April 23, 2018

0:02 Unknown speaker not human verified

The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, April 23, 2018, and the time is 6.31 p.m. Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to this notice for this meeting?

0:18 Unknown speaker not human verified

Madam President, we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the meeting notice tonight.

0:24 Unknown speaker not human verified

On behalf of my colleagues, I would like to welcome everyone here tonight for the regular board meeting. Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting Thursday, April 19th, and have had four days to study its contents and to receive clarification from Dr. Hint. Additionally, the Board met last week in a work study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight. The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting. In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. Madam President. Mrs. Doyle.

1:13 Unknown speaker not human verified

I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Motion has been made by

1:21 Unknown speaker not human verified

Mrs. Doyle, a second by Ms. Fox. The Board of Trustees approves a personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Madam President. Mr. Mohoski. I move the Board of Trustees,

1:43 Unknown speaker not human verified

after having considered the recommendation of the Superintendent to non-renew the term contract of the employee as discussed in closed meeting, authorizes the Superintendent to notify this employee that a proposal to non-renew their term contract at the end of the 2017-2018 contract term is pending before the Board and notify them of their right to request a hearing.

2:05 Unknown speaker not human verified

A motion has been made by Mr. Moholsky. Second by Mr. Lacy. Did the Board of Trustees, after having considered the recommendation of the superintendent to non-renew the term contract of the employee, discuss and close meeting, authorizes the superintendent to notify this employee that a proposal to non-renew their term contract at the end of 2017-18 contract term is pending before the Board and notify them of their right to request a hearing. Is there any discussion or questions? We will now proceed to vote. All in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.

2:38 Unknown speaker not human verified

Aye.

2:39 Unknown speaker not human verified

Motion passes 7-0.

2:45 Unknown speaker not human verified

Madam President. Mrs. Doyle. I move that the Board of Trustees names Gwen Coffey as the Director of Compliance for Special Education as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.

2:56 Unknown speaker not human verified

Second.

2:58 Unknown speaker not human verified

Second.

3:00 Unknown speaker not human verified

A motion has been made by Mrs. Doyle, a second by Mr. Griffin, that the Board of Trustees names Gwen Coffey as the Director of Compliance for Special Education as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? All right. Proceed to vote. All in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.

3:20 Unknown speaker not human verified

And Ms. Coffey is here with us, so I'd like for her to stand, and congratulations. We'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning.

3:36 Unknown speaker not human verified

Thank you.

3:40 Unknown speaker not human verified

Next we have a dynamite student from Wood Creek Elementary School, Landon LaBuff. And he is a fifth grader. Principal is Ronnie Mosier. His parents, Corey and Carrie, are with him, as well as his sister, Kaylee, who's in the eighth grade at Wood Creek Junior High. We also have Tyler LaBeouf in the third grade at Wood Creek Elementary. I'm going to give a little bit of information about this young man. He loves church activities, playing games with his family, basketball, baseball. His favorite subjects are math and science. Here's a couple of quotes about Landon from his teachers. Then we're going to let him lead us in the pledge, and then he's going to own the mic. But from Crystal Vivier, fifth grade science and social studies teacher, with his kind heart, awesome personality, and willingness to learn, Landon was born to be a leader. And this is from Katie Greenwood, fifth grade ELA and social studies teacher. Landon is always prepared for class and ready to learn. He stays focused throughout the lesson and gives 100% effort on all of his work. Landon is a great student and I know that he will be successful in everything that he tries and then from Rowena hey fifth grade math and social studies teacher Landon is a very responsible student that I have had the pleasure of being in my class he leads students well in his role of being student council president he has earned respect from his peers and myself being his teacher he takes his work seriously whether in the classroom or in extracurricular activities. The efforts he puts in is always well beyond expectations. I think we've got a dynamite student here to lead us in the pledge and then he's gonna give us a little information on his thoughts about Wood Creek and himself. Come on up Lynn and lead us.

5:42 Unknown speaker not human verified

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god and invisible with liberty and justice for all honor the texas flag i pledge allegiance to thee texas one state under god one and indivisible

6:11 Unknown speaker not human verified

all right you own it buddy it's all yours

6:15 Unknown speaker not human verified

Good evening school board members and superintendent Hint. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to come speak to you. It is an honor and privilege to be here on behalf of Wood Creek Elementary. There are many good schools in KDISD, but I believe Wood Creek stands out as a great school. So what makes Wood Creek great? I'd like to share with you a couple of reasons I think Wood Creek is a great school. A great school begins with a great leader. Mr. Moser is always smiling and talking to us as often as he can. He even has a video log that provides encouraging messages for the students, teachers, and parents. One of my favorite memories of Mr. Moser was when we met a challenge he gave us, and as a reward, he spent his day on the roof of our school. At recess, we could look up and see our principal singing and dancing on the roof with music playing. It was great. Year after year, I've been blessed with great teachers at Wood Creek. We have teachers who make learning fun and challenge students to be the best they can be. We have teachers who provide second chances and lend extra help when needed. We even have a program called Lunch Bunch where a teacher will take their own lunch break and spend it eating with some of their students. Our teachers are setting the example and creating a friendly, warm environment where students can not only learn but feel welcome and accepted. I'm very thankful for all the positive, kind teachers at Wood Creek. We have some programs at Wood Creek that I've had the opportunity to be part of. Some of my favorite ones are Read, Read, Run, Choir, Ranger Science, Ranger World, Student Council, and Raw Raw Rallies. These programs are not only fun, but they also provide a positive experience for the students at Wood Creek. Wood Creek Elementary is a great place to be. When I leave Wood Creek at the end of this school year, I will always remember the kindness, care, and encouragement given to me by my Ranger family. Thank you for your attention this evening.

8:27 Unknown speaker not human verified

All right. Good job.

8:35 Unknown speaker not human verified

Landon, that was a fantastic job. In fact, you speak so well, I'm wondering if you might want to just trade seats with me tonight. Let me sit here by your dad and you can handle that. Is that right? All right, we do have something for you. And I've got to tell you, I've known Landon for a few years. It's great to hear the quotes from his teachers and how well he excels in the classroom. And at his school, I know him from the ball field, and he excels there as well. So he's quite a little ball player as well. But we have something special for you tonight. Here's a little certificate of recognition for being so brave, coming out here and leading us in the pledge. Fantastic job.

9:06 Unknown speaker not human verified

Thank you.

9:06 Unknown speaker not human verified

We'll give you that. We've got a little backpack for you. Take as well. Well, and this little special thing that I think only about nine students per year get, because only when we're in school, we have a student come up each month and lead us in the pledge. And they get one of these. It's a little lunch bag that'll keep things hot, cold things cold. So take it proudly. Great job, Landon. Thank you so much. We're going to come back here and take a picture.

9:38 Unknown speaker not human verified

Here we go. Set it behind. And three, two, one. Let's do one more. And three, two, one. Got it.

9:47 Unknown speaker not human verified

Great job, Landon.

9:50 Unknown speaker not human verified

Great job, Landon.

9:52 Unknown speaker not human verified

Well, great job, Landon. Thank you. Next on our agenda is the recognitions portion, and I'd like to introduce Ms. Maria DiPetta, Manager of Media Relations and Multimedia. Did I say something wrong? Did I forget scouts? I did. All right, let me finish this, then you do scouts. Ms. Maria DiPetta, and she's here with Media Relations and Multimedia for the recognition portion of our meeting. Are there any scouts in the audience? See, I knew that.

10:27 Unknown speaker not human verified

Oh, wait.

10:28 Unknown speaker not human verified

Come on. Go ahead.

10:31 Unknown speaker not human verified

Hey, you came. All right. So please tell us what you're working on. I know because you've already talked and your first name what you're working on and the and why you're here All right, thank you Callum and there are open reserved seats for scouts in the front if you would like a closer view You're good

11:11 Unknown speaker not human verified

Okay, good evening, Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Hint. We start tonight with the Texas Association of School Boards, also known as TASB. This organization hosts an annual recognition program to assist districts in expressing appreciation to businesses that support schools and students, and to encourage others to set up to help as well. We have the opportunity tonight to extend our gratitude to five of our business partners. Each business partner will be asked to come forward as we highlight the details of our partnership. To lead the recognition, I'd like to introduce Janet Tice, Director of Community Partnerships.

12:00 Unknown speaker not human verified

Good evening, Madam President. Board Members and Superintendent Hint, it's my pleasure to present to you our 2018 TASB Business Partner Recognition. Before I get started I want to point out that we've got some of our 2017 recipients who've joined in our reception and celebration tonight in support of this year's honorees. If you are from Chick-fil-A, GEICO, Memorial Hermann, Katie, Wood Group, the Monte Ballard YMCA, Bradstis Valley Schools Credit Union, Members Choice Credit Union, please stand where you are. Thank you for coming back, we appreciate it. KDIC business partnerships are people-centered friendships between employees and campus staff. This year's business community response to Hurricane Harvey, we think, highlighted just how deep those friendships run. run. Spotlighting the real character not just of our school communities but of our business community as well. We are deeply grateful to these business partners and honored to present them as representatives of our school business partnership program. They are all involved on many levels with our campuses but tonight we're just going to point out their support for Harvey recovery. And we've had a few subs on our representatives so the name I call out may or may not match the name that is on your slide. Academy Sports and Outdoors, I'm not sure if Chris Woods made it. Academy supports our district in many ways, but tonight, Chris are you here? Come on up to the front please, that's great, glad you're here. Academy supports our district in many ways, but tonight we're particularly grateful for their quick action and immediate impact following Harvey. Academy donated two semi trucks full of brand new merchandise to KDSD families affected by the flood, a gift distributed to the Beck Junior High and Maid Creek communities. An incredibly generous gift received with immense gratitude and enthusiasm by our campuses and their families, many of whom had lost everything due to flooding in their homes. Thank you to Academy. HEB is represented by Cynthia Maness, their area community coordinator. HEB is known statewide for their philanthropic efforts, but HEB is no less valuable to us here in Katy ISD. HEB regularly, faithfully contributes both product and most impressive human resource time to our schools. But tonight we honor HEB for their generous support of our Harvey-affected campuses. For example, HEB fed over a thousand people at Beck Junior High's community night, donated food and supplies by the truckload to Schmalz Elementary. They regularly go above and beyond for our schools and our families. Thank you to HEB. Rudy's Country Store and Barbecue is represented tonight by Sammy Fault, their manager, a newcomer to our solid base of business partners, Rudy hit the ground running supporting our students and staff since the restaurant's beginning. In response to Harvey, Rudy sped almost our entire community generously providing meals for families in our KDICD shelters, meal certificates for families once classes resumed, meals for staff at multiple KDICD schools. They also graciously provided meeting space, opening the restaurant to KDICD groups while this administration building was under renovation. Thank you to Rudy's. Sewell Automotive, Sewell Mercedes-Benz of West Houston and Sewell Cadillac of Houston represented tonight by Lance Baker, their general manager. Sewell began their relationship with KDIC as a KDIC Education Foundation investor and quickly stepped into full gear when Hurricane Harvey impacted its two partner campuses Bear Creek Elementary and Cinco Ranch High School. Sewell immediately and without hesitation responded to Hurricane Harvey needs at both heavily impacted schools donating $5,000 to support Bear Creek Elementary and matching support for families at Cinco. Thank you to our friends at Sewell. Walmart Neighborhood Market represented tonight by Roxanne Shoemake Walmart believes in operating globally and giving back locally, creating an impact in the neighborhoods where they live and work. Thanks to Ms. Shoemake's initiative, Walmart recently awarded a $20,000 grant to Bear Creek Elementary to support the school's most pressing post-Harvey needs. That partnership has continued to other opportunities, creating a long-term friendship that will benefit both the campus and the business for years to come. Thank you to Walmart. So we are honored to present to you our 2018 Texas Association of School Board Honorees, Academy Sports and Outdoors, HEB, Rudy's Country Store and Barbecue, Houston Walmart Neighborhood Market and Sewell Automotive. We're proud to recognize these partners as shining examples of KDSD partnerships and we're grateful to the board and Dr. Hint for giving us the opportunity to do so. So thank you very much.

17:38 Unknown speaker not human verified

.

17:42 Unknown speaker not human verified

All right, here we go, three, two, one, give me more.

17:46 Unknown speaker not human verified

And then three, two, one. .

17:58 Unknown speaker not human verified

Next, it's my pleasure to now recognize the national student winners in the Continental Math League Competition, a math problem solving contest involving over 300 schools from across the country where students solve challenging problems during monthly meets. National winners achieved a perfect score on each of the five monthly meets. Will Charles Chen and Ellen Chee, both Patterson Elementary third graders, please come forward. Congratulations on earning national winners.

19:02 Unknown speaker not human verified

One more round of applause for them. Two teams from our district earned first place at the Destination Imagination Texas State Tournament and are now advancing to the global finals held in Knoxville, Tennessee next month. Students, please come forward when I call your name. Winning the drop zone category from the team Overflowing Juice Boxes at Alexander Elementary, along with the campus sponsor, Mrs. Linda Twiggs, and parent team manager, Edna Ojeda, can the following students please come forward when I call your name. Samar Kalra. David Liu. Julia Matthews, Alonzo Ramos, Neha Sharma, and Annie Wang. And winning in the Maize Craze category as well as receiving the Renaissance Award for Creativity was the team Mays Wazers from Griffin Elementary, along with their campus sponsor, Mrs. Carla Morgan, and parent team manager, Mrs. Ginny Kumar. Students, please come forward when I call your name. Elizabeth Chung, Ambrita Kumar, Anita Kumar, Isha Kura, Christopher Wu, and Charlie Yang.

20:55 Unknown speaker not human verified

Thank you.

21:14 Unknown speaker not human verified

Yeah. And to the left.

21:25 Unknown speaker not human verified

There.

21:26 Unknown speaker not human verified

There we go. And in three, two, one.

21:33 Unknown speaker not human verified

There we go. And in three, two, one.

21:41 Unknown speaker not human verified

The best of luck to all these kids at Global Finals. Congratulations.

22:09 Unknown speaker not human verified

The 2018 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo finished up a short time ago and five KDISD students with stunning art pieces were among the winning lineup. KDISD students artwork sold for a cumulative grand total of $581,500. Lindsay Kuan, fifth grader from Pattison Elementary was the first ever reserve class champion Elementary for her piece entitled The End of a Dusty Day. It sold at art auction for $22,000. Her teacher is a Valerie Maggette. Congratulations to you Lindsay. We ask all these Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo winners to remain up front for for a group photo. Earning the title of reserve champion, class champion rather, painting was Amber Wang from Taylor High School with her piece titled Serenading the Birds. It sold at the auction for $25,000. Her teacher is Nancy Viola. Congratulations, Amber. At the competition, a piece entitled In the Rocks to receive the class champion mixed media award. It sold for more than any other mixed media piece at $80,000. Please join me in congratulating Michelle DuPont from Tompkins High School for receiving this award. Her teacher is Christy Skinner. Congratulations, Michelle. Thank you, Michelle. Now only one sculpture piece entitled Dream Catchers advanced to the art auction this year, and it was created by Fatime Ebrahimi from Tater High School, who won the class champion sculpture. She topped last year's record for student sculpture sales, which she said, with her work auctioning off for a total of $105,000. Please join me in congratulating Fatime as well as her teacher Ashley Nimi on this great accomplishment. With over 100 districts competing, we are thrilled to announce that Janice Kong won Reserve Grand Champion Best of Show. Her piece, Horsing Around, was auctioned for $150,000. Please join me in congratulating Janice and her teacher, Nancy Viola from Taylor High School. And if these students' parents are also in the audience, can you please stand to be recognized?

25:18 Unknown speaker not human verified

One more round of applause, congratulations to all of you on this amazing accomplishment. The Future Business Leaders of America, FBLA, is the largest career student organization in the world. Each year, FBLA helps over 230,000 members prepare for business careers by bringing business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs. Today we recognize the first place winners from the state leadership conference. The following students took first place in their respective events. Students please come forward when I call your name. From Cinco Ranch High School, Erica Alvarez, introduction to business. Eva Buck, social media. Shreya Budhirajah, management information systems. Miriam Hashmi, Management Information Systems. Alina Ilbeg, Chapter Scrapbook. Alice Liang, Chapter Scrapbook. Abby Ronnie, Local Chapter Business Report. Christina Ryu, Local Chapter Business Report. And Jenny Su, Local Chapter Business Report. From Seven Lakes High School, Sonia Abraham, Community Service Project. Yiping Ang, Introduction to FBLA. Karthik Arunachalam, Impromptu Speaking. Rohit Barichulo, Partnership with Business. Apinav Basvoju, Management Decision Making. Ranhita Bora, Business Ethics. Andrew Sean, Global Business. Michelle Shen, Insurance and Risk Management. Surya Chokhar, Management Decision Making. Sean Du Soya, Partnership with Business. Mia Halabi, Business Ethics. Raju Zhang, Business Ethics. Ethan Zhang, Management Decision Making. Suja Madadela, Global Business. Athiya Manjul Global Business Natasha Neira Virtual Business Finance Challenge Mohit Padhai Network Design Vineet Pedasetti E-Business Adedi Panchal Visual Business Finance Challenge Eshna Park Publication Design Manav Patel, Network Design. Sia Patil, Publication Design. Akshat Prabhakar, Network Design. Utkarsh Singh, e-Business. Yashraj Sinha, Network Concepts. Aishu Suroosh, Organizational Leadership. ALICE WANG, COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT, AND MICHAEL YU, E-BUSINESS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THESE STUDENTS ON THIS OUTSTANDING RECOGNITION.

29:01 Unknown speaker not human verified

And in three, two, one.

29:16 Unknown speaker not human verified

And there you have it, folks. These are our future business leaders of America.

29:20 Unknown speaker not human verified

Thank you.

29:32 Unknown speaker not human verified

Our next recognition goes to Reese Neal of Katy High School who won first place in the health career photography at the Health Occupation Students of America State Competition. HOSA is a club for students interested in a career in the medical or health field and allows them to practice health procedures and learn about related topics. Congratulations to Reese on this award. Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America is an organization that helps students become leaders to address important personal, family, work, and social issues through family and consumer sciences education. Kevencia Drou from Morton Ranch High School placed first in the Fashion Construction Star event held last month in Dallas at the state FCC LA Leadership Conference. She created a fully sequenced line evening gown that was judged on eight construction techniques and required her to present a speech to a panel of judges about her experience. Congratulations to Kevencia on your accomplishment. For our next recognitions, I would like to introduce Mrs. Debbie Decker, Executive Director of KDISD Athletic Department.

31:01 Unknown speaker not human verified

Good evening, Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Hint. Each year, all state athletes are selected from districts across Texas as some of the best in the state at their sport. Athletes, please come forward as I call your name, and if the parents and coaches are in the audience, please stand when your athlete's name is called. We're receiving an All-State Award in basketball, as well as a really fun ride to watch from Tompkins High School. Jamal Biennemi and CJ Washington.

32:07 Unknown speaker not human verified

Congratulations, guys. Tonight, I also have the privilege of announcing recent state gold medalists for wrestling. Athletes, please come forward as I call your name. And again, if any parents or coaches are in the audience, please stand. In girls wrestling, both with gold medals, we have Kayla DeLeon from Cinco Ranch High School. And Gabrielle Holloway from Seven Lakes High School. in boys wrestling earning a gold medal we have Daniel Manabog from Katy High School please give these athletes a round of applause

33:22 Unknown speaker not human verified

Very good. Congratulations. Thank you guys. And we would also like to take this opportunity to recognize Vinnie Lowe, Coach Vinnie Lowe from Katy High School, who received the State Wrestling Coach of the Year Award.

34:09 Unknown speaker not human verified

Congratulations, Coach Lowe and all the athletes.

34:29 Unknown speaker not human verified

Next, Project ADAM is a nationwide program dedicated to educating schools and communities about sudden cardiac deaths. A Project ADAM Heart Safe School designation means a campus has taken all of the necessary steps to safeguard the health of students. This includes ensuring that all AEDs are available and accessible with a written plan and a team of CPR AED trained staff ready to act in an emergency. Katie Elementary has been awarded with a Heart Safe School designation from Project Adam. Please join me in recognizing Kim Roberson, nurse at Katie Elementary.

35:35 Unknown speaker not human verified

Congratulations, Ms. Robertson. Kathy Frazier of Maid Creek High School has achieved the certified journalism educator status from the Journalism Education Association. Educators who gain this certification show evidence of continuing education, professional growth, knowledge of teaching and advising methods, and scholastic journalism and leadership at local, state, or national levels. Ms. Frazier was honored April 16th in San Francisco at the JEA NSPA Spring Convention. She is one of only 855 teachers to receive this award. Ms. Frazier, please come forward and congratulations on receiving this honor.

36:52 Unknown speaker not human verified

One more round of applause. And this concludes our recognitions for this evening.

37:04 Unknown speaker not human verified

Thank you, Ms. Peta. We'll now move to item six on our agenda, report 6.1, dual credit options. Dr. Steele.

37:15 Unknown speaker not human verified

Good evening, President Vann, Superintendent Hint, and Board of Trustees. I'm here tonight to present a report on the options for the dual credit program. This report is a result of actions required by KDISD's Strategic Design Goal 1. Specific Result 1.7 focuses on the feasibility of expanding dual credit program options. By definition, dual credit is a process by which a high school student enrolls in a college course and receives simultaneous academic credit for the course from both the college and the high school. It is a partnership between a college and an ISD with a Memorandum of Understanding, While students are responsible for the coursework at a college, they're also required to learn the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. Currently, our dual credit classes are free of charge and you must have a dual credit teacher with a master's degree in the subject being taught with a few exceptions. Our current dual credit program, seven of our eight Kitty ISD KDISD high schools currently offer dual credit. PATO will come on board next year. Both Houston Community College faculty and KDISD faculty teach dual credit classes. The majority of our courses are taught face to face. A few are taught online to mitigate our shortage of teachers that are certified. And this year we encouraged staff, schools to actively recruit staff to teach dual credit courses that are already teaching on their campus. This year there are 29 sections being taught by HCC staff and 23 sections being taught by KDISD staff. We advertise in our catalog which is a good practice. In 2016 we started charging no fee for students to take an HCC course and this year is the first year that KDISD offered economically disadvantaged students textbooks otherwise students must pay for their textbook there are a number of benefits for taking dual credit benefits of dual credit programs according to the 2017 Hanover best practice report show 90% of dual credit students will pursue further education after high school dual credit students transition more successfully to post-secondary education. Students build confidence in being able to attend post-secondary education. Dual credit classes prepare students with a variety of skills like time management, written communication, research, and critical thinking. Dual credit classes appeal to a much broader range of students and students benefit financially by earning college credit that is free. The The demographics shown show the demographics for last year. And you can see there that 56% of our students are white, while 29% are Hispanic. This chart shows the enrollment trends for the last five years in KDISD. You will see that from 2014 to 2018, we've had an increase. It really does make sense since we are now not charging any fees for those particular courses. And these numbers reflect the seats in classes, not individual students. While you can't see this very clearly, this is part of our course catalog, and those are all the courses that we currently offer here in Katy ISD. The ones, the courses found most often in a high school master schedule. You'll see US History which is taught in the 11th grade. Then English, Government and Economics are all senior classes. Most high schools offer all four of those. So, we did a student interest survey. was given to students in grades 6 through 12 from February 9th to March 5th this year. There were a little over 39,000 surveys delivered and 22,000 respondents for a return of about 58%. The purpose of the survey was to help the district make decisions about future programming for students. Results reflect only the perceptions and opinions of those survey participants. When asked the question, which of the following best describes your feelings about taking a college-level course while in high school? 29% of students who answered the survey are somewhat excited about taking a college course, and 18% are really excited. So if you put that together, that's about 47%. When asked the question, are you interested in taking a dual-credit course in KDISD in the future? 70%, almost 16,000 students answered the survey are interested in taking dual credit classes. For those students who answered no, 74% of them, which was about 5,000 of that 6,700 you see up there, would take a dual credit course if it had additional grade points. This is a comprehensive list of all of the dual credit courses we currently offer and the highlighted ones are the ones that students chose most as the ones that they would like to take and it's surprising those results because we have not ever taught dual credit Spanish language and we We have very few psychology classes that make, but U.S. history is quite popular. 50% of those students who participated in the student interest survey would like more information about the benefits of dual credit. In this review of the dual credit program, as you can see from the list in front of you, we were able to gather information for a variety of sources. and our main source to see in what direction to move would be the KTISD student interest survey. So here are our recommendations for our dual credit program. To develop a district-wide recruitment plan to increase the number of master's degrees teachers available to teach dual credit classes. To design a brochure that details the benefits of dual credit to be used during course course selection, as well as meet with lead counselors to update them yearly about the dual credit course offerings. Increase the GPA weight for dual credit courses from 4.0 to 4.5, beginning with the class of 2022, which is our incoming ninth graders in 2018. Update EIC regulation to reflect the GPA weight change for dual credit courses. courses, continue to explore other dual credit course possibilities in our career and technology fields such as vet tech, farm tech, etc. and to continue to use online options to ensure all courses students want to take are available. Thank you. I welcome any questions that you might have on our findings and our recommendations.

45:06 Unknown speaker not human verified

Madam President. Mr. Scott.

45:10 Unknown speaker not human verified

Go ahead. Go ahead.

45:13 Unknown speaker not human verified

First of all, I am a very strong supporter of the dual credit program, but I guess this is a good time, since we're looking four years out, to some adjustments to at least make some points. what I am concerned about the dual credit. One, there's actually some very excellent research out of the University of Texas that shows correlation between students taking dual credit in high school and actual college graduation rates. I'm not so much impressed with participation, although I recognize that that's important, but when you have a dual credit program the purpose should should be to facilitate and make it easier to graduate either on time or ahead of time when you get to the university. The one thing that concerns me the most about the 4.5 GPA, and I'm not opposed to it, but I have a concern, and that is you've got some statistical nuggets within your tables. I don't believe that the 4.5 should become a magnet to attract students into that program that in turn would dilute the rigor of that program. So we have good correlation analysis out of the University of Texas. With that correlation, I don't have an instant recall of exactly what it is, but what it tends to show is that there are core subject areas, the math, sciences, hard language core, basic core subjects that have that strong correlation. correlation. So if we're looking at taking it up to 4.5, I might throw out something radically different that says, I've seen research that says there is a stronger correlation at Texas universities and colleges between dual credit and advanced placement. And there's some reasons for that that may be counterintuitive. But when we are looking to take the dual credit, there may be There may be subjects, there may be occasions, if you have the empirical analysis, which is certainly available, that you could encourage a higher GPA benefit. I think equally there are opportunities where you wouldn't want to give a 4.5. I think it is this when you look at when you look at the dual credit course and if the goal is participation I want to say as a fundamental principle of mine that's the wrong goal participation is not the goal productivity is the goal preparing kids for college so if we could if we're going to if we're looking at expanding this down the line I believe that it would be good to have correlation analysis between star and dual credit classroom grades star dual classroom results star and AP results so that we really get a profile of those seven eight nine ten eleven courses that that we want to bring kids into the AP And if those correlations break apart, for instance, if we can work with the University of Texas or other independent research and we find that in a given course, 20% of the kids get a college degree in six years, which is the industry standard, I'm not sure that that merits a 4.5. but if 85% get a college degree within six-year industry standard then that's a pretty darn good indicator that we want people in that program so I don't my my approach and in 2022 I may be alive and I may even be on the board I'm not counting on either one I'm just saying looking ahead that what we need what we need to look at is let's make this an extremely productive rewarding thing. Let me give you an example. I'll try to find it and then I'll shut up. There's one in here where you have the participation. I don't know what slide that is. It's the one students, white, Hispanic, African American and other. Well, whites are about 38, 39 percent of our student population. I don't know for sure what the high school number is. Hispanics are roughly the same. African Americans, I think, are 13. Asians are about 13 to 15 percent, doing it totally from memory. Right. I would like to see, if we're looking out four years, where are the metrics that we can use to get students into the AP program with an opportunity of succeeding? The bottom line is this. This chart is an indication that the equity issue in the state of Texas, this is going to be about as good as it gets in the state of Texas. But the indication here is that I believe that we need to really look at this analytically, course by course, correlation by correlation with college board data and University of Texas that's done some good groundbreaking research on this. and let's really define what the value of the dual credit course is. Here's the worst, worst thing that could happen. We have a lot of advanced placement kids. They're taking these advanced placement courses. They're going to Tier 1 campuses. They're going to out-of-state, to Ivy League colleges, et cetera. We're not too worried about them. If we put a threshold of we're going to do a 4.5 into a dual credit and we have that as just a blanket policy, we could get kids in that class who do not have the real, actual requisite skills to succeed at college level. This is supposed to be a college prep course. And what I want to make sure is that if we're going to tell families that we're going to put your kid in this class and this child is really actually going to have a successful opportunity, a real opportunity to succeed at college, we've got to mean it. And we should want to mean it. And I know you do. There's my sermon.

51:47 Unknown speaker not human verified

Let me just address your sermon in a couple of sentences. First of all, I agree 100%. The rigor has to be increased to award a 4.5. We're not going to let any student get into the dual credit courses at the 4.5, just like we don't right now at the 4.0. There has to be teacher recommendations that go along with the placement of the students. And I couldn't agree any more with you. I think this board knows that I'm also somewhat of a data geek, all right, and that I give that information to you and I try and do the best I can to correlate it to other pieces of information and correlating it with the College Board information SAT ACT or even some of our AP data would not be a bad thing to do all right first of all

52:34 Unknown speaker not human verified

let me just say I knew I was preaching to the choir over here I just wanted to put a marker out there in public and I was telling dr. Matt and he just a little bit before the board meeting started he's giving us so much data there's some of it I don't understand will he let me meet with you madam

52:51 Unknown speaker not human verified

Madam President, Mrs. Doyle. Could you go back to the slide that shows? Sorry, my microphone. Could you go? I think it's forward one slide. Another. There was this one here. So we have, there's some discrepancy here that shows that we have some of our campuses where we have a lot of our students that are taking the dual credit courses. And there's several of our campuses that the students are not. and having back-to-back seniors these kids are playing a GPA game and that is that is no lie and so if we want to have dual credit enticing to our students I don't think that a 4.5 is going to be enticing because it's gonna have to be a 5.0 credit or the kids that are looking for the kids that are working at that GPA gain that are going to want this course as a college credit are going to want it to be a 5.0 credit they're going to need it to be a 5.0 credit okay so so why are we choosing this to be a 4.5 versus a 5.0 I'm gonna tell you that

54:04 Unknown speaker not human verified

alright in 20s in the spring of 2016 all right we had our KTISD AP district advisory council that made a recommendation that we needed to look at the weight of our dual credit classes and from that point we also had a discussion with a focus group of dual credit teachers about that that is their number one reason of of how they can across the district because that had one teacher from every school in the district that was the number one reason of how they could grow their program. All right? And then on top of that, this entire last school year, so in the fall of 17, all the way, well, in the fall of 17, we had a number of discussions every month at leadership team with principals about looking at just weights of AP courses versus dual credit versus our regular ed courses. We also had a lot of information about what districts around us do. All right? And then the other thing that, before I move on with that, the other thing is I have personally gone into just about every high school, I've got one left, where I have walked in and observed KDISD teachers teaching dual credit and HCC teachers teaching dual credit. it and I've seen college alive and well on all of our campuses. All right now when we were looking at the number of points to wait in this that and the other there was a lot of discussion from principals and the recommendation that I'm bringing forward is because that's what they agreed to. They do not want to go any further up. That is the place where they all agree that is a good place to be for dual credit so AP is at five dual credit is at 4.5 and regular ed courses are at 4.0 we had much discussion in the fall semester and with junior high and high school principals and that's where they ended so that's how we brought there's been lots of groups of people talking about it since since the spring of 16, and so since then, this is where we have ended up.

56:30 Unknown speaker not human verified

All right, Courtney, I understand, but there is a need to look at our cohort of graduates realistically. We have a certain percentage, we have a certain percentage of students who are going to take the advanced placement classes because they're going to go to Tier 1 and it's very competitive to get in there. But if you look at KTISD statistics from the College Board, we have about a 40% cohort that start at a two-year college and not that many get a two-year or a four-year degree. This 4.5 is extremely valuable to those students who are going to Tier 2 universities. And a 4.5 gives them a GPA boost from a fine program that puts them in a competitive situation with their competition. A lot of the dual credit students are not going to compete for Brown, Harvard, University of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and this is a program that realistically takes that middle cohort of our student body and it gives them an extraordinary incentive to up their game while they're in high school.

57:56 Unknown speaker not human verified

Mr. Michalsky.

57:58 Unknown speaker not human verified

Yeah, I'm going to agree with Mr. Scott here. I don't think the goal is necessarily about participation. I do think the goal should be about providing opportunities for our students to achieve some credit going into their post-secondary years. And as a proud dad of twin daughters that graduated from Seven Lakes four years ago and will be receiving their degree from Texas A&M University in less than a month, both of them were able to get through both dual credit and AP, you know, between 20 and 30 hours, that will really help them along that track to where they are graduating in four years, which is great. And so I think being able to provide some fairly inexpensive college credit hours and the opportunity to get those is a great thing. And so if, yeah, going to the 4.5 scale with the dual credit will help in that participation or people taking advantage of that opportunity, then certainly I'm very supportive of that. And I think AP is also a great way to go as well.

59:06 Unknown speaker not human verified

And Mr. Moholsky, the one thing that we really, it was nice to hear you say that your own children took a combination of both because that's really how they work in tandem with one another. It's really not about taking all AP and then or all dual credit. It's about using both of them to your advantage to maximize what you want to get out of your high school career life and thinking about life after graduation. graduation.

59:36 Unknown speaker not human verified

Madam President. Ms. Fox. Thank you for your presentation, Dr. Steele. I too echo my colleagues huge supporter of dual credit. I our family's experience is the same as Mr. Moholsky. Both of our children attended Texas A&M University, a tier one university, and they took some of both. They took a lot of AP credit, but they also each they both took dual credit at high school it's just it's the balance right you have to have balance it's all AP and trying to be a musician or whatever else you were passionate about is just too grueling to actually have a balance so so I really like this the I have two questions one you said something at this slide here where you said this represents seats and classes is not students right this means availability for what does that mean no it means that these numbers

1:00:35 Unknown speaker not human verified

some students like let's think of a senior student are going to be in english they're going to be in government one semester and then they're going to continue english and be in economics the second one so they're being counted twice got it okay thank you okay that answers that and then the

1:00:51 Unknown speaker not human verified

The other thing you said was that this wouldn't apply until 20, somewhere in the future.

1:00:58 Unknown speaker not human verified

Well, so if we start, the recommendation was that we start with the next class of students. So when you think of our freshmen in 2018, their next opportunity to take a dual credit course would be in 2019. So it's going to start with that pure class so that everyone's on the same playing field. So in other words, we're not going to drop it in next year so that anybody can take a course. It's just those in that ninth grade class, and then from there it will be the next class and the next class and thereafter.

1:01:28 Unknown speaker not human verified

So if I may follow up on that, how old are the students taking dual credits? Aren't they mostly juniors and seniors? Yes, ma'am, but we also have a new course where a sophomore could take a class. So why wait? Because you're going to give me a why wait. I'm just, I mean if it's a good idea, I don't, everybody gets the same opportunity at the same time so that students who are doing the GPA and getting ready for for college and have their goals set, but if everybody gets the same opportunity is there a reason to wait they all get the same opportunity at the same time all the GPAs are competing at the same time is there a reason to wait

1:02:14 Unknown speaker not human verified

I like the idea so much I don't want to wait I think that the major reason why we're waiting and we're doing it with a class of students is so that every student has the same advantage in that particular cohort of student because if we were to start it now as you know we would have some seniors taking it next next year and then what about the juniors behind them? Their GPAs will go up and what not. And they're gonna end up playing lots more games with their GPAs and it not being exactly as fair as it can be. And so we did decide, talking with many people, that it would be better to offer it to an entire class of students. Thank you.

1:02:54 Unknown speaker not human verified

It only raised a question for me because my memory is that it's juniors and seniors and so if you wait for freshman year, it's just a couple of years even behind. but I hear that so and in closing my my remark is going to be about how much I love dual credit and the opportunities that students have because when they've completed the dual credit class they're like I can be good at college right I just took a college course it feels like a college course they don't meet every day it's very different from an AP class and I just really thought that it taught taught both of our children and prepared them for college readiness. I love that. I have said it many times before and I'm just looking forward to the day when we in KDISD have an early college high school where our boys and girls can leave high school with an associate degree and know they can be successful. And for boys and girls who may not ever go to college but if it's like the whole thing is ahead of them and I know lots of districts districts have that and the U of H is coming and they're building a new building and I just I just dream all the time about wouldn't it be cool if and um you know someday maybe we will be there and until then thank you so much for offering our boys and girls opportunities to be successful and you're right Mr. Moholsky taking those credits into college already saves all of us a lot of money and it makes them successful and competitive thanks item this was part of

1:04:27 Unknown speaker not human verified

strategic design goal 1.7 which our strategic planning group which was community members business members staff you name it said this was something that we needed to explore take a look at also part of that miss Fox is the early college high school which we will bring some information on that as well at the the right time I think that's your two thank you okay thank you very much dr.

1:04:57 Unknown speaker not human verified

steel 6.2 multi-bill schedule update this is also part of strategic design goals 2.3 and 2.4 dr. wood good evening president van board members dr. hand my

1:05:11 Unknown speaker not human verified

name is Bill what I'm the executive director for Katie ISD transportation and I'm here to report to you tonight the elementary start times for the 2018-19 school year. Now, in deciding which elementary schools would be in group one and which would be in group two, our guiding principle was efficiency. And efficiency in routing is realized through maximizing ridership within runs and maximizing the number of runs per bus. And our start times do reflect our best efforts to create an efficient routing plan based on the allotted timeframes. And these are the elementary schools included in Group 1. There are 22 schools in this group. They include Wolf, Katy, Memorial Parkway, Bear Creek, Cimarron, Windbourne, Nottingham, Sundown, Hayes, McRoberts, Alexander, Williams, Rylander, Exley, Rhodes, Franz, Griffin, Wood Creek, Stanley, Schaefer, Randolph, and Campbell. And these are the elementary schools included in Group 2. There are 19 elementary schools in this group. These include West Memorial, Hutzel, Maid Creek, Patterson, Galbo, Fielder, Creech, King, Schmaltz, Kilpatrick, Stevens, Morton Ranch, Holland, Wilson, Wollman, Davidson, Jinks, Bethke, and Bryant. And I would also like to recognize the efforts of our routing department, headed by Kathy Prickett, who is here tonight, and our assistant routers, Debbie Champagne and Mary Brown. They completed this very large task in really, truly record time.

1:07:38 Unknown speaker not human verified

Any questions?

1:07:40 Unknown speaker not human verified

I welcome any questions.

1:07:43 Unknown speaker not human verified

I do have one. Just a couple of parameters that you took into mind making the decision wasn't just about where the school was, but also how many buses served each school as well, right?

1:07:55 Unknown speaker not human verified

Yes, these factors were taken into account. Yes, ma'am.

1:07:59 Unknown speaker not human verified

Anyone else? Madam President, I might be thinking the same thing you're thinking, because we when we were talking about this you know last year or something it was Stanley and Schaefer kind of close to each other and is and the you know that Fry Road gets so congested right in there but I saw they're both on the same start time and what that told me was you're super confident about being able to take care of all of that with the with the traffic that they have there

1:08:25 Unknown speaker not human verified

of the only one that kind of yes and there was yes yes we are confident in in that particular zoning. Yes.

1:08:35 Unknown speaker not human verified

And let me give you an example because I think our board president hit the nail on the head. Stanley, if I understand right, and I'm going just by memory, I think has eight routes. Yes. Total routes.

1:08:45 Unknown speaker not human verified

Oh.

1:08:46 Unknown speaker not human verified

All right, so they have far fewer kids riding the buses than Gobbo. All right, so they look at not just the logistics and geographically where they're at, but we may have two campuses like Stanley and Schaefer that may have less routes between the two of them than one elementary school in another location. All right, so that's part of the routing system that we looked at and how we can move that.

1:09:12 Unknown speaker not human verified

Which brings me to a question, excuse me, Mr. Superintendent, that would that imply, they aren't smaller schools, so would that imply just more cars on the road?

1:09:21 Unknown speaker not human verified

More parents are picking them up, Ms. Board Member, and more students are walking. Okay.

1:09:28 Unknown speaker not human verified

Okay. Yeah.

1:09:30 Unknown speaker not human verified

So they might still have some traffic, but I understand, Mr. Woods, that this must have been a nightmare to put together, and I'm so glad it was you and not me. Thank you for doing it. I'm looking forward to having more buses and more students served. Thank you very much, Mr. Superintendent. Thank you for bringing this to us.

1:09:51 Unknown speaker not human verified

Anyone else? All right. Thank you, Dr. Wood. item 6.3 board member required continuing education report completing the annual required continuing education is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member under the state of education rule this year tier one training applied only to new board member bill Lacy and consisted of 3.5 hours of local orientation three hours of orientation to the text education Code and one hour of Open Meetings Act training. Bill Lacy has completed the local orientation, the orientation of the Texas Education Code, and the Open Meetings training. Tier 2 training consists of board self-assessment and superintendent and board team building. At least three hours of Tier 2 training are required each year. All board members have completed the required Tier 2 training for the year May 1st 2017 until April 30th 2018. Tier 3 training consists of continuing education for the board members in areas of assessed needs at least 10 hours of tier 3 training are required for newborn members bill Lacy a new board member has exceeded the required continuing education for the year with 15.5 hours at least five hours of tier 3 training are required each year for experienced board members all experienced board members have completed the required tier 3 training for the year George Scott position one has exceeded the required continuing education with 28.5 hours, Rebecca Fox position 2, has exceeded the required continuing education with 6 hours, Ashley Van, position 3, has exceeded the required continuing education with 12 hours, Courteney Doyle, position 4, has exceeded the required continuing education with 9.5 hours, Brian Mahalski, position 6, has exceeded the required continuing education with 5.5 hours, hours. Charles Griffin, position 7, has exceeded the required continuing education with seven hours. Completing the annual required continuing education is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member under the State Board of Education rule. No board members are deficient in any area of continuing education training for the year May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018. Also under the Texas Administrative Code Title IX Chapter 61 Subchapter A Section 61.1a, the framework for governance leadership adopted by the State Board of Education using structuring education for school board members shall be distributed annually by the president of each board of trustees to all current board members and the superintendent. The framework is attached in board docs for each member and the superintendent to review.

1:12:30 Unknown speaker not human verified

Mr. Madam President.

1:12:31 Unknown speaker not human verified

Ms. Mr. Griffin.

1:12:33 Unknown speaker not human verified

I move that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.16. I second.

1:12:40 Unknown speaker not human verified

Well, me too. Mr. Moholsky. A motion has been made by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mr. Moholsky, that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.16. We will now proceed to vote.

1:12:56 Unknown speaker not human verified

Could you read my hours again?

1:13:01 Unknown speaker not human verified

We will now proceed to vote on the consent agenda. All in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. We now proceed to action items. Mr. Maholsky.

1:13:17 Unknown speaker not human verified

I move the Board of Trustees approves the changes to Board Policy FDB Local.

1:13:26 Unknown speaker not human verified

All right. Mr. Gregorski is here. Does anyone have any questions? Okay. A motion has been made by the Board of Trustees by Mr. Moholsky, a second by Charles, Mr. Griffin, that we approve the changes to Board policy FDB local. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. 7 point. Motion passes 7 to 0. Item 8.2, consider board approval to April 2018 budget amendment. Madam President. Mr. Lacy. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's April 2018 budget amendment. Second. Motion has been made by Mr. Lacy, a second by Mrs. Doyle. The Board of Trustees approves the district's April 2018 budget amendment. Do we have any questions or discussion? Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Agenda item 9, draw your attention to the information items, those donated items to Katy Independent School District, also quarterly investment report. Future meetings, our future meeting will be right here, May 21st, 2018 for our board work study meeting. Followed the following week, May 29th, Tuesday, May 29th since Monday, May 28th is a holiday. We will hold our regular board meeting. There you go. Being no more business in front of the board, this meeting is adjourned. The time is 7.46 p.m.