The Board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Monday, October 19, 2015, and the time is 6.37 p.m. The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Law in regard to the notice for this meeting?
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Katy ISD Board Work Study, October 19, 2015
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- 0:00 to 1:04 Item 3 Reconvene from Closed Meeting – The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law. 3.1 Consider Board approval of accepting professional staff resignations and hiring of professional contractual personnel.
- 1:04 to 4:32 Item 4 4. Recognition 4.1 Peace Officer Oath of Office – Katy Independent School District Police Officer
- 4:32 to 10:01 Consent Agenda 5.1 Consider future Board approval of the use of the BuyBoard contract with Shade Structures, Inc. for the purchase and installation of the sun shade structures for Cinco Ranch High School, Katy High School, Mayde Creek High School, Morton Ranch High School, Seven Lakes High School, Taylor High School, and Tompkins High School. 5.2 Consider future Board approval of the proposal for tennis, soccer, baseball, and softball equipment, supplies, and apparel. 5.3 Consider future Board approval of an Electric Easement to CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC, associated with Katy Independent School District-owned property on Kingsland Boulevard west of Pederson Road.
- 10:01 to 11:01 Item 6.1 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the October 2015 budget amendments.
- 11:01 to 11:45 Item 6.2 Discuss and consider future Board approval of grant ratifications.
- 11:45 to 17:40 Item 6.3 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application for 2015 – 2016.
- 17:40 to 18:48 Item 6.4 Discuss and consider future Board approval of a missed instructional day waiver for Stephens Elementary.
- 18:48 to 20:38 Item 6.5 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the Campus Performance Objectives and the District Improvement Plan.
- 20:38 to 21:40 Item 6.6 Discuss and consider future Board approval of an Interlocal Agreement with Memorial Municipal Utility District and Katy Independent School District (Katy ISD).
- 21:40 to 26:08 Item 6.7 Discuss and consider future Board approval of Amendment One and Amendment Two to the Drymalla Construction Company, Inc. Construction Manager at Risk contract for the Guaranteed Maximum Price related to infrastructure and renovation/building addition work at Memorial Parkway Junior High School.
- 26:08 to 1:01:19 Item 6.8 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the design of the build out of the second floor shell space and first floor renovations at the Miller Career and Technology Center.
- 1:01:19 to 1:21:28 Item 7 Report 7.1 Overview of Career and Technical Education in Katy Independent School District
- 1:21:28 to 1:30:09 Items 8 - 10 8. Information Items 8.1 Board Member Activities Update – Superintendent's Community Roundtable and Katy ISD Education Foundation 9. Future Meeting 9.1 Regular Board Meeting – Monday, October 26, 2015 10. Adjournment
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Item 3
Mr. President, we are in compliance. First item is the personnel report.
Mr. President.
Mr. Mahalsky.
Move the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report is recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting I
Have motion by Brian Mahalski a second by Rebecca Fox at the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report is recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting any discussion Hearing none will proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye Those opposed motion passes 7 to 0 All right, do we have any scouts today? We have some young ones down there. They don't count All right moving on to our recognition 4.1 police officer oath of office Mr. Jinx
Item 4
President Griffin board members and superintendent Farley newly newly commissioned Peace officers are required to publicly swear or firm an oath of office tonight Tonight we have one newly commissioned officer. I'd like to ask Officer Daniel Ryan to come forward and take the oath of office and be recognized as a member of the Katy ISD Police Department.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Daniel Ryan, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties that I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Peace Officer, of the Office of Peace Officer, of the Katy Independent School District, of the Katy Independent School District, of the State of Texas, of the State of Texas, and will to the best of my ability, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend, preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution and laws of the United States,
the laws and Constitution of the United States, and of this state and of this state so help me God so help me God congratulations
there is a deputy with the Harris County Sheriff's Department in 1981 ten years later was promoted to the rank of sergeant and earned a masterpiece officer certificate in 2001 he successfully worked in a variety of assignments under the leadership of five different sheriffs during his career officer Ryan retired from the Harris County Sheriff's Office in July of 2015 after 34 years of service this past August officer Ron joined the KDI split KDI SD Police Department to continue his work in law enforcement in his community officer Ron was well known by the KDI SD Police Police Department as he worked countless athletic activities in the past and has assisted the department in his capacity as a Harris County Deputy. Officer Ryan and his wife Terri have lived in the Katy area for over 30 years. The youngest two of his five children are graduates of Katy High School. When he's not working, Officer Ryan enjoys playing golf, attending baseball games, and spending spending time with his four young grandchildren who are up front. Please help me welcome Officer Ryan to KDISD.
Thank you and welcome to the police force. I would also like to congratulate Sergeant Clarence Howard who's replacing Mr. Tommy Gray as the officer that works our board meetings. Thank You Tommy and congratulations Sergeant Howard. All right we'll move to section 5 of the Consent Agenda. Mrs. Stevenson I think you have the first two 5.1 consider for future board approval of the use of the by-board contract.
Consent Agenda
Good evening, President Griffin, Prestige, Superintendent Fraley. I have two contracts to bring before you for your consideration this evening. The first one is the award of a contract to U.S. Shade and Fabric Structures through the By-Board Cooperative for shade structures at Cinco Ranch High School, Katie High School, Maid Creek High School, Morton Ranch High School, Seven Lakes High School, Taylor High School, and Tompkins High School for a total contract price of $682,074. In order to expedite this particular contract, we went and competitively priced contracts for these structures from several vendors that were available to us through cooperatives. After evaluation using best value criteria, the contract recommendation is to go to U.S. Shade and Fabric Structures as providing best value. Again, the total price for all the structures is $682,074. The work will begin shortly after the Board approves the contract with expected delivery four to six weeks into the district after that and installation immediately following. This will be funded from the general operating funds as approved by the board.
Any questions? Ma'am, this was, you might not be able to answer this specific question. I have an expert. What portions of the athletic fields are these shade structures going on?
They'll be going on the baseball and softball fields primarily. A portion of each campus bleachers, about 50%, both visitor and home, and also on tennis courts at Tompkins and Morton Ranch. Thank you.
Any other questions? Thank you. Ma'am, 5.2.
The next contract I have for your consideration is approval of a contract for tennis, soccer, baseball and softball equipment, supplies and apparel. This is a routine contract that is time to re-bid. The contract will provide approved vendors from which we can purchase these supplies. We did try to list the most commonly purchased items in items 1 through 15. However, for items 4 through 7, for soccer balls and soccer nets, we could not make a recommendation. The pricing coming in for the various products was so varied and the product qualities were so varied, we couldn't come to a consensus on what to award. So we've decided we will revisit that at a later time. We'll go back out to the coaches and talk to them about trying to standardize on those types of items. Then we have another section for items not specifically listed. The recommendation is to award to all vendors with the exception of school outfitters, and that's because they are primarily a furniture vendor, and I think they misunderstood the contract when we submitted it to them. So our recommendation is no award to them. All other vendors met the qualifications to be KDISD vendors and many have provided products to us before. Whenever we're doing expenditures over $3,000, though, in this section, we will ask for competitive quotes from among the approved vendors. For the purchase of apparel, we have two sections. The first was for the brands that we most commonly purchase in the district, and the second section allowed the vendors to submit other manufacturers that they would like for us to consider for purchase. The recommendation is to award all vendors as listed. The Athletics Department and campuses will be required to see competitive pricing among the approved vendors whenever the expenditure is over $3,000. This will be a one-year contract with an option for two additional one-year renewals. the expenditures and anticipated anticipated to be three hundred and forty thousand dollars per year based on our previous experience and district expenditures will be funded from the general operating fund and or special revenue funds thank you any questions thank you ma'am 5.3
consider future board approval and electric easement to centerpoint energy houston electric
Mr. McElwain. Good evening President Griffin, board members, superintendent Fraley. This particular item is associated with the granting of an electrical easement to Centerpoint Energy associated with the elementary school number 40 which is one of the elementary schools included within the 2014 bond authorization. This particular campus is located on Kingsland Boulevard adjacent to the Young Ranch development just west of Peterson Road. This particular easement, electrical easement, actually follows the west and southern property lines of this particular campus and by granting this easement it will in no way adversely affect the operation of the campus and also by granting this easement we can ensure that we've got adequate utilities in place prior to the construction of this particular campus thank you any questions thank you mr.
McAleen thank you moving on to section six discussion action six point one mrs. Butterfield is going to talk to us about discussion and consider future board approval the October 2015 budget amendments good evening president
Item 6.1
Griffin superintendent Fraley and board of trustees the general operating fund has 10 amendments tonight. Three of them are of note. One to recognize revenue and increase expenditure budget for testing in the HR department for highly qualified paraprofessionals and then two amendments. One in the amount of $29,200 for day placement tuition and a second amendment for $70,560 for contracted nursing services associated with the special education program thank you any
questions any objection to move this item to consent so moved ma'am 6.2 discussing consider future board approval of grant ratifications we have
Item 6.2
nine grants for the trustees ratification tonight six of them are general grants the largest of them being the Medicaid administrative claiming program the region for teacher training and the AP teacher training grants there are three grants related to special education primarily related to deaf education and visual impairment thank you any questions any objection to move
this item to consent thank you ma'am so moved 6.3 discuss and consider future board approval of the limited English proficient enrollment and bilingual
Item 6.3
education exceptions good evening mr. president board members and mr. Fraley tonight we're here to report the number of limited English proficient students in Katy ISD as required by the Texas Education Code we are also here to request approval to write and submit the bilingual exception and ESL waiver application. As of October 9th, we have 11,714 limited English proficient students that speak 91 languages, comprising about 16% of our district. This is Jennifer Purpleleck here with me today. She's going to talk a little bit about the application. The application is required when we are asking permission from the Texas Education Agency to do something in place of a bilingual education program. We have a bilingual Spanish-English one, but we are also required to have one in 10 languages.
KDISD has applied for a bilingual exception for the following languages. For 14 years, we've applied for a Mandarin Chinese bilingual program. For 12 years, we've applied for an Arabic, Urdu, and Vietnamese bilingual program. For nine years, we've applied for a Korean bilingual program. For three years, we've applied for Hindi, Portuguese, and Telugu bilingual program. For one year this year, we've applied for a Russian bilingual program and one year for a Tamil bilingual program. program. Tonight we are seeking the approval for the superintendent to sign and submit the 2015-2016 bilingual education exception and ESL waiver application. I would like to share with you a few highlights from the action plan included within that application. The Office of Other Languages offers multiple professional development opportunities for teachers of English language learners. Annually we host an English language learner summit where we provide language acquisition training and professional development in the area of sheltered instruction to enhance the instructional delivery to ELLs. We collaborate with the district curriculum coordinators to provide content teachers to provide training to content teachers that embeds language instruction within the content areas. We have created Canvas courses to provide online professional development to assist teachers in meeting the needs of VLLs. And additionally, we employ paraprofessionals who speak the top five languages after Spanish. These paraprofessionals are placed on elementary campuses with the highest numbers of the target language. These are a few of the components of the action plan that we plan to include in the 2015-2016 Bilingual Education ESL Waiver application. At this time, we welcome any questions.
Mr. President. Mrs. Fox. The newest one you said that wasn't Russian? Tamil.
It's another Indian language. Ma'am how does this how do you determine if the student qualifies to be in the LEP program? In the English language program?
Yes ma'am. We test their oral language in English and additionally we do an academic assessment using the Iowa assessment for reading and language and based on the data then they are placed if they meet the criteria determined by the state which is anything not fluent and anything below 40th percentile in
language and reading. Thank you. If you see the trends of the district is this program staying relatively constant or is it starting to grow? Mr. President we
We are a very diverse, quickly growing district. Annually, we have been adding languages every year. Last year we had nine. This year we have 10.
Thank you.
We grew by about 1,000 students from last year's report to this year, just shy of 1,000.
Katie has a place to be.
Mr. President? Yes, sir. So the total language is spoken are 91? Yes, sir. We have 91 languages represented in our district.
And last count from 146 countries.
Mr. President. Ms. Fox.
You probably said this, but I'm seriously writing those statistics because I'm going, wow. How do you determine which languages we're going to send the waiver for? Like the Russian and Tamil for this? Is there a number in one grade? Is it a percentage of the entire enrollment? How is that?
Once we reach 20, a count of 20 across the district in any given language, then we need to include them in our application.
In any given grade level? So it may be like kindergarten hits 20 just in kindergarten, but not for any other grade level. As soon as you hit 20 at any particular grade level across all campuses, then you would be required to offer a bilingual education program.
Or 20 total in the district?
Yes, ma'am. Yes. At one grade level, at a given grade level. Per grade level. So did you say Portuguese is one of them? Yes, ma'am. Portuguese is one of them. Okay. I'm looking at the chart. We've been on a bilingual exception for three years for Portuguese.
Okay. And I can see we're close on a couple others. Okay. That's very interesting. Thank you very much for what you do.
Thank you. you are there no other questions any objection to move this item to consent so moved thank you thank you discuss and consider our 6.4 discuss consider future board approval of a missed edge instructional day waiver for Stevens
Item 6.4
Elementary miss Holland good evening mr. president members of the board mr. Mr. Fraley. On August 28th, Stevens Elementary experienced a power outage that prevented students from attending school on that day. According to the Texas Education Code, some schools but not all experience a closing because of health or safety reasons. We do not have to make up that day, but we do have to request a waiver from TEA. We also have to present waivers to our KD Improvement Council which we have done in regard to this waiver and tonight we are coming to the board to ask your approval to move forward with the request for the waiver
thank you any questions thank you any objection to move in this item consent so moved thank you Thank you.
6.5, discuss and consider future board approval of the campus performance objectives and the district improvement plan.
Item 6.5
I have two of my closest friends with me tonight. Dr. Madney's department was responsible for the needs assessment that is the basis for both the district improvement plan and for the campus performance objectives and my friend here, Dr. Creech, I want to use your old name, and her department have worked with the campus performance objectives and campus improvement plans. We're here tonight to present both the district improvement plan and the campus performance objectives for the board's approval. The district improvement plan does incorporate all of the requirements and components of state and federal law. It also includes the comprehensive needs assessment that we mentioned earlier. and we have also consulted with the KD Improvement Council last spring in preparation for the development of this plan. The plan is mutually supportive of the campus improvement plans and is also designed to help the district achieve the five goals that the board has established for this year. The campus performance objectives are the responsibility of each of our campus principals and Dr. Creech and her department have worked with those campuses in reviewing and developing those plans questions any questions
here no questions any objection to move this item to consent so move thank you
just if you had a question six points this discuss and consider future board approval of an interlocal agreement with Memorial Municipal Utility District
Item 6.6
miss MacDonald good evening president Griffin school board members and superintendent fraley tonight I'm bringing forward for your future approval an interlocal agreement with Memorial Municipal Utility District and Katy ISD to construct recreational facility improvements at Jeanette Hayes Elementary School. Katy ISD will oversee the design and construction of the project which is estimated to be completed within 12 months of the effective date of this agreement. Funding for the project will be provided by Memorial Municipal Utility District. Through this agreement at the conclusion of the project Katy ISD agrees to own, operate, and maintain the project. It will will also be available for public access.
Any questions? Any objection to moving this item to consent? So moved, thank you. Thank you. A 6.7 and 6.8 will be Mr. McElwain, I believe. 6.7, discuss and consider future board approval of an amendment one to the amendment two to the Dramella Construction Company.
Item 6.7
Great, thank you, President Griffin, board members, Superintendent Fraley. I'm joined this evening by members of the team and I first like to recognize as of today Dr. Emily Craig, the the principal of Memorial Parkway Junior High who successfully completed her dissertation today.
As well as Laura Sokolabin with Stantec. You know Laura from a successful project at STEAM and several other projects that we've completed Memorial Parkway Junior High and West Memorial Junior High, Nathan Fuchs from my office, the construction project manager and from Dermala Rusty-Klaus and these folks just represent just a few members of the team that have been involved since June when we brought the design forward to the board for the Memorial Parkway Junior High comprehensive renovation project and I have to give a special recognition to Emily because Emily has been extremely passionate about this project and she's been involved all the way through you know through the design process as well as as we've been working through the construction documents the completion of this particular project the what we are bringing to you this evening is the construction pricing for this project which involves amendment 1 and amendment 2 which includes for infrastructure as well as for the the renovation costs associated with this particular project As we move through this project, not dissimilar, we've always, we have experienced challenges before on renovation projects.
Our goal has always been to address the needs of the campus. So once we complete these comprehensive projects, that we leave the campus in great shape and in such a way that we do not have to reposition contractors at a future date. As we move through the project, obviously, you know, you read the news that there has been construction challenges with respect to market conditions out there. It's an extremely hot construction market in the Houston area. As well as as we move through these renovation projects, comprehensive renovation projects, and we work on details with the contractor, with Emily, the staff, and the various departments, that the scope does tend to become more realistic as we move through the project, we move through the details of the project. and I'll use a few examples that Taylor High School the comprehensive renovation at Taylor for example at the last in the last bond program that once we got in that project into that project there was some scope items which were needed to be addressed specifically in the athletic area on this particular project we're touching all aspects of this particular campus that being said we are recommending tonight the total project cost for this project of twenty seven million nine hundred thousand dollars. I should also mention that that the funding for this project the total funding of this project can be supported with supplemental available funding that's a bond funding savings from that's in our current bond programs. So in other words we can we can support the entire scope of this project as designed with bond funds that are currently identified for Moria Parkway Junior High as well as funds that are available within the bond program and I'm extremely proud to state that in all my time with the district we have been able to complete all of our projects within bond programs and oftentimes be able to add additional projects in to the bond whether it be standalone projects such as Randolph and Davidson Elementary School or whether it be additional scope as I alluded to at the Taylor project and some of our other renovation projects where we've been able to add much needed scope on these projects so that being said in summary i would like to say that with approval of this project we are still anticipating that we'll be able to complete every other project in this particular
bond program thank you any questions mr mackling are doing a phenomenal job thank you thank you President Griffiths, team effort. Any objection to move this item to consent? So moved. Thank you. Thank you. 6.8 discuss and consider future board approval of the design of the build out of the second floor shell space. That
Item 6.8
we're extremely excited about this particular project. It doesn't seem too long ago that 2008 we did the first transformational renovation at the Miller Career and Technology Center. At that particular point in time, prior to 2008, I think there was hairdressing and auto mechanics and a few other trade related areas. In 2008, as you know, the board supported not only the renovation in addition to the Miller Career Technology Center for a number of unique real, you know, program opportunities for our students. You know, culinary arts is one example that didn't exist prior to that time. At that time, the board also had the foresight to fund the creation or the construction of a shell space on the second floor of that particular building. For the audience what the shell space essentially is is it's essentially just that it's just a perimeter walls of the building wall and roof of the building. So what we have been we have been working quite hard and I've got we have a number of guests here this evening to speak to this once again. I'm extremely proud of the team that's worked on this project Lisa Kastman is the construction project manager for my my department responsible this project but dr. Sarah Martin for a career in technology area has been actively involved on this project as has dr. Anna Webb story and Jennifer Hendrickson and Peru via are the Stantec designers for this particular project and I mentioned that hopefully folks will be as excited as we we are with this project and I know that the folks on the career and technology and education side are really quite pleased with the program opportunities that will be able to be created for our students. So without further ado, I'll turn it over to Dr. Martin to make some introductory comments.
Thank you. The program identification process began earnest in the spring of 2014. The Career and Technical Education staff attended several Texas Workforce Commission symposiums, analyzed local labor market demand data for the Greater Houston area, and conferenced with our local business and industry partners. We worked closely with Lance La Cour and the Katy Economic Development Council in hosting focus groups where the participants provided input and feedback in what knowledge and skill sets are needed in their industry. With the information we gathered, we identified several needs in our community. The new proposed programs will provide students with a deep understanding of the industry as well as provide industry certification opportunities. Those new programs are manufacturing technology, dental assisting and cyber security. In addition to those new programs, we are revising our veterinary medical applications course into a veterinary assistant program. Students will have the opportunity to sit for certified vet assistant level one certificate. We are also creating Miller to be the focal point of our allied health programs. We will move our Emergency Medical Technician course, which is currently being offered at Seven Lakes and Morton Ranch High Schools, to Miller, as well as our Health Science Clinical Rotation course, which is offered at six of the seven high schools. This puts our senior level health science courses all in one location. The clinical lab that we are building provides students with hands-on experience prior to being placed in rotations within the community health services and facilities. We're super excited to see the changes take place at Miller. We believe the changes support our district's mission statement by providing unparalleled learning experiences.
We would like to thank you for this opportunity and for your unwavering support of our programs and our students. We've had several meetings with Stantec, lots of collaboration and great discussions. Stantec has been wonderful to work with. We involve teachers currently on staff that will be teaching some of the proposed... specialized programs. Stantec was great about listening to all of our input and making modifications based on all of our suggestions. The design is outstanding. I think you're going to really be pleased with it. Thank you again for your support and now Jennifer and Pruel will present the proposed design for the shelf space.
Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Jennifer Hendrickson and with me is Pruel Vias. She's a project manager that's working on the project and we're going to share our presentation with you I forgot to greet President Griffin superintendent Fraley and board we're happy to be here we've done the hard work and we've got some pretty pictures to show you but more exciting is the activity is going to occur inside this building it's going to look good but what's happening inside is even better than the way that it's going to look we're going to split the presentation I'm going to do the over part overview part up front and talk about the existing programs that are going to expand then I hand it off to parole to let her talk about some of the newer programs and then wrap up the conversation.
I'm going to skip past this just to whet your appetite.
The mission of Miller Career Center is to lead students towards careers and give them that opportunity for real-life hands-on experiences that mimics what they're going to do in the future. So we're excited to continue the dialogue that's already been started and that build out of the second shell space. The next two pages we're going to use these snippets hopefully you've read this over the weekend or in your prep for this as we introduce each component of the plan so we'll come back to that where we are today this is a CM at risk delivery method project pepper Lawson is the CM and we have representative in the audience from pepper Lawson Chad correct
Chad and on his staff Beverly and Joe Street they've really been involved in the design process helping us make sure we're within budget and in the constructability makes sense as we put it out onto the street because it is an occupied campus so we're going to have to think about the intricacies of renovating the big parts while they're gone and what can we accomplish while they're still in school and not affect the operations but fundamentally tonight we're asking you to consider moving to consent agenda the design development approval next week hopefully it'll make it there and we'll move forward our goal is to bring the GMP back to you a few months later like January so don't blink It's a small space, it's 40,000 square feet, so we can close that gap. And then if we get approved, we'll start the construction in February and a short eight months later be done in December of next year. So we're super excited to get it going. Start off with just a site analysis. The Miller Career Center, I'm happy to say that blank space on the left is now filled with an awesome facility, the Shaw Center, so it's right next to the Shaw Center. The yellow ring is the two-story portion and the shell space is on the second floor and the first floor we're going to be doing some renovations. I'm going to show you some plane diagrams to try to orient you to the scope of work. This is the footprint of the building. Over in the lower left-hand corner of the slide, that's where the Vet Med program is going to be situated on the first floor. So we're going to add a new entrance and a canopy down there on the left-hand side. And the little elbow portion of the building, which is the left side of the slide with the yellow dashed around it, we're going to do a small addition to capture some space for an area that needs to grow and it can't fit inside the envelope. And then the lightest gray on there is outdoor patio space with a covered, like a canopy, avid canopy, so they can have some outdoor seating in a controlled environment. Looking at the floor plan, this is the Miller Career Center today. the parts that are shaded in color are where we're going to be modifying it. So starting on the left in the yellow color, up at the upper right-hand corner is where they call the commons. That's where they meet before there's two major shifts, if you will, for classes, morning classes and afternoon classes. That's where everyone comes and congregates, does their study before they get released into the classroom. So that's an important space they're building. right where you see that little arrow pointing to at the upper right of a young that's where the stairs are going to go so that's going to get taken away so we've got to find some more space to expand the Commons area as well as all exciting programs and they go up on the second floor it needs to grow as well the portion in the yellow that goes vertically in the rectangle on the left is where the satellite administration people are housed today because the the building is going to have the second floor build out, we're proposing to move that upstairs to provide that secondary supervision up on the second floor. The green spaces in the lower right hand corner are earmarked where the vet med program is going to go. And on the little red rings around the classrooms that are there today, in the middle are the allied health programs that are going to be relocating upstairs. And the science one outboard is going to be renovated to accommodate the vet med program. We'll go into it in detail, but I just kind of want to get you oriented to where we are now the second floor is almost a blank canvas the we do have some important constraints one the perimeter is is the building is what it is we have some major anchors in the building that we need to respect they were designed at the very beginning so the vertical transportation which are the two stairs on the corners the elevator the new connecting stair that's in the middle and then the red portions which are the restrooms we're going to build those out the shell spaces are there and the ability to infest complete the infrastructure is in place and then the gray dark gray boxes are the mechanical rooms building support areas the other spots that you see around the building are columns or shafts that come from the science classrooms downstairs or the culinary program so that's our landscape we have to respect the boundaries that are in place and create the new design.
To describe what's going to go into the building, we'll talk about the programs briefly and then we're going to go through each one. So the golden color is going to be when it's completed the renovated Commons area which can serve as a flex space, collaboration space, breakout space for study. The pinky and the peach color on the lower left is the the new administrative space over in the right hand corner is the vet med program the two red dots they're going to take over two core classrooms to support the expanded veterinary assistant vet med program and then the three green dots in the middle are existing classrooms that in the middle allied health's moving up so we'll convert those back to core classrooms nothing really has to happen there you just change the name on the room and the science room on the right is this is a flip. This is the second floor. I'm going to start in the upper right hand corner and make my way around. So the L-shaped space in the upper right hand corner is the manufacturing engineering program. Moving down that first green space is a pharmacy lab program.
The dark green at the bottom is the dental program. The lightish green which is sandwiched between those dark greens and in the center is the EMT and health sciences. So all of that forms what we call the allied health program down on the bottom the two classrooms in the bottom and the four on the left lower left and the two on top or core classrooms you still need core classrooms so with the increased population that increased programs we've worked out and how many are going to get moved downstairs how many get renovated we're making sure we have enough core classrooms to accommodate the ultimate build out of the space and then the the pinkish nice peach is some satellite administration and support space. I did make a mistake earlier. The admin, core admin is staying on the first floor and we have a satellite admin on the second.
So there's pink on the ground floor and pink on the second floor. And the yellow spaces in the middle and spread out are flex space collaboration spaces which will serve independent study, breakout, peer-to-peer group instruction or area to work on a project. And we're going to show all this to you in little snippets but we wanted to kind of give you an overview to start off with. Just to orient you to the level of renovation that's going to happen on the ground floor, we provided this diagram to talk about heavy renovation, which is the pink on the left, the medium, which is where we're turning into the specialized vet med program, and the light renovation, which are classrooms and some stairs, the stairs primarily being they're now going to be functional because they're walled off today for protection purposes. So now we're going to walk through each little piece of the plan and show you the before diagram and the after diagram and When appropriate some three-dimensional pictures to help communicate what the space might look like So start off with the admin piece first on the left hand side of the slide That's the space that they're in today on the ground floor on the right hand side We're replicating what they have in regards to assistant principal space counselor space but we've added new work conference room so they can collaborate amongst themselves as they're planning as well as in the bottom an instructional coach office a and B and some flex space so we're expanding it just a little bit but it's just enough to serve the additional programs throughout the facility the common space this is going to help you understand the before and after on the left the yellow portion the square component is is where the cafeteria tables are sitting today and the little skinny yellow part they're kind of lined up I'll show you a picture a minute that's all they have right now in terms of gathering preparing as we've renovated the facility we've put the stairs if you go to the right-hand portion of the slide you'll see the connecting stair right by the elevator we've situated the space on the first floor so that it's provides a variety of seating its visibility you can see outside those are some all great things for the learning environment I'm going to show you a couple of pictures of the before and the proposed after so the one on the left where the chairs are in the dolly that's where the stairs going to go the picture on the right just shows you how crowded and cramped that that space is today if you can imagine adding more programs and people there we need to think about how that's going to work. This is a proposed end state. The brick portion that you see in the picture is the existing wall. Just past that is that little addition portion that I was showing you on the floor plan so you can see outside so we're able to bring that connection to the exterior which is important when you need a break and you're getting ready to go to class or you're preparing. There's a variety of seating types meaning individual you'll see the individual seats adjacent to the brick wall. There's some small group. We which are the comfy seating in the lower right-hand corner, and there's some work tables. We've worked with the furniture and purchasing people. This is our rendition, but it'll be something similar, i.e. there'll be seating at what we call the genius bar, some small group, comfortable seating, and some tables where they can work. This is looking around that space, a different view. What I didn't mention, the little legend in the right-hand corner, the red dot shows you where you're standing, and the cone is going to show you where you're looking on the plan. So it kind of helps orient so you'll see the red brick is the existing building We're looking back towards the connecting stair that's going to go upstairs So this is some of the comfortable seating and this is a view in that back spot Back part of the space looking back towards what we call Main Street So you see the stair way in the background, but these are the you know six eight top tables that students can work in And this is the new connecting stair so that picture that you saw at the beginning that felt all closed in it's really going to feel open and vibrant with the stair coming up. The skylight that's there today, those walls that are in the hallway, they're going to go away so we're really going to get a lot of natural light so it's going to feel open and airy and it's really a departure. We're going up to the second floor and it supports a collegiate feel or professional work environment where the students their goal is to end up in those locations the first existing program that's expanding I'll talk about is the veterinary medicine program currently they do wonders on the left in a combination of it's a science room it's a science slash lab classroom all in one space so they really don't have enough room to to do what they're doing today plus they're going to expand the program so they needed some more space on the right hand side you'll see in that lower left-hand corner situated really near the stair is where there's a reception that's where the new exterior door is going to be in the canopy so if they want to accept any animals to do light grooming or any of that minimal minimal stuff they can come in and the students can simulate checking a person in checking the animal in in the middle spaces versus clean room and exam that's where they're going to be doing the work and the experiment that you might experience as a vet and veterinary assistant in a laboratory or at the vet itself. So that lab space above it in the the clean room slash exam room, that's their laboratory space.
Over on the lower left hand corner, two core classroom areas dedicated to the vet med. So significant in space improvement to accommodate this exciting program. When they're done, they'll be able to get a certification, veterinary assistant certification, so so they'll be able to go directly into the workforce.
The next component is what we refer to as allied health. It's the emergency medical technician and the clinical lab. And this is a senior level class. It's Dr. Martin or Dr. Story. I can't remember which one said it first. But what we're trying to accomplish in this building, in the build-out on the second floor, is real-life experience so you understand the connection between emergency I'm going to the hospital. What does it feel like get everybody situated initially and then transition to General care so they're located next to each other on the floor plan This is a diagram of that today. They're just doing it in a classroom space today They don't really have a laboratory space to experience that so in the new plan on the Top part in the bottom part are the classrooms for both programs EMTs on the left side of the proposed slide and health sciences on the right hand side They're located in the center of the floor plan, the little key diagram in the lower right part of the slide kind of shows you, references you back to the middle of the floor. But there's a visual connection and even a door that can slide between the two programs so they understand the continuation of care. What you probably can't see in great detail, but you'll see in the pictures in just a minute, in the EMT clinical lab there's going to be a mock ambulance, which is a simulator. They can simulate transporting someone from a site to the hospital, they feel that there's going to be two gurneys in the room, so getting them out of the hospital into the gurney. So they get to do all that real life experience right there, and then as they transition into what I'll call traditional care, on the other side in the health clinical lab, there's four beds that are over there, and things that day-to-day that can take vitals for a person. So here are some pictures of what that might look like this is the mock ambulance in the space and the two gurneys over on the right hand side and then supporting classroom space what you see in the back slide is windows that go into their EMT classroom so there's a connection between the classroom and the lab that you can see what's happening between the two skip all right nope I thought they were hitting this one view for the the beds all right so I apologize about them making up a slide and the next program that's expanding is a pharmacy tech program and that where they when they finish the senior level classes they'll be able to have a certification as a pharmacy tech and what they do to the classroom space only is try to accomplish lab in their new space on the right-hand side of the slide you'll see a pharmacy counter and that's their white L at the top so when you walk in the front door you feel like you're walking to a CVS you do that transaction the students are in the back preparing prescriptions going through all those accounting pills packaging them up reading doctors handwriting on prescriptions etc so they're going to feel and experience that and the next portion down is that So they're a tech classroom immediately adjacent to the lab, so the direct connection. And on the bottom is an IV prep room where they can practice the procedures of preparing and administering an IV. Here are some pictures of what that might look like. So when you come up the stairs, the first thing you're going to see, you're going to walk through the flex space. That's what you see on the right where the students are. But straight ahead is the pharmacy program. So you see the front door. It's on display. Teaching is on display. And when you get inside, on the left is a transaction counter, on the right hand side is where the student is practicing filling prescriptions and on the back hand wall are all the supplies and storage. So everything you would experience in a, I'll say a CVS setting, they're going to be doing in their laboratory.
I'm going to be quiet and let Pruel take over with the new programs.
Thank you Jennifer. As Dr. Martin mentioned, based on the current economic development council reports and the key sectors in our economy these days, manufacturing is one of the sectors in the industry that's growing a lot. And based on that, we have this program in the center. The industry level certification that students will get out of here will be factory automation and metalworking. working. The program is set up to provide hands-on experience in
mechatronics, 3D printing, pneumatics, hydraulics. And it's a clean lab set up as you will see in the next slide. It's an L-shaped lab with two classrooms on each end. Both the classrooms open up to the lab and And most of the lab is set up for equipment that involve like 3D printing and pneumatics and hydraulics and it's all spot cleaning. So it's almost like a clean lab. And the classrooms are such that the engineering classroom is set up right next to it. So if they have any use of the 3D printing, they can share the manufacturing lab.
In terms of visualization, Even in terms of connection to the outside, the circulation space, the lab has windows to the corridors and the lab has windows into the classrooms so students can have shared learning from the labs. The next program, the new program that we have in this facility is dental program. Students will be introduced to dentistry, general and specialist, hygienist, dental assistant and lab technician. The industrial level certification will be dental assisting. The labs you see here is set up as a lab and a classroom configuration. The lab is like how it would be in an existing dentist's office with a reception where you would check in and the lab space right behind it. And the lab currently is set up for three dental chairs and the fourth one is in like we will provide the rough-in for it and if they want to add on in the future they could add on a dental chair and that's set up for there. So we'll provide all the rough-in. The labs will also have a sterilization center so that's kind of an equipment that people bring in from the supplier and we have rough-ins and it connects. So it's all set up to function as a real-life dental office. The students will learn about communication, checking patients in, about oral health, hygiene, and anything that relates to dentistry and oral surgery. In the classroom adjoining it, again, as you see in the theme in this build out is that the classrooms are open to the lab settings. So we're trying to provide as much communication between the classroom setting and the labs.
This is a view of the dental lab looking from the waiting area into the lab. You can see the reception set up. It's very open to the outside welcoming the patients in. You can check in and then their lab and the dental chairs in the back.
These are some of the slides. Some of the slides now kind of reiterate what we have already discussed before, but it just highlights the the main spaces. So this slide highlights where the core classrooms are. So the rooms that are hatched in blue highlights the core classrooms. So we have eight of them on the second floor.
And then the admin and the support staff is kind of in the dark pink and the light pink color. So the main admin on the second floor is mainly a reception and some of the support offices. And then the support other support admin areas are like the workroom, they have a small conference on the second floor, and a small planning room.
This slide we show you the flex areas. Like Jennifer mentioned, there are various levels of flex spaces on the second floor. The ones in the middle are open and very open. It kind of mingles with the circulation, large group, very informal. Then there are some smaller if you look down south of the south end of the slide there are small breakout spaces for medium and small group and then on the near the manufacturing lab we have couple of rooms that are closed in so if you want a private one-on-one learning or a group instruction you could go pull into those spaces and these are the last two or three sites I'll show you the collaboration spaces before and after.
So this is the existing condition on the Miller Center on the first floor. This is where the two floors kind of come together. It's right now closed in, and you can see how when we are walking through the corridor, it's a low space, and opening up to the clear stories, it has a lot of potential. So what we are proposing is to open that space up with the staircase going up. This is a view of from this flex space on the second floor where you are coming up the stair looking at the reception across the stair and some of the flex the large flex space in the middle and The last slide shows as how all both the floors come together we are bringing in natural light from the top floor from the clear story into the second floor pulling it in and Successfully trying to bring it down all the way to the first floor with lighter colors lighter finishes and And we really feel that this space will make this, give it a collegiate feel and set it up for success. And I think that's what we had for you today. Any questions?
Mr. Adams?
Thank you for the presentation. It's very good. I noticed that your schedule was to begin construction in February and to finish in December it's a very aggressive plan it looks like of course that happens portion of that during the school year I would like to hear from you about how do we avoid disruption from our current classes and in the safety aspect among the children that are that are there students that are there just talk a little bit about that we've worked with a pepper Lawson to
work out those we've talked about the logistics it's going to break down into what we call two phases phase one it's going to start right away is the second floor build out because it's a clean canvas we can get after it we're going to schedule the work we're going to schedule the work from three to seven so when the kids go away so everybody that's going to bid on the job knows it's a night shift job it's not during prime time school hours so we're going to shift the work to after school hours and just rock and roll and then in the summertime when they're gone those 10 weeks is boogie boogie finish it up the
connection thanks I want to thank you for you know education can be outdated we can teach kids something that they're not interested in but I think today we've seen a lot of campus improvement plans and now we've seen another aspect of how does Katie go above and beyond to inspire their kids you talk to the community how do you get this district from great to outstanding you ask the community where does the community want the community comes back this is what we would like to see a man I'm so jealous that these kids are going to have an opportunity not only to learn but then to be ready for to real life I'm sitting thinking about that dental chair man if you've got a biology class or something they can come over to scrape on somebody's teeth put that on this on the slide I mean wow you talk about real learning I mean you're no longer math class you're no longer in science class you know you're actually applying the the knowledge that we're passing. Thank you very much for engaging other people that you're doing and showing us a plan that has a potential to really help our kids.
If I can just add as well, I think Stantec has done a great job as well creating a design whereby it's a seamless addition to the to this particular facility you know through the work that we did in the first renovation back in 2008 master planning for the staircase we have the ability to introduce that staircase which is a focal point as well as the the collaboration spaces because it's really in a true example of 21st century learning in the career and technology area and when this project is complete It's just this facility. It's just so exciting because it's come so far from where it was in in 2006 and 2007
Mr.. Freddie
Mr.. Johnson, I just just what did you have when we built this did the staircase was are we putting in and removing?
No, when we when we when we built the addition that the the true addition onto onto the Career and Technology Center We actually master plan the structure to enable the the capability of introducing that so we don't have to Cut out reinforcing or it's it's it's ready to go
Miss Fox, mr. President, thank you so The potential of what I see our kids doing is very exciting And I I'm just reminded by our former colleague Chris Crockett when she said at this day is talked about that allied health you know we are in the West Houston area now in Katy we have so many hospitals and doctors and our growth and all that and she's like we are ripe for opportunities for our kids to talk about all the health careers they can have it so that makes me very excited and I can't wait to color and tell her to watch this portion tomorrow I have a question if I might and it's probably more for dr. Martin or dr. Webb story if I might about the certifications manufacturing certifications what types of companies will those children be able to work or and if I can ask just kind of a follow so you can do it all together so I love the certifications that the children will have do these you see these certifications as things that children can leave high school and go to work or they also could could just go straight into college with this advantage and know their career path already and get get advanced degrees or can they work straight from high school with you they
can actually do both so the certification for a manufacturing program are very varied we have four that we can start right away when that program comes on board so the first one pearl mentioned is a fanic and currently igloo just down the street uses the fanic robotic arm it is a piece of equipment that students program and it's in manufacturing so they program it to pick pieces up put pieces down to do it on the assembly line type thing so that's one certification that would have to come as their senior year so after the after our manufacturing program has been in existence for two years they can sit for that because there's a certain number number of hours they need for that as well as there's the cnc mill and a lathe so those two certifications are really dynamic in the manufacturing industry and not just for manufacturing as we think of igloo or goya but also our automotive programs so as well as that FANUC arm is it's actually used at our Toyota Training Center and down off Etheridge so the students are coming in they will have exposure to all of that opportunity to sit for those exams and then they can yes go straight into industry and the manufacturing field most of our students have to be 18 years or older so if they are a young senior like my daughter would be a young senior they have to wait until they're 18 to actually get into those fields then they can also progress so if you get into a company like igloo or Goya or Toyota they will do what they call a job share so you start off in the industry working as a technician and then they will help fund your college expenses so you You can go from being on the line or to being a manufacturing technician or an operator and then extend your learning as you go through post-secondary education. So it prepares them for both.
Mr. Fraley.
I should comment on the work of Stantec in the past with some of the renovations and the way they were efficiently working things. And we had two projects that were done in one year's time versus two years' time. They didn't lose any structural time. I'm very excited to have Pepper Lawson, a local Katy-owned company, working on this partnership as well. So I'm very excited about the team we have assembled.
Thank you. Hearing no other questions, any objection to move this item to consent? So moved. Thank you very much for the presentation.
Item 7
Moving on to the report section 7.1, overview of career and technical education in Katy Independent School District.
Good evening, President Griffin, Board members, and Mr. Fraley, Superintendent Fraley. I'm happy to share with you tonight our overview of career and technical education, also known as CTE.
Most of us remember career and technical education by its former name, vocational education, and even more recent by CATE. Numerous changes in society, technology, the workplace, and educational philosophy have influenced occupational education. Contemporary CTE is very different from earlier models of career training. Vocational education was conceptualized as a separate system of education that emphasized job-specific skills over academic curriculum and was often used as an alternative or inferior path. Unfortunately, CTE still suffers from this outdated stigma associated with vocational education. A name change came in 1984 with the reauthorization of the Carl Perkins Act, which is our federal legislation that governs CTE. Moving vocational education to career and technical education. With the name change came new accountability measures, a more focused approach to rigorous content, alignment with challenging academic standards, a focus on technical skill proficiency and credentials, and preparation for further education. Additionally, CTE programs now stress the education of students for a range of careers careers in an industry instead of for specific trades. Effective CTE programs also actively partner with local employers to design high quality programs grounded in industry standards and recognize the skills that are needed to succeed in both college and career. We offer 95 unique courses on both the junior high and high school campuses in six program areas. Agricultural sciences, business information technology, engineering and technology education, family and consumer sciences health sciences and industrial education each of the program areas is further divided into our national 16 clusters we offer 15 of those 16 clusters in Katy clusters range from agricultural science to law and public safety to marketing to stem and everything in between last year I reported enrollment was 23,000 excuse me that is this year's enrollment is reported as 23,000 891 grades 7 through 12 this is a duplicate number as some Some students take more than one CTE course at a time, and we offer several semester courses. The CTE demographics mirror that of the district. It is important to know that CTE truly touches all students. The special population figures are also important to note, as special education and economically disadvantaged students are in line with the district figures. But we serve as far fewer students who are identified as limited English proficiency. In an effort to increase the exposure of ELL students to CTE courses, Linda Shepard and I have been working closely to educate and inform parents of our opportunities in CTE via outreach programs.
The majority of our 95 courses are taught at the high school level. Enrollment listed here are duplicate counts, meaning that students often take more than one CTE course at a time. Enrollment figures also include professional communications, forensic science, and anatomy and physiology all CTE courses it is important to note that when we ran the numbers we've seen an increase in our high school enrollment by a little over 4,000 from last year our junior high courses are semester long with the exception of our principles of Human Services and concepts of engineering technology courses both of which are offered for high school credit so what What is it that CTE actually does and what is our mission? We are the pipeline to industry. We prepare students with knowledge and skills to succeed in further education and the workforce. We do this by offering student leadership development opportunities through our co-curricular student organizations by offering work-based learning opportunities, which are internships, mentorships and job shadowing, and opportunities to validate the skill sets via industry credentials. career and technical student organizations are an integral part of all CTE classes and you may recognize them by their acronyms FFA FBLA HOSA FCCLA skills USA TSA and DECA CTSOs current technical student organizations are co-curricular meaning that leadership development skills are embedded into each of our CTE courses of our office goals is to provide each student the the opportunity to be part of their student professional organization at each campus. We know from experience and research that students who are active in a student organization are more likely to stay in school and pursue further education in the area in which they are most passionate. In addition, university leaders state that students engaged in their CTSO are 1.5 times more prepared than their peers. Students are able to participate in work-based learning opportunities through enrollment in a career prep or practicum course. These courses serve as students who want to put their classroom skills in action through on-the-job training. Students enrolled in these two courses are hired by companies and work a minimum of either 10 or 15 hours per week for the entire school year. The classroom teacher and the training manager work together and follow the student's progress through a training plan and evaluation. And often our students stay with the company after high school to help fund their college expenses. expenses. CT is farsely funded through federal dollars. As part of our technical skill attainment accountability measure, each district must report the number of credentials earned by CT students, specifically those earned by our second year students. Cady offers 48 different certifications and credentials. We have started to track our students' performance. As you can see, last school year students attempted a total of 585 certifications with a success rate of about 90%. last school year 1,258 certifications were attempted with a success rate of 86% notice that we are that we more than doubled our attempts that's a huge jump in one calendar year and we are experiencing additional gains in the number of students who sit for these exams and the certifications we offer this year and thanks to Chris Smith and his team they provided that those funds to pay for those student organs or those student certifications the next to fly The next few slides are from a study conducted from the Texas Workforce Investment Council in 2013. The first few slides will illustrate data collected for the state of Texas. The study reported a significant impact career and technical education has on student achievement. From 2007 to 2010, graduation rates were higher for students taking two or more CTE classes compared to all Texas high school students. In 2010 and 11, the graduation rate for students with two or more CTE classes was 95.91% compared to the 85.9% for all Texas high school students. Additionally, our dropout rates are far lower for students with two or more CTE classes. The dropout rates for all Texas high school students are higher than for the students with two or more classes. You can see with two or more CTE classes, there was half of that of all Texas students. students. So a greater percentage of Texas students with two or more CTE classes also pass the math and reading sections of the tax assessments. Again, this is data that you'll see from the State of Texas.
After reviewing the state data, we worked closely
with Dr. Matney and her team to pull the data for Katy to see how we stood up against the same general ed population. We know that Katy is a high performing district, but even still, those students with two or more CTE courses in some cases outperform those who are not exposed to CTE coursework.
With the star and of course assessments
look at the significant achievement increase in English 1 and 2. Knowing the impact CTE has on student achievement our office began in earnest to our effort to educate and expose students to career and technical education opportunities. This past summer we offered a junior high summer camp for for rising sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. This is our first ever CTE STEM maker camp. And literally in 15 minutes, 80 students were registered online to attend this camp. We were closed in 15 minutes. Students were able to engage in six different rotations where they designed, created, and tested six different projects. Not only were the students engaged in hands-on activities, but learned the theory and science behind each project. The last day of the camp, we held the student showcase, where parents were able to see what their child worked worked on each day during camp. The feedback from both students and parents was overwhelmingly positive that we will be offering two weeks worth of camp this summer. As mentioned earlier this evening, CTE has a low enrollment of ELL students. In an effort to increase that exposure to students and the CTE courses, our office is partnering with the Office of Other Languages to build awareness of the CTE opportunities and pathways for ELL students. We're piloting a parent night. Grand technical education courses and programs support the core academics by front-loading vocabulary, engaging students in the content via hands-on activities, and connecting academic content to skill attainment. This application of theory is successful for all learners. With the data presented and efforts to increase awareness of CTE programs and pathways underway, it is clearly visible that CTE is critical for student success and ultimately for our workforce development system. Our mission is very clear. We prepare students with knowledge and skills to succeed further education in the workforce. The data presented tonight is very clear. Students graduating from high school who have taken two or more CT classes are more likely to transition positively into postsecondary education and or the workforce. And so our belief is very clear. Education is workforce development and workforce development is economic development. The three are inextricably linked. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Mr. President? Yes, ma'am. The summer camp, was that free or was there a cost associated with that?
There was a cost. It was $150 for the four days, eight to three. It provided lunch, t-shirts, a lanyard. It provided all the instructional materials that the students did and it paid for the teachers. So it was a self-sustaining camp.
And where was the camp held? It was held at Cardiff Junior High. Thank you.
Yes.
Thank you.
Ms. Fox?
Mr. President, Dr. Martin, have you considered expanding it or do you have enough teachers to do that, maybe to a second junior high?
So we were expanding it to two weeks this summer. What the criteria for actually hosting it at a school is depending upon the amount of equipment that we can have. So we hosted 80 students this summer. We're going to go to seven rotations during that week instead of six. So we'll have 100 students serviced. we'll multiply that by two so we'll offer it for two weeks separate and those eighth incoming eighth graders they on their exit survey indicated that they wanted to come back for a second camp so we are toying with offering an eighth and ninth grade camp at the high school level I mean I want to go the rotations the rotations were pretty cool we did food science where the students made their own marshmallows they looked about they talked about the chemical reaction and the differences between having baking soda and baking powder by making different sets of muffins all of this each activity was in a three hour block so they had three hours to do a project so they made pens they did building structures where they tested it based on the size the weight of the bridge they did leather working 3d printing food science that's it
that man I have a question I'm very impressed with the 585 students who took the test going to 1258 so what do you attribute that success it was it just wasn't an increase in enrollment now I get more kids to sign up to take this
You're correct. Our office believes in three goals, and one of those three goals is industry credentialing. We did a lot more professional development with our teachers. We got the input and support from community members. We actually, again, thanks to Chris Smith and his team, we have the funds to support that, so we're able to offer those certifications across the district and not just in pockets in the district. We are expecting that to increase again as we bring online Microsoft IT Academy so those students are taking Microsoft Office Specialist exams, which are needed for any career field that you go into is to make sure that you understand that platform and that software. So and bringing on the new courses over at Miller, those industry certifications again when you talk to your folks in business and industry and they tell you what you need or what they want to see, since ultimately sooner or later everyone goes to work, just depends depends on when you drop in the workforce, we give them those skills.
Thank you. Dr. Martin, I have two of my four kids have used the Miller, or are using it. I'm extremely impressed. Great program. Some of the conflicts that they had getting into the program, by only going half a day, if they didn't have an AP course, their home campus, so they had some scheduling conflicts because you're only doing it for a half a day you run into issues sometimes with uh like cosmetology has to be done in two there's other districts throughout the state that do that program for three years has there been any looking or looking at instead of having miller like we use the program to turn that into its own high school not a magnet school but have kids start maybe as freshmen and just go to that high school so we don't have transportation issues and we might be able to capture some of the kids who might not want to stay in high school but get excited about these awesome programs and decide hey there's something else for you know here's something for me well that's a very interesting concept and certainly worth exploring two things come to mind when when we talk about a CTE high school, that would be the impact of those CTE courses on the home campus, and if there would be an impact at all, depending on what is at Miller and what stays at the home campus, and whether or not there's enough student interest.
President, if I could piggyback on that. I have secretly had those same kinds of thoughts as well, and I know that around the country, you're seeing these things happen. With the passing of House Bill 5, and the flexibility that that's we're still trying to create from that there could be an opportunity here something dr. Martin said and I think this is something we want to be careful about we have these programs across the district we don't want we don't want to dilute those programs but with the growth of interest and with the ability to perhaps get more students engaged in an earlier your age. Maybe we do both. I don't know. It's something to look into. I don't want to set that as a target yet, or a goal so to speak, but I wanted to really explore it some more and just see if that's something we want to look at or not. If we find some merit in it, we'll come out and talk to you. If we don't, we'll tell you that too, I guess. I thought about it for a while and I don't know if the renovations that we are excited about right now would allow that or would prohibit that or need to do something else I don't know yet more to come I guess ladies miss Fox I
suppose I thought of one more question dr. Martin do we have waiting lists for almost all the programs at Miller Career Center the Technical Center we do in
some areas most doctor story could probably tell you a little bit more about the weight for those programs they're very popular is that right dr.
story and there's a application process and those kinds of things and you stay
full most of the time yes with the waiting they fall and most all of our
programs have waitlist yes love to serve all our kids but I guess we only have just bill space and that's gonna all right too bad about that Rhodes Stadium parking lot Rhodes parking lot because I'm wondering what like Like President Griffin has given me something to think about that I had never considered before in making it a comprehensive high school. But do we have enough classrooms to house students and that would be it from 9 through 12? Is it big enough?
No. Probably not. Not with the current square footage.
Because right now they block like an English or some other, what other things? They block a...
You're thinking a PACE is blocked with English 4. Not all of our classes are blocked.
They have to take a clerk. I'm sorry not block. I didn't mean block they have to take a core class there in order to make the half-day work right No, if they were to take all their classes there that might face But you know we can always just go a third floor and a fourth floor why not president Griffin
Of course
It would take a Quite a bit of space to make that happen when we first opened in 08 with this new expansion we did pitch it to full-time for an option if kids wanted to come full-day they could it didn't work very well with their schedules Katie Tigers they want to go to Katie High School half day you know Taylor Mustangs they want it they're still connected to their home campus a lot of kids we we had a handful it just didn't work very well but we We have tried that. But it would take a, with the size we have and the limited staffing, limited classrooms currently, even with the growth, it would take more space to offer all of the course offerings to get kids over there. You know, all the AP classes, the foreign language. We currently don't have the space, and even with the shell space, we wouldn't be able to do that. We'd have to have much bigger facility to make it 9 through 12 full day.
President, I think I just got a challenge. I love a challenge. I believe when you set the goal, then you see. You don't try to see and then set the goal. Goal, then you see. But what's best for kids and what can we really sustain is a big challenge. What can we staff? Is there interest? interest you know if we did something very differently would it practice don't know yet but I think with the new push for more practical and relevant education something we may want to talk about I said the flexibility of hospital five that we're still trying to maximize something to think about I think some we'll be talking further about but I think dr. Webb story has some some some valid options and concerns. But then again.
Never know.
Never know. Thanks much.
Correct.
Thank you.
Any other questions? Well, thank you. That closes out the report section. Informational items. We've changed this just a little bit. as a board we occasionally send out some of our board members to represent us and because of the open meetings act we're not able to hear what our board members got to hear about so in the informational items we now have an 8.1 board members activities update so we've had the privilege of having two board members go out and we're going to hear hear from them tonight on what what they got to view on the super superintendents community roundtable and Katie ISD Education Foundation mrs. Ashley van your first yes I had the
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privilege of representing the school board at the superintendent's community roundtable last week in attendance for many members of the community are very active and whether they support or challenge Katie I see and they were there a lot of them were former bond committee members a lot of them had a lot of interesting things to say and experience and knowledge so it was a great room also that many cabinet members and executive leaders were present and led the table talk the format was table talk first the table talk consisted of discussing some recent legislation House Bill 2804 Senate Bill 507 and House Bill 2398 House Bill 2804 which should be effective in 2017 and 18 is the new assignment of an A to F rating for accountability for campuses and again this is a table talk item so members of the community talked about it table the tables were led by executive officers and cabinet members in the district and pretty much so there's an ABC DNF a being exemplary be being recognized C being acceptable and DF unacceptable there was a lot of concern and questions that the community members did have about this new accountability rating even though the portion of it does give some local control it's a 10% of the rating is given to local control so feedback from the campus and the state believes that this new a to F accountability rating will encourage parents to have more involvement on campus and in their children's education however pretty much the entire room felt like it was gonna put a different pressure on kids because they already know ABCD and F and they know that you know an A is great a B is okay but they're gonna get in trouble for anything less so community felt like is maybe a little bit wrong message for kids they also thought it was a bit divisive across the district but you're going to have some schools that are C's and some that are B's and and it was going to kind of make pockets of the district that it out in different ways some for the good and some for the bad also effect I thought it would affect home sales and neighborhoods and felt like it would be harder for districts to attract and keep good teachers once the school got a lower accountability rating on the a to f system they might leave that school and they'll be hired harder to hire some quality teachers then a bill 507 is the installation of cameras and self-contained special education classes where this law this this bill has been put in place to protect students and staff and it is common knowledge that many teachers and aides have said when once two cameras go up into their room they will no longer be willing to teach in that capacity and and special ed teachers are a pretty rare and amazing talent and it will be very hard the community members therefore very hard to lose some of these staff members who refused to do their job anymore because cameras were in the room and the cameras must cover the entire classroom record audio a written notice has to be provided by the school to let everyone know in the classroom that their classroom is now been being recorded the videos we retain for six or six months even up to a year and it's confidential by campus all it takes is one parent to request that a carry put in the room to watch their child and and so it's there's a lot of differing opinions on that and and most of it was not not necessary positive and the third house bill the third thing we talked in table talk was House bill 2398 which ends the policy of criminalizing children for truancy and it if it would were to go to court it would now be a civil case and not a criminal case so you wouldn't be having 12 year olds who are not considered criminals and be a civil issue instead the community felt like it might create more work for campus counselors where it does establish a plan to put in place once a child is continuing to have absences benefit the child it's the community members in their discussion felt like it might make more work for the counselors and it will require new training for police officers and but school districts will be required to take meaningful steps to address the underlying issues that can cost you and see which would help students stay in school and succeed so those were all very interesting topics and then for QA questions covered the questions that were asked were about the uncapped and unmowed grass on campuses they're seeing across the district and about attendance boundary map boundary modification the interest in multi-bill schedule transportation again buses the canvas and how now students can only access only their teachers canvas site they can't look at other campuses to maybe see how some other teachers are teaching the subject and social media access on campus and overall I think it was a very good evening attendance was was good um and the and the feedback and the questions were were all really showing that there are the community really does care and the interest in going forward and being involved with kdisd um currently and going towards into the future so i was very privileged to represent this school board and attend the roundtable thank you very much and
thank you mr fraley that's community engagement a plus mrs courtney thank you so i am going to
report to you guys about fireflies and food trucks i'm sorry the kdi education foundation we have had two board meetings thus far a little bit about the kdic foundation their mission and vision to summarize it talks about enriching teaching inspiring learning and uniting the community their first event was fireflies and food trucks where they raised $30,000 which is great they use that as 50% fundraiser and 50% community engagement that is not their biggest fundraiser and next they have the Katie half marathon on February 6th and they've partnered with a reason to race so that is a program that supports nonprofit organizations so you can donate and support make pledges towards anybody who's going to run the marathon there's some chat about maybe engaging children and that as well that could run because you don't have to do a half marathon there's different levels you can also go to Kroger and Amazon on the KDISD foundation KDISD education foundation org so when you shop at Kroger or you shop through Amazon percentage of the proceeds are given back to the KDISD education foundation There is also their big event, which is their primary fundraiser, and that is going to be in April. I don't think they've set a specific date yet. We're working on that. And that's the jazz event. And that's where they raise most of their funds to support the scholarships that are given out. They are encouraging as many people as possible to support the foundation by being an investor. And so that's where we're at so far. Two meetings in. they got a fantastic board group of people very passionate and You know they do great things, so I'll continue to keep you guys posted as we unfold
Thank You Courtney board members. Do you have any questions?
Thank you very much and future meetings regular board meeting will be Monday October 26th, having no further business, this meeting is adjourned at 8.07.
Official documents
Agenda
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Board packet · 36 documents
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- 1 - PBK Letter of Review for Shade Structures Project 40 KB
- Architect Ltr - MPJH GMP Recommendation Letter_Amendment 1 136 KB
- Atty Ltr (A133-2009 GMP Amendment No 1 Memorial Prkwy JH Renovation) 122 KB
- MPJH-GMP Amendment One-Drymalla 9255 KB
- Architect Ltr - MPJH GMP Recommendation Letter_Amendment 2 137 KB
- Atty Ltr (A133-2009 GMP Amendment No 2 Memorial Prkwy JH (Renovation-Additions)) 122 KB
- MPJH-GMP Amendment Two-Drymalla 9276 KB
- Atty Ltr (Electric Easement - CenterPoint - ES #40) 124 KB
- Electric Easement - CenterPoint - Elem #40 521 KB
- 1 - RFCSP 1546 - Tennis Soccer Baseball Softball Equipment Supplies Apparel - TAB 37 KB
- 2 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Cinco Ranch HS 333 KB
- 3 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Katy HS 1028 KB
- 4 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Mayde Creek HS 977 KB
- 5 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Morton Ranch HS 347 KB
- 6 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Seven Lakes HS 983 KB
- 7 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Taylor HS 980 KB
- 8 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Tompkins HS 365 KB
- 9 - Shade Structures Proposal TAB 76 KB
- 10 - Shade Structures Proposal EVAL 76 KB
- Board Grant Summary-October 8 KB
- Grant Descriptions-October 67 KB
- 2 - RFCSP 1546 - Tennis Soccer Baseball Softball Equipment Supplies Apparel - EVAL 33 KB
- 2015-10-19 KISD_MCTC DD Booklet_10.9.2015 7497 KB
- 2015-10-19 KISD_MCTC DD Board Presentation 20032 KB
- 1_ Function and object code description 12 KB
- 2_ REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND FUND BALANCE 1015 87 KB
- 3_KISD_2015-16 Budget 1015 22 KB
- 101315 Budget Amendment Detail 112 KB
- BOARD DOCS-LEP Enrollment Supporting Doc. 2015-2016 107 KB
- 2015-2016 District Improvement Plan 454 KB
- Attorney letter Memorial MUD, Hayes 132 KB
- Interlocal Mem MUD, Hayes 2709 KB
- Elementary CIP 2811 KB
- Junior High CIP 1150 KB
- High School CIP 709 KB
- CTE Overview 10 19 2015 1252 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |