YEAH. LOVE IT [I. Call to Order and Determination of a Quorum] [00:00:05] THIS IS THE GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES SPECIAL MEETING. THE TEAM OF 8 TRAINING IS TUESDAY, APRIL THE 7TH, 2026. IT IS NOW 4:45. AND I DO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AND DETERMINE THAT THERE IS A QUORUM AND ONE TRUSTEE ON LINE BY ZOOM MRS. GRIFFIN. SO WE'RE ALL PRESENT. SO THAT TAKES US TO ITEM NUMBER 2, THE PUBLIC FORUM. DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS? MS. HOGAN. NO SIR SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 3. [III.A. Conduct Annual Team of 8 Training ] AND BEFORE WE GO TO THAT ITEM NUMBER 3, I WANT TO GO ON RECORD AND CONGRATULATE THE SACHSE GIRLS SOCCER TEAM ON AN OUTSTANDING SEASON. WELL DONE, SACHSE GIRLS. [APPLAUSE] Y'ALL HAD AN OUTSTANDING FINAL FOUR. THAT IS AN OUTSTANDING SEASON, GIRLS, AND WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 3. THE TEAM OF 8 TRAINING. AND TODAY WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE MRS. BENTLEY HERE FROM COPPELL ISD TO CONDUCT THE ITEM A CONDUCT AN ANNUAL TEAM OF 8 TRAINING. MRS. BENTLEY. AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR HAVING ME THIS EVENING I'LL JUST TELL YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME BEFORE WE JUMP IN. AND I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY TO GET EVERYBODY COORDINATED. I ALSO THERE WE GO. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BEACH. THERE YOU GO THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME THIS EVENING. AND THANK YOU TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR HAVING ME THIS EVENING TO CONDUCT Y'ALL'S TEAM OF 8 TRAINING, AS PRESIDENT BEACH MENTIONED. I AM ON THE COPPELL ISD SCHOOL BOARD, BUT I'M HERE AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN AND A BUSINESS OWNER. I DO TEAM OF 8 TRAININGS AND ISO TRAININGS AROUND NORTH TEXAS, AND I LOVE DOING TEAM OF 8 BECAUSE WE GET TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE FREE FLOWING CONVERSATION ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD AS A DISTRICT. AND IT REALLY IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW TEAM BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE GET AS SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE. SO I REALLY DO LOVE IT. SO I'M GOING TO TELL YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FORMAT OF THE EVENING. WE ARE GOING TO DO A LITTLE ICEBREAKER BECAUSE YOU KNOW TEAM BUILDING HAS GOT TO BE FUN. BUT AND I DO NORMALLY STAND TO PRESENT, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO BE AS FAR AWAY FROM YOU GUYS AS THE PODIUM WAS. SO THAT'S WHY I'M GOING TO SIT AND WE'LL JUST HAVE IT VIA CONVERSATION. SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME. I AM THE MOTHER OF FOUR BOYS WHO WENT THROUGH COPPELL ISD AND A GRANDMA NOW, AND I NOTICED I'VE GOT A LITTLE GRANDMA SCHMUTZ ON MY JACKET THIS EVENING. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT. BUT I GREW UP IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. I ATTENDED A FIVE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE UNTIL 8TH GRADE, EVEN THOUGH I LIVED NEAR A COMMUNITY OF 35,000 AND THEN GRADUATED FROM A MIDSIZE HIGH SCHOOL IN WESTERN NEBRASKA AND WENT TO UNDERGRAD AT NEBRASKA AND GRAD SCHOOL AT THE COX BUSINESS SCHOOL AT SMU AND DID FUNDRAISING FOR 15 YEARS, AND THEN I STARTED A COACHING AND CONSULTING BUSINESS WHEN I WAS STAYING HOME WITH KIDS AND WANTED MORE FLEXIBILITY. AND AFTER BEING ON THE SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE. SCHOOL BOARD, I'M FINISHING MY 8TH YEAR, I REALIZED I REALLY WANTED PEOPLE WHO LOVE PUBLIC EDUCATION TO BE DOING THE TRAINING AND WORKING WITH OUR SCHOOL BOARDS AND SUPERINTENDENTS, SO THAT'S WHY I GOT CERTIFIED WITH TEA. I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE 3 OR 4 YEARS AGO. SO ANYWAY, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME. WE ARE GOING TO DO A SILLY LITTLE TEAM BUILDING THING OR SILLY LITTLE AS MUCH TIME AS WE SPEND TOGETHER. I THINK SOMETIMES WE DON'T REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER. ALTHOUGH I HEARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A FEW OF YOU GUYS' AS HOBBIES. INEXPENSIVE AND EXPENSIVE AND OTHERWISE. BUT I DID WANT US JUST TO A LITTLE BIT. I WANT YOU GUYS TO TELL ME HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD, WHERE YOU WENT TO 2ND GRADE, AND IF IT WAS OUT OF STATE, THEN YOU GOT TO IDENTIFY THE STATE FOR US. AND THEN I WANT YOU TO TELL ONE THING THAT YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS THAT NO ONE IN THIS ROOM KNOWS ABOUT, THAT IS SOMETHING FUN OR LIFE GIVING FOR YOU, OR THAT YOU FIND JUST REALLY EXCITING THAT MAYBE DOESN'T REALLY RELATE TO SCHOOL BOARD SERVICE. ALL RIGHT, SO EVERYONE'S GOING TO DO IT. LET'S CRANK IT OFF. OKAY. YEAH. ROBERT, WHY DON'T YOU LEAD US OFF? ROBERT SELDERS JUNIOR, I'M IN MY 11TH YEAR ON THE BOARD. I WENT TO 2ND GRADE AT WARNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. AND THE LAST SIX MONTHS, MY WIFE AND I TOOK A TRIP TO SANTA FE. THERE WAS A FESTIVAL GOING ON, AND IT WAS REALLY COOL TO TAKE A TOUR OF THE CITY AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION IN THE HISTORY OF ALL OF THAT. SO THAT WAS REALLY COOL. COOL, THANK YOU TURN YOUR MIC ON, LARRY. LARRY GLICK, COMPLETING MY 19TH YEAR ON THE BOARD. P.S. 147 NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I LOVE IT. OKAY. AND I FINALLY PASSED THE 8000 [00:05:04] NUMBER ON MY LIFE LIST FOR BIRDING, PUTTING ME AMONG THE VERY, VERY SMALL NUMBER IN THE WORLD. YES. CONGRATULATIONS, THANKS FOR SHARING THAT. MR. MILLER. THAT'S ALL YOU GOT TO SAY, LARRY? HEY, JAMIE MILLER 2ND GRADE FREEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN GOOD OLD GARLAND, TEXAS. GARLAND ISD. YOU KNOW, THE PROBLEM WITH ME TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING FUN I'VE DONE IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS IS I'VE ALREADY TOLD EVERYBODY, BUT I JUST GOT BACK FROM PEBBLE BEACH, AND THAT WAS PRETTY COOL. ALL RIGHT, AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ON THE BOARD, JAMIE? I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD FINISHING MY 9TH YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS. OH, GO AHEAD DOCTOR LOPEZ. IT'S AN ALL PLAY. IN 2ND GRADE I WAS AT FINEGAYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN GUAM. MY DAD WAS IN THE MILITARY, SO WE WERE STATIONED OUT THERE. IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS MY WIFE HAS RETIRED, AND SO SHE RETIRED FROM COUNSELING AND WE'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF COOL THINGS TOGETHER. BUT ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPENED RECENTLY IS THEY HAD. I HAVE A DAUGHTER THAT DON'T, DOESN'T THAT DON'T KNOW, I HAVE A DAUGHTER WITH DOWN SYNDROME. AND THEY HAD A MASS JUST FOR STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH DIFFERENT TYPE OF LEARNING ABILITIES. AND WE WENT TO, WE WENT TO THAT MASS, IT'S ONCE A MONTH AND MY DAUGHTER ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. RIGHT? AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT WAS REALLY, REALLY COOL TO JUST HAVE THAT LITTLE EXPERIENCE JUST FOR HER. SO THAT WAS PRETTY FUN, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SAID SOMETHING PERSONAL. YEAH ENJOY HERSELF WAS PRETTY ENRICHING. SO THANK YOU. FOR SHARING THAT. JOHNNY BEACH I'M PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD. THIS MY, FINISHING UP MY 10TH YEAR ON THE BOARD AND SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY ON THIS BOARD PROBABLY DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT ME, THAT I CAUGHT NINE FISH ONE TIME WITH ONE CAST. AND I'LL LEAVE THAT UP TO YOU TO THINK ABOUT [LAUGHTER]. OH, YOU HAVE TO TELL US WHERE YOU WENT TO 2ND GRADE ALSO, SIR. OH 2ND GRADE. I WENT TO WARREN ELEMENTARY HERE IN GARLAND, TEXAS, AND I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN GARLAND, SO. YES. LOVE IT [LAUGHTER] OH, DEAR. MY NAME IS WES JOHNSON, AND I AM COMPLETING MY 8TH YEAR AS A TRUSTEE ON THE GARLAND BOARD OF TRUSTEES. I WENT TO 2ND GRADE AT SALLY B. ELLIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN IRVING, TEXAS. IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, I'D SAY. I WANT. I'D SAY IT'S LIFE IMPORTANT, BUT I'VE BEEN GOING TO 100,000 DIFFERENT PLACES ON COLLEGE VISITS WITH MY SON. SO THAT WAS IT WAS FUN. AND IT'S OVER, THANKFULLY. [LAUGHTER]. CONGRATS. NICE. ALL RIGHT DAPHNE. DAPHNE STANLEY AND I AM FINISHING UP MY 5TH YEAR. I WENT TO ROLANDO ELEMENTARY IN LA MESA, CALIFORNIA. AT LEAST I THINK THAT'S WHERE I WENT TO 2ND GRADE. DON'T QUOTE ME ON IT, BUT I'M PRETTY SURE. [LAUGHTER]. AND I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING EXCITING TO REPORT IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, I SHOW UP EVERY DAY. THAT'S THE MOST EXCITING AS I GET [LAUGHTER]. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND MECHELLE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU GO BECAUSE YOU ARE A CRITICAL PIECE OF THE TEAM. AND THEN LINDA WILL GET TO YOU NEXT. I AM CRITICAL. MY NAME IS MECHELLE HOGAN [LAUGHTER]. THIS IS, LOPEZ GOT IT. THIS IS MY 14TH YEAR, I THINK IN GARLAND, 13 OR 14. I'LL PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE 13.5. IN 2ND GRADE, I WENT TO WHITNEY M YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE OAK CLIFF, TEXAS. RIGHT NOW DOWN THE STREET FROM THE LANCASTER, VA. IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, SOMETHING THAT I'VE DONE EXCITING. LET ME THINK. MY WHOLE LIFE IS SO EXCITING. I WORK FOR THIS BOARD, BUT LET'S SEE. [LAUGHTER] STOP GIGGLING AT ME. IT'S GOOD. THE SHENANIGANS ARE OBVIOUSLY RUNNING RAMPANT AND. I LIKE IT, IT'S GOOD BESIDES, MY DONKEY THAT I THOUGHT DIED. I HAVE A DONKEY NEIGHBOR. I THOUGHT HE DIED. HE'S NOT DEAD. I GOT A NEW DOG. OKAY. THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE MOST EXCITING THING. AND I'M LEARNING TO LOVE MY LARGE DOG. GREAT THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT LINDA. I'M LINDA GRIFFIN. I'M COMPLETING MY 27TH YEAR. WOW FLORIDA, AND I VISITED MY PLAY SISTER IN THE [00:10:02] LAST SIX MONTHS. LOVE THAT. THANK YOU. THANKS FOR DOING THAT. I KNOW YOU GUYS SHARED SOME VULNERABLE THINGS, BUT I THINK IT IS EASY FOR US JUST TO COME AND GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. AND I THINK IT'S EASY FOR OUR COMMUNITIES TO FORGET THAT WE HAVE LIVES AND A LOT OF OTHER ENRICHING THINGS GOING ON OUTSIDE OF THE BOARDROOM. SO I THINK IT'S JUST A GOOD REMINDER FOR ALL OF US. OKAY, SO WE HAVE TO DO A LITTLE REFRESHER TO MEET SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR TEAM OF 8, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE INTO SOME MORE KIND OF DISCUSSION POINTS ABOUT THINGS YOU GUYS HAVE GOING ON HERE IN GARLAND ISD AND WORK THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD. I'M GOING TO SET A ONE-HOUR TIMER JUST TO PACE US, AND AT AN HOUR WE CAN DECIDE IF WE WANT TO TAKE A BREAK. THEN FOR FIVE MINUTES, OR IF WE WANT TO PUSH THROUGH FOR ANOTHER 30 MINUTES OR SO AND KIND OF HIT THAT MIDWAY POINT. BUT WE'LL SEE HOW EVERYBODY'S MENTAL FATIGUE IS, IS GOING AND HOW ENGAGED WE ALL ARE. OKAY, SO WE ARE KICKING OFF JUST WITH. A LITTLE REFRESHER ABOUT WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT BEING A SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE FROM ANY OTHER ELECTED OFFICIAL. AND IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO READ THAT LITTLE SYNOPSIS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. BUT WE ARE TRUSTEES OF THE STUDENTS, WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER ELECTED OFFICIAL, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ELECTED BY THE CITIZENS, THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY WHO WE REPRESENT. SO IF SOMEBODY WOULD JUST READ THAT LITTLE SYNOPSIS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. A TRUSTEE MANAGES INVEST AND DISTRIBUTES ASSETS ACTING ON BEHALF OF A THIRD PARTY AND IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THAT THIRD PARTY. AND IN THIS CASE, THE THIRD PARTY IS? STUDENTS, YEAH. THIS IS A HIGHLY INTERACTIVE TRAINING. I DON'T KNOW IF I SAID THAT AT THE BEGINNING, BUT OKAY. THAT'S GREAT. THEY ARE. IT'S OUR STUDENTS. OKAY. AND THEN. IS THAT A QUOTE? IT IS A, IT'S A DEFINITION OF WHAT A TRUSTEE IS. A COUPLE OF COMBINED DEFINITIONS OF WHAT A TRUSTEE IS. I'VE NEVER SEEN IT. BUT THAT'S WHY IT SAYS THIRD PARTY. YEAH INTERESTING. OKAY BOX IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT A SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE SHALL DO, PROVIDED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. SO IT'S ABOUT OVERSIGHT AND STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP. AND OBVIOUSLY STUDENT PERFORMANCE IS THE MAIN THING THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR AS SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES. BUT WE CREATE VISION, MISSION, GOALS FOR THE DISTRICT. WE HIRE A SUPERINTENDENT AND EVALUATE THE SUPERINTENDENT. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS THINK HE'S DOING A GREAT JOB SINCE YOU JUST NOMINATED HIM FOR TASB SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR FOR THIS REGION, WHICH IS GREAT. WE ADOPT POLICIES THAT PERFORM PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR ACTIONS. WE APPROVE THE ANNUAL BUDGET, WHICH REALLY IS ABOUT RESOURCING THE SUPERINTENDENT ACCORDING TO WHAT HE SAID HE NEEDS TO ACHIEVE THE VISION AND MISSION THAT YOU HAVE LAID OUT FOR HIM, AND YOU COMMUNICATE THE DISTRICT'S VISION AND SUCCESS TO THE COMMUNITY. SO WE ARE DEFINITELY COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS AND PART OF THE FACE OF THE DISTRICT. SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LEADING WITH DISTINCTION, HOW WE CREATE STABILITY, PREDICTABILITY, UNITY AND CONSISTENCY IN OUR DISTRICTS. JUST VERY HIGH LEVEL. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ACADEMIC GOALS. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS LOOK LIKE. SPEAKING POINTS IN HOW YOU GUYS ARE COMMUNICATING. WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND THE TRI-CITIES COALITION UPDATE AS WELL. OKAY OKAY, SO LET'S START WITH WELL, ON THIS SLIDE. ON THIS SLIDE, WHERE DO YOU GUYS SEE? THERE WE GO. SO BUILDING AND FORMING YOUR TEAM. AGAIN, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE CONSISTENCY, PREDICTABILITY, TRUST AND UNITY AND SHARED GOALS AND KIND OF SOME THINGS THAT FEED INTO HAVING THOSE ELEMENTS PRESENT WHEN YOU'RE PART OF A TEAM. WHERE DO YOU GUYS ALREADY SEE ALIGNMENT ON YOUR BOARD? THE PURPOSE OF YOUR BRAND I THINK THEY HAVE A VERY SHARED PURPOSE WHERE ELSE DO YOU GUYS THINK YOU'RE ALIGNED? AND LINDA, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CHIME IN. UNMUTE YOURSELF OH, SORRY. PURPOSE AND BRAND IS WHERE DAPHNE SAID SHE FEELS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE ONE AREA WHERE YOU ARE ALIGNED. [00:15:01] AND LET'S REMIND PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN'T HEAR US IF OUR MICS AREN'T ON. SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE OUR MICS ARE ON. DO WE JUST LEAVE THEM ON THEN? BECAUSE IF WE'RE GOING TO. I THINK JUST LEAVE THEM ON. YEAH. OKAY. TURN IT OFF. I THINK OUR MOTIVATIONS ARE PRETTY WELL ALIGNED. OKAY. I THINK YOU ASK ANY OF THE PEOPLE HERE AND IT'S IT ALL IS MOTIVATED BY A DESIRE TO HELP KIDS. I LOVE THAT. THAT IS INTEGRAL TO Y'ALL SUCCESS. AND YOUR STUDENTS' SUCCESS MORE IMPORTANTLY, OR AS IMPORTANTLY. ANY OTHER AREAS WHERE YOU GUYS THINK YOU'RE ALIGNED? I THINK THE COMMITMENTS. WE'RE TOTALLY COMMITTED TO THE BOARD. OKAY. AND TO THE STUDENTS OF THIS DISTRICT. I LOVE THAT. ALL RIGHT. BEFORE WE MOVE ON, ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT. ABOUT WHERE YOU GUYS MIGHT BE ALIGNED? YEAH. ROBERT. I WOULD SAY, AND THIS MAY NOT NECESSARILY FIT THIS PARTICULAR CATEGORY, BUT BACKGROUND, I MEAN, WE ALL COME FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LEVEL OF UNITY AND UNIFICATION THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE MAKING DECISIONS. AND WE CAN BE IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES AT THE START OF THE CONVERSATION. BUT WHEN WE JUST KIND OF GET FOCUSED ON WHY WE'RE HERE AND I THINK SPEAKS TO THE COMMITMENTS AND MOTIVATION THAT WES AND LINDA TALKED ABOUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ALWAYS WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR KIDS. THAT'S GREAT. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU'RE HAVING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS. IF YOU UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER'S HEART AND KIND OF THAT YOU'RE ALL COMING FROM THE RIGHT PLACE. I THINK THAT MAKES A LOT OF DIFFERENCE. EVEN WHETHER THE VOTE COMES DOWN TO SOMETHING UNANIMOUS OR IF IT'S A SPLIT VOTE. KNOWING EACH OTHER'S MOTIVATION, I THINK MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE. ALL RIGHT GREAT, YOU GUYS. SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. WE ARE GOING TO AS BORING AS THAT CAN BE. WE ARE GOING TO POPCORN READ THIS ONE. SO IF WE WANT TO START WITH ROBERT, IF YOU WANT TO READ THE FIRST ONE ABOUT SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, THAT'D BE GREAT. GOING SOLO IS A NO-NO. OKAY. [LAUGHTER]. LARRY YOU'RE NEXT. RESPECT THE TEAM. OKAY. UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOARD AND STAFF. SHARE AND DEFEND YOUR VIEWS AND LISTEN TO THE VIEWS OF OTHERS. DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND ASK GOOD QUESTIONS. RESPECT YOUR OATH. ALL RIGHT. SO IF WE KNOW THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE THE SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TO MAINTAIN THE CULTURE AND WHAT'S WORKING RIGHT NOW IN GARLAND ISD? DEFINITELY THE RESPECT THE TEAM. I THINK THAT AS YOU AS WE WENT AROUND THE ROOM EARLIER AND TALKED ABOUT HOW MANY YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD, WE'VE LEARNED HOW EACH PERSON REACTS TO CERTAIN SITUATIONS AND WHAT THEY HAVE A PASSION. TO WHAT THEY. EVERYONE HERE HAS A DIFFERENT TALENT. AND I THINK THEY BRING THAT VIEW TO THE BOARD. AND SOMETIMES WHAT I PERSONALLY MAY FEEL WOULD BE THE BEST OUTCOME MAY NOT BE THE CORRECT ANSWER, THE CORRECT WAY TO GO UNTIL I HEAR FROM THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS. AND WHEN I HEAR THAT, I WANT TO RESPECT THAT. AND THAT WAY WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND NOT GET CAUGHT UP IN THE WEEDS. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT, THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMETIMES WHAT THE, THE STAFF IS TRYING TO BRING TO US AND UNDERSTANDING IT TO COMPLETION SO THAT WE RESPECT WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO BRING TO US AND STAY IN OUR LANE AND FOLLOW THAT AND TRY TO MAKE THE BEST FROM IT. SO I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT THING TO DO TO RESPECT. THAT'S GREAT. WHAT OTHER? OH THAT'S GREAT SO. WE MAY HAVE OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL OPINIONS, BUT HOW DO THOSE OPINIONS LINE UP TO THE OATH THAT WE'VE TAKEN AS TRUSTEES? THAT'S GREAT. AND THAT IS SPOT ON, WHICH IS BRINGS IT BACK TO KIDS, RIGHT? RIGHT. ANY OTHER THINGS THAT SO THIS RESPECT THING OF EACH OTHER AND THE OATH THAT YOU'VE TAKEN. WHAT OTHER HIGH VALUE CULTURE ITEMS ARE THERE IN GARLAND ISD THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO PROTECT? BECAUSE YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS ARE THE PROTECTORS OF IT. YOU GUYS GET TO DECIDE. I THINK THE DOING YOUR HOMEWORK AND ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS. I THINK WE WORK TO DO OUR BEST TO BE INFORMED AND ASKING QUESTIONS THAT WILL HELP US MAKE BETTER DECISIONS OR MAKE DECISIONS THAT, AGAIN, ULTIMATELY BENEFIT OUR THIRD PARTY. YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR AND TRUSTEES FOR. [00:20:02] BUT I THINK ALL OF THAT SORT OF FEEDS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO AS A BOARD AS A WHOLE. OKAY SELDERS TALKED ABOUT WHEN THEY ALL COME FROM DIFFERENT PARTS AND EVERYBODY KIND OF PUTS THEIR, THEIR VIEWS ON THE TABLE. RIGHT? AND THEN IN THE END MR. MILLER WILL ALWAYS SAY. WE MIGHT TAKE A LONG TIME TO MAKE A DECISION, BUT WHEN WE DO, IT'S ALWAYS THE RIGHT ONE. AND I THINK I'VE SEEN IT FOR THE PAST. I'M ON MY 9TH YEAR HERE, AND THERE'S TIMES THAT WE'LL LET THINGS SIMMER UNTIL THEY'RE READY. AND I THINK THAT'S WHY EVERYTHING RUNS SO EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE IT GOES ONCE IT'S READY. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT, I LOVE THAT. JAMIE, YOU HAD SOMETHING TO ADD? YEAH, I'LL ECHO THAT. I USE THE TERM THAT WE MAY START OFF IN SEVEN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS WHEN WE START. BY THE TIME EVERYBODY GETS TO SPEAK. AND, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT WE RESPECT THE VIEWPOINTS OF OTHERS, THEN MAYBE EVENTUALLY, BY THE END OF THE DAY, WE STACK HANDS AND WE WALK OUT OF THE ROOM UNIFIED, OR WE WALK INTO THE VOTE, YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW, IT BECOMES A UNIFIED EFFORT. SO THERE ARE THERE ARE MANY, MANY INSTANCES OF THAT, ESPECIALLY GOING BACK TO COVID WHEN EVERYTHING YOU DID WAS DIFFICULT BECAUSE YOU HAD EVERYBODY SCREAMING AT YOU ALL THE TIME. [LAUGHTER]. SO, AND I THINK THE BOARD DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF PULLING TOGETHER. WE HAD SOME REAL GOOD ADVICE, AND I THINK THE BOARD DID A GOOD JOB BY NOT BEING HASTY ON ANYTHING AND EVALUATING THINGS AND MAKING MAKING GOOD DECISIONS. BUT IT JUST SEEMS TO ME LIKE WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE BOARD AND WHAT I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HELPED US TO BE EFFECTIVE IS THE FACT THAT WE HAVE THE STRUCTURE WE DO WITH THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS ON THE FIRST, SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH AND THE BOARD MEETING ON THE FOURTH TUESDAY OF THE MONTH. THAT ALLOWS US TO GO DEEP AND ASK THOSE QUESTIONS. THE DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND ASK GOOD QUESTIONS WHEN THAT IS VERY, TO ME, VERY CONDUCIVE TO BEING ABLE TO FOCUS IN THAT MEETING. IT'S NOT A TIME TO MAKE THE DECISION. IT'S TIME TO MAKE, ASK QUESTIONS AND GET READY FOR THE LATER ACTION ITEM THAT'S IN THE BOARD MEETING LATER. I LOVE THAT, THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT ADDITIONAL INSIGHT. I THINK THAT'S GREAT. YEAH AND WHEN DOCTOR LOPEZ CAME, HE CHANGED OUR METHODOLOGIES, INCLUDING CHANGING THE WAY WE STRUCTURED THE COMMITTEES. AND I THINK THAT'S BEEN REALLY EYE OPENING BECAUSE AGAIN, AS JAMIE SAID, WE SIT HERE ON THE FIRST MEETINGS AND WE HAVE MULTIPLE COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND YOU CAN GO INTO DEPTH, TRULY INTO DEPTH INTO ANY SUBJECT. AND IT'S REALLY, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE TIME LIMITS, THERE REALLY ARE NO TIME LIMITS. AND I'VE TOLD PEOPLE REPEATEDLY YOU COULD WATCH ON TELEVISION OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING, I SAID, IT'S CEREMONIAL. THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT IS. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS DISTRICT, WATCH THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. THEY MAY BE LONGER. THEY MAY TAKE A LOT OF TIME. AND EFFORT ON YOUR PART. THAT'S WHERE THE MEET IS OCCURRING. THAT'S WHERE THE TOUGH QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED. THAT'S WHERE THE STAFF HAS TO BE VERY WELL PREPARED. AND THEY ARE. AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK I LEARNED AN AWFUL LOT. AND SO. IT GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO FEEL FREEDOM, TO ASK WHATEVER WE WANT AND WE DO. I LOVE THAT IF YOU'VE READ THE MATERIALS AHEAD OF TIME, YOU'RE PREPARED AND YOU COULD ASK SERIOUS QUESTIONS OF THE STAFF. AND WE LEARN A LOT. YEAH. AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK PROPELS US TO GO FORWARD. I LOVE THAT LIKE SOMETHING THAT'S A BIG KEY LEGACY PIECE TO YOU GUYS IS PROCESS AND ALLOWING DOCTOR LOPEZ TO COME IN AND CHANGE THE PROCESS MEANS YOU GUYS ARE STAYING IN YOUR LANE, [LAUGHTER] RIGHT? LIKE HIS OPERATIONS AND HE'S SAYING, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS DIFFERENTLY. AND YOU GUYS ARE LIKE, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE IT A CHANCE. AND NOW ALL THIS TIME LATER, YOU GUYS ARE SAYING VALIDATING THIS WORKS. SO IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE PROCESS IS PART OF YOUR LEGACY ALSO. OKAY. LOVE IT. THIS IS REALLY, REALLY GREAT. ANY OTHER PARTING THOUGHTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? OKAY THERE'S THIS THOUGHT THAT YOU HAVE TO QUOTE UNQUOTE PLAY NICE. AND SO WHAT I FEEL LIKE KIND OF AS A BOARD OVER THE YEARS AND IT'S TAKEN, I THINK TIME FOR US TO GET HERE. YOU KNOW, IF I ALWAYS USE THE TERM, YOU KNOW, IF I HAVE SPINACH IN MY TEETH, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL ME THAT I GOT SPINACH IN MY TEETH AND. YES [00:25:04] IT'S TO HELP, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT I'M NOT GOING TO EMBARRASS MYSELF OR LOOK CRAZY WHEN I GET OUT IN PUBLIC. AND SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, WITH SOME OF THE THINGS AND COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN STATED, LIKE WE'VE NOT ALWAYS HAD, YOU KNOW, HARMONIOUS CONVERSATIONS, RIGHT? AND I THINK IT TAKES SOMETIMES HAVING DISAGREEMENTS AND HAVING, YOU KNOW, FIERCE AND PASSIONATE DISCOURSE TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING. AND I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS I APPRECIATE IS THAT WE CAN DO THAT, OR WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP THE SKILL TO DO THAT. AND THEN BE ABLE TO WALK OUT AND JUST KIND OF LEAVE IT WHERE IT WAS, RIGHT, AND NOT TAKE IT WITH US AND MAKE IT MEAN ANYTHING OR BE PERSONAL WITH EACH OTHER OR TAKE IT PERSONALLY, BUT STILL, YOU KNOW, HAVE YOUR OPINION. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT IS KIND OF INTERWOVEN INTO THIS, BUT I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I APPRECIATE PERSONALLY ABOUT OUR BOARD AND HAVING GOTTEN TO THAT PLACE WHERE I FEEL LIKE WE CAN DO THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH EACH OTHER AND BE THAT WAY SO. I LOVE THAT. I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO BE PRESUMPTUOUS, BUT I WOULD SUSPECT THAT EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM IS A LEADER IN SOME OTHER CAPACITY OF THEIR LIVES, OR HAS BEEN. IS THAT IS THAT TRUE? ARE ANY OF YOU GUYS NOT LEADERS IN SOME OTHER CAPACITY? I HAVE FOUND IT TO BE THE STRANGEST PLACE TO SERVE, BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WHO RUN ARE LEADERS, AND IT'S RECOGNIZED SOMEWHERE IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND SO YOU SHOULD COME AND HELP LEAD THE DISTRICT. AND YET THERE'S A DYING OF SELF THAT HAS TO HAPPEN A LITTLE BIT WHEN YOU ARE ON THIS BOARD, BECAUSE THE EIGHT OF YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO COOK UP EXACTLY THE WAY ANY ONE OF YOU WOULD INDIVIDUALLY DO ALL OF THE THINGS, RIGHT? AND SO THERE HAS TO BE SOME HUMILITY. THERE HAS TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF OPEN MINDEDNESS AND DYING TO, YOU KNOW, YOUR WAY BEING THE ONLY WAY TO GET THINGS DONE. AND, AND I LOVE LIKE, THIS IS AN EVOLUTION, RIGHT? LIKE THE OTHER HARD THING IS YOUR TEAM CAN CHANGE LITERALLY CONSTANTLY [LAUGHTER]. YOU GUYS MAY NOT KNOW, BUT WE HAD A, WE HIRED A SUP LAST YEAR. AND SO WE WERE FOUR DIFFERENT TEAMS LAST YEAR. WE HAD ONE NEW TRUSTEE AND OUR RETIRING SUP. WE HAD AN INTERIM SUP. [LAUGHTER] WE HAD OUR NEW SUP SO. AND OUR YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD CHANGES ON THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM BECAUSE WE'VE HAD A CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP. AND SO IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, THAT IS A HARD SPACE IN WHICH TO GET MEANINGFUL WORK DONE. AND YET THAT'S THE CHARGE WE'RE ALL GIVEN TO CONSTANTLY BE DEVELOPING A NEW TEAM THAT IS EFFECTIVE AND GETTING THINGS DONE. AND, AND IT IS A STRANGE PLACE TO LEAD FROM WHEN WE ARE NOT ULTIMATELY THE ONES THAT ARE IN CONTROL, BUT WE'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTED. SO I APPRECIATE ALL OF Y'ALL'S COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS WHOLE LEGACY PIECE FOR YOU GUYS, BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT. WHERE ARE YOU GOING? RIGHT? AND WHAT DO YOU WANT TO PROTECT? JOHNNY. ALSO TO ADD ANOTHER CAVEAT TO WHAT ROBERT AND LARRY HAVE SAID, I REALLY APPRECIATE STAFF AND, AND DOCTOR LOPEZ AND LETTING US GIVING US A BOARD INSIGHT ON SUNDAY NIGHT TO KIND OF PREPARE US ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE DISTRICT SO THAT WE KIND OF HAVE INFORMATION. AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING THAT WHEN THE BOOKLETS COME OUT TO US THAT WE ARE, WE CAN OPEN AND WE CAN READ AND ABSORB. THAT WAY WE ARE PREPARED TOO, WITH THAT INFORMATION, GOING TO THE BOARD MEETINGS, TO THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE HAVE MATERIALS IN FRONT OF US BECAUSE THE WORST THING THAT WE HATE IS BEING CAUGHT OFF GUARD. CORRECT. ANY TRUSTEE DOES THAT, OF COURSE. BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE CRITICAL DECISIONS, AND WE GET THAT INFORMATION FROM OUR SUPERINTENDENT AND THE OTHER STAFF MEMBERS. THAT'S VERY APPRECIATIVE TO ANY OF THE BOARD MEMBERS HERE. I THINK WE ALL APPRECIATE THAT. SO THAT'S A GOOD THING. AND I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING HAVING YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS. AND YOU YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SPACE TO HAVE THE DEEP CONVERSATIONS, RIGHT? LIKE THESE ARE BIG DECISIONS. YOU GUYS DON'T WANT TO LEARN THE INFORMATION THE NIGHT THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE A DECISION AND HOPE THAT YOU'RE MAKING THE THE BEST, MOST THOUGHTFUL DECISION. MOST OF US DON'T PROCESS THAT WAY. AND SO I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE GOT A PROCESS IN PLACE. I THINK DISTRICTS THAT ARE THRIVING HAVE SOME PROCESS TO HAVE THE DEEP CONVERSATIONS. BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT, LARRY, THE BOARD MEETING, IT'S IT'S A LITTLE TOO LATE TO BE HAVING SOME OF THE DEEP CONVERSATIONS DEPENDING UPON THE TOPIC SO. I WANT TO ADD ONE THING. YOU KNOW, SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS RESPECTING THE TEAM AND SHARE AND DEFEND YOUR VIEWS AS TO THE VIEWPOINTS OF OTHERS. AND WHAT'S DEVELOPED OVER THE YEARS AS WE'VE SERVED TOGETHER. LIKE IT OR NOT, THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT HAVE A BETTER DEVELOPED SKILL SETS IN CERTAIN AREAS THAN I DO. AND WE ALL HAVE WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE AND WE'VE COME TO LEARN THAT ABOUT EACH OTHER. AND SO THERE ARE TIMES WHERE ONE BOARD MEMBER MAY TAKE A LEAD ON A SUBJECT, AND IT'S VERY REFRESHING TO HEAR THEIR EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, AND WE SOAK IT UP. AND THEN THERE ARE TIMES WHERE IT MAY BE SOMEBODY ELSE'S TURN TO TAKE THE LEAD ON A DISCUSSION ITEM. AND I THINK BEING ABLE TO RESPECT THAT AND BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HAS BEEN VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR US [LAUGHTER]. [00:30:07] LIKE I SAID, SOMETIMES WE START OFF IN SEVEN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OH, YEAH. BUT THEN SOMEHOW IT'S AT THE END, WE STACK HANDS AND GO FORWARD. AND SO I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN VERY I JUST THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO. AND IN TERMS OF THE DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND READING ALL THAT STUFF, I HAVE A LIMIT. ANYTHING OVER 600 PAGES, I AIN'T READING IT. [LAUGHTER]. NO, I'M KIDDING. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO SINCE COVID IS REDUCE THE SIZE OF THAT MATERIAL THAT HAS TO BE READ BECAUSE IT'S YOU CAN READ 600 PAGES IF YOU WANT TO. IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, I CAN REMEMBER ABOUT THREE THINGS IN THAT 600 PAGES. SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL, YOU KNOW, BE GOOD AT WHAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN AND WHAT WE HAVE SKILL SETS IN. MAYBE WE'RE NOT AS DEEP IN SOME OF THE AREAS AS OTHERS, BUT AS A TEAM, IT FUNCTIONED WELL. I LOVE THAT AND THAT ACTUALLY IS A PERFECT SEGUE BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT, YOU GUYS ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF EVERY SINGLE SUBJECT AREA BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERTS IN THE ROOM. YOUR SUPERINTENDENT IS AND HIS STAFF, RIGHT? SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW ALL OF THE THINGS. SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT HERE ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT. SO OUR LANE VERSUS STAFF'S LANE. AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE CHARGES IN THAT UPPER CORNER. THAT DEFINITION THAT WE SAW EARLIER ABOUT INFORMED OVERSIGHT, STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, STUDENT PERFORMANCE. BUT YOU KNOW, THE DIFFERENCE, BUT THE BOARD'S JOB IS TO INSPIRE AND PROVIDE VISION, KIND OF LIKE A COACH AND IT'S THE SUPERINTENDENT AND THE STAFF'S JOB TO ACTUALLY LIKE, BE OUT ON THE COURT WILL LEAN INTO THE NCAA, YOU KNOW, TOURNAMENT SINCE WE JUST HAD THE FINALS LAST NIGHT. BUT IT'S, IT'S STAFF'S JOB TO ACTUALLY BE OUT THERE PLAYING, PLAYING THE GAME. YOU GUYS ARE JUST PROVIDING THE FRAMEWORK AND THE GUARD, THE GUARDRAILS IN WHICH YOU WANT STAFF TO OPERATE. SO STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY GROUNDED IN FACTS AND DATA, WHICH IT SOUNDS LIKE DOCTOR LOPEZ AND HIS TEAM ARE DOING EFFECTIVELY AND THOROUGHLY. BUT YOU KNOW, YOUR JOB IS INFORMED OVERSIGHT. AND I THINK, JAMIE, SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, KIND OF MADE ME JOT DOWN LIKE INFORMED DECISION MAKING. SO SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD A FRIEND OF MINE AND SOMEBODY WHO'S NEAR YOU GUYS USE THIS ANALOGY BEFORE, BUT INFORMED OVERSIGHT MEANS YOU CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION, HOW MANY SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES DOES IT CHANGE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB? HOW MANY DO YOU NEED TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB? NONE. NONE. WHY? BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD IT BEFORE. NO, ROBERT'S HEARD IT BEFORE I KNOW. BUT WHY DOES IT TAKE NONE? IT'S NOT OUR JOB. IT'S NOT YOUR JOB. YOU SAY WE WANT THERE TO BE LIGHT IN THE ROOM. AND THEN THE SUPERINTENDENT BRINGS IN LIGHTING AND THEN YOU SAY, OH, WE WANT IT TO BE A STROBE LIGHT TONIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A DANCE PARTY OR IT'S GOING TO BE A BLACK LIGHT, OR IT NEEDS TO BE BRIGHTER, IT NEEDS TO BE DARKER. BUT PROVIDING THE LIGHT IS NOT YOUR JOB THAT'S OPERATIONAL. YOUR JOB IS THAT VISION THAT YOU NEED LIGHT IN THE ROOM OR IN THE SPACE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I LOVE THAT. THAT ONE FOR ME JUST REALLY, REALLY KIND OF DROVE IT HOME FOR ME. SO, LINDA, DO YOU WANT TO CHIME IN AND UNDER THE BOARD OVERSIGHT, I'M ASSUMING YOU CAN SEE THE SLIDES, BUT CAN YOU JUST TELL US READ THE THREE THINGS UNDER BOARD OVERSIGHT ON THIS SLIDE. ADOPT CLEARLY DEFINED RESULTS. REVIEW PLAN. OOPS. OH, SORRY, IT IS SMALL SORRY. REVIEW PLANS, PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES DESIGNED TO ACCOMPLISH RESULTS. ONGOING MONITORING OF PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES AND COURSE. WHAT IS? COURSE CORRECT, YEAH. OH, COURSE CORRECT IF NECESSARY. THANK YOU. SO WE ARE TO DEVELOP THE RESULTS, THE OUTCOMES. YES. YES. THAT IS A PERFECT SUMMARY OF THOSE THREE BULLETS. AND WHAT ABOUT SOMEBODY HERE IN THE ROOM ON SUPERINTENDENT MANAGEMENT. COMMITMENT TO RESULTS. CREATE PLANS, IDENTIFY PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES TO ACCOMPLISH RESULTS. REVISE PLANS, PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES AS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE RESULTS. IT'S INTERESTING YOU USED THE WORD RESULTS INSTEAD OF GOALS. AND I'M TRYING TO SEE IF I AGREE WITH THAT. OKAY. I THINK A RESULT. I'M SORRY. DO WE CAN I EQUATE A RESULT AND A GOAL? [00:35:04] NOT SURE. I'M NOT SURE. OKAY. BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE EVER SAID THIS IS THE RESULT WE WANT. BUT THIS IS THE GOAL WE WANT TO ACHIEVE. OKAY. DO YOU THINK IS THAT THE SAME? I'M GOING TO LET LINDA CHIME IN AND THEN I'LL. AND THEN I'LL CHIME IN TOO LARRY. BUT WE'VE BEEN CONDITIONED. FROM 1566 ABOUT OUTCOMES. [LAUGHTER] SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE DON'T AGREE WITH IT OR ARE WE CONFORMING TO WHAT WE'VE BEEN TAUGHT IN THE PAST. WELL, THAT IS A GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION. AND IT ACTUALLY IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY TO, TO LARRY. YOU KNOW, RESULTS LIKE WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR STUDENT OUTCOMES, RIGHT? WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE BUDGET, NOT MANAGING THE BUDGET DURING THE YEAR. BUT, BUT THE OUTCOME, RIGHT? LIKE WHAT RESULT WE WANT? WHERE AS A GOAL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANTED TO LOSE 20 POUNDS, YOUR GOAL MIGHT BE TO LOSE 20 POUNDS. THE RESULT MIGHT BE THAT YOU LOST 15. THE RESULT MIGHT ALSO BE THAT YOU LOST 30. BUT THE RESULT IS WHAT YOU HAVE THE SUPERINTENDENT GOING AFTER THE HOW HE WANTS TO DO THAT. HE'S GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU GUYS AND TELL YOU TELL YOU THE HOW. HB 3, WHICH WE'LL LOOK AT IN A LITTLE BIT. THOSE ARE SOME OF THOSE BENCHMARK GOALS ALONG THE WAY TO A FIVE YEAR RESULT THAT YOU WANT. SO SOME OF IT DEFINITELY, YOU COULD DEBATE IS SEMANTICS, BUT THAT REALLY IS THE ESSENCE OF THE SPIRIT OF IT ALL. DOES THAT LAND WITH EVERYBODY? OKAY. OKAY. SO AS WE CONTINUE ON, YOUR JOB IS VISION. AND DOCTOR LOPEZ AND HIS STAFF'S JOB IS THE TACTICS. SO YOUR VISION HOPEFULLY IS COMPELLING. IT'S LONG TERM. IT'S ASPIRATIONAL. SOMETIMES WE NEVER ARRIVE, BUT WE KEEP WE KEEP CHASING IT OR WE KEEP CHASING SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE PLACE WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW. IT'S A DESIRED FUTURE STATE. AND YOUR GUIDING STAR SHOULD BE YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN. SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO DIVE INTO YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN TONIGHT, BUT I JUST WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM AROUND THE TABLE AND FROM AND FROM LINDA. HOW DO YOU GUYS FEEL LIKE YOU'RE DOING WITH YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN? HONORING IT, USING IT AS A LENS FOR DECISION MAKING? IS IT A MAP? GO AHEAD. OH, YOU WANT TO RESPONSE OR? OH, YES. [LAUGHTER] WELL, YOU SAID IT WAS INTERACTIVE, SO. YEAH, 100% THIS IS ALL CONVERSATIONAL. JUST THINKING BACK OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, I THINK THE LONGEST DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD AS A GROUP HAS BEEN BOTH THE SUPERINTENDENT EVALUATION AND THE SETTING OF BOARD GOALS. OKAY AND SO WHEN WE SET THE GOALS, THEN THE STAFF WOULD, YOU KNOW, THAT PUT THE GAME PLAN TOGETHER. AND YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE MONITOR, BUT EVERYTHING IN OUR BOARD BOOK TIES BACK TO A GOAL. WE HAVE PURPOSELY SELECTED AGENDA ITEMS AND THINGS WITHIN OUR ACTIVITIES SO THAT EVERYTHING TIES BACK TO MEETING ONE OF OUR GOALS AND THE STAFF DOES A GREAT JOB OF TYING BACK THE PURPOSE TO THE GOAL. LOVE THAT. AND DO YOU GUYS FEEL LIKE YOUR GOALS THAT YOU'RE MONITORING AND GOING AFTER, ARE THEY THE STRATEGIC PLAN OR IS THERE A SEPARATE STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENT THAT IS YOUR GUIDEPOST? THE GOALS, THE GUIDEPOST. GOALS ARE THE GUIDEPOST GOALS FOR THE GUIDEPOST. OKAY. THAT MAKES IT EASY TO FILTER DECISIONS. OKAY. LOVE IT. OKAY, SO WE'RE GOING TO I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING STABILITY, CONSISTENCY AND PREDICTABILITY. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO TOUCH A LITTLE BIT ON THE STATUS OF THINGS, THE TURBULENT TIMES THAT WE'VE BEEN IN, IN PUBLIC EDUCATION THE POWER OF POSITIVE MESSAGING. EFFICIENT PROFESSIONAL BOARD MEETINGS, WHICH I'VE WATCHED SOME OF YOUR MEETINGS AND SITTING HERE TONIGHT, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE DOING THAT. AND THEN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HIGH PERFORMING TEAM OF TEAM OF 8, BECAUSE THESE THINGS COMBINED ARE REALLY KEY PIECES IN YOUR TOOLBOX FOR CREATING KIND OF THAT STABILITY, CONSISTENCY AND PREDICTABILITY, WHICH HELPS YOUR COMMUNITY HAVE CONFIDENCE. [00:40:06] OKAY, SO LET'S FIRST LOOK AT TURBULENT TIMES. SO WE'RE ON SLIDE 10. IF YOU GUYS ARE FOLLOWING ALONG AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S BEEN AN INORDINATELY LONG PERIOD OF TIME [LAUGHTER] AT THIS POINT. BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF UNIQUE FACTORS THAT I WOULD SAY TRANSCEND EVERYTHING FROM SPRING 2020 TO NOW AND RAPID CHANGE, RIGHT? LIKE IF YOU THINK ABOUT TECHNOLOGY OR CHATGPT OR HOW FAST PHONES ARE EVOLVING FROM WHAT THEY COULD DO, FROM WHEN I STARTED WORKING 30 YEARS AGO TO WHAT THEY CAN DO NOW. SO WE'VE BEEN IN A PROLONGED PERIOD OF RAPID CHANGE, AND THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE HAS SHIFTED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST 5 TO 10 YEARS. INDIVIDUALS FOR MANY REASONS, ARE FEELING ANXIETY, DISTRESS AND CONCERN. AND THERE ARE HIGH ANXIETIES AROUND A NUMBER, A NUMBER OF A NUMBER OF ISSUES. SO WHEN IT, WHEN SOMEBODY FEELS UNSETTLED PSYCHOLOGICALLY, IT IS COMMON FOR THEM TO LOOK FOR ANSWERS OR TO LOOK FOR ADVERSARIES AND KIND OF FINDING A COMMUNITY IN A SENSE OF FINDING OTHER PEOPLE THAT CAN DISAGREE ALONGSIDE THEM. SO THIS IS SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE HAD CULTURE WARS, AND THERE HAVE BEEN CONTROVERSIES FOR AS LONG AS HUMANS HAVE BEEN ON THE PLANET. THESE ARE JUST SOME THAT WE HAVE DEALT WITH AGAIN OVER THE LAST 6 TO 10 YEARS, BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY A CONNECTION BETWEEN FEELING MISTRUST AND POLITICAL UNREST IN THE WIDER CULTURE. EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT EXPERIENCING THAT HERE IN YOUR DISTRICT, AND THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NO LONGER HAVE A MONOPOLY ON EDUCATION ANYMORE, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR A LONG TIME WAS DEFINITELY THE CASE OR DEFINITELY THE EXPECTATION. COULD I? YEAH, I IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE AVOIDED AN AWFUL LOT OF THE THINGS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT HERE. I KNOW YOU HAVE. BECAUSE PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT IT AND WHEN WE GO TO CONFERENCES. OH YEAH YOU, YOU HAVE. I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. OUR OUTSIDE COUNSEL ALSO, I'LL LEAVE THE NAME OF THE DISTRICT. THAT'S FINE, YEAH I FORGET WHAT THE SUBJECT. MAYBE IT WAS SOMETHING. IT WAS SOMETHING. YEAH. IT WAS SO CONTROVERSIAL AT THAT DISTRICT THAT SHE CALLED HERE AND SAID, WE NEED SERIOUS POLICE PRESENCE AT YOUR MEETING THAT NIGHT. SO I DROVE UP AND THERE WERE POLICE CARS EVERYWHERE. I MEAN, WE NORMALLY HAVE 1 OR 2. RIGHT. THIS WAS MANY, MANY MORE. AND I'M THINKING, WHAT HAPPENED? THEY SAID NOTHING HAPPENED. THEY'RE PREPARING FOR THE MEETING TONIGHT. AND IT WAS RELATIVELY CALM. I MEAN WE HAD 10 OR 12 SPEAKERS, NOT 50 OR 60. RIGHT. AND SO I'M NOT SURE PEOPLE SAY, WELL, THEY TRUST YOU IN THIS DISTRICT. I'LL TAKE SOME OF THAT CREDIT. [LAUGHTER]. SURE. BUT I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE WE READ ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME. WHAT GOES ON IN OTHER DISTRICTS? YOU CAN NAME THEM AND. YES [LAUGHTER]. SOME, SOME IN YOUR DISTRICT TOO. YOU'VE HAD SOME OF THAT TOO. SO I'M GLAD WE HAVEN'T HAD IT. I HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY. WILL IT CHANGE? OF COURSE EVERY DISTRICT HAS CERTAIN COMMUNITY LEADERS, PARENTS WHO ARE WHO WANT TO HAVE THEIR VOICE HEARD. YES. AND WE HEAR THEIR VOICES. YES. BUT NOT QUITE LIKE SOME OF THE OTHERS. THAT GENERATE MORE HEAT, DISCUSSION, CONTROVERSY THAN OTHERS. I THINK THERE'S ALSO A PIECE TO IT ABOUT CULTURE. I MEAN, SO YOU THINK ABOUT COVID ALL AROUND OUR DISTRICT, ALL KINDS OF THINGS WERE GOING ON AT BOARD MEETINGS. AND WHILE WE SOMETIMES HAD 60, 70, 80 SPEAKERS, OUR MEETINGS NEVER DEVOLVED INTO THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON ALL AROUND US. AND I THINK SOME OF THAT IS A COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL EXPECTATION, YOU KNOW, ABOUT CONDUCT. AND I THINK IT'S ALSO ABOUT HOW YOU GUYS CONDUCT YOUR MEETINGS AND HOW YOU GUYS CARRY YOURSELVES. AND, AND THE STANDARD THAT YOU KIND OF ARE HOLDING YOUR COMMUNITY TO TOO. FOR SURE THERE HAS TO BE A TRUST ELEMENT TO IT THOUGH. LIKE WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND AND SOME DISTRICTS ARE GROUND ZERO FOR EVERY CONTROVERSY GOING ON AND OTHER DISTRICTS ARE EXPERIENCING VERY LITTLE OF IT. I MEAN, THERE'S DEFINITELY A COMMUNITY DISTRICT CULTURE ELEMENT TO IT THAT I THINK IS, IS UNDENIABLE. [00:45:03] YEAH. I JUST WANT TO PUT SOMETHING IN THOUGH. AND I THINK THAT, THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS VERY EVIDENT WITH DOCTOR LOPEZ AND HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE IS THAT WE STAY, WE'RE FOCUSED ON WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO. AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO THERE BECAUSE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US. AND SO I THINK THAT THAT GOES A LONG WAY IN KEEPING BECAUSE WE DON'T OPEN OURSELVES UP TO BEING YOU KNOW, THESE TEST GROUPS AND ALL THESE, YOU KNOW, NEW FAD THINGS. AND WE'RE NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, TAKING ON SOMETHING NEW. WE'RE I, I'M NOT ARTICULATING IT WELL, BUT, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH HIS LEADERSHIP THAT WE STAY FOCUSED ON WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND EVEN IF WE WANT, WE WANT THAT SHINY NEW TOY. HE'S ALWAYS VERY HESITANT TO GO GET THAT SHINY NEW TOY UNTIL WE KNOW THAT THAT SHINY NEW TOY IS GOING TO LAST. AND THAT IT'S GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS ARE. EXACTLY, YEAH THAT JUST AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS JUST VERY EASILY I PICKED UP ON THAT VERY QUICKLY AND MANY A TIMES GET TALKED OFF THE LEDGE BECAUSE I TEND TO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT, THAT I CAN, I CAN STAY LESS FOCUSED ON ALL THE OUTSIDE AND STAY WITH THE WITH THE TASK AT HAND. I LOVE THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A SLIDE LATER. YOU'RE GOING TO BE LIKE, OH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING. I THINK YOU ARTICULATED THAT PERFECTLY DAPHNE. OKAY, WELL, LET'S KEEP GOING FORWARD ON THIS TURBULENT TIMES. SO WE ARE GROUND ZERO. I MEAN, YOU GUYS, WHAT IS MORE EMOTIONAL FOR PEOPLE THAN THEIR MONEY AND THEIR KIDS? [LAUGHTER] I THINK VERY, VERY FEW THINGS ARE MORE EMOTIONALLY CHARGED FOR PEOPLE THAN THOSE TWO THINGS. SO NUMBER ONE, WE'RE DEALING WITH TWO. PEOPLE'S TWO MOST SACRED THINGS IN MOST SITUATIONS, RIGHT? WE'RE ACCESSIBLE. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE IN AND OUT OF OUR BUILDINGS. PEOPLE SEE US AT THE GROCERY STORE, WE'RE AT SPORTING EVENTS, WE'RE AT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS. SO WE ARE ACCESSIBLE IN A WAY THAT YOU KNOW, MAYBE STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND FEDERALLY ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE NOT AS AVAILABLE. AND YOU GUYS, IT HAS GOTTEN MUCH MORE CONVENIENT TO RALLY THE TROOPS AND SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT TO AND BE A KEYBOARD WARRIOR THEN THAN IT EVER HAS BEEN. SO IT IS CONVENIENT ALSO TO GO AFTER US AND AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, AND PEOPLE WILL GENERALLY GARNER SOME SORT OF, SOME SORT OF AUDIENCE. SO HOW DO YOU KEEP THESE THINGS FROM BECOMING OBSTACLES TO YOUR SUCCESS? SO KIND OF IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF THE FLIP SIDE OF, YOU KNOW, THE POINT LARRY MADE. SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU GUYS LIKE, HOW ARE YOU GUYS? HOW ARE YOU KEEPING THESE THINGS FROM BECOMING OBSTACLES? AND YOU KIND OF STARTED TO ANSWER SOME OF THAT DAPHNE. I THINK ONCE YOU, YOU GET INTO THINGS WHERE FOR COMMUNITY BUY IN, JUST LIKE WE DID WITH THE PROP A BACK IN NOVEMBER, THE STEERING COMMITTEE THAT WAS EACH BOARD MEMBER WAS ASKED TO BRING FORTH SEVEN MEMBERS AND THEN THE STAFF WOULD BRING THE REST FOR THAT COMMITTEE. AND I THINK WHEN YOU GET A BUY IN AND YOU GET PEOPLE THAT BUY IN TO WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS, THE VISION THAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH, THAT RIGHT THERE IS A BIG, GIANT STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE COMMUNITIES. AND OF COURSE, WITH US, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TOO BECAUSE WE HAVE THREE COMMUNITIES THAT WE'RE TAKING IN SACHSE, ROWLETT AND GARLAND. AND SO WE WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT LEADERSHIP FROM ALL OF THOSE DISTRICTS AND THOSE FOLKS IN THOSE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES WITH A BUY IN FOR WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHERE YOUR LOCAL PTA AND ALL YOUR SCHOOLS AND YOUR ELEMENTARIES, YOUR HIGHS, IF THE PTA IS GET INVOLVED THE VOLUNTEERS THAT SUB THE NUMBER OF SUBS THAT COME INTO YOUR BUILDING THAT ARE POSITIVE BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE FORMER TEACHERS AND THEY WANT TO BE THERE TO HELP. I KNOW A BUNCH OF THEM ARE THERE RIGHT TODAY FOR HELPING ON THE STAAR TESTING. SO THAT TO ME IS A BUY IN. THAT'S GREAT. YEAH. THAT'S GREAT. DOCTOR LOPEZ WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? WELL I GUESS YOU READ MY FACE. [LAUGHTER] THERE WE GO. I THINK I GOT TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT MRS. STANLEY WAS SAYING, BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. DURING A LOT OF TIMES OF TURBULENCE, WE'RE SEEING IT WITH SCHOOL CLOSURES. WE'RE SEEING IT. WE'VE SEEN IT WITH COVID. WE'RE SEEING IT WITH LAYOFFS OF STAFFS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO THE SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. GOING SOLO WAS A NO-NO. BECAUSE I SEE A DIFFERENT PART BECAUSE OF THE VASTNESS OF TEXAS AND SUPERINTENDENT SHARE. BUT SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TRUSTEES THAT DON'T RESPECT THE TEAM AND AREN'T GETTING THEIR WAY AND THEY WILL HAVE EVENTS AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS TO RILE UP PEOPLE. [00:50:02] AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT COME. IT'S A REALITY. SOME OF THESE ELECTED BOARD MEMBERS DO THAT. WHETHER THEY, THEY SUSPECT SOMETHING IS GOING ON OR THEY'RE NOT GETTING THEIR WAY. AND SO WHEN WE GO BACK TO THE EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, WE NEVER HAD THAT HERE EVER. NOBODY WAS OUT TRYING TO RALLY THEIR TEAMS EVEN WHEN THINGS DIDN'T GO THEIR WAY OR THEIR VIEWPOINT, THEY FELT MAYBE WAS BEING DIMINISHED A LITTLE BIT. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE ALWAYS BEEN GRATEFUL FOR. THE SECOND THING IS, BECAUSE THEY RESPECT US, THEY RESPECT EACH OTHER AND THEY RESPECT THE PROCESS. AND I THINK ALL OF THEM, BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN IN DIFFERENT POINTS OF LIFE, THEY UNDERSTAND THERE'S A PROCESS, AND IF WE GO THROUGH IT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, THERE WILL BE LIGHT. AND SO STICKING TOGETHER WILL NEVER GET YOU THERE QUICKER. AND SO THIS TURBULENCE SOMETIMES TIES BACK TO THE SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT CONNECTION. WELL, I LOVE THAT. AND I THINK TOO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE ALLUDED TO OR TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND US. I MEAN, SOMETIMES WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND YOU CAN BE MOTIVATION FOR HELPING YOU DOUBLE DOWN AND STAY IN YOUR LANE AND DO THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY, RIGHT? LIKE SOMETIMES WE SEE WHAT WE WANT TO AVOID AS MUCH AS WE SEE WHAT WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS. AND, AND THAT CAN BE POWERFUL, I THINK AS WELL. SO THANKS FOR CONNECTING THOSE PIECES BECAUSE THEY ARE CONNECTED. ALL RIGHT. LET'S MOVE ON TO POSITIVE MESSAGING. SO I WISH THIS WAS MY QUOTE. IT'S NOT, BUT I'VE OFTEN SAID THIS IN OUR COMMUNITY WHEN THERE'S MISINFORMATION OR RUMORS GOING AROUND, I'M LIKE, IF WE DON'T TELL PEOPLE, IF WE DON'T FILL IN THE GAPS WITH ACCURATE INFORMATION, PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE WORLD BASED UPON WHAT THEY KNOW, RIGHT? SO PEOPLE WILL FILL IN THE GAPS IN THE ABSENCE OF US PROVIDING ACCURATE INFORMATION. SO, DAPHNE, WHAT I WAS MENTIONING BEFORE [LAUGHTER] ON OUR COMMUNICATION. I MEAN, THE MAIN THING IS THE MAIN THING WE TALK ABOUT SO MANY TOPICS AS SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES, YOU KNOW, BONDS AND FINANCES AND HR AND TURNOVER AND BUDGETS AND CURRICULUM, LEGISLATIVE CHANGES. THE REALITY IS IF WE CAN POINT EVERYTHING BACK TO ACADEMICS, WHICH IS THE JOB, WHICH IS WHAT YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO, ACADEMIC OUTCOMES FOR YOUR STUDENTS. SO MUCH OF THE NOISE FALLS AWAY IF YOU CAN POINT BACK TO ACADEMICS. SO POSITIVE MESSAGING. YOU CAN ALWAYS COME UP WITH A STATEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING YOU GUYS ARE WORKING ON IN THE BOARDROOM, HOW IT IMPACTS ACADEMICS, RIGHT? YOU GUYS KNOW MORE THAN ANYBODY EXCEPT FOR YOUR STAFF HOW MUCH ALL OF THIS CONNECTS TO ACADEMICS. CONSISTENT MESSAGE FROM EVERYBODY. ONE VOICE. I'VE HEARD IT AROUND AROUND THE TABLE MULTIPLE TIMES TONIGHT. LIKE YOU GUYS GET ALIGNED WHETHER YOU START AT THE SAME PLACE OR DIFFERENT PLACES. ONCE THE DECISION IS MADE, YOU GUYS GET ALIGNED. THAT IS ESSENTIAL. APPROPRIATE TEAM COMMUNICATION. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND. AND THEN I USE A RULE OF THREE. YOU GUYS MAY USE A DIFFERENT RULE. YOU KNOW WE'VE GOT ABOUT 13,000 STUDENTS. SO WE'RE DEFINITELY SMALLER THAN YOU GUYS. BUT WE'RE IN FIVE MUNICIPALITIES. AND IF I HEAR SOMETHING THAT'S MISINFORMATION OR A RUMOR. I DON'T CALL THE SUPERINTENDENT RIGHT AWAY. I MAKE SURE THAT I HEAR IT FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES THAT I KNOW ARE NOT ALL TALKING TO EACH OTHER, AND IT'S NOT THIS GROUP OF TEN PEOPLE SPINNING IN A CIRCLE, CALLING EVERYBODY THEY KNOW, BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY SOME, SOME LEGS AND SOME MERIT TO IT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR THING MIGHT BE, BUT YOU GUYS JUST MIGHT WANT TO EACH INDIVIDUALLY CONSIDER LIKE, WHAT, WHAT IS THE THRESHOLD DOES, WHAT DOES WARRANT YOU KNOWING THAT IT HAS SOME VALIDITY? AND YOU GUYS HAVE GOT TO BUILD THE CAPACITY, YOU KNOW, TRUST IS ABOUT LISTENING AND NOT JUST ONE WAY COMMUNICATION, WHICH I KNOW THE LARGER YOU ARE, THE MORE CHALLENGING THAT IS REACHING OUT TO SO MUCH OF YOUR COMMUNITY. SO WHAT PROCESSES DO YOU GUYS, WE TALKED ABOUT PROCESSES BEFORE, BUT WHAT PROCESSES DO YOU THINK YOU GUYS HAVE IN PLACE TO EXECUTE POSITIVE MESSAGING CONSISTENTLY? WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING ALREADY? WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO ALREADY IS WE HAVE OUR TRUSTEES REPORT THAT WE DO AT THE BOARD MEETING, WHICH OUTLINES OUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY, THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE GONE OUT AND SEEN. ONE, IT TELLS WHAT WE WHAT WE DO WITH RESPECT TO THE COMMUNITY. I THINK THE BIGGER THING IS THAT WE TELL THE IMPACT OF WHAT WE'VE DONE AND HOW WE'RE SEEING IT IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. AND SO I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE FIRST PLACE IS THROUGH OUR OWN, OUR OWN WORDS IS WE'RE ABLE TO ARTICULATE WHAT WE SEE. THE RESULT IS DURING THE BOARD MEETING, DURING OUR TRUSTEES REPORT. I LOVE THAT. THANKS FOR SHARING THAT WES. WHAT OTHER THINGS DO YOU GUYS HAVE IN PLACE TO HELP BUILD CONSISTENT, CONSISTENCY IN THE COMMUNITY? I THINK OF MORE OF THE NEGATIVE THAT LED TO A POSITIVE. [00:55:05] YEAH. I WAS AT SOMETHING IN ROWLETT A KAYAK LAUNCH OF ALL THINGS [LAUGHTER]. OKAY? OKAY. BIG, BIG CROWD WAS THERE AND SEVERAL OF THE PEOPLE CAME UP TO ME AND SAYS, WELL, WE HEAR THAT YOU HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT NOW AND YOU'RE ALLOWING ANYBODY TO COME IN. ANYBODY COULD COME IN THE DISTRICT. AND I'M THINKING, SO I ANSWERED THEM. I THOUGHT WAS APPROPRIATELY. AND THEN I WAS AT A BASKETBALL GAME AND PEOPLE CAME UP AND ASKED ABOUT. SO I'M THINKING THAT'S TWICE THIS IS GOING. THIS IS. SO I DIDN'T WAIT FOR THE THIRD TIME. SO I CALLED DOCTOR LOPEZ. I SAID, I THINK THE WRONG MESSAGE IS COMING OUT ABOUT OUR OPEN ENROLLMENT. YES AND THIS IS ALL THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. YEAH. SO AND I THINK WE GOT IT STRAIGHTENED OUT. BUT THAT WAS FRIGHTENING BECAUSE THEY'RE THINKING WHO, EVERYBODY'S COMING IN. RIGHT. WELL, BUT I LOVE THAT, LIKE THE SKY WASN'T FALLING JUST BECAUSE YOU HEARD IT, OR YOU GOT A PHONE CALL OR SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING, RIGHT? LIKE WHEN YOU REALIZED THESE ARE TWO DISPARATE GROUPS SAYING SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR THAT IS INCREDIBLY INCORRECT. [LAUGHTER] LIKE THERE MIGHT BE A COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN HERE SOMEWHERE, RIGHT? SO I THINK, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT, A GREAT EXAMPLE, LARRY. YEAH. AND KEEPING WITH LARRY'S EXAMPLE. YES. WE DIDN'T HE DIDN'T RUSH TO PUT THAT ON A BOARD MEETING. SOMETIMES WE HEAR SOMETHING ONCE OR TWICE AND IT MERITS US TALKING SOMEONE ELSE IN THE BOARD ON THE BOARD INTO AN AGENDA ITEM. AND THAT DIDN'T MERIT THAT THE WAY HE DID THAT WAS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE. AND I THINK MORE THAN NOT, WE'RE DOING THAT. TO STOP THE MISCOMMUNICATION. I LOVE THAT BECAUSE THE SKY IS NOT FALLING AND YOU GUYS ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, AND YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR THINGS THAT DOCTOR LOPEZ OR HIS TEAM DOES NOT HEAR. AND, AND YOU KNOW, LINDA, TO YOUR POINT AND TO LARRY'S POINT, LIKE IT DOES NOT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THREE, RIGHT? LIKE WE HAD A STUDENT PETITION THAT I WAS NOTIFIED OF AND ONE OF THE NAMED PEOPLE THAT THEY WERE NOTIFYING, AND WE HAD 350 OF OUR 800 KIDS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL THINKING THAT WE WERE DOING LAYOFFS DISTRICT WIDE. AND WE WEREN'T. WE ACTUALLY HAVE SPACE TO RETAIN EVERYBODY. WE ARE DOING NO, WE'RE DOING NO RIFS. AND SO BUT I WOULD NOT ALWAYS CALL THE SUPERINTENDENT ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT AS I'M WATCHING IT, IN FIVE MINUTES, IT'S GONE UP 75 STUDENTS AND IT IS RUNNING RAMPANT ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NOW THEIR PARENTS ARE FOLLOWING THEM LIKE, LIKE IN A TOWN OF 13,000 STUDENTS. LIKE THIS IS A PROBLEM. SO I LOVE THAT. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR OWN PERSONAL FILTERS THAT YOU'RE USING, BUT THEN ALSO, YOU GUYS DO ALSO HAVE THE TOOL OF PUTTING SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA IF YOU NEED TO. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY, SO. I WANT TO ADD ONE THING. COMMUNITIES AND THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. I MEAN, THINK ABOUT THIS. RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BOARD IS LIKE RUNNING FOR MAYOR IN THREE TOWNS AT ONE TIME. YEAH. [LAUGHTER]. SO IT'S A REALLY BIG JOB AND IT'S A REALLY BIG DISTRICT, 350,000 PEOPLE AND 50,000 KIDS. BUT WHAT DOES, CAN'T BE LOST IS THE POSITIVE IMAGING. I DON'T THINK GARLAND ISD HAS ALWAYS HAD A POSITIVE IMAGE. IT HAS REALLY CHANGED IN THE PAST TEN YEARS. YOU KNOW, EIGHT YEARS AND SOME REALLY POSITIVE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. AND PART OF IT IS THE SCHOOL BOARD'S WILLINGNESS TO GET OUT THERE AND GET INVOLVED. AND I SAY THIS ALL THE TIME, EVERYBODY'S TIRED OF IT. YOU CAN PRETEND TO CARE, BUT YOU CAN'T PRETEND TO SHOW UP. AND ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE THINGS I THINK THAT CAN HAPPEN IS FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO SHOW UP, FOR LEADERS TO SHOW UP, FOR PARENTS TO SHOW UP. THERE'S NOTHING MORE REINFORCING TO THE KIDS THAT WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS IMPORTANT THAN ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO SHOW UP FOR THEM. AND I THINK THIS BOARD, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GET THE LONGEST PART OF OUR AGENDA, EVERY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IS THE BOARD TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING THEY SAW AND DID AND WITNESSED FROM KIDS AND PARENTS IN THE DISTRICT. AND IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE MOST PLEASANT. SO THAT'S PART OF IT. I LOVE THAT. THANK YOU. LET'S LOOK AT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S POSITIVE MESSAGING JUST SO WE REMEMBER ABOUT STAYING IN OUR LANES. [LAUGHTER]. THIS IS ANOTHER PLACE FOR US TO DO THAT OR BLOW IT. [01:00:02] SO, YOU KNOW, THE SUPERINTENDENT IS YOUR SPOKESPERSON FOR THE DISTRICT. HE AND HIS STAFF ARE GOING TO CREATE THE CENTRAL AND CLEAR LIST OF PRIORITIES. HE'S GOING TO BE YOUR HEAD CHEERLEADER. AND STAFF IS CRAFTING AND TELLING THE STORY THAT YOU GUYS ARE COMING ALONGSIDE TO SUPPORT. RIGHT? AND THE HUMAN SIDE OF OUR STORY, AS WITH YOUR BOARD REPORTS THAT YOU GUYS KEEP TALKING ABOUT IS STUDENTS LIKE THE STORY IS STUDENTS, PERIOD. FULL STOP. IF YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT NOTHING ELSE, YOU'RE WINNING. SO WHAT IS OUR ROLE AS SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES IF THIS IS THE SUPERINTENDENT'S JOB? OUR JOB IS AGAIN TO POINT BACK TO ACADEMICS. KNOW THE CENTRAL LIST OF PRIORITIES. BE A CHEERLEADER FOR THE RESULTS AND SUCCESSES. AND, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE USING THE SAME MESSAGING THAT THE STAFF IS. SO ARE YOU SAYING THE SAME THINGS? ARE YOU GUYS ON THE SAME PAGE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE CRITICAL BULLETS ARE? FOR SOME HOT TOPIC, LIMITED OPEN ENROLLMENT OR OPEN ENROLLMENT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE THESE DAYS. BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT MESSAGING AND WHAT THE KEY TALKING POINTS ARE? AND YOU CAN ALSO, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ASKED IN THE COMMUNITY HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO BE DONE. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU GUYS WHILE YOU AREN'T DETERMINING THE HOW. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU GUYS TO UNDERSTAND THE HOW, WHICH IS COMING THROUGH IN YOUR DECISION MAKING AND YOUR AND YOUR RESEARCH AND YOUR AND YOUR MEETINGS. SO DO YOU GUYS HAVE A PROCESS IN PLACE? I'M ASSUMING YOU GET A WEEKLY UPDATE FROM DOCTOR LOPEZ. DO YOU GUYS HAVE A WAY OF KNOWING WHAT THE KEY, KEY BULLETS ARE ON HOT TOPICS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN YOUR DISTRICT? FACEBOOK. [LAUGHTER] FACEBOOK. THE MOST RELIABLE SOURCE THERE IS JAMIE THANK YOU. LARRY, LARRY'S GOT TO GET OFF OF FACEBOOK. I KNOW, I'M JOKING. WE FINALLY GOT LARRY TO GET RID OF HIS FLIP PHONE. HE NOW HAS A REAL PHONE [LAUGHTER]. I'M VERY THANKFUL THAT DOCTOR LOPEZ IS KNOWN IN THE NORTH TEXAS AREA, AND NOT ONLY WITH THE SUPERINTENDENTS AND A NUMBER OF SUPERINTENDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, THAT HAVE GONE ON TO OTHER DISTRICTS AS SUPERINTENDENTS THAT HAVE LEFT OUR DISTRICT AND LEADERSHIP. AND I THINK THAT WHAT THAT STATES IS THAT HE'S IN TUNE WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE STATE LEVEL, WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. AND ALL THREE OF THOSE, HE INFORMS US OF THAT INFORMATION, WHICH IS SOMETIMES WE REACT TO IT AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T. BUT I THINK THAT'S A COMMUNICATION SKILL THAT HE HAS DEMONSTRATED TO US. THAT'S BEEN VERY, VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE'VE MADE DECISIONS OFF OF THAT, OFF OF THOSE COMMUNICATION SKILLS THAT HE HAS. SO I THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT, THAT HE DOES THAT FOR US. AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S PROBABLY SOME THINGS THAT HE DOESN'T TELL US, WHICH IS OKAY BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS THAT HE NEEDS TO KEEP IN PRIVATE, BUT. AND REACT TO IT WHENEVER THE TIME IS RIGHT. AND I THINK DOCTOR LOPEZ DOES A GOOD JOB OF THAT. SO I THINK THAT HE CRAFTS IT REAL WELL. AND, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHY WE'RE SEEING HIM NOMINATED AS SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR, BECAUSE PEOPLE IN THE AREA RESPECT AND CALL ON HIM FOR HIS EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE THAT HE HAS. AND WE APPRECIATE THAT. LOVE THAT THE FIRST THING THAT I THINK OF IS THAT EVEN THOUGH SOMETIMES I THINK WE THINK THAT WE'RE THE FIRST TO KNOW, WE ARE NEVER THE FIRST TO KNOW [LAUGHTER]. DOCTOR LOPEZ SEEMS TO ALWAYS BE THE FIRST TO KNOW. AND I THINK IT'S JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST AS CONNECTED IN THE COMMUNITY AS THE REST OF US. LIKE IT'S JUST FOR ME WHEN. I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU GO OR WHAT YOU'RE DOING, BUT THERE IS SOMEBODY FROM THE GISD THERE. AND AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST LIVING THEIR LIVES AND THEY'RE LIVING THEIR LIVES HERE. LIKE WE ARE LIVING OUR LIVES HERE. AND I THINK THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH OF OUR STAFF AND OUR JUST, WE'RE HERE, THE, THE TRI-CITIES, IT'S, YOU DON'T HAVE THIS MASS PEOPLE COMING IN TO WORK AND THEN LEAVING THEY'RE THIRD GENERATION, THEY'RE FOURTH GENERATION. IT'S, IT'S A VERY UNIQUE THING. AND I THINK THAT FROM, FOR US, IT DON'T COME FROM HERE. WE RESPECT THAT IMMENSELY. AND WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO TEAR IT DOWN, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES, IF YOU'RE NOT USED TO SOMETHING OR IF SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT, THEN YOU THINK IT NEEDS TO CHANGE. AND YET IT IS VERY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT THE LOVE FOR THE THREE COMMUNITIES IS SO DEEP AND HEARTFELT THAT THERE ISN'T ANYBODY LOOKING TO DESTROY IT. IT'S ALWAYS LOOKING TO MAKE IT STRONGER AND BUILD IT UP EVEN MORE. [01:05:02] AND HOW CAN WE MAKE IT BETTER? EVEN THOUGH WE THINK IT'S THE BEST THAT THERE IS. I LOVE THAT. IT DOES MATTER THAT YOUR COMMUNITY IS ACTUALLY A COMMUNITY, RIGHT? YEAH. YOU'D THINK WE WERE JUST A ONE HORSE TOWN, BUT WE'RE NOT. [LAUGHTER]. BUT PEOPLE THAT'S THE FEELING YOU GET. LOVE THAT. ANY OF THE REST OF YOU? ON WHAT YOU NEED FOR COMMUNICATION. IF YOU'RE GETTING WHAT YOU NEED FOR COMMUNICATION. OKAY. LET ME. WHEN YOU SAY SUPPORT DISTRICT MESSAGING. I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW I TAKE THAT. SO WHEN I HEAR DISTRICT MESSAGING AND WE TALK, I TALKED ABOUT AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. YEAH. WHERE WE LEARN A LOT OF INFORMATION. SURE STAFF MEMBERS, INCLUDING DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS AND GIVING SPEECHES TO US AND GIVING US RESULTS. TO ME, THAT'S DISTRICT MESSAGING. AND I FEEL CONFIDENT IN REPEATING THAT. OKAY. AND THOSE SUCCESSES, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I THINK IT'S I THINK IT'S A BOTH AND LARRY, I THINK YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT STAFF COMES AND TELLS YOU AT THOSE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, RIGHT? YOU CAN STILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF IT. YOU CAN STILL SHARE IT AS FACT BECAUSE IT IS. SO IT IS THAT, BUT ALSO LIKE IF YOU WERE ON FACEBOOK AND THE DISTRICT POSTED A FACEBOOK MESSAGE ABOUT AN EVENT THAT WAS COMING UP OR A HIRING EVENT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO IN AND RETYPE UP THE WHOLE MESSAGE AND RISK GETTING IT WRONG. YOU'RE GOING TO RESHARE IN POST. IF YOU GET STOPPED AT THE KAYAK LAUNCHING AND SOMEONE ASKS YOU ABOUT LIMITED OPEN ENROLLMENT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO OFF DOWN SOME CRAZY RABBIT TRAIL. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ACTUALLY DOING. AND YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE DISTRICT'S MESSAGE ABOUT LIMITED OPEN ENROLLMENT BY KNOWING WHAT THE FACTS ARE AND BEING ABLE TO SHARE THOSE FACTS. IT'S KIND OF THE NOT GOING SO LOW AND NO, NO, AND, AND JUST KIND OF GOING ROGUE OR, OR GUESSING. GET THEM THE INFORMATION RIGHT? YES. YEAH. THAT'S MY BEST THAT'S MY BEST ANSWER, I DON'T KNOW. [LAUGHTER] I'M GOING TO FIND OUT. LET ME FIND OUT FOR YOU. YEAH. ROBERT, YOU WERE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING. YEAH JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY. YOU HAVE, AS ONE OF THE BULLETS, GOT THE COMMUNITY AND ENGAGING WITH THE DISTRICT. CAN YOU SHARE OR HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THAT SHOWS UP AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR US? YEAH, I'M GOING TO SHARE THE GOOD WAYS THAT IT LOOKS [LAUGHTER] SO. DO BOTH. YEAH. SO GOOD WAYS THAT IT LOOKS. SO WAYS THAT IT CAN LOOK IS SOMEBODY TELLS YOU THAT THEY HAVE AN ISSUE WITH SOMETHING THAT'S GOING ON WITH THE DISTRICT, AND YOU TELL THEM THEY SHOULD COME SPEAK AT OPEN FORUM BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S THE VEHICLE TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU GUYS. OR LIKE FOR US, YOU CAN EMAIL ALL OF US. IF YOU EMAIL ALL OF US, ONLY THE PRESIDENT'S GOING TO RESPOND ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, BUT WE ALL HAVE EMAIL THAT WE READ AND WE ARE ACCESSIBLE AND AVAILABLE IF IT IS SOMEONE CALLING YOU AND SAYING, I'VE GOT MY KIDS GOT A PROBLEM WITH THEIR AP MATH TEACHER AND I WANT YOU TO TALK TO DOCTOR LOPEZ ABOUT IT. AND YOUR RESPONSE IS, WE HAVE A PROCESS. SO FOR US, OUR BOP IS, HAVE YOU TALKED TO THE TEACHER? IF YOU DIDN'T GET ANYWHERE, DID YOU TALK TO THE PRINCIPAL OR THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL? IF YOU DIDN'T GET ANYWHERE, DID YOU TALK TO ANYBODY AT THE ADMIN BUILDING? AND PLEASE STOP TELLING ME TOO MUCH. BECAUSE IF YOU DECIDE THAT YOU ARE DISGRUNTLED WITH THE PROCESS, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO RECUSE MYSELF BY KNOWING TOO MUCH INFORMATION IF IT BECOMES A GRIEVANCE. SO IT'S SO THAT IS DEFINITELY LIKE ENGAGE. HOW TO ENGAGE WITH THE DISTRICT IS WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE ONE OFF CONVERSATIONS AND SOMEONE DOESN'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. SOMETIMES THEY JUST WANT TO VENT, RIGHT? LIKE WE ALL KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE HEARD AND THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO COME SPEAK AT OPEN FORUM AND THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO SEND AN EMAIL. AND THINGS ARE GENERALLY FINE WITH THEIR KIDS AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, NOT RUFFLING FEATHERS ON THE CAMPUS OR MAKING STINKS ABOUT THINGS. SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO JUST NEED TO VENT. BUT IF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO ENGAGE OR A WAY TO PARTICIPATE, OR SOMEBODY TELLS YOU, I'VE BEEN WATCHING ALL OF YOUR BUDGET WORKSHOPS AND I'M INCREDIBLY KNOWLEDGEABLE, AND THEN YOU GUYS HAVE A BOND COMMITTEE POP UP. YOU COULD TELL THEM, YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE ARE WAYS FOR YOU TO GET INVOLVED AND PLUGGED IN. I'M GOING TO ADD YOU TO THE LIST. I'M GOING TO TELL DOCTOR LOPEZ YOU'VE GOT SOME GREAT SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE ON SCHOOL FINANCE. SO RATHER THAN PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT OR WHACK-A-MOLE OR DOING THINGS THAT ARE FRANKLY NOT [01:10:04] PRODUCTIVE AND SOMETIMES A WASTE OF STAFF'S TIME OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, GUIDING THEM THROUGH WHAT YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES ARE OR YOUR DISTRICT PROCESS IS REALLY WHAT THAT GUIDING PEOPLE ON HOW TO ENGAGE WITH THE DISTRICT LOOKS LIKE. IT'S OKAY TO REDIRECT THEM TO THE APPROPRIATE PEOPLE WITHIN THE DISTRICT? YOUR JOB ISN'T TO RUN INTERFERENCE. RIGHT. SO I HAD SOMEBODY I'VE KNOWN A LONG TIME AND HER DAUGHTER WAS OUT SICK FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, AND THERE WAS A MISCOMMUNICATION WITH HER AND THE HIGH SCHOOL. AND IT WAS ME, LIKE SENDING AN EMAIL TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND TO THE SCHOOL'S COUNSELOR AND THE MOM AND SAYING, I'M, I'M REMOVING MYSELF FROM THE SITUATION, BUT I WANT TO CONNECT ALL OF YOU GUYS BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S SOME MISCOMMUNICATION THAT'S HAPPENING HERE. AND I WANT YOU GUYS TO ALL BE IN TOUCH. SO AGAIN, WHATEVER YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES SAY AND WHAT YOUR DISTRICT PROCESSES ARE, YOU GUYS SHOULD KNOW THOSE AT A HIGH ENOUGH LEVEL THAT YOU CAN GUIDE SOMEBODY THROUGH. OR IF THEY SAY, I DID ALREADY TALK TO THE TEACHER AND THE PRINCIPAL. SO NOW WHAT DO I DO? YOU CAN TELL THEM YOU ESCALATE IT TO THE, YOU KNOW, MATH CURRICULUM DIRECTOR OR WHATEVER YOUR PROCESS MIGHT BE. SO YOU ARE UP THE RIVER, THE RIVER GUIDES, AS YOU GUYS ARE, YOU KNOW, AS FAMILIES ARE NAVIGATING THE WATERS OF GETTING THEIR KIDS THROUGH GARLAND ISD YOU ARE HERE TO HELP THEM NAVIGATE THAT, BUT NOT TO DO IT FOR THEM AND NOT TO BE INVOLVED AT A STAFF OR AN INAPPROPRIATE LEVEL. I HAVE A QUESTION ON THAT. YEAH, AND I FEEL A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THAT. OKAY. JUST BECAUSE THE ONLY PERSON I EVER WANT TO HAVE A DIFFICULT CONVERSATION WITH IS THE SUPERINTENDENT. OKAY. SO I REFER EVERYTHING TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND LET HIM PASS IT DOWN. YOU KNOW, THEN YOU'RE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW BACK UP. WOULD HAVE DONE. CORRECT. WANTED TO HAVE DONE SO. I ALWAYS GO THROUGH THE SUPERINTENDENT AND LET HIM PASS IT TO THE CORRECT. YOUR PROCESSES, WHILE THEY MAY BE VERY SIMILAR IN PUBLIC EDUCATION, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME EVERYWHERE. SO THAT IS COMPLETELY FINE AND RIGHT DEFAULT JAMIE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE SIZE OF Y'ALL DISTRICT. SO I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT. THAT'S WHY LIKE MY CAVEAT WAS BASED UPON YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND YOUR DISTRICT PROCESSES, RIGHT? WELL, THE OTHER COMMENT ON THAT IS WHAT I'VE NOTICED AS BEEN A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER IS ANYTIME A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER WALKS INTO THE ROOM NOT THAT IT DOES, BUT IT'S ALMOST AS IF SOMEBODY ELSE IS LEADING A DISCUSSION OR LEADING SOMETHING IN CHARGE OF SOMETHING. IT'S ALMOST UNDERMINING BY ITSELF BECAUSE PEOPLE ALL OF A SUDDEN ARE GOING TO LOOK AT YOU. RIGHT. YOU'RE THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. RIGHT. AND THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY WHAT WE WANT TO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. CORRECT. WHAT WE WANT TO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IS EVERYTHING TO GO WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. WE MAY BE THERE AS AN OBSERVER. WE MAY BE THERE AS SUPPORT. WE MAY BE THERE AS ANYTHING. WHAT WE'RE NOT THERE TO DO IS MANAGE IT [LAUGHTER] OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. YES. BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO UNDERMINE THOSE WHO ARE HIRED AND ARE PROFESSIONAL AT THAT WORK. CORRECT. I THINK, I THINK A COUPLE OF THINGS WARRANT REINFORCING AND DIVING A LITTLE DEEPER ON WHAT YOU JUST SAID. SO I THINK ONE IS, IF YOU KNOW THE PROCESS AND YOU KNOW THE PERSON AND YOU CAN ASK THEM ABOUT THE PROCESS, DOESN'T MEAN YOU NECESSARILY HAVE TO SEND THEM THERE OR ANY OF THAT. BUT KNOWING THE PROCESS IS GOOD. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT WHEN YOU ARE AT LIKE WE ARE LIAISONS IN OUR DISTRICT TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT DISTRICT COMMITTEES. I ALWAYS TELL THE PERSON LEADING THE MEETING BEFORE THE FIRST ONE STARTS, I'M HERE AS AN OBSERVER. I GET MY SAY IN THE BOARDROOM. I DO NOT WANT TO INFLUENCE THE CONVERSATION. I DON'T PARTICIPATE IN A LOT OF THE CONVERSATIONS UNLESS I'M SPECIFICALLY ASKED ABOUT. OH, YOU GUYS JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING, WHO REPORTED ON IT? OR WHATEVER, SOMETHING VERY SPECIFIC MIGHT BE. SO I THINK MAKING SURE STAFF KNOWS WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU SHOW UP FOR SOMETHING, YOU CAN'T LEAVE IT UNSAID AND, AND MAKE PEOPLE WONDER. AND A LOT OF OUR JOB IS, IS OBSERVING, LIKE YOUR SAY, IS AT YOUR COMMITTEE MEETING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE ONCE A MONTH AND THE BOARD MEETING YOU. OUR JOB IS NOT TO BE INFLUENCING EVERYTHING BEHIND THE SCENES. GOSH, WHAT WOULD ERODE TRUST [LAUGHTER] FASTER THAN THAT WITH YOUR, YOU KNOW, WITH YOUR ONE EMPLOYEE AND EACH OTHER THAN TRYING TO, [01:15:04] YOU KNOW, BE MANIPULATING AND MASTERMINDING THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES. SO I THINK ALL THOSE THINGS ARE WARRANTED TO REINFORCE. AND YOU CAN'T REALLY ADDRESS IT TOO MUCH WITH STAFF. IF YOU AREN'T SURE IF THEY KNOW WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM, THEN YOU PROBABLY SHOULD SAY SOMETHING SO THAT THEY KNOW. YEAH. TO ADD SOMETHING TO WHAT MR. MILLER SAID TOO. SURE, OF COURSE [LAUGHTER] AND I DON'T WANT TO TELL THEM THE WRONG THING AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT AN HR DIRECTOR AND I WANT TO LEAVE IT UP TO THE PROFESSIONALS. SO I EVEN AT THAT TIME, I TRY TO PASS IT ON TO DOCTOR LOPEZ. BE. AND YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T WANT TO GO THERE. EVEN, EVEN PEOPLE THAT ARE SUBBING. YES. THAT ARE NOT EVEN CERTIFIED TEACHERS THAT ARE SUBBING OR WHY ARE WE DOING, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S A, IT'S A CRITICAL POINT IN COMMUNICATING TO THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, HEY, I'M NOT THAT IT'S NOT IN MY BAILIWICK. AND, YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I PASS IT ON TO DOCTOR LOPEZ. YEAH, AND I LOVE YOU, I MEAN, I'VE HEARD OVER AND OVER MANY OF YOU, IF NOT ALL OF YOU SAY, AND I PASS IT ON TO DOCTOR LOPEZ LIKE IT IS NOT THE BOARD'S JOB TO INUNDATE ALL THE REST OF THE STAFF WITH EMAILS [LAUGHTER] FROM THE BOARD MEMBERS, RIGHT? LIKE IT'S HIS JOB TO QUARTERBACK THE WHOLE THING AND DECIDE WHO NEEDS TO KNOW OR IF THEY'RE ALREADY ON IT OR, YOU KNOW. OH YEAH, YOU JUST FOUND OUT BUT YOU'RE ENTERING OUR PROCESS MIDSTREAM, RIGHT? SO I LOVE HEARING YOU GUYS SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUR JOB IS NOT TO BE COMMUNICATING WITH ALL THE STAFF ACROSS THE DISTRICT TOO, BECAUSE YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHO THE HR DIRECTOR IS AND WHERE TO SEND THINGS. BUT THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY, AGAIN, NOT THE JOB. AND I DO THINK A TOOL THAT YOU GUYS HAVE IS IN THE COMMUNITY. LIKE IF SOMETHING WOULD BECOME A GRIEVANCE, YOU DO WANT TO BE CAREFUL HOW MUCH YOU KNOW BECAUSE YOU WANT YOU ARE THE LAST STEP IN THAT PROCESS. AND YOU DO WANT TO BE ABLE TO SERVE IN THAT CAPACITY IF IT IS NEEDED. SO I THINK THAT IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER TOO, WHEN SOMEBODY THINKS THAT THEY'RE JUST CALLING YOU TO VENT. OKAY, WE HAVE HIT THE ONE-HOUR MARK. WE CAN GO THROUGH THE NEXT SECTION OR WE COULD TAKE A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK. OKAY. I SEE A TIME OUT. I'M GOING TO SET A TIMER. 06:07. PERFECT. IT IS NOW 6:11, AND WE ARE NOW RECONVENING FROM A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK. AND WE'LL GO BACK TO MRS. BENTLEY START SECTION 3 ON THE AGENDA. PERFECT. THANK YOU. IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING ALONG, WE ARE ON SLIDE 19, EFFICIENT PROFESSIONAL BOARD MEETINGS. AND YOU GUYS, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, ARE MODELING THAT. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO COVER KIND OF THE HIGHLIGHTS. BUT AGAIN, THIS IS PART OF HOW YOU MANAGE TURBULENCE AND PROVIDE CONSISTENCY AND STABILITY WHEN YOUR COMMUNITY KNOWS WHAT TO EXPECT AND KNOWS WHAT TO EXPECT FROM YOU. JUST SOME NOISE GOES AWAY. SO FIRST WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IN THE ROOM COMMUNICATES EVERYTHING YOU DO, EVERYTHING YOU SAY, AND IT ALSO GENERATES FEELINGS AMONG YOUR COMMUNITY BASED UPON WHAT THEY'RE SEEING, HEARING AND WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE YOU'RE COMMUNICATING THAT YOU'RE THINKING AND PROCESSING. SO THE ROOM SET UP HOW YOU GUYS ARE SEATED. IF STAFF SEEMS COMPETENT, CONFIDENT, HAS CONVICTION. IF YOU GUYS SEEM KNOWLEDGEABLE, YOU'RE ASKING THOUGHTFUL DECISIONS AND YOU'RE MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS, THEN THOSE ARE ALL POSITIVE THINGS TO BE COMMUNICATING IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND I THINK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT CONDUCTING A CRISP AND PROFESSIONAL BOARD MEETING, WHICH HAS FOUR COMPONENTS THE AGENDA, THE PRESIDENT'S SCRIPT, THE VISITOR SECTION, AND HOW YOUR MEETING FLOWS. AND THE FIRST PART OF THAT IS A CRISP AND TIGHT MEETING. SO, YOU KNOW, WOULD YOU GUYS SAY THAT YOU ARE USING CONSENT AGENDA TO CREATE SPACE FOR CONVERSATIONS IN YOUR MEETINGS. DO YOU GUYS ADD A LOT TO CONSENT? OKAY, SO THEN I'D SAY YES, YOU'RE USING IT AS A AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL. I MEAN, ANYTHING THAT'S ROUTINE OR DOESN'T REQUIRE DISCUSSION, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS PULL SOMETHING FROM CONSENT. IF SOMEBODY IN THE COMMUNITY ISN'T AWARE OF THAT, YOU CAN ALWAYS PULL SOMETHING OUT IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS IT, BUT IT DOES CREATE SPACE TO MOVE THE WORK AHEAD AND HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE REALLY THE MOST MEANINGFUL AND MEATY. YEAH, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE DOING. YOU'RE NOT USING CONSENT THAT WAY? [01:20:01] WELL. SURE, YEAH. AS I SAID EARLIER, WE'RE CREATING THE SPACE, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE REALLY FILLING THAT SPACE WITH DISCUSSIONS AT THE REGULAR BOARD MEETINGS UP THERE. OKAY. IT'S COMING HERE, HERE. SO I'M NOT SURE WE ACTUALLY DO THAT. OKAY. WELL, SO LET'S LOOK AT THOSE SEPARATELY. CONSENT. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE USING CONSENT FOR THINGS THAT DON'T WARRANT A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND PULLING THEM FROM CONSENT IF YOU NEED TO. YEAH, I THINK WHAT LARRY'S GETTING AT IS THE UNIQUE NATURE OF HOW WE CONDUCT OUR BOARD MEETINGS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR DISCUSSION OCCURS AT THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. SO BY THE TIME WE GET TO THE BOARD MEETING, IT'S BEEN THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED. UNLESS THERE'S STILL SOME ITEMS THAT WERE LEFT UNRESOLVED AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING. TYPICALLY, IT WOULD JUST GO ON CONSENT AFTERWARDS, AND THAT WOULD BE AND WE'D TAKE A VOTE ON IT AND IT JUST GETS APPROVED OR NOT APPROVED. PRETTY RARE. RIGHT. WOULDN'T MAKE THE AGENDA IF IT WASN'T GOING TO GET APPROVED. BUT THAT'S WHAT I THINK HE'S GETTING AT. SO WE ARE USING CONSENT TO TO BE MORE EFFICIENT IN OUR REGULAR MEETING. WE DON'T REALLY OBVIOUSLY HAVE A CONSENT AGENDA IN OUR INFORMATION ITEMS FOR. IT'S A UNIQUE SETUP BECAUSE OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS CAN GO EXTRAORDINARILY LONG AND OUR BOARD MEETINGS ARE TYPICALLY, UNLESS THERE'S A FAIRLY LENGTHY EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM LESS THAN AN HOUR OR AN HOUR SO. ARE YOU GUYS DOING ALL BOARD REPORTS OR NOT BOARD REPORTS, ALL STAFF REPORTS, INFORMATION ONLY THINGS AT YOUR COMMITTEE MEETING ALSO? YES. OKAY SO. AND THEN WE HAVE OUR ACADEMIC AND DISTRICT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AT THOSE TWO MEETINGS, TWO COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ONE SPECIAL MEETING. YOU'LL RECEIVE A VERY IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS OF A SUBCOMMITTEE AS WELL AS A COMMITTEE AS A WHOLE. WE DO COMMUNITY AND STUDENT AWARDS AND ANY SPECIAL ACTION ITEMS THAT DID NOT MAKE A COMMITTEE ITEM THAT NEEDS TO COME BEFORE US FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ITEM OKAY. OR IF THERE'S BEEN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT'S COME UP RIGHT USING YOUR CONSENT AGENDA TO CREATE SPACE AT YOUR MEETINGS. EVEN IF EVEN IF IT EVEN IF IT'S FOR STUDENT RECOGNITION, LIKE YOU ARE STRATEGICALLY USING CONSENT AGENDA. AND THEN YOUR AGENDA ITEMS, I GUESS LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS, NOT YOUR BUSINESS MEETING. IS THE ORDER OF THE AGENDA. DO YOU GUYS FEEL LIKE IT CONVEYS THE IMPORTANCE OR YOUR PRIORITIES? ARE YOU GUYS DISCUSSING THINGS IN THE ORDER THAT YOU THINK ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT? IT SEEMS LIKE THAT WE DO THE WE DO THE FINANCE FIRST, OR THEY'RE KIND OF IN THE ORDER THAT WE'VE DONE THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. BUT, BUT THE WAY IT'S SET UP, THE COMMITTEE CHAIR HELPS DETERMINE WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED ON THE AGENDA. OKAY. AND SO THEY MEET WITH THE WAY IT'S STRUCTURED. JUST I NOW I'M GOING TO BORE YOU WITH THIS. WHAT STATUTORY WHAT THEY WANT TO GO OVER. THEY SET THE AGENDA. THEY SAY THESE ARE THE AGENDA ITEMS. SO THERE'S A PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION AND THE CHAIR KNOWS EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THAT ITEM. YEP. AND IT GENERALLY IS IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE, RIGHT? YEP. AND THEN THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST, RIGHT? AND THEN SO DOES IT MEAN THAT HAS THE LONGEST DISCUSSION. NO FOR SURE. SO THEY DO THAT. SO WHEN IT COMES. YEP. THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE, THAT'S WHERE IT BEGINS. THEN FROM THERE, WE HAVE THE COMMITTEE AGENDAS. WE MEET WITH THE BOARD PRESIDENT AND WE HAVE A WHOLE AGENDA REVIEW SESSION. RIGHT, RIGHT. SO THAT'S HOW WE SET THAT A WEEK AHEAD OF TIME. YEAH. SO YOU GUYS, RATHER THAN THE ACTUAL BUSINESS MEETING AT THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, YOU GUYS, YOUR AGENDA ITEMS ARE CONVEYED IN THE LISTED IN THE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE BY YOUR COMMITTEE CHAIR. YEAH. AND THEN TYPICALLY SPEAKING, WHEN YOU BRING THE ACTION ITEMS FORWARD TO THE BOARD MEETING, IT'S GOING TO BE PRESENTED IN THE OKAY. THIS IS SO CRISP AND TIGHT. YES. YOU GUYS ARE DOING IT PRIMARILY AT YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS RATHER THAN THE BUSINESS MEETING. BUT ALSO THEN IT'S TRANSLATING TO THE BUSINESS MEETING IN THAT SAME PRIORITY ORDER. SO THAT IS PART OF A CRISP MEETING YOU GUYS. SINCE YOU GUYS HAVE HAD THIS CONVERSATION, YOU GUYS SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE AGENDA IS IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE TO [01:25:08] WHOMEVER SET THAT AGENDA. THAT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU SAY ORDER OF IMPORTANCE [LAUGHTER]. SOMETIMES YES. MAYBE SOMETIMES NO. OKAY, WELL, THAT MAY BE SUBJECTIVE SOMETIMES TOO, RIGHT? YEAH. OKAY. SO THAT'S PART OF CRISP AND TIGHT. THE AGENDA IS CONVEYING THINGS TO THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT INVOLVED IN SETTING THAT AGENDA. THAT'S REALLY THE ESSENCE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO TALK ABOUT HERE. CONSENT PROVIDES SPACE. IF YOU GUYS DIDN'T HAVE CONSENT, YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING SEPARATE FROM THE BUSINESS MEETINGS WOULDN'T BE AS EFFECTIVE BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THAT ALL THAT CONVERSATION ALL OVER AGAIN IF YOU GUYS WEREN'T USING CONSENT. SO YOU'RE USING CONSENT AND THEN IN YOUR BOARD PACKETS, DO YOU GUYS FEEL LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE BEING ASKED TO DO? CAN I? YEAH. TASB HAS I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS AGO THEY STARTED SAYING. EVERY MEETING YOU HAVE. YOU SHOULD SPEND A GOOD PORTION OF IT, WHATEVER PERCENTAGE. YOU'VE HEARD THE SAME THING. OH YES MEETINGS, WITHOUT A DOUBT, WITHOUT A DOUBT. AT THE BOARD MEETING, LIKE I SAID, CEREMONIAL, WE WILL CELEBRATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF INDIVIDUALS, ALL STATE MUSICIANS, CHOIR, SPORTS, WHATEVER. AND. UIL YEAH, UIL AND, AND TEACHERS WHO HAVE GONE THE EXTRA MILE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I'M NOT SURE WE REALLY DO WHAT TASB HAS TALKED TO US ABOUT AT THE CELEBRATION MEETING. OKAY. AND I'M. AND THAT'S WHY, LIKE I SAID, I TRY TO DIRECT PEOPLE IF YOU WANT. I THINK WHEN WE COME TO THESE MEETINGS AT COMMITTEE, WE, I MEAN, WE EXPECT IT'S GOING TO START AT A CERTAIN TIME AND I DON'T EVER KNOW WHEN I'M GOING TO GET HOME. RIGHT, RIGHT. BUT AS WES SAID, WITH THE WITH THE. BUSINESS MEETING. BUSINESS MEETING, IT'S OVER AT A CERTAIN TIME UNLESS WE HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL. YEAH. WELL, AND IT MAYBE. I MEAN, IF THIS IS IMPORTANT TO YOU GUYS AS A COLLECTIVE AND IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR NEXT BULLETS, IRONICALLY. SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE ONE CLICK AHEAD OF ME, LARRY, ON THIS. BUT IF IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU GUYS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AT THE BUSINESS MEETING, LIKE YOUR REPORTING COULD LOOK DIFFERENT. IT MAY NOT BE ACTION NECESSARILY, BUT IT COULD, IT COULD TIE INTO STAFF REPORTS OR IT COULD BE MAYBE YOU GUYS AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING DID A DEEP DIVE ON ONE OF THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GOAL PROGRESS MEASURES. BUT MAYBE YOU DO AN ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THAT SAME REPORT TO BE TALKING ABOUT STUDENT OUTCOMES AT THE BUSINESS MEETING. SO THERE'S. LET'S FINISH GETTING THROUGH THIS SLIDE AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT IS WHAT'S, WHAT DOES THE GROUP FEEL LIKE IN THIS AREA? SO ON THAT THIRD BULLET INFORMATION AND ACTION, LIKE DO YOU GUYS KNOW IS IT A VOTE ITEM? IS IT AN INFORMATION ITEM ONLY? DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S EXPECTED OF YOU AS A TRUSTEE WHEN YOU GET YOUR PACKET AND EACH AGENDA ITEM? PERFECT. AND ARE YOU LETTING THE SUPERINTENDENT KNOW IN ADVANCE WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE A DECISION ON THAT AGENDA ITEM? I THINK WHAT'S MISSING. IS THE CALENDAR THAT WE PUT TOGETHER. OF ITEMS THAT DON'T FIT ANY COMMITTEE. SO WE HAVE A CALENDAR. WE HAVE. THAT WE FOLLOW. IN ADDITION TO ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING. OKAY, SO WHERE ARE THOSE AGENDA ITEMS HAPPENING? IF THEY, IF THEY'RE PART OF YOUR ANNUAL CALENDAR, YOUR ANNUAL MEETING CALENDAR, BUT THEY AREN'T FITTING IN A COMMITTEE. HOW ARE YOU GUYS ADDRESSING THOSE? WE ADDRESS THOSE THROUGH OUR BOARD INSIGHTS, AND WE PROVIDE PERIODIC UPDATES ON SOME OF THOSE RECURRING CALENDAR ITEMS FROM OUR KIND OF PRE-SCHEDULED PRESENTATIONS. IT COULD BE BECAUSE IF THEY'RE STATUTORY, THEN THEY FALL DURING A CERTAIN TIME. THAT STATUTORY REQUIREMENT, BUT THEY ARE LINKED TO A BOARD OR DISTRICT GOAL, THEN THEY'LL COME AT THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE MEETING AS AN INFORMATION ITEM OR AS AN UPDATE. OKAY. IF IT'S ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THAT, THEN THAT'S 100% FOR INSIGHTS BECAUSE WE'VE DECIDED TO NARROW DOWN THE SCOPE OF THOSE [01:30:03] THREE, THOSE TWO COMMITTEE MEETINGS IN OUR BOND MEETING TO HONE IN ON, IS IT EFFECTIVELY PROMOTING THE DISTRICT? IS IT PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON ANY OF OUR BOARD GOALS? IS IT PROVIDING TRUE INSIGHT TO WHAT WE NEED TO SHARE WITH BOTH THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY? BECAUSE THOSE ARE ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS, OF COURSE. SO IF IT DOESN'T HIT ANY OF THOSE MARKS DOCTOR LOPEZ, MYSELF, THE COMMITTEE CHAIR PERSONS AND HIS CHIEFS, WE DO OUR VERY BEST TO TRY TO THIN OUT THE FAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO WE ARE USING THEIR TIME EFFECTIVELY, SINCE THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEERS AND WE'RE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO HAVE AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF MEETINGS BEFORE A CERTAIN TIME. AND THOSE OF US WHO'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 8:00 A.M. WE CAN ONLY SURVIVE SO LONG. YES, AFTER 4:30. SO WE DO OUR BEST TO PROVIDE WHAT WE CAN DURING AN APPROPRIATE WINDOW OF TIME. LIKE MR. GLICK SAYS, DURING COMMITTEE NIGHTS, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN WE'RE LEAVING AND SOME OF US WILL GLOSS OVER AT ABOUT 7:30 BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN UP SINCE 5:00 A.M. YEP IS THIS LIFE OR DEATH? DO WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS TONIGHT? COULD THIS NOT BE A PARAGRAPH AND A PICTURE? RIGHT. IF IT CAN BE, PUT IT IN INSIGHTS. IF IT CANNOT, WE WILL PRESENT IT. OKAY. LINDA, DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC ITEMS THAT YOU FEEL LIKE AREN'T GETTING, AREN'T GETTING ADDRESSED, OR AREN'T MAKING IT ONTO AGENDAS? OR DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE INSIGHTS ARE ADDRESSING THE ISSUE THAT YOU'RE BRINGING UP? NO, I'M NOT BRINGING UP AN ISSUE. OKAY. I'M JUST INFORMING YOU. OKAY. OF THE OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE NOT COVERING. OKAY. IN THOSE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. OKAY. THANK YOU. ARE YOU GUYS, DOES EVERYBODY FEEL SETTLED IN, IN THIS SPACE AND THAT YOU GUYS ARE GETTING COVERED WHAT YOU NEED TO AND INSIGHTS ARE COVERING THE GAPS? OR DO WE OR DO WE HAVE A REAL AGENDA GAP? LET ME SAY IT THIS WAY. ANY INFORMATION THAT'S PRESENTED THAT I FEEL LIKE I NEED MORE. I'M TOTALLY COMFORTABLE FOR ASKING FOR IT. OKAY. I DON'T I'M NOT INTIMIDATED BY PROCESS. I DON'T FEEL RUSHED TO RUSH TO ASK FOR WHAT I NEED TO MAKE A DECISION. AND SO THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE USING, WHETHER IT'S BOARDING INSIGHTS, THE TWO COMMITTEE MEETINGS, THE BOND COMMITTEE MEETING OR CLARIFICATION QUESTIONS TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OR WHOEVER THE PRESENTER WAS, I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE AMPLE OPPORTUNITY AS A BOARD TO HOLD UP OUR HAND AND SAY, I NEED MORE OF THIS OR I NEED MORE OF THAT. AND DO YOU GUYS HAVE A PROCESS IN YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES TO ADD SOMETHING TO AN AGENDA? CORRECT. AND I CAN STATE THAT THE THE TEN YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD HAS BEEN VERY, VERY FEW WHERE WE'VE ASKED FOR MORE INFORMATION. BUT WHEN WE HAVE THE THE PERSON MAKING THAT PRESENTATION SAID, WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU. AND NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN IT'S IN THE BOARD INSIGHT FROM DOCTOR LOPEZ THAT THAT WEEKEND. SO WE WE GET THAT INFORMATION. SO IT'S THERE'S BEEN A GREAT FOLLOW UP ON IT. I MEAN, IT'S BEEN REALLY GOOD. OKAY. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SHARE THAT WHEN ONE BOARD MEMBER ASKS FOR THINGS, ALL OF THEM GET IT. PERFECT. SO THAT WAY EVERYBODY IS PRIVY TO IT. AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE BE LIKE, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS ON? OR WHY ARE WE GETTING UPDATED ON THIS? AND THEN THEY'LL THINK ABOUT IT AND SAY, OH, SOMEBODY MUST HAVE ASKED. I DON'T SAY BOARD MEMBER X ASKED FOR THIS. SO HERE, I JUST PUT IT IN THERE. YOU KNOW? THAT'S GREAT. THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE SAME INFORMATION. SO THAT'S PERFECT. OKAY. AND THEN THE LAST BULLET ON THIS CRISP AND TIGHT MEETING SLIDE IS THE ACADEMIC GOAL PIECE THAT LARRY BROUGHT UP. SO TEA HAS SOME GUIDELINES, TASB HAS SOME GUIDELINES. THEY'RE PRETTY ALIGNED WITH EACH OTHER. AND HERE'S HERE'S WHAT I WOULD SAY LARRY. WHILE EVERY SINGLE MEETING MAY NOT HAVE 50%, I THINK THE QUESTION YOU GUYS NEED TO ASK YOURSELF IS AS A BOARD, IS OUR COMBINED MEETING TIME. WHAT PERCENT DO WE THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STUDENT OUTCOMES AND, AND GOAL PROGRESS MONITORING THAT COULD BE RELATED TO YOUR HB THREE. HOW ARE YOU GUYS DEFINING, YOU KNOW RECOGNIZING ACADEMICS AT YOUR MEETINGS AND WHAT'S AN ASPIRATIONAL GOAL? LIKE 50%? IF A DISTRICT, IF I GO MEET WITH THE DISTRICT AND THEY ARE DOING IT 5% OF THE TIME, WE'RE NOT GOING TO PROBABLY GET TO 50% IN, YOU KNOW, SIX MONTHS, RIGHT? SO LET'S TAKE JUST KIND OF A LITTLE LITMUS TEST, YOU GUYS. THIS ISN'T ALL PLAY, INCLUDING YOU, LINDA, BUT LIKE, WHAT PERCENT OF THE TIME DO YOU GUYS THINK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ACADEMICS? IF YOU COMBINE ALL THREE OF THEM. OUR TWO COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND THE BOARD MEETING IS GETTING CLOSE TO 50%. LARRY, RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. THE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, THE ACADEMIC AND I CAN'T THINK OF A MEETING IS PRETTY MUCH ALL [01:35:09] ACADEMIC. I MEAN, IT'S ALMOST OKAY. I THINK YOU GUYS ARE LESS IF YOU ADD THE THREE COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND THE REGULAR BOARD MEETING. IT'S I DON'T KNOW IF WE GET THE 40%. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF WE GET THE 35%. OKAY. I MEAN, IT'S NOT A LOW NUMBER, BUT IT'S A NUMBER. I MEAN, LIKE, LIKE YOU SAID ON ADAC, IT'S 100% RIGHT. THE BOND IS IT'D BE HARD TO TRANSLATE THE BOND AND FINANCE. I MEAN IT'S PERIPHERAL. IT'S NOT ON THE MERITS. IT'S RESOURCING ACADEMICS, RIGHT? IT'S NOT ACADEMIC OUTCOMES, BUT IT IS THE RESOURCING OF ACADEMICS. IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO COST TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL, IS THAT ACADEMICS. I SUSPECT IF YOU AGGREGATED THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS ON THE REGULAR MEETING AND YOU TOOK AN AVERAGE, WE'D HIT THE NUMBER. DO YOU THINK YOU'D BE CLOSE TO. YOU THINK YOU'D BE CLOSE TO 50? BECAUSE LIKE, LIKE YOU SAID, 100% OF ACADEMIC AND DISTRICT AFFAIRS IS ON RIGHT ON TARGET. SO. RIGHT. AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO BY TIME, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ALSO ALWAYS TAKES THE LONGEST TOO. SO YEAH, I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT. GUESS WHO THE CHAIR OF ACADEMIC INDUSTRY IS. I'M GUESSING. I THINK WES. OKAY. WHAT'S EVERYBODY ELSE'S SENSE? AND IF WE DON'T HAVE ALIGNMENT AROUND THIS, IS THIS SOMETHING JUST TO TRACK FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND SEE WHERE YOU GUYS THINK YOU'RE LANDING? DAPHNE, WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU GUYS ARE AT RANGE WISE? EVEN THOUGH TECHNICALLY, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT THE BOND AND THE FINANCE ISN'T ABOUT ACADEMICS, BUT I WAS. I'M GOING BACK THROUGH MY HEAD AND EVERYTHING ALWAYS SEEMS TO GO BACK TO ACADEMICS BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BOND PROJECTS, HOW IS IT AFFECTING OUR PROGRAMS? AND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING FINANCE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW ARE WE FUNDING OUR ACADEMICS AND HOW ARE WE? SO I MEAN, TO ME, IT'S, IT'S PIVOTAL IN EVERYTHING WE DO BECAUSE IF IT WASN'T, THEN WE WOULDN'T PROBABLY BE DOING IT. IT WOULDN'T EVEN BE ON AN AGENDA BECAUSE EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING IS WITH WHAT GOAL IN MIND. AND THAT IS OUR ACADEMICS AND OUR PROGRESS OF OUR STUDENTS. SO, I MEAN, I, I KIND OF SIT ON THE FENCE IN THE SENSE THAT MAYBE NOT TECHNICALLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT SPEAKING OF A PARTICULAR ACADEMIC STRAND OR STRAND, BUT IT IS ALWAYS IN IF YOU LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATIONS, IT ALWAYS COMES BACK TO HOW IS THIS AFFECTING THE CLASSROOM? HOW IS THIS AFFECTING, YOU KNOW, THE TEACHERS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CLASSROOM, DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM? AND WE HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WHEN WE'RE IN THE FINANCE MEETING, WE HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WHEN WE'RE IN THE BOND MEETING. SO I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE COVERING IT. OKAY. AND IF I COULD JUST PUT AN END TO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING, SOMETIMES IT'S WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT TOO. OKAY. WE I GET AROUND, I MEAN, OUR ROOFING PROJECTS PROBABLY SOMETIMES CAN WE COULD LAST A LITTLE BIT LONG ON THOSE. BUT BUT IN ALL KIDDING ASIDE, WHEN WE GO TO CONFERENCES, I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT LIKE TASKS AT TASB, LEGAL CONFERENCES AND EVERYTHING ELSE. IN THE EIGHT YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE, I'M ON MY 9TH, THE CONVERSATIONS HAVE NOW CHANGED WHERE BEFORE YOU WOULD GO, YOU WOULD LISTEN TO A DISTRICT AND THEY COULD TALK ABOUT SOMETHING INNOVATIVE, RIGHT? THEY COULD TALK. OH, MAN, WE HAVE THE BEST AUDITOR IN THE WORLD. AND THEN THEY'D COME WANT TO TALK ABOUT AUDITING. AND THEY WOULD NOW, WITH THESE GOALS HAVE DONE HAS MADE PEOPLE HYPER FOCUSED ON WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. AND IT'S KIDS ATTAINING THESE, THESE METRICS. AND WHAT WE'VE WHAT WE FOUND IS IT'S NOT EASY, LIKE YOU SAID. IS IT ATTAINABLE OR NOT? I WILL SAY THAT SOMETIMES ACADEMIC AFFAIRS DOES GROW VERY LONG, RIGHT? BUT THEN WHEN YOU START ASKING THE BOARD ABOUT WHAT OUR PROGRESS MEASURES ARE, WHAT WHAT ARE WE USING TO MEASURE? THEY'RE INFORMED. THEY KNOW WE MOVED AWAY FROM MAP. THEY KNOW THAT WE'RE BASELINING WITH I-READY SCORES. THEY UNDERSTAND OUR OUR LONG TERM PLANS. THEY'RE ABLE TO ARTICULATE THAT AND THEY'RE ABLE TO HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE GOALS. AND THIS IS WHERE I'M GOING TO TIE IT ALL UP. WHEN WE REVISITED OUR GOALS, THEY SAW THE GAP IN OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, AND THEY REVISED WHAT WE DID TO INCLUDE THE MIDDLE, BECAUSE THAT IS SUCH A CRITICAL AREA, BECAUSE ONCE THEY GET TO HIGH SCHOOL, IF THEY'RE ALREADY THAT FAR BEHIND, IT'S PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN. AND SO THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS IS IT'S KIND OF LIKE EVER FLOWING. IT'S GOAL FOCUSED. THEY GO TO DIFFERENT SEMINARS. NO LONGER ARE THEY COMING IN WITH, WITH, HEY, HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS VENDOR AND LOADING OUR STAFF AND MYSELF UP WITH JUST VISITING PEOPLE. IT HAS TO ALIGN WITH AND HAVE IMPACT ON OUR GOALS. NOW, I DO AGREE WITH LARRY TO THE POINT THAT I DON'T THINK WE SPEAK TECHNICALLY 50% OF THE TIME. WE DON'T GO THROUGH IT AND SAY 50% OF THE TIME BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO GO TO ACADEMICS. [01:40:04] BUT I WILL SAY ONCE WE HIT ACADEMICS ROBERT CAN ASK A QUESTION AND THAT QUESTION WILL SPUR LARRY TO HAVE A DIFFERENT THOUGHT PATTERN AND ASK A QUESTION, WHICH WILL, AGAIN, ASK DAPHNE. AND SO WE COULD STAY ON ONE SLIDE FOR 20 MINUTES BEFORE WE EVEN MOVE ON. SO, SO I THINK IT'S MORE FRUITFUL, OUR ACADEMIC PROGRESS. MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING WE COULD DO MORE OF. BUT I DO THINK WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE OTHER THINGS ANYMORE, WHICH IS BEAUTIFULLY IT'S BEAUTIFUL. I WANT TO ADD SOMETHING ON YOUR SLIDE THAT YOU GAVE THEM ON POSITIVE MESSAGING. ALL FIVE OF THOSE PILLARS LEAD TO WHAT? ACADEMICS. SO TECHNICALLY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHETHER WE'RE DOING FINANCE, WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN RESOURCES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACADEMICS BECAUSE IT IMPACTS THAT. AND SO I THINK THAT YOU'VE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR WITH THAT RIGHT THERE THAT ALL FIVE OF THOSE PILLARS POINT TO ACADEMICS. SO I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE BOTH AND HAPPENING. I THINK YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE RIGHT THINGS THAT ALL DO POINT TO ACADEMICS. SO GOING BACK TO THAT CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION AND CAN YOU SAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDINGS BECAUSE IT IMPACTS STUDENT OUTCOMES AND THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND WE HAVE INCREDIBLY OUTDATED FACILITIES, WHATEVER THE SITUATION MIGHT BE, RIGHT? YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS IN YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND YOUR BUSINESS MEETINGS THAT POINT TO ACADEMICS AND THAT BEING HIGH VALUE IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND YOU MAY NOT BE SPENDING 50% OF YOUR TIME ON ACADEMIC GOALS AND GOAL PROGRESS MONITORING. SO AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S GOOD OR BAD. THE 50% NUMBER IS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD IS ASPIRATIONAL. I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING TO BE MINDFUL. SO I THINK YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT LEAD TO GOOD ACADEMICS. I THINK THERE'S IT SOUNDS LIKE ALL OF THE REFINEMENT AND THE PROCESSES YOU GUYS HAVE PUT IN PLACE, YOU'RE DOING BETTER AND BETTER AND BETTER AT THAT AND DRILLING IN AND IT'S GETTING FINER AND MORE AND MORE REFINED. AND YOU MAY JUST WANT TO CONSIDER HOW YOU'RE DOING ON THE GOAL PROGRESS MONITORING THE SPECIFICS ABOUT GOALS AND GOAL PROGRESS MONITORING, EVEN THOUGH YOUR LONGEST COMMITTEE MEETING, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR DEEPEST COMMITTEE MEETING IS OFTEN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION. OKAY. WHERE IS THE 50% COMING FROM? IT IS A TASB AND TEA GUIDE. IT IS AN ARBITRARY IT IS IT. IT CAME FROM. TEA RECOMMENDS LIKE IF A DISTRICT GOES THROUGH LONE STAR GOVERNANCE, THEIR RECOMMENDATION AND. LONE STAR GOVERNANCE. YES. SO AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT IT IS NOT THE BEST MODEL. I CANNOT SAY. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT YOU DIDN'T SAY IT. I AM HERE TO PRESENT IT. AND WE WE ARE DRILLING DOWN ON 50%. AND THOSE DISTRICTS THAT HAVE MAINTAINED 50% MAINTAIN IT FOR A YEAR OR TWO YEARS. AND THEY'RE USUALLY UNDER A MONITOR. YES, THERE ARE VERY FEW THAT ARE NOT. AND I JUST DON'T WANT US SPENDING. OH, WE LOST YOU, LINDA. WELL. I THINK EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM IS RECEIVING YOUR POINT. OKAY, SO LONG STORY. GOVERNANCE HAS BEEN REVISED. IT WAS SECRETLY REVISED. IT'S NOW PUBLICLY KNOWN. AND I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP DOING WHAT'S RIGHT FOR CHILDREN IN SETTING OUR GOALS. AND 50% OF OUR TIME REQUIRES US TO DO MORE. AND WE'RE DOING ENOUGH NOW. WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE AROUND THE ROOM YOU ALSO ALL FEEL LIKE YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. SO IN FOCUSING TOWARDS TOWARDS ACADEMICS, I AM JUST SHARING THE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE GUIDELINE IS AND WHAT YOU GUYS CAN DECIDE AS ASPIRATIONAL OR NOT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO BOARD PREPARATION. THERE WE GO. [01:45:06] OKAY. SO SLIDE 25. BOARD PREPARATION AND REALLY YOU GUYS, THE BIG QUESTIONS AND I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY ANSWERED IT, YOU GUYS ARE GETTING YOUR PACKETS IN A TIMELY MANNER. YOU'RE GETTING WHAT YOU NEED. AND YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION FOR EACH OF YOU TO ASK YOURSELF IS, ARE YOU READING EVERYTHING? AND ARE YOU LETTING THE SUPERINTENDENT KNOW IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION? OKAY, GREAT. I WASN'T EVEN GOING TO MAKE YOU ANSWER OUT LOUD, BUT THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THEN LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT QUESTIONS FOR THE STAFF THAT HELP US KIND OF STAY IN OUR LANE. AND WE ARE GOING TO LOOK BRIEFLY AT HB 3 HERE IN A LITTLE BIT, YOUR GOALS. BUT YOU KNOW, JUST REMEMBERING THAT NICE TO KNOW. AND I WONDER QUESTIONS AREN'T REALLY STAFF'S JOB TO ANSWER. IF YOU WANT TO DO A DEEP DIVE ON SOMETHING, THEN THAT'S YOURS TO LEARN AND FIGURE OUT ON YOUR OWN. BUT REALLY IS THE QUESTION THAT YOU'RE ASKING AND HELP YOU MAKE A BETTER DECISION. IS IT PURPOSEFUL INFORMATION THAT YOU NEED? AND THEN OF COURSE, AND I DON'T THINK YOU GUYS ARE DOING THIS, BUT NO SURPRISE OR GOTCHA QUESTIONS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT. IT'S FOR SURE NOT THE TIME TO BE GRANDSTANDING. SORRY, SORRY SORRY TO DISAPPOINT. IF YOU AROUND THE ROOM. JUST KIDDING. OKAY. AND THEN YOUR BOARD PRESIDENT HAS A SCRIPT, SO IT KIND OF GROUNDS ALL OF YOU GUYS RECOGNIZES YOU AS THE LEADERSHIP TEAM IN THE ROOM. YOU'RE LEADING WITH, YOU KNOW, ACADEMIC GOALS. SO THE PURPOSE OF THE SCRIPT IS REALLY TO JUST LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AND TO BE CONSISTENTLY PROVIDING WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT WHEN YOU MEET. AND THEN WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY GUESTS THIS EVENING. YEAH, THE LAST BULLET ON THAT PAGE. YEP. I'M NOT SURE WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING THAT. SO THIS IS A BEST PRACTICE FOR YOU GUYS TO DECIDE IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO ON YOUR AGENDAS OR NOT. I GUESS WHAT I WONDER AGAIN, I THINK MORE PEOPLE, EVEN AFTER I TRY TO DIRECT THEM TO COMMITTEES, THEY WATCH THE BUSINESS MEETING. YEAH, I LIKE THE WHAT YOU CALL IT. THAT'S WHAT WE CALL IT, THE MEETING WHERE WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS. WE DON'T DO THAT AT OUR OTHER MEETINGS IF WE CAN AVOID IT. AND AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, WE REALLY DON'T TALK ABOUT, WE DON'T EVER SPECIFICALLY MENTION THAT I CAN REMEMBER ACADEMIC GOALS AT THAT MEETING. SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING YOU GUYS MAY DECIDE THAT YOU THAT YOU WANT TO RECALIBRATE OR. I THINK THAT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING ADDITION. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO TAKE VERY LONG, RIGHT? WE DON'T HAVE, WE ONLY HAVE SIX GOALS ANYWAY, WHICH IS FINE, WHICH IS KIND OF THE NUMBER THAT'S, THAT'S RECOMMENDED. BUT I WOULD THINK MAYBE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE PROGRESS ON ANY, ANYONE WHERE WE'RE AT, WHY WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO SUCCEED, WHAT, WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS RECOMMENDED, THE STAFF, ALL THE THINGS THAT GO INTO REACHING THOSE GOALS, RIGHT? WHAT WE ORIGINALLY DID AND WE TOOK IT OFF BECAUSE IT KIND OF GOT CONFUSING. WE USED TO ALIGN OUR BOARD, OUR BOARD GOAL AND HOW IT AFFECTS EACH AGENDA ITEM. IF IT DID OR DIDN'T. SO THEN THAT WAY IT WAS LIKE FOR THE FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THAT, OKAY, WE'RE VOTING ON THIS. YOU MIGHT THINK IT'S OPERATIONAL, BUT THESE, THESE ARE DEALING WITH ACADEMIC GOAL NUMBER ONE. RIGHT? RIGHT. WE, WE KIND OF TOOK THAT OFF THE TABLE. NOW WE DON'T WE DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE. BUT WE USED TO LEAD WITH THAT. AND SO THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'VE JUST BEEN TINKERING WITH. AND THEN WHAT EVENTUALLY HAPPENED AND THE BOARD CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE'RE JUST ZEROED IN ON ARE WE GOING TO HIT THE GOAL OR NOT? RIGHT. AND SO AND SOME OF IT IS HARD AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO COME IN FRONT OF THE BOARD AND SAY WE'RE HAVING PROBLEMS AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT. AND WE GO FROM THERE. AND WE'VE JUST BEEN KIND OF HYPER FOCUSED. IT'S EITHER BRING THE RECEIPTS OR YEAH, YOU KNOW, I NEED TO ASK YOU A QUESTION ON THAT TOO. I WANT TO ASK YOU PERSONALLY. IS IT IMPORTANT WHEN WE DO THE, GO THROUGH THE DICE UP THERE AND ASK FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE, WHAT THEY'VE DONE OR THE REPORTS? SHOULD THAT BE SCRIPTED FOR ACADEMIC GOALS OR SHOULD THAT BE, HEY, I WENT OVER HERE TO A LUNCHEON AT ROWLETT. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ACADEMIC GOALS, IN MY OPINION. BUT I WONDERED, IS THAT IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO THAT? OR SHOULD WE STICK TO WHAT WE SAY UP THERE? CONCERNING LIKE, HEY, I WENT OUT TODAY AND DID CAREER DAY FOR AUSTIN ACADEMY, OR I WENT OVER HERE TO THE BAND HALL AND I DID THIS BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. [01:50:03] THOSE ARE ACADEMIC TO ME WITH THE KIDS. SO WHERE, WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE THERE? I MEAN, IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT FOR EVERY DISTRICT, RIGHT? SO SOME OF THIS YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT YOUR SIDEBOARDS ARE. JUST LIKE STUDENT RECOGNITION. WE HAVE A METRIC THAT A GROUP HAS TO HAVE MET A CERTAIN THRESHOLD BEFORE WE HAVE THEM AT THE BOARD MEETING TO RECOGNIZE THEM. I THINK ON YOUR BOARD REPORTS YOU NEED SOMETHING SIMILAR. SO SOME BOARDS, SO LIKE WE ARE LIAISONS IN OUR DISTRICT TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT DISTRICT COMMITTEES, NOT VOTING MEMBERS, BUT A LIAISON. SO IF I GO TO THE EMERGENT BILINGUAL COMMITTEE, I WILL REPORT WHAT OTHER TRUSTEE WAS THERE WITH ME. WHO ELSE IS, AND THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT EBL IS TALKING ABOUT, BECAUSE NO OTHER BOARD MEMBERS ARE PRIVY TO THAT, EXCEPT FOR WHEN THAT TEAM COMES AND REPORTS A COUPLE OF TIMES A SCHOOL YEAR. SO OUR FRAMEWORK IS, YOU KNOW, IS IT NTASB, TACIT TASB SLI OR ONE OF THE COMMITTEES THAT WE SERVE ON OR ONE OF THE CHAMBERS THAT WE THAT ARE IN OUR CISD COMMUNITY? SO THAT'S KIND OF THE FRAMEWORK THAT WE'VE INFORMALLY ADOPTED. SO IF I WENT AND DID YOU KNOW, OR IF WE GO ON A LEARNING WALK, FOR INSTANCE, WITH THE MATH TEAM AT ONE OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS. SO WE'VE KIND OF SET WHAT OUR INFORMAL FRAMEWORK IS FOR WHAT GETS REPORTED. IF I WOULD GO AND DO 2 OR 3 OTHER THINGS OR I WENT AND, YOU KNOW, READ TO KINDERGARTNERS, I MIGHT MENTION IT OR SOMEBODY MIGHT MENTION FIVE OF US WENT AND DID YOU KNOW, NATIONAL READ ALOUD DAY AT FIVE OF OUR ELEMENTARIES. IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THESE OTHER SCHOOL BOARD. TRUSTEES. SO ONE PERSON WOULD REPORT ON THAT ON BEHALF OF EVERYBODY. SO I THINK YOU GUYS NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW FAR OUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING DO YOU WANT TO BE REPORTING ON? BUT I DO THINK REPORTING ON BEING ON YOUR CAMPUSES, REPRESENTING YOUR COMMUNITY, ENGAGING WITH STUDENTS, THOSE ARE ALL RELEVANT PIECES OF YOUR SERVICE AS SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES. AND I DO THINK THOSE ARE PIECES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO TO MENTION AND FOR THE COMMUNITY TO BE AWARE OF. THE JOB IS FAR BEYOND HOWEVER MANY NUMBER OF MEETINGS YOU HAVE IN A MONTH, AS WE ALL KNOW, BUT SO MANY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T SERVING IN THESE ROLES DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE AND DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE SINCERE AND EARNEST ABOUT THIS JOB. THE LENGTHS THAT THEY GO TO TO SERVE WELL. AND NOW I JUST WANT TO SAY, THESE ARE SUGGESTIONS. THESE AREN'T LIKE, THIS ISN'T A LAW THAT YOU HAVE TO DO A, B, C, D, AND E. THIS IS NOT COMPLIANCE. RIGHT IS RIGHT. YOU KNOW. EVERYTHING, RIGHT? EVEN THE TEAM OF EIGHT STUFF IS LIKE, THESE ARE BEST PRACTICES FOR TEAMS. AND I KNOW MISS GRIFFIN IS GOING TO LAUGH AT THIS, BUT MAYBE, LARRY, WE BRING OUT THOSE FOLD OUTS AGAIN, YOU KNOW. WHAT WORKS WORKS, RIGHT? SO AND IF YOU GUYS KNOW, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP MOVING THEN. OKAY. FACILITATING VISITORS. SO I SEE YOU GUYS HAVE A VISITOR SECTION. I THINK THE WAY YOU GUYS OPERATE YOUR MEETINGS, YOU ARE MODELING WHAT YOU EXPECT YOUR GUESTS TO DO. YOU'RE MODELING HOW YOU EXPECT YOUR STUDENTS TO BEHAVE IN THE CLASSROOM AND YOUR TEACHERS TO CONDUCT THEIR CLASSROOMS, YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE PARAMETERS IN PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC COMMENT. AND THEN IT WASN'T RELEVANT TONIGHT, BUT I AM CERTAIN THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A PROCESS FOR RELEASING GUESTS WHO DON'T WANT TO SIT THROUGH YOUR WHOLE MEETING AGAIN. THIS IS ABOUT CONSISTENTLY SHOWING UP IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM YOU GUYS TO BUILD TRUST, RIGHT? STAYING ON TRACK. SO AGAIN, WE MENTIONED THE SUPERINTENDENT HAVING INFORMATION OR ACTION ITEMS, WHICH YOU GUYS HAVE ALL SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE GETTING AND THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE MOTION. SO YOU GUYS AREN'T TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING ON THE FLY THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE WHAT STAFF IS ACTUALLY NEEDING, HEALTHY DISCUSSIONS OF THE PROS AND CONS. I ABSOLUTELY HEARD YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT THAT OVER AND OVER TONIGHT. AND THEN THE KILLER B'S IN YOUR COMMENTS AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS MIGHT BE MORE RELEVANT AT YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS, BUT BEING TOO BRIEF, TOO BLUNT, OR TOO BASIC FOR YOUR FELLOW TRUSTEES OR THE COMMUNITY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS YOU'RE SAYING. SO TRY NOT TO BE TOO BRIEF, TOO BLUNT, OR TOO BASIC IN WHAT YOU'RE AND WHAT YOU'RE SHARING. AND I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB CONVEYING YOUR IDEAS TONIGHT. AGAIN, THESE ARE JUST SOME BEST PRACTICES. OKAY, SO I AM GOING TO SET A TIMER ON THIS BECAUSE I DO THINK WE COULD SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THE ACADEMIC GOALS AND MONITORING. BUT THIS IS HOWEVER IT SHOWS UP IN YOUR COMBINED MEETINGS BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE A LITTLE BIT OF AN ANOMALY WITH HOW YOU'RE, YOU'RE DOING YOUR MEETINGS, WHICH I ACTUALLY THINK IS GREAT. BUT DRILL DOWN, DRILLING DOWN ON ACADEMIC GOALS AND MONITORING. [01:55:02] SO THE END IN MIND IS WHAT KIND OF YOU GUYS WANT TO BEGIN WITH. SO WHAT ACTION IS STAFF TAKING IF THERE'S GOOD OUTCOMES OR NEGATIVE OUTCOMES, WHAT ACTION IS STAFF TAKING AS YOU'RE MONITORING, WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW AS A BOARD MEMBER? SO HAVING CLARITY ABOUT THOSE TWO PIECES IS KEY. AND AGAIN, THIS GOAL OF 50% OF YOUR MEETING TIME, WHICH WE ARE NOT GOING TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE ON THAT, BUT YOU GUYS CAN DECIDE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO BE, YOU KNOW, MEASURING OR DISCUSSING OR NOT. AND TO WHAT DEGREE? SO I WANT TO JUST GIVE US A LITTLE RESET ON TWO THINGS BEFORE WE LOOK AT BEFORE WE LOOK AT HB THREE, BUT STAAR, AS YOU GUYS ALL KNOW, WHEN YOU SET THOSE HB THREE GOALS YOU'VE GOT FOUR OPTIONS FOR WHAT GOALS YOU'RE SETTING FOR YOUR STUDENTS. SO MASTERING MEETS APPROACHES OR DID NOT MEET GRADE LEVEL. DO YOU GUYS KNOW BOARD MEMBERS? I'M SURE DOCTOR LOPEZ DOES, IF MOST OF YOUR GOALS ARE SET AROUND MEETS OR MASTERS? MEETS, OKAY. AND YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY KNOW WHAT THE YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S TIED TO WITH LONG TERM AND SHORT TERM ACADEMIC TARGETS. SO THAT'S GREAT THAT YOU GUYS ARE CONVERSANT ABOUT THAT. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO LOOK VERY BRIEFLY. DO YOU SET YOUR GOALS AT MASTERS? IT DEPENDS. SOME WE HAVE SET AT MASTERS AND SOME WE HAVE SET AT MEETS. I THINK THE BIG SHIFT THAT HAS HAPPENED STATEWIDE. SO THE FIRST ROUND OF HB THREE, IF YOU WERE AN EARLY ADOPTER SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU SUBMITTED THOSE HB THREE GOALS IN 2019. WE TEND TO TRY TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF OVERACHIEVERS IN OUR DISTRICT. SO WE SUBMITTED THEM IN 2019 AND THEY WERE FIVE YEAR FIXED GOALS. YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE BY FALL OF 2020. AND THEN THEY FOLLOWED US FOR FIVE YEARS. SO SOME DISTRICTS DID NOT GET THEM SUBMITTED UNTIL 2020. AND SO THEY FARED A LITTLE BIT BETTER. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS AT IN HAVING SET YOUR SECOND ROUND OF HB THREE GOALS? YOU EITHER LIKE DID IT A YEAR AGO, YOU'D BE IN THE PROCESS NOW, OR YOU'RE LOOKING AT DOING IT OVER THE SUMMER. WE DID A YEAR AGO. GREAT. I LOVE YOU GUYS ARE SO, I LOVE I'M NOT GETTING DEER IN THE HEADLIGHT LOOK. SO SO AS YOU GUYS KNOW FROM GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS, IT'S FIVE YEARS. WHAT YOU SUBMIT IS FIXED AND YOU ARE MEASURING EACH YEAR TOWARDS THAT, YOU KNOW, FIVE YEAR, FIVE YEAR GOAL. AND YOU GUYS SAID THAT THERE'S SIX OF THEM. SO SPOT ON. SO WHAT HAPPENED IS A LOT OF DISTRICTS SHIFTED FROM APPROACHES, SETTING GOALS AROUND APPROACHES OR NOT SETTING GOALS TO SETTING THEM AT MEETS. THAT WAS THE BIGGEST SHIFT KIND OF STATEWIDE. AND THEN THE MASTERS AND MEETS IS REALLY KIND OF A MIXED BAG ACROSS THE STATE. BUT I'D SAY MOST OF THE DISTRICTS AND I PROBABLY HAVE MET WITH MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW, 12 TO 16 THIS SCHOOL YEAR. MOST OF THEM ARE SETTING GOALS AT THE MEETS LEVEL. OKAY, SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO DO A LITTLE A TO F PRIMER. IN CASE YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE IN THE WEEDS. YOUR POOR STAFF IS SO IN THE WEEDS ON THIS AND ALL THE TRACKING THAT HAPPENS WITH IT. BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US AS BOARD MEMBERS TO HAVE JUST A VERY HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW A TO F WORKS. AND AND IT'S GOOD FOR YOU GUYS TO KNOW SINCE THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, SCHOOL DISTRICTS CAN NO LONGER LITIGATE THE VALIDITY OF THE A TO F SYSTEM. THIS IS THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE BEFORE YOU START. JUST SOME INTERESTING IF I COULD. SURE. SO THIS YEAR, DOCTOR LOPEZ APPROACHED US AND HE SAID, THIS IS ME SPEAKING. YEAH. OKAY. WE'VE ALWAYS DONE B TWO. THAT'S WHERE WE DO WELL ON. OKAY. AND HE SAID, NOPE, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A WE'RE GOING TO DO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. AND I KIND OF HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT YOUR DISTRICT. OKAY. WE'RE NOT. WELL, I'M I KNOW YOUR NUMBERS. I KNOW OUR NUMBERS. OKAY. OKAY. AND I SAID, IS THAT REALISTIC? WOULD YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S REALLY, REALLY INTERESTING. THAT CONVERSATION CENTERED AROUND ENSURING OUR ACADEMIC SYSTEM IS FORTIFIED WITH ANY CHANGES THAT HAPPEN IN THE TESTING ENVIRONMENT. THE MOST VULNERABLE CAMPUSES, YOU KIND OF GET A FALSE POSITIVE IF YOU HAVE A LOW STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, BUT YOUR RELATIVE PERFORMANCE IS HIGH BECAUSE OF THE, THE POVERTY SITUATION AND YOU'RE OUTPERFORMING OTHER PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE YOU. AND SO ANYTIME YOU GET A RECALIBRATION, SCHOOLS FALL AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY, WELL, YOU DIDN'T HAVE A STRONG FOUNDATION, [02:00:02] RIGHT? AND SO SO INTERNALLY IN THE DISTRICT, WE'RE REALLY HYPER FOCUSING AND A FEW OTHER SUPERINTENDENTS THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH ARE DOING THE SAME THING. THEY LIKE, THEY LIKE MY CONCEPT AND THEY THOUGHT TO THEMSELVES, WE GOT TO JUST FOCUS ON THAT FIRST ONE. IF WE CAN GET TO THE FIRST ONE, THEN THE REST WILL WORK ITSELF OUT, RIGHT? YES. AND SO OUR FIRST STEP WAS TO GET OUR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TRULY TO A B LEVEL. SO AS A DISTRICT RIGHT NOW WE'RE ON THE CUSP, WE HAVE AN 80, BUT AT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DISTRICT WIDE IT'S AN 80. NOW THAT COULD SLIP A POINT OR TWO, BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT IF ALL OUR SCHOOLS ARE 80 AND ABOVE AT THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL, THEIR RELATIVE PERFORMANCE WILL BE AT. YEP. UP THERE. AND AND ANYTHING THAT STARTS HITTING US, WE WON'T SLIP AS HARD. AND THEN WE KEEP INCHING UP TO EVENTUALLY GET THAT A. WE'RE NOT SETTLING. I LOVE THAT. SO FOR THE TRUSTEES IN THE ROOM, HERE'S WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY TO YOU GUYS ABOUT THIS THAT I LOVE. YOU HAVE A REAL VISIONARY, STRATEGIC THINKER AS YOUR DISTRICT LEADER. AND I LOVE THAT BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS, WHEN I LOOK AT THIS SLIDE WITH DISTRICTS, THEY ARE LIKE, WELL, SHOULD YOU HAVE A STRATEGY AROUND ONE OF THESE? SHOULD YOU HAVE A AN APPROACH AROUND ONE OF THESE? SHOULD YOU JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS AND PICK WHICH ONE IS THE BEST ONE? I MEAN, NOT QUITE THAT, BUT, BUT KNOWING THAT THERE'S A FOUNDATIONAL PIECE THAT IS GOING TO AUTOMATICALLY AFFECT THE OTHERS THAT YOU'RE ALSO BEING MEASURED ON. AGAIN, WE'RE BACK TO THIS THEME YOU GUYS HAVE OF TAKING AWAY THE NOISE, RIGHT? LIKE YOU'RE TAKING AWAY THE NOISE, YOU'RE PICKING THE THING TO FOCUS ON, YOU KNOW, THE THING TO FOCUS ON AND YOU'RE ALL RALLYING AROUND IT. THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO PROVIDE GREAT OUTCOMES FOR YOUR STUDENTS LIKE THIS. I MEAN, JUST LIKE MIC DROP, WE COULD JUST BE DONE. BUT SO I LOVE, I LOVE YOU SHARING THAT. AND I LOVE THE THOUGHT PROCESS BEHIND IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY DOESN'T HAVE A STRATEGY AROUND HOW TO CRACK THIS NUT. AND THE REALITY IS, AND THIS IS FOR YOU TOO, LINDA, WHETHER YOU LIKE THE PLAYING BOARD THAT WE ARE ON OR NOT, EVERYBODY'S BEEN GIVEN THE PLAYING BOARD AND WE GET TO DECIDE HOW WE'RE GOING TO PLAY THE GAME. AND YOU GUYS ARE DECIDING HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. SO WELL DONE. SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A DEEP DIVE ON THIS. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO HIT IT VERY HIGH LEVEL. SO THE BIG IDEA IS YOU GET TO PICK THE BEST SCORE BETWEEN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND SCHOOL PROGRESS. AND THAT IS 70% OF YOUR GRADE. WITHIN STUDENT SCHOOL PROGRESS YOU GET TO PICK THE BEST OF EITHER ACADEMIC GROWTH OR RELATIVE PERFORMANCE. AND THE LOW SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT IS SUPPOSED TO BE BAKED OUT OF THESE, WHICH IS PART OF WHY THERE'S THE THE RELATIVE PERFORMANCE. SO AGAIN, BEST OF STUDENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OR SCHOOL PROGRESS IS 70% OF YOUR GRADE. AND THEN CLOSING YOUR CLOSING THE GAPS IS 30% OF YOUR GRADE, PERIOD, FULL STOP. THAT IS. THAT'S HOW YOUR GRADE IS CALCULATED FOR YOUR DISTRICT. SO JUST AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, I WANT YOU GUYS YOU DON'T NEED. IF WE WERE DOING ISO TONIGHT, WE WOULD BE DOING A REALLY DEEP DIVE INTO A TO F. BUT I THINK AS A TRUSTEE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT ARE THE LEVERS, WHAT'S BEING MEASURED, WHAT IS STAFF FOCUSING ON? DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? I UNDERSTAND, THANK YOU. I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT SETTING THE AGENDA. I LOVE IT AND I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A DEEP UNDERSTANDING. A LOT OF TRUSTEES DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A TO F AT THIS HIGH OF A LEVEL. SO WELL DONE Y'ALL. IT'S A DECK. THERE YOU GO. WAY TO GO, WES. ALL RIGHT, SO HB 3 JUST AGAIN, HIGH LEVEL. THE IDEA WAS TO CLOSE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS. THIS WAS SET. THIS LEGISLATION WAS FROM TWO SESSIONS AGO. THERE'S A FOCUS ON COLLEGE CAREER AND MILITARY READINESS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY THAT MAY NOT KNOW. THAT'S ALSO WHAT YOU GUYS ARE REFERRING TO AS CCMR. AND THEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE MEASURABLE TARGETS AND PROGRESS TOWARDS YOUR MEASURABLE PRODUCT PROGRESS. THAT IS THE BIG THE BIG IDEA IS IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND THAT THOROUGHLY. OKAY, SO LET'S LOOK AT YOUR HB THREE GOALS. AND WHEN SO ARE YOU GUYS LOOKING AT ALL SIX WHEN YOU'RE HAVING THAT COMMITTEE MEETING OR ARE YOU LOOKING AT 1 OR 2 A MONTH? CHUNKING IT. OKAY, GREAT. WHICH IS A BEST PRACTICE. SO WELL DONE. SO THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT YOUR GOALS ARE AND WHERE, WHERE YOU GOT YOUR BASELINES, YOUR TARGETS AND YOUR 2025 PRELIMINARY. SO I'M GOING TO ASK THE BOARD WHOSE JOB IS THIS TO MONITOR? IS IT STAFF'S JOB TO MONITOR THIS OR THE BOARD'S? ROBERTS [LAUGHS] WE ARE IN SAFE HANDS. PLEASE EXPLAIN. [02:05:09] ROBERTS. LIKE NO. WHAT'S THAT? NO. I'M AWAKE. YEAH, I'M LISTENING TO IT ALL. I FEEL MUCH BETTER NOW. SO, MONITORING. WHOSE JOB? BESIDES ROBERTS, ALL OF US. ALL OF US. WHY WOULDN'T IT BE EVERYBODY? STAFFS. STAFFS, COLLECTING THE DATA AND REPORTING TO YOU GUYS HOW THEY'RE TRACKING AND TELLING YOU WHAT THEIR STRATEGY IS, WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO STICK WITH, WHAT THEY'RE NOT, WHAT THEIR THEORIES ARE ABOUT, WHAT'S NOT WORKING, WHAT THEIR THEORIES ARE ABOUT, WHAT IS WORKING. SO BY DOING THAT, ARE THEY MONITORING? YES. BUT YOUR JOB IS NOT TO BE IN THE WEEDS OF ALL OF THOSE THINGS I JUST LISTED. RIGHT. LIKE YOUR JOB IS REALLY JUST TO BE MONITORING HOW YOU GUYS ARE TRACKING. AND FOR DOCTOR LOPEZ TO TELL YOU, THESE ARE OUR STRATEGIES THAT WE'RE DOUBLING DOWN ON. THESE ARE OUR STRATEGIES THAT WE'RE CHANGING. THIS MIGHT BE THIS WAY BECAUSE WE JUST CHANGED OUR CURRICULUM A YEAR AGO AND WE'RE WORKING OUT SOME KINKS. THERE MIGHT BE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY YOU GUYS ARE WHERE YOU ARE, EITHER AHEAD OR BEHIND OR ON TRACK. BUT THAT REALLY THE ANALYSIS IS STAFFS. THE MONITORING IS, IS THE BOARDS. OKAY, I, YOU GUYS HAVE THIS IN YOUR SORRY, IT DIDN'T ADVANCE. YOU GUYS HAVE THIS IN YOUR NOTES, BUT I REALLY WANT YOU GUYS TO HAVE THESE ARE SOME SAMPLE QUESTIONS THAT A NUMBER OF US SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES HAVE COMPILED TO HELP YOU STAY IN YOUR LANE DURING ACADEMIC PROGRESS MONITORING, WHICH IS A VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE. IT IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN HOW ARE THINGS GOING AND WHY, AND NOT OFFERING SUGGESTIONS THAT YOU JUST WERE AT SLY AND YOU SAW THIS GREAT VENDOR. AND SHOULD YOU GUYS CHANGE YOUR MATH CURRICULUM? SO THOSE ARE TWO REALLY DIFFERENT APPROACHES. I DON'T THINK YOU GUYS ARE EGREGIOUSLY ERRING IN THE SIDE AND MAYBE NOT AT ALL OF MOVING INTO OPERATIONS, BUT TO GET TO THE ROOT CAUSE OF THINGS, IT IS TRICKY SOMETIMES NOT TO MOVE INTO OR SLIDE INTO THAT OPERATIONAL SIDE WITH YOUR QUESTIONS. SO THERE'S JUST SOME SAMPLE QUESTIONS HERE FOR YOU GUYS TO USE FOR YOUR GOAL PROGRESS MONITORING. DO ANY OF THOSE RESONATE WITH YOU GUYS? DO ANY OF THEM LOOK FAMILIAR? ARE YOU LOOKING AT ANY OF THEM GOING I MAY HAVE GONE TOO FAR ON THAT QUESTION? I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE TOP OF THE HOUSE AND THE BOTTOM OF THE HOUSE. YOU'RE NOT FORGETTING ANY SECTION OF OUR STUDENT POPULATION. YOU'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF IT. IS THIS LANDING WITH YOU GUYS ON YOUR COMMITTEE MEETING WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING IN THIS AREA? ABSOLUTELY. OKAY, GREAT. ALL RIGHT. WELL, HERE'S ONE MORE TOOL AND RESOURCE FOR YOU. OKAY. AND THEN. IT'S NOT ADVANCING. MAYBE. I THINK THEY JUST HAD CHECKED IT ALL. OKAY. OH, THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO IF. HAVE ANY OF YOU GUYS SEEN THIS WEBSITE BEFORE? SO IF YOU HAVEN'T, IT IS A GREAT RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN NERD OUT AND GET AS GRANULAR AS YOU WANT ON YOUR SUB POP'S OR YOUR CAMPUS'S OR A GRADE LEVEL, OR COMPARING ONE OF YOUR CAMPUSES TO A CAMPUS IN THE STATE THAT HAS A VERY SIMILAR LOW SOCIOECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP. SO THIS IS JUST A GREAT SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE BECAUSE WHILE IT IS STAFF'S RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT TO YOU GUYS HOW YOU ARE TRACKING TOWARDS YOUR GOALS, IT IS NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO WALK YOU THROUGH EVERY SINGLE LITTLE, TEENY, TINY DETAIL GOING ON IN YOUR DISTRICT, AND IT MAY HELP YOU FORM BETTER QUESTIONS TOO. SO I WOULD SAY ONE THING FOR YOU GUYS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN YOU ARE ASKING QUESTIONS, IF YOU DO GO GRANULAR LIKE THIS IS YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND ON THE SUB POPS IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE THEY ARE SO MINUSCULE AND GRANULAR THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES UP THAT SUBPOPULATION. SO FOR INSTANCE, IN OUR DISTRICT, ONE OF OUR SUBPOPULATIONS IS REALLY SMALL. WE'VE HAD A HARD TIME MOVING THE DIAL ON IT, BUT THE NUMBER, THE NUMBER OF THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THERE IS NOT THERE. HOWEVER, FOR ME TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF SOMETHING THAT IS AT 70% AND IT'S TEN STUDENTS, AND I KNOW STAFF IS ADDRESSING IT. AND FOR ME TO ASK THAT AT A BOARD MEETING IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN ME UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ARE HAVING A SEVENTH GRADE MATH PROBLEM. AND, YOU KNOW, TELL ME WHY YOU GUYS ARE DECIDING TO DOUBLE BLOCK FOR A FEW YEARS. [02:10:01] SO UNDERSTANDING THE LITTLE NUANCES THAT MIGHT BE BEHIND THE DETAILS, IF YOU DO KIND OF GO TO THE SUB POP AND REALLY GRANULAR LEVEL, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE UNDERSTANDING HOW MANY STUDENTS MAKE UP THAT SUBPOPULATION BEFORE YOU'RE GOING HARD ON IT. ON QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO PROBABLY HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH DOCTOR LOPEZ TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHO MAKES UP THAT GROUP. AND IF IT'S VERY MANY STUDENTS, IF IT'S NOT VERY MANY STUDENTS, IT SEEMS LIKE IT SHOULD BE EASY TO MOVE THE DIAL. AND YET, IF IT'S A SMALL GROUP OF STUDENTS AND THREE OF THEM ARE STRUGGLING, IT IS VERY HARD TO MOVE THE DIAL IF THERE'S TEN OF THEM. SO THAT'S THE TYPE OF, OF UNDERSTANDING THAT BOARD MEMBERS NEED TO HAVE IF THEY'RE GOING TO, IF THEY'RE GOING TO KIND OF NERD OUT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING. ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU SHOULDN'T ASK THE QUESTION? NO, I AM NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD NOT ASK THE QUESTION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE. YEAH, BUT I WOULD PROBABLY I'D PROBABLY REACH OUT TO MY SUPERINTENDENT AND SAY, HEY, I SEE THAT THIS SUBPOPULATION HASN'T MOVED. WE'VE BARELY MOVED IT FOR THREE YEARS. I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE VERY MANY STUDENTS. HOW MANY STUDENTS IS THIS? HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TO SUPPORT THEM AND HELP MOVE THE STUDENTS. I WANT EVERY STUDENT TO MOVE FORWARD AS WE ALL DO, RIGHT? BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF IT'S A SUB POP THAT IS TEN STUDENTS AND THREE ARE STRUGGLING, NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE OFFERING, THERE'S A NUMBER THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A HARD TIME GETTING BEYOND PERCENTAGE WISE FOR THAT SUBPOPULATION UNTIL THEY FIGURE OUT WHAT IS MISSING. SO I WOULD STILL ASK THE QUESTION, BUT HOW I WOULD ASK IT IN A MEETING, KNOWING THAT IT'S TEN STUDENTS AND WE'RE PROVIDING HIGH SERVICES FOR THREE OF THEM. OR IF YOU WOULD ASK IT IN A MEETING, INSTEAD OF ASKING THE SUPERINTENDENT DIRECTLY. CORRECT, I GOT IT. YEAH. SO BE INFORMED, BE KNOWLEDGEABLE. OKAY, SO THIS PART, I WANT TO KIND OF WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THROUGH HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS OF EIGHT. SO DO SCHOOL BOARDS MATTER? YOU GUYS, DO SCHOOL BOARDS MATTER? YES YES YES. THANK YOU DAPHNE. AND A STUDY HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DONE THAT SHOWS THAT THE CONDUCT AND THE WORK THAT WE DO IN THE BOARDROOM ACTUALLY HAS A DIRECT IMPACT ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE. AND YOU GUYS, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO IN THIS ROOM AFFECTS STAFF MORALE, AFFECTS FACULTY MORALE, AFFECTS FAMILY MORALE, LIKE THEY ARE FOLLOWING YOUR LEAD. AND SO I JUST LOVE THAT SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, DID SOME RESEARCH AROUND THIS AND, AND THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING MATTER, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE FAR REMOVED FROM IT. SOMETIMES IT'S IMPACTING WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM OR WE FEEL FAR REMOVED FROM IT. SO BACK TO KIND OF BRING US FULL CIRCLE. HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOL BOARDS, HAVE ORDERLY MEETINGS, TALK ABOUT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, ENGAGE WITH THE SPEAKERS, DON'T HAVE PEOPLE ADVANCING THEIR AGENDAS, HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS LIKE YOU GUYS DO. YOU GUYS ARE OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERING THOUGHTFULLY THE INPUT FROM DOCTOR LOPEZ AND YOU DON'T HAVE PEOPLE TALKING EXCESSIVELY THROUGH THE MEETING AND LIKE TONIGHT IS EVIDENCE OF ALL OF THESE THINGS. SO I LOVE THAT. SO WE'RE GOING TO HIT. YES. SO WE DID HAVE A PERIOD OF TIME. I THINK MOST DISTRICTS PROBABLY DO WHERE THE FORMER PAGE. YEP. WE HAD THOSE ISSUES. YEAH. YEP. IT WAS IT WAS DIFFICULT. I DON'T THINK AT THAT POINT WE WERE CONSIDERING HOW IT WAS REFLECTING IN THE COMMUNITY OR AMONG STAFF. YEAH. IT WAS JUST TOUGH TIMES. YEAH, A LOT OF A LOT OF FOUR-THREE VOTES. AND BUT WHERE IT STARTED TO REFLECT IS WHEN WE GOT THE REPORTS ON STAFF AND THE NUMBER OF STAFF WHO WERE LEAVING THE DISTRICT. YEAH. THAT WAS FRIGHTENING. YEAH, IT REALLY WAS. YEAH. AND IT WAS IT WASN'T RETIREMENT. IT WAS OTHER DISTRICTS. OTHER DISTRICTS. AND THESE WERE TEACHERS WITH 10 TO 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE. SOME MASTER TEACHERS. AND I THINK THAT WAS THAT WAS. I THINK AT THAT POINT, WE STARTED TO REALIZE SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE. THAT'S A SOBERING WAKE UP CALL, ISN'T IT? WHEN YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE TO OWN THE FACT THAT YOU'RE IMPACTING THAT IN A NEGATIVE WAY? YEAH, THANKS FOR SHARING THAT, BECAUSE MOVING THROUGH THESE STAGES OF BEING A TEAM IS CHALLENGING, AND IT FEELS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE LIVING IN A GREAT SPACE RIGHT NOW, SO GET AS MUCH WORK DONE AS YOU CAN AND WRITE IT OUT AS LONG AS YOU CAN AND REINFORCE IT, [02:15:02] RIGHT? PROTECT YOUR LEGACY. YES. OH GOODNESS. YES. 7:09 P.M.. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, LARRY FOR THAT. OH MY GOSH, Y'ALL. OKAY. SO LET'S WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT AT A HIGH LEVEL, THIS TENSION BETWEEN OPEN MEETINGS ACT AND CLOSED SESSION. SO IF SOMEBODY JUST WANTS TO READ THE COUPLE OF BULLETS ON THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT BLOCK. OKAY? OPEN MEETINGS, ACT PUBLIC ACCESS TO MEETINGS PROMOTES TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT. THANK YOU. AND THEN WHAT ABOUT EXECUTIVE SESSION AND CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS? YEP. BALANCING TRANSPARENCY WITH THE NEED TO PROTECT SENSITIVE INFORMATION OR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. PERFECT. AND WE ALL KNOW IF WE ARE SITTING IN THESE SEATS, THIS IS THIS IS A DELICATE DANCE SOMETIMES. SO OBVIOUSLY THE MEETINGS HAVE TO BE IN PUBLIC. WE'RE TRYING TO BE TRANSPARENT. THAT INCLUDES THE NOTICES AND THE PACKETS AND ALL OF THE THINGS WHICH HAVE RECENTLY CHANGED WITH LEGISLATION AND THEN ALSO RECORDINGS. THAT HAS ALSO CHANGED SINCE THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION. SO RECOGNIZING CONFIDENTIALITY AND TRYING TO PROVIDE TRANSPARENCY. SO THE CONFIDENTIAL PIECES OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE, RIGHT? PERSONNEL. REAL ESTATE. OTHER THINGS REQUIRED BY OTHER STATUTES. NO VOTES, INCLUDING STRAW, INCLUDING STRAW POLLS. THE INFORMATION MUST BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL. AND YOU'VE GOT TO JUSTIFY IT BY CITING THE EXCEPTION ON YOUR AGENDA. WE'RE ALSO BLESSED THAT WE HAVE A BOARD MANAGER THAT KEEPS US IN LINE. HELPS. IT HELPS. SO TYPES OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. AND I THINK THERE'S A REAL MISPERCEPTION OUT THERE FOR PEOPLE. PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, RIGHT? LIKE BACK TO THAT WHOLE PEOPLE WANT TO FILL IN THE GAPS WITH WHAT THEY THINK MAKES SENSE. AND THEY WANT YOU TO COMMENT ON EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAS HAPPENED. AS A DISTRICT, HOWEVER, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PERTAINS TO STUDENT INFORMATION, EMPLOYEE INFORMATION, AND THEN DISTRICT MATTERS. AND THEN ON THE GRIEVANCES, WE ALL KNOW THE GRIEVANCES. THEY CAN REQUEST TO HOLD THOSE IN OPEN SESSION IF THEY WANT TO. THOSE DO NOT HAVE TO BE ENCLOSED IF THE PERSON REQUESTS FOR IT TO BE AN OPEN. BUT THESE ARE JUST IMPORTANT THINGS. YOU GUYS KNOW THE INFORMATION, YOU GUYS ARE EXPOSED TO THE INFORMATION. BUT I THINK IT'S JUST GOOD FOR PEOPLE TO BE REMINDED OF THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE REALLY DO NEED TO KEEP CONFIDENTIAL TO PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE'S RIGHTS. MORE MORE THAN THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE BEING CURIOUS AND JUST WANTING TO KNOW. AND THEN THERE ARE REAL REPERCUSSIONS. SO THERE'S LEGAL CONSEQUENCES. THERE'S A DISRUPTION TO REPUTATION AND OPERATIONS. IF WE DON'T FOLLOW IT, IT ERODES TRUST AMONG EACH OTHER, POTENTIALLY HURTS OUR CREDIBILITY. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT, BUT THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES, YOU KNOW, I KNOW DEFINITELY HAVE ALL OF OUR ATTENTION. OKAY, SO THIS ONE IS A WE'RE JUST GOING TO TAKE THREE MINUTES AND THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY. SO YOU GUYS CAN SHUT OFF YOUR MICS IF YOU WANT TO. AND WHAT I WANT YOU GUYS TO DO IS I WANT YOU TO WRITE DOWN 5 TO 10 ATTRIBUTES OF SOMEBODY THAT WHOSE LEADERSHIP YOU ADMIRE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WRITE DOWN WHO THE PERSON IS. WE'RE NOT GOING TO PICK THIS UP, BUT I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE ATTRIBUTES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A GOOD LEADER. AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE JUST A COUPLE MINUTES. SO WHEN YOU'VE WRITTEN DOWN YOUR 5 TO 10 OR WHATEVER, PUT YOUR PEN DOWN AND THEN I'LL KNOW THAT YOU'RE READY TO MOVE ON. YEAH, 5 TO 10, LIKE WHATEVER COMES TO MIND. SOMEWHERE IN THAT 5 TO 10 RANGE IS GREAT. YES, MA'AM. SOMEBODY THAT YOU ADMIRE AS A LEADER. [02:20:05] LINDA, WHEN YOU'RE DONE, IF YOU'LL JUST GIVE ME THE THUMBS UP SINCE I CAN'T SEE YOUR PEN, THAT'S GREAT. OKAY, TEN MORE SECONDS. OKAY. EVERYBODY'S DONE. IT LOOKS LIKE. OKAY. OKAY, SO HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU GUYS TO DO. WE ARE JUST GOING TO GO AROUND TWO TIMES, AND I JUST WANT YOU TO SAY ONE THING THAT'S ON YOUR LIST, AND YOU CAN'T REPEAT WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE HAS SAID. OKAY? SO MARK IT, CIRCLE IT SOMETHING. THE THING THAT YOU SAY. SO LINDA, LET'S START WITH YOU. TELL US ONE THING THAT'S ON YOUR ON YOUR LIST OF ATTRIBUTES. FAIR. SORRY. FAIR. F A I R. FAIR. FAIR. FAIR. OKAY. DAPHNE. CONSISTENCY. OKAY. SO CONSISTENT. WES. CREATIVITY. OOH. OKAY. CREATIVE. I LIKE IT. JOHNNY. TRUTHFUL. TRUTHFUL. YEAH. SMART. SMART. OKAY. JAMIE. LISTENS. LISTENS. SO, LISTENER. LARRY. READS EVERYTHING. OH, WHAT DID HE SAY? READS EVERYTHING. READS EVERYTHING. OKAY, ROBERT. BALANCED PERSPECTIVE. BALANCED PERSPECTIVE. OKAY. LINDA. TRUSTWORTHY. OKAY. DAPHNE. OWNERSHIP OF GOOD AND BAD. CAN WE SAY. WOULD YOU SAY OWNERSHIP? IS THAT. ACCOUNTABILITY. ACCOUNTABLE. ACCOUNTABILITY. OKAY. ACCOUNTABLE. OKAY. YES. UNDERSTANDS PROCESSES. OKAY. JONNY. TRANSPARENT. TEMPERED. TEMPERED. OKAY. JAMIE. DECISIVE. OKAY. PRAISE OTHERS. PRAISES OTHERS. OKAY. ROBERT. COURAGEOUS. COURAGEOUS. OKAY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO BASICALLY, KNOWLEDGE IS UNDERSTANDING A CONCEPT. COMPLETING TASKS ACCURATELY. SKILLS ARE APPLYING YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR HAVING PROWESS AND ATTITUDE IS ABOUT MOTIVATION, RESILIENCE, A LEARNED IMPACT. SO I WROTE DOWN WHAT YOU GUYS ALL SAID. I HOPE I CAPTURED IT ACCURATELY, BUT EACH ONE I'M JUST GOING TO SAY, AND I WANT YOU GUYS TO SAY, IF YOU THINK IT'S A KNOWLEDGE, IF IT'S KNOWLEDGE, A SKILL OR AN ATTITUDE, OKAY, FAIR. ATTITUDE, ATTITUDE, ATTITUDE. CONSISTENT. ATTITUDE. CREATIVE. SKILL, SKILL. TRUTHFUL. ATTITUDE, ATTITUDE. SMART. KNOWLEDGE. OKAY. LISTENER. KNOWLEDGE. SKILLS, SKILL SKILLS. READS EVERYTHING. NERD KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE WITHIN. BALANCED PERSPECTIVE. ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE. BUT IT'S KIND OF A SKILL. OKAY, WE GOT TO DECIDE. ATTITUDE OR SKILL. ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE. TRUSTWORTHY. ATTITUDE. ACCOUNTABLE. ATTITUDE. I HEARD A WHISPER. YEAH, I'LL GO WITH THAT. OKAY. PROCESS ORIENTED OR RESPECTS THE PROCESS. SKILL. SKILL. SKILL. BLESS YOU. TRANSPARENT. SKILL. ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE. TRANSPARENT. I MEAN, I'M JUST GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SAY IT. TRANSPARENCY IS A PROCESS. YES. SOMETHING THAT'S CONTAINED IN IT. AND SO IT CAN BE SOMETHING THAT'S LEARNED AND TRAINED, WHICH MEANS IT'S SKILL. OKAY. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S INHERENT. YOU'RE YOU'RE THINKING HONESTY. HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY ARE NOT THE SAME THING. [02:25:04] THAT'S WHY YOU'RE A GOOD LAWYER. I THINK. I THINK A LOT OF THESE SKILLS ARE ACTUALLY LEARNED. YOU DON'T YOU DON'T COME HERE KNOWING THESE THINGS. TRUE. BUT PEOPLE ARE EITHER SOME PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY HONEST OR THEY'RE DISHONEST. TRANSPARENCY IS NOT ABOUT HONESTY. IT'S ABOUT ACCESS. DO YOU GRANT ACCESS TO INFORMATION TO PEOPLE? IT'S A CHOICE. YOU'RE SAYING IT'S CHOICES. IT'S NOT. IT'S IT IS DIFFERENT THAN HONEST. I THINK MY ATTITUDE SOME PEOPLE ARE PRETTY TRANSPARENT. THEY WEAR THE HEART ON THEIR SLEEVES. YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S DIFFERENT THINGS THAT GO WITH PERSONALITIES THAT I THINK ARE MORE ATTITUDE DRIVEN THAN LEARNED. IT'S JUST HUMAN HUMAN NATURE THAT THEY HAVE. SO IT REALLY DEPENDS ON IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT KIND OF TRANSPARENCY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, IF YOU WANT TO SPLIT HAIRS. BUT I'D PUT IT IN EITHER ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES. OKAY. SO LET ME FOR THE SAKE OF OUR EXERCISE, WE'RE JUST GOING TO THROW IT OUT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE OUTCOME. OKAY. OKAY. NOT BE TRANSPARENT. TEMPERED. THAT'S AN ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE DECISIVE THAT IS ALSO AN ATTITUDE. PRAISES OTHERS. ATTITUDE. COURAGE. THAT'S AN ATTITUDE. ATTITUDE. SO YOU GUYS, THIS EXERCISE IS SIMPLY TO SHOW YOU ATTITUDE. WE HAD 123456789 TEN WITH THE ONE WE THREW OUT. AND THEN SKILL WE HAD ONE, TWO AND ONE KNOWLEDGE. YOU GUYS HAVE ALIGNMENT AROUND VALUING LEADERS WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE. THAT I WOULD ARGUE IS ONE OF THE LEGACY THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO PROTECT ON YOUR BOARD. AND INTERESTINGLY, ALL THE TIMES I'VE DONE THIS ACTIVITY, EVEN THOUGH A COUPLE OF TIMES IT STARTED OFF A LITTLE SHAKY AND WE WERE REALLY HEAVY ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS. ATTITUDE HAS ALWAYS WON OUT. EVERY SINGLE TIME I'VE DONE THIS ACTIVITY WITH SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES. SO I JUST THINK IT'S I JUST THINK IT IS A GREAT SELF-REFLECTION OPPORTUNITY AS WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT PART FOR YOU GUYS TO JUST BE MINDFUL, LIKE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE SKILLS WE VALUE. WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE WANT TO GAIN, BUT WITHOUT ATTITUDE, LIKE GETTING, GETTING ALL OF YOU AND GETTING YOUR STUDENTS WHERE YOU GUYS WANT THEM, WANT TO GET THEM IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IF YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE, WHETHER THAT'S YOUR SUPERINTENDENT OR YOUR ELT OR THE OTHER PEOPLE SITTING AROUND THE TABLE HERE AT THE BOARD IN THE BOARDROOM. SO I JUST I DON'T KNOW THAT ACTIVITY NEVER FAILS. ATTITUDE TRIUMPHS, PERIOD, FULL STOP. AND IT'S GOOD FOR US TO REMEMBER WHAT WE'RE BRINGING WHEN WE SHOW UP TO. OKAY, SO YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT. YOU GUYS HAVE REWORKED THEM RELATIVELY RECENTLY. THIS IS PART OF THE FLEX PART OF THE TEAM OF EIGHT TRAINING THAT WE CAN DO. SO SOME BIG THINGS TO KIND OF CONSIDER AS IDEAL COMPONENTS. AND I THINK THIS IS JUST A GOOD HEALTH CHECK IS DO YOU GUYS KNOW, DO YOU HAVE COMPONENTS THAT ADDRESS SPEAKER INPUT? IN YOUR BODY? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT US OR KNOW YOUR, YOUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT CAN COME AND SPEAK AT OPEN FORUM THAT'S CLEARLY OUTLINED IN YOUR BODY? OKAY. LIKE I'D SAY THESE ARE BARE MINIMUM PIECES. I'VE LOOKED AT YOUR BODY, BUT YOU GUYS SHOULD KNOW YOUR BODY. ARE YOU GUYS USING FORMAL PARLIAMENTARY. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE? YEAH. OKAY. AND YOU GUYS ALL FEEL KNOWLEDGEABLE AND CONFIDENT IN THAT? YES. OKAY. AGENDA SETTING PROTOCOLS. HOW TO ADD AN ITEM TO AN AGENDA. THE PROCESS FOR DOING THAT. I'M SEEING LOTS OF HEAD NODS. LINDA, ARE YOU NODDING YOUR HEAD TOO, MA'AM? PERFECT. OKAY. DO YOU GUYS HAVE A DEFINITION OF WHAT ETHICAL CONDUCT LOOKS LIKE ON YOUR BOARD? YES, WE TELL THEM. OH, PERFECT. THAT'S THE INFORMAL PORTION OF THE PROGRAM, JOHNNY. JUST IN SELECTING OFFICERS, WHICH IS STATUTORY WHEN WE HAVE TO DO THAT. BUT HOW YOU DO IT AND WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S TERM LIMITS, THAT WHOLE THING, YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR PROCESS OUTLINED IN YOUR BODY. OKAY. AND DO YOU GUYS HAVE A REVIEW PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT? YES. YES. RECENTLY. YES. EVERY WHAT TWO YEARS, EVERY TWO YEARS. AND DO YOU GUYS HAVE A IS THAT ON LIKE THE CALENDAR FOR A CERTAIN TIME OF THE YEAR OR EVERY BIENNIUM LEGISLATIVE UPDATE? PERFECT, I LOVE IT. AND ARE YOU GUYS ALL PROVIDING YOUR EDITS OR IS THERE A SUBCOMMITTEE? [02:30:02] DO YOU GUYS KNOW THE PROCESS FOR DOING THAT? THERE'S A POLICY ADVISORY GROUP. PERFECT. OKAY. YOU GUYS ARE SUPER GRANULAR, AND I LIKE IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY CANNOT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU GUYS FEEL LIKE NEEDS TO BE REVISITED NOW ABOUT YOUR BOP? WE'LL REVISIT OUR BOP THIS SUMMER. ACTUALLY, IT'S A JULY MEETING THAT WE TAKE THE LARGE SCALE APPROACH BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS IN JULY. WE WILL FOCUS ON RESETTING BOARD OFFICERS AND SETTING THE COMMITTEES FOR THE FOLLOWING ACADEMIC YEAR THAT BEGINS JULY 1ST. SO ONCE WE START IN AUGUST, WE'LL HAVE NEW COMMITTEE CHAIR PERSONS, WE'LL HAVE NEW SUBCOMMITTEES, WHICH WILL BE THOSE INTERNAL ADVISORY GROUPS, WHICH IS POLICY ADVISORY, WHERE WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE FROM THIS PAST BIENNIUM, AND WE'LL UPDATE ANYTHING WITHIN OUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE. REFLECTIVE OF THAT AND ANY PROCESSES THAT WE'VE PUT IN PLACE OR NEED TO TWEAK FROM BEHAVIORS OF THE PAST YEARS. OKAY. DOCTOR LOPEZ AND JOHNNY. WAS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT BOP THAT YOU GUYS WANTED US TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT? ABSOLUTELY NOT. AND I THINK THAT THE THE THE BOARD DOES A GOOD JOB OF UNDERSTANDING THE ROLES. AND THEN THEY HAVE THE GUIDANCE THAT ALWAYS COMES FROM MS. HOGAN AND MYSELF AS NEEDED. AND SO THE BOARD PRETTY MUCH IS ON TRACK, BUT, BUT STRATEGICALLY IT'S DONE AFTER EVERY LEGISLATIVE SESSION. OKAY. I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A PROCESS FOR REMAINING A LIVING DOCUMENT BECAUSE THE REALITY IS SO OFTEN IT IS SOMETHING THAT A BOARD WORKS ON. AND THEN FIVE YEARS LATER, THEY'RE LIKE, OH GOSH, WE, YOU KNOW, BESIDES KNOWING HOW TO ADD AN AGENDA ITEM AND THE BOARD OFFICERS, WE AREN'T REALLY USING IT. AND SO I, I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE GOT A PROCESS TO MAKE IT A LIVING DOCUMENT. I THINK THAT IS ESSENTIAL. OKAY. AND THEN. THE OTHER THINGS JUST TO CONSIDER TO AS, AS YOU GUYS ARE REFLECTING AND GETTING READY FOR YOUR JULY DISCUSSION, WE'RE GOING TO SKIP THIS SLIDE AND GO TO THE NEXT ONE. SO BOARDS THAT ARE NOT EITHER DON'T HAVE A BOP OR NOT REVISITING THEIR BOP, THESE ARE THINGS THAT I ASK THEM TO CONSIDER IF THEY THINK IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE LOOKED AT. AND I THINK THESE ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT LEGACY AND WHAT WE, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT YOU GUYS MENTIONED WAS, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU GUYS ARE ALIGNED ON PURPOSE AND BRAND AND FOCUSING ON STUDENTS AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE WORK. AND PART OF YOUR LEGACY IS LIKE RESPECTING EACH OTHER, RESPECTING THE OATH, MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS, COMMITTEE AND BUSINESS MEETINGS AND THIS WHOLE PROCESS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE IN PLACE. SO BOARDS THAT THINK THEY DON'T NEED TO LOOK AT IT OR DON'T NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT, THINGS I SAY IS, WHAT IF YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO GETS ELECTED TO YOUR BOARD, WHO DOESN'T REALLY WANT TO BE PART OF THE TEAM? DO YOU HAVE WITH THE CONSISTENCY YOU GUYS HAVE RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE A GREAT LEGACY OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE NOT THAT YOUR BODY BECOMES HANDCUFFS, BUT YOUR BODY IS A TOOL TO HELP YOU CONTINUE THE LEGACY THAT YOU GUYS HAVE OF THINGS THAT ARE WORKING WELL. SO WHAT IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T WANT TO BE PART OF THE TEAM? WHAT IF 100 SPEAKERS SHOW UP? WE HAVE SOMETHING IN OURS WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF TIME SOMEBODY CAN SPEAK IF WE HAVE TOO MANY SHOW UP. WHAT IF YOU GET SOMEBODY ON THE BOARD WHO HAS THEIR ONE HOT AGENDA ITEM THAT YOU GUYS WHO ARE EXPERIENCED KNOW IS GOING TO BE RESOLVED IN SIX MONTHS? AND THEN WHAT? WHAT IF SOMEONE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN CONTINUING EDUCATION? CITY COUNCIL [LAUGHS]. YOU COULD YOU COULD BE ANY OTHER ELECTED OFFICIAL IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND HAVE FEWER WERE CONTINUING ED REQUIREMENTS IN SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES DO. THAT IS A FACT. SAY THAT AGAIN. SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEES ARE THE ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST REQUIREMENT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION OF ANY ELECTED OFFICIALS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. BATTING TO IT. TO. CORRECT. THEY DO. YOU GUYS GOT. WE GOT A BONUS ONE THIS YEAR. SO WHAT IF LIFE HAPPENS AND YOU GUYS TURN OVER FOR TRUSTEES IN 18 MONTHS? DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT THINGS IN PLACE IN YOUR BODY? AND AGAIN, CREATING IT AND SHELVING IT. SO I THINK JUST THINGS TO BE MINDFUL OF AGAIN ON THAT LEGACY LEGACY PIECE. FOR YOU GUYS WITH YOU BEING SO STABLE. I HAVE A QUESTION. YEAH. LIKE WHAT WOULD YOU PUT IN YOUR BOP FOR, FOR TRUSTEES TURNOVER IN 18 MONTHS? I MEAN, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN THERE ABOUT HOW LONG THEY HAVE TO BE ON THE BOARD BEFORE THEY CAN BE AN OFFICER? DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN THERE ABOUT YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU GUYS CLEARLY DEFINED THE NATURE OF YOUR COMMITTEE WORK? IF YOU ARE SERVING ON A DISTRICT COMMITTEE, LIKE SO WHAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE GOT A REALLY STABLE BOARD THAT'S BEEN TOGETHER FOR A WHILE, [02:35:09] YOU HAVE THESE INFORMAL CULTURE THINGS, RIGHT? SO LIKE OUR BOARD FOR A LONG TIME REALLY, REALLY VALUED CONTINUING ED AND GOING TO ONE TRAINING A YEAR TOGETHER AS A GROUP. WE NEVER FORMALIZED THAT. WE HAD ONE PERSON GET ON THE BOARD WHO WAS LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO GO TO ANY TRAINING WHERE I HAVE TO TRAVEL OVERNIGHT. I'LL GO TO SLI IN FORT WORTH AND DRIVE. SO NOT HAVING SOME OF THOSE THINGS FORMALIZED LIKE PUT TACIT. SO OUR THING IS TACIT TASB WE ALWAYS GO TO TACIT TASB AS A GROUP, EVEN IF IT'S IN DALLAS FORT WORTH. SO JUST FORMALIZING SOME OF THOSE THINGS TO EITHER PROVIDE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN ON THE BOARD LESS THAN A YEAR, BEING AN OFFICER, FOR INSTANCE, OR, YOU KNOW, RULES ABOUT BEING ON CAMPUS WITHOUT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S PERMISSION. LIKE THERE ARE THINGS. IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF PHILIP OR SOMEBODY WHO HAS AN AGENDA, THERE ARE SOME SAFEGUARDS THAT YOU CAN PUT IN PLACE THAT REQUIRE ALIGNMENT FROM ALL OF YOU GUYS TO OR PERMISSION FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DO THINGS THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T, SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT MAY, YOU GUYS MAY ALREADY BE DOING INFORMALLY, BUT CODIFYING THEM HELPS PROTECT YOUR LEGACY, HELPS PROTECT THE CULTURE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE ESTABLISHED THAT'S WORKING WELL. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT DOES. IT'S JUST FROM FOR ME, THE PRACTICALITY IS IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN KICK THAT PERSON OFF THE BOARD IF THEY DON'T DO IT. NO. SO I THINK IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THOSE, BUT THERE'S JUST NO TEETH TO IT. NO BITE. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU SAY THAT. I MEAN, THERE'S THERE'S NOT A LOT OF THERE'S NOT A LOT OF TEETH. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE ALL KNOW THEIR CENSURE, WHICH IS LIMITED IN SCOPE IN WHAT IT CAN BE. THE ONLY WAY A SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE CAN BE REMOVED LEGALLY. LAST TIME I KNEW WAS PUBLIC INTOXICATION. SO SO THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE VERY FEW. AND NOW AND NOW THE WHOLE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND PIECE THAT HAS TO COME IN FOR YOU TO EVEN BE ELIGIBLE TO RUN, WHICH FRANKLY, WHO CAN ARGUE WITH THAT? WE'RE AROUND KIDS, RIGHT? SO, SO THAT YOU'RE RIGHT, A LOT OF IT DOESN'T HAVE TEETH. BUT IF YOU HAVE A STRONG CULTURE AND YOU HAVE A STRONG BOARD WHO BELIEVES IN THE CULTURE, IT DOES NOT ALWAYS LOOK PRETTY. I LIVED THROUGH IT AS PRESIDENT DURING COVID, WHERE WE LIVED OUT SOME OF THIS, AND WE HAD PUT SOME THINGS IN PLACE TO, YOU KNOW, HELP KEEP THAT PERSON FROM COMPLETELY KEEPING US FROM GETTING THE WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. DONE. IT MAKES GETTING THE WORK, DOING THE WORK HARDER. YOU MAY NOT GET TO THE THINGS THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO. TO REALLY MOVE THE WORK FORWARD. BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO THAT CAN LIMIT SOMEBODY'S NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE BOARD. CULTURAL LEGACY IS WHAT I WOULD SAY. YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE THINKING ABOUT ON YOUR BODY WHEN YOU DO YOUR NEXT REVIEW. OKAY, OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM. AND I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO JOHNNY AND DOCTOR LOPEZ IS A DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS TRI-CITIES COALITION UP. THANK YOU. ONE THING THAT WE, OF COURSE, EVERYBODY ON THE BOARD IS PRETTY MUCH AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO AS FAR AS THE TRI-CITIES IS CONCERNED AND THE COALITION, IT'S BEEN VERY TOUGH. WE HAVE MET WITH EACH COMMUNITY AND WITH THREE MEMBERS FROM EACH ONE OF THE CITIES MEETING WITH DOCTOR LOPEZ, ME AND ROBERT AND THE IT HAS CHANGED BECAUSE OF SOME LETTING GO OF SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES OF SOME OF THOSE CITIES. BUT IT'S ALSO VERY TOUGH TO GET TOGETHER TO MEET IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE OF THE TIME FRAME AND TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM AT THE SAME TIME. BUT WE HAVE VERY GOOD SUPPORT FROM THE THREE MAYORS. ALL OF YOU ALL ARE VERY AWARE OF. THEY ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE AND THEY ARE. THAT'S A BLESSING. AND DOCTOR LOPEZ HAS DONE A GREAT JOB AS FAR AS MAKING THAT RELATIONSHIP STRONGER. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT ALSO WITH THE CITY MANAGERS OF THOSE COMMUNITIES TO HELP US IN OUR BOND PROGRAM AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. WHAT THE, WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THE COALITION MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. I THINK THAT, ROBERT, GET THIS OFF THE GROUND A YEAR AGO, AND WHAT WE FORMED IT FOR WAS TO TRY TO SEE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WE'RE THE CITIES KNEW THAT OUR TRI CITIES KNEW THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO STEP ON THEIR TOES AND THEM NOT ON OUR TOES, THAT WE NEED TO JOIN HANDS AND BE A COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS HERE AND JOIN HANDS AND HELP THEM IN THE PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO GET PASSED AND DONE THE SAME WAY WITH OURS AND BE AND BE A PARTNER IN THE COMMUNITIES. AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT GROWN JUST IN THE FIRST MEETINGS THAT WE'VE HAD IN DISCUSSIONS. AND IT COULD BE ROAD WORK FOR THEM, OR IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE FOR THEM WHERE THEY NEED AN EASEMENT HERE AND IT COULD BE OUR PROPERTY. WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, WE JUST TRY TO DISCUSS THOSE THINGS TO SEE WHERE WE COULD BE A GOOD PARTNER IN THE SAME WAY WITH US ABOUT THE THINGS OF, [02:40:06] HEY, WE NEED THE PERMITS FOR THIS BUILDING THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO DURING OUR BOND PROGRAM. SO IT'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN A VERY GOOD PARTNERSHIP JUST TO SEE BECAUSE SOMETIMES EVEN THE MAYOR AND THE CITY MANAGER DIDN'T REALIZE THAT SOMETIMES THAT WE WERE HAVING TROUBLE WITH TRYING TO GET A PERMIT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT HELPED EXPEDITE WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO. SO I THINK THAT IT WAS IT WAS A REALLY GOOD FOCUS. AND BUT WE REALLY HAVEN'T BROUGHT A LOT OF IT INFORMATION TO THE BOARD WITH IT BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION TO REALLY BRING FORTH EXCEPT THAT WE ARE PROGRESSING WITH THIS. WE'D LIKE TO GET IT A LITTLE BIT FIRMER AND FIRM IT UP A LITTLE BIT FROM WHERE IT IS RIGHT NOW. AND I THINK THAT IT WILL. IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW OFTEN THAT WE CAN MEET WITH THEM. AND I'LL LET ROBERT AND DOCTOR LOPEZ ADDRESS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT. ROBERT, DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? OH, OKAY. YOU KNOW THIS THIS TRI CITIES COALITION CAME FROM ROBERT SELDERS, AND HE REALLY HAD A GOOD IDEA, AND IT TOOK A LITTLE WHILE TO AMP UP, BUT WE STARTED TO. AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME SCHEDULING DONE. WE WANTED TO LET THE NEW CITY MANAGERS GET, GET. YEAH. YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF LIKE A SUPERINTENDENT ONCE YOU GET HERE, IT'S A, IT'S A WHIRLWIND. ONE OF THE COOL THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING THAT THAT KIND OF CAME UP INDIRECTLY FROM THIS IS I RAN INTO DIFFERENT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AT DIFFERENT EVENTS AND THEY'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT OUR BOND PROJECTS. THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY EXCITED, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT, WHAT'S GOING UP. SO, SO. RIGHT? SO WHAT I WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WE'RE HOPEFULLY GOING TO GET THAT OUT TO ALL THE THREE CITIES IS WHAT'S GET IT GOING IN EVERY CITY. AND IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE GARLAND IS SO BIG AND IT'S BY DISTRICT, WE'RE EVEN GOING TO PUT IT BY DISTRICT IN THE GARLAND AREA. SO THEN THAT CITY, LET'S SAY YOU'RE IN DISTRICT ONE, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR CITY AT THAT TIME. AND YOU KNOW, LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW, IT EXCITES ME THAT THEY'RE JUST EXCITED ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN OUR IN OUR DISTRICT BECAUSE THEY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT THAT INFRASTRUCTURE REBUILDING HAS IN THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? AND SO WHEN, WHEN THOSE THINGS, THOSE BUILDINGS START GOING UP AND PEOPLE START SEEING THE BEAUTY OF THEM IT, IT, IT GENERATES A LOT OF SYNERGY, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO WORK ON BESIDES PERMITTING WITH THE CITY'S THE, THE THING IS THEY'VE ALSO BEEN INVITING US TO WAY MORE FUNCTIONS THAT THEY'RE HAVING. SO THAT'S PRETTY COOL TOO. SO WE HAVE MORE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ENGAGING IN THE COMMUNITY LIFE. AND WITH THAT, I'LL JUST HAND IT OVER TO ROBERT SELDERS. I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD THAT, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO WHAT DOCTOR LOPEZ AND MR. BEACH SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS COALITION WAS PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON BUILDING ALIGNMENT AND INTENTIONALITY. YOU KNOW, THERE IS RESEARCH, YOU TALKED ABOUT RESEARCH SUPPORTING, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE BOARDS THAT ARE STRONG IN THEIR LEADERSHIP. THERE'S ALSO RESEARCH TO SUPPORT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A STRONG WORKING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CITY GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN ANYTHING, WE'RE TRYING TO BRING SOME LEVEL OF STRUCTURE TO THIS ALIGNMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTENTIONALITY. AND SO WITH THERE BEING THREE DIFFERENT CITIES THAT COMPRISE, YOU KNOW, GARLAND ISD, WE FELT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE CITIES. AND THEN, YOU DOCTOR LOPEZ BROUGHT UP A REALLY GREAT POINT. I MEAN, LOOKS FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO HAVE BETTER COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATE, BE MORE STRATEGIC IN TERMS OF WHAT THINGS, YOU KNOW, ARE BROUGHT FORWARD. AND SO EVERY CITY HAS, YOU KNOW, ITS DIFFERENT NEEDS AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO LUMP IT ALL INTO ONE GROUP. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE POWER OF THIS IS THAT WE GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN WITH EACH CITY INDIVIDUALLY AND DISCUSS THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO BOTH. BUT THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS FOR IT TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR KIDS. AND SO I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS COALITION SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE WORTHWHILE. AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, YOU TALKED ABOUT CULTURAL LEGACY. I THINK HOPEFULLY THIS IS A PART OF WHAT WE DO GOING FORWARD AS A DISTRICT. I LOVE THIS, YOU GUYS. THIS IS GREAT WORK. I MEAN, WE'RE IN FIVE MUNICIPALITIES AND WE'RE WE CAN'T GET COOPERATION ON SROS IN TWO OF OUR MUNICIPALITIES. SO I THINK THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGACY WORK, AND I AM ACTUALLY REALLY CURIOUS AND ANXIOUS TO SEE WHERE IT GOES. SO I'M GOING TO BE FOLLOWING FOLLOWING THIS. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU GUYS NEED FROM THE REST OF THE BOARD MEMBERS TO MOVE THIS FORWARD? I THINK QUESTIONS LIKE DAPHNE DOES A GOOD JOB OF ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT'S NEXT OR WHAT ARE WE DOING. AND I KNOW AT SOME POINT WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A PRESENTATION TO KIND OF SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THESE MEETINGS. [02:45:06] AND SO I THINK THAT'LL PROBABLY HAPPEN. BUT IF YOU KNOW, ANY TRUSTEE HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT ARE DISCUSSED, THE PURPOSE WHAT THE INTENTION IS ASK, YOU KNOW, SO WE'RE OPEN TO THAT. BUT THE POWER OF THIS DID SOMETHING VERY UNIQUE. THE THREE MAYORS AND I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE THE PUBLIC'S LISTENING, NOT NECESSARILY FOR ENGAGEMENT, BUT AND THANK YOU AGAIN, ROBERT, FOR THIS, BUT THE THREE MAYORS PUBLICLY, I MEAN, PUBLICLY GOT ON A PLATFORM TO BACK UP ONE OF OUR PROPOSITIONS IN NOVEMBER. ALL THREE OF THEM. AND THEY EVEN SAT TOGETHER TO DO IT. THEN WHEN WE WERE FINALISTS FOR THE HEB AWARD FOR DISTRICT AND BOARD OF THE YEAR THEY CAME IN AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ADVOCATE TO THE DIFFERENT PANELS, ALL THREE. AND, AND I THINK THE PANELISTS WERE SAYING, WE'VE NEVER SEEN MAYORS GIVE UP THEIR TIME TO COME DO THIS. AND THEN FINALLY, JUST THIS WEEK THEY WELL, IT WAS IT WAS LAST WEEK, THEY GOT TOGETHER TO DO A FUNDRAISER FOR OUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION. AND ALL THREE OF THEM WORKED THE SAME CHICK FIL A AND TOOK PICTURES WITH THE COMMUNITY AND EVERYBODY CAME IN JUST TO RAISE MONEY FOR OUR KIDS. I LOVE IT. ALL OF THEM HAVE KIDS IN OUR DISTRICT, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY HAVE TO BE THAT ENGAGED. THEY GOT THEIR OWN CITIES TO RUN. AND SO IT'S JUST VERY HUMBLING TO SEE THEIR ENGAGEMENT LEVEL AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AND I REALLY FEEL THAT BRINGING THEM IN AND JUST HAVING THEIR OWN VOICE, THEIR OWN STAGE, BECAUSE. GARLAND'S THE BIG CITY AND SOMETIMES THEY COULD OVERSHADOW EVERYTHING AND JUST. THEY GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, THE SAME AMOUNT OF ENERGY FROM US, THE SAME AMOUNT OF DIALOG. I THINK THAT WENT A LONG WAY. AND SO THANK YOU. THIS IS EXCITING WORK. LIKE I SAID, I'M GOING TO BE FOLLOWING IT. AND THERE'S OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING YOU GUYS ARE DOING THAT THEY WANT TO BE A PART OF OR ELSE THEY WOULDN'T BE ENGAGING. RIGHT. SO WAY TO MAKE YOURSELVES ATTRACTIVE TO YOUR TO YOUR MAYORS, I LOVE THAT. SO CAN I JUST SAY THERE'S JUST ONE THING. SO AND IT'S MOSTLY BEEN ME TOO, IS THAT I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TOO. I JUST FEEL A LOT OF TIMES EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS BECAUSE WE HAVE NO IDEA, NO ONE'S REPORTING BACK THE DISCUSSIONS, NO ONE'S REPORTING BACK THE TOPICS. AND SO IT'S HARD TO PARTNER WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. SO I MEAN, I DON'T, I'M NOT SAYING YEAH, YEAH. THAT'S THE ONLY THING I SEE MISSING IS IT IS THAT IT'S GOING GREAT THAT WAY, BUT IT'S NOT COMING BACK THIS WAY. THAT'S GOOD FEEDBACK. YEAH, IT IS GOOD FEEDBACK. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS IS WE'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE SOME OF THESE THINGS OUT, RIGHT? YES. BECAUSE IT'S A IT'S A WORKING PARTNERSHIP. IT'S A BRAND NEW PROCESS. AND SO, I MEAN, WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE AN UPDATE IN BI OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YEAH, EXACTLY. OR A BLURB OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE RIGHT THING, BUT I MEAN, YEAH, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. WELL, BECAUSE ALSO YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT MAYBE IS SENSITIVE, RIGHT? SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I WOULD EXPECT TO BE BROUGHT TO A BOARD MEETING. BUT BUT I THINK THE BI WOULD BE A PERFECT THING OF JUST, JUST A VERY HIGH LEVEL TOPICS OR SOMETHING. YOU KNOW, HERE'S, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING TACKLING WHATEVER. I WAS GOING TO SAY, IF YOU GUYS EVEN COULD JUST COMMIT TO THE FIRST TIME COMING SAYING, HERE'S WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR, AND HERE'S WHAT WE'RE FUMBLING THROUGH OR TRYING TO FIGURE OUT OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, THAT MIGHT BE ENOUGH FOR YOU TO ADD SOME VALUABLE QUESTIONS. IF THAT'S YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOUR STRONG ROLE AND SKILL SET IN THE GROUP AND HELP EVERYBODY KIND OF KNOW WHERE TO PLUG IN OR ASK QUESTIONS TO WHERE YOU COULD FIND OUT WHERE TO PLUG IN. SURE. THESE NEW, THESE THINGS IN THEIR INFANCY ARE MESSY, BUT THAT'S A GOOD CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. IT'S A WORK IN PROCESS. YEAH. FOR SURE. OKAY, WE'RE ON THE HOMESTRETCH, FOLKS. AND YOU'VE BEEN SO INCREDIBLE. SO WE ARE GOING TO WE'VE DONE A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT TEAM BUILDING. SO WE'RE ON TO SLIDE 52. IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG, BUT I WANT YOU GUYS, THE NEXT FOUR SLIDES ARE ABOUT YOU REFLECTING PERSONALLY ABOUT YOUR OWN, THE OWN WAY THAT YOU'RE SHOWING UP. YOU GUYS, MOST OF YOU HAVE BEEN ON FOR A LONG TIME. AND SO YOU'VE GOT YOU'RE ASKING STUDENTS TO GROW. YOU'RE ASKING YOUR STAFF TO, TO GROW AND EVOLVE. SO THIS IS REALLY SELF-REFLECTION ON, ON HOW ARE YOU SHOWING UP AND HOW COULD YOU GROW AND EVOLVE? SO THIS IS ABOUT BUILDING PERSONAL CAPACITY AS A BOARD MEMBER. SO EARLY ON, IT'S, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE EASIER BECAUSE YOU GENERALLY RUN ON SOME SKILL SET OR SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE. AND THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS ON THE BOARD, YOU'RE LIKE, OH, I KNOW A LOT ABOUT FINANCE OR, OH, I'M REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT MATH CURRICULUM. AND I DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH. LIKE THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE A LITTLE EASIER AND MORE OBVIOUS. IN THE BEGINNING, BUT HOPEFULLY YOUR PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE IS GROWING. IN THE TIME THAT YOU ARE SITTING ON THE BOARD AND BEING EXPOSED TO SIMILAR THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, [02:50:04] AND AS YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING, ALSO REFINING YOUR PROCESSES. SO THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SHIFT, HOPEFULLY YOU'RE ADDING TO THIS AN ACADEMIC FOCUS, GOALS AND STUDENT LEARNING, WHICH WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT A LOT TONIGHT AND IS THE MAIN JOB. AND THEN YOUR WORK PRACTICES. SO THE TIME YOU'RE SPENDING INVESTING, YOU KNOW, GETTING READY FOR MEETINGS, BEING IN MEETINGS, BEING AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, BEING AT EVENTS. I WANT YOU GUYS JUST TO THINK FOR A COUPLE OF FOR A MINUTE, WHAT AREA ARE YOU EXCELLING AT PERSONALLY AND WHAT AREA COULD YOU MAYBE BE DOING BETTER? AND I PERSONALLY THINK, I MEAN, YOU GUYS HAVE ALL BEEN ON A WHILE. I'VE BEEN ON A WHILE. LIKE IT EBBS AND FLOWS AND LIFE HAPPENS SOMETIMES. AND SOMETIMES THERE'S PARTS OF THIS THAT I'D BE LIKE, WOW, I'M REALLY NAILING IT. AND THERE HAVE BEEN SEASONS OF LIFE WHERE I WAS LIKE YEAH, THAT ONE I WISH I COULD DO OVER AND I COULD HAVE DONE THAT A LITTLE BETTER. SO JUST TAKE A MINUTE AND I WANT YOU JUST TO REFLECT ON WHAT YOU THINK YOU COULD DO BETTER. AND THIS IS GOING TO BE TIED TO YOUR EXIT TICKET, WHICH IS OUR LAST SLIDE. OKAY, SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR EXIT TICKET. AND I JUST WANT YOU GUYS, WE'RE GOING TO SHARE. LINDA, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU GO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACK THIS TIME INSTEAD OF THE BEGINNING OR THE END, BUT I WANT YOU TO SHARE ONE THING THAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO DIFFERENTLY OR ADD TO WHAT YOU DO AT ONE OF YOUR NEXT MEETINGS OR SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO DO DIFFERENTLY TO PREPARE FOR ONE OF YOUR NEXT MEETINGS. HOW COULD YOU GROW? AND IT'S EVERYONE'S EXIT TICKET. SO WHOEVER WANTS TO GO FIRST CAN. AND THEN PARTWAY HALFWAY THROUGH, WE'LL SWITCH TO LINDA. THIS IS ALL PLAY. YEAH. I'M GOING TO ATTEMPT TO MENTION AT LEAST ONE, IF NOT TWO ITEMS THAT I THINK ARE GERMANE TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AT THE NEXT. WOULD YOU CALL BUSINESS MEETING? YEP. OKAY. YEP. AND I DOUBT YOU'RE GOING TO ATTEMPT, LARRY. I FEEL CONFIDENT YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT. NOT FUNNY. FUNNY. NOT FUNNY. ALL RIGHT, WHO WANTS TO GO NEXT? I'LL SAY SOMETHING REAL QUICK. OKAY. GO, JOHNNY. I'M STILL THINKING PERSONALLY. I MEAN, I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD TEN YEARS, AND SO I'M STILL GOING TO TRY TO BUILD ON EACH ONE OF THESE AREAS AND WORK, PRACTICE, ACADEMIC FOCUS AND PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE AND TO CONTINUE TO GROW. I ALWAYS LOOK AT IT THAT ANY BOARD MEMBER THAT COMES ON BOARD THAT THAT FIRST YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO YEARS IS A IS A LEARNING CURVE. AND SO YOU'VE REALLY MISSED AND THEN YOU'RE UP FOR REELECTION AGAIN. SO I THINK THAT THE, THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE HAVE IN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE WORK PRACTICE, ACADEMIC AND ALL THESE THREE CATEGORIES, IT'S HARD TO REALLY FOCUS ON WHAT OUR STATE LEGISLATURES ARE GOING TO DO TO US WITH THE DIRECTION THAT PUBLIC EDUCATION IS GOING TODAY. AND SO THAT I WANT TO FOCUS MORE ON THAT, OF WHAT WE CAN, WHAT I CAN DO PERSONALLY IN OUR COMMUNITY TO HELP ONE GET OUR ADA WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE, MOTIVATING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUR TEACHERS AND WHATNOT THAT ARE HERE AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO THAT WILL PROBABLY BE IN EACH ONE OF THOSE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES TO HELP THIS DISTRICT GROW. WE HAVE A GREAT DISTRICT, AND WE GOT WITH OUR BOND PROGRAM AND THE NEW BUILDINGS THAT WE HAVE COMING FORTH. WE SHOULD SEE AN UPTICK ON EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON IN THIS DISTRICT, AND WE'VE GOT GREAT TEACHERS. OUR TIA IS TREMENDOUSLY IMPROVING THIS YEAR, SO WE HAVE SOME SUPER TEACHERS OUT THERE. SO I WANT TO THAT'S THAT'S I WANT TO I WANT TO HAVE PERSONAL GROWTH IN ALL THREE AREAS BECAUSE BUT IT, YOU KNOW, THOSE STRINGS ATTACHED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE KIND OF GOT ME A STRANGLEHOLD. BUT I'D LIKE TO KEEP MORE ABREAST OF WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING AT THAT LEVEL SO THAT WE CAN FACE IT HEAD ON AND NOT EVEN SKIP A BEAT IN OUR ACADEMIC GROWTH. OKAY. THANKS FOR SHARING THAT. [02:55:01] OKAY. DAPHNE, YOU HAD YOUR MOMENT TO. YEAH. SO I FEEL LIKE I'M COPYING JOHNNY NOW, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN IS SHARING THE STORY. AND AND BUT I HAVE TO SOMETIMES I SHARE IT WITHIN MYSELF ALL THE TIME, BUT DOESN'T GET ANYWHERE. SO I HAVE MADE A CONCERTED EFFORT AND I THINK I'M GOING TO AND I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE AND REALLY TALK ABOUT PUBLIC EDUCATION AND HOW I CALL IT ABOUT KNOCKING DOWN THE MYTHS, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE NARRATIVE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AND THEN YOU HAVE THE REAL TRUTH OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AND HOW IT'S AFFECTING US. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I FEEL VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE THE COMMON PERSON TO ACTUALLY GO OUT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE AND SAY, OKAY, I KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE BEING TOLD, BUT THIS IS REALLY WHAT'S HAPPENING. AND HERE'S, HERE'S THE EFFECT OF IT. SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE KIND OF BEGUN TO DO. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I FEEL COMPELLED TO CONTINUE DOING, BUT AT A MUCH STRONGER, LOUDER VOICE. THANK YOU. MISS LINDA, WE'RE COMING TO YOU. I WANT. TO UNDERSTAND OUR ACADEMICS BETTER. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THEN THERE WERE THREE. SIMPLE. I'M JUST GOING TO WORK ON MY LISTENING SKILLS. OKAY, I LIKE IT. AND REMEMBERING AND FOCUS AND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF. OKAY, FELLAS. I THINK JOHNNY'S COMMENT ABOUT GROWING IN ALL OF THESE AREAS IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON. ESPECIALLY AROUND ACADEMIC FOCUS, I THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MENTIONED EARLIER WITH RESPECT TO WHAT ARE OUR GOALS SORT OF CENTERED ON? AND I KNOW THAT THEY'RE FIXED FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, BUT THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT WE CAN'T STOP PUSHING AND QUESTIONING. AND SO I THINK FOR ME JUST LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ASK BETTER QUESTIONS. OKAY, I LIKE IT. THANK YOU. SIR. I THINK. FOR ME, IT'S, I LOVE THE WAY WE HONOR ALL OF ACADEMICS BECAUSE EVERYBODY IN OUR, OUR ORGANIZATION MATTERS. AND FROM, I MEAN, FROM ESPECIALLY THE ARTS, ATHLETICS YOU DEAL WITH, WITH OUR MATH TEAMS, WE DEAL WITH NATIONAL MERITS. WE DO ALL THAT. BUT THAT'S NOT PART OF OUR GOALS, RIGHT? RIGHT. THERE'S SO MUCH MORE GOING ON THAN THIS. BUT. YES, EXACTLY. AND IF WE COULD FIND A WAY TO HAVE A HEALTHY BALANCE OF COMMUNICATING OUR HIGH EXPECTATIONS AS A DISTRICT AND NOT JUST DOING A REPORT, LIKE THESE ARE OUR GOALS AND WE ARE AT THIS METRIC, AND THIS IS WHAT IT HAS TO BE MORE IN A MEANINGFUL WAY TO, TO DISPLAY THAT WE'RE, WE'RE CREATING THIS ACADEMIC FOCUS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE HONORING ALL OF THESE OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN OUR DISTRICT. BECAUSE IF, IF THOSE THINGS DIDN'T MATTER, THEN WHY ARE WE OFFERING THEM? RIGHT? RIGHT. FROM AG, YOU KNOW, LIKE HOW YOU CAME INTO AG AND I LOVE HOW WELL ROUNDED THE, THE BOARD IS. I, IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS BECAUSE NO TWO OF THESE BOARD MEMBERS ARE ALIKE AND THEY'LL GO UP THERE AND THEY'LL BE AT THE SAME EVENT AND SEE TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY TRY NOT TO REPEAT THEMSELVES. BUT I JUST THINK THAT STRATEGICALLY, I THINK WHAT, WHAT WE MAY HAVE TO DO IS PARTLY JUST REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW THAT COULD LOOK ON OUR BOARD AGENDA. AND WE DO A COLLECTIVE THINK TANK ON HOW WE WANT TO REPORT THAT OUT. SO THAT WAY PEOPLE CAN SEE THE CONNECT, WE CAN CONNECT THE DOTS FOR THE COMMUNITY. I JUST HAVE TO PUT IT TOGETHER, STRATEGICALLY FRAME IT FOR THE BOARD, AND THEN WE CAN MAKE IT PART OF OUR PROCESS. I LOVE THAT BECAUSE THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE MATTERS BEYOND ONLY THE GOALS THAT YOU'VE SET, RIGHT? SOME KIDS ARE NOT COMING TO SCHOOL FOR MATH. SOME KIDS ARE DOING WELL ENOUGH IN MATH TO GO DO THEIR ACTIVITY RIGHT. SO I LOVE YOU TALKING ABOUT THAT, THAT WHOLE EXPERIENCE AND THAT BEING ROBUST FOR EVERYBODY. AND I THINK IT AND I'M SORRY, I'M ON MY SOAPBOX A LITTLE BIT. YOU'RE FINE. AND I THINK IT ENTAILS THE ADVOCACY THAT WE NEED PEOPLE TO GO OUT THERE TO HAVE FAITH IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. [03:00:03] SO THERE HAS TO BE A LAYER THAT WE'RE NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT ACADEMICS, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRUST IN OUR SCHOOLS THAT ARE DOING IT RIGHT. AND IT KIND OF LAYERS EVERYTHING WHAT YOU ALL ARE SAYING. AND IF WE DO IT STRATEGICALLY IT DOESN'T MEAN IT HAS AN ADD ON. I THINK, I THINK LIKE A LOT OF THE BOARD WILL SAY IF WE'RE DOING ALL OF THIS, WHAT ARE WE TAKING AWAY? RIGHT. WELL, ON A BOARD MEETING WE COULD BE ADDING ALL THESE THINGS AND IT GETS DROWNED OUT BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH IN THE BOARD MEETING THAT PEOPLE DON'T EVEN LISTEN IT NEED. IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS, IT NEEDS TO BE IMPACTFUL. AND, AND MAYBE SOME IDEAS. AND ONE OF THE ADA ACTS WILL BE A WORK SESSION ON HOW WE CAN COMMUNICATE THIS AND STRUCTURE IT WITHIN OUR BOARD PROGRAM. AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL. LARRY ALREADY HAD AN IDEA. IT COULD BE PART OF THE REPORT OUTS, BUT THERE COULD BE OTHER WAYS. AND WE GOT BRILLIANT PEOPLE HERE TO GET IT DONE. SO. AND IT'S YOUR MEETING, SO WHY NOT? RIGHT? RIGHT. Y'ALL, IT HAS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. THANK YOU FOR THE REALLY GREAT CONVERSATION AND MAKING IT SO INTERACTIVE AND ENGAGING. THAT IS WHAT MAKES THESE GREAT TO DO. OR MISERABLE TO DO. SO I JUST YOU GUYS ARE AN INCREDIBLE BOARD AND THANKS FOR LETTING ME BE HERE TONIGHT. YOU'RE WELCOME. MISS BENTLEY, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR LEADING THIS TONIGHT AND YOUR LEADERSHIP WITH DISTINCT DISTINCTION. AND THIS IS A GREAT REFLECTION THAT WE CAN TAKE WITH US. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT WE YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HAVE THESE TYPE OF THINGS, EVERYBODY GOING, OH BOY, HERE WE GO. BUT THIS IS OH, I KNOW. YEAH. OH YEAH. BUT THIS HAS BEEN VERY GOOD EYE OPENING, VERY GOOD DISCUSSION. AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU. LET'S GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE GUYS [APPLAUSE] THANKS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK TO ISD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE FINALLY WHERE WE NEED TO BE AT THE END HERE. SO THAT TAKES US TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR EXECUTIVE SESSION. MICHELLE, DO WE HAVE NOTHING? DO I HAVE A MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT? [VI. Adjournment] MOTION TO ADJOURN, MOTION TO ADJOURN. IT IS 7:55, AND WE ARE ADJOURNED. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.