for the campus where what we did is we had all of
Our district level folks serving at

554
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:11,520
the school as administrators and teachers to try to stabilize the campus.

555
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:16,160
that was one of the campuses where and doctor mya mercer then filled in as the principal
Again to help stabilize.

556
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:24,120
so we had created a plan for that campus all the way back,
Actually in in january or february,

557
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:31,160
knowing then, hey, it's so we need to start working on hiring early because it just had
Not for a great many years.

558
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:43,640
they did not have a full staff to start the year. So that was one of the campus through working with hr that we started hiring for them all
The way back in february.

559
01:12:50,790 --> 01:12:54,470
as far as making sure that everything is in place,
We started the year. I think maybe we had one teacher, mya one teacher?

560
01:13:04,950 --> 01:13:04,950
full staff or counselors, assistant principal,
The principal everyone was in place because that was their major issue as far as why that

561
01:13:14,590 --> 01:13:14,590
campus was destabilized and where they got that their f.

562
01:13:19,150 --> 01:13:19,150
and also a big data point for that campus was the fact that if we have about maybe 52,
53 teachers,

563
01:13:27,190 --> 01:13:27,190
about low 30s or 0 to 1 year and maybe alternatively certified.

564
01:13:33,910 --> 01:13:33,910
so we knowing that who we're hiring and that we did not have enough mentor teachers in the
Building,

565
01:13:39,790 --> 01:13:39,790
we had to create something to have those mentors but also teach heavily into management,
Classroom management.

566
01:13:48,860 --> 01:13:48,860
so one of the first things that we did with the teachers was put together a very specific
Plan.

567
01:13:55,380 --> 01:13:55,380
as for what everything needs to look like, it's called a minute by minute.

568
01:14:00,060 --> 01:14:02,820
as soon as the kids enter, what do you say? What do you do? How do you say it? How do you set up your classroom?

569
01:14:05,420 --> 01:14:05,420
everything is highly choreographed and taught into with those teachers to make sure.

570
01:14:11,020 --> 01:14:11,020
then we have an environment where the students are able to learn.

571
01:14:15,140 --> 01:14:19,020
district staff has gone in and worked with them also. Doctor ikonne who's over mtss. That's intervention for behavior and goes in there and
Works with that staff and all the behavior

572
01:14:29,020 --> 01:14:29,020
coaches to add extra support. We changed up as far as where certain classrooms are.

573
01:14:36,300 --> 01:14:36,300
so if they're a student is having a behavior issue,
Here's where they go.

574
01:14:41,500 --> 01:14:41,500
so lots of different things that we did for that campus.

575
01:14:46,090 --> 01:14:46,090
interventions were lacking as far as interventions as far as tier ii instruction.

576
01:14:52,610 --> 01:14:52,610
so we had lindsay gonzalez where she went in,
She and her team and taught into that exclusively for each plc and grade level to make

577
01:15:02,530 --> 01:15:02,530
sure that they understood exactly what needed to happen.

578
01:15:06,690 --> 01:15:06,690
doctor mercer is on that campus often as far as doing pulse checks to make sure that if
There's something that they've taught into what percentage of the

579
01:15:16,610 --> 01:15:20,370
staff is able to do it to capacity. So lots of different things. But again, each campus and their plan is very specific to the campus because each campus
Had a very different thing that was impacting

580
01:15:30,170 --> 01:15:30,170
those numbers. Can I add to that? So the idea is to do a root,
A root cause analysis for every campus.

581
01:15:37,770 --> 01:15:37,770
and it's very, very, very sometimes it's hard to,
To find like the same root causes or that causes cause the campus to maybe decline

582
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:51,320
academically in the writing from, let's say,
C to d or an f. So the first thing is really to do a root cause analysis.

583
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:54,000
and based on that, you come up with a plan. As a matter of fact,
I was, natalie's right.

584
01:15:59,480 --> 01:15:59,480
many of our principals actually presented their plan to me,
And we are actually thinking of bringing 1 or 2 of them to present to our board so we

585
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:07,680
actually can see exactly what what is the plan?

586
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:12,160
obviously, if we do five, we'll be like, we'll take the whole board meeting,
I guess, for the whole evening.

587
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:17,000
so we may bring 1 or 2 of our great principals so they can take you through their process.

588
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:22,520
and it's obviously it's a team effort. It starts with the principal and then obviously the
Principal working with his or her admin team,

589
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:31,160
as well as our teachers and lead teachers and counselors,
Also the support of central office,

590
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:36,760
because we also have to own it, right? If we have to provide extra support,
Extra training,

591
01:16:42,180 --> 01:16:42,180
extra mentor or pd. Whatever we need to do because we want to make sure that we help them.

592
01:16:46,700 --> 01:16:46,700
the goal is not to have a rollercoaster rating,
Meaning you don't want to be a c one year going f go up again to c,

593
01:16:54,420 --> 01:16:54,420
go down again to a d and f. We want to create some consistency

594
01:17:04,100 --> 01:17:04,100
we're going to go up, we're never going to go down again. Right? So voigt is a great
Example that our principal there with her team and teachers and area sub work and

595
01:17:13,420 --> 01:17:13,420
everybody working together in us, central office,
Provided those systems.

596
01:17:17,820 --> 01:17:17,820
and now, for at least for the last couple of years,
They maintain a b and they are one of our title one campus and also dual language

597
01:17:24,460 --> 01:17:24,460
campuses. So that's why we want to see in each one of every actually campus in our in our
District.

598
01:17:29,780 --> 01:17:29,780
but we'd be more than happy actually. We talked about bringing actually maybe joe lee
Johnson.

599
01:17:34,940 --> 01:17:34,940
she's our new she's a new principal, but she's an experienced principal and when she
Presented it to us,

600
01:17:41,450 --> 01:17:41,450
her plan was a robust plan. And we actually go and we've seen it in action also when we
Walk the school.

601
01:17:46,770 --> 01:17:50,610
so we'd be more than happy to do that for our board members. All right thank you. That'd be great if you can hand that. Yeah

602
01:17:58,490 --> 01:17:58,490
trustee cuero? Yeah, my first question [laughter].

603
01:18:04,730 --> 01:18:04,730
I'm excited. No, a comment and the question. Right?

604
01:18:09,570 --> 01:18:09,570
so sometimes we're in a community, we see the scores,
And we automatically think we're failing the campus without knowing context.

605
01:18:19,170 --> 01:18:19,170
so thank you for clarifying that. My question is outside those outliers,
Because of their unique circumstances,

606
01:18:28,530 --> 01:18:28,530
are we also sharing best practices between vlcs?

607
01:18:35,290 --> 01:18:35,290
thank you

608
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:45,120
as a share across the principals. So we have principal meetings.

609
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:51,680
we have what's called our council meeting. And so the council meeting is all of my direct
Reports and then some of their direct reports where we bring all the

610
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:01,360
problems and the issues together. We look at data together,
We figure out what's happening.

611
01:19:06,440 --> 01:19:06,440
the area superintendents they have their meetings together where they share across.

612
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:11,120
here's a good idea. Some of the things, the way we capture data and we think about our
Walks in order to figure out what's high

613
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,680
leverage, what are the things that this campus needs to work on? What do we need to do for pd? That came from doctor guerrero and one of her campus
Principals.

614
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:35,510
I'm trying to. Who should I give credit to nancy? Jessica borunda

615
01:19:40,990 --> 01:19:40,990
this is perfect. Now, we taught into it for the entire district.

616
01:19:46,790 --> 01:19:46,790
brooke, from sommers elementary, there was something that she figured out.

617
01:19:51,350 --> 01:19:51,350
she has a high achieving campus, but it was a matter of she's like,
I want to make sure that I get my students to even higher levels of performance.

618
01:20:01,510 --> 01:20:04,070
there's something called performance level descriptors. We alluded to it in the presentation where the state then says for this objective,
This objective,

619
01:20:12,870 --> 01:20:12,870
here's what it looks like. If it's written at the at the did not meets level,
Here's what it looks at the approaches level.

620
01:20:19,950 --> 01:20:19,950
here's so on and so forth. So when we looked at her data,
It's like, brooke, how did you move this?

621
01:20:27,190 --> 01:20:31,190
and she then came in and she taught into it to us. And then as a matter then we took that incorporated into our tier ii intervention process,

622
01:20:37,300 --> 01:20:37,300
and ms. Gonzalez then trained her team and then pushed it out through the entire district.

623
01:20:43,100 --> 01:20:43,100
so when I say we're a learning organization,
Everything is a back and forth as far as information.

624
01:20:49,380 --> 01:20:49,380
someone may start something, we may start something,
But the whole thing is we send it out to the system and everyone understands their job is

625
01:20:56,700 --> 01:20:56,700
to perfect it and they give it back to us. So we're constantly trading information back
And forth.

626
01:21:02,260 --> 01:21:02,260
and can I add to that? I think I think it's we have a as you know,
We have amazing obviously teachers,

627
01:21:07,340 --> 01:21:10,700
but we also have amazing leaders right? At every campus. Right? And, and and it I mean, being a principal of,
Of title one campus versus a non-title one campus,

628
01:21:18,740 --> 01:21:18,740
it varies even within non-title one campus. There are so many things that demographics
Could be different too.

629
01:21:24,140 --> 01:21:28,060
right? So I can think of our principal at cactus ranch. Right? Vicki

630
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:36,640
but when you look at her, her student achievement,
Which is like amazing, you think, okay,

631
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:45,040
her students, maybe they are already prepared. They're ready. There's a lot of parental support, but you see that even when it comes to the growth,
Her students are shown,

632
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:51,000
even like them being prepared, they're still our teacher there with under her leadership
Are actually growing more and more.

633
01:21:57,120 --> 01:22:00,000
right? So that tells you there's a lot there. They're taking looking at every kid individually.

634
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:02,640
right? Seeing where they at every year and then working with them obviously with our
Parents,

635
01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:06,680
our teacher, everyone. And they're showing growth regardless how they came to them.

636
01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:14,400
right? So that's really what we want to see at every one of our campuses. Again, regardless where the kids, how the kids came to us again,
Whether they're title one or non title one campuses is we want to see growth.

637
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:26,280
every kid deserve and needs to grow at least one. We want an exponential growth which is meaning more than one year,
But we want a bare minimum of one year of growth.

638
01:22:33,310 --> 01:22:33,310
again, we want more than that, but a bare minimum is to be one year of growth as long as
They're with us.

639
01:22:38,750 --> 01:22:38,750
and so again these are sharing these best practices because she can work with school like
Her campus with similar demographic.

640
01:22:47,990 --> 01:22:47,990
but then you see let's say I talked about void you know,
You see share share over there working with like,

641
01:22:54,510 --> 01:22:54,510
robinson and working with maybe union hill who have maybe similar demographic,
Similar programs in their campuses and like having this plc

642
01:23:03,990 --> 01:23:03,990
conversation. And now, as I said, our principal are very like they work together,
They collaborate all the time,

643
01:23:10,190 --> 01:23:10,190
and we want to encourage them even more. I mean,
Even our principal meeting, we want to encourage them more to present to each other.

644
01:23:16,070 --> 01:23:16,070
and as presented to them, I mean, obviously,
We have to, you know, pour into them and teach them stuff sometimes,

645
01:23:22,150 --> 01:23:22,150
but we want more them collaborating and sharing best practices among themselves.

646
01:23:30,780 --> 01:23:30,780
thank you. I do have a one more follow up regarding maybe a clarification for me.

647
01:23:38,100 --> 01:23:38,100
regarding you mentioned, the questions are online for for staar?

648
01:23:47,260 --> 01:23:47,260
I'm sorry, I'm not understanding. No, I think I understood the question. So,
Yeah every kid now take the staar online.

649
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:52,400
yeah.

650
01:24:00,060 --> 01:24:00,060
is the system or is the test smart enough to adjust to their scores or to how they answer
The question?

651
01:24:10,580 --> 01:24:14,380
right now it does not based right now based on how I answer. It does not give me then a different type of question.

652
01:24:16,700 --> 01:24:16,700
it's not interactive in that way. There were interims or t-tap it called it where it did
That.

653
01:24:24,580 --> 01:24:24,580
it reacted to how you answered and they gave you lesser questions or higher questions,
But the test itself does not do that.

654
01:24:31,370 --> 01:24:31,370
I think you're talking about an adaptive, more like an adaptive test. And I think tea and
The state,

655
01:24:36,210 --> 01:24:36,210
that's what they want to move. I heard there's a there's a senate bill 8 or one of the
Bills that just passed the last special session.

656
01:24:43,970 --> 01:24:43,970
now, the governor did not sign that bill yet,
But if he signs it, there will be our students will be taking what nellie was saying,

657
01:24:51,090 --> 01:24:51,090
boy, moy, eoy and the beginning of the year and middle of the year,
End of the year online still,

658
01:24:56,570 --> 01:24:56,570
but will be more like an adaptive test. And that I think,
Starts on 27, 28 school year, if I remember correctly,

659
01:25:03,210 --> 01:25:03,210
if obviously our governor signed it because right now it's sitting on his desk.

660
01:25:07,810 --> 01:25:07,810
thank you. Trustee landrum. I do have one more question,
Doctor azaiez, there's been some online chatter

661
01:25:17,690 --> 01:25:17,690
that we may have a campus that's received a fourth year in a row of a failing score,
And we're in trouble of being been taken over?

662
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:29,080
it's not. That's not how it works. So so in order for tea to take a campus take a campus,
Take over campus,

663
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:40,680
you heard that there was a chat around, actually,
Austin isd. Right? And and that's what they did with houston isd as a matter of fact,
A couple of years ago,

664
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:46,080
in order for campus to be taken over by tea,
They have to to fail the five consecutive years with an f.

665
01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:56,240
so, so if you get a d a d1, what we call a d1 year one d year two d and year year three d,

666
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:08,160
it's equivalent to one f, so three ds is one f. So so even if let's say you have a campus who had like that would be their first f,
Then remember you have to have five f's in order for,

667
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:16,080
for tea to take them. Now the caveat here after their third f a d becomes like an f,
Whether you get a I'm sorry it's complicated,

668
01:26:25,830 --> 01:26:25,830
but I hope I'm explaining it correctly. So the fourth year,
The fourth year, whether you get an f or d becomes it's an equivalent of an f.

669
01:26:35,070 --> 01:26:35,070
so so in other words. So let's say one of our campuses gets a cd fulkes.

670
01:26:40,950 --> 01:26:44,230
I think that I heard the talk conversation around it. So 3 ds is only their first f, right? So that's why that's why we have a plan.

671
01:26:50,230 --> 01:26:50,230
but it takes five f's or three f's and two ds after the three first three f's [laughter]
To get tea to come and take over.

672
01:26:59,270 --> 01:26:59,270
so we're not going to let that happen, but we're way,
Way years away from that.

673
01:27:03,710 --> 01:27:03,710
anyway, thank you for the clarification.

674
01:27:10,550 --> 01:27:10,550
that no

675
01:27:14,750 --> 01:27:14,750
but we're not at that point is the point that I'm trying to make

676
01:27:19,750 --> 01:27:23,290
as I said, because of everything like the first three days count for one half. That's pretty much it. Thank you for the clarification.

677
01:27:27,570 --> 01:27:27,570
I don't see any other hands. Thank you so much for this information.

678
01:27:31,930 --> 01:27:31,930
there's certainly room for improvement, but we also have a lot to celebrate.

679
01:27:36,330 --> 01:27:36,330
so congratulations to all of our campuses on your successes and hard work,
Thank you.

680
01:27:42,130 --> 01:27:42,130
okay, we're going to move on to l.2 round rock isd a library book acquisition process.

681
01:27:47,810 --> 01:27:47,810
doctor azaiez, thank you again. Yeah and so I know if I remember last month when we had a
Conversation about the new,

682
01:27:56,850 --> 01:27:56,850
the new bill that was passed around library books,
And I think our board wanted to hear more about some of our members,

683
01:28:03,290 --> 01:28:03,290
wanted to hear more about our plan, and how can we obviously stay in compliance and ensure
That given our parents all the tools they need.

684
01:28:11,450 --> 01:28:11,450
so we put the presentation together for you,
And are you going to be running it or?

685
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,880
I will not be running it I will intro okay, well, we have the experts with us. I'm going to [laughter] go ahead and get started.

686
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:33,160
back. All right. Thank you so much. Tonight we have with us stephanie inzana.

687
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:42,960
she is our director of library services. Absolutely fantastic. Has done a lot of great work for us. We had gone through senate bill 13,
And we had spoken about that as

688
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:52,880
a board and as a team and the implications. There were still some questions,
And we wanted you all to know specifically then,

689
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:01,240
not just how it would work, but there were also some nuances as far as what it would mean
To our families and to our community.

690
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:08,920
and so we wanted to make sure that we painted a very explicit picture as far as all of the
Rights that our community,

691
01:29:18,030 --> 01:29:18,030
our children, our parents would enjoy on top of this process as far as how everything
Would go together.

692
01:29:25,270 --> 01:29:25,270
and so we wanted to make sure that everyone was aware and just let them know if we see
This as win win for everyone involved.

693
01:29:33,070 --> 01:29:33,070
all right, stephanie. Okay awesome

694
01:29:41,350 --> 01:29:45,150
this evening, we are going to walk through our book acquisition process. We will highlight how our libraries are complying with the state laws.

695
01:29:49,030 --> 01:29:49,030
our library, our librarians book selection process that they go through when adding books
To the library,

696
01:29:54,630 --> 01:29:54,630
and our new acquisition process that also includes school board approval of the titles our
Librarians would like to purchase.

697
01:30:02,630 --> 01:30:02,630
so we'll start with overview and compliance. Senate bill 13 has a number of requirements,
But the ones that pertain most to our families are these first two.

698
01:30:10,390 --> 01:30:10,390
the first requirement is that parents have the right to access their student's library
Checkouts,

699
01:30:14,670 --> 01:30:14,670
and the second is that parents have the ability to restrict titles that they do not want
Their children to access. I'd like the board to know that round rock isd has already been

700
01:30:22,380 --> 01:30:25,700
in compliance with this and has been for years. Our compliance methods are that our parents can access student checkouts at any time.

701
01:30:30,100 --> 01:30:30,100
there are various methods they can use. The one that we hope they use is that they log in
With their child into their insignia account within classlink,

702
01:30:36,940 --> 01:30:36,940
so they can discuss with their child what their with their child,
What their student is reading. They can request the checkout information from the campus

703
01:30:43,540 --> 01:30:43,540
librarian, and they also have the ability to log into a parent account that they are in
Charge of.

704
01:30:50,140 --> 01:30:50,140
with that parent account parents are also able to restrict specific titles for their
Students.

705
01:30:57,220 --> 01:31:01,100
okay our library management system is called insignia.

706
01:31:04,140 --> 01:31:04,140
this is a new system to us and we are very excited that insignia really streamlines the
Parent account system.

707
01:31:10,540 --> 01:31:10,540
parent accounts are automatically created for all of our parents utilizing the email that
They have in eschool,

708
01:31:16,850 --> 01:31:16,850
they can access their account using directions that are publicly available on our library
Services website,

709
01:31:22,210 --> 01:31:22,210
and we also share that information via campus newsletters.

710
01:31:27,090 --> 01:31:27,090
parents can, within their parent account, search for titles that will restrict their
Children from checking out those items.

711
01:31:34,330 --> 01:31:34,330
and then the restriction is very seamless in the campus library so that the student no
Undue attention is drawn to that student when those checkouts are blocked.

712
01:31:43,730 --> 01:31:43,730
also, if a parent would like to remove restrictions at any time,
They can do so as well through that parent account.

713
01:31:52,530 --> 01:31:52,530
part of senate bill 13 also requires that we follow selection criteria in our board
Policy.

714
01:31:57,410 --> 01:31:57,410
that's something that we have always done. All of our library books are selected following
The library services collection development guidelines that we'll touch on later in this

715
01:32:05,210 --> 01:32:05,210
presentation. Those guidelines are aligned with efb local,
Which is in turn aligned with senate bill 13.

716
01:32:10,850 --> 01:32:10,850
our current board policy includes that library materials must be age appropriate and not
Contain harmful material, which is language that you'll see throughout legislation as well

717
01:32:18,230 --> 01:32:18,230
as our local policy. Okay

718
01:32:28,590 --> 01:32:28,590
the board members role in that process, which is new as and effective as of september 1st.

719
01:32:33,790 --> 01:32:33,790
first of all, we have to have a library materials acquisition policy,
Which we already do. And now senate bill 13 requires school board approval of all

720
01:32:40,310 --> 01:32:44,310
purchased or donated materials that are added to the library collection. Part of the requirements of senate bill 13 also indicate that all of those materials that
Are going to be purchased or donated must be publicly posted for 30 days.

721
01:32:52,870 --> 01:32:52,870
and let me rephrase that, because that might have been unclear. A material might be
Donated,

722
01:32:56,910 --> 01:32:56,910
but it may not be added to the collection until it has been publicly posted for 30 days.

723
01:33:01,710 --> 01:33:01,710
our school board members have the ability to propose changes to the list prior to the
Vote,

724
01:33:07,190 --> 01:33:07,190
and the board must approve or reject the list at the first open meeting of the board,
Held on or after the 30th day,

725
01:33:12,740 --> 01:33:15,460
that the list has been posted for public comment. There are a few exceptions to this rule. Because senate bill 13 indicates that approval
Must be done by isbn.

726
01:33:23,380 --> 01:33:23,380
that means that the only exceptions include when librarians are purchasing items that are
Intended to replace a damaged copy of a book with the same isbn.

727
01:33:33,180 --> 01:33:33,180
if they are purchasing additional copies of a book with the same isbn,
Or if they're purchasing copies of a book on a previously approved list,

728
01:33:40,140 --> 01:33:40,140
even if that item hasn't been purchased yet. If it's already been approved,
They don't have to resubmit for approval. Okay

729
01:33:46,940 --> 01:33:46,940
and then we've talked a little bit about insignia. Just a little bit more about that
System. This is a new system that we went live with at the end of last school year,

730
01:33:53,940 --> 01:33:53,940
and have been using daily, starting with the first day of school,
And we are working out some kinks,

731
01:33:59,300 --> 01:34:02,660
but really enjoying some of the added features within insignia. I already spoke about one of our favorite features,
Which is that really easy parent access to accounts. Insignia is integrated with our

732
01:34:09,290 --> 01:34:09,290
current district systems, which allows us to really be responsive and keep our records
Updated very quickly.

733
01:34:15,890 --> 01:34:15,890
the company insignia is also really focused on meeting the unique needs of our texas
Schools.

734
01:34:20,810 --> 01:34:20,810
senate bill 13 was passed in late june, and as of last week,
They had a new enhancement available that allowed us to do a really seamless isbn check to

735
01:34:29,410 --> 01:34:29,410
help us with that approval process. This is work that not many companies have done.

736
01:34:34,050 --> 01:34:34,050
so we're excited that we're working with a company that does that. And one of our favorite
Things is it saves us about 30% over our last system that we had as far as cost.

737
01:34:42,770 --> 01:34:42,770
okay

738
01:34:47,570 --> 01:34:47,570
so this is how our librarians are selecting books in the district.

739
01:34:52,410 --> 01:34:52,410
linked here is a very lengthy document that goes into some of the minutia of library
Collection development.

740
01:34:59,410 --> 01:34:59,410
I'm not going to review this entire document with you because it is a lot,
And it's not necessarily information that you all need to have committed to memory.

741
01:35:06,810 --> 01:35:06,810
what I do want you to know is that our collection development guidelines are aligned to
State law and local policy, and they provide very specific criteria for book selection.

742
01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:14,720
if you would like to do a deep dive into this document,
You are welcome to do so and I will happily answer any questions that you may have. The

743
01:35:23,400 --> 01:35:23,400
highlight of this document is the selection criteria that are a direct reflection of ifb
Local,

744
01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:31,800
and in turn, a direct reflection of senate bill 13. I'm going to read these to you as listed on the screen,
Because these are the areas that we look at when we're selecting books. We are looking for

745
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:37,400
books that are integral to the academic or personal growth of our students,
Books that reflect the interests and needs of our students and staff that are appropriate

746
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:44,400
for the maturity level, reading level, and understanding of our students that have
Literary or artistic value and include accurate and clear information.

747
01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:56,720
professional reviews are a very important tool that our librarians use when making book
Selections.

748
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:02,760
professional reviews are completed reviews by degreed professionals,
Either librarians or literacy professionals,

749
01:36:09,550 --> 01:36:09,550
and those reviews are then published in peer reviewed journals. These are not amazon
Reviews.

750
01:36:13,830 --> 01:36:13,830
these are very academic, professional reviews.

751
01:36:18,070 --> 01:36:18,070
if a certified librarian. And oh, and I should also note that some of our librarians in
Round rock isd actually write professional reviews for our review journals.

752
01:36:25,550 --> 01:36:25,550
so we have very well qualified people in our district that are also helping to inform our
Selections.

753
01:36:31,670 --> 01:36:31,670
if a certified librarian has read a material and evaluated based on the selection criteria
I've shared with you and that document of collection development guidelines,

754
01:36:39,510 --> 01:36:42,790
then we consider that that material has had a professional review. If we are looking at a material that does not have a professional review in a peer
Reviewed journal,

755
01:36:50,070 --> 01:36:50,070
then we ask a minimum of three librarians to review it. And there's usually a lot of
Professional discussion around that book to determine if it's a good fit for our

756
01:36:56,910 --> 01:36:56,910
collections or not. Occasionally, there are items that we add to our collections in
Absence of a professional review.

757
01:37:03,740 --> 01:37:03,740
if you are interested in those specifics, you could look at page two of our collection
Development guidelines. But I can tell you that those are books. Often titles in a series

758
01:37:11,100 --> 01:37:13,700
where the first titles in the series have been reviewed. But for example, if you're familiar with magic tree house,
There's probably 100 magic tree house books. They're not reviewing title number 99

759
01:37:20,020 --> 01:37:20,020
anymore. We know that that's a good fit. That also includes books that were published
Prior to the standardization of reviews.

760
01:37:26,260 --> 01:37:26,260
so if we have books that are part of the literary canon or classic literature,
We're not going to have reviews for frankenstein.

761
01:37:32,380 --> 01:37:32,380
but we know it's a book that we would include in our libraries. And then also books in
Languages other than english.

762
01:37:38,380 --> 01:37:38,380
we do our very best in our libraries to make sure that all students have native language
Books representing them.

763
01:37:44,660 --> 01:37:44,660
and unfortunately, diary of a wimpy kid in mandarin is probably not reviewed,
But we have a review of that book in english,

764
01:37:50,620 --> 01:37:50,620
and we can say we know that the translation will also be appropriate for our library
System.

765
01:37:55,980 --> 01:37:59,700
okay, you might be asking why I'm telling you all of this about professional reviews. It's because professional reviews are one of the most important tools librarians have when
Making book selections.

766
01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:08,000
professional reviews are an industry standard. They are reputable. They're reliable. They're established systems. They're used across
Libraries in the united states,

767
01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:13,240
around the world, and also by the publishing world in general.

768
01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:19,280
we typically have multiple professional reviews of all the books that we add to our
Library system.

769
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:24,280
because there is such a booming review business,
Many of the books that we add have three or 4 or 5 different reviews that we can use when

770
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:31,880
we're making selections. Our reviews allow us to be efficient and reliable in our
Purchasing.

771
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:37,920
our librarians are very well supported in our libraries,
Are well financially supported in our district,

772
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:43,160
which we are so thankful for. But that does mean that we're purchasing hundreds of books
At each campus every year.

773
01:38:48,360 --> 01:38:48,360
if our librarians were to try to read every one of those books cover to cover,
They would not be doing much else.

774
01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:53,360
so we use our reviews to help us make educated,
Reliable selections.

775
01:38:57,440 --> 01:38:57,440
we also provide additional support to our for our librarians as they're selecting books.

776
01:39:01,870 --> 01:39:01,870
our librarians are consistently engaged in professional conversations,
Both formal and professional development sessions, as well as just informal, everyday

777
01:39:08,670 --> 01:39:08,670
conversations. I was a librarian in round rock isd for 11 years prior to this position,
And I can tell you there's not a day went by that I did not talk to another librarian

778
01:39:16,550 --> 01:39:18,950
about a book and what they thought and did it fit. That's just an ongoing habit of our department in general.

779
01:39:22,710 --> 01:39:22,710
library services, myself and our library coordinator. We provide guidance and input on
Professional purchase,

780
01:39:27,670 --> 01:39:27,670
on purchasing decisions for librarians. And we also have a very robust state association
In texas that does a wonderful job of providing professional development,

781
01:39:35,990 --> 01:39:35,990
as well as generating suggested book lists for purchase for our libraries.

782
01:39:41,390 --> 01:39:41,390
and we use those as we're making selections as well.

783
01:39:48,310 --> 01:39:48,310
one of the areas that I think most people have concerns about is making sure that the
Selections for our libraries are age appropriate.

784
01:39:55,910 --> 01:39:58,540
one of the requirements that we have is that our books. When a review is written, an appropriate recommended age range is included in that review.

785
01:40:05,300 --> 01:40:05,300
we ask that our librarians have at least one professional review that identifies the
Intended age group.

786
01:40:10,700 --> 01:40:10,700
you may note, as you're looking at this slide that we have for elementary,
It's reviewed pre-k through five,

787
01:40:15,380 --> 01:40:17,900
and we carefully consider titles for grades 5 through 8. For middle school we extend beyond middle school as well. And the reason for that is
Supported by our campus data and our sorry,

788
01:40:26,020 --> 01:40:26,020
in our climate survey. The question that they ask is,
Of the students is my library has books that I want to read?

789
01:40:32,340 --> 01:40:32,340
and our students who score that lowest are our students that are at the upper end of those
Age ranges,

790
01:40:36,580 --> 01:40:36,580
our 5th graders and our 8th graders, because they want the next thing they want to read
What's coming up next.

791
01:40:41,220 --> 01:40:41,220
so we are looking at looking very carefully at the ways that we extend the grade levels
That might be represented in our library to make sure that the content is appropriate,

792
01:40:49,420 --> 01:40:49,420
but the materials material is still interesting and challenging for those upper level
Students.

793
01:40:55,180 --> 01:40:55,180
we do have books that are called adult, meaning that they are published with an adult
Audience in mind.

794
01:41:00,490 --> 01:41:00,490
it does not mean that they are adult in nature,
Just that it is written for an adult audience.

795
01:41:06,330 --> 01:41:06,330
we will have adult titles at the high schools,
Especially if we're looking at things about books like biographies about famous figures.

796
01:41:12,330 --> 01:41:12,330
those aren't necessarily written for a young adult audience,
But we know that they are appropriate for our students depending on the content. We also

797
01:41:18,450 --> 01:41:18,450
might have books that are coded adult, but might be at an elementary or middle school
Library because it would be a book that's instructional in nature.

798
01:41:25,450 --> 01:41:25,450
if you have a cookbook and it's a, you know,
A type of cooking that your students are interested in,

799
01:41:30,210 --> 01:41:30,210
it might be at an elementary library because we know that instructional resource is
Appropriate for students at that age. Another specific example when I was at elementary

800
01:41:38,130 --> 01:41:38,130
schools, we had to have a book about the history of round rock,
And there's no books about for kids,

801
01:41:42,490 --> 01:41:42,490
about the history of round rock. Regardless of where the books are added to in our
Libraries,

802
01:41:48,610 --> 01:41:48,610
all of our library materials, none of our libraries will have material that is pervasively
Vulgar or obscene or contains harmful material as defined by the penal code.

803
01:41:58,600 --> 01:42:01,960
all right moving on to the actual acquisition process. This first slide talks a little bit about how librarians are actually selecting books for
Their libraries.

804
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:07,040
our librarians follow efb local requirements,
And they generate a list of books for their campus libraries.

805
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:11,960
they will use the library circulation system and some internal approval list documentation
To verify which titles they are allowed to purchase without approval because they're

806
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:20,600
already in the system or already approved, and which ones they need to seek approval for.

807
01:42:25,200 --> 01:42:25,200
and we will then create a list that has titles that are requested from our individual
Libraries,

808
01:42:30,480 --> 01:42:30,480
titles that are published in upcoming months and anticipated to be requested,
And then also are gifted items as well.

809
01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:39,840
library services will support our librarians through all of the steps on that previous
Slide, but we will also be preparing the list of titles for the board to review.

810
01:42:47,440 --> 01:42:47,440
we'll make sure that your list is compiled into a single spreadsheet. We're going to
Double check for duplicates and isbns that may already be in the collection, and we'll

811
01:42:54,380 --> 01:42:54,380
clean that list up. So it's just the new titles that are seeking approval and you're not
Getting redundant titles.

812
01:43:02,820 --> 01:43:05,340
I have two flowcharts for you on the next two slides. This first one is the library acquisition process flowchart.

813
01:43:08,100 --> 01:43:08,100
and I'm not going to go over this whole thing,
But we'll look at the blue boxes on this chart. This is exactly what our librarians are

814
01:43:13,580 --> 01:43:13,580
doing as they are selecting books after they've made their list,
The first thing that they will do is check that the requested isbns against our catalog of

815
01:43:20,420 --> 01:43:23,260
isbns to determine which is not already in the catalog. Then, moving to the second blue box, they will check their isbns against our round rock
Isd approved approval submissions,

816
01:43:29,500 --> 01:43:29,500
which is an internal document that we maintain based on where those items flow from that
Document.

817
01:43:34,540 --> 01:43:34,540
they will then submit the book for approval if needed,
If the book has already been approved,

818
01:43:38,980 --> 01:43:38,980
or if it is already in the system, they can currently purchase it,
And then it will go to the board.

819
01:43:43,260 --> 01:43:43,260
and after the board meeting, the librarians will refer back to those lists to see what has
Been approved and they can move forward with purchases at that time.

820
01:43:51,730 --> 01:43:55,530
this next acquisition flowchart is the district flowchart. So the first box at the top is basically everything that happened on that last slide.

821
01:43:59,730 --> 01:43:59,730
so librarians suggesting preparing suggested book lists according to our legal and
Selection guidelines,

822
01:44:06,970 --> 01:44:06,970
the law requires that the proposed lists are posted on posted and available for public
Comment at least 30 days prior to the vote.

823
01:44:17,170 --> 01:44:17,170
we have added in an additional role for our district,
Where we are going to get the list to the board an additional week ahead of time,

824
01:44:25,410 --> 01:44:25,410
so you have some time to review that list. And prior to us posting it,
If you have suggested changes,

825
01:44:29,970 --> 01:44:29,970
we can go ahead and make those right away. Prior at least 30 days prior to the final
Approval,

826
01:44:35,410 --> 01:44:35,410
the list will be posted online on our library services website,
And we will also notify families via campus newsletter.

827
01:44:41,850 --> 01:44:41,850
also at that time, when we're telling them the list is posted,
We'll be sharing about the parent accounts in case they miss that information in previous

828
01:44:47,530 --> 01:44:47,530
communication. During those 30 days, the community may make comments and those comments
Will be made available to the board members they will use let's talk as their

829
01:44:57,320 --> 01:44:57,320
commenting vehicle [laughter]. And then at the first open meeting of the board,
Held on or after the 30th day of the date the list is

830
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:07,280
made public, you all, our school board will propose changes to the list and approve or
Reject the list.

831
01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:13,320
after the list has been approved or rejected,
The librarians will move forward with placing their book orders. Okay

832
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:19,880
there are some district and board responsibilities I want to make sure are clear to
Everybody. Our board members,

833
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:25,240
like we said, will be notified of the list 37 at least 37 days prior to the board meeting,

834
01:45:29,560 --> 01:45:32,720
where approval can be given 30 days prior to the board meeting. The district will post the proposed list on our website and community members can submit
Their feedback through let's talk.

835
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:41,680
this is our suggested timeline. Right now, we're suggesting an approval list at each of
Our scheduled board meetings through the end of the year.

836
01:45:48,630 --> 01:45:48,630
the reason that we are suggesting this monthly approval is because it allows our students
To have the quickest access to the books that are coming out.

837
01:45:55,590 --> 01:45:55,590
we want them to have those books in their hands as soon as possible,
And also to hopefully ease the burden for you all.

838
01:46:01,270 --> 01:46:01,270
if we're submitting on a monthly basis, that list is going to be a lot shorter than if
We're submitting quarterly. That's going to get pretty lengthy and be a lot of review.

839
01:46:08,590 --> 01:46:08,590
so our proposed action is to approve at each board meeting.

840
01:46:14,350 --> 01:46:18,030
but if the board desires, we could change that as needed. Okay

841
01:46:21,430 --> 01:46:21,430
librarians select the books. They follow the processes to determine what needs to be
Approved. Library services compiles that list into an approval list.

842
01:46:28,870 --> 01:46:28,870
it's shared on the with you all and on the website for community feedback.

843
01:46:33,510 --> 01:46:33,510
community member comments are made available to the board. The school board approves or
Rejects the list, and then our librarians follow our district processes to purchase their

844
01:46:40,670 --> 01:46:40,670
newly approved titles. We want to leave you with some assurances of what you can feel
Confident knowing in this process.

845
01:46:48,580 --> 01:46:48,580
first of all, every book that we are purchasing for round rock isd follows board policy,
Efb local,

846
01:46:53,460 --> 01:46:53,460
and our collection development guidelines. Those align with our state law and with our
District policy.

847
01:46:58,940 --> 01:46:58,940
we do have a professional review requirement,
Which means that each of our books is vetted through a professional review source or

848
01:47:05,580 --> 01:47:08,740
through a certified librarian's full evaluation. We are ensuring that age appropriateness is ensured for all of our campuses.

849
01:47:13,740 --> 01:47:13,740
our books are selected based on the maturity,
Reading level, age, and the suitability for the grade level.

850
01:47:19,220 --> 01:47:19,220
and we do not have harmful material as defined by law within our library collections.

851
01:47:24,580 --> 01:47:27,540
this process is transparent for our parents and the community. We are posting those books online. We're ensuring parents have access to library accounts
And we're collecting community feedback.

852
01:47:34,860 --> 01:47:34,860
we have a systematic review and duplication check in place,
So that the items the board receives are actual items that have to be approved,

853
01:47:42,420 --> 01:47:42,420
and not items that have already gone through that process,
And we have ongoing accountability and consistency for our librarians as they engage in

854
01:47:49,360 --> 01:47:49,360
peer review and professional discussion of selections with guidance from library services
And our professional organizations.

855
01:47:56,640 --> 01:47:56,640
all right that wraps up my presentation, and I will happily take any questions you all may
Have.

856
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:04,400
thank you for being with us today, ms. Inzana. I believe I had suggested this presentation because there were some concerns that board
Members are now required to approve these lists and it's thousands and thousands

857
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:14,360
of titles. It is not our choice to have to approve it,
And it's completely out of our control.

858
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:20,880
so I appreciate you providing all of the information about the acquisition process to make
Our job easier on top of the huge load that you guys already have.

859
01:48:30,640 --> 01:48:30,640
are there any questions? Trustee landrum. Sorry,
I have quite a few questions [laughter].

860
01:48:37,480 --> 01:48:37,480
first one is on slide 21. We it looks like we're past the first public posting date.

861
01:48:43,070 --> 01:48:46,510
has that list gone out? We have not posted any lists yet. Oh and this. I apologize, that first public list should have been struck out.

862
01:48:51,110 --> 01:48:51,110
that's okay I just want to make sure I hadn't missed something. No,
You have not. We will actually be submitting if if it works for the board. Our first list

863
01:48:57,510 --> 01:48:57,510
for approval for the november 20th board meeting. I apologize for that error. No problem.

864
01:49:02,310 --> 01:49:02,310
sounds like we have a very robust process for things for the library.

865
01:49:07,350 --> 01:49:07,350
what about our classroom libraries for individual teachers have and how that material is
Categorized.

866
01:49:13,710 --> 01:49:13,710
and can you talk to that a little bit? I can say that senate bill 13 does not encompass
Classroom libraries.

867
01:49:20,390 --> 01:49:20,390
so these same restrictions are not in place for classroom libraries. However,
We do provide guidance to our teachers that if they have a question about the

868
01:49:26,750 --> 01:49:26,750
appropriateness of a book, a good rule of thumb is to see if it's in a library at their
Level.

869
01:49:31,590 --> 01:49:34,350
and if it's not, it's probably not a good fit. So senate bill 13 does not apply to individual titles in a classroom?

870
01:49:38,830 --> 01:49:38,830
no, ma'am. I did not realize that thank you very much.

871
01:49:43,020 --> 01:49:43,020
another question. So it's been a while since I've had an elementary school,
Kiddo.

872
01:49:47,500 --> 01:49:47,500
but there was a thing when he they were in elementary with a birthday book and things

873
01:49:53,660 --> 01:49:53,660
and if an individual parent wants to buy a book for the library,
It'll go through this process,

874
01:49:58,780 --> 01:49:58,780
it'll be posted that kind of? So our librarians have adjusted programs like the birthday
Book program,

875
01:50:06,820 --> 01:50:09,540
where a parent can make a donation to the library. Some we had the option previously where some campuses took advantage of parents being able
To go online and order.

876
01:50:14,380 --> 01:50:17,580
but I actually had your kiddo at blackland prairie back in the day. So at our school and what they're going to be doing currently is purchasing their books
Ahead of time,

877
01:50:22,780 --> 01:50:22,780
setting them aside for that special program,
And then allowing students to select books from that.

878
01:50:27,020 --> 01:50:27,020
so the books that the students will be getting for programs like that will already have
Been approved. All right thank you very much. And the last question that I have really has

879
01:50:35,420 --> 01:50:35,420
to do with slide 13, where I think that, yeah,
We all know that we've had community members come up and

880
01:50:45,250 --> 01:50:45,250
talk about that they believe that in their opinions there are books in our library that do
Violate penal code and,

881
01:50:53,450 --> 01:50:57,010
you know, contain harmful material. I'm not a librarian. I don't want to be a librarian. I trust our librarians.

882
01:51:00,610 --> 01:51:00,610
what do we do in that situation where we have parents that are still not happy with titles
That are in our libraries?

883
01:51:08,410 --> 01:51:08,410
so round rock isd has had for many, many years a very robust reconsideration policy.

884
01:51:14,370 --> 01:51:14,370
so if a parent has a concern about a library material,
We have in our librarians are trained on this annually,

885
01:51:20,330 --> 01:51:20,330
multiple times throughout the year. We have a very specific process where they reach out
To the librarian to let them know their concern.

886
01:51:26,570 --> 01:51:26,570
they set up a meeting with librarian to review the title,
To understand why it's included in the library collection. If they're dissatisfied, they

887
01:51:32,370 --> 01:51:32,370
can move forward to a meeting with the principal. And then we can also move on to a formal
Reconsideration request.

888
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:38,200
we want to make sure that we are being very careful in our selection of books,
And also careful in our removal of books,

889
01:51:44,400 --> 01:51:44,400
because we want to guarantee that our students have access to the materials that they
Really need.

890
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:49,000
so we encourage any parent that has a concern to reach out to their campus librarian.

891
01:51:53,080 --> 01:51:56,800
many times those concerns are just solved by saying,
Oh, you don't. Is this not appropriate for your child or is this not appropriate for any child?

892
01:52:00,160 --> 01:52:02,640
and most of the time it's not appropriate for my child. And then we use that parent account to make that restriction. All right well,
Thank you very much for the presentation.

893
01:52:08,480 --> 01:52:08,480
I had all faith in our system that we were already doing things to protect our students
And to protect our reading materials.

894
01:52:15,800 --> 01:52:15,800
this is more of an editorial comment. I think it's absolutely ludicrous that trustees are
Now inserted into this process.

895
01:52:22,320 --> 01:52:26,320
we are not qualified or trained to be involved in this process. That's not your fault. It's just an editorial comment.

896
01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:29,720
but it still irritates me a whole lot because

897
01:52:38,710 --> 01:52:38,710
any other questions? Trustee cuero. Thank you stephanie.

898
01:52:46,030 --> 01:52:46,030
my question is. So the process of acquisition,
Right?

899
01:52:51,070 --> 01:52:51,070
if there's a book already in another district that has been circulating,
Can we bypass that?

900
01:52:57,590 --> 01:52:57,590
no. Okay

901
01:53:02,590 --> 01:53:02,590
you're welcome

902
01:53:11,430 --> 01:53:11,430
I mean, we know, like, each month you had the list.

903
01:53:15,870 --> 01:53:15,870
I just trying to estimate how many roughly. So we,
Because of the way this law is written,

904
01:53:21,790 --> 01:53:24,190
it's hard to put an exact number on that this year. It'll be much easier for us to put an exact number on it next year.

905
01:53:27,990 --> 01:53:27,990
we typically add. 50 to 100,000 books to our library collection every year.

906
01:53:35,650 --> 01:53:35,650
that's not necessarily new titles, though it might be titles that are already in the
System, or ten copies of the bluebonnet books.

907
01:53:43,610 --> 01:53:43,610
for us to know exactly how many titles you all will be approving is really challenging,
Because we have never had to look at the data in this manner before.

908
01:53:51,770 --> 01:53:51,770
so that is something that we'll have better information on in the future.

909
01:53:56,050 --> 01:53:56,050
we do have our we have the beginnings of our first approval list in the works,
And the first one is very lengthy because it's the first time we're doing this,

910
01:54:02,610 --> 01:54:02,610
and we're at about 2,500 copies based on what we have collected from librarians and what
They've submitted for approval.

911
01:54:10,210 --> 01:54:10,210
I am estimating that a typical month would be more like 500,
Which is still a lot, but is much more manageable than 2,500.

912
01:54:18,290 --> 01:54:18,290
all right thank you. You're welcome. I don't see any other hands.

913
01:54:24,650 --> 01:54:24,650
oh trustee cuero. Just real quick. Insignia. Yes.

914
01:54:29,450 --> 01:54:29,450
parents restriction. Are they based on words,
Phrases, ispn?

915
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:35,880
so parents can search the online public access catalog,
What we call the opac, using any of the search terms that our students could use so they

916
01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:44,280
can search by title, author, subject, and they can then restrict individual titles.

917
01:54:49,440 --> 01:54:53,040
they cannot restrict everything that might have a specific word in it. That's not how the search works. But if they have a if they don't want their child to
Check out books about llamas, they could search llamas and then restrict them all. Okay.

918
01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:04,760
we appreciate that. The round rock isd library services department consistently serves as
A model for surrounding districts,

919
01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:12,320
and we appreciate all of the work that our librarians do.

920
01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:16,720
I know that it's a really hard time for librarians right now. But please know that we we
Value you and all of the work that you do.

921
01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:23,080
so thank you for being here. Thank you, I appreciate it.

922
01:55:28,120 --> 01:55:28,120
okay. We are going to move on to l3 construction contracting methods.

923
01:55:33,190 --> 01:55:33,190
azaiez. Yes. Thank you again. So dennis will be taking us through.

924
01:55:38,910 --> 01:55:38,910
we have a as you know, we we contract a lot of services,
Especially now with the bond and stuff like that.

925
01:55:44,350 --> 01:55:44,350
so I would like for dennis just to take a moment to go over the list of the contracting
Methods,

926
01:55:50,790 --> 01:55:50,790
explain a little bit more, and also answer any question that you may have. Thank you.

927
01:55:55,550 --> 01:55:55,550
doctor azaiez president and board members these are the upcoming bond projects.

928
01:56:02,670 --> 01:56:02,670
and according to policy cv local, the superintendent shall report at regularly scheduled
Board meetings on the planned construction projects and the construction

929
01:56:12,670 --> 01:56:12,670
contracting method to be used. So as you see up here we have three types.

930
01:56:18,030 --> 01:56:18,030
the jlc, which is a job order contract. The ccmr is your construction manager at risk
Contract.

931
01:56:25,750 --> 01:56:25,750
and csp is your competitive seal proposal. Jokes are normally used for very small type
Projects,

932
01:56:33,300 --> 01:56:33,300
and we have a approved list of joke vendors based on what contractors based on what type
Of work we're doing like hvac,

933
01:56:40,940 --> 01:56:40,940
plumbing, and those type of things. The seymour is what you normally see with large
Construction projects,

934
01:56:48,100 --> 01:56:48,100
and those are bid out. And then the csp is for like this one for westwood is for different
Athletic projects that we're going to do.

935
01:56:58,060 --> 01:56:58,060
and you get better pricing doing those with csp instead of cemars.

936
01:57:04,020 --> 01:57:04,020
and so those are the projects that will be coming online soon.

937
01:57:08,260 --> 01:57:08,260
and so we have about like I said by cv local,
We have to bring them to you all as a report to let you know how it would be selecting

938
01:57:15,540 --> 01:57:15,540
these delivery methods. Thank you. Do I have any questions?

939
01:57:24,100 --> 01:57:27,810
okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, trustees. We're going to take a quick recess. 815. Is that good?

940
01:57:33,850 --> 01:57:33,850
okay. We'll come back at 815. It is 756, and we are in recess.

941
01:57:46,410 --> 01:57:46,410
it is 816 and we are back. We're going to move on to agenda item m discussion items.

942
01:57:55,730 --> 01:57:59,170
in one board, student outcome goals, time tracker. And I believe that is trustee landrum. It is still trustee landrum.

943
01:58:05,290 --> 01:58:05,290
let me look at wahoo. Okay. That's the wrong one.

944
01:58:13,530 --> 01:58:13,530
third time is a charm. All right. It is up on the screen.

945
01:58:17,850 --> 01:58:17,850
but for the month of august, we had 58 minutes out of 292 that were spent on student
Outcomes for an average of

946
01:58:26,910 --> 01:58:26,910
19.9% for the month of august, so slightly below our minimum target of 20%.

947
01:58:36,990 --> 01:58:36,990
so ask more questions on the student outcome agenda items.

948
01:58:43,150 --> 01:58:43,150
any questions? All right. Thank you. Trustee landrum.

949
01:58:48,710 --> 01:58:48,710
okay. We're going to move on to agenda item in action items for consideration by consent.

950
01:58:54,070 --> 01:58:54,070
before we hear a motion trustees, we are going to pull item in 15 and bring that back at a
Later date.

951
01:59:01,750 --> 01:59:01,750
do I have a motion? Madam president, I move that the board approve action items n one
Through 14 by consent.

952
01:59:10,630 --> 01:59:10,630
second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor?

953
01:59:15,750 --> 01:59:15,750
comment o any discussion? I just want to say please take a look at item n 14 unity day.

954
01:59:22,430 --> 01:59:25,700
it's a really nice resolution with a really good purpose behind it. So if you're watching this, go read the resolution and wear orange on august october 22nd.

955
01:59:33,100 --> 01:59:35,580
thank you. Okay, I have a motion and a second. All in favor? All right. Motion passes, seven zero.

956
01:59:42,820 --> 01:59:42,820
now we are going to move on to agenda item oh,
Action items oh one adoption of resolution.

957
01:59:49,140 --> 01:59:49,140
setting the tax rate for 20 2526. And we will have a presentation before we hear a motion.

958
01:59:55,220 --> 01:59:55,220
doctor azaiez. Yeah. Thank you again, president.

959
01:59:59,620 --> 02:00:03,620
we have we have with us dennis and and rhonda. So, as you probably remember we had to our board approved the budget back in june.

960
02:00:09,260 --> 02:00:11,980
at that time, we kind of set up a more or less. We kind of projected a possible tax rate. And obviously at that time,
I don't think we had all our certified property.

961
02:00:18,500 --> 02:00:21,890
we have we had we have some missing variables,
If you will. Right. So by law, we have to actually adopt our our tax rate by the end of september.

962
02:00:27,410 --> 02:00:27,410
and so here we are now that we get all our certified property values and things like that.

963
02:00:33,010 --> 02:00:33,010
so we are here to share with you more or less where we stand as far as setting next year
Tax rate.

964
02:00:40,210 --> 02:00:40,210
thank you sir. Just so everyone knows, we were not required to have a public hearing this
Year because the tax rate is the same as what you approved and adopted budget.

965
02:00:50,010 --> 02:00:52,970
so we were not required to have a public hearing. So tonight we're going to talk about the 2025 year tax rate adoption.

966
02:01:01,370 --> 02:01:03,810
let's look at the maintenance and operation side. Here's a comparison of tax year 2024 to tax year 2025.

967
02:01:09,050 --> 02:01:09,050
as you can see there's no change. And there is a note that the t maximum compress rate is
The floor.

968
02:01:17,970 --> 02:01:21,720
that's the lowest that we're allowed to set the tax rate. The next line is the eight golden pennies that our voters have approved.

969
02:01:26,880 --> 02:01:26,880
and that's what makes it 7101 425 no change from tax year 24.

970
02:01:37,080 --> 02:01:40,640
the interest and sinking fund again is the same on the left. You see what was in the adopted budget at the 0.1830,
Which would based on at that time, the tax collection

971
02:01:50,640 --> 02:01:50,640
and the other local revenue and the state revenue of 106 million,
And what expenditures of 105.6 million,

972
02:01:58,280 --> 02:02:01,720
which would put us as a positive balance of 5.34. I will be telling that those numbers will change slightly,
Because now we have the certified property value.

973
02:02:06,920 --> 02:02:10,600
so we will recalculate the tax collection on the far right. You see our fund balance as when we've done this presentation.

974
02:02:15,440 --> 02:02:15,440
it was at the $38,000 dollars. You add in $106,000 from this year.

975
02:02:21,310 --> 02:02:24,590
you take out the february interest payment. The deficiency payment. And then we will make another payment in august of about 69 million.

976
02:02:28,390 --> 02:02:28,390
and that will get us at roughly about $39.4 million in the fund balance as of this time
Next year.

977
02:02:39,270 --> 02:02:39,270
so if you look at the total tax rate comparison data,
As you can see, the maintenance operations,

978
02:02:45,070 --> 02:02:45,070
the 7101 homes are 7101 and the interest sinking fund is 1830 for a total tax rate of
0.8931.

979
02:02:54,590 --> 02:02:54,590
and that is below the voter approved tax rate of 0.9066.

980
02:03:01,590 --> 02:03:04,910
this is some of the surrounding districts total tax rate comparison. As you can see, round rock is the lowest tax rate of those listed and austin has the
Lowest.

981
02:03:11,110 --> 02:03:11,110
the highest decrease and they decreased by 2.5 cents.

982
02:03:20,180 --> 02:03:20,180
this is just a comparison of the taxes. If you remember back during the budget
Presentation,

983
02:03:26,700 --> 02:03:26,700
in total for williamson and travis county, there was about a 2% increase in property.

984
02:03:34,060 --> 02:03:34,060
now, individually, you may have gotten a 2% because this is an average.

985
02:03:38,820 --> 02:03:38,820
there are some that has a reduction. So the next two charts shows a 2% increase and a 2%
Decrease depending on what your property done for your

986
02:03:48,420 --> 02:03:48,420
individual tax levy. So as you can see, for $750,000 home in 2024,
2% taxes to 765 same

987
02:03:58,220 --> 02:03:58,220
tax rate, you will have $133 increase same calculations across those other variables.

988
02:04:05,460 --> 02:04:05,460
even where you see the average taxable value of residents at 412 9439,
Your taxes will go up and $47 if your

989
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:15,400
property individually property had an average property increase,
If you had a negative decrease,

990
02:04:24,480 --> 02:04:28,280
you would see that your property will go down,
Your levy will go down. So your $750,000 home is now valued at $735,000.

991
02:04:34,440 --> 02:04:34,440
with the same tax rates. Your property, your tax levy will go down $133,
And the next one,

992
02:04:41,560 --> 02:04:41,560
with the $500,000 home you see is 89.31. So this is the most important part for this
Presentation.

993
02:04:53,800 --> 02:04:53,800
I'll read to you the top. According to texas tax code section 26.05 b,
When the proposed tax rate will generate more revenue than the preceding

994
02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:03,600
year, or the proposed tax rate exceeds the total new revenue rate.

995
02:05:09,400 --> 02:05:09,400
tax rate. Special language must be used in both the tax rate ordinance and the adoption
Motion.

996
02:05:15,270 --> 02:05:15,270
the ordinance captures the impact on maintenance and operations,
While the tax rate adoption language considers the result of the total tax rate.

997
02:05:23,070 --> 02:05:23,070
so far as the ordinance, we will raise more,
We will raise less money, but our

998
02:05:32,750 --> 02:05:32,750
tax rate is above the no new revenue rate for m and o.

999
02:05:37,630 --> 02:05:37,630
so if you look to the far right, you see our no new revenue rate is 0.6726.

1000
02:05:43,870 --> 02:05:43,870
our proposed tax rate is 0.7101. So that's a 5.5% increase.

1001
02:05:51,710 --> 02:05:51,710
it's not really an increase, but based on how you have to put these calculations,
That's what it reflects as compared to your no new revenue rate.

1002
02:05:59,950 --> 02:05:59,950
so you see in the ordinance says this tax rate was raised more taxes for maintenance and
Operations than last year's tax rate.

1003
02:06:06,990 --> 02:06:06,990
and the tax rate would effectively be raised by 5.58%,
Which I showed calculate on the right and raise taxes for maintenance and operation on

1004
02:06:15,540 --> 02:06:15,540
$100,000 home by approximately $37.50. So if you see the calculation at the very bottom,
The tax increase on 100,000 home.

1005
02:06:24,540 --> 02:06:27,380
and this calculation does not take into effect. Either your house went up or your house went down. This is a calculation you have to show
On $100,000 home.

1006
02:06:33,460 --> 02:06:33,460
your rate. Your taxes for m and o will go up $37.50.

1007
02:06:43,180 --> 02:06:43,180
for motion tax rate ordinance. Same as I read before.

1008
02:06:47,300 --> 02:06:47,300
so here is the recommended adoption motion. Number one,
I move that the board adopt the resolution setting tax rate,

1009
02:06:54,260 --> 02:06:54,260
which includes a maintenance and operation rate of 0.7101 per $100 of taxable assessed
Valuation and an interest in sinking fund rate of

1010
02:07:03,540 --> 02:07:03,540
0.1830 per $100 of taxable assessed value for from the overall tax rate 0.8931 per $100

1011
02:07:13,530 --> 02:07:13,530
of taxable assessed valuation. The second motion is I move that the board approved the
Property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of

1012
02:07:22,050 --> 02:07:22,050
0.8931, which is effectively a 3.87% increase in the tax rate.

1013
02:07:28,090 --> 02:07:28,090
here, again, even though we have not raised taxes,
The tax rate.

1014
02:07:32,810 --> 02:07:32,810
but when you compare it to the no new revenue rate,
Our tax rate is higher.

1015
02:07:38,170 --> 02:07:38,170
so with that calculation being done, it will generate a 3.87% increase above the no new
Revenue rate.

1016
02:07:48,770 --> 02:07:48,770
madam president, for questions, I'd like to make the motion that we waive our robert's
Rules board operating policy so that we ask questions before motions,

1017
02:07:56,490 --> 02:07:56,490
since we have two motions we have to make on this agenda item.

1018
02:08:02,130 --> 02:08:02,130
there's a motion. Do I have a second? Actually,
I don't think that you need a motion.

1019
02:08:08,000 --> 02:08:11,680
that's a president's call. I think as long as there's consensus,
You're fine. I'm good. Okay. Is that okay with everyone to ask questions before we do a motion?

1020
02:08:16,840 --> 02:08:16,840
okay. So, do I have any questions? Trustee. Weir.

1021
02:08:22,360 --> 02:08:22,360
I just wanted to go back to page five on the ins when you said that now that we have the
Tax certified property,

1022
02:08:31,000 --> 02:08:34,920
the certified property tax, that you're going to recalculate that. Yes. And I don't know
If, you know, at this point how much change you're maybe looking at if you do.

1023
02:08:40,040 --> 02:08:40,040
but I don't know if I want you to give us an estimate. But like next time we have a budget
Update,

1024
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:44,520
is that when we would see that in october, we bring you the update on imuno and ins,
Which will reflect the certified property values.

1025
02:08:53,920 --> 02:08:53,920
and we're not worried that it's going to like we still think this tax rate is going to be
Good even after you recalculate.

1026
02:09:00,120 --> 02:09:00,120
yes. Thank you. Are there any more questions?

1027
02:09:08,220 --> 02:09:08,220
do I have a motion? Madam president, I move that the board adopt the resolution setting
Tax rate,

1028
02:09:14,300 --> 02:09:14,300
which includes a maintenance and operation rate of 0.7101 per $100 of taxable assessed
Valuation and an interest and sinking

1029
02:09:24,220 --> 02:09:24,220
fund rate of 0.1830 per $100 of taxable assessed valuation,
For an overall tax rate of

1030
02:09:33,140 --> 02:09:33,140
0.8931 per $100 of taxable assessed valuation.

1031
02:09:39,260 --> 02:09:39,260
second. I have a motion and a second. I just want to clarify both of these motions require
A record vote.

1032
02:09:48,900 --> 02:09:48,900
yes. Yes. Okay. So, trustee, is this the. We're now required to take a record vote on
This.

1033
02:09:56,340 --> 02:09:59,420
so we will go down the line. I'll call your name. And you can vote in favor or against by saying yes or no.

1034
02:10:02,660 --> 02:10:02,660
trustee. Zárate. Yes. Trustee. Yes. Trustee way.

1035
02:10:08,050 --> 02:10:08,050
yes. Trustee. Markum. Yes. Trustee. Weir. Yes.

1036
02:10:12,330 --> 02:10:12,330
trustee. Yes. Trustee. Yes. Motion passes seven zero.

1037
02:10:19,890 --> 02:10:19,890
do I have another motion? Madam president, I move that the board approve the property tax
Rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of

1038
02:10:29,210 --> 02:10:29,210
0.8931, which is effectively a 3.87% increase in the tax rate.

1039
02:10:36,650 --> 02:10:36,650
second, I have a motion and a second. We will take another record vote.

1040
02:10:41,210 --> 02:10:41,210
trustee. Zárate. Yes. Trustee. Ross. Yes. Trustee way.

1041
02:10:45,650 --> 02:10:49,090
yes. Trustee. Markum. Yes. Trustee. Weir. Yes. Trustee. Landrum. Yes. Trustee. Cuero. Yes. Motion passes seven zero.

1042
02:10:56,450 --> 02:10:56,450
thank you. Thank you. Okay. We're going to move on to item oh two.

1043
02:11:04,720 --> 02:11:04,720
approval of nominations for the williamson central appraisal district trustees.

1044
02:11:09,960 --> 02:11:09,960
you were given a little bit of background in your agenda.

1045
02:11:15,720 --> 02:11:15,720
let me pull it up real fast. So last year, in 2024,
We were asked to nominate two

1046
02:11:25,200 --> 02:11:25,200
people for we were asked to fill one year terms and two members for one year terms and
Three members for three year terms.

1047
02:11:33,280 --> 02:11:33,280
those one year terms are now up, and we are now voting on our nominating for a four year
Term.

1048
02:11:39,880 --> 02:11:39,880
so last year, we nominated john lux and lisa berkman for the one year terms.

1049
02:11:45,760 --> 02:11:45,760
and they are both willing to serve again in the four year term.

1050
02:11:52,040 --> 02:11:52,040
do I have a motion? Madam president, I move that we nominate the yep.

1051
02:12:01,870 --> 02:12:01,870
those two people again. Sorry, I forgot john lux and lisa berkman for the williamson
County appraisal district.

1052
02:12:09,510 --> 02:12:09,510
second. Second. Second. I have a motion and a second.

1053
02:12:17,270 --> 02:12:17,270
is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor? All opposed?

1054
02:12:27,710 --> 02:12:31,430
did you raise your hand, michael? I can't vote for lisa. I'm on the board,
So I can't. Oh, okay. So motion passes. Six zero. One. Okay.

1055
02:12:37,990 --> 02:12:37,990
moving on to item oh three, approval of nominations for the travis central appraisal
District.

1056
02:12:46,270 --> 02:12:46,270
again, a little background. You all received an email that pflugerville isd is
Recommending that we nominate elizabeth montoya.

1057
02:12:55,790 --> 02:12:55,790
you all know that for tcad. We do not hold a significant amount of votes.

1058
02:13:00,500 --> 02:13:00,500
I believe it's 36 which is minimal. But this is a recommendation that came from
Pflugerville isd.

1059
02:13:09,060 --> 02:13:09,060
do I have a motion? I move that the board adopt a resolution approving her name

1060
02:13:18,780 --> 02:13:18,780
again, elizabeth montoya elizabeth montoya as round rock isd's nominee to the travis
Central appraisal district board of directors.

1061
02:13:27,660 --> 02:13:27,660
I second, I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?

1062
02:13:34,300 --> 02:13:34,300
does anybody on this board know elizabeth montoya?

1063
02:13:39,700 --> 02:13:39,700
I don't personally know her, but the email did come from trustee mayor in pflugerville
Isd,

1064
02:13:44,780 --> 02:13:48,340
who is head of their government relations committee. And sounds like she was vetted through their committee and then through their I believe
Their board's voting tonight.

1065
02:13:55,300 --> 02:13:55,300
but that's really all the information that I have and what was provided on her background
In the email.

1066
02:14:03,080 --> 02:14:03,080
I'll probably abstain just because I don't. I don't know anything about her,
But okay.

1067
02:14:09,240 --> 02:14:09,240
I have a motion and a second. All in favor? All opposed?

1068
02:14:13,920 --> 02:14:13,920
all abstaining. Motion passes 601 okay. Moving on to oh four.

1069
02:14:22,920 --> 02:14:22,920
consider and take action to adopt a resolution authorizing the issuance of the round rock
Independent school district tax and revenue anticipation note.

1070
02:14:30,480 --> 02:14:34,320
I'm going to turn it over to doctor azaiez before we make a motion. Yeah, thank you for that. So yeah, we're here today to ask to consider and take action,
Hopefully on on what we call it

1071
02:14:45,040 --> 02:14:45,040
anticipation note. Right. So it's a ten or tax and revenue anticipation note.

1072
02:14:50,600 --> 02:14:50,600
so I want to let dennis talk briefly about why we have to do this real quickly about the
Two major things that happened this year that didn't happen previously,

1073
02:14:58,910 --> 02:15:01,270
right? There are two major changes for this year. Was one, the t changed our payment class from a class three to a class two.

1074
02:15:09,190 --> 02:15:09,190
what that does was our anticipated state revenue on the class three payment.

1075
02:15:15,390 --> 02:15:15,390
class three. We would have got 80% of it by the end of october.

1076
02:15:19,990 --> 02:15:19,990
and under class two you get 40%. And the other change is due to the legislature and taking
The homestead increase to

1077
02:15:29,870 --> 02:15:29,870
the voters. As you know, that doesn't happen till november.

1078
02:15:34,030 --> 02:15:34,030
and our taxing offices will not send out notes for our taxpayers until after the election
Is certified.

1079
02:15:44,070 --> 02:15:44,070
and so that would delay getting tax revenue in for the district.

1080
02:15:51,150 --> 02:15:51,150
thank you. Do I have a motion? I move that the board of trustees adopt the resolution
Authorizing

1081
02:16:01,020 --> 02:16:01,020
the issuance of the round rock independent school district tax and revenue anticipation
Note series 2025 as presented.

1082
02:16:10,420 --> 02:16:10,420
second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?

1083
02:16:18,580 --> 02:16:18,580
I'll just say that I appreciate that we are doing what we can within a system that we do
Not control.

1084
02:16:25,860 --> 02:16:25,860
in order to ensure that our staff and our students have all the resources that they need.

1085
02:16:31,500 --> 02:16:31,500
with that, all in favor? All opposed? Motion passes,
Seven zero.

1086
02:16:39,820 --> 02:16:39,820
all right, moving on to board announcements. I have a few.

1087
02:16:46,380 --> 02:16:46,380
and then I'll pass it over to doctor azaiez. We have three meetings in october,
October 9th.

1088
02:16:55,290 --> 02:16:55,290
we have a called board meeting. That's a grievance. On october 9th,
We are also having our team of eight training.

1089
02:17:01,970 --> 02:17:01,970
in october 16th, we have our regular board meeting,
And it looks like everybody has rsvp'd.

1090
02:17:09,410 --> 02:17:09,410
yes. Assuming trustee cuero is a yes, I know that you're still getting ramped up on the
Agenda.

1091
02:17:17,290 --> 02:17:17,290
but please let us know if any of those dates are an issue.

1092
02:17:21,450 --> 02:17:21,450
board committees. With trustee harrison's departure,
We have a vacancy in the two way communications committee.

1093
02:17:31,130 --> 02:17:31,130
so if that is a committee that you are interested in yeah.

1094
02:17:35,970 --> 02:17:35,970
if that's a committee you're interested in then the process would be that you just email
Me with your interest.

1095
02:17:43,210 --> 02:17:43,210
and then we will look across the board at how our committees are kind of shake out.

1096
02:17:48,890 --> 02:17:48,890
and I'll make a decision on who would fill that vacancy.

1097
02:17:52,920 --> 02:17:56,480
but we typically reorg our committees in january. Do we do it in december or january? Okay. So after.

1098
02:18:01,360 --> 02:18:04,880
yeah. In december we'll we'll look at committees again. So if you don't get it this time around, there will be other chances.

1099
02:18:09,520 --> 02:18:09,520
just a reminder that september is suicide prevention awareness month and brings awareness
To the 98 suicide and crisis lifeline.

1100
02:18:19,600 --> 02:18:19,600
I also want to extend another thank you to trustee harrison for all of her service to the
District.

1101
02:18:26,560 --> 02:18:26,560
I know that from all the words earlier. We all certainly appreciate everything that she
Did here.

1102
02:18:33,000 --> 02:18:33,000
and then extend a warm welcome to trustee cuero once again.

1103
02:18:37,040 --> 02:18:41,040
we're very happy to have you up here with us and look forward to serving with you. Doctor azaiez. Well. Thank you. Well, thank you so much.

1104
02:18:44,640 --> 02:18:44,640
I just actually, we just got this information yesterday or two days a couple of days ago.

1105
02:18:49,590 --> 02:18:49,590
but I want to acknowledge our students, we actually received the number or the name of the
Students and the number of students who

1106
02:18:59,470 --> 02:19:02,990
actually earn the national merit scholarship semifinalists. And I'm happy to share with you that we have 111 students from round rock isd,
I think, the highest in any district in the state of texas.

1107
02:19:12,350 --> 02:19:12,350
last time I checked, this year and westwood high school had 63 of them.

1108
02:19:17,110 --> 02:19:19,590
so 63 students in westwood high school earned it. And that's the highest in any other high school in the state of texas.

1109
02:19:24,470 --> 02:19:24,470
and so on. The top ten high schools with the highest number of students who earned that
The national merit scholarship semifinals,

1110
02:19:31,830 --> 02:19:31,830
we actually have number one was round rock, I'm sorry,
West westwood high school and number ten was round rock high school.

1111
02:19:38,270 --> 02:19:38,270
we're also the only school district placed two school,
Two high schools in the top ten.

1112
02:19:43,310 --> 02:19:43,310
so we're super proud of our students. I know that's not an easy achievement.

1113
02:19:48,210 --> 02:19:48,210
it's an amazing and but hard work from our students,
Our parents, our teachers, community as a whole.

1114
02:19:54,130 --> 02:19:54,130
so we want to celebrate them. And as you know,
I mean like you said september we actually there's a lot of things that we either

1115
02:20:02,570 --> 02:20:02,570
recognize or celebrate from suicide prevention month to deaf awareness month.

1116
02:20:08,010 --> 02:20:08,010
last last week, we recognized patriot day, or september 11th.

1117
02:20:12,810 --> 02:20:12,810
yesterday we celebrated constitution day. So it's a lot of things going on. And the whole
Month from september 15th to to october 15th,

1118
02:20:20,890 --> 02:20:20,890
we also recognize and celebrate the national hispanic heritage month.

1119
02:20:25,090 --> 02:20:25,090
and we know that that's a that's something that is so important to our community and to a
Lot of our students and their families.

1120
02:20:32,210 --> 02:20:32,210
so thank you for what you do. Thank you. Trustees.

1121
02:20:36,410 --> 02:20:36,410
any other announcements? Okay. We are going to go into president.

1122
02:20:44,040 --> 02:20:46,680
I would like to make a motion. What's your motion? That we limit closed session to ten minutes. I have a motion.

1123
02:20:51,080 --> 02:20:51,080
do I have a second? Second. I have a motion. And a second.

1124
02:20:56,440 --> 02:20:56,440
all in favor? All opposed? Motion passes seven zero.

1125
02:21:03,440 --> 02:21:03,440
okay. Pursuant to texas government code section 551.071,
The board will consult with counsel for the district and board counsel to discuss pending

1126
02:21:12,280 --> 02:21:12,280
litigation. We will have closed session in this room,
So we'll ask everyone else to leave.

1127
02:21:24,320 --> 02:21:24,320
it's 912 and we are back in open. Do I have any motions coming out of closed?

1128
02:21:31,560 --> 02:21:31,560
okay. Seeing none, we are adjourned. Or do we have any other business,
Any other discussion?

1129
02:21:36,960 --> 02:21:36,960
okay. Seeing none, we're adjourned at 912.