Crockett Independent School District

Crockett ISD Administrative Meeting April 15, 2008

The administrative staff of the Crockett ISD held their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 15 from 9:30am until 11:30am in the board room of the administration building. All campuses and departments were represented except assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.

The administrative staff reviewed the board meeting unofficial minutes.

 The summer school schedule and summer feeding program was discussed. Summer school is Monday-Thursday, June 2-July 3. June 19 is a holiday. The total is 19 days. Students attend from 8:00-12:00. Staff works five hours per day (7:30-12:30). Teacher pay is 25$ per hour, five hours per day at 19 days ($2375). All students will be fed at the new elementary school cafeteria.

 The superintendent reviewed his June schedule. TASB summer leadership is June 11-14. Vacation days are June 15-25. Return to work June 26.

 AMAO was distributed to all campus principals. It must be sent home with all LEP students.

 Banned book public records request from ACLU was reviewed. No banned books reported.

 Mrs. Pasho was selected for the TAKS review committee.

 The honor graduate certificate was passed on to the high school.

 We spent a considerable amount of time sharing dates for end of the year activities.

 The employee recognition breakfast is scheduled for Saturday, May 31 from 8-10 in the high school commons    area.

 The student fitness testing in grades 3-12 was discussed. TETN is set up in the elementary school for Friday, April 18 from 1-4.

 We discussed the services provided to the community through the Methodist Children’s Home

 The Sam Houston State cooperative program arrangement was reviewed. We have at least one student teacher scheduled for next year.

 After starting a discussion of the district’s technology program, we decided to schedule a meeting with the campus principals, technology director, superintendent and assistant superintendent on Thursday, April 17 at 10:00am in the board room.

 We surveyed all campus principals to assess Character Education program implementation for the annual TEA survey.

 The deadline for teacher transfer requests has passed. The superintendent has the authority to reassign people in the best interest of the school district. Due to reduced enrollment and other staffing concerns, we will have to reassign some certified staff members.

 We must prepare a PBM/ISAM response for the data validation monitoring system.

 The superintendent forwarded draft the TASB model student handbook template to all campus principals.

 The UIL organizational meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14 at 5:00pm at Palestine Westwood.

 The dropout prevention plan was submitted to TEA and approved.

 The attendance audit corrective action plan was submitted to TEA and approved.

 We reviewed the preliminary ISS operating guidelines. We will schedule a future meeting with the consultants for further revisions.

 Portrait of the graduate campus plans are awaiting final approval from R4.

 We reviewed and discussed the custodial services study.

 The local Sears store wants to make a donation to the school district. We discussed possible options.

 We reviewed access to on-line resources made available by the state.

 The ESC VI services planning meeting is scheduled for April 22 in Huntsville.

 The Title I planning meeting will be held in Crockett on May 8. Preliminary planning amounts have not been released at this time.

 We discussed testing arrangements for the upcoming TAKS.

 The presentation regarding teen pregnancy at the meeting sponsored by the health department was discussed. We explored a possible implementation schedule.

 The class size waiver for fourth grade was approved by TEA. The notification requirement was passed on to the principal.

 The district scholarship fund policy was reviewed.

 We discussed issues to be addressed at the final site based committee meeting including staff development plans and student dress code. All staff development options will be reviewed before the upcoming meeting scheduled for May 6, 2008.

 The business manager distributed updated budget reports and discussed financial issues.

 The special education director discussed CPI training requirements.

 The personnel director distributed job description forms and reasonable assurance lists for non-certified staff members.