Mar 25, 2021 Regular Board Meeting

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GOOD EVENING. I HEREBY CALL TO ORDER THE MARCH 25, 2021 REGULAR BOARD MEETING BY VIDEO

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THANK YOU. TRUSTEE PLACE TWO, DR.

LATONIA WATSON. MAYFIELD PRESENT.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE PLACE THREE.

MIA HALL, PRESENT, THANK YOU.

TRUSTEE PLACE FOUR JUNE W.

DAVIS, PRESENT.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE PLACE FIVE, RYAN RAY.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE PLACE SIX, GARY GROZIER.

THANK YOU, TRUSTEE, PLACE SEVEN, DR.

LINDSEY BENTON, PRESENT, THANK YOU, AND SUPERINTENDENT DR.

MICHAEL MCFARLAND.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING OUR MEETING THIS EVENING, WHICH IS ALSO OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO JOIN BY VIDEOCONFERENCE, WE HAVE IMPORTANT BUSINESS TO ATTEND TO.

I WOULD ASK THAT YOU BE PATIENT AS WE CONDUCT OUR MEETING IN THIS FORMAT.

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR DEVICES ARE MUTED.

IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PLEASE SEND A TEXT MESSAGE TO MR. KIRCHER.

AT THIS TIME PLEASE RISE AND JOIN US FOR OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

AND NOW FOR THIS TEXAS PLEDGE THANK YOU MAY BE SEATED.

IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS FOR OPEN FORUM TONIGHT, WHICH MEANS WE GO

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ARE THERE ANY CELEBRATIONS THAT THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO SHARE TONIGHT? I HAVE ONE.

ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEE ROBINSON, OK, I WANT TO SAY THAT I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THE HOMETOWN PRIDE SERIES THAT IS GOING AROUND ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

SO AS SOMEONE WHO GREW UP AS A MILITARY DEPENDENT, I DIDN'T GROW UP ANYWHERE.

I SPENT TWO TO THREE YEARS SOMEWHERE.

SO TO SEE IMAGES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN THEY RETURNED TO TEACH IN THEIR HOMETOWNS.

IT IS TRULY AMAZING.

I'M JUST IN AWE OF THOSE PEOPLE.

AND TO SEE THEM, GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY CAME FROM IS JUST AMAZING.

THANK YOU, TRUSTEE ROBINSON, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE A CELEBRATION? WELL, TRUSTEE DAVIS, YOU AND I CAN SHARE THIS ONE, BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE AT THE REVEAL THE OTHER NIGHT AS WELL, I CHECKED IN LATE, SO I DON'T FEEL LIKE I SHOULD SHARE THIS ONE.

BUT WHAT I DID GET TO SEE FOR THE TWENTY FIVE MINUTES THAT I WAS THERE, IT WAS SO AWESOME. AND WE HAD A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK.

I SHARED IT ONLINE AND OF COURSE MY COLLEAGUES WERE VERY COMPLIMENTARY, BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS AMAZING AND ANOTHER TESTAMENT OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN CROWLEY ISD.

AND SO I WANT TO SAY HATS OFF ABOUT THAT.

ANY OTHER CELEBRATIONS? OK, MY OTHER ONE WOULD BE THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT I'VE MET DURING SPRING BREAK AND ALL THE BASEBALL THAT I SAT AND WATCHED TO CHS, BUT I'LL WAIT AND TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.

ALL RIGHT, THERE'S NO OTHER CELEBRATIONS THAT BRINGS US TO OUR RECOGNITION ITEM, AGENDA

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SO, MADAM PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS, WE'RE DEFINITELY EXCITED TO BRING THIS THIS ITEM FORWARD TONIGHT. WE DO APPRECIATE YOUR TRUST AND GUIDANCE AND LEADERSHIP AS WE HAVE WORKED DILIGENTLY TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH THE FIRST CROWLEY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WE DEFINITELY THANK YOU, THANKFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN HIRING CHIEF MASTON.

AND ALSO, YOU WERE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE TYPES OF OFFICERS YOU WANTED SERVING OUR KIDS.

AND WE HAVE WORKED VERY DILIGENTLY TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LIVED UP TO THE CHARGE

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AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TRUST.

WE KNOW THAT THAT STARTING A POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THESE TIMES IS DEFINITELY A TENUOUS SITUATION. BUT WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE THE BEST POSSIBLE DEPARTMENT TOGETHER TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS OUR NEEDS CHIEF LE'SHAI MASTON IS PREPARED TO ADDRESS THIS RECOGNITION ITEM.

CHIEF MASTON.

GREETINGS, MADAM BOARD PRESIDENT, DISTINGUISHED BOARD MEMBERS AND DR.

MCFARLAND, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE, PROTECT AND SUPPORT CROWLEY ISD.

AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU THE MEN AND THE WOMEN THAT MAKE UP CROWLEY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT.

FIRST OFFICER SARAH CARTER, SHE IS THE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF POLICE.

SHE'S ACTUALLY THE PERSON THAT RUNS THE POLICE OFFICE, BUT SHE IS HAS 15 YEARS WITH CROWLEY ISD, 13 OF WHICH ARE AS A OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR.

SHE WAS JUST RECERTIFIED AS A BASIC TELECOMMUNICATING, WHICH IS A DISPATCHER AND LOOKS FORWARD TO AIDING IN THE START OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO HELP IT BE ALL THAT IT CAN BE.

THE NEXT PERSON IS BRANDON ISHAM, HE IS HE HAS 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND HOLDS A MASTER TELECOMMUNICATIONS CERTIFICATION.

HE COMES TO US FROM SMU AND THE FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT.

HE IS A 2005 GRADUATE OF NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL.

HE IS EXCITED TO SERVE HIS HOME, COMMUNITY AND FOSTER SERVING ENVIRONMENTS TO OUR STUDENTS. NEXT IS SERGEANT SHANNAS JACKSON.

HE BRINGS 14 YEARS OF POLICE EXPERIENCE AND IS A MASTER PEACE OFFICER WITH A CERTIFICATION. HE COMES TO US FROM CEDAR HILL.

I MEAN, CEDAR HILL ISD PD, HE HAS A PASSION TO WORK WITH AND MENTOR THE YOUTH OF CROWLEY ISD. NEXT, ARE THE OFFICERS FIRST GOING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, AS I'M FACING THE SCREEN, OFFICER TRION INGRAM, HE HAS TWO YEARS OF POLICE EXPERIENCE AND HOLDS AN INTERMEDIATE PEACE OFFICERS CERTIFICATION.

HE COMES TO US FROM DALLAS COLLEGE PD, WHERE HE WAS THE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR.

HE IS A BACKGROUND INVESTIGATOR AND A FIELD TRAINING OFFICER.

HE LOOKS FORWARD TO HELPING THE YOUTH AND STAFF MEMBERS TO SHOW THAT WE DO CARE FOR THEM AND THEIR SAFETY. NEXT OFFICER IS JOSUE ROMERO.

THAT'S PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY JOSUE MORENO, I MEAN, ROMERO, HE IS THE FIRST TIME OFFICER AND HOLDS A BASIC PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATION, GRADUATING FROM NAVARRO COLLEGE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY IN 2020.

HE'S EXCITED TO SERVE THE CROWLEY ISD COMMUNITY AND MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE FUTURE.

NEXT OFFICER IS BRANDON LANGRUM, HE OWNS FIVE YEARS OF POLICE EXPERIENCE AND HAS A INTERMEDIATE PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATION.

HE COMES TO US WITH PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE AS A CPS SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR AND AN OFFICER AT CEDAR HILL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT.

HE WANTS TO BE A POSITIVE ROLE MODEL AND TO PROVIDE MENTORSHIP TO THE STUDENTS OF CROWLEY ISD. NEXT IS OFFICER LAUREN FOSTER.

SHE HAS ONE YEAR OF EXPERIENCE AND HOLDS A BASIC PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATION.

SHE COMES TO US FROM EVERMAN POLICE DEPARTMENT WHERE SHE WAS A RESERVE POLICE OFFICER THERE. SHE IS PURSUING HER MENTAL HEALTH, PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATION AND LOOKS FORWARD TO BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY AND GROWING IN CROWLEY ISD AS A POLICE OFFICER. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, OFFICER KEITH STRICKLAND.

HE HAS 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND HOLDS A MASTERS PEACE OFFICERS CERTIFICATION, HE IS FROM DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND HAS MILITARY EXPERIENCE.

HE IS AN ORDAINED MINISTER.

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WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT OUR OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE YOU, THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION.

THANK YOU.

MS. HALL, YOU'RE MUTED.

SORRY ABOUT THAT AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION CHIEF MASTON, I HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET SOME OF THE OFFICERS JUST OUT OR ABOUT AT SOME SPORTS EVENTS, BUT VERY NICE, VERY APPROACHABLE, VERY SERVICE ORIENTED.

AND IT WAS DEFINITELY A PLEASURE AND ALSO A POINT OF PRIDE.

I FELT VERY PROUD. I SAW OFFICERS AND THEN I SAW THEIR PATCH SAID CROWLEY AND I WAS LIKE, OH, MY GOD. SO I WAS VERY EXCITED.

ANYWAY TO OPEN THE FLOOR TO OTHER TRUSTEES THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME COMMENTARY.

CAN WE GO BACK TO THE VEHICLE THAT WAS A BIG DEAL WE WANTED TO SEE THOSE.

I WAS GOING TO MENTION THE VEHICLES, SO I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED.

I THINK EARLIER THIS WEEK I PASSED H.F.

STEPHENS IN THE MORNING AND I SAW TWO OFFICERS DIRECTING TRAFFIC.

I WAS LIKE, OH, WE HAVE CROWLEY PD, UH CARROLL ISD PD NOW.

AND I WAS ABLE TO SEE THE CARS.

SO IT LOOKS REALLY NICE.

AND THANK YOU FOR DIRECTING TRAFFIC IN THE MORNING.

ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? ALL RIGHT, WELL, CHIEF MASTON, YOU'VE BEEN A PART OF THE TEAM FOR A WHILE, BUT WELCOME, WELCOME YOUR ENTIRE TEAM.

WE'RE EXCITED TO BE HERE.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THIS TAKES US TO AGENDA ITEM 5.2 ATHLETIC RECOGNITION.

DR. MCFARLAND.

SO MADAM PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBERS, MR. KIRCHER WILL REPORT ON THIS ATHLETIC RECOGNITION ITEM, MR. KIRCHER.

YES PRESIDENT HALL, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND DR.

MCFARLAND, THIS PRESENTATION ALIGNS WITH GOAL 1 OF OUR VISION 2025 STRATEGIC PLAN, THRIVING STUDENTS AND OUR STUDENT ATHLETES HAVE BEEN THRIVING THIS SCHOOL YEAR IN THE FACE OF MANY, MANY CHALLENGES RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC.

BUT THEY FOUND A WAY TO NOT ONLY COMPETE, BUT REALLY SUCCEED AND WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS AND COLLECT SOME REALLY WONDERFUL HONORS THAT WE WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU TONIGHT.

WE WISH THAT THESE STUDENT ATHLETES COULD BE WITH US IN PERSON SO WE COULD GIVE THEM HIGH FIVES AND HANDSHAKES AND CONGRATULATE THEM.

BUT WE KNOW THAT DAY IS IS COMING SOON.

SO UNTIL THEN, WE JUST WANT TO GET THEIR NAMES OUT THERE, LET YOU KNOW, ABOUT THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. WE'RE GOING TO START WITH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL.

WE HAVE TWO ACADEMIC ALL STATE MEMBERS ON THAT TEAM, MARION ATTAWAY AND BRIANNA BAILEY, AND THEN MAKING FIRST TEAM ALL DISTRICT.

WE HAVE SHALEAH WILLIAMS, SECOND TEAM, BRIANNA BAILEY AND HONORABLE MENTION GOES TO MARION ATTAWAY AND KINZLEY BROWN-RIGGINS.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE STUDENT ATHLETES FROM THE CHS VOLLEYBALL TEAM.

WAY TO GO LADY EAGLES.

NOW FOR OUR BASKETBALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL.

START WITH SECOND TEAM.

ALL DISTRICT GOES TO JADA FIELDS FROM THE GIRLS TEAM.

AND HONORABLE MENTION, ALL DISTRICT GOES TO KIAH GOYNES, KIAH GOYNES.

ON THE BOYS TEAM, WE HAVE FIRST TEAM, ALL DISTRICT, KEONTE HENDERSON, SECOND TEAM, ALL DISTRICT, MALCOLM JACKSON AND NICK MCCOY AND HONORABLE MENTION ALL DISTRICT GOES TO GERRICK BROWN AND DESHAWN RUSSELL. CONGRATULATIONS, EAGLES.

NORTH CROWLEY NOW WILL START WITH THE GIRLS TEAM, THEY HAVE A TABC, ALL REGION TEAM REGION ONE TEAM MEMBER, JADE GOYNES, DISTRICT THREE 6A CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR, ALSO GOES TO JADE AND THEN THE CO-COACH OF THE YEAR, LORI SHEAD.

FIRST TEAM, ALL DISTRICT, WE HAVE THREE STUDENT ATHLETES THERE, ALINA PAYNE, AMIYA HOPKINS AND KAYLA THOMPSON, SECOND TEAM, ALL DISTRICT GOES TO BRANDY JONES AND KYARA REYNOSO AND HONORABLE MENTION KATIE BOBBITT, MAYA WATKINS, MEGAN GATES, CHRISTIAN CUNNINGHAM.

AND THIS TEAM WAS ALSO AREA CHAMPIONS.

HAD A GREAT RUN IN THE PLAYOFFS.

CONGRATULATIONS, LADY PANTHERS.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM. ALSO THE AREA CHAMPIONS.

WE HAVE AN ACADEMIC ALLSTATE MEMBER, TY'RIK TAYLOR.

WE HAVE DISTRICT THREE 6A CO, I MEAN, OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.

SOLE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR IS MARQUES SALES.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR, ALSO ON THE PANTHERS, REMON TUCK.

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR IS ALSO THE TEAM, KOREYAN DAVIS AND FIRST TEAM ALL DISTRICT GOES TO MALIK CLINTON, TREY DAVIS AND TY'RIK TAYLOR.

SECOND TEAM, ALL DISTRICT CJ WILLIAMS AND HONORABLE MENTION GOES TO BRYAN THOMAS AND

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WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER NORTH CROWLEY RECOGNITION THIS EVENING, AND IT'S A BIG ONE, IT'S FOR OUR VERY OWN COACH, TOMMY BRAKEL, WHO'S BEEN NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 100 ALL TIME COACHES IN UTIL HISTORY, NOT OF THE YEAR, BUT IN HISTORY.

COACH BRAKEL HAS AN AMAZING RECORD HERE.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, HE'S SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE TO ONE THIRTY SIX AT NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, INCLUDING IN DISTRICT PLAY, THREE HUNDRED AND ONE TO TWENTY FIVE.

SO THAT'S AN AMAZING RECORD.

AND ALSO, JUST SO YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO COACH BRAKEL, WE HAD TWO FORMER CHS COACHES MAKE THIS ALL TIME 100 LIST, AND THEY ARE ROBERT HALE AND GARY SARROT.

SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THEM.

AND ONE LAST ATHLETIC RECREATION.

IT'S STILL HAPPENING NOW.

WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW WE HAVE TWO TEAMS IN THE SOCCER PLAYOFFS AND THOSE START TOMORROW NIGHT. WE'LL START WITH NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.

THEY'LL FACE EATON HIGH AT BREWER HIGH SCHOOL AT FIVE THIRTY TOMORROW.

AND THE CHS BOYS WILL TAKE ON SOUTH HILLS AT EVERMAN AT SEVEN P.M.

SO WE ARE WISHING THEM LUCK AND WE'LL BE CHEERING FOR THEM AS THEY GO THROUGH THE PLAYOFFS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THESE STUDENT ATHLETES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. KIRCHER. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE.

I CAN'T WAIT TILL WE GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO START SHAKING HANDS AND CLAPPING IN THE BOARDROOM AGAIN. CONGRATULATIONS.

SO MANY RECOGNITION THAT COACH BRAKEL AND GOSH, ALL OF OUR TEAMS AND I GUESS SOCCER.

WE CAN START CHEERING TOMORROW NIGHT FOR THEM TO BECOME OUR AREA CHAMPIONS AND EVENTUALLY STATE AS WELL. SO CONGRATULATIONS, EVERYONE.

ALL RIGHT. THIS BRINGS US NOW TO AGENDA ITEM 5.3.

GET YOUR KLEENEX, HEARTBEAT TEAM AWARD WINNERS.

ALL RIGHT SO MADAM PRESIDENT, THE BOARD MEMBERS WOULD DEFINITELY ALWAYS EXCITED TO BRING FORWARD THIS AWARD.

WE HAVE MR. KIRCHER HERE REPORTING ON THE HEARTBEAT TEAM AWARD FOR THIS MONTH.

MR. KIRCHER THANK YOU, DR. MCFARLAND.

PRESIDENT HALL, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

EVERY MONTH WE GET TO AWARD A HEARTBEAT TEAM AWARD TO ONE EMPLOYEE IN ALL OF CROWLEY ISD AND THIS ALIGNS WITH GOAL THREE OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN FOR AN EMPOWERED STAFF.

AND SO IT'S ALWAYS A LOT OF FUN FOR US TO HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT WORK OUR EMPLOYEES ARE DOING EVERY YEAR, BUT ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR IN THE FACE OF THE PANDEMIC.

AND SO WATCH THIS, THIS MONTH'S WINNER.

SORRY FOR THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, WE'LL GET THIS RELOADED.

STANDBY.

GIVE ME ONE SECOND, I'LL HAVE IT UP IN SECOND.

SUPRISE.

MS. TENNISON, LET'S HEAR IT FOR MS. TENNISON. WE'RE HERE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MS. TENISON IS THE HEARTBEAT AWARD WINNER, BECAUSE SHE HELPS STUDENTS HERE AT RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHEN THEY'RE STRUGGLING AND SHE ROOTS THEM ON WHEN THEY'RE DOING REALLY WELL. MS. TENNISON IS CONSTANTLY PUTTING OTHERS FIRST IN HER JOB FROM SETTING UP HOME VISITS TO BUILDING A GRIEF GROUP FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED LOSS.

YOU REACH OUT TO STUDENTS AND STAFF, ALWAYS ENSURING THAT EVERYONE HAS EVERYTHING THAT THEY NEED. MS. TENNISON GOES ABOVE THE CALL OF DUTY TO MAKE SURE EACH STUDENT SCHEDULE IS CORRECT, THEIR EMOTIONAL NEEDS ARE MET, AND THAT THE STAFF FEELS LOVED AND RESPECTED.

MICHELLE HAS A GIFT OF LISTENING, AND SHE'S A TREASURE HERE AT RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO LET'S CONGRATULATE HER FOR BEING THE HEARTBEAT WINNER.

MS. TENNISON IS CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SHE DOESN'T REALLY BELIEVE MUCH IN JOB DESCRIPTIONS.

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FEEDING TEACHERS ALSO WHO HAVE BEEN QUARANTINED.

SHE'S CONSTANTLY RAISING MONEY THAT GOES STRAIGHT BACK TO KIDS AND LITTLE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS TO JUST GET THEM TO BE AT SCHOOL ON TIME.

WE'VE HAD KIDS WHO MAY BE SUFFERING TRAUMA AND SHE WILL GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

SHE'S UNAPOLOGETICALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT GIVING KIDS EVERY SINGLE OPPORTUNITY THEY HAVE TO BE SUCCESSFUL I ACTUALLY GRADUATED FROM CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL.

AND SO CROWLEY'S HOME TO ME AND I WORK FOR AN AIRLINE FOR MANY YEARS AND THEN GOT INTO EDUCATION. AND FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, THE ONLY DISTRICT I WANTED TO BE AT WAS CROWLEY.

AND SO I STARTED AT DAVID WALKER AND I'VE BEEN AT NUMEROUS CAMPUSES IN CROWLEY I'VE KNOWN MS. TENNISON SINCE MY OLDEST DAUGHTER WAS IN SEVENTH GRADE AT H.F.

STEVENS, SHE, MS. TENNISON TAUGHT HER TEXAS HISTORY AND THEY JUST CLICK, THEY JUST CONNECTED AND SHE JUST KIND OF BROUGHT OUT THE BEST OF MY DAUGHTER AND EVERY TIME SHE TALKED ABOUT MS. TENISON, SHE WOULD JUST SMILE AND BE HAPPY.

AND WE WERE PERSONALLY GOING THROUGH A REALLY TOUGH TIME IN OUR FAMILY.

WE HAD SUFFERED OR SUFFERED OUR FIRST LOSS OF A FAMILY MEMBER.

AND MS. TENISON WAS JUST A REAL BRIGHT SPOT FOR MY DAUGHTER DURING A REALLY DIFFICULT YEAR.

GRIEF DOESN'T, YOU JUST DON'T GET OVER IT IN A MATTER OF TIME.

YOU JUST DON'T. IT'S SOMETHING THAT LAST REALLY IT'S A PART OF YOU FOREVER.

BUT WE JUST ARE GOING TO LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH IT BETTER WHEN I'VE REACHED OUT TO THE PARENTS AND TELL THEM THAT I WAS GOING TO BE DOING THIS.

OF COURSE, THE PARENTS ARE LIKE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED.

ONE PARENT WAS LIKE, I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO DO IT, BUT YOU CAN SURE TRY.

AND IT HAS SO MUCH OF HIM STOPPING ME IN THE HALLS GOING, WHEN ARE WE MEETING AGAIN? SO I KNOW THAT IT'S HELPING SOME, IF NOT ANYTHING.

IT'S JUST I'M TAKING TIME OUT OF THEIR DAY AND TAKING CARE OF THEM, HOPING THAT IN THIS GROUP THAT AS THEY GO THROUGH SCHOOL THAT THEY WILL STILL HAVE EACH OTHER TO LEAN UPON AS THEY GO THROUGH MILESTONES OF DRIVER'S LICENSE AND GRADUATION, THAT THEY'LL STILL HAVE EACH OTHER.

THERE'S NOBODY THAT I'VE MET THAT IS MORE CARING ABOUT THE KIDS AND WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE IS NOT ENOUGH. SHE'LL GO AND DO WHATEVER SHE CAN TO HELP YOU.

AND IT'S AMAZING.

AND SHE'S JUST SUCH AN ASSET TO CROWLEY.

AND I'M SO GLAD THAT SHE'S BEEN HERE WITH US FOR SO LONG.

SHE WENT OUT OF HER WAY WHEN SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO.

IT COULD BE NINE TO FIVE O'CLOCK.

I'LL GO HOME. I SPOKE TO HER.

IT'S SEVEN O'CLOCK ONE TIME.

I THINK SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST GET JOBS AND THEY'RE JUST JOBS.

THEY GO, THEY MAKE A PAYCHECK, THEY GO HOME, TAKE OFF THEIR SHOES.

AND THAT'S THAT. I DON'T THINK SHE DOES THAT.

I THINK WE SHE GOES HOME AT NIGHT AND SHE'S TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT CAN BE DONE, ANALYZING AND TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.

I KNOW IF I GET INTO A BIND AND I NEED SOME SOMEBODY TO GIVE ME RESOURCES OR GUIDANCE WHERE MY KIDS ARE CONCERNED THAT I CAN CALL HER AND SHE WILL.

WITHOUT IT, WITHOUT A QUESTION, WITHOUT A DOUBT.

LET'S HEAR IT FOR OUR HEARTBEAT AWARD WINNER THIS MONTH, MS. MICHELLE TENNISON, AND SHE IS ON THE ZOOM WITH US.

MS. TENNISON.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.

HOW HAS THIS YEAR BEEN DIFFERENT THAN EVER BEFORE HERE IN CROWLEY ISD IN YOUR ROLE? I THINK I MEAN, IT'S BEEN HARD FOR EVERYBODY FROM CUSTODIAL STAFF ALL THE WAY UP TO OUR BOARD MEMBERS, THEN THEN WE'RE THROWING STARTING A BRAND NEW SCHOOL ON TOP OF THAT.

I CAN'T DO THIS BY MYSELF.

AND I WANT TO SAY THAT THAT THE STAFF STEPS UP.

IF I, IF I COME UP WITH AN IDEA, I HAVE A STAFF THAT IS THERE TO SUPPORT ME.

AND WHEN WE DELIVERED LIKE 60 MEALS TO FAMILIES FOR THANKSGIVING, I ONLY GOT TO DELIVER ONE BECAUSE THE STAFF STEPPED UP AND DID IT.

SO IT IS IT'S NOT JUST ME WHO GETS THIS AWARD.

IT'S ALL THE PEOPLE AT MIDDLE SCHOOL WHO STEP UP AND DO THIS.

SO I'M LIKE, OUR INTENTIONS ARE TRULY TO BE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY.

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AND THANK GOODNESS THAT DR.

WHITE AND HIS LEADERSHIP AND JUST THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE, WE'RE ALL IN THIS THROUGH A REALLY CHALLENGING YEAR AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT NEXT YEAR HOLDS TOO WITH ALL OUR STUDENTS BACK.

WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU DO EVERY YEAR, BUT ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR, YOU ARE A TREASURE HERE IN CROWLEY ISD.

CONGRATULATIONS.

PRESIDENT HALL.

CONGRATULATIONS, MS. TENNISON, AND I WANTED TO OPEN THE FLOOR TO EVERYONE ELSE BEFORE I TALK.

GO FIRST. ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY COMMENT? WELL, ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, WE WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR STUDENTS FOR BEING A TESTAMENT TO THE AMAZING, WONDERFUL, SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE SERVING IN CROWLEY ISD.

AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE HAD AND ALSO OUR STAFF MEMBERS AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR HONOR TONIGHT.

ALL RIGHT, BEFORE WE GO TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA, I'M GOING TO DO ONE MORE BOARD CELEBRATION. I'M GOING TO CELEBRATE DR.

LINDSAY BENTON BECAUSE I WOULD BE REMISS FOR NOT TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONGRATULATE MY COHORT AND COLLEAGUES ON THE DEFENSE OF HER DISSERTATION.

SO I JUST WANTED TO SHOUT YOU OUT AND CONGRATULATE YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, I DON'T GET TO BE CALLED DOCTOR UNTIL MAY 8TH, BUT STILL, I'LL TAKE IT. WE GOT YOU.

I'M GOING TO VOUCH FOR YOU.

OK, I'M GOING TO COSIGN.

I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE AND I HOPE TO HAVE [INAUDIBLE].

SO EVERYBODY BE ON BENDED KNEE.

ALL RIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS, DR.

BENTON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ALL RIGHT. THIS BRINGS US TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEM.

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IF THERE ARE NO ITEMS THAT HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED TO BE REMOVED, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT, I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS AS PRESENTED.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOTION, DR.

WOODSON-MAYFIELD, DO YOU HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND? THANK YOU FOR YOUR SECOND TRUSTEE ROBINSON MOVED TO VOTE.

MR. KIRCHER TRUSTEE ROBINSON, YES, THANK YOU.

DR. MAYFIELD.

YES, THANK YOU, MISS HALL.

YES, THANK YOU, MISS DAVIS.

YES. THANK YOU, MR. RAY. YES, THANK YOU, MR. GRASSIA. YES.

THANK YOU, DR.

BENTON.

YES. ALL RIGHT.

THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THIS NOW BRINGS US TO OUR REPORT ITEM.

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MCFARLAND.

MADAM PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS, AS YOU ALL REMEMBER, ABOUT A YEAR AGO, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, WE ACTUALLY ENGAGED IN A LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TRAINING AND OUR GOAL AND OUR ASPIRATION FOR FOUR, PARTICIPATING IN THE LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TRAINING WAS SIMPLY TO BE THE BEST DISTRICT IN THE STATE.

THAT'S OUR ASPIRATION WAS TO BE THE BEST.

WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT LONE STAR GOVERNANCE, THE LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TRAINING, IS A MODEL THAT'S USED ACROSS THE STATE TO REALLY HELP BOARDS AND DISTRICTS TO TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE MAIN WORK, WHICH IS A STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.

AND SO WHAT WE'RE SHARING TONIGHT IS AN OUTCOME OF THAT EXPERIENCE.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE LONE STAR, LONE STAR GOVERNANCE TRAINING REQUIRES US TO DO IS TO PRESENT PUBLICLY OUR PROGRESS IN PREDETERMINED GOALS THAT HAVE BEEN COLLECTIVELY IDENTIFIED BY THE BOARD AND THE DISTRICT.

WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT THIS LAST YEAR HAS BEEN A CHALLENGING YEAR.

WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT WE HAVE SET SOME VERY, VERY STRATEGIC, SMART GOALS.

AND WE KNOW THAT ALTHOUGH THINGS HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT, THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

WE ARE UNWAVERING IN OUR COMMITMENT TO BE AT THE TOP IN TARRANT COUNTY BY 2025.

AND SO WE HAVE SET THESE GOALS WHERE WE HOLD THESE GOALS AS WE HAVE SET THEM AND WE'RE MONITOR OURSELVES IN RELATION TO THOSE GOALS.

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GOOD EVENING. PRESIDENT HALL AND BOARD MEMBERS, AS DR.

MCFARLAND SAID TONIGHT, I'M HERE TO PROVIDE AN ACADEMIC BOARD GOAL UPDATE.

AND THIS ADDRESSES GOAL ONE, THRIVING STUDENTS.

SO, AS DR.

MCFARLAND SAID, THE BOARD ENGAGED IN THE GOAL SETTING PROCESS THROUGHOUT THIS LAST YEAR, OFFICIALLY CONFIRMING THOSE BOARD GOALS JUST WITHIN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I'D LIKE TO BRIEFLY RECAP BEFORE ACADEMIC BOARD GOALS HERE.

SO GOAL ONE HAS TO DO WITH INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE OF THIRD GRADE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS MEETING STANDARD ON STAAR READING GOAL TWO, FOCUSES ON ALL THIRD GRADE STUDENTS INCREASING THAT NUMBER WHO MEET THE STANDARD ON STAAR MATH.

GOAL THREE FOCUSES ON THE PERCENTAGE OF FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS MEETING STANDARD ON STAAR READING AND GOAL FOUR HAS TO DO WITH INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS MEETING THE GRADE LEVEL STANDARD ON STAAR MATH.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE FIRST NUMBER IN THAT GOAL WAS OUR BASELINE FROM STAAR 2019.

THE SECOND NUMBER IN EACH GOAL IS THE GOAL BY 2025.

IN ORDER TO MEET THOSE TARGETS, THE DISTRICT IS ALSO SET INTERIM GOALS FOR EACH YEAR AND YOU'LL SEE OUR STAAR 2021 GOAL LISTED AS WE LOOK AT SOME DATA TONIGHT.

SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE THERE, THOSE ARE THE FOUR ACADEMIC BOARD GOALS, OF COURSE, WE HAVE A FIFTH GOAL THAT'S TRACKING CCMR, BUT WE'RE FOCUSED ON THE FOUR ACADEMIC ONES TONIGHT. AND AS I MENTIONED IN OUR LAST BOARD MEETING, WE MONITOR BOTH PERFORMANCE AND GROWTH. SO THE BOARD GOALS ARE PERFORMANCE GOALS, BUT WE KNOW THAT IT'S KEY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GROWING STUDENTS FROM WHERE THEY CAME IN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TO THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, TO THE END OF THE YEAR.

SO TONIGHT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT WINNER BENCHMARK AND MAP TESTING DATA.

AND SO A WINTER BENCHMARK IS A RELEASE STAAR TEST THAT ASSESSES EVERYTHING THAT THE STUDENT HAS LEARNED UP TO THAT POINT IN THE YEAR AND THAT'S ADMINISTERED BY THE DISTRICT.

AND MAP TESTING IS WHAT WE CALL A UNIVERSAL SCREENER.

AND THIS IS USED THROUGHOUT TEXAS AND ALSO THROUGHOUT THE NATION.

AND WHAT THAT DOES IS OUR STUDENTS TAKE THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IN MATH AND IN MATH AND READING, AND THEN THEY TAKE IT AGAIN AT THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.

AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT'S NORM REFERENCE.

SO IT MEASURES HOW MUCH THAT STUDENT GREW FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.

AND IT COMPARES IT TO A GROWTH GOAL BASED ON OTHER NATIONAL NORMS. AND THEN STUDENTS ALSO DO HAVE AN END OF YEAR MATH TEST TO MEASURE GROWTH FROM BEGINNING TO END OF YEAR.

ALL RIGHT, SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT ABOUT THE NATIONAL TRENDS THAT WE'RE SEEING BASED ON THE COVID SLIDE IN THE TIME THAT WE WERE OUT FOR VIRTUAL LEARNING.

SO I'D LIKE TO JUST PRESENT TWO PIECES OF DATA HERE.

THEY BOTH COME FROM UNIVERSAL SCREENING ASSESSMENTS.

ONE OF THESE IS CALLED I READY AND I READY IS A NATIONAL UNIVERSAL SCREENER.

AND FROM A MCKINSEY ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT I READY DATA SET, WHAT THEY'RE SEEING IS THAT ON AVERAGE, STUDENTS HAVE LOST THE EQUIVALENT OF THREE MONTHS OF LEARNING IN MATH AND ONE AND A HALF MONTHS OF LEARNING IN READING.

SO THREE MONTHS OF LEARNING LOSS IN MATH, ONE AND A HALF MONTHS OF LEARNING LOSS IN READING. SO THEN IF WE LOOK AT ANOTHER DATA SET ANALYSIS AND THIS USES MAP, WHICH IS OUR CURRENT SCREENER, WHAT THEIR ANALYSIS FOUND IS THAT STUDENTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT PERFORM SIMILARLY TO LAST YEAR IN READING, BUT IN MATH THEY SCORED FIVE TO 10 PERCENTILE POINTS LOWER.

SO ONE THING TO HIGHLIGHT HERE IS THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT THERE'S LOSS IN BOTH AREAS, BUT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DISCREPANCY BETWEEN READING AND MATH LOSS.

AND ANTHONY, IF YOU GO FORWARD, ONE MORE.

ONE KEY PIECE OF DATA TO REMEMBER ON THAT SECOND ANALYSIS IS THAT TWENTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS WHO WERE TESTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2019 SCHOOL YEAR WERE NOT PRESENT IN THE 2020 DATA SET THAT WAS EVALUATED.

SO WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT AND MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS THAT THOSE GAPS WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER, PERHAPS IF THOSE STUDENTS WERE INCLUDED IN THAT DATA SET.

ALL RIGHT, SO THAT GIVES US A PICTURE OF THE NATIONAL TREND AND THEN ON THE NEXT SLIDE HERE, YOU'LL SEE A PRETTY LARGE CHUNK OF TEXT.

BUT REALLY THE KEY HERE IS THAT FIRST SENTENCE, AND THIS IS FROM THE CEO OF MAP, WHERE HE SAYS THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN MATH AND READING OUTCOMES REALLY WAS NOT UNEXPECTED.

WE EXPECTED TO SEE THIS KIND OF GAP LEARNING LOSS IN BOTH AREAS, BUT A MORE SIGNIFICANT GAP IN MATH. PARENTS TEND TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO READ WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND ENGAGE WITH THEIR STUDENTS IN LITERACY ACTIVITIES.

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AND SO WE'RE WORKING ON FILLING THOSE GAPS AS WE GO.

SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW WE'LL STRUCTURE THE DATA FOR EACH OF OUR FOUR BOARD GOALS TONIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO PERFORMANCE ONE OF THE REQUESTS OF THE LAST BOARD MEETING WAS TO PROVIDE CONTEXT.

SO WHAT HAS WINTER BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE LOOKED LIKE IN THE PAST? SO YOU'LL LOOK AT OUR PERFORMANCE FROM STAAR 2019.

THAT WAS THE LAST YEAR WE HAD A STAAR TEST.

OUR WINTER BENCHMARK, THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, 19-20.

THEN STAAR 2020, THERE WAS NOT AN ASSESSMENT, SO THERE'S NO DATA THERE.

WINTER BENCHMARK 2021 WAS OUR MOST RECENT ASSESSMENT, THAT WAS OUR ASSESSMENT THIS YEAR, AND THEN YOU'LL ALSO SEE OUR STAAR GOAL FOR 2021.

SO BASED ON OUR BOARD GOALS, WHERE DID WE HOPE TO LAND? AND THEN FINALLY AT THE END, WE'LL ALSO LOOK AT OUR GROWTH DATA FROM THAT.

DR. MCFARLAND.

YEAH. SO JUST LET'S STOP THERE FOR A SECOND BOARD AND JUST WANT TO SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST ABOUT THESE INSTRUMENTS, HOW WE USE THEM OR ANYTHING THAT MR. KEITH HAS SHARED. BEFORE WE GO WITH THE DATA, ANY QUESTIONS JUST ABOUT THE INSTRUMENTS IN OUR SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING? I'LL SAVE MY QUESTIONS AGAIN.

OK? YEAH, IT'S CIRCLING IN MY HEAD RIGHT NOW, OK? ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANT TO KNOW A LOT, SO I JUST WANT TO STOP TO SEE A.

ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.

GO AHEAD MR. KEITH ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, SIR. SO WE'LL FOLLOW THE SAME PATTERN FOR EACH OF THE FOUR BROAD GOALS HERE, SO YOU'LL SEE THE GOAL AT THE TOP.

REMEMBER, THE BASELINE IS STAAR 2019 AND THEN THE SECOND PERCENTAGE IS THE 2025 GOAL.

AND SO ANTHONY LET'S GO AHEAD AND GO FORWARD.

AND THEN IF YOU'LL GO FORWARD TWO MORE.

SO TAKING A LOOK AT THIS, LET ME JUST WALK YOU THROUGH THIS, SINCE IT IS THE SAME STRUCTURE FOR EACH ONE.

THIS IS THIRD GRADE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS ON STAAR, THIRD GRADE READING.

TWENTY EIGHT PERCENT, WHICH IS THE FIRST NUMBER IN THE GOAL, IS ALSO THE FIRST NUMBER ON THE TABLE THAT STAAR TWENTY NINETEEN.

OUR LAST STAAR TEST.

THE NEXT NUMBER WAS THE WINTER BENCHMARK FROM THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR.

AND IT'S PRETTY TYPICAL TO SEE A DROP FROM THE STAAR TEST TO THE WINTER BENCHMARK.

THERE'S ALWAYS GROWTH FROM WINTER BENCHMARK TO STAAR.

STAAR 2020, WE DIDN'T TEST BECAUSE OF COVID, THAT'S THE N/A.

WINTER BENCHMARK 2021 WAS OUR MOST RECENT WINTER BENCHMARK THAT WE JUST TOOK IN JANUARY.

AND THEN OUR STAAR GOAL TO MEET OUR GOAL FOR THIS YEAR FOR STAAR IS THIRTY ONE PERCENT OF THOSE STUDENTS PASSING.

SO WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS TWENTY FOUR PERCENT OF OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS WERE AT THE MEETS GRADE LEVEL STANDARD IN 1920, AND THAT DID DECLINE TO 15 PERCENT.

AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THE CONTEXT OF THE NATIONAL TRENDS, THIS IS PRETTY MUCH IN LINE WITH WHAT WE EXPECTED TO SEE IN THE DATA AND THEN ANTHONY IF YOU'LL GO FORWARD ONE MORE.

AND THEN IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE FROM OUR MAP DATA, WE ALSO SAW THIRTY ONE PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS MET THEIR GROWTH GOAL BY THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.

SO YOU HAVE THE PERFORMANCE DATA IN BLUE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE GROWTH DATA AT THE END IN ORANGE. SO LET ME PAUSE THERE AND JUST SEE IF THERE ANY QUESTIONS THERE ABOUT THAT BOARD GOAL. NOW THAT THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO HOW REPRESENTING THE DATA.

MR. KEITH I DO HAVE A QUESTION WITH REGARDS TO THE MATH GOALS.

WHAT NUMBER DO WE EXPECT TO SEE THERE IN THAT 31 PERCENT IN THE ORANGE SECTION? IS THERE A TYPICAL GROWTH THAT WE NORMALLY SEE? SO THIS IS ACTUALLY. SO THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR FIRST YEAR USING MAP AS OUR UNIVERSAL SCREENER. SO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF CONTEXT FOR WHAT THAT NUMBER SHOULD BE IN A NORMAL YEAR. WE WOULD OBVIOUSLY EXPECT IT TO BE HIGHER THAN THIRTY ONE PERCENT.

THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I DO HAVE A QUESTION, MS. HALL. EARLIER YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT TWENTY FIVE PERCENT, GAP. COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? ABSOLUTELY. SO THAT THAT CAME FROM THE ANALYSIS OF THE UNIVERSAL SCREENER DATA.

SO REALLY, THAT'S THAT'S LIKE FOUR MILLION STUDENTS WHO TOOK THE TEST.

THAT'S REALLY WHERE THAT COMES FROM.

AND WHAT THAT STUDY FOUND WAS THAT THERE WASN'T A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN READING FROM THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR TO THIS SCHOOL YEAR, EVEN WITH COVID SLIDE.

BUT THERE WAS A DROP IN MATH OF ABOUT FIVE TO 10 PERCENT.

THE KEY THING TO THAT THAT THEY POINT OUT IN THAT STUDY IS THAT TWENTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS WHO WERE THERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2019 SCHOOL YEAR AND WHO WERE ASSESSED WERE NOT THERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE CAN MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS THAT A STUDENT WHO MAY NOT HAVE RETURNED TO SCHOOL

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OK, AND THEN ALONG THOSE SAME LINES, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, BUT ALL THE STUDENTS THAT WE DID ASSESS, DO YOU KNOW IF THAT INCLUDED THOSE THAT ONLY ATTEND SPORADICALLY OR ARE THOSE DO WE ONLY ASSESS THOSE THAT ATTEND ON A REGULAR BASIS OR DO WE KNOW THAT? SO WE DO WE ACTUALLY TRACK PARTICIPATION RATES BY CAMPUS, BY GRADE LEVEL AND BY CONTENT FOR THESE ASSESSMENTS.

AND I CAN TELL YOU WITH GREAT CONFIDENCE, THE CAMPUSES HAVE LEFT NO STONE UNTURNED IN TRYING TO GET EVERY STUDENT TO TEST.

AND SO, REALLY, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, OUR PARTICIPATION RATES HOVERED IN THE EIGHTY FIVE TO 90 PERCENT, WHICH GIVEN THE SITUATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, WE CONSIDERED TO BE STRONG PARTICIPATION.

AND THOSE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW.

OK, I WAS JUST HOPEFUL THAT THOSE THAT ONLY ATTEND SPORADICALLY DIDN'T SKEW THE DATA BECAUSE THEY WERE CIS, BUT THEY DON'T ATTEND ON A REGULAR BASIS.

SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE DAVIS, WAS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTION? IT'S JUST A REALLY QUICK ONE.

AND IT'S IT'S REGARDING SKEWING POSSIBLE SKEWING OF THE DEBT, THE DATA.

BUT DID DID OUR MARKETING OR IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT HOW WE MARKETED TAKING THE WHEN A BENCHMARK COULD HAVE ATTRIBUTED TO A LOWER PERFORMANCE NUMBER IS THERE? AND I'M NOT SAYING IT HAPPENED THAT WAY, BUT IS THAT POSSIBLE? AND THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF PARENTS AND STUDENTS WERE, YOU KNOW WERE CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING IT, BUT THEN ALSO RELIEVED A LITTLE BIT THAT IT'S NOT PUNITIVE IN ANY WAY.

SO I DIDN'T KNOW AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT FOR STAAR AS WELL, BUT COULD THAT BE A POSSIBILITY OF HAVING ANY EFFECT ON THE NUMBER? SO WE WE ACTUALLY HAVE VERY HIGH PARTICIPATION RATES AND RELATIVELY SPEAKING, FOR THE WINTER BENCHMARK, AND SO ONE THING THAT WE DID AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL WAS WE COMBINED IN A LOT OF COURSES, THE WINTER BENCHMARK IN THE FINAL EXAMS. SO WE BASICALLY REDUCED THE NUMBER OF TESTS THE STUDENT HAD TO TAKE.

AND SO I THINK IF IT DID ANYTHING TO SKEW THE NUMBER, IT MAY HAVE ENCOURAGED MORE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE WHO HADN'T BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN VIRTUAL LEARNING.

SO THAT NUMBER MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY LOWER.

I THINK AN IMPORTANT THING TO POINT OUT, THOUGH, IS THESE ARE ALL OUR STUDENTS.

SO WHETHER THEY'VE BEEN PARTICIPATING ACTIVELY OR NOT, THE DATA REPRESENTS WHERE WE ARE FOR THESE STUDENTS AND THE GAPS THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS NOW AND WHEN THEY RETURN IN THE FALL OF NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

GOOD POINT. THANK YOU FOR THAT.

THANK YOU MR. KEITH.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION SO FROM [INAUDIBLE] WE'RE DOWN 16 PERCENT OF WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BE [INAUDIBLE] I THINK THE QUESTIONS ARE WE I THINK THE QUESTION I HEARD MR. GRASSIA, IS WE'RE DOWN 16 PERCENT FROM WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE.

IS THAT CORRECT? WE ARE. SO THIS, THE STAAR GOAL FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR WAS THIRTY ONE PERCENT, THE WINTER BENCHMARK IS 15 PERCENT.

IT DEPENDS ON THE CONTENT AREA, BUT WE DO TYPICALLY SEE 10 TO 12 PERCENT GROWTH JUST FROM THE WINTER BENCHMARK TO STAAR.

THAT'S NOT HARD AND FAST, TO BE CLEAR.

BUT THERE IS THERE IS ALWAYS GROWTH FROM WINTER BENCHMARK TO STAAR BECAUSE THE CAMPUSES CONDUCT VERY INTENSIVE INTERVENTIONS DURING THAT TIME.

SO UNTIL WE KNOW, UNTIL WE ADMINISTER STAAR, IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE IN RELATION TO THAT GOAL.

AND I'M SORRY IF MY INTERNET IS BREAKING UP, BUT.

SO WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY DOWN 16 PERCENT OF WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BE, WE ASSUME THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE AROUND THIS NUMBER, THAT 15 PERCENT.

IS THAT CORRECT, THEN? SO WE THROW IN OUR WINTER BENCHMARK DATA.

YES, I CAN SAFELY SAY THAT WE'LL SEE AN INCREASE IN THIS NUMBER ON STAAR AND SO AT THAT TIME WE CAN EVALUATE WHERE WE ARE IN RELATION TO THAT GOAL.

THIRTY ONE PERCENT.

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AND SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE AT 15 PERCENT.

SO WE ARE SLIGHTLY BEHIND.

BUT, YOU KNOW, CAMPUSES RIGHT NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF PUTTING INTERVENTION PLANS IN PLACE AND SATURDAY SCHOOL AND OTHER INITIATIVES TO TRY TO REGAIN SOME INSTRUCTIONAL TIME.

SO WE BELIEVE WE'LL BE CLOSER TO THIRTY ONE PERCENT, WHETHER WE'LL HIT THIRTY ONE PERCENT OR NOT THERE'S STILL THAT'S GOING TO BE A STRETCH TO GET TO THIRTY ONE PERCENT.

BUT WE BELIEVE THERE WILL BE CLOSE, WE'LL DEFINITELY BE MORE THAN 15 PERCENT.

BUT WILL WE GET ALL THE WAY TO THIRTY ONE OR NOT.

IT'S STILL, IT STILL DEPENDS ON WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO BETWEEN NOW AND THE ASSESSMENTS.

SO I GUESS THAT THAT WAS MY FOLLOW UP OR LEAD UP WAS, IS THAT I ASSUMED THAT WE WERE DOWN, WHICH IS BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.

AND WHAT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO GET THIS GOING TO OR ON THE RIGHT TRACK? NOT THAT IT'S NOT ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BUT WHAT ARE THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING TO HELP STUDENTS GET THERE? YEAH. SO REALLY, LIKE THIS WEEK, WHAT WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH IS WE HAVE BEEN MR. KEITH AND THE TEAM HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH WHAT WE CALL OUR CAMPUS PERFORMANCE REVIEWS.

AND SO WE HAVE CLUSTERS OF CAMPUSES.

SO WE'LL HAVE FOUR CAMPUSES THEY'LL BE MEETING TOGETHER AND EACH CAMPUS IS ACTUALLY GOING THROUGH AND EXPLAINING WHAT KIND OF THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING TO INCREASE INSTRUCTIONAL TIME TO MAKE UP FOR SOME OF THE TIME THAT THEY'VE LOST.

MOST OF THEM HAVE SOME KIND OF INTERVENTIONS DURING THE DAY, INTERVENTIONS AFTER SCHOOL, INTERVENTIONS ON SATURDAY, WORKSHOPS AND SOME OTHER THINGS.

AND SO THERE IS KIND OF A MYRIAD OF MYRIAD OF THINGS.

BUT MOST OF THEM DEALS WITH IDENTIFYING THOSE KIDS WHO ARE ACTUALLY REALLY STRUGGLING ON PARTICULAR AREAS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY GET MORE TIME ON TASK.

AND SO WE MAY HAVE A SITUATION WHERE A TARGETED GROUP OF STUDENTS ARE WORKING ON TARGETED SKILLS WITH IDENTIFIED TEACHERS, AND ALL THAT WE JUST BEING REALLY, REALLY A LOT MORE INTENTIONAL. WE NORMALLY DO THIS ANYWAY THIS TIME OF YEAR.

BUT OF COURSE, THIS YEAR IS EVEN MORE SO AND STILL STILL RECOGNIZE IT'S GOING TO TAKE ALL OF THAT AND SOME JUST TO GET BACK TO WHERE WE WERE.

AND KEITH YOU CAN ADD ANYTHING IF YOU'D LIKE TO ADD ANY ADDITIONAL THAT WE'LL DOING.

YES SIR AND AT THE END OF MR. GRASSIA THAT WE DO HAVE A SLIDE THAT WILL GO INTO DEPTH, JUST SOME OF THE ACTIONS WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN AND THEN HOW WE INTEND TO FIND THOSE MOVING FORWARD.

ONE QUICK QUESTION, WHEN WAS THAT WINTER BENCHMARK MR..

THE WINTER BENCHMARK WAS THE FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY, SO WE CAN ASSUME THERE HAS BEEN SOME GROWTH SINCE THEN.

YES, MA'AM, ABSOLUTELY, WE ARE ACTUALLY JUST A FEW WEEKS AWAY FROM OUR ROUND OF SPRING BENCHMARKS, SO WE'LL HAVE TO COMPARE AND LOOK AT THAT GROWTH DEFINITELY.

AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS, WE HAD A ROUND OF EARLY SPRING BENCHMARKS FOR OUR WRITING TESTS IN ENGLISH ONE AND TWO.

AND YOU CAN SEE GROWTH FROM THE WINTER BENCHMARK TO THOSE REMARKS IN THOSE TESTS ALREADY.

AND THEN WE'LL BE TESTING THOSE OTHER CONTENT AREAS IN THE COMING WEEKS.

SO THAT WAS THE SNAPSHOT THAT DAY.

BUT WE KNOW WE HAVE GROWTH SINCE THEN? YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NOW, I WAS GOING TO ASK ABOUT SPRING BENCHMARK'S, TOO, BUT MR. KEITH EXPLAINED THAT, MR. KEITH WERE WE ABLE TO TAKE SPRING BENCHMARK'S LAST YEAR? DID THE PANDEMIC HIT FOR LAST SCHOOL YEAR? SO IT HAPPENED TO HIT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.

SO WE SPLIT SPRING BENCHMARK'S INTO TWO GROUPS.

SO WE HAVE THE EARLY STAAR TESTS, WHICH ARE FOURTH AND SEVENTH GRADE, RIGHT IN ENGLISH, ONE IN ENGLISH TOO.

WE GOT WE GOT THOSE IN THOSE HAPPENED AND THEN COVID HIT AND WE WEREN'T ABLE TO TAKE THE LATER GROUP OF SPRING BENCHMARKS.

OK, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, TRUSTEE ROBINSON. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MR. KEITH. THANK YOU, SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE ON TO GOAL TWO, SAME STRUCTURE THIS ONE'S FOCUSED ON THIRD GRADE STUDENTS MEETING STANDARD AND STAR MATH.

REMEMBER, NATIONAL TRENDS, LARGER GAPS IN MATH, AND YOU WILL SEE THAT HERE IN OUR WINTER BENCHMARK COMPARISONS.

SO IF YOU'RE GO FORWARD TO THERE, YOU CAN SEE OUR STAAR 2019 WAS FORTY FIVE PERCENT.

OF COURSE, A DECLINE TO THE WINTER BENCHMARK THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR.

AND THEN IT COMES BACK UP AND THEN YOU'LL SEE WINTER BENCHMARK 1920 COMPARED TO THE CURRENT WINTER BENCHMARK, ABOUT A 16 PERCENT DROP.

STAAR GOAL, 2021.

FORTY EIGHT PERCENT.

AND THEN OUR MAP GROWTH WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN MATH.

ONE OF THE INTERESTING TRENDS WE'RE SEEING IS THAT WE'RE HAVING MORE STUDENTS GROWING IN MATH. WE'RE COVERING LARGER DEPTH, BUT WE'RE MAKING BACK THAT GROUND MORE QUICKLY.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN STILL WORK TOWARDS OUR GOALS

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SO, I MEAN, I GUESS THE QUESTION FOR ME.

IS WHAT DO WE NORMALLY SEE AS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BENCHMARK AND THE ULTIMATE RESULTS? I MEAN, IF WE WERE LOOKING AT THE 2019 BENCHMARK WAS 40 AND WE ONLY WENT UP FIVE POINTS, THEN, THEN WE'RE IN REAL BAD SHAPE RIGHT? IF THE 2019 BENCHMARK WERE, YOU KNOW, 18 AND WE WENT UP TWENTY SEVEN POINTS, THEN WE'RE ABOUT ON TRACK. BUT, YOU KNOW, SINCE WE'VE GOT THE THE 1920 MONITOR BENCHMARKS BUT NO START TO COMPARE IT TO HOW DO WE WHERE ARE WE AT ON THAT, YOU HAVE THAT DATA AND JUST NOT ON HERE OR WHERE ARE WE? SO WE DO HAVE THAT DATA FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S WINTER BENCHMARK'S, AND I'M HAPPY TO GET THAT AND AND PROVIDE YOU SOME DETAIL ON THAT.

I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING IS IT VARIES FROM CONTENT TO CONTENT.

SO YOU'LL TYPICALLY SEE LARGER GROWTH IN MATH FROM BENCHMARK TO STAAR THAN YOU WILL IN READING AND THEN ALSO SAY IT VARIES FROM CAMPUS TO CAMPUS.

SO THERE IT'S IT'S DIFFICULT TO PROJECT AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL EXACTLY WHAT THE GROWTH WOULD BE. I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU KIND OF GAVE TWO DIFFERENT ENDPOINTS, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN FIVE PERCENT AND TWENTY FIVE PERCENT AT IT FALLS SAFELY INTO THAT 10 TO 12 PERCENT RANGE. TYPICALLY THE GROWTH WE SEE FROM WINTER BENCHMARK TO START.

OK, THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, I DO HAVE A QUESTION, MR. KEITH, MAP SHOWS THE INSTRUCTOR, THE TEACHER, WHAT SKILLS THE KIDS ARE STRONG IN OR WHAT THEY HAVE DEFICITS IN CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. SO ARE INTERVENTIONS BASED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE IN MATH AND I KNOW THAT OUR CAMPUS, WE HAVE A SOFTWARE WHERE STUDENTS CAN GO ON TO EITHER DAILY OR WEEKLY TO WORK ON THOSE SKILLS.

WHAT IS THAT LIKE IN CROWLEY FOR STUDENTS OR IS IT TEACHER BY TEACHER? SO WE DO WE HAVE A VERY STRUCTURED SYSTEM FOR INTERVENTIONS AND ALL OF THIS DATA PLAYS INTO THE INTERVENTION PLAN OF A CAMPUS.

I CAN TELL YOU AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, WE USE WINTER BENCHMARK DATA TO IDENTIFY STUDENTS WHO ARE STRUGGLING AND THEN THEY TAKE THEIR MAP SCREENER WITHIN A FEW WEEKS OF THAT.

AND SO WE USE THE MAP DATA TO REFINE THAT AND IDENTIFY EXACTLY WHICH SKILLS THEY NEED TARGETED PRACTICE ON.

ONE THING WE SEE IS THAT TYPICALLY WHEN WE ANALYZE STUDENT RESULTS FROM THE WINTER BENCHMARK AND THEN WE LOOK AT MAP DATA, WE'RE SEEING THAT THEY NEED PRACTICE IN THE SAME THINGS. RIGHT, LIKE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE VERY SIMILAR TO VERY ALIGNED.

AND SO THEN WITHIN THE CAMPUS INTERVENTION TIME, WHICH EVERY CAMPUS HAS DEDICATED TIME FOR INTERVENTION AND OFF GRADE LEVEL INSTRUCTION EACH DAY, STUDENTS ARE GROUPED BY SIMILAR NEEDS. SO THEN TEACHERS CAN WORK WITH THOSE STUDENTS ON THOSE OFF GRADE LEVEL SKILLS, BUT NOT GIVE UP TIME FOR GRADE LEVEL INSTRUCTION, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING WE WANTED TO MAKE VERY CLEAR WE WERE DEDICATING OUR INSTRUCTIONAL TIME TO GRADE LEVEL INSTRUCTION AND THEN WE WOULD SCAFFOLD AND WE WOULD INTERVENE BASED ON THOSE SKILLS.

THAT'S THE TEACHER PART.

TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT DIGITAL TOOLS, WE USE ADAPTIVE TOOLS LIKE DREAMBOX FOR MATH, WHICH IDENTIFIES THE STUDENTS TARGETED NEED, AND IT CREATES A PERSONALIZED LEARNING PATH FOR THEM TO ADDRESS THOSE AREAS.

AND THEN TOOLS LIKE ICE STATION AND ACHIEVE THREE THOUSAND DO THE SAME THING IN READING.

THEY'RE TARGETED, THEIR PERSONALIZED AND THEY'RE ADAPTIVE.

THANK YOU.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MR. KEITH? OK. ALL RIGHT, SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO GOAL THREE, SO THIS IS FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS MEETING STANDARD ON STAAR READING.

AND SO WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE DATA HERE.

FORTY TWO PERCENT STAAR 2019, JUST A SMALL DROP FOR WINTER BENCHMARK THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE FORTY ONE PERCENT TO THIRTY THREE PERCENT.

AND SO THIS IS REALLY ONE OF OUR SMALLER DROPS HERE AT FIFTH GRADE READING OUR DATA HERE TENDS TO BE A BIT STRONGER OVERALL WITH OUR GOAL OF FORTY NINE PERCENT FOR STAAR AND THEN FORTY TWO PERCENT GROWTH FOR ALL STUDENTS IN THIS AREA BASED ON THAT.

AND ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FIFTH GRADE READING DATA? ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S GO AHEAD, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT GOAL FOUR, THIS IS OUR LAST ACADEMIC BOARD GOAL HERE. THIS FOCUSES ON EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS, ON THE MATH STAAR.

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SO I WILL POINT OUT ONE THING ABOUT THE WINTER BENCHMARK IN NINETEEN TWENTY, SO IF YOU LOOK AT STAR TWENTY NINETEEN, WE WERE THIRTY SEVEN PERCENT, IT LEAPS TO FIFTY THREE PERCENT AT THAT WINTER BENCHMARK AND THEN IT KIND OF SETTLES BACK TO THIRTY EIGHT PERCENT AT THIS YEAR'S WINTER BENCHMARK.

SO WE CONSIDER THAT FIFTY THREE PERCENT PASSING TO BE AN OUTLIER.

IN THAT YEAR WE HAD AN ISSUE WITH A TEST KEY BEING DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES. SO WE, THAT WASN'T NECESSARILY AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION THAT YEAR.

I THINK WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTICE HERE, STAAR 2019 AT THIRTY SEVEN PERCENT AND THIS YEAR'S WINTER BENCHMARK WAS ACTUALLY AN INCREASE IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH.

THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE SEE THAT IN.

AND THEN THE STAAR GOAL OF FOR 2021 TO FORTY ONE PERCENT WE FEEL IS VERY MUCH WITHIN REACH AND POSSIBLY EVEN SOMETHING WE CAN EXCEED THERE.

AND STUDENTS IN THIS IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH ARE GROWING.

AND SO WE SEE ONE OF OUR HIGHER WE CAN MOVE FORWARD HERE.

ONE OF OUR HIGHER MAP GROWTH TARGETS IS THAT.

FORTY FIVE PERCENT.

ONE THING THAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT EIGHTH GRADE MATH IS WE HAVE ENTERED INTO A PARTNERSHIP OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.

IT'S A PARTNERSHIP WITH EDUCATE TEXAS IN THE UT DANA CENTER AND LEARNING FORWARD, AND IT'S ALL FUNDED BY THE GATES FOUNDATION.

THIS PARTNERSHIP FOCUS HAS FOCUSED SPECIFICALLY ON STUDENT OUTCOMES IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH, AND IT'S VERY TARGETED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR EIGHTH GRADE MATH TEACHERS.

AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE EXPANDING TO SIXTH, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN THE BENEFIT.

AND I THINK WE SEE THAT THE DATA, THE DATA PLAYS OUT THAT BENEFIT HERE AS WELL IN SUSTAINING THAT SUCCESS.

SO ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT EIGHTH GRADE MATH? ANY QUESTIONS? OK, SO WE'LL MOVE TO THE LAST SLIDE HERE, AND THIS GOES BACK TO THE QUESTION ABOUT HOW HAVE WE RESPONDED AND HOW WILL WE RESPOND.

SO I'M DR.

MACFARLANE MENTIONED THESE THINGS IN SCHOOL INTERVENTION.

LIKE I MENTIONED, EACH CAMPUS IS REQUIRED TO HAVE INTERVENTION TIME BUILT INTO THEIR SCHEDULE EACH DAY.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE REGROUP STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR NEED.

WE PUT THEM WITH THE STRONGEST TEACHERS IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THOSE SKILL GAPS THAT THEY'RE MISSING. EVERY CAMPUS HAS THAT AND HAS HAD THAT FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN EXECUTING ON SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.

WE HAVE OUT OF SCHOOL INTERVENTION, OF COURSE THAT WOULD BE LIKE YOUR CLASSIC AFTER SCHOOL TUTORIALS.

WE HAVE SATURDAY SCHOOLS, WHICH WE HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW, MOST SATURDAYS BETWEEN NOW AND STAAR IN ORDER TO FOCUS ON THOSE STUDENTS.

WE DO. WE HAVE A PLAN FOR TARGETED SUMMER SCHOOL THAT WE THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING RIGHT NOW.

EACH CAMPUS WILL BE PUTTING ON THEIR OWN SMALL SCALE SUMMER PROGRAM THAT'S FOCUSED ON MATH AND READING. AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO IDENTIFY STUDENTS WHO ARE THEIR HIGHEST NEEDS STUDENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE INTENTIONALLY TARGETED TO ATTEND A SUMMER PROGRAM. SO WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO THE BOARD HERE IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO IS REPORT ITEM TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION ON EXACTLY WHAT SUMMER PROGRAMING WILL LOOK LIKE. BUT WE ARE DEFINITELY RAMPING UP OUR EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE STUDENTS CONTINUE LEARNING THROUGH THE SUMMER MONTHS.

AND THEN THE LAST PIECE IS OUR EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS, I MENTIONED OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH EDUCATE TEXAS, IT'S FUNDED BY THE GATES FOUNDATION AND MAKING SURE THAT WE LEVERAGE THOSE EXTERNAL PARTNERS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.

AND SO THE LAST SLIDE JUST PUTS THE ACADEMIC BOARD GOALS IN FRONT OF US ONCE AGAIN, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE FOR.

[INAUDIBLE] I DID HAVE A QUESTION, AND YOU MAY HAVE ANSWERED IT, SO FORGIVE ME IF I MISSED IT, HOW ARE WE DOING INTERVENTIONS WITH OUR VIRTUAL STUDENTS? SO THAT'S BEEN A A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION ACROSS THE STATE, SO THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION.

SO WE HAVE CAMPUSES THAT WILL LEVERAGE ZOOM BREAKOUT ROOMS TO DO INTERVENTIONS WITH STUDENTS WHO ARE ACTUALLY ON A CALL.

DEER CREEK ELEMENTARY IS A GREAT EXAMPLE.

SO THEY HAVE AN ALL HANDS ON DECK APPROACH TO INTERVENTION.

THEY HAVE THEIR VIRTUAL STUDENTS TOGETHER IN A CLASS.

AND ZOOM, THEY SEND THEM TO BREAKOUTS.

THEY HAVE ADMINISTRATORS, SPECIALISTS AND COACHES ALL THERE WORKING WITH STUDENTS ON THEIR AREA OF NEED AND THEN THEY BRING THEM BACK TOGETHER.

AND SO THAT I MEAN AND TO BE HONEST, THAT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE OF HOW DO WE INTERVENE WITH VIRTUAL STUDENTS.

BUT CAMPUSES HAVE REALLY DONE A GREAT JOB OF LOOKING AT WHAT'S EFFECTIVE IN PERSON AND SHIFTING THAT TO THE VIRTUAL WORLD.

WELL, I APPRECIATE YOUR TRANSPARENCY, BUT I ALSO APPRECIATE THE EXTRA MILE THAT WORK THAT OUR TEACHERS AND STAFF ARE GOING TO MEET THAT NEED.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANSWER.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, TRUSTEE GRASSIA? YES, MA'AM. WHAT IS THE IF WE EVEN HAVE THIS DATA, WHAT'S THE PERCENTAGE ON IN-PERSON

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MCFARLIN, I THINK IF YOU HAVE MORE RECENT NUMBERS, I THINK IT'S A 60-40.

FORTY FIVE WERE THE LAST NUMBERS I HAD, BUT I THINK THAT WAS BEFORE THE LAST CHANGE PERIOD. SO I THINK 60 40 IS PROBABLY A SAFE BET.

SO LET ME LET ME REPHRASE MY QUESTION THEN.

WHAT IF. THE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A KID WHO IS IN PERSON, I'M SORRY, YOU HAVE TO ASK IT AGAIN.

YOU FROZE FOR A LITTLE WHILE.

I'M SORRY. WHAT? SO. A A GROUP OF STUDENTS, THIRD GRADE STUDENTS WHO ARE.

IN. OR TAKING THE.

BENCHMARK VERSUS IN PERSON AND TAKING THE BENCHMARK FOR SIGNIFICANCE IN THE TEST SCORES FOR THE. SO I THINK I'M ASKING, IS THERE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE BETWEEN STUDENTS TAKING BENCHMARK IN PERSON AND CORRECT? OK.

AND THE ANSWER OVERALL TO THAT IS YES, OUR IN-PERSON STUDENTS ARE PERFORMING HIGHER AS A WHOLE THAN OUR VIRTUAL STUDENTS IN THOSE SITUATIONS.

OK, THANK YOU.

SO I HAVE A COMMENT.

NOT REALLY A QUESTION, BUT I, I JUST LOOKING AT.

I MEAN, WHEN WE SET THESE GOALS, NO ONE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN RIGHT IN THE SHUT DOWNS AND VIRTUAL LEARNING AND ALL OF THAT.

SEEING THE UPDATES AND HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE, HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE DOING, AND THEN ALSO SEEING NATIONAL TRENDS ON HOW STUDENTS ARE DOING OVERALL IN READING AND MATH AND WHERE THOSE LOSSES ARE.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A STATEMENT.

I THINK WE PICKED THE RIGHT GOALS AND THAT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT. AND BUT WE WORKED WELL TOGETHER TO TRY TO COME UP WITH WHAT WERE THE VERY FEW THINGS THAT WE WERE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT WOULD THEN GIVE US A BROADER PICTURE OVERALL AND THEN TO SET THOSE SPECIFIC TARGETS.

AND I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE GOALS THAT WE SET.

AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO COME THROUGH ALL OF THIS AND HAVE CONFIDENCE IN EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN AND THEN AND THE CLASSROOM LEVEL TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

THANK YOU TRUSTEE BENTON, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? REAL QUICK, JUST TO ASK MR. KEITH, BASED ON WHAT YOU JUST SHARED AND THEN GOING FORWARD FOR WHAT WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH, ARE YOU.

AND DO YOU FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE HAVE THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO TAKE ON ADDRESSING THESE CHALLENGES AND THE UPHILL JOURNEY TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS? ONE THING I KNOW IS THAT THIS BOARD WILL PROVIDE ANYTHING THAT WE NEED, ANY TIME THAT WE NEED IT, AND I THINK IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE WORK THAT THIS GROUP HAS DONE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR OUR FINANCES ARE IN ORDER.

OUR BUDGET IS WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE, THAT I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT IN WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR OUR CAMPUSES, EVEN TO WHERE WE'RE IN A VERY UNIQUE POSITION, WHERE WE FUND SUMMER SCHOOL FROM LOCAL FUND SO WE CAN TARGET ALL STUDENTS.

WE HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY.

WE'RE NOT LOCKED INTO LIKE FEDERAL GUIDELINES FOR WHERE AND HOW WE CAN FOCUS ON SUMMER SCHOOL. AND SO THAT'S ONE EXAMPLE OF MANY.

BUT I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE HAVE AND EVEN BEYOND WHAT WE HAVE, WHO WE HAVE.

WE HAVE A TEAM OF PEOPLE WHO IS I MEAN, UNBELIEVABLE.

I'M SORRY. I'M GOING TO GET EMOTIONAL, UNBELIEVABLY DEDICATED TO OUR KIDS AND OUR STUDENTS. AND THEY ARE GOING I MEAN, BEYOND WHAT YOU COULD ASK ANY PERSON TO THE LENGTHS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO TO MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS HAVE WHAT THEY NEED.

SO I'M BEYOND CONFIDENT, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAVE, BUT LIKE I SAID, BECAUSE OF WHO WE HAVE.

THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE AN AMAZING TEAM.

IT'S EASY TO GET WEEPY, SO I UNDERSTATEMENT MR. KEITH. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MR. KEITH FROM THE BOARD? DR.

MCFARLAND, DID YOU HAVE SOME COMMENT?

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THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE LONESTAR GOVERNANCE PROCESS, IT GIVES US SPACE AND REALLY REQUIRE US TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS ON A REGULAR BASIS.

AND WE KNOW THIS IS A THESE ARE THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO BE HAVING.

I AGREE WITH DR.

BENTON. THESE ARE THE RIGHT GOALS.

AND I THINK THE TARGETS ARE THE RIGHT TARGETS.

AND THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE INTERIM GOALS AND THE PROGRESS MEASURES AND ALL THAT, WE HAVE ALL THE CONTEXT FOR WHAT THE NUMBER MEANS.

AND SO HOW WE USE AND HOW WE RESPOND TO THE DATA IS IMPORTANT.

WE HAVE TO RESPOND TO THE DATA, WHICH WE ARE, BUT WE RECOGNIZE THAT DATA ALONE, THIS DATA ALONE, TAKEN IN ISOLATION, SHOULDN'T BE USED AS A PUNITIVE MEASURE, BUT IT SHOULD BE USED FOR US TO HELP TO REALLY BE MORE INTENTIONAL AND MORE MORE MORE INDIVIDUALIZED IN OUR IN OUR APPROACH TO ADDRESSING ADDRESSING THE ISSUE.

SO I FEEL COMFORTABLE ABOUT WHERE WE ARE.

AND I THINK THAT AS WE MOVE FURTHER IN THE PROCESS, GET MORE DATA, WE'LL BE ABLE TO BE EVEN MORE PREDICTIVE ABOUT WHAT WILL BE.

WHAT I DO UNDERSTAND IS WHAT, AS MR. RAY WAS SAYING, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THE MORE CONTEXT WE CAN PROVIDE, THE BETTER.

AND SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS AFTER OUR NEXT BENCHMARK, WHICH IS COMING UP AT PROBABLY THE END OF APRIL, WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER REPORT OR MAYBE THE 1ST OF MAY.

BUT WE WILL PROVIDE KIND OF THE ENTIRE CONTEXT.

SO YOU'LL KNOW FROM OUR FALL BENCHMARK, IN 18 TO OUR 19 STAR.

AND WE'LL JUST GIVE YOU A GOOD LONGITUDINAL VIEW SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE SOME MAKE SOME, YOU KNOW, INFORMED JUDGMENTS ABOUT THAT.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT.

ANYTHING BOARD THAT YOU SEE THAT YOU THINK WILL PROVIDE YOU A BETTER PICTURE AND CLEARER INFORMATION ABOUT ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.

WE DEFINITELY WELCOME THAT. WE WELCOME THE INPUT AND WE'LL USE IT TO HELP US GET BETTER.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND REALLY FOR HOLDING US ACCOUNTABLE TO THESE GOALS THAT WE'VE ALL COLLECTIVELY IDENTIFIED.

THANK YOU, DR. MCFARLAND, AND ALSO THANK YOU, MR. KEITH, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, ALWAYS APPRECIATE.

I THINK I'M SAFE TO SPEAK ON EVERYONE'S BEHALF.

ARE YOU SEARCH OF DATA AND ALSO KEEPING EVERYONE ABREAST OF OUR PERFORMANCE AND TRANSPARENT, WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR BAD, IT'S ALWAYS THERE AND ACCEPTABLE.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. IF THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MR. KEITH TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM SEVEN POINT TWO, WHICH IS EARLY CHILDHOOD UPDATES, DR.

MCFARLAND.

SO, MADAM PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBERS, AS YOU KNOW, THAT EARLY CHILDHOOD, THE EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVES, EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM HAS BEEN REALLY A KEY, A KEY STRATEGY FOR US AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK TO IMPROVE OUR DISTRICT.

WE RECOGNIZE THAT EARLY CHILDHOOD IS THE AREA WHERE WE CAN MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT.

AND SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

WE THINK IT'S REALLY TIME RIGHT NOW FOR US TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE.

ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU BEFORE THE PRESENTATION, AND I HOPE I DON'T STEAL THIS FROM YOU MS. BLUNT, BUT ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND WE LOOK AT OUR ENROLLMENT THIS YEAR COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, WE SEE THAT WE HAVE ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY STUDENTS.

FIFTY FEWER STUDENTS THIS YEAR THAN WHAT WE HAD LAST YEAR IN THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.

THAT REPRESENTS ABOUT A ONE POINT SIX PERCENT DECREASE IN ENROLLMENT AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC. AND I CELEBRATE THAT BECAUSE IN MOST DISTRICTS THAT DECREASE IS MORE AT THE THREE TO SIX PERCENT, IN SOME CASES HIGHER.

AND SO WE DEFINITELY RECOGNIZE THAT THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT WERE DONE EARLY TO TO TO ENSURE THAT WE GOT KIDS EITHER VIRTUALLY OR ENROLLED OR ENROLLED FACE TO FACE, AND WE GOT THEM CONNECTED. THAT BEING SAID, OF THE 200 PLUS STUDENTS THAT WE ARE DOWN RIGHT NOW, ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE IN OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM.

AND IT REALLY MAKES YOU KNOW, WE CAN WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY IF YOU HAVE A THREE YEAR OLD OR A FOUR YEAR OLD, YOU'RE PROBABLY LESS LIKELY OR FIVE YEARS OLD, YOU MAY BE LESS LIKELY TO SENT YOUR STUDENTS BACK.

AND SO WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A VERY INTENTIONAL EFFORT TO GET THOSE KIDS BACK AND ALSO TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THE KIDS IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM, AS WE HAVE TODAY.

AND SO I ASKED MS. BLUNT TO BRING FORWARD THE UPDATE ON OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM.

BUT WE DO KNOW THIS IS A CRITICAL AREA FOR US.

AND SO IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE ARE.

MS. BLUNT.

YES THANK YOU, DR.

MCPARLAND. GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT.

TRUSTEE TONIGHT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE INFORMATION WITH YOU ABOUT EARLY CHILDHOOD WHERE WE ARE THIS SPRING. THIS IS A PROCLAMATION, YOUR PRAYER.

SO WE ARE CURRENTLY REVIEWING OUR CURRICULUM MATERIALS, AS WELL AS MY DESIRE TO SHARE MORE INFORMATION WITH YOU ABOUT OUR UPCOMING PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION.

AND SO THIS PRESENTATION WILL ALIGN WITH OUR THREE GOALS.

SO, AS I STATED, THIS YEAR IS AN ADOPTION YEAR FOR OUR PRE-K TEAM, OUR TEAM IS MADE UP OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS, CENTRAL OFFICE SUPPORT STAFF, AND WE'VE ALL BEEN WORKING

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THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ON THIS MATTER HAVE PUT IN COUNTLESS HOURS LISTENING TO PRESENTATIONS, COMBING THROUGH MATERIALS, PILOTING MATERIALS WITH STUDENTS AND ATTENDING MANY, MANY MEETINGS TO CONTRIBUTE THEIR FEEDBACK AND THEIR PERSPECTIVES AS WE MOVE THROUGH THIS PROCESS. THE PRINCIPLES ON THIS SLIDE, THEY'VE BEEN EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE, LENDING THEIR TEACHERS PRETTY MUCH ANY TIME I NEEDED TO CALL ON THEM TO ATTEND A MEETING OR TO PILOT SOMETHING OR JUST REALLY BEING FLEXIBLE.

SO THIS TEAM ON THIS SLIDE HERE JUST COULD NOT DO THIS VERY IMPORTANT WORK WITHOUT THEM.

SO CURRENTLY, CROWLEY ISD.

I'M SORRY. CURRENTLY, WE STARTED IN THE COMPUTER, MOVED AROUND ONE.

SO WE STARTED WITH A SURVEY IN OUR TEACHERS AND REVIEWING DATA TO FIND OUT WHAT HOW OUR TEACHERS FELT ABOUT OUR CURRICULUM.

SO WE DID THAT WORK EARLIER IN THE FALL.

FROM THERE, WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH REGIONAL 11 TO ATTEND ONE OF THE VIRTUAL MATERIAL REVIEWS THAT THEY PROVIDED.

AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO START WITH ABOUT 15 PUBLISHERS AND MOVE THAT NOW TO OUR TOP THREE, WHICH I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDE TO REALLY HONE IN AND SEE WHAT MIGHT MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR LEARNERS AND CARROLL ISD.

AND SO WE INVITED OUR TOP THREE TO DO VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS FOR US IN AN INTIMATE SETTING. SOME OF THEM HAVE EVEN DONE A COUPLE SINCE WE HAD THOSE INITIAL MEETINGS.

OUR TEACHERS HAVE ALL HAD A CHANCE TO COME AND PHYSICALLY TOUCH THE MATERIALS.

WE HAD SOME WORK DAYS WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO COME TOGETHER, OF COURSE, KEEP IT IN MIND, SOCIAL DISTANCING AND ALL THOSE GREAT THINGS.

BUT TO REALLY JUST GET INTO THE MATERIALS, EXPLORE THEM, TO JUST COLLABORATE AND THEN TO TAKE THOSE MATERIALS BACK TO THEIR CLASSROOMS, TO IMPLEMENT LESSONS, GET FEEDBACK FROM THE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN THE CLASSROOM, AND TO ALSO SHARE THE MATERIALS WITH THEIR PEERS IN PRE-K, THE OTHER PRE-K TEACHERS.

SO WE'VE DONE A LOT TO REALLY TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY FULLY UNDERSTAND WHICH CURRICULUM CHOICE IS GOING TO REALLY MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR LEARNERS.

AND SO TRUSTEES THIS EVENING I WANTED TO PRESENT THESE CHOICES TO YOU WITH THE GOAL OF BRINGING BACK OUR TOP CHOICE NEXT MONTH.

SO ONE OF THE REALLY GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE CURRENT CURRICULUM THAT WE UTILIZE, WHICH IS FROG STREET, IS THAT IT WORKS IN ALL OF OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS. BOARD AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE INFANT, TODDLER AND PRESCHOOL AGE CLASSROOMS. FROG STREET PROVIDES PLAYFUL YET RIGOROUS LESSONS FOR BOTH OF OUR IN-PERSON AND OUR VIRTUAL STUDENTS.

A VIRTUAL CURRICULUM FOLLOWS THE SAME SCOPE AND SEQUENCE HAS THE SAME CONTENT AS THE MATERIALS THAT WE USE FOR OUR IN-PERSON LEARNERS.

SO FROG STREET WAS ABLE TO DEVISE A FROG STREET LEARNING FROM HOME, A PORTAL THAT WAS FULL OF LESSONS FOR A LITTLE ONES TO ENGAGE IN.

AND ONE OF THE REALLY GREAT THINGS ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR PORTAL WAS THAT THEY WERE TRUE TO THE WHOLE IDEA THAT WE WANT TO LIMIT THE SCREEN TIME FOR YOUNG LEARNERS.

AND SO THERE WERE THERE WERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE STUDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH THEIR TEACHERS VIA ZOOM.

BUT THERE WERE SO MANY PLAYFUL ACTIVITIES THEY COULD DO WITH THEIR PARENTS IN THE HOME, OUTSIDE, IN THEIR BACKYARDS OR JUST WHEREVER THE STUDENT MAY HAVE BEEN PARTICIPATING IN VIRTUAL LEARNING. JUST SO THAT WAY THEY COULD GET A NICE BALANCE OF PLAY AND THAT SAME ENGAGEMENT WITH THEIR TEACHERS.

AND SO HERE YOU SEE PICTURED, WE HAVE ONE OF OUR [INAUDIBLE] PASSIONS DISPLAYED.

THIS IS FROM THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, WHERE WE HAVE ONE OF THE CAREGIVERS THERE USING CROSS-BREED CURRICULUM.

AND THEN IN THE MIDDLE, WE HAVE A PICTURE, ONE OF OUR PRE-K, THREE TEACHERS, WHO HAS ADAPTED THE CURRICULUM AND USE IT AND ALSO USES THE FROG STREET LEARNING FROM HOME.

AND SO YOU SEE HER KIND OF ACCLIMATING THE YOUNG LEARNERS TO ZOOM AND HOW TO USE THOSE FEATURES. AND THEN PROUDLY, THIS IS BEFORE CODE THAT IS.

SO WE'RE HOPING TO GET BACK TO CELEBRATING GRADUATIONS WITH OUR LITTLE ONES AT SOME POINT.

BUT THIS IS A PRE-K FOR A CLASS WHO HAS MADE IT AND THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY TO KINDERGARTEN FROM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

SO, AGAIN, BOARD I WANTED TO POINT OUT OUR TOP THREE CHOICES, WHAT WE HAVE KIND OF LANDED ON AT THIS POINT ARE THESE THREE, THREE CHEERS FOR PRE-K, WHICH DOES HAVE A BILINGUAL CURRICULUM, AS DOES FROG STREET, OUR CURRENT CURRICULUM OPTION, AND THEN THE CREATIVE CURRICULUM SYSTEM.

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SO WHAT WE DID BOARD WAS WE CAME UP WITH THE RUBRIC WE USE, THE ONE THAT TEA PROVIDED, JUST TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENT OF ALL OF THE MATERIALS.

AND SO FOR OUR TOP THREE, WE DEVELOPED AN INTERNAL RUBRIC TO DECIDE WHAT IT WAS THAT WE REALLY WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE CURRICULUM AND WHAT WOULD MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR CROWLEY ISD STUDENTS AND OUR TEACHERS.

AND SO HERE YOU WILL SEE THAT AGAIN, ALL OF THE PUBLISHERS HAVE HIGH QUALITY, REALLY GOOD MATERIALS. AND SO WE RATED IT ON A SCALE OF WHAT WAS GOOD, BETTER AND BEST, CONSIDERING WHAT WE FELT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR TEACHERS NEEDED.

BUT AGAIN, WITH ANY OF THESE THREE CHOICES, WE KNOW THAT THEY WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR LEARNERS. AND SO BOARD, I WANTED TO DEFINITELY CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE TRENDS IN THE AREA, THESE CURRICULUM OPTIONS, HERE ARE AGAIN OUR TOP THREE AND IT LOOKS LIKE ROCK STREET IS ONE THAT IS HIGHLY FAVORED IN THIS AREA.

THE DISTRICTS THAT WE LOOKED AT ARE DISTRICTS THAT EITHER SHARE A BORDER WITH US OR ARE JUST MINUTES DOWN 20 FROM OUR DISTRICT, BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE KNOW IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA THE MOBILITY RATE IS PRETTY HIGH.

AND SO WE ENJOY THE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE.

SHOULD OUR STUDENTS START IN ONE AREA AND MOVE TO ANOTHER AREA, JUST KNOWING WHAT OUR STUDENTS MIGHT EXPERIENCE SO THAT WE WERE ALL KIND OF ALIGNED IN OUR OUR LITTLE ONES ARE USED TO SEEING MAYBE FAMILIAR EXPERIENCE AND FAMILIAR CLASSROOM ROUTINES, MAYBE SEEING A FAMILIAR PUPPET THAT'S USED IN THE CURRICULUM, JUST SOMETHING THAT HELPS THAT LEARNER TO ADJUST TO THAT NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SHOULD THEY EXPERIENCE A TRANSITION IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR SCHOOL YEAR? AND SO BOARD, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I COULD SHARE THESE TOP THREE WITH YOU THIS EVENING BECAUSE AGAIN, WE WILL COME BEFORE YOU IN APRIL TO PRESENT OUR TOP CHOICE.

AND BOARD I WANT IT CERTAINLY PROVIDES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS OR TO SHARE ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU MAY HAVE AS IT RELATES TO THE CURRICULUM CHOICES FOR OUR PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS. AND SO I'LL PAUSE HERE, BECAUSE THE NEXT PIECE, WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT PRE-K REGISTRATION, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL MAY HAVE AT THIS POINT ABOUT CURRICULUM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU FOR THE FIRST PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? I HAVE A COMMENT OF APPRECIATION, REALLY MS. BLUNT I WE DO HAVE A VERY MOBILE STUDENT POPULATION, AND I THINK THE FACT THAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THAT IN TERMS OF A FACTOR THAT CAN CONTRIBUTE SOMETIMES TO THOSE VERY EARLY GAPS IN LEARNING WHEN A YOUNG STUDENT TRANSFERS FROM ONE DISTRICT TO ANOTHER.

I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING THAT AS A PART OF THE DECISION AND LOOKING AT THE DATA SHOWING WHAT OUR NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS AND DISTRICTS THAT WE TEND TO SWAP KIDS WITH WHAT THEY'RE DOING. I APPRECIATE THAT BEING A FACTOR.

I HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY WITH FROG STREET, NOT WITH THE OTHER TWO.

BUT I DO THINK THAT THAT IS A FINE CURRICULUM.

BUT I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TO REALLY DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE IN THAT RESEARCH. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT WORK.

I KNOW THAT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO EVALUATE.

THAT'S A HARD PROCESS.

AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE MAKING A BIG COMMITMENT WHEN YOU DECIDE ON YOUR INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. SO, ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT WORK.

THANK YOU DR. BENTON.

THANK YOU, TRUSTEE BENTON.

ARE THERE? ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD FOR MS. BLUNT? I JUST WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO NAME THEM ALL IF YOU'RE UNSURE.

OF THE DISTRICTS THAT WE USUALLY LOOK AT, I CAN MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS, AND THOSE WHO ARE [INAUDIBLE] DO, YOU KNOW, WHICH FIVE OR SIX THAT WE DO ROUTINELY LOOK AT? SO TYPICALLY FOR THE EARLY CHILDHOOD PORTION OF IT, WE WOULD LOOK AT EVERMAN WHO'S RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO US, YOU KNOW, BURLESON, ARLINGTON, FORT WORTH AND A FEW OTHERS.

BUT THOSE ARE SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT WE TEND TO COLLABORATE A LOT WITH.

IT JUST KIND OF WORKS NATURALLY, ESPECIALLY WITH JUST AGAIN, WITH THEM BEING SO CLOSE IN OUR SMALL COMMUNITY IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD FIELD.

THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM.

ARE THERE OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS BEFORE MS. BLUNT PROCEDES? ALL RIGHT. BACK TO YOU MS. BLUNT.

ALL RIGHT. SO DR.

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BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? WE ARE READY TO GO BACK OUT AND GET OUR STUDENTS EXCITED AND GET OUR FAMILIES EXCITED ABOUT RETURNING TO SCHOOL AND TO SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW SAFE OUR SCHOOLS ARE AND HOW WE ARE REALLY INVESTING IN GETTING OUR BABIES KINDLE READY SO THAT THEY ARE READY JUST TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC BEYOND ACADEMIC LEARNING, BEYOND KINDERGARTEN.

BUT SOME THINGS WE KNOW ATTRIBUTE IT TO THE MOVEMENT IN OUR ENROLLMENT.

WE KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT WE WERE HALF DAY AND MOVED TO FULL DAY PRE-K, VERY INTENTIONAL AND TARGETED MARKETING.

WE ALSO KNOW THAT OUR COLLABORATION, OUR COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES, WHICH BRINGS IN SUPPORTS OUR HEADSTART COMPONENT THAT HAS ALLOWED US TO EXPAND OUR HALF DAY PRE-K THREE PROGRAMS TO FULL DAY PRE-K ALSO HAS IMPACTED OUR ENROLLMENT FOR THE GOOD.

AND THEN WE DO KNOW WITH THE PANDEMIC, AS DR.

MCFARLAND MENTIONED BEFORE, JUST FAMILIES MAY BE BEING HESITANT ABOUT SENDING THEIR LITTLE ONES OUT.

AND ALSO ONE THING BOARD, I WANTED TO REALLY POINT OUT, IF WE GO BACK AND LOOK AT 17 AND YOU THINK ABOUT OUR DISTRICT WITH SIXTEEN THOUSAND STUDENTS AND WE'RE NOW ABOUT SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH.

SO WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS IS THAT ABOUT 75 TO 80 PERCENT OF OUR KIDS ARE SCHOOL DEPENDENT. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR DEMOGRAPHICS, WE HAVE ABOUT A THOUSAND KIDS ON AVERAGE, GIVE OR TAKE IN EACH GRADE LEVEL.

AND SO WHAT THAT SAYS THEN IN OUR PRE-K, OUR PREKINDERGARTEN, OUR EARLY ENROLLMENT, WE SHOULD HAVE ABOUT 800 OR MORE STUDENTS ENROLLED BECAUSE THOSE STUDENTS WOULD QUALIFY BASED ON THEIR BASED ON ECONOMICS.

AND SO WE REALIZE THAT IN 17 AND DID A HARD PUSH AT 18.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT WE SHOULD WE SHOULD BE, ON AVERAGE AT ABOUT A THOUSAND KIDS.

AND IF WE CAN GET A THOUSAND KIDS IN PRE-K EVERY YEAR, THEN WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE'VE JUST INCREASED OUR TIME TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS KNOW HOW TO READ BY OUR THIRD GRADE GOAL.

AND SO THE REASON WHY EARLY CHILDHOOD AND PRE-K IS SO IMPORTANT IS THAT IT GIVES US MORE TIME TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE PRESENT DURING THE LEARN TWO YEAR PERIOD, WHICH IS FROM PRE-K UP TO THIRD GRADE.

THEY ARE LEARNING TO READ. AND SO WE GET MORE OF THEM IN EARLY.

WE HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF GETTING THEM READING BY THIRD GRADE, WHICH THEN IN TURN HAS RESIDUAL EFFECTS AS THEY GO THROUGHOUT OUR SYSTEM.

SO THIS IS WHY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS, THIS IS WHY FOR US, PRIORITY ONE IS ENSURING THAT WE ENROLLING OUR KIDS EARLY AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

AND SO NOT ONLY ARE WE ENROLLING OUR KIDS IN OUR DISTRICT, BUT WE ALSO ARE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE SERVING KIDS WHO MAY NOT BE IN OUR DISTRICT, BUT THEY'RE IN DAYCARE CENTERS OR CHURCHES OR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE SERVING THEM, THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY SUPPORTING THOSE INSTITUTIONS, BOTH WITH OUR PD AND WITH OUR CURRICULUM, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT AT SOME POINT THEY'RE GOING TO COME TO OUR SCHOOLS.

AND SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO EXPAND OUR SCOPE AS IT RELATES TO EARLY CHILDHOOD OVERALL.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTOOD HOW IMPORTANT THIS ENROLLMENT PIECE WAS TO OUR STRATEGY MOVING FORWARD.

THANK YOU, DR. MCFARLAND.

SO FOR THE FINAL UPDATE, THE REALLY EXCITING UPDATE IS I WANT TO REMIND YOU ALL, BECAUSE YOU MAY HAVE SEEN IT AND HEARD IT ALREADY, BECAUSE OUR MARKETING TEAM HAS DEFINITELY HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. IT'S ALSO REMIND OUR FUTURE CARROLL ISD FAMILIES THAT PRICKET REGISTRATION OPENS ON APRIL THE 5TH.

WE WILL HAVE ONLINE REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY AS WELL AS FACE TO FACE REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY THE BRAND, THE SCHOOL, THAT REGISTRATION AND ENROLLMENT PROCESS CAN BE ONE THAT JUST WORKS OUT TO BE A LITTLE SMOOTHER IF THEY CAN COME IN AND GET THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND HAND IN DOCUMENTS AND JUST TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS IN PERSON.

SO WE ARE VERY EXCITED.

WE PLAN FOUR DIFFERENT REGISTRATIONS.

SO THAT WAY WE CAN JUST OFFER A VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITIES TO FAMILIES ON WHICH OFF FALL ON A SATURDAY. OUR PHONE OFFICES WILL ALSO START TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS STARTING APRIL 5TH TO HAVE FAMILIES COME IN IF THEY NEED TO HAVE A MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY APPOINTMENT, BUT BOARD WE ARE JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OPENING OUR DOORS AND GETTING OUT AND MEETING OUR NEW FAMILIES. OUR NEW PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN FAMILIES AND OUR REGISTRATION EFFORT IS SUPPORTED BY A DISTRICT WIDE PART OF OUR CAMPUSES.

ALL 15 ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES ARE ALL FIRED BY THE CENTRAL OFFICE.

I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE JUST REALLY EAGER TO SIGN UP AND TO EVEN COME WORK ON SATURDAYS AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY CAN DO TO BE A PART OF THIS BIG PUSH.

AND SO DR. MCFARLAND HAS CHARGED THIS WITH YOU KNOW MAKING SURE THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD AND THAT FOUNDATION.

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SO WE'RE REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS UPCOMING REGISTRATION AND ENROLLMENT EVENT.

SO BOARD WE APPRECIATE YOUR INVESTMENT AND YOUR FAITH IN US.

AND WE PLAN TO GET OUR BABIES IDENTIFIED AND GET THEM ENROLLED IN SCHOOL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SO THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION.

IF YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REGISTRATION PORTION.

I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE AT THIS TIME TOO.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION MS. BLUNT. I DID HAVE A QUESTION, AND IT MIGHT BE MORE FOR DR.

MCFARLAND IF I'M CORRECT IN MY ASSUMPTION.

I KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME TUITION THAT GOES ALONG FOR SOME FAMILIES WITH REGARDS TO OUR PRE-K. AND SO I GUESS I WANT TO PUT THE QUESTION OUT THERE, MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT VULNERABLE, BUT IN THE CONSIDERATION OF THE PANDEMIC, SOME FINANCIAL CHALLENGES FOR FAMILIES AND STUDENTS THAT WE'VE LOST.

UM, WHAT DO OUR FINANCES LOOK LIKE IN THE IDEA OF EVEN JUST CONTEMPLATING REDUCTION IN TUITION ELIMINATION IN TUITION FOR TO GET OUR STUDENTS BACK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD? WELL, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT'S DEFINITELY A GREAT QUESTION.

AND WE DO KNOW THERE IS A COST, BUT IT'S REALLY MORE OF AN INVESTMENT REALLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT LONG TERM. SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO AND WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE WILL ALL AS FINANCE TO DO A KIND OF A COST ANALYSIS, A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, AND JUST TO SEE WHAT IMPACT IT HAS. GOOD THING IS, WE'RE RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING POINT OF OUR BUDGET AND AND KNOWING THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO US.

OUR KEY STRATEGY IS EARLY CHILDHOOD AND IMPROVING THAT.

AND I THINK THAT FINDING A WAY TO FUND EARLY CHILDHOOD OR TO OFFSET THE COST IN SOME WAY WOULD DEFINITELY BE OUTSTANDING.

BUT WHAT I LIKE TO DO IS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE IT TO OUR FINANCE COMMITTEE AND THEN BRING BACK A PROPOSAL OF HOW WE COULD EITHER DO IT RIGHT NOW OR PHASE IN OVER THE NEXT YEAR OR SO. WE DEFINITELY KNOW IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

THANK YOU DR. MCFARLAND. I APPRECIATE THAT AND LOOK FORWARD TO THAT INFORMATION.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MS. BLUNT OR DR.

MCFARLAND FROM THE BOARD? COMMENTS.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION MS. BLUNT AND WE WILL BE SUPPORTING YOU AND TRYING TO RECRUIT OUR STUDENTS BACK AND RECRUIT OUR NEW STUDENTS, OUR NEW BABIES THAT ARE OF AGE TO COME INTO OUR SYSTEM AS WELL.

THANK YOU MS. HALL.

THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. ALL RIGHT, THIS BRINGS US TO OUR CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE ACTION

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DR. MCFARLAND.

MADAM PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS, AGAIN, WE'RE ALWAYS EXCITED TO BRING FORWARD THIS NEXT NEXT AGENDA ITEM RELATIVE TO OUR GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE FOR OUR NEW CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. WE ARE DEFINITELY MAKING PROGRESS WITH THE WITH OUR NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING IN THE PLANNING RELATED TO IT.

AND MR. FISHER WILL BE REPORTING TONIGHT ON THIS ITEM.

MR. FISHER? THANK YOU, DR.

MACFARLANE. GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AGAIN, AS DR.

MCFARLAND MENTIONED, WE ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED TO BRING THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE OR THE GNP FOR OUR NEW CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING TO YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL TONIGHT.

THERE'S A LOT OF BUZZ IN THE ADMIN BUILDING.

AND WHEN I'M GOING OUT TO LUNCH THERE ARE PEOPLE ASKING LEON THERE'S A LOT OF DIRT MOVING. TELL US, WHERE IS THIS NEW CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION GOING TO BE AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN IS IT GOING TO OPEN UP? AND SO I TELL PEOPLE THE NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WILL BE LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION AT RISINGER AND CROWLEY ROADS.

AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THIS BUILDING WILL OPEN ACTUALLY IN MAY OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY TWO. SO THAT'S JUST NEXT YEAR.

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WILL CONSIST OF TWO BUILDINGS, THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE MAIN BUILDING YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT AND STRAIGHT AHEAD.

AND THEN THE WELCOME CENTER IS A SEPARATE BUILDING THAT WILL BE OPENING AS WELL.

AND IT IS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.

YOU'LL SEE THERE THE FRONT ENTRY OF THE ADMIN BUILDING.

THE MAIN BUILDING IS ACTUALLY ABOUT FORTY TWO THOUSAND SQUARE FEET.

IT'S GOING TO HAVE PRIVATE OFFICES, MEETING ROOMS, CONFERENCE ROOMS, A TESTING ROOM, OBVIOUSLY A BOARD MEETING ROOM.

AND THAT BOARD MEETING ROOM WILL ACTUALLY HAVE A SEATING CAPACITY OF APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEATS WHEN YOU ACTUALLY OPEN UP THE TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PART. AND WE'LL ALSO HAVE A SEPARATE EXECUTIVE SESSION MEETING ROOM, THE

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WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER WITH THE EARLY CHILDHOOD REGISTRATION, POSSIBLY THEIR PARENTS, THE COMMUNITY OF CROWLEY ISD TO OUR DISTRICT.

AND THEY'LL BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THIS WILL BE A PLACE THAT THEY CAN COME AND LEARN ABOUT THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS, OFFERINGS THAT ARE OFFERED AT CROWLEY ISD.

ALSO NEXT SLIDE, ANTHONY.

YEAH, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU GUYS AN ORIENTATION.

I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THE FACILITY IS GOING TO BE REALLY JUST SOUTHEAST OF RISINGER AND CROWLEY ROAD.

WHAT YOU'LL SEE HERE IS THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

WELL THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING WILL ACTUALLY FACE CROWLEY ROAD.

NOW, THE MAIN DRIVE ENTRY WILL COME IN OFF A PRIVATE ROAD RIGHT THERE AT NORTH CROWLEY CLEBURNE WORLD. THERE'S A STOPLIGHT RIGHT THERE JUST TO GIVE YOU GUYS SOME ORIENTATION.

UH ANTHONY, WOULD YOU SCROLL BACK JUST ANOTHER SLIDE? I WANTED TO REALLY POINT OUT THE NATURAL LIGHT.

THIS BUILDING IS GOING TO BE OPEN AND INVITING.

IT'S GOT LOTS OF NATURAL LIGHT AND AN ABUNDANCE OF NATURAL LIGHT, ACTUALLY, AND A COURTYARD THAT'S GOING TO BE ALSO USED FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES GOING FORWARD.

YEAH. LASTLY, I WANTED TO FOCUS ON JUST THE FACT THAT WE'VE INCREASED OUR MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN ALL OF OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS.

BUT I'M EXTREMELY PROUD TO HIGHLIGHT THAT IN THIS PROJECT, WE'VE ACHIEVED OUR BOARD GOAL OF 20 PERCENT ON THE MWBE PARTICIPATION ON THIS PROJECT.

AND SO AS A RESULT OF THREE MILLION DOLLARS OF THE CONTRACTOR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROJECT HAVE BEEN AWARDED TO MINORITY AND OR WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES.

AND YOU'LL SEE HERE ON THE LAST SLIDE THE ACTUAL GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE OF SEVENTEEN MILLION NINE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY DOLLARS.

THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.

IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL ENTERTAIN THOSE NOW.

THANK YOU, MR. FISHER, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? THANK YOU BOARD.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, I'M EXCITED ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE MWBE GOAL THAT WE HIT.

SO THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO RAISE THE GOAL.

MR. KEITH TAUGHT US THAT, DR.

MCFARLAND TEACHES THAT. SO IT NEEDS TO GO HIGHER.

BUT I'M REALLY IT'S REALLY EXCITING AND LOOKING FORWARD TO MANIFESTING OUR NEW CENTRAL OFFICE BUILDING. SO THANK YOU, MR. FISHER, FOR THAT. IS THIS A POSSIBLE ACTION ITEM TONIGHT? YES, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR MR. FISHER? AND IF NOT, DO WE HAVE A MOTION THIS EVENING? I WOULD MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE AS PRESENTED.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOTION, MR. RAY, IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.

WE HAVE A SECOND FROM TRUSTEE DAVIS.

MOVED TO VOTE MR. KIRCHER.

YES, MA'AM. MS. ROBINSON.

YES, THANK YOU, DR.

MAYFIELD.

YES, THANK YOU.

MS. HALL, YES.

THANK YOU, MISS DAVIS.

YES, THANK YOU, MR. RAY. YES, THANK YOU, MR. GRASSIA. YES, THANK YOU, DR.

BENTON.

YES, THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

ALL RIGHT, THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM EIGHT POINT TWO MAY 1ST, 2021, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ELECTION CERTIFICATION OF UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE.

DR. MCFARLAND.

MADAM PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS.

MR. KIRCHER IS PREPARED TO ADDRESS THIS ITEM.

MR. KIRCHER.

THANK YOU, DR. MCFARLAND, PRESIDENT HALL AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AS YOU ALL KNOW, OUR SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION IS SCHEDULED FOR MAY 1ST AND WE DO HAVE AN UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT AND IT'S THE BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CERTIFY THAT.

AND SO, AS YOU'LL SEE THERE IN YOUR EXHIBIT, THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATE, JUNE W.

DAVIS CISD SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER PLACED FOURTH IS UNOPPOSED.

AND SO THE TRUSTEES THIS EVENING WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CERTIFY THAT.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS FOR MR. KIRCHER, DO WE HAVE A MOTION THIS EVENING?

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DAVIS, CISD SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER PLACE FOUR.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOTION DR.

BENTON AND I HEAR A SECOND FROM MR. RAY MOTION. OK, AND A SECOND FROM MR. RAY. ALL RIGHT.

MOVE TO VOTE. MR. KIRCHER.

MS. ROBINSON. YES.

THANK YOU, DR. MAYFIELD.

MAYFIELD, DID WE LOSE YOU THERE? SHE STILL LOGGED IN.

WE'LL COME BACK TO HER MS. HALL. YES, THANK YOU, MISS DAVIS, DO I VOTE? YOU COULD ABSTAIN IF YOU'D LIKE, IT'S UP TO YOU.

HE FROZE THE FIRST TWO.

OK, WE'LL COME BACK TO MS. DAVIS, MR. RAY? YES.

THANK YOU, MR. GRASSIA.

YES, THANK YOU, DR.

BENTON. YES, THANK YOU.

DR. MAYFIELD. DID YOU MAKE IT BACK IN? YES, I.

I WAS SAYING MAYBE MY COMPUTER FROZE.

YES. THANK YOU, MA'AM.

AND MS. DAVIS, WHAT WAS YOUR DECISION? I THINK I'LL ABSTAIN.

I THINK THAT'S THE PROPER THING TO DO.

GOT IT.

OK. WELL, THAT IS SIX AFFIRMS AND ONE ABSTAINED, ONE ABSTAINED, SO THE MOTION, CARRIE, CONGRATULATIONS, TRUSTEE DAVIS.

[INAUDIBLE], THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. IN WAY HERE, THERE WE CAN HEAR YOU, TOO, BUT YOU'RE STILL HERE.

CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU.

OK, THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM EIGHT POINT THREE, SET DATE TO CANVASS BALLOTS FOR MAY 1ST, 2021 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION.

MR. KIRCHER.

YES PRESIDENT HALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

AND DR. MCFARLAND, AFTER THAT MAY 1ST ELECTION, THE BOARD MUST SET A TIME TO CANVASS THE BALLOTS. AND YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THE GUIDELINES THERE IN YOUR EXHIBIT BASED ON BOARD POLICY AND ELECTION CODE OF WHEN THAT CAN BE AND BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS.

WE HAVE A DATE PROPOSED THERE.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT TWO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD MUST BE PRESENT FOR THAT AND WOULD CONSTITUTE A QUORUM FOR THAT EVENT.

AND THAT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR ANYONE ELSE TO ATTEND, BUT HAS TO OR AT LEAST REQUIRED TWO TRUSTEES.

AND SO WE'RE PROPOSING THE DATE OF WEDNESDAY, MAY 12TH AT 9:00 A.M.

TO CANVASS THE BALLOTS FOR THE ELECTION.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT? THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? DO WE HAVE ANY? OH WAIT, IS THIS.

IS THIS WHERE WE VOLUNTEER TO DO IT OR WE'RE JUST NOW WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO OK.

WE'RE SETTING UP FOR THAT.

OK. OK.

DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVED TO SET WEDNESDAY, MAY 12TH, 2021 AT 9:00 TO [INAUDIBLE] THE BALLOTS FOR THE MAY 1ST, 2021 CROWLEY ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOTION, MR. GRASSIA, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.

HAVE A SECOND FROM DR.

WOODSON-MAYFIELD.

MR. KIRCHER.

YES, MR. ROBINSON.

YES. THANK YOU, DR.

MAYFIELD. YES, THANK YOU, MISS HALL.

YEAH.

THANK YOU, MISS DAVIS.

NOW SHE IS GONE THIS TIME.

MR. RAY.

YES, THANK YOU, MR. GRASSIA. YES, THANK YOU, DR.

BENTON. YES.

OK, JUST MAKING SURE MISS DAVIS DIDN'T MAKE IT BACK IN.

I DON'T THINK SO.

I DON'T SEE. OH, THERE SHE IS, MS. DAVIS.

DAVIS, CAN YOU HEAR US? YES, GREAT, IS THAT IS THAT A YES VOTE ALSO FOR THE DATE? YES, THANK YOU. THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

ALL RIGHT. THIS BRINGS US TO OUR FUTURE ACTION ITEMS, PORTION OF OUR AGENDA AGENDA ITEM

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DR. MCFARLAND.

MADAM PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBERS, MS. NADIA POWERS WILL BE REPORTING ON THIS ITEM.

MS. POWERS.

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DR. MCFARLAND, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE A BRIEF OVERVIEW ABOUT THE CUSTODIAL SERVICES TIMELINE FOR THE NEW RFP, WHICH ALIGNS WITH GOAL ONE AND GOAL THREE FOR THE DISTRICT.

AS YOU KNOW, ABM IS OUR CURRENT VENDOR FOR CUSTODIAL SERVICES.

THEIR BID WILL BE EXPIRING ON JUNE THE 30TH, 2021.

THERE ARE NO ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL YEARS HENCE.

THIS IS WHY WE HAD TO ADVERTISE A NEW RFP.

THIS RFP WILL BE GOOD THROUGH JULY 1ST 2021 THROUGH JUNE 30TH OF TWENTY TWENTY THREE.

AND IT WILL ALLOW THE DISTRICT THREE ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR OPTION YEARS.

IF I CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE THE QUICK TIMELINE INFORMATION.

SO WE WE ADVERTISED THE BID ON MARCH THE 9TH.

WE ACTUALLY HAD A PRE BID MEETING VIA ZOOM YESTERDAY, WHICH WAS MARCH THE TWENTY FOURTH AT TWO P.M.

THAT ALLOWED ANY VENDORS THAT HAD ANY QUESTIONS THAT THEY WANTED TO INQUIRE ABOUT VIA ZOOM THEY COULD BE ON THE MEETING.

IT WAS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IT WAS ENCOURAGED.

ALL QUESTIONS WERE DUE TODAY, MARCH THE TWENTY FIFTH AT 5:00 P.M.

TOMORROW I'LL BE SENDING OUT A FAQ ADDENDUM IN IONWAVE TO ALL THE VENDORS SO THAT ALL THE QUESTIONS AND THE ANSWERS WILL BE SENT TO ALL VENDORS.

SO EVERYTHING IS TRANSPARENT.

THE DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS RFP WILL BE ON MARCH THE 30TH AT 2:00 P.M.

WE'LL HOLD A ZOOM OPENING OF THE BID AT 2:10 P.M.

ON MARCH THE 30TH.

AND OF COURSE, ONCE WE CALL OUT THE NUMBERS ON THAT ZOOM FOR THE OPENING, I WILL AT THAT POINT PROVIDE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTATION TO THE COMMITTEE THAT WILL BE EVALUATING THIS PARTICULAR BID AND A RECOMMENDATION WILL COME BEFORE THE BOARD IN THE APRIL 2021 BOARD MEETING. THE PROJECTED EXPENDITURES FOR 2020-2021, WHICH IS THIS CURRENT YEAR.

IT WAS BUDGETED AND APPROVED FOR THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR DOLLARS.

WE ARE ANTICIPATING SUBMITTED BID PRICES TO FALL AROUND THIS AMOUNT.

HOWEVER, THE ACTUAL AMOUNT WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE APRIL TWENTY TWENTY ONE BOARD MEETING. THIS IS A FUTURE ACTION ITEM, SO THERE IS NO ACTION AT THIS TIME.

AND I WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE FOR ME.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENT FOR MS. POWERS? ALL RIGHT MS. POWERS. THANK YOU.

WE WILL SEE YOU BACK NEXT MONTH FOR THIS ONE.

YES, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT.

AND WE HAVE AGENDA ITEM 9.2, RENEWAL OF RFP TOP 15-088-25 FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT COMPANY. ALSO, MS. POWERS.

YES.

THANK YOU AGAIN AND GOOD AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT HALL, DR.

MCFARLAND, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

SO THIS IS THE FOOD RENEWAL SERVICE OVERVIEW, WHICH FALLS IN ALIGNMENT WITH GOAL ONE AND GOAL THREE FOR THE DISTRICT.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, ARAMARK FOOD SERVICE IS THE CURRENT FOOD MANAGEMENT SERVICE COMPANY FOR CROWLEY ISD.

WE'LL BE GOING OUT FOR THE FIRST OPTIONAL YEAR OF THE FIVE YEAR AWARDED CONTRACT.

AS YOU KNOW, THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OR TDA FOR SHORT THEY REQUIRE ALL ANNUAL FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT COMPANY CONTRACT RENEWALS TO BE APPROVED AND ALSO SUBMITTED TO TDA ON OR BEFORE APRIL 30TH OF THE FISCAL YEAR.

UH CROWLEY ISD HAS EVALUATED THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS CURRENT FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 THROUGH 2021.

AND WE ARE RECOMMENDING A RENEWAL FOR THE UPCOMING BUDGET YEAR.

NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS JUST THE EVALUATION CONSIDERATION, SO JUST TO REMIND YOU ABOUT THE GUARANTEED RETURN THAT WAS AWARDED WITH THIS PARTICULAR BID.

SO THE GUARANTEED RETURN FOR 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR IS $1,650,000.

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I WILL SAY THAT ONE THING ABOUT ARAMARK, THEY HAVE PROJECTED TO EXCEED THE ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR GUARANTEED RETURN FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR.

SO THAT IS GREAT NEWS.

WE DID ALSO GATHER FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS, STAFF AND PARENTS.

THERE WERE SURVEYS THAT WERE CONDUCTED.

THE SURVEYS WENT THROUGH A MECHANISM CALLED NUTRISLICE, WHICH ALLOWS ARAMARK TO RECEIVE INFORMATION OR DATA FROM THOSE THAT RESPOND.

SO 80 PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS RANKED ARAMARK FOOD AS FOUR OR FIVE OUT OF FIVE, WITH FIVE BEING THE HIGHEST NUMBER.

THEY'VE ALSO COMPLETED STUDENT ENGAGEMENT.

ARAMARK HOSTED A FOCUS GROUP AND THEY DISCUSSED HOW FOOD CONNECTS WITH CULTURE.

THAT ACTUAL, THAT EVENT ACTUAL WAS HELD AT NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, I BELIEVE, WITH THE BLACK STUDENT UNION.

THEY, ARAMARK IS ALSO GOING TO BE RETURNING THE FOOD TRUCK WITH NEW ENHANCEMENTS SUCH AS, LIKE MENU ITEMS AND ALSO THE ACTUAL LOOK OF THE FOOD TRUCK IN THE SUMMER OF 2021.

YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS JUST A QUICK BREAKDOWN OF THE STUDENT MEAL PRICING FOR 2021-2022.

AS YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR BREAKFAST WAS FREE.

FOR 2021-2022 THEY WILL STILL PROVIDE BREAKFAST, UNIVERSAL FREE BREAKFAST FOR ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

THE LUNCH MENU PRICES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 21-22, ELEMENTARY WILL BE TWO DOLLARS AND EIGHTY CENTS. MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE THREE DOLLARS AND FIVE CENTS.

DUE TO CROWLEY ISD HEALTHY FUND BALANCE.

THIS IS WHY THE STUDENT MILK PRICES FOR TWENTY TWENTY ONE TWENTY TWO WILL NOT CHANGE.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO JUST SAY A HUGE KUDO'S AND ALSO A THANK YOU TO ARAMARK BECAUSE DUE TO, EVEN THOUGH WE HAD, WE WERE IN A PANDEMIC, ARAMARK PROVIDED CONTINUATION OF FEEDING THE STUDENTS DESPITE OF THAT.

SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE THEM FOR DOING SO AND STEPPING UP AND MAKING SURE THAT OUR KIDS ARE FED. AND AT THIS POINT, BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS ITEM DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY ACTION TODAY, WE WILL BE BRINGING IT BACK IN APRIL OF TWENTY TWENTY.

BUT I WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

THANK YOU MS. POWERS, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD REGARDING RFP FOR SERVICE MANAGEMENT? I HAVE A COMMENT I I'M REALLY GLAD MS. POWERS THAT YOU YOU TALKED ABOUT WHAT ARAMARK DID DURING THE PANDEMIC, BUT I THINK IT'S NOT JUST I DON'T THINK YOU WENT FAR ENOUGH BECAUSE I DO NOT THINK IT WAS JUST A CONTINUATION OF SERVICES FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.

BUT I REALLY FEEL LIKE THEY WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND IN AN EXTREMELY TUMULTUOUS TIME AND A IN A TIME WHERE NO ONE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS OR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

AND NOW HERE WE ARE THE NEXT YEAR.

BUT IT'S IT WAS SO WONDERFUL THAT THEY TOOK THAT WORRY AWAY FROM OUR STUDENTS AND OUR FAMILIES, AND I REALLY SO APPRECIATE THE ONE HUNDRED AND TEN PERCENT THAT THEY DID TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WENT SO SMOOTHLY FOR OUR FAMILIES AND I KNOW IT WAS NOT THE CASE IN OTHER PLACES, IN OTHER STATES, IN OTHER DISTRICTS IN OUR STATE.

I'VE HEARD THE STORIES AND I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT HAPPENED IN ISD.

SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR FOR THIS OVERVIEW.

I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE RENEWAL.

THANK YOU, DR. BENTON, AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU 100 PERCENT.

AND TO THAT, I'D LIKE TO ADD BIG THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE OF THE MEALS NOT GOING UP NEXT YEAR, THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO BE GREAT FOR OUR FAMILIES.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

THANK YOU TRUSTEE DAVIS AND THANK YOU, DR.

BENTON. I ALSO WANT TO THROW IN THERE THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK SURVEY.

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SO I AM GRATEFUL THAT WE DID WE DID ASK THEM AND THAT THEY WERE PLEASED.

SO THAT'S MY COMMENTARY.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. POWERS, FOR YOUR PART.

WE'LL SEE YOU BACK IN APRIL.

YES, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT.

[10.0 Executive Session ]

AT THIS TIME, THE BOARD WILL ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL AND FOR PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD'S ATTORNEY.

OTHER PARTICIPANTS MAY REMAIN ON THIS LINE AND THE BOARD WILL RETURN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE SESSION.

WE ARE ADJOURNING AT SEVEN FORTY SIX P.M.

WE ARE BACK IN SESSION, OPEN SESSION AT EIGHT TWENTY SIX P.M.

[11.0 Consideration and Possible Action Item(s) ]

EMPLOYMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL.

COORDINATOR OF INNOVATION.

I RECOMMEND AMANDA MCHUGH FOR THE POSITION OF COORDINATOR OF INNOVATION AS RECOMMENDED.

THANK YOU, WE HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE ROBINSON IS THERE A SECOND.

I'LL SECOND THE MOTION.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SECOND.

TRUSTEE RAY, MOVE TO VOTE MR. KIRCHER.

YES, MS. ROBINSON.

YES.

THANK YOU, DR. MAYFIELD.

YES. THANK YOU, MISS HALL.

YES. THANK YOU, MISS DAVIS.

YES. THANK YOU, MR. RAY YES, THANK YOU, MR. GRASSIA. YES, THANK YOU AND DR.

BENTON.

YES. ALL RIGHT.

THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

AND CONGRATULATIONS TO MISS MCHUGH.

WELCOME TO OUR I GUESS CENTRAL OFFICE TEAM.

YOU'RE ALREADY A TEAM MEMBER HERE IN CROWLEY ISD.

DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER BUSINESS TO BRING BEFORE THE BOARD? ALL RIGHT, WELL, WITH NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO BRING BEFORE THE BOARD, WE ARE ADJOURNING AT EIGHT TWENTY SEVEN P.M.

EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.

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