[00:00:03] THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LAMAR CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS CALLED TO ORDER AT 4 P.M.. [1. Call to order and establishment of a quorum] THIS IS A SPECIAL BOARD MEETING BEING BEING HELD ON JUNE 25TH, 2024. WE HAVE A QUORUM WITH SIX MEMBERS PRESENT WITH TRUSTEE HUBENAK ABSENT. WE WILL NOW HAVE REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS ON THE FUTURE ACTION ITEMS. [3.A. Discussion of RFQ #18-2024RL for District strategic plan] DOCTOR NIMITZ. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES. WE HAVE TONIGHT WE HAVE SEVERAL FIRMS THAT HAVE COME IN AND TALK ABOUT OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AND THE SERVICES THEY OFFER TO YOU. AND SO FIRST WE HAVE JG CONSULTING FIRM BEFORE THEY COME UP, TRUSTEE WELCH, WHO CHAIRED THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE, HAS A FEW WORDS. AND THEN I'LL CALL JJ AND HIS TEAM UP AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS AND THEN WE'LL GET ROLLING. HI. WELCOME. I WORKED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ALONG WITH TRUSTEE BOX AND MR. LAMBERT. WE WERE ON A STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND WE HAD WE WORKED WITH THEM TO COME UP WITH THE CRITERIA OF WHICH WE PUT OUT TO THE PUBLIC, AND ANYBODY COULD SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATIONS. AND WE RECEIVED ALL THOSE APPLICATIONS, WHITTLED IT DOWN TO THE BEST, AND YOU MADE THE CUT. SO WE'RE EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO PRESENT TO US AS A BOARD AND AND TO THE ADMINISTRATION. SO WELCOME. ALL RIGHT. SO MR. GARY, YOU GUYS CAN COME ON UP. YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES FOR A PRESENTATION, AND THEN WE'LL SAVE THE LAST TEN MINUTES FOR A Q&A. THERE IS A LAPTOP RIGHT HERE ON THIS DESK THAT HAS A TIMER ON IT FOR YOU. SO YOU GUYS CAN LOOK AT IT AND YOU CAN SEE HOW YOU HOW YOU HOW YOU PROGRESS ALONG THE TIME. ALL RIGHT. SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. DOCTOR NIVENS, DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. GOOD TO SEE MANY FAMILIAR FACES THIS AFTERNOON. AND GOOD TO IN PERSON, MEET SOME OF THE NEW FACES OF THE BOARD. MY NAME IS JAMES GUERRA. I'M THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF JG CONSULTING. IN FULL DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY, WE ARE THE FIRM THAT ALSO REPRESENTED THE SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH TO RECRUIT YOUR WONDERFUL SUPERINTENDENT, DOCTOR NIVENS. SO IT'S VERY SURREAL TO BE BACK HERE THIS AFTERNOON. AND BEFORE YOU TO DISCUSS ANOTHER SERVICE THAT WE OFFER AS A FULL SERVICE CONSULTANCY, WHICH IS OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING, SUPPORT AND PROCESS. INDULGE ME FOR A SECOND. I'M GONNA SEE IF THIS. OH. ALL RIGHT, THAT WOULD HELP. I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE TWO MEMBERS OF THE TEAM THAT ARE JOINING ME THIS AFTERNOON. SO EVERYONE THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN WILL SERVE AS FORMAL BOOTS ON THE GROUND, ENGAGING WITH YOU, THE COMMUNITY, OTHER STAKEHOLDERS, BOTH INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY. I WILL ALSO SERVE AS A CONSULTANT WITH BOOTS ON THE GROUND HERE LOCALLY, JUST DUE TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, OUR BANDWIDTH AND OUR EXPERIENCE OF THIS WONDERFUL DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY. WE DO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT BRAIN TRUST BOTH LOCALLY AND REGIONALLY ACROSS THE STATE. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE DOCTOR SCRIBNER AND HOLLY MARIA FLYNN VILLASECA TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES. AND THEN WE'LL WE'LL ADVANCE THROUGH THIS REALLY QUICKLY. ARE YOU? GOOD AFTERNOON, SUPERINTENDENT. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE. PRESENT WITH YOU THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MY NAME IS HOLLY MARIA FLYNN VILASECA. I AM FOREVER EDUCATOR BASED OUT OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, AND A FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. I CURRENTLY SERVE ON THE METRO BOARD AS WELL, AND VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND MAKING SURE THAT AS PART OF THIS TEAM THAT YOU HAVE WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT STRATEGIC PLANNING, AS YOU KNOW, IS KEY TO MAKING SURE THAT SUCCESS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE IN THE DISTRICT. AND SO WITH YOU HERE TODAY, ALONG WITH JAMES GUERRA AND ALSO DOCTOR SCRIBNER, THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS KENT SCRIBNER, AND I AM A FORMER SUPERINTENDENT WHO SAT IN THAT SEAT FOR 20 YEARS. SO I, TOO, HAVE THE NECESSARY SCAR TISSUE TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU ALL DO AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING A VISION, BUILDING A MISSION. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF THAT IS TO IMPLEMENT THE WORDS ON THE WALL ARE FANTASTIC, BUT WITHOUT IMPLEMENTATION, THEY THEY FALL SHORT. SO I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING TO DEVELOP A NEW A NEW PERSPECTIVE AND A NEW DIRECTION. AND I'M VERY, VERY FORTUNATE TO BE HERE. I WAS A SUPERINTENDENT AND IN ARIZONA FOR 13 YEARS FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR SEVEN YEARS. AND RECENTLY I WAS SHARING WITH DOCTOR NIVENS THAT THAT I'M NOT RETIRED. I'M REPURPOSED AND REALLY EAGER TO CONTINUE TO SERVE IN THIS ROLE AS AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHERS HELPING HELPING SCHOOLS PREPARE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH. APPRECIATE IT. THE OTHER MEMBERS, YOU MAY RECALL AND HAVE HAD THE DISTINCT PLEASURE OF ALSO WORKING WITH MR. FRALEY. HE'S A LOCALLY BASED IN FULSHER. HE SERVES ON A BANK BOARD. SO UNFORTUNATELY, HE'S HERE IN SPIRIT TONIGHT, BUT NOT HERE PHYSICALLY. [00:05:02] BUT HE SENDS HIS REGARDS. DOCTOR TELLY IS SUPERINTENDENT EMERITUS IN DELL VALLEY ISD CURRENTLY. BUT ON HER BACK NINE AND AND ABOUT TO ALSO BE A REPURPOSED SUPERINTENDENT LIKE OUR FRIEND DOCTOR SCRIBNER. AND THE LAST BUT NOT LEAST MISS ELLENS IS A FORMER TRUSTEE WITH THE AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND I CURRENTLY SERVE ON THE AUSTIN ED FUND BOARD AND HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH AMBER NOW THAT SHE'S A FORMER TRUSTEE. SO WE'RE ALL VERY EXCITED TO POTENTIALLY SERVE YOU IN THIS CAPACITY. SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS PRETTY QUICKLY AND JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS. I'M NOT GOING TO READ ANY OF THESE STATEMENTS VERBATIM, BUT AS IT RELATES TO THE MISSION OF YOUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, THERE ARE TWO WORDS ON THE SCREEN THAT I'LL UNDERSCORE AND HIGHLIGHT. THE FIRST BEING EMPOWERING. SO EMPOWERMENT IS IMPORTANT. AND THEN ALSO THE COLLABORATIVE PIECE. SO COLLABORATION IS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SPEND SOME OF OUR TIME TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON. VALUING THE JOURNEY. IT STARTS WITH YOU AS AS A BOARD AND AS A DISTRICT AND AS STAFF. WHAT WE WOULD SUGGEST AND RECOMMEND AS A WAY OF EXAMPLE, TO KICK START THE PROCESS, ALTON'S SERVES AS A AS A GOVERNANCE COACH. AND SO IF YOU'RE UNAWARE, THROUGH THIS PROCESS, YOU COULD ATTAIN SOME OF YOUR CERTIFICATION HOURS. IF WE WERE TO CONSIDER HAVING A SOME SORT OF BOARD CABINET AND CONSULTING TEAM RETREAT TO ESTABLISH SOME NORMS, SOME EXPECTATIONS, SOME BOUNDARIES, THAT YOU HAVE SOME HIGH LEVEL VISIONS FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO FULFILL BY WAY OF OF COMPLETING THE STRATEGIC PLAN. SO DURING THE JOURNEY FOR US IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. OFTENTIMES WHAT WE SEE WITH OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT PARTNERS IS THAT YOU CREATE A FIVE YEAR PLAN, AND FOR WHATEVER REASONS THERE MAY BE, THAT PLAN SITS ON A SHELF AND COLLECTS DUST. AS A CEO AND A CAREER ENTREPRENEUR, I CAN TELL YOU THAT ACTION IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT PUTTING THE WORK INTO ACTION. AND AS KENT SAID, THE IMPLEMENTATION. IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THE WORDS ON THE WALL, BUT WE WANT TO HELP YOU GALVANIZE AND COALESCE AROUND YOUR MISSION AND YOUR VISION TO ENSURE THAT ALL OF THE OUTCOMES THAT YOU ASPIRE AND THE CELEBRATIONS THAT YOU SEE IN YOUR MIND'S EYE COME TO FRUITION. DESIGNING THE PROCESS, MUCH LIKE THE WORK THAT WE DID TOGETHER IN THE PAST WHEN RECRUITING THE WONDERFUL DOCTOR NIVENS. WE'LL WORK BACKWARDS. SO IF YOU HAVE A TIMELINE IN MIND WHEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE STRATEGIC PLAN COMPLETE, WE'LL ESTABLISH THE MAJOR MILESTONES WITH THE BOARD'S BLESSING AND THE DIRECTIVES THAT YOU OFFER TO US. SO IF YOU RECALL, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF WORK THAT GOES INTO OUR COLLABORATION IN THAT EMPOWERMENT THAT I ALLUDED TO EARLIER. WE'RE GOING TO ESTABLISH OUR NORMS TOGETHER. THE EXPECTATIONS, THE MAJOR MILESTONES, BEGINNING WITH WHO DO WE ENGAGE IN THE COMMUNITY BOTH INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY. SO IF YOU RECALL, ALSO DURING THE SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH, WE DID MOST OF THE WORK IN A HYBRID FASHION BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC AND COVID, BUT YET NO STONE WENT UNTURNED. WE CREATED A HYBRID SETTING AT MANY OF YOUR VERTICAL FEEDERS, AT YOUR HIGH SCHOOLS, WHERE WE HAD IN-PERSON GATHERINGS WITH A BLEND OF VIRTUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR COMMUNITY TO MEET. NOW, WITHOUT ASSUMING THAT THAT TYPE OF EXPECTATION WOULD STILL HOLD TRUE TODAY, THERE'S QUITE A BIT THAT WE COULD ACCOMPLISH WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF OUR TECHNOLOGY. WHAT YOU EXPERIENCED THEN AND WHAT WE HAVE NOW HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY OVER TIME. WE ARE NOW THE PROPRIETARY OWNERS OF SOME SOFTWARE. OUR SURVEYING TOOL HAS GREATLY ENHANCED OVER TIME. WE CAN NOW SURVEY IN AS MANY LANGUAGES, IN REAL TIME AS YOU DEEM NECESSARY, AND PROVIDE YOU WITH REAL TIME FEEDBACK. SO SHOULD ANY OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY OR NOT OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY FOR FOR FOLKS IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO MEET WITH US IN PERSON? THEY'LL HAVE PLENTY AND AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH US VIRTUALLY. RESPONDING TO ANONYMOUS SURVEYS, PROVIDING US WITH RELEVANT FEEDBACK. WE'RE GOING TO CREATE A SUMMATIVE REPORT AND PROVIDE YOU WITH A SYNOPSIS OF WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM YOUR DIFFERENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BOTH INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY. SO WE FEEL IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE EVERYBODY IN THIS PROCESS. TRANSPARENCY AND AN OPEN DIALOG IS IMPORTANT. WE'LL ALSO GUARANTEE THAT WE'LL HELP YOU CREATE A MEANINGFUL WEB PAGE OR WEB PAGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS THAT WILL LIVE AND BREATHE ON THE LCISD WEBSITE. SO THAT WAY, IN THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPARENCY, EVERYTHING IS THERE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW YOUR 2018 2019 STRATEGIC PLAN. THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK THAT WENT INTO IT. THERE'S QUITE A FEW ARTIFACTS UPLOADED TO YOUR WEBSITE. [00:10:04] THERE'S A LOT OF AREAS OF CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENTS SINCE THEN. AND NOW WITH LIKE ANYTHING, WITH TIME, THINGS CHANGE. SO WHAT WAS NEEDED THEN IS PROBABLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IS NEEDED TODAY. TO SUPPORT THE STUDENTS THAT YOU SERVE. SO LEANING INTO THE JOURNEY I REFERENCED AS AN EXAMPLE, HAVING A SOME SORT OF RETREAT, IF I MAY USE THAT WORD, WHERE THE BOARD, THE SENIOR CABINET DOCTOR NEVINS AND HIS TEAM AND ANYONE YOU FEEL IS NECESSARY TO PARTICIPATE, WE CAN ESTABLISH THOSE NORMS AND THOSE VALUES TOGETHER AND THEN CREATE EXPECTATIONS AND WHAT EXPECTATIONS YOU HAVE OF US AND THE CONSULTING TEAM. SO SO THAT JOURNEY STARTS WITH YOU AND YOUR STAFF AND THEN UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT IS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH. AND OUR IMPACT, AGAIN, REALLY BOILS DOWN TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY WHOM YOU SERVE. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE STUDENTS THAT YOU ARE ALL HERE TO SERVE. SOME EXAMPLES OF SOME PAST WORK. I ALSO HAVE A HANDOUT THAT I'LL LEAVE WITH YOU TO, TO TAKE A DEEPER DIVE INTO SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS THAT WE'VE CREATED. SOUTHWEST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS KIND OF URBAN SUBURBAN SAN ANTONIO AREA. JUST SHY OF 15,000 STUDENTS, I CAN TELL YOU AT A HIGH LEVEL. THAT THAT SUPERINTENDENT AT THE TIME, DOCTOR VERSTUYFT, WHO HAD BEEN THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR, I WANT TO SAY, 12 YEARS, WAS A CAREER EDUCATOR IN THE DISTRICT. WANTED TO CREATE A BASELINE AND EXPECTATIONS FOR HIS SUCCESSOR. HE HAD ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS PLANNING TO RETIRE. SO THIS WAS A TOTAL REFRESH ON THE PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLAN THAT HE AND HIS TEAM HAD CREATED. WE TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT THEIR GOALS, THEIR MISSION, AND THEIR VISION STATEMENT TO SEE IF THAT NEEDED A REFRESHMENT. BUT WHAT HE ULTIMATELY WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH FOR HIS SUCCESSOR IS TO CREATE A MEANINGFUL EVALUATION TOOL FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT, BECAUSE ONE DID NOT EXIST. SO WE CREATED A NUMBER OF BENCHMARKS, WHICH YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ON THE NEXT SCREENSHOT. EXCUSE ME, THAT'S NOT ON THE SCREENSHOT, BUT I DO HAVE IN THE HANDOUTS. BUT THE EVALUATION TOOL WAS DONE FROM SCRATCH. AND THE REASON I LIKE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU IS IT'S A VERY ARDUOUS PROCESS AND IT CAN SEEM, ON THE SURFACE LEVEL, VERY DAUNTING. AND I DON'T SAY THAT TO BE AN ALARMIST, BECAUSE I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO SCARE YOU. AND THIS THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT GOES INTO THE STRATEGIC PLANNING, AND WE WILL BE YOUR DEDICATED CONSULTANTS. SO THIS WORK IS NOT GOING TO BE LEFT ON THE DESK OF DOCTOR NIVINS AND HIS STAFF TO FULFILL. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL OWN AND THAT WE WILL COLLABORATE WITH YOU IN DEVELOPING ALONG THE WAY. SOUTHWEST ISD STRATEGIC STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS IN ITS ENTIRETY TOOK ROUGHLY ABOUT NINE MONTHS. THE REASON IT TOOK A BIT LONGER FOR THEM IS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVALUATION TOOL IN RUBRIC. SO I DON'T WANT TO ASSUME THAT'S SOMETHING YOU WOULD NEED. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF OUR OUR DEPTH OF CUSTOMIZATION, THAT'S HOW FAR WE WENT INTO THE STRATEGIC PLANNING WITH THEM. CARMEN ISD IS ANOTHER RECENT EXAMPLE. THERE ARE RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUTSIDE OF MIDLAND. THEY'RE KIND OF OUT IN THE OIL AND GAS COUNTRY FOR FAMILIAR WITH THAT PART OF TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS SPECIFICALLY. THEY HAD ZERO MISSION STATEMENT AND ZERO VISION OR VALUE. SO IT WAS TRULY CREATED FROM SCRATCH. SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS JUST THE OVERVIEW. THIS IS JUST THE HIGH LEVEL ONE PAGER THAT THEY USED FOR MARKETING AND BRANDING. THIS ISN'T THE FULL PLAN. IF YOU'D LIKE ACCESS TO THE FULL PLAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY SHARE THAT WITH YOU. THIS EXAMPLE IS FOR A CHARTER MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION IN JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA. SO WE'RE DOING THIS WORK ACROSS THE US ALSO VERY SIMILAR TO KERMIT. THEY DID NOT HAVE A BASELINE STRATEGIC PLAN. WE CREATED ALL OF THE GOALS AND THE PRIORITIES IN COLLABORATION WITH THEIR SUPERINTENDENT AND THEIR A NATIONAL CMO. SO WE HAD TWO STATES THAT WE WERE REPRESENTING OTHELLO'S IN REGARD TO THEIR STRATEGIC PLANNING. SO I BELIEVE IT WAS IDAHO AND IN LOUISIANA AND THEIR PROCESS WAS RATHER INTENSE, JUST CONSIDERING WE WERE WORKING FROM SCRATCH. NOW, THE UPSIDE HERE WITHIN LAMAR CONSOLIDATED, YOU HAVE A PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLAN. WE'LL NEED TO REVISIT SOME OF THOSE GOALS AND THE OBJECTIVES YOU'VE ESTABLISHED AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT ISN'T WORKING. BUT NO ONE WILL KNOW THIS COMMUNITY BETTER THAN YOU. SO WE'RE GOING TO SEEK YOUR INPUT AND YOUR COUNSEL AS WE BEGIN TO PROVIDE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES. AND THAT SHOULD CONCLUDE OUR BRIEF OVERVIEW. SO IT'S A LOT TO UNPACK. AGAIN I JUST WANT TO CONCLUDE WITH OUR PRESENTATION THAT ON THE SURFACE LEVEL, IT MAY SEEM LIKE A DAUNTING TASK, BUT YOU HAVE A DEDICATED TEAM, A BRAIN TRUST OF BOTH EXPERIENCED, RETIRED, RECENTLY RETIRED SUPERINTENDENTS REPURPOSED AS DOCTOR SCRIBNER LIKES TO SAY, FORMER TRUSTEES, CURRENT TRUSTEES, [00:15:07] MYSELF. WE'RE DOING THIS ACROSS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THERE ARE 20 OTHER CONSULTANTS WHO WOULD CERTAINLY HELP FROM THE SIDELINES. IN OUR BENCH, WE HAVE 20 CONSULTANTS IN TEXAS WITH A FULL TIME STAFF. EXCUSE ME, STAFF BASED IN GEORGETOWN, WHERE I RESIDE. SO OUR HEADQUARTERS IS IN GEORGETOWN. BUT WE'RE DOING WORK ACROSS THE STATE. SO I THINK YOU'LL YOU'LL FEEL ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING US HERE IN PERSON QUITE A BIT. ANY QUESTIONS THAT WE CAN ANSWER THIS AFTERNOON. AND I'LL INVITE MY TEAM TO CHIME IN TO. THANKS. I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. ONE AND I DID READ YOUR FULL PROPOSAL THAT YOU SENT. IT'S BEEN ABOUT SIX WEEKS, THOUGH, BECAUSE THE HOW HOW MUCH OF A PRESENCE WILL YOU GUYS HAVE DURING THIS PROCESS? BOOTS ON THE GROUND HERE IN THE DISTRICT. DO YOU ANTICIPATE. JUST GIVE ME A ROUGH ESTIMATE. YEAH. SO WITHOUT HAVING A FORMAL DIRECTIVE, I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK THAT I ALLUDED TO THAT CAN TAKE ANYWHERE FROM THREE WEEKS, FOUR WEEKS, UP TO SIX WEEKS. YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE ANY ASSUMPTIONS. AND BEING THAT IT'S THE SUMMER TIME FRAME WITH FAMILIES BEING OUT OF, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS BEING OUT FOR THE SUMMER, PEOPLE TAKING VACATIONS, YOU MIGHT BE PLANNING TRAVEL, PERSONAL TRAVELS AND WHATEVER THE REASONS MAY BE, WE WANT TO HONOR PEOPLE'S AVAILABILITY. SO IF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED, WE CAN CERTAINLY CONSIDER EXTENDING THAT WORK INTO THE TRADITIONAL SCHOOL YEAR AFTER SCHOOL BEGINS. SO WE CAN BE HERE AS OFTEN AS YOU ASK AND AS LITTLE AS AS YOU WANT US HERE. WE'LL MAXIMIZE OUR TIME REMOTELY. BUT I ANTICIPATE THAT OUR TEAM. WHICH IS WHY I'VE CHERRY PICKED YOU KNOW, FIVE OTHER CONSULTANTS TO WORK WITH ME BECAUSE I, I FULLY ANTICIPATE THIS WILL BE A VERY INTENSIVE PROCESS AND REQUIRE OUR OUR PRESENCE. AND IF I MAY, JAMES IT WOULD BE MY EXPECTATION THAT WE ARE HERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND NOT JUST KIND OF COMING IN AND LEAVING. THE WAY I VIEW SCHOOL COMMUNITIES IS YOU HAVE TWO COMMUNITIES. YOU HAVE A YOU HAVE AN INTERNAL COMMUNITY, YOUR STAFF, FACULTY, STAFF, ADMINISTRATION, THE EXTERNAL COMMUNITY, PARENTS, BUSINESSES, FAITH LEADERS, ALL OF THAT. SO IT WOULD BE MY, MY PERSPECTIVE THAT THAT WE WOULD BE WORKING IN THE MORNINGS, DURING THE DAYTIME WITH THOSE WHO CAN ATTEND MEETINGS THAT THAT AT THAT TIME AND THEN CERTAINLY HAVING EVENING MEETINGS COMMUNITY FORUMS AND THAT TYPE OF THING IN PERSON. WE WOULD DO IT IN, IN WE CERTAINLY HAVE ENGLISH AND SPANISH SPEAKERS. AND IF THERE WERE, THERE WERE NEED FOR, FOR OTHER, OTHER LANGUAGES, WE CERTAINLY CAN PROVIDE THOSE RESOURCES AS WELL. I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION, BUT I'M GOING TO YIELD SINCE I KNOW WE'RE ALONG WITH THAT, WITH WHAT YOU WERE JUST MENTIONING FOR THE TWO THAT ACCOMPANIED CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOUR SPECIFIC ROLES WOULD BE DURING THESE MEETINGS? WILL YOU BE LEADING? WILL YOU BE BEHIND THE SCENES, LISTENING, TAKING NOTES, WHAT SPECIFIC JOB DUTIES Y'ALL WILL BE DOING DURING THIS? SO IT JUST IT DEPENDS WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE PROCESS. I THINK A LOT OF IT IS A LOT OF LISTENING AND AND GOING BACK AND INTERPRETING AND SHARING WHAT WE'RE FINDING WITH YOU SO THAT WE HAVE ONGOING DIALOG AND INTERACTION, AND WE CAN TRANSLATE THAT AND MAKE IT MAKE IT SURE IT MAKES IT INTO THE PLAN. I'M JUST DOWN THE ROAD. I'M I'M IN THE ENERGY CORRIDOR PART OF HOUSTON, SO I'M ABOUT 30 MINUTES AWAY FROM HERE. AND IT CAN BE AVAILABLE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD. AND BASED ON WHAT THE TIMELINE AND THE PROJECT AND YOUR PLANS ARE. I'M ALSO SPEAK SPANISH. SO IF THERE'S A NEED TO HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS IN SPANISH, IT WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO DO THAT AS WELL. ANY ADDITIONAL OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT IN THAT REGARD? I'M ALSO AN ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST AND HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE LEADING THIS KIND OF WORK. YOU WON'T FIND TOO MANY OF US IN THIS SPACE, BUT HAVING ACTUALLY A STUDIED THIS ALONG WITH PRACTICAL WORK, LEADING THIS AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER AND IN OTHER LEADERSHIP CAPACITIES. AND SO THE SPECIFIC ROLE THAT YOU ASKED ABOUT MY, MY PERSPECTIVE, MY VISION IS THAT WE WOULD BE FACILITATING LARGE GROUP MEETINGS. IN SOME CASES, YOU'RE READY FOR 100 PEOPLE AND TEN PEOPLE SHOW UP. IN OTHER CASES YOU YOU PREPARE FOR A SMALLER GROUP AND THE ROOM IS PACKED. AND SO WE WANT TO BE FLEXIBLE THERE. BUT WE WOULD BE FACILITATING THOSE MEETINGS. WE WOULD BE DOCUMENTING EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AND THEN AND THEN FOLLOWING UP HELPING KIND OF TO, TO SUMMARIZE AND DEBRIEF AND, AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK SO THAT YOU ALL CAN BUILD, BUILD A PLAN MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR WITH OUR ASSISTANCE. IT WOULD BE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPATION. THERE ARE TWO OF AS I LIKE TO SAY, THE BRAIN TRUST. SO I HAVE CHIEF EVANGELISTS ALL OVER. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, HOLLY MENTIONED THAT SHE'S BILINGUAL AND ALSO IS FLUENT SPANISH. [00:20:02] SO AS DOCTOR SCRIVENER. SO YOU KNOW, WE'LL LEVERAGE OUR DIFFERENT SKILL SETS TO MAXIMIZE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN PERSON, NOT JUST IN PERSON. BUT IF YOU FEEL THAT THERE'S AN APPROPRIATENESS TO FACILITATE MEETINGS VIRTUALLY LARGE OR SMALL, WE'RE GOING TO HELP CREATE HOMOGENEOUS GROUPS. SO LIKE YOU DID WITH YOUR YOUR PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLAN, I NOTICED THAT YOU HAD COMMITTEES AND YOU HAD DIFFERENT GROUPINGS. SO VERY SIMILAR TO OUR WORK TOGETHER IN THE PAST. WE CAN CREATE GROUPS. SO WE TALKED ABOUT INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS. WE, WE HELD PRINCIPLE BASED MEETINGS. WE HELD AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL IN ELEMENTARY, YOU KNOW, AS AN EXAMPLE, STUDENT GROUP MEETINGS. IT'S IMPORTANT TO HEAR FROM YOUR STUDENTS. SO WITH WITH THE BLESSING OF THE BOARD, IF YOU HAVE CERTAIN STUDENT GROUPS AND SUBPOPULATIONS YOU'D LIKE FOR US TO VISIT WITH, AGAIN, NO STONE GOES UNTURNED. I ANTICIPATE, JUST LIKE DOCTOR SCRIBNER ARTICULATED, WE'RE GOING TO SPEND SEVERAL CONSECUTIVE DAYS PER WEEK HERE. NOW, THE NUMBER OF WEEKS, I THINK WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE BOARD, AND WE WORK AT THE WILL OF THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY. SO OUR DIRECTIVES ARE TO, YOU KNOW, TO HEAR FROM YOU AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE. AND SO DO YOU ALL DO ANYTHING LIKE IN CLASS OBSERVATIONS LIKE DO YOU DO LIKE A CURRENT STATE OF WHERE WE ARE AS A DISTRICT BEFORE WE SEE WHERE ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID TALK ABOUT AS A TEAM INTERNALLY AS WE'RE PREPARING FOR THIS AND THIS WAS A SUGGESTION OFFERED BY MR. FRALEY, WHO'S NOT HERE THIS EVENING, BUT HE'S THE PAST SUPERINTENDENT OF THE KATY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND HE SHARED HIS EXPERIENCES DURING HIS LAST, I GUESS, FEW YEARS WITH KATY. THEY DID SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING WITH AND THEY CREATED DIVISIONS AS CAMPUS WITH THE PRINCIPALS SERVING AS LIKE CAMPUS LEADS AND TAKING DISCRETION AND AUTHORITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN CAMPUS BASED PLAN. NOW, THE DISTRICT HAD ITS KIND OF HOLISTIC STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT CAMPUSES TOOK OWNERSHIP, LED BY THE PRINCIPALS. SO IF YOU FEEL THE PRINCIPALS WOULD BE OPEN TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AGAIN, WE WOULD DEFER TO YOU INTO WHAT YOU RECOMMEND AS A BEST PRACTICE OF WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR YOU IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN LEARN. AS HOLLY WAS SAYING, WE'RE GOING TO DO A LOT OF LISTENING AND LEARNING. BUT IF YOU FEEL THAT THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE AND SOMETHING YOU WOULD ALL LIKE, MOST CERTAINLY WE CAN. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU ALL HAVE DONE IN THE PAST? WITH KERMIT? YES. NOW, KERMIT, IT'S A VERY SMALL ORGANIZATION. SO IT WAS IT WAS EASY BECAUSE OF THEIR ADA. I MEAN, THERE'S LIKE A THOUSAND STUDENTS IN THAT COMMUNITY, SOUTHWEST ISD, WE LED THEIR STRATEGIC PLANNING DURING THE PANDEMIC, SO WE JUST WEREN'T GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. MOST OF OUR IN-PERSON MEETINGS WERE DONE WHOLE GROUP, LIKE AN AUDITORIUM WHERE THINGS COULD BE WHERE WE COULD ALL BE SPACED PHYSICALLY. BUT I THINK DOCTOR SCRIBNER WANTS TO ADD SOMETHING, BUT WE COULD. YEAH. AND AND TO YOUR POINT YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. AND I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING VERY, VERY REVEALING ABOUT REAL TIME IN CLASSROOM WHEN STUDENTS ARE THERE LIVE NOT ONLY LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH REGARD TO TEACHING AND LEARNING, BUT ALSO CLIMATE AND CULTURE THAT THAT SAYS ABSOLUTE SAYS A LOT WHEN PRINCIPALS VISIT CLASSROOMS, THAT I CAN TELL WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT CLASSROOM WITHIN, WITHIN MOMENTS. SAME THING WHEN YOU VISIT A SCHOOL, YOU CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND THE THE CLIMATE AND CULTURE AND THE AND THE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS BEYOND, BEYOND THE TEST SCORES. OF KIND OF A VAGUE QUESTION. A LOT OF LUCK. A LOT OF FOLKS, LIKE YOU SAID, HAVE A FIVE YEAR PLAN, AND THEY PUT IT ON THE SHELF AND THEY MAYBE FOLLOW IT FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS. HELP US. WHAT COULD WE DO TO PREVENT FROM DOING THAT OURSELVES? WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PITFALLS THAT YOU'VE SEEN WITH ORGANIZATIONS THAT THAT HAPPENS? WHY DOES THAT HAPPEN? AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO TO NOT DO THAT? YEAH, I THINK I MEAN, YOU CAN YOU CAN ATTRIBUTE A SHIFT TO MANY, MANY THINGS, RIGHT? YOU YOU PRIORITIZE DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES OR GOALS. PERHAPS YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THINGS CHANGE. BUT I THINK AS, AS STRONG AS YOUR, YOUR CABINET AND YOUR SENIOR LEADERS ARE, I THINK TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THIS WORK AND MAINTAINING THAT OWNERSHIP FOR FROM YEAR ONE TO YEAR TWO TO YEAR THREE AND SO FORTH, THAT THAT SUCCESSION PLAN CONTINUES. AND I THINK THE CONTINUATION OF OF REVISITING THE PLAN, REFINING IF NECESSARY IS ALSO IMPORTANT. NOW, WHAT I WOULD SAY PUBLICLY IS THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOVE YOU AND LEAVE YOU, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T ANTICIPATE YOU CREATING A AND DOING ALL OF THIS HARD WORK AND, AND, YOU KNOW, SHELVING THE PLAN WITHOUT ANY FURTHER YOU KNOW, VISITS FROM US OR FROM, FROM FROM YOU OR YOUR STAFF. SO WHAT OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU IS TO BE A LONG TERM PARTNER. [00:25:02] EVEN AFTER THIS IS FINISHED. YOU HAVE US AT YOUR DISPOSAL. WE HAVE LOCAL PRESENCE. YOU HAVE ALL OF US FULLY DEDICATED AND COMMITTED TO HELPING YOU ACHIEVE ALL OF THE VARIOUS GOALS THAT YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH THROUGH THIS STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS. SO AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, THINGS, THINGS, YOU KNOW, CAN CHANGE, YOU KNOW, CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. I THINK NO ONE WILL DISAGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT. BUT HONORING THE COMMITMENTS THAT YOU SET FORTH IN THIS PLAN, WHATEVER THAT PLAN LOOKS LIKE, IS, IS HOLDING NOT ONLY US ACCOUNTABLE, BUT I THINK ALL OF OUR OUR COLLECTIVE EFFORTS ACCOUNTABLE. SO THAT WAY YOU'RE ENSURING YOU KNOW YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL. YEAH, PLEASE. IT HAS TO BE A LIVING DOCUMENT, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE HAVE TO REVISIT IT. IT HAS TO BE PART OF THIS BOARD MEETING. YOU NEED TO HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE. WE NEED TO HOLD COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABLE. COMMUNITY NEEDS TO HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE. IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND AND PART OF WHAT WE DO. WHATEVER WE WHATEVER YOU DEVELOP IN THIS COMMUNITY THE INTERNAL EXTERNAL COMMUNITY DEVELOP, WE NEED TO SEE IT AS PART OF YOUR BOARD MEETINGS, AS PART OF YOUR AGENDAS, AS PART OF YOUR, YOUR, YOUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS AS WELL. LIVING DOCUMENT THAT CONTINUES ON. AND I WOULD ARGUE A FIVE YEAR PLAN IS GREAT. AND THEN AFTER YEAR ONE WE TALK ABOUT EXTENDING ONE YEAR, ONE YEAR AND ONE YEAR. SO SO YOU'RE ALWAYS HAVE A ALWAYS HAVE A HORIZON THAT YOU'RE AIMING FOR. AND AND I WOULD JUST ADD ALSO THAT YOU OWN THE ASSETS. SO ONCE THIS DOCUMENT IS PREPARED AND IT'S AND IT'S FULLY AUTHORIZED BY THE BOARD AND YOUR STAFF HAS PUT ITS STAMP OF APPROVAL ON THE DOCUMENT, THE ASSETS, THE ARTIFACTS, THEY'RE YOURS. BUT AT ANY GIVEN TIME, AS I AS I ARTICULATED A MOMENT AGO, IF WE NEED TO REVISIT THIS AS A LIVING DOCUMENT, AS DOCTOR SCRIVENER SAID, WE CAN MAKE CHANGES AND THINGS, YOU KNOW, TEND TO HAVE ITERATIONS WITH TIME AND IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE WAY. SO THAT'S THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN CERTAINLY SUPPORT YOU WITH. HI. WHEN WE DID THIS A FEW YEARS AGO, IT DID TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS TO GATHER ALL THE INFORMATION FROM ALL DIFFERENT SUBGROUPS. AND THEN A COMMITTEE WAS FORMED, A STRATEGIC PLAN COMMITTEE OF TEACHERS, STUDENTS, PARENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS. DO YOU SEE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT AGAIN TO SEE WHAT? WE'VE GATHERED AND TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE, TO CREATE THE PLAN. ABSOLUTELY. AGAIN, IF THAT'S THE EXPECTATION AND THE INTENTIONS, WE WOULD WELCOME THAT. AND THAT'S THAT IS A BEST PRACTICE. SO WE WOULD NATURALLY FOLLOW SUIT WITH WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DIDN'T WORK. WE WELCOME YOUR INPUT AND YOUR FEEDBACK ON WHAT YOU'VE WHAT YOU'VE FELT DID NOT WORK. WELL FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE A PART OF THE PROCESS LAST TIME, I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW SO THAT WAY WE CAN AVOID ANY PITFALLS. BUT THOSE HOMOGENOUS GROUPINGS. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO. SUBCOMMITTEES, COMMITTEES, COMMITTEES OF THE WHOLE AT A MACRO LEVEL AND A MICRO LEVEL. BECAUSE, AS DOCTOR SCRIBNER SAID, WE'LL HAVE BIG GROUP MEETINGS PLANNED, BUT MAYBE TEN PEOPLE SHOW UP. SO IT REALLY VARIES AND WE DON'T THROW THE OTHER ONE OUT. WE USE THAT. THAT'S CORRECT. STEPPING OFF POINT. WHAT DID WAS SUCCESSFUL AND WHAT WE PROBABLY DIDN'T. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. GOOD. ABSOLUTELY. WE HAVE TIME FOR ONE MORE QUESTION. MINE'S REAL SHORT. HAVE YOU WORKED WITH THE DISTRICT OUR SIZE BEFORE? WE HAVE. OKAY. PERFECT. WELL, MY NEXT QUESTION. CAN I TAG ON TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING. SO WHEN YOU DO THOSE GROUPS AND THE COMMITTEES AND ALL THAT, SO YOU GAIN A REALITY KIND OF OF WHERE WE ARE MAYBE ALSO BY CLASSROOM OR WHATEVER EVERYBODY DECIDES. BUT THEN YOU ALSO HAVE WHERE WE WANT TO GO, LIKE, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT THAT LOOKS LIKE SUCCESS FOR US, FOR A STUDENT OR FOR TEACHERS OR FOR OUR LEADERS, OUR ADMINISTRATION AND ALL THAT? AND THEN I SEE THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS BRIDGING THE GAP, RIGHT. HOW DO WE GET FROM REALITY TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE 100%. SO YEAH, IT IS YOUR ROADMAP. OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO PUT IT. VERY GOOD. ALL RIGHT. MR. GUETTA AND TEAM, WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS FOR COMING OUT. WE WILL. THE BOARD WILL MAKE A DECISION FAIRLY SOON. AND THEN YOU'LL HEAR FROM MISS LUDWICK AND HER TEAM ABOUT THE PROCESS AND HOW WE'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. AND SO, AS YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE SUMMER VACATION, SUMMER BREAK COMING UP. AND SO AUGUST, AROUND THE TIME YOU CAN EXPECT TO HEAR BACK. OKAY. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION. GOOD TO SEE SO MANY FAMILIAR FACES. ALL RIGHT. GOOD LUCK WITH THIS PROCESS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WELL, GOOD EVENING. I'M DOCTOR NEVINS, I'M SUPERINTENDENT. AND SO MEDIA, AM I SAYING THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR. MEDIA. OKAY. MEDIA. AND SO WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS TIME THIS EVENING. I'M GOING TO FIRST TURN IT OVER TO OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE CHAIR, WHICH IS OUR SECRETARY, MRS. WELCH. HE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT AND THEN HE'LL COME BACK TO ME AND I'LL TALK ABOUT HOW TONIGHT WILL GO, AND THEN WE'LL LET YOU TAKE OVER. [00:30:02] ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO SAY WELCOME. I SERVED ON THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE WITH MRS. BOX AND MR. LAMBERT, AND WE WORKED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO SEND OUT THE RFQS, AND WE RECEIVED ALL THE BIDS BACK, AND THE THREE OF US WENT THROUGH THEM AND RANKED THEM. AND WE GOT THE BEST HERE IN FRONT OF US NOW. SO THIS AFTERNOON. SO YOU GUYS MADE THE CUT, AND WE'RE EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO PRESENT TO US AND THE ADMINISTRATION. SO WELCOME. ALL RIGHT, SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS EVENING. YOU'LL HAVE 20 MINUTES TO PRESENT, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TEN MINUTES FOR Q&A. AT THE END OF THAT YOU'LL HAVE A TOTAL OF 30 MINUTES ALTOGETHER. SO IF YOU DON'T TAKE ALL 20 MINUTES TO TO PRESENT, YOU'LL STILL HAVE YOUR FULL 30 MINUTES FOR Q&A. ALL RIGHT. AND SO RIGHT IN FRONT OF MRS. JOHNSON HERE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, YOU'LL HAVE A TIMER THERE JUST TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK. AND IF YOU NEED ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT, LET US KNOW. ALL RIGHT. BUT I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU GUYS. ALL RIGHT. GREAT. WELL, REALLY HONORED TO BE HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR GIVING US THE TIME. I'M ENJOYING THE BE THE NUMBER ONE THAT'S GIVING ME MOTIVATION AS I COME UP HERE TO MAKE SURE I DO MY BEST. SO I ALREADY FEEL BETTER. ALREADY? SO WE'RE FROM MEDIA EDUCATION. WE'VE BEEN A COMPANY AROUND FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS. WE'RE NATIONWIDE. WE'VE GOT OBVIOUSLY TWO OF OUR TEXAS BEST WITH YOU TODAY. I'M CLEARLY NOT FROM TEXAS AS WELL, BUT WE'LL KIND OF TRY AND KEEP IT BRIEF IN TERMS OF THE BIG DESCRIPTIONS AND REALLY GET INTO THE MEAT OF THINGS. SO MEDIA IS A COMPANY, AS I SAID, BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS. WE REALLY GOT OUR LEG UP IN THE MARKET WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT ENGAGING LEARNING EXPERIENCES. AND SO WE WORKED WITH OUR DISTRICT PARTNERS IN AND AROUND. HOW DO YOU USE THE CLASSROOM AND PAIR IT WITH THE INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY THAT THE DISTRICT AND THE SCHOOL MIGHT HAVE? SO USING IT AS A TOOL AND IN THE TEACHING METHODS THAT ARE BEING USED WITHIN THAT, WE TOOK THAT PROGRAM AND STARTED TO DEVELOP WITH MORE DISTRICT PARTNERS THE IDEA OF EQUITY PLANNING. AND SO WE WORK WITH DISTRICTS SPECIFICALLY BOND FUNDED THAT ARE TRYING TO DELIVER EQUITY THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. SO WHEN A NEW BUILDING OR NEW CONSTRUCTION COMES ALONG, GREAT. THOSE KIDS GET AN ENHANCED EXPERIENCE. THE KIDS IN THE 30 YEAR OLD SCHOOL MAYBE NOT THE SAME EXPERIENCE. SO HOW DO WE WORK AS A PARTNERSHIP WITHIN THAT TO PROVIDE EQUITY ACROSS THE DISTRICT THAT THEN LED US INTO LONG TERM PLANNING. AND SO, AGAIN, WORKING WITH OUR DISTRICT PARTNERS ON WHAT DOES LONG TERM PLANNING LOOK LIKE, NOT JUST THIS, YOU KNOW, ONE FIVE YEAR BOND, BUT ACTUALLY DEVELOPING A SUSTAINABLE METHOD THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE'RE HERE TO TALK WITH YOU GUYS TODAY. AND SO THAT SUSTAINABILITY IS NOT JUST DEALING WITH ENROLLMENT GROWTH, BUT IT'S ALSO DEALING WITH THE WAY THAT INNOVATION AND EDUCATION IS SCALING AND MOVING. SO THAT INCLUDES THINGS LIKE CTE AND MAKING SURE WE CAN HELP BUILD AN INFRASTRUCTURE IN AND AROUND CTE PROGRAMS THAT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW EXIST YET FOR CAREERS THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD OF BEFORE. AND HOW DO YOU BUILD THAT INFRASTRUCTURE WHILST AT THE SAME TIME WORKING WITH FAST GROWING DISTRICTS IN TERMS OF WHAT DO YOU DO IN TERMS OF CULTURE? HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR CULTURE TOGETHER? HOW DO YOU USE CULTURE ONE AS A WAY OF TAKING THIS VISION AND ROLLING IT OUT THROUGH THE DISTRICT? BUT HOW DO YOU USE CULTURE TO RETAIN AND ATTRACT MORE STAFF MEMBERS TO CONTINUE THAT GROWTH, WHILST AT THE SAME TIME MAKING A GOOD AND HEALTHY PLACE TO WORK? WITH THAT BEING SAID. OH. OKAY, GOOD. OH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS MEANT TO HAVE OUT WHEN I WAS DOING THE INTRO. SO WE'RE OFF TO A GOOD START ALREADY. I'M THE VP OF GROWTH MEDIA. MY ROLE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT RESOURCES FOR THE RIGHT DISTRICT, FOR THE RIGHT PROJECT. SO WHO DO WE NEED TO SOURCE? WHAT DO WE NEED TO SOURCE, AND HOW DO WE CREATE ENOUGH BANDWIDTH TO SCALE THE PROMISES THAT WE'VE MADE TO THE DISTRICT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE EXECUTE ON THAT IN THE WAY THAT WE HAVE DESIGNED? GOOD AFTERNOON. WE'RE SO PLEASED THAT YOU HAVE US HERE. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS LACEY STEWART. I'M A NATIVE HOUSTONIAN. I'M HERE LOCALLY, AND I'VE WORKED IN THIS MARKET FOR TEN YEARS. I KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE HOUSTON MARKET, NAMELY FAST GROWTH DISTRICTS. CLEVELAND ISD. NEW CANEY ISD. WALLER ISD. THESE ARE THREE DISTRICTS THAT WERE HISTORICALLY KNOWN AS VERY TINY SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BUT ARE GROWING AT A VERY RAPID RATE. AND I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF GOING INTO THESE DISTRICTS AND WORKING WITH THEM AND LEARNING A LOT ABOUT SOME OF THE. AN ALIGNMENT OR MISALIGNMENT AND FAST GROWTH DISTRICTS, AND HOW MAYBE THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT HAND DON'T KNOW WHAT EACH OTHER ARE DOING. SO I'M REALLY ALL THINGS CUSTOMER AND COMMUNICATION HERE. BOOTS ON THE GROUND. WELL, I'M LINDA GAIL WALKER AND I HAVE BEEN AN EDUCATOR FOR OVER 30 YEARS. I HAVE BEEN A TEACHER. I'VE BEEN AN ADMINISTRATOR AT BOTH LEVELS, AND I WAS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK WAS MY BIGGEST IS I WAS A FIRST YEAR COLLEGE SUCCESS COORDINATOR AND SAW THE GAPS THAT WE WERE SEEING FROM KIDS GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL AND ACTUALLY WHERE THEY MOVED WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE. AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST GAPS WAS SOME OF THE THINGS WE CALL FUTURE READY SKILLS OR SOFT SKILLS. I MEAN, A LOT OF KIDS MIGHT KNOW HOW TO READ. THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM, BUT TIME MANAGEMENT AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS ARE A BIG ISSUE TOO. SO WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THIS AND STARTED TALKING ABOUT LEADERSHIP, THAT'S WHERE I GOT INVOLVED WITH MEDIA. [00:35:06] AND I'M ACTUALLY WROTE A BOOK DURING COVID CALLED SURVIVING THE STORM. AND WHAT IT IS, IS ABOUT HOW DO WE LEAD OUR SCHOOLS NOW THROUGH POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH. AND SO WE'VE I HAVE BEEN THRILLED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD DISTRICTS ACROSS OUR NATION. AND ESPECIALLY I LOVE IN TEXAS BECAUSE I CAN TALK AND Y'ALL UNDERSTAND ME. BUT HOW DO WE LEAD THEM WHERE THEY'RE MOVING AND ESPECIALLY AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THESE TRYING TIMES? SO ONE OF THE THINGS YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S COOL ABOUT OUR COMPANY, I FEEL LIKE, IS THAT WE DO HAVE, THOUGH, WE HAVE THE THREE OF US AND WE'LL HAVE LOCAL SUPPORT. WE'LL HAVE TEXAS PEOPLE HERE WORKING WITH YOU. WE ALSO HAVE A NATIONWIDE SUPPORT. SO PHIL MENTIONED CTE. WE WORK WITH THE CTE DISTRICT. THAT REALLY IS INNOVATION AS IT COMES. SO WE'RE ABLE TO SEE ALL THOSE SIDES OF IT. SO WHEN WE MOVE OH SORRY. YES. GO AHEAD. SO WE'RE HERE TODAY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT OUR SEVEN STEP APPROACH FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING. AND REALLY AND TRULY WHAT THAT MEANS TO US IS THAT IT'S CURATED SPECIFICALLY FOR LAMAR ISD, GIVING YOU FREEDOM IN THE FRAMEWORK. WE BRING THE FRAMEWORK. YOU TELL US WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU AND WHAT YOUR VALUES ARE AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND THAT'S HOW WE GET TO THE OBJECTIVE THAT WE'RE ALL TRYING TO ACHIEVE. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A CLICKER? YOU GOT IT. SO WE HAVE. HOW CAN WE? IT'S OKAY. WE HAVE THREE EXCERPTS FROM CHRISTY SHOFFNER, WHO'S THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING IN NEW CANEY ISD. SHE'S BEEN THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SHE AND HER PEERS AND HER SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND SHE'S GOING TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE WORKING WITH MEDIA EDUCATION. MAYBE WE'RE NOT A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY. AND SO. THINKING, HOW CAN WE MAKE A PLAN AND REALLY MAKE OUR VISION EVIDENT TO ALL OF OUR LEADERS? BECAUSE TODAY WE HAVE ALL OF OUR LEADERS IN THE ROOM. HOW CAN WE COME UP WITH A COLLABORATION TIME THAT DEVELOPS A QUALITY ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR KIDS AND ONE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS? YOU KNOW, WE UNDERSTAND THE WHY BEHIND IT AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO DESIGN AN EFFECTIVE PLACE FOR KIDS TO FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG TO TEACHERS, TO FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG. AND WE'RE LEARNING IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOT JUST ACCIDENTALLY, BUT BUT ON PURPOSE. SO I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU A LITTLE BIT THROUGH IF I CAN FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE ABOUT OUR FRAMEWORK. AND OUR FRAMEWORK REALLY DOES BEGIN. WE HAVE AN A, B, C, D, E, F, G PROCESS. SO WE'RE HERE TO MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE. AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THROUGH EACH OF THESE STEPS BRIEFLY. AND THEN I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE WITH IT. BUT THE WAY THAT WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS HAPPENS IS THROUGH ALIGNMENT. AND WHEN YOU HAVE A RAPID GROWTH DISTRICT LIKE YOU'RE DEALING WITH AND YOU'RE MOVING FROM THIS LARGE ENTITY AND IT'S KIND OF YOU STILL WANT TO HAVE THAT CULTURE IN THE FEEL THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS HAD. IT'S REALLY EASY TO KIND OF GET OFF TRACK, AND IT'S HARD TO COMMUNICATE SOMETIMES. ONE OF THE CHALLENGES I AM A RESEARCHER, SO I RESEARCHED YOUR DISTRICT. AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES TOO, IS YOU WANT EVERY VOICE HEARD. AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ALIGNMENT, A VERY KEY PIECE THAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS OUR PURPOSE OF DOING THIS NEEDS TO BE CLEAR. IT NEEDS TO BE CLEAR TO EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND WHAT I SEE ALL THE TIME DOING THIS WORK. AND SOMETIMES WE GO IN. ONE OF THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED IS SOMETIMES WE TWEAK SOMEBODY'S EXISTING STRATEGIC PLAN BECAUSE THEY'RE LIKE, WE'RE MOVING THAT WAY, WE'RE CLOSE, BUT WE THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. SOMETIMES WE BLOW IT UP AND COME IN WITH SOMETHING NEW. BUT NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, WE REALLY WANT TO ENSURE THAT IT'S COMMUNICATED AND THAT EVERYONE'S IN ALIGNMENT. WHEN I USE WORDS LIKE FUTURE, READY, COLLABORATE, COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVENESS, FUTURE READY STUDENTS. I BET GUARANTEE IF I PULLED THIS ROOM, WE MIGHT NOT ALL HAVE THAT SAME DEFINITION. SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THAT KEY PIECE IS. AND THE WAY WE START THAT WITH METEOR IS WE LISTEN. WE WANT TO LISTEN TO YOUR TO YOUR DISTRICT TEAMS. WE WANT TO LISTEN TO YOUR BOARD. WE WANT TO LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. WE'RE GOING TO TALK IN A SECOND ABOUT HOW WE TAKE THAT INFORMATION. BUT IF WE DON'T START BY BEING LISTENERS AND LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE DISTRICT, WE CAN'T ALIGN. THE OTHER THING WE BELIEVE IS THAT ALIGNMENT BUILDS TRUST AND COHESION. SO WHEN WE'RE ALL TOGETHER IN A ROOM, I MEAN, Y'ALL ARE SCHOOL BOARD, BEEN A SCHOOL BOARD. AND I WILL TELL YOU, YOU WILL SAY SOMETHING OR YOU WILL SEND AN EMAIL AND YOU'RE LIKE, MAN, THAT WASN'T ANY BIG DEAL. CLICK SEND. AND WHAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES IT'S LIKE, OH YEAH, THEY READ THAT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN I SAID THAT I SAID DURING COVID, I WOULD TEN TIMES READ AN EMAIL BECAUSE I KNEW THAT THE WAY IT MIGHT BE READ WASN'T NECESSARILY THE WAY I MEANT. THE NEXT PIECE WE TALK ABOUT TO WITH THIS ALIGNMENT IS WE WANT TO BE SURE WITH YOU THAT THE KEY STAKEHOLDERS ARE IN THOSE FIRST MEETINGS SO WE CAN LISTEN AND SEE. [00:40:07] A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE DO A STRATEGIC PLAN, IT REALLY BECOMES ABOUT LISTENING TO ALL THE VOICES, BUT LETTING THE VOICES ALSO, SOMETIMES THE ONES THAT ARE HISTORICALLY NOT HEARD BE HEARD. SO WE WOULD REALLY START WITH THIS ALIGNMENT PIECE AND BRINGING LOTS OF FEEDBACK THAT COULD BE VIRTUALLY, THAT COULD BE IN PERSON, THAT COULD BE THROUGH SURVEYS. BUT WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE'RE ALIGNING AND WE'RE FINDING THAT FACT FINDING MISSION. THE OTHER PIECE THAT I LOVE, AND THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING WE DO, IS THE STRATEGIC DESIGN WORKSHOP. SO WE WOULD ACTUALLY GET YOUR TEAMS TOGETHER AND PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH. WHEN WE SAY WE WANT TO BE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS, WE PUT YOU IN TEAMS. EVERYONE WOULD HAVE ROLES AND WE WOULD BE SEEING ABOUT WHAT ALIGNMENT LOOKS LIKE, AND IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE. THE NEXT STEP WE TALK ABOUT IS BUILD. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUILD, WE'RE TAKING ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DID WHEN WE WERE LISTENING, AND WE'RE ACTUALLY USING POWER MAPPING TO SEE WHO ARE OUR KEY STAKEHOLDERS. I CAN TELL YOU I'VE DONE THIS WITH DISTRICTS, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS REALLY TOUGH IS WE LEFT SOME KEY STAKEHOLDERS OUT. AND GUESS WHO THE LOUDEST VOICE WAS WHEN WE BROUGHT OUR PLAN FORWARD, THOSE KEY STAKEHOLDERS. SO POWER MAPPING REALLY HELPS US DO THIS. I ALSO I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH UVALDI. WE'VE BEEN DOING LOTS OF WORK WITH HOW DO EACH PART OF THE POPULATION FEELS AS WE BUILD THE NEW SCHOOL. AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT THAT I HAVE INTEGRATED INTO OUR PROCESS IS SOMETHING CALLED EMPATHY MAPPING, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET EVERYBODY'S VOICE HEARD. BUT WHEN WE DO EMPATHY MAPPING, SOMETIMES THEY MIGHT TALK TO YOU, BUT THEY MIGHT NOT TALK TO THE WHOLE GROUP, OR THEY MIGHT NOT WANT TO COME TO A COMMITTEE MEETING. SO THROUGH EMPATHY MAPPING, WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT ALL THOSE SUBGROUPS THAT MAYBE MIGHT BE HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED. WE ALSO BE LOOKING AT THE DATA INFORMED, PROGRAMING THE FRAMEWORK AND IDENTIFYING A CORE COMMITTEE. BECAUSE WHAT WE WANT TO DO WHEN WE LOOK THROUGH THESE BUILDING PROCESS IS WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK. THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN GOING THROUGH THE ALIGNMENT STAGE, AND THEN THE BUILDING STAGE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO NEXT IS CALLED COMMUNICATE AND CONNECT. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THIS, WE WOULD BE DOING SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE STRATEGIC DESIGN WORKSHOP. BUT LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE DOCTOR NIVENS, YOU PICKED OUT 15 PEOPLE AND YOU'RE LIKE, THESE 15 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE OUR CORE GROUP. THEN WHEN WE HAVE THESE MINI WORKSHOPS, WE WOULD WANT SOME OF THOSE MEMBERS OF YOUR CORE GROUP TO BE PART OF THAT, TO HELP FACILITATE. BECAUSE BY THAT I'M BUILDING CAPACITY WITHIN YOUR DISTRICT. YOU'RE ALSO BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. I SAY OFTEN, IF YOU CAN GET THE TEACHERS ON BOARD, YOU HAVE THE WORLD. AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOK AT WITH THIS TOO. THE OTHER THING WE LOOK AT IS DATA DRIVEN FEEDBACK ON EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING. WE WOULD LOOK AT STUDENT NEEDS. WE WOULD LOOK AT YOUR DATA. WE WOULD LOOK AT INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AND EVEN ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY. WHEN YOU'RE A FAST GROWING DISTRICT, ONE OF THE THINGS WE NOTICE IS THAT YOU OFTENTIMES WILL HAVE BUILDINGS IN SOME AREAS THAT ARE OLDER AND YOUR BUILDING WHERE THE NEW STUFF IS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE ARE MOVING. AND SO WE ALSO HAVE AN ABILITY TO GO IN AND GET SOME DATA FROM THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. I DID LOOK AT YOUR DATA, THOUGH, AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR FACILITIES ARE REALLY SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE IN YOUR TOWN ARE PROUD OF, WHICH IS A GREAT THING TO SAY. THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE. KRISTI, YOU MAY HAVE TO HELP ME AGAIN. I'M SCARED TO PUSH A BUTTON. THIS IS KRISTI TALKING ABOUT PART OF THIS PROCESS, TOO. SO LINDA AND I, AFTER THAT MEETING, WE HAD A COUPLE OF ZOOM CONVERSATIONS REALLY ABOUT WHERE OUR DISTRICT IS AS FAR AS VISION, MISSION, WHAT WE WANTED OUR KIDS TO EXPERIENCE, WHAT OUR COMMUNITY EXPECTED FROM OUR SCHOOLS WHAT OUR EDUCATORS, WHAT THEY WERE TRAINED IN, AND KIND OF THE DIRECTION THAT WE WANTED TO SEE THE FUTURE OF OUR DISTRICT. AND SO SHE AND I HAD A COUPLE OF PLANNING SESSIONS, AND THE LONGER WE TALKED ABOUT IT, WE FELT IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ESTABLISH MISSION AND VISION AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THE SAME MISSION VISION ALIGNMENT. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU THAT LACEY JUST PASSED OUT AS OUR ACTUALLY SAMPLE OF OUR STRATEGIC VISION BLUEPRINT. AND THE REASON WE DO THIS IS, NUMBER ONE, IT GIVES YOU SOME CAPITAL TO SHARE. IT GIVES YOU A FRAMEWORK TO WORK FROM. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'LL NOTICE THAT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN WE ARE FROM EVERYBODY ELSE, IS WE WANT TO MOVE FROM YOUR VISION AND VISION TO WHAT YOUR TO CORE VALUES ARE. PORTRAIT OF A LEARNER. WORK IS TO YOUR STUDENT PRIORITY LEARNING OUTCOMES TO THE EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN IN THE CLASSROOM ALL THE WAY DOWN TO HOW DOES THE CLASSROOM NEED TO BE DESIGNED TO SET UP FOR THAT? WHAT WE'LL WHAT I'LL SAY TO YOU IS THIS OFTENTIMES WE HAVE GREAT STUDENT PRIORITY LEARNING OUTCOMES, RIGHT? THEY SOUND FANTASTIC. BUT WE ALSO WANT TO ENSURE THAT THE CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION THAT'S GOING ON IN THE CLASSROOM ARE MATCHING THAT. SO THAT WILL BE SOMETHING WE DEVELOP THIS. WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF INPUT FROM LEADERS. AND THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT. [00:45:01] SO WE'LL GO IN AND WE MIGHT DO THIS AS A GROUP. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SHARE IT OUT. BUT I THINK THAT REALLY SHOWS AN ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE NEED IN ALIGNMENT. BUT AS A DISTRICT, IT ALSO GIVES THEM SOMETHING TO SEE WHERE THEY FEEL PART OF THE PROCESS. INSTEAD OF, HEY, I WENT TO ONE MEETING AND NOW I DON'T SEE ANYTHING. SO THAT'S A THAT'S ANOTHER THING. WE ALSO WILL WORK IN THIS DEVELOP STAGE ON A REALLY CLEAR ARTICULATION OF THE MISSION AND VISION AND CORE VALUES. IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO THAT, WE'LL HAVE MEASURABLE OUTCOMES AND TOOLS THAT WE ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY WITH. WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED AN IMPACT REPORT THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH CAMPUSES. WE CAN LOOK AT WHAT KIND OF INSTRUCTION IS HAPPENING IN THERE, AND THEN HOW IS THAT ALIGNING AS WE GO DOWN THE DOWN THAT PATH? WE ALSO WOULD BE LOOKING AT ANY GAPS THAT MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED THAT WE SAW IN THE FIRST FRAMEWORK. AND I WILL TELL YOU, A DISTRICT I WORKED WITH, WE THOUGHT WE HAD IT COVERED. WE WERE LIKE, WE ARE ROCKING THIS MAN. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THIS IS. AND THEN WE HAD A PARENT COME IN AND SAY, WHAT ABOUT THIS? AND IT WAS A GAP THAT WE HAD MISSED. SO THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT REALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEVELOPING, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AT THIS STAGE BECAUSE THEN IT LEADS INTO THIS ENGAGEMENT. SO THIS ALL SOUNDS I MEAN, LET'S BE HONEST, I'VE DONE THIS A MILLION TIMES. WE HAVE MISSION AND VISION AND IT SOUNDS REALLY GOOD. SOMETIMES WE CAN EVEN TALK ABOUT IT. BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS ENSURE THAT THAT'S REALLY WHAT'S HAPPENING IN WHERE OUR CLASSROOMS ARE. SO WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING CALLED ENGAGEMENT, WHERE WE LOOK AT USING THE MISSION AND VISION TO SET TO SET DISTRICT GOALS, TO SET CAMPUS GOALS AND ACTUALLY SEE THAT MATRIX, TO SEE WHERE WE ARE, WHICH GIVES US ANOTHER MEASUREMENT. AND THEN WE WOULD ALSO REVIEW THE DATA. NOW I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING. I FEEL LIKE WE'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT ABOUT THAN SOME PLACES IS WE REALLY WANT TO ENSURE THAT IT'S ALIGNED NOT JUST TO THE INSTRUCTION, THE CLASSROOM, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, AFTER SCHOOL THINGS, CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, SPECIAL POPULATIONS, ALL OF THOSE PROGRAM CONSIDERATIONS HAVE TO ALIGN. THAT GOES BACK TO OUR FIRST STAGE. AND THEN WE HAVE FEEDBACK. SO THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT. AND THIS WILL GO BACK TO THE VERY FIRST PIECE WHERE WE ARE THE BUILD PIECE WHERE WE TALK ABOUT BUILDING THOSE KEY STAKEHOLDERS. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THE DATA THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, AND WE WANT TO ENSURE THE METRICS ARE THERE. WE WANT TO BE SURE WE'VE GOT AN OPPORTUNITY IN GAP ANALYSIS, AND WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT THAT FEEDBACK LOOP IS REALLY PRIORITIZED. AND WE FEEL LIKE THAT. THAT'S NOT JUST WORDS ON PAPER, BUT IT'S SOME THINGS THAT WE CAN REALLY MOVE TO INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND THIS IS WHERE I'LL JUST BE HONEST. YOU'RE GOING TO LISTEN TO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TODAY, AND THEY'RE PROBABLY ALL GOING TO AGREE ON THE FIRST 3 OR 4 THINGS, RIGHT? WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THIS. IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT. WHERE WE'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IS WE DO SOMETHING WE CALL THE GO PHASE. AND THE GO PHASE IS HOW DOES THIS ACTUALLY GET IMPLEMENTED? WE ARE NOT PEOPLE THAT COME IN. IF YOU WANT A PARTNER THAT COMES IN AND HANDS YOU A DOCUMENT AND SMILES AND SAYS, HERE, GO PRINT THIS OUT 80 TIMES AND PUT IT ALL OVER YOUR SCHOOLS. WE'RE NOT YOUR PEOPLE. WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT WHAT WE SAY IS HAPPENING IN YOUR CLASSROOMS. WE WANT TO HELP YOU GET THERE. WE HAVE LOTS OF TOOLS TO HELP DO THAT, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE YOU HANGING. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IT, BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT STRATEGIC BLUEPRINT THAT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN, WE WANT TO LOOK AT MEASUREMENT DATA. WE WANT TO LOOK AT THAT REGULAR REVIEW. WE WANT TO LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE CLASSROOMS. WE WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE PUTTING IN THE CLASSROOMS AND ALL THOSE PIECES. AND EVEN FUTURE PROGRAMING WILL REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT THIS GO PHASE. SO THIS WILL BE ONE MORE TIME. SORRY, THIS LAST ONE. SO I THINK FOR US A LOT OF THE VALUE COMES IN THE CONVERSATIONS COMES IN THE UNDERSTANDING. LINDA IS REALLY GOOD AT DESIGNING ACTIVITIES AND AND ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS OF EDUCATORS THAT REALLY MAKE THEM THINK ABOUT, WHY ARE WE HERE? WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? WHY IS WHAT WE'RE DOING MAKING A DIFFERENCE? AND IS IT MAKING A DIFFERENCE? AND HOW COULD WE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WILL MAKE INSTRUCTION SO MUCH MORE MEANINGFUL FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS? SO SHE HAS A GREAT WAY OF PULLING THAT OUT OF PEOPLE. AND WITH SOME HEART TO HEART CONVERSATIONS, BECAUSE MOST TEACHERS, MOST EDUCATORS COME TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO CHANGE KIDS LIVES. AND SOMETIMES YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT. FURNITURE BEING AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THAT. SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO I WANT TO JUST SHARE WITH YOU FOR A SECOND, TOO, THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT THIS WITH AS WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING WHERE IT'S CALLED LEGACY, LEVERAGE OR LET GO. SO WHEN WE'VE DONE YOUR PLAN AND WE COME IN AND LOOK AT THE FEEDBACK PART AND WE LOOK AT THE GO PART, WE'LL SIT DOWN WITH YOUR WITH YOUR AND IT'LL BE REALLY WHO YOU DECIDE AS A BOARD AND AS, AS THE C-SUITE TEAM AND A DISTRICT TEAM. WHO DO WE WANT TO BE LOOKING AT THIS? WHO DO WE WANT TO LOOK AND SAY, IS THIS PROGRAM WE'RE DOING MATCHING UP TO WHAT WE WANT TO DO BECAUSE WE SPEND LOTS OF MONEY IN DISTRICTS, AND SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL IF IT'S AN IMPACT. AND SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED LEGACY LEVERAGE OR LET GO. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS MISSION AND VISION PIECE, ONE OF THE OTHER PIECES THAT HAPPENS WITH THE GO STAGE IS REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT DO WE NEED TO KEEP AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO FOCUS ON? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IF YOU HAVE 80 INITIATIVES, GUESS HOW MANY INITIATIVES REALLY WORK VERY WELL? [00:50:06] NONE. SO YOU'VE REALLY GOT TO KIND OF FOCUS ON THAT AREA. WHILE WE'RE DIFFERENT IS BECAUSE WE REALLY ARE A TEAM MADE UP OF THOUGHT LEADERS. WE ACTUALLY CHRISTIE AND I PRESENTED TOGETHER AT TSA THIS YEAR. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND WHEN WE GOT THERE IS SOME STUFF IS THINGS WE JUST DON'T THINK ABOUT NECESSARILY ALL THE TIME. WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO PROCESS UNLESS YOU'RE DOING THIS KIND OF STRATEGIC PLAN. AND SO WE HAVE A VERY BIG GROUP AND CADRE OF PEOPLE THAT WILL COME IN AND HELP US DO THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN LEADERS IN TEXAS TO HELP GET THIS TOGETHER. THE OTHER THING IS WE DO DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS. WE HAVE SEVERAL TOOLS THAT WE USE. AND THEN WE ALSO WILL HELP YOU DEVELOP YOUR OWN WALK THROUGH TOOL, IF THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND WE'RE WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. SO I HAVE 17 SECONDS I AM WATCHING AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE DISTRICTS WE'VE WORKED WITH. MAYBE. OKAY. AND I THINK THAT THAT IS THAT IS US. OKAY. SO IT'S ONE MINUTE WE WERE ONE MINUTE WITH LESS. SO DANG SMART. WE PRACTICED IT. YEAH. SO ANY QUESTIONS. ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT OF THIS IS AND YOU MENTIONED LIKE A WALKTHROUGH AFTERWARDS IS BOARD GOALS AND MAYBE REWORKING OUR BOARD GOVERNANCE CALENDAR. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL HELP WITH? YES. YES, WE CAN DO THAT. IN FACT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE DISTRICT RIGHT NOW IS WE'VE TAKEN THEIR WE'VE DONE A PORTRAIT OF LEARNER WORK WITH THEM AS WELL. AND SO WE TAKE THEIR WE TAKE THEIR BOARD GOALS AND PORTRAIT OF A LEARNER. AND WE'VE OVERLAID THAT WITH INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE. AND WE KIND OF CALL IT THE HOW WHY AND WHAT OF INSTRUCTION. AND WE'RE BUILDING A WALKTHROUGH TOOL BASED ON THAT. SO IT TIES ALL THAT TOGETHER. WITH OUR DISTRICT GROWING EXTREMELY FAST, WE'RE ALSO BECOMING A VERY DIVERSE DISTRICT. WE HAVE BEEN WHAT WOULD BE YOUR PROCESS LEADING THOSE GROUP MEETINGS WHENEVER THERE ARE MULTIPLE LANGUAGES PRESENT? WE ACTUALLY HAVE A TOOL FOR THAT THAT WE CAN USE. AND THAT WOULD BE ALSO WHERE WE LEAN HEAVY INTO YOU BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON IF YOU HAVE A PREDOMINANT LANGUAGE. AND THEN IF WE WANT TO DO THERE'S ACTUALLY A PROGRAM. IT'S REALLY COOL THAT YOU CAN GO IN AND YOU CAN DO I CAN DO A ZOOM CALL AND I CAN PUT IT OUT INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. SO THAT WOULD BE ONE OPTION. ANOTHER OPTION IS YOU PROBABLY HAVE SOME LOCAL INTERPRETERS AND THAT WOULD NOT BE A BAD THING EITHER. I THINK WHAT WHAT WE WOULD IF WE PARTNERED TOGETHER, WHAT WE WOULD DO WITH THAT IS WE WOULD TALK TO YOU BECAUSE IN MY EXPERIENCE TOO, IT'S A LOT OF TIMES, DEPENDING ON WHEN PEOPLE CAN BE THERE TO COME TO AN IN PERSON MEETING, AND SOMETIMES THEY DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO AN ONLINE MEETING. SO WE MIGHT REALLY WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE DO A BREAKFAST BRUNCH IN THE MORNING AND WE INVITE PARENTS TO COME OR WE DO A, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BECAUSE MAYBE EVERYBODY STARTS WORK AT TEN OR THEY'VE WORKED ALL NIGHT. BUT WE WOULD REALLY RELY ON YOUR EXPERTISE IN THAT AREA. BUT THOSE ARE SOME TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS WE COULD DO WITH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, BECAUSE THAT IS A VERY REAL CONCERN. A COUPLE OF TIMES, Y'ALL. BOTH TWO OF YOU MENTIONED EQUITABLE BUILDINGS. HELP ME UNDERSTAND. TIE THAT INTO A STRATEGIC PLAN. OKAY. THANK YOU. ARE YOU SURE? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. EQUITABLE BUILDINGS. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WITH THAT IS WHEN YOU'RE IN A HIGH GROWTH AREA, YOU WILL SEE. AND I'M GOING TO CALL IT RIGHT SIZING. YOU'LL HAVE SOME AREAS THAT AREN'T GROWING QUITE AS MUCH AS OTHER AREAS. SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE IS A TOOL THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH YOUR BUILDINGS. IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU WOULD USE IF YOU'RE A MASTER PLANNING, BUT YOU CAN GO THROUGH YOUR BUILDINGS AND SAY, OKAY, THIS BUILDING PROBABLY IS GOING TO NEED TO BE UPDATED OR RIGHT SIZED. THIS IS SOME THINGS WE MIGHT WANT TO PUT SOME THINGS WITH. SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MASTER PLANNING AND I TALK ABOUT GOALS, THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE GOALS, LIKE GOING BACK DOWN WHEN WE BLUEPRINT, IT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ENVIRONMENT IMPLICATIONS OR DESIGN STANDARDS. WHAT THAT MEANS IS MAYBE I HAVE A NEW SCHOOL AND IT'S WAY FANCY. IT'S GOT LIKE CUTE TABLES WITH WHEELS. AND I MAY HAVE ANOTHER SCHOOL THAT HAS DESKS SO HEAVY THAT THE TEACHERS CAN'T MOVE THEM AT ALL. SO THAT IS AN INEQUITABLE ENVIRONMENT. AND SO HOW CAN YOU START MAKING A PLAN TOGETHER AS A BOARD TO WORK ON THAT? BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE BUILDING NEW SCHOOLS. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE WITH THE GROWTH YOU HAVE, BUT YOU ALSO ARE GOING TO REALLY RUN INTO A PROBLEM IF YOU DON'T ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE EQUITY ISSUES. AND SOMETIMES THAT CAN BE DONE WITHOUT NECESSARILY BUILDING A NEW BUILDING. AND WE HAVE WE HAVE ALL OF THAT. LIKE YOU CAN SEE IT AS A DOCUMENT TOO. SO SO THAT HELPS IF YOU'RE I DON'T KNOW, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE ON A BOND OR ANYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT. BUT WE DO A LOT OF WORK WITH THAT FOR DISTRICTS, WITH BOND WORK. IS THAT GOOD? YEAH. OKAY. PROBABLY BETTER THAN ME. OKAY. [00:55:04] THE THREE OF YOU ARE HERE TODAY, HOW MANY ADDITIONAL PEOPLE WILL DO WE ANTICIPATE WORKING WITH IF WE CHOOSE Y'ALL? SO? SO DEPENDING ON IT WOULD BE ME. AND THEN I HAVE A I HAVE TWO MORE LADIES WHO'VE BEEN SUPERINTENDENTS IN TEXAS THAT WORK WITH ME ON THIS WORK. SO WE WOULD BE THREE WORKING ON THAT TOGETHER. IT WOULD DEPEND AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE ALIGNMENT PHASE, WE WOULD BE LEANING ON YOU TO SAY, DO YOU WANT TO START WITH 80 PEOPLE? DO YOU WANT TO START WITH 120 PEOPLE? DO YOU WANT TO START WITH 20 PEOPLE? AND THEN WE WOULD MOVE THAT WAY WE WILL HAVE A LOT OF SUPPORT ON THE BACK END OF THAT WITH THINGS LIKE FEEDBACK, SURVEYS, WHERE I THINK THE HEAVY LIFTING PART IS OF THIS IS GOING TO BE THE LISTENING TOURS AND CONSOLIDATING ALL THAT DATA. I THINK ONCE WE GET PAST THAT, THEN WE KIND OF HAVE A MORE SMALL CORE GROUP AND THAT WILL BE WORKING WITH WITH THE THREE OF US, AND WE WILL SIT DOWN AND START MAKING THESE, THESE DECISIONS TOGETHER. I ANTICIPATE LOOKING AT IT AND I HAVE A TIMELINE I CAN SHARE WITH Y'ALL LATER. I KIND OF DID JUST BASED ON OUR PRIOR WORK, BUT WE WOULD NEED PROBABLY ONCE WE GET PAST THAT ALIGNMENT STAGE TO THE BUILD STAGE, WE'D PROBABLY BE AT LEAST FIVE MEETINGS. THAT WOULD BE PROBABLY ABOUT HALF A DAY TO GET THROUGH SOME OF THIS WORK. AND IT DEPENDS ON, AGAIN, THE DEPTH THAT YOU WANT TO GO INTO WITH US IF YOU REALLY ARE WANTING TO PARTNER. SO I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT, I GUESS EARLIER. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PARTNER, THAT JUST HANDS YOU A DOCUMENT AND LEAVES. WE CAN DO THAT. BUT IT WON'T TAKE AS MUCH. BUT WHAT REALLY OUR BENEFIT IS, IN ALL HONESTY, IS WORKING WITH YOUR DISTRICT, YOUR CAMPUS LEADERS. BECAUSE I KNOW AND, YOU KNOW, DOCTOR NUNES, YOU'VE BEEN A BIG, LARGE DISTRICTS. AND SO IT'S DIFFICULT SOMETIMES TO ENSURE YOU TELL EVERYBODY AT YOUR CAMPUS WHAT'S ALL GOING ON. AND THAT'S ANOTHER PIECE OF THIS THAT WE WOULD WANT TO TALK ABOUT. DO WE HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH CAMPUS LEADERS AND DO WE SO EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME PAGE. SO LET'S SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IS IN THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP. I WOULD WANT TO MEET WITH ALL THE SECONDARY PRINCIPALS. AND I WOULD WANT THAT PERSON THAT WAS IN THAT KEY STAKEHOLDER GROUP TO LEAD IT WITH ME. SO IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE WE'RE COMING IN AND SAYING, THIS IS HOW THIS IS. THEY CAN COME IN AND USE IT FOR THEIR OWN WORDS. I WOULD ALSO INCLUDE TEACHERS, TEACHER LEADERS AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS BECAUSE THEIR VOICE IS VERY LOUD IN THE DISTRICT, AND THAT HELPS PUSH YOU FORWARD MORE THAN ANYTHING. SO YOU'LL BE HEARING TWO ADDITIONAL LADIES THAT ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT. WILL YOU ALL BE PRESENT DURING THIS PROCESS? YES, YES. WE'LL BE SO WE HAVE 58 EMPLOYEES, I THINK, IN TEXAS ALONE AND THEN 400 NATIONWIDE. BUT THE WAY WE LIKE TO OPERATE, AGAIN, WHEN YOU DON'T BUILD IN THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, IT'S HARD TO REALLY GENUINELY CARE. AND SO WE REALLY LOOK AT LOCALIZING THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE IN AND MAKING SURE THERE'S A DEDICATED TEAM THAT SHOW UP ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS. AND THEN AS AND WHEN, YOU KNOW, WE PUT A VISION OR A ROLL OUT EXECUTION PLAN TOGETHER, IT'S THE ABILITY TO PULL IN THOSE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO HELP DRIVE AT A CAMPUS LEVEL OR THROUGH THE COMMUNITY OR WITH THE TEACHERS, DEPENDING ON THE RATE OF ATTRITION THAT WE WANT TO PUT INTO THE STRATEGY. SO REALLY, IT'S HAVING A DEDICATED TEAM SPECIFICALLY IN WITH THE BOARD, WHICH WILL BE THE THREE OF US, PLUS TWO OTHERS, AS WELL AS THEN THE RESOURCES TO PULL IN AS WE NEED BASED ON THE PLAN THAT WE WE PULL TOGETHER. WE HAVE TIME FOR ONE MORE QUESTION. ROWE 258. FOR A DISTRICT OUR SIZE. AND I KNOW IT DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH IN DEPTH WE GO, TIMELINE WISE. WHAT DO YOU ALL ABOUT? HOW LONG DOES Y'ALL'S PROCESS TAKE? SO IT DEPENDS ON A COUPLE OF THINGS, BUT ONE IS THE LISTENING TOUR I HAVE DOWN FOR FOUR WEEKS BECAUSE I THINK YOU HAVE TO KIND OF GIVE THAT MUCH TIME. IF YOU PUT OUT SURVEYS AND FEEDBACK SURVEYS, IF YOU SAY TO ME, WE'RE ONLY GOING TO DO IN-PERSON MEETINGS, THAT COULD BE CUT BACK A LITTLE BIT. BUT I THINK YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO WANT BOTH. AND SO I USUALLY SAY FOUR WEEKS JUST TO BE SURE WE CAN GET A GOOD GOOD ENOUGH TIME TO REALLY GET IN THERE AND DO SOME DRUMMING UP REBECCA VARIED OF OPINIONS. I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BUILD PHASE DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THAT GROUP, BECAUSE WE'LL POWER MAP IT. EMPATHY MAP, THAT'LL BE ABOUT 3 TO 4 WEEKS, JUST DEPENDING ON THE. THE OTHER THING YOU GOT TO REMEMBER IS WE'RE GOING TO BE PULLING IN DISTRICT PEOPLE AND CAMPUS PEOPLE AND BEING ABLE TO SCHEDULE. THAT WILL BE ONE OF THE CHALLENGES, BUT WE'LL SAY ABOUT 3 TO 4 WEEKS WHEN WE GET TO CONNECT AND COMMUNICATE. WE COULD PROBABLY DO THAT IN TWO BECAUSE WE'LL JUST HAVE LITTLE MINI WORKSHOPS. WE'LL JUST SCHEDULE THOSE THE DEVELOP PIECE PROBABLY ABOUT TWO WEEKS. AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT ENGAGE. THAT DEPENDS ON WHAT LEVEL, HOW DEEP WE WANT TO GET INTO THAT. SO THE REST OF IT ENGAGE FEEDBACK AND GO JUST DEPENDS ON, YOU KNOW, DO YOU WANT TO DO THE DO YOU WANT TO DO THE SITE SURVEY? DO YOU WANT TO DO AN IMPACT REPORT OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CLASSROOMS? BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, THAT MAKES THE TIME A LOT, A LOT SHORTER. BUT I WOULD SAY YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST FROM MY EXPERIENCE. I THINK THE BETTER WE GET IT. I'D RATHER TAKE OUR TIME TO GET IT REALLY GOOD. AND THEN IT'S GOOD FOR FIVE YEARS, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO I DON'T WANT TO RUSH US. BUT I ALSO THINK WHEN YOU DO IT FOR SO LONG AND PEOPLE FEEL LIKE IT'S REDUNDANT, YOU DON'T GET THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU WANT. CAN YOU SHARE WITH US WHO THE TWO ADDITIONAL LADIES ARE AND WERE THERE? [01:00:04] WHAT WERE THEIR SUPERINTENDENTS OF? YES. THERE ONE IS SHARON WRIGHT AND SHE ACTUALLY WORKS WITH TIA RIGHT NOW ON SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION AS A CONSULTANT. BUT SHE WAS A SUPERINTENDENT OR ASSISTANT SUPE AT PLAINVIEW ISD, AND SHE WAS ALSO THE TEPSA PRESIDENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SO SHE'S GOT A LOT OF GOOD CONNECTIONS. AND THE OTHER LADY'S NAME IS DOCTOR JUDY WHITIS, AND SHE WAS AT NEW LONDON ISD AND SHE JUST RETIRED. NOW I MAY PULL IN SOME OTHER PEOPLE, DEPENDING ON HOW TOUGH THIS GETS. IF WE WANT TO DO A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE, THOSE ARE THE ONES I KNOW. I HAVE SEVERAL. LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE LOTS IN OUR IN OUR COLLECTIVE TO PULL FROM, BUT THOSE ARE THOSE ARE TWO THAT I HAVE VISITED WITH. AND WE WE THEY HELPED WRITE THE RFP, ALL THOSE THINGS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU TEAM. WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME THIS EVENING. THANK YOU. SHOULD HEAR BACK. YOU SHOULD HEAR BACK FROM YOU. HEAR BACK FROM MISS LUDWIG AND HER TEAM AROUND THE 1ST OF AUGUST. AND SO THE BOARD IS GOING TO DEBRIEF FUTURE MEETINGS AND TALK ABOUT WHO DIDN'T WANT TO SELECT. AND THEN YOU'LL HEAR BACK FROM MISS LUDWIG, AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS. WE APPRECIATE MAKING THE CUT. AND MORE THAN ANYTHING, WE REALLY WISH Y'ALL LUCK BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR YOUR DISTRICT. AND I KNOW YOU FACE SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES. SO NO MATTER WHO YOU CHOOSE, I KNOW IT'LL BE SOMEBODY YOU PUT THOUGHT INTO. AND WE APPRECIATE BEING PART OF THE PROCESS. BUT WE WOULD ALSO REALLY LOVE TO PARTNER WITH LAMAR. SEE ISD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S RIGHT. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A THREE MINUTE BREAK. FIVE MINUTE BREAK, FIVE MINUTE BREAK. HELLO. HELLO. HOW YOU DOING? GOOD, GOOD. THROUGH. AM I SAYING THAT CORRECT? THROUGH. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH OUR, OUR BOARD SECRETARY, MR. JOHN WELCH. HE SERVED AS THE CHAIRPERSON FOR THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE. AND SO HE'S GOING TO GIVE A BRIEF INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROCESS AND WHAT AND HOW WE HAPPEN, HOW YOU GOT HERE. AND THEN I'M GOING TO COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS OF TONIGHT, AND THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU GUYS. ALL RIGHT. SO FIRST I WANT TO SAY WELCOME. I SERVED WITH MR. LAMBERT HERE AND MRS BOX ON THE ON THE BOARD STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND WE WORKED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO DEVELOP THE RFQ THAT SENT OUT THAT YOU GUYS RESPONDED TO. AND THE THREE OF US RANKED ALL THE DIFFERENT RESPONSES WE GOT AND Y'ALL MADE THE CUT. SO CONGRATULATIONS. SO SO I JUST WANT TO SAY WELCOME. AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE TO PRESENT TO US AND THE ADMINISTRATION TONIGHT. ALL RIGHT. AGAIN SO WELCOME. YOU'LL HAVE ABOUT YOU HAVE 30 MINUTES TOTAL. YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES FOR PRESENTATIONS, TEN MINUTES FOR Q&A. HOWEVER, YOU LIKE TO DECIDE TO SPLIT THAT UP, BUT YOU'LL HAVE A TOTAL OF 30 MINUTES. SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO MOVE MORE TIME FOR ONE OR THE OTHER, YOU FEEL FREE TO DO THAT. ALL RIGHT, IF YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE LET US KNOW. BUT I WILL TURN THE MICROPHONE OVER TO YOU GUYS TO COME UP TO THE. YES, YES, YES. NOW, NOW, NOW IT'S YOUR SHOW, OKAY. OH, THERE IS A AND THERE'S THERE'S A TIMER HERE. THIS DESK HERE THAT HAS 30 MINUTES. AND SO JUST TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK, BUT IT IS, IT IS YOUR SHOW. NOW, THERE'S A CLICKER ON THE PODIUM FOR YOU AS WELL. GREAT. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS. I AM DAVID IRWIN. I'M A CO-FOUNDER OF. THROUGH CONSULTING. I'VE BEEN SUPPORTING SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS, HELPING DISTRICTS DEVELOP STRATEGIC PLANS. THROUGH CONSULTING IS A NATIONAL K12 CONSULTANCY, AND WE HELP DISTRICTS SERVE THEIR OR SOLVE THEIR MOST CHALLENGING PROBLEMS. WE WERE VERY INTERESTED WHEN WE SAW YOUR RFP, AND BASED ON THE COMPONENTS OF THE DISTRICT, WE DECIDED THAT WE WOULD WE WOULD WE WOULD RESPOND IN ADDITION TO SERVING DISTRICTS, I ALSO SERVE UP UNTIL DECEMBER, I WAS AN ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. SO IT'S STRANGE STANDING ON THIS SIDE OF THE PODIUM AS OPPOSED TO BEING ON THAT SIDE OF THE PODIUM. SO I SERVED TWO TERMS AS AN ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, WHERE MY STUDENTS SERVE. AND I AM THRILLED ABOUT THE INVOLVEMENT THAT THIS BOARD HAS IN IT. I HAVING SERVED DEVELOPING STRATEGIC PLANS FOR DISTRICTS FOR 15 YEARS, IT'S ONE THING TO DEVELOP A PLAN WITH THE TEAM. IT'S ANOTHER THING FOR THE BOARD TO BE TO HAVE A ROLE IN ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING IT. AND AS YOU'LL SEE IN OUR PRESENTATION, IF YOU'VE SEEN OUR, OUR PROPOSAL BEFORE, INVOLVING THE BOARD IS KEY TO WHAT WE'VE DONE. WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR FOR SOME TIME. SO I'M GOING TO LET MY TEAM INTRODUCE MYSELF. AND THEN I'M GOING TO INTRODUCE ONE OF MY TEAMMATES AFTERWARDS. AND I'LL GO TO THAT PAGE TOO IF I CAN. THERE WE GO. OKAY, OKAY. HELLO, I'M DANIELLA DOYLE. I HAVE BEEN WORKING IN EDUCATION MY ENTIRE CAREER. I STARTED AS A FIRST GRADE TEACHER IN NEW YORK AND NORTH CAROLINA. SINCE THEN, I'VE HELD A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT ROLES, BOTH IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. BUT IF THERE'S SORT OF A THEME THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT MY WORK, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WORKING WITH EDUCATION LEADERS TO TRY TO OPERATIONALIZE BIG IDEAS. [01:05:06] I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME WORK IN TEXAS AS WELL. I PARTNERED WITH THE WITH TIA TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE AROUND SB 1882, THE TEXAS PARTNERSHIPS. I'M ALSO CURRENTLY WORKING WITH ECTOR COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND ONE OF THEIR BIG INITIATIVES AROUND PROVIDING BETTER INTERNET ACCESS TO STUDENTS TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY. I ALSO HAVE WORKED TO HELP BUILD THE BUILD AND DIVERSIFY THE EDUCATOR PIPELINE WITH TEACH FOR HOUSTON. HANNAH. HI EVERYBODY. I'M HANNAH FARRELL FROM TULSA, OKLAHOMA AND HAVE A LOT OF FAMILY IN TEXAS. SO I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN AUSTIN AND HOUSTON. ALSO CAME OFF A RECENT STRATEGIC PLAN IN MIDLAND, TEXAS, WHICH, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR, IS WEST TEXAS. BUT I'M ALSO A FORMER TEACHER, TAUGHT MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL MATH AND SCIENCE IN TULSA FOR A FEW YEARS, ALSO WORKED IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY, AND THEN WENT INTO MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FOR A GLOBAL CONSULTING FIRM BEFORE COMING TO THROUGH. SO VERY EXCITED TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE PROCESS HERE AND SHARE MORE ABOUT THAT. AND I'LL INTRODUCE OUR MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, DOCTOR ROBERT RAVOSA. HE COULDN'T BE HERE WITH US TODAY WHEN YOU GUYS SCHEDULED THE MEETING. HE'S DELIVERING A BOARD WORKSHOP IN PLANO, TEXAS TODAY. AND THEN HE'S OFF TO. HE'S SUPPORTING WORK, SUPPORTING ON BEHALF OF THE TO FOR LA JOLLA. SO HE COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. THEY HAVE BOARD MEETINGS TODAY. AND YOU GUYS HAD A BOARD MEETING SO HE COULDN'T SHIFT NOT BEING HERE. BUT DOCTOR VOCI IS A FORMER. HE'S A SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, PRINCIPAL. HE WAS A DISTRICT LEADER IN NORTH CAROLINA. HE WAS A PRINCIPAL. HE WAS A SUPERINTENDENT OF FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS AT 25TH LARGEST DISTRICT IN THE COUNTRY, AND THEN PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL, THE NINTH LARGEST DISTRICT IN THE COUNTRY. I GOT TO KNOW HIM. I WAS, I WAS HE WAS MY CLIENT. I SERVED HIM AS A CONSULTANT. AND I HELPED DEVELOP HIS STRATEGIC PLAN AT FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS AND PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS. WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS, AND WE BRING ANY TIME WE HAVE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES LIKE THIS. HE'S PART HE'S PART OF OUR DELIVERY TEAM. HE HELPS TO COACH AND ADVISE THE SUPERINTENDENT NAVIGATING THROUGH THE BOARD, AND HE HELPS TO GUIDE THE BOARD AS WELL. IN ADDITION TO THE WORK AND SUPPORTING HELPING TO RUN BOARD RETREATS AND SUPPORTING SUPERINTENDENTS, HE RUNS A SUPERINTENDENT ACADEMY CALLED THE EDUCATION FOR THE FORUM FOR EDUCATION LEADERSHIP BASED IN DALLAS, TEXAS. HE HAS 350 MEMBERS HAVE GONE THROUGH IT AND GONE OFF TO BE SUPERINTENDENTS. HIS DISTRICT'S HE'S SUPPORTING RIGHT NOW ARE HOUSTON, AUSTIN, DALLAS, ESSER. THIS IS JUST IN TEXAS TO JUST I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE BRINGING LOCAL CONTEXT. AND THAT'S SOME OF THE SUPPORT THAT HE'S HAD. I KNOW THAT LATER ON THERE'S A VIDEO THAT THAT WE HAD RECORDED EARLIER THAT I THINK LATER ON YOU COULD GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT. AT SOME POINT LATER, WE RECORDED HIM AND TALKING SO ABOUT US AS OUR TEAM INTRODUCED OURSELVES. WE ARE CONSULTANTS. WE'VE BEEN TRAINED, YOU KNOW, AT SOME OF THE LARGEST, MOST PRESTIGIOUS CONSULTANCIES IN THE COUNTRY. BUT WE'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT EDUCATION AND WE'VE DEVOTED OUR CAREERS TO HELPING WITH STUDENT STUDENT OUTCOMES, INCLUDING GIVING UP PERSONAL TIME, AS YOU GUYS HAVE AS BOARD MEMBERS. IN THAT TIME AS WELL WE'VE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LED MORE THAN 150 STRATEGIC PLANS. WE I THINK SOMETHING THAT REALLY DIFFERENTIATES US. AND I THINK THAT YOU'LL SEE AS WE TALK TO OUR PROCESS, ENGAGING THE BOARD IS SUPER IMPORTANT. WHEN WE STARTED THIS WORK WE MOSTLY FOCUSED JUST ON THE DISTRICT LEADERSHIP. IT WAS SUPER IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SPEND ONE ON ONE TIME WITH EVERY SINGLE BOARD MEMBER AND UNDERSTAND THEIR PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THE WORK. AND I KNOW THIS IS A BOARD DRIVEN INITIATIVE, BUT IT'S OUR IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND THE PERSPECTIVES OF OF THE BOARD. WE ALSO VISIT AS MANY SCHOOLS AS WE CAN. WE YOU KNOW, OUR PLAN METHODOLOGY IS ABOUT SEVEN TRIPS OUT HERE. AND WHEN WE'RE NOT MEETING WITH SOME OF THE DISTRICT WORKSHOPS, WE'RE GOING TO BE OUT VISITING SCHOOLS. SOME OF OUR BEST INITIATIVE IDEAS HAVE COME FROM TEACHERS, FROM STUDENTS, FROM PRINCIPALS IN THE SCHOOLS THEMSELVES. IT'S ONE THING TO SIT IN A DISTRICT OFFICE AND TALK ABOUT THE PLANNING THING, THE PLANNING THAT GOES ON. IT'S ANOTHER THING TO ACTUALLY BE OUT IN THE SCHOOLS AND HEARING FROM WHAT STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY. AND I'D SAY IT'S SOMETHING THAT IT'S THE CORE TO OUR COMPANY AS TO WHO WE ARE AND SPENDING AS MUCH TIME AS WE CAN AT THE LEVEL OF THE STUDENTS. AND WE DIDN'T ALWAYS START THAT WAY A LOT OF THE TIMES, AND I FEEL THAT WE'VE MADE MISTAKES IN THE PAST BY JUST ALLOWING VOICES TO BE HEARD DIRECTLY FROM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN, YOU KNOW, ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS, GOING THROUGH IT. BEING IN SCHOOLS IS SUPER IMPORTANT NOT ONLY FOR OUR PERSPECTIVE, BUT ALSO FOR THE BUY IN FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THE THE BUY IN FOR THE THE TEACHERS, THE PRINCIPALS, PARENTS AND THAT STUFF. AND THEN LASTLY, WE THOUGH WE HAVE A METHODOLOGY THAT'S BEEN HONED OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS OR SO. WE'RE INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE IF THINGS COME UP AND CHANGE AND THAT THE DISTRICT WANTS TO MAKE A CHANGE, THE BOARD HAS A CHANGE IN DIRECTION AND IS GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT. BUT WE ARE INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE. WE HAVE YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN SERVING DISTRICTS FOR, YOU KNOW, 15 YEARS. [01:10:01] WE HAVE 100% SUCCESS RATE WITH ANY DISTRICT WE'VE EVER SERVED. AND NOT THAT THINGS HAVE ALWAYS GONE GREAT. THERE'S BEEN THINGS, YOU KNOW, HICCUPS ALONG THE WAY, BUT OUR ABILITY TO BE FLEXIBLE AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS ALONG THE WAY, WE DON'T COME WITH A FIXED LIKE SET. WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THIS METHODOLOGY. WE ADJUST ALONG THE WAY. AND I THINK THAT YOU'LL FIND IF YOU CHOOSE TO WORK WITH US, THAT YOU FIND REALLY TRUE PARTNERS. AND A LOT OF THE FIRMS THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY TALKING TO ARE PRETTY WELL QUALIFIED AS WELL. I THINK THAT WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT WHAT OUR, WHAT YOUR PEER DISTRICTS WOULD SAY IS THAT THESE GUYS ARE, ARE TRUE, INCREDIBLE PARTNERS. WE'LL GO ON TO. SO I'M GOING TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT NOW ABOUT THE COMPONENTS OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN. ONE OF THOSE, AND THIS IS BUILT OVER THE EIGHT MONTHS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH YOU. ONE OF THOSE IS THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION. THIS IS THE FIVE YEAR PLAN ITSELF. WITHIN THAT, WE REALLY FOCUS ON MAKING IT ACTIONABLE AND DATA DRIVEN. SO WE BUILD OUT A SET OF INITIATIVES WHICH FALL UNDER THEMES AND THE PLAN AND THOSE ARE VERY SUCCESS METRIC, HAVE SUCCESS METRICS TIED TO THEM AND VERY GROUNDED IN DATA, WHICH WE GATHER THROUGHOUT THE FIRST PROCESS. WHEN WE THE FIRST STAGES OF THE PLAN. SO STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IS ANOTHER KEY PIECE OF THIS. AND I'LL SPEAK MORE TO THAT ON THE NEXT SLIDE. BUT IT'S, AS DAVID MENTIONED, VERY IMPORTANT TO US TO HEAR THE VOICES NOT ONLY OF THE BOARD BUT OF THE COMMUNITY. SO WE DO THAT THROUGH SCHOOL VISITS. WE DO THAT THROUGH SURVEYS. WE HAVE A VARIETY OF METHODS OF REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, STUDENTS, TEACHERS. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WANT STUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL. I THINK THAT'S THE PURPOSE AND WE HAVE TO STAY GROUNDED IN THAT. SO MAKING SURE WE'RE GETTING THEIR PERSPECTIVE AS WELL, AND THEN WE WANT TO MAKE IT PRACTICE BASED. SO WHILE WE'RE BUILDING THE PLAN, WE WANT TO START BUILDING MOMENTUM AS WE GO AND NOT WAIT UNTIL WE LAUNCH IT. SO WE TRY TO START PUTTING THINGS INTO PRACTICE AS WE IDENTIFY THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ACTION ORIENTED. EXCELLENT. SO PART OF THE STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROCESS. LIKE WE SAID, WE'RE VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT DESIGNING A BROAD REPRESENTATION, AND THAT INCLUDES ENGAGING THE FULL SPECTRUM OF THE COMMUNITY. SO WE DO THIS THROUGH GOING TO SCHOOLS. AS DAVID SAID, WE JUST CAME BACK FROM RHODE ISLAND VISITING 19 SCHOOLS, TALKING TO A VARIETY OF ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS, HEARING PERSPECTIVES. WE TOOK THAT DATA AND BUILT IT INTO THE PLAN WE'RE DOING OUT THERE. BUT ALSO WE DO WORKSHOPS. AND AS DANIELA WILL SPEAK TO IN A MOMENT WITH OUR TIMELINE, WE MEET WITH ABOUT TYPICALLY A TEAM OF ABOUT 20 INDIVIDUALS. BUT LIKE DAVID MENTIONED, WE HAVE TO BE FLEXIBLE. AND OUR WORK WITH MIDLAND, THE SUPERINTENDENT WANTED TO INCLUDE 80 COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THESE WORKSHOPS, WHICH, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IS QUITE A LARGE GROUP. BUT OF COURSE, THAT WAS THE NEEDS OF THEIR DISTRICT. SO WE WENT WITH IT. SO WE PARTNERED WITH THE LOCAL CHURCH AND WE FOUND SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE 80 INDIVIDUALS. IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO HEAR ALL OF THEIR VOICES. SO IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD A PLACE WHERE WE COULD GIVE EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE DATA WE'D COLLECTED, BECAUSE THIS WAS A DATA WORKSHOP, WE HAD BREAKOUT ROOMS AND WERE VERY THOUGHTFUL AROUND WHO WE PUT IN WHICH ROOM TO MAKE SURE WE HAD A MIXED BAG. WE HAD EVERYONE FROM PARENTS, WE HAD ADMINISTRATORS, WE HAD SECURITY OFFICERS. SO IT WAS A VERY BROAD REPRESENTATION. AND THEN FROM THAT, WE TAKE ALL THE FEEDBACK, WE GATHER AND WE TAKE IT BACK AND SYNTHESIZE IT AND THEN PUT IT INTO THE PLAN. SO THAT IS HOW WE BUILT OUR INITIATIVES MOVING FORWARD. AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN ALL OF OUR STRATEGIC PLANS, IS WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT ONLY BEING DATA DRIVEN, BUT HEARING THE RIGHT VOICES AND THEN INCORPORATING THAT IN THE PLAN MOVING FORWARD. SO I WILL PASS IT TO DANIELA TO TALK ABOUT THE TIMELINE. THANK YOU. SO THE STEPS IN THE TIMELINE, AS DAVID MENTIONED, THEY REPRESENT 15 YEARS OF REFINEMENT OVER TIME. WE'VE TRIED SOME THINGS OVER TIME AND ADJUSTED AS WE WENT. AND WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT THESE SEVEN STEPS OVER EIGHT MONTHS TEND TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE. AGAIN, WE'RE ALWAYS WILLING TO BE FLEXIBLE AND ADJUST, BUT THEY REPRESENT SORT OF THE STARTING POINT FOR US. AND JUST A FEW THINGS TO POINT OUT ABOUT THE TIMELINE AND THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE SET THEM UP. I SAID, THERE'S SEVEN STEPS, AND EACH OF THOSE PRETTY MUCH HAS ONE OF THOSE COMMITTEE MEETINGS WITH ABOUT 20 MEM GROUP MEMBERS. AND THE PURPOSE OF THOSE MEANS IS THAT EACH STEP TO PRESENT WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, TO GET SOME FEEDBACK AND TO SORT OF SOCIALIZE OR TEST OUT SOME NEW IDEAS. AND THEN COMING OUT OF THOSE MEETINGS, WE HAVE SOME NEXT STEPS. SO THERE'S A SMALLER TEAM, USUALLY 3 TO 5 WITHIN THE DISTRICT OFFICE WHO WE PARTNER WITH, AND THEN TO IMPLEMENT THOSE NEXT STEPS. AND THEN WE'RE MEET WITH THAT COMMITTEE AGAIN. SO IT'S A PRETTY CYCLICAL PROCESS WHICH WE THINK, YOU KNOW, REALLY HELPS AS WE HAVE UP THERE BUILD THE STRATEGY MUSCLE BECAUSE THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO PRACTICE AND REVISE. BECAUSE PART OF WHAT WE'VE LEARNED AND IS THAT STRATEGIC PLANNING REALLY IS AN EXERCISE IN CHANGE MANAGEMENT. SO IT'S ONE YOU CAN COME UP WITH THE BEST PLAN IN THE WORLD, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE BUY IN AND YOU HAVEN'T COMMUNICATED IT THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, IT'S STILL IT'S NOT GOING [01:15:01] TO BE EFFECTIVE. AND ULTIMATELY WE WANT TO CREATE A PLAN THAT THE BOARD IS GOING TO BE ON BOARD WITH THAT AND THAT THE DISTRICT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT SUCCESSFULLY. SO A BIG PART OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PREPARING, WE'RE DOING OUR PART TO SET YOU ALL UP FOR SUCCESS FOR THAT IMPLEMENTATION. AND JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS I WANT TO OTHER THINGS I WANT TO POINT OUT ON THE TIMELINE. ONE IS GENERALLY WE SPEND ABOUT A MONTH ON EACH OF THE STEPS. AGAIN, WE HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY, BUT THE DATA PIECE, WHICH IS REALLY THE ANCHOR OF SO MUCH OF THE WORK WE DO BECAUSE THE PLAN HAS TO COME FROM THOSE FROM THAT DATA GATHERING AND FEEDBACK. WE DO ALLOW TWO MONTHS FOR IN PART, THAT'S BECAUSE WE NEED TO COLLECT THE DATA AND THAT TAKES SOME TIME AND COORDINATION, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THE DETAILS OF WHAT THAT ENGAGEMENT LOOKED LIKE LOOKS LIKE IS GOING TO VARY BY THE COMMUNITY. HANNAH MENTIONED A LITTLE WHILE AGO MIDLAND WANTED TO TALK WITH ADP, YOU KNOW, BRINGING 80 DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS. WE WANT TO DO WHAT'S GOING TO BE RIGHT FOR FOR LAMAR. AND THEN ANOTHER ONE OTHER I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PROCESS, WE OFTEN WILL HAVE A BOARD WORKSHOP AS A WAY TO DO SORT OF A CHECKPOINT. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HEARING SO FAR. THIS IS THE DIRECTION WE'RE HEADING IN. DOES THIS FEEL RIGHT? WHAT ADJUSTMENTS DO WE NEED TO MAKE? OR WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO SEE AS WE MOVE FORWARD? SO REALLY BUILDING IN THOSE CHECKPOINTS ALONG THE WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE AND THAT WE'RE HEARING WHAT NEEDS TO BE HEARD AND MOVING FORWARD ON A PLAN THAT FEELS DOABLE AT THE END OF THE DAY. GREAT. SO WITHIN THE PROPOSAL, WE HAD OUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. AND THIS TRULY IS IT'S A IT'S A PARTNERSHIP. IT'S A COLLABORATION. BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO SUMMARIZE WHAT WE SEE AS OUR ROLE, IT REALLY IS TO FACILITATE THE PLANNING PROCESS SO THAT YOU ALL CAN SHINE. AND WHAT THAT MEANS OFTEN IS THAT WE'RE DOING A LOT OF THE BEHIND THE SCENES WORK THAT LOOKS LIKE MAKING AGENDAS, WHICH WE HAVE ON THE LEFT FOR DIFFERENT MEETINGS. IT MEANS MAKING DETAILED FACILITATION GUIDES FOR, YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS WHO ARE ACTUALLY PRESENTING AT THOSE MEETINGS. IT MEANS DOING RESEARCH. IF THERE'S MAYBE A TOPIC OR AN ISSUE THAT YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS ARE DOING OR DIFFERENT APPROACHES THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO TAKE, BUILDING ACTIVITIES, FINDING ARTICLES THAT MAYBE WILL ADDRESS A CONCERN AGAINST GETS TO SOME OF THE FLEXIBILITY IN THE THE TAILORING WILL DO FOR, FOR EACH DISTRICT. AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TIME TO PRESENT AND TO LEAD DIFFERENT SESSIONS, WE'RE HAPPY TO LEAD. WE'RE ALSO HAPPY TO TAKE A STEP BACK AS MUCH AS THE DISTRICT NEEDS TO AND WANTS TO BE THE FACE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE'S OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE, WHETHER IT BE BOARD MEMBERS OR MEMBERS OF SENIOR LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE DISTRICT, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTIVITIES AND NOT JUST FACILITATE. SO WE OFTEN KIND OF PARTNER IN THOSE ROLES AND TRANSITION OVER TIME BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE KNOW OUR TIME IN THIS ENGAGEMENT WILL END, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DISTRICT IS POSITIONED TO KEEP IT GOING AND TO KEEP IT GOING SUCCESSFULLY. THANKS, DANIELA. THANK YOU. I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO SHOW ONE EXAMPLE HERE, AND I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS BEFOREHAND. I WANTED TO A BIG THANK YOU TO JILL LUDWIG, YOUR CFO. WHEN WE MADE WHEN I SPOKE TO HIM, WE MADE THE DECISION TO COME DOWN HERE. SHE WAS SO INCREDIBLY TRANSPARENT ABOUT YOUR PROCESS, AND IT WAS AN INVESTMENT FOR US TO BE HERE. BUT BASED ON WHAT SHE HAD SHARED WITH US, WE KNEW IT WAS THE RIGHT PLACE TO COME. SO A BIG THANK YOU. AND THEN THANK YOU FOR CHAD FOR HELPING TO COORDINATE SOME OF THIS WORK. THIS IS ABOUT TWO MINUTES LONG, SO WE HAVE 15 MINUTES. SO I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY WATCH MOST OF IT. I'VE WATCHED SOME OF YOUR VIDEOS SUPERINTENDENT EVANS, WHICH YOU'VE PUT OUT, AND IT LOOKS LIKE YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF THE GOOD PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES IN HERE. SO I WANT TO SHOW YOU AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING THAT WE HELPED LEAD IN A DISTRICT IN EAST MICHIGAN I JUST HIT. KENTWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MORE THAN 9000 STUDENTS, 1700 STAFF AND THE MOST DIVERSE DISTRICT IN MICHIGAN IN THE TOP TEN FOR DIVERSITY IN THE NATION. EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY IN EDUCATION IS OUR STANDARD, AND IT SHOWS KPS IS HOME TO NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOLS, A NATIONAL BEATING THE ODDS SCHOOL CAPTURING KIDS HEARTS NATIONAL SHOWCASE SCHOOLS HONORED BY THE MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF OUR ENGLISH LEARNERS, AND RECENTLY HIGHLIGHTED FOR OUR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT DURING THE PANDEMIC. ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING TIMES OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS FACED. THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS DID NOT JUST HAPPEN. THEY WERE NOT ACCIDENTS. THEY WERE PART OF INTENTIONAL WORK AND PLANNING TO SERVE THE STUDENTS AND FAMILIES OF OUR DISTRICT. BUT THIS IS ONLY JUST THE BEGINNING BECAUSE OUR STANDARD IS EXCELLENCE. IT'S TIME TO SET NEW GOALS, TO TAKE ON NEW CHALLENGES. WE WILL DO THAT WORK THIS YEAR AS WE EMBARK ON THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, IMPORTANT WORK THAT WILL CHART OUR PATH FOR THE NEXT 3 TO 5 YEARS AT KENTWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THIS WORK WILL INVOLVE LISTENING TO OUR COMMUNITY, RESEARCHING DISTRICT NEEDS, COLLABORATING TO SET GOALS, AND WORKING TOGETHER TO DESIGN INNOVATIVE IDEAS TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS, ALL WITH THE PURPOSE OF ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY FOR OUR STUDENTS. THIS WILL BE AN EFFORT THAT INVOLVES MANY BOARD MEMBERS, DISTRICT LEADERS AND STAFF, STUDENTS, PARENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND KEY PARTNERS. [01:20:06] IN THE COMING MONTHS, THERE WILL BE NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR VOICES TO BE HEARD BECAUSE YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL TO THIS PROCESS. WE WILL NOT REST ON OUR PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT INSTEAD BUILD UPON THEM. WE LOOK FORWARD TO THIS INTENTIONAL WORK IN THE YEAR AHEAD, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AS WE DESIGN THE FUTURE OF KENTWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS TOGETHER. GO, FALCONS! THANK YOU. SO WE IF WE GO BACK TO THE PRESENTATION. SO WE'LL GO BACK A PAGE. WE SHOWED YOU ONE EXAMPLE. THIS IS A PRE MEETING. SO WE DID THIS THROUGHOUT FOR ENGAGEMENT. WE WROTE THE SCRIPT. WE SUPPORTED THE EDITING OF IT AND HELPED HELPED DURING THE COURSE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE COMMUNICATING THE PLAN TO BUILD THE RIGHT BUY IN THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. THE MIDDLE REPRESENTS THIS IS THE SUPERINTENDENT IN IN MIDLAND, TEXAS. THIS WAS HELPING. THIS IS AFTER BOARD WORKSHOP, BOARD WORKSHOP. AND WE HELPED SUPPORT HER. SHE WAS INTERVIEWED BY THE LOCAL PRESS THERE AND WE IT WAS WE WERE PART OF IT, PART OF THE THE WORKSHOP AT THE TIME. AND ON THE RIGHT IS THE PRESENTATION OF THE ACTUAL STRATEGIC PLAN. THIS IS FOR YOU TO LOOK AT LATER. WHEN WE HAD SHOWED SOME OF THE WORK OF THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. AND I THINK THIS HOPEFULLY SHOWS THE, THE LENGTHS THAT WILL GO TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED. THEY LIKE THE VIDEO DRONE FOOTAGE IN THE KENWOOD ONE. I HAD A DRONE. SO FOR HIM I HELPED THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE RIGHT. WE'VE WE FILMED SCHOOLS FROM FROM UPPER BECAUSE WE WANTED TO HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF VIDEO ON IT TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE NOT HIRING US FOR OUR DRONE ABILITIES, BUT WHATEVER IT TAKES TO ENSURE THAT THE DISTRICT GETS WHAT THEY WANT, THAT'S OUR THAT'S OUR INCREDIBLE FLEXIBILITY. SO THIS WAS BEGINNING BEFORE IT STARTED IN THE MIDDLE AND THEN AFTERWARDS TO. AND WE UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT AND AUTHENTIC COMMUNICATION IS. AND I GET A LOT OF THAT FROM DOCTOR VOSA. AND IT'S BEING VERY INTENTIONAL. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT DEVELOPING A STRATEGIC PLAN, IT'S ABOUT ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING IT. SO TO THAT NOTE, THIS I THINK IS IMPORTANT, SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SHARE. SO THE LEFT IS THIS IS A PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS. THE RESULT AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS CARE ABOUT HOPEFULLY THE MOST IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE STRATEGIC PLAN AFTER PALM BEACH IS STRATEGIC PLAN. AND THEY VERY MUCH DEFINE WHAT THE INITIATIVES WERE AND THEIR VISIONS. IT EVENTUALLY LED TO REMOVING ALL 21 SCHOOLS THAT WERE THAT WERE RATED BY D AND F IN THE STATE OFF THAT LIST. HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT THAT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN DONE IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE A COORDINATION AND FOCUS FROM THE BOARD ON THESE WERE THE INITIATIVES, AND THESE WERE THE GOALS THAT THEY'RE FOCUSING ON ON THE RIGHT. THAT'S BOTETOURT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA. IT'S A STRATEGIC PLAN WE COMPLETED RECENTLY. THEY THEY HAD BEEN STRUGGLING WITH OVER ENROLLMENT IN SOME SCHOOLS UNDER ENROLLMENT AT OTHER SCHOOLS, BUT THERE HAD BEEN NO FOCUS OF VISION COLLECTIVELY, COLLECTIVELY AMONGST THE BOARD ABOUT SOME PRETTY TOUGH DECISIONS THAT THEY NEEDED TO MAKE. THE STRATEGIC PLAN WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO COME TOGETHER FOR A COLLECTIVE VISION, WHICH HAS PUT THEM ON THE PATH NOW TO MAKING SOME PRETTY HARD DECISIONS AROUND SCHOOL REALIGNMENTS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION COSTS. IF YOU GO LOOK AT ITS WEBSITE, YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE INITIATIVES THAT THEY'RE DOING THAT ARE THE RESULT OF ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING THE STRATEGIC PLAN, NOT SOMETHING THAT'S JUST SITTING ON A DESK. SOME EXAMPLES, AS I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, WERE A NATIONAL CONSULTANCY. WE HIGHLIGHTED OBVIOUSLY SOME OF OUR DISTRICTS IN TEXAS, ME PERSONALLY HAVE I'M SUPPORTING ECTOR COUNTY ISD RIGHT NOW IN WEST TEXAS. I HAVE SUPPORTED FORT WORTH AND HOUSTON AND AUSTIN AND PLANO, TEXAS. SO I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NOT LOCAL HERE, WE HAVE LOTS OF LOCAL EXPERIENCE WORKING IN TEXAS. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE BRING A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. IF THERE'S AN IDEA OR INITIATIVE THAT COMES ABOUT THAT THE DISTRICT IS INTERESTED IN, BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING FROM THE DATA, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAP INTO THAT EXPERTISE OR EXAMPLE EXAMPLE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT, I TOLD YOU IN THE BEGINNING THAT I SHOWED YOU THE VIDEO KENWOOD. THEY'RE THE FIFTH MOST DIVERSE DISTRICT IN THE COUNTRY, AND THEY SPEAK 30 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES THERE. AND ONE OF WHAT WAS EMERGING TO THE TOP IS COMMUNICATIONS WERE A BARRIER ABOUT HOW THEY COMMUNICATE WITH FAMILIES. BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEY WERE TRYING TO THINK, WELL, WHAT INITIATIVES COULD WE PUT IN PLACE TO HELP SUPPORT BETTER COMMUNICATING WITH FAMILIES THAT SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, RATHER THAN JUST HAVING THEM, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT THINGS ON THEIR OWN? LET'S CONNECT THEM TO DISTRICTS. SO, YOU KNOW, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS ONE OF OUR CLIENTS. SO REACHED OUT TO THE HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS, AND WE ARRANGED A ZOOM CALL TO TALK THROUGH THE HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TACTICS. AND THOSE BECAME INITIATIVES. SO SIMILARLY, WE WILL USE OUR NETWORKS, NOT JUST OUR NETWORKS, BUT DOCTOR, DOCTOR VOS, DOCTOR VOCES NETWORKS WITH CHIEFS FOR CHANGE, WHICH IS A NATIONAL URBAN ORGANIZATION THAT CONNECTS DISTRICTS AS WELL. SO YOU'RE GETTING FROM US TAPPING INTO EXPERTISE NOT JUST IN TEXAS, BUT BUT ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND I THINK THAT I THINK THAT ENDS OUR, OUR PRESENTATION. TRUSTEES. ANY QUESTIONS? I CAN APPRECIATE YOU GUYS ARE OUT OF STATE AND THE COST THAT COMES. [01:25:04] WITH THAT IN MIND, HOW MANY OF THE SEVEN STEPS, HOW MANY OF THOSE? WE ALL BE HERE ON THE GROUND? SEVEN. SO ALL SEVEN. YEAH. SO. AND THE WAY THAT WORKS. AND LET ME I'LL START AND THEN I'LL LET DANIELA OR HANNAH ADD IN IS WE THOUGH THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT'S DONE IN BETWEEN THE MONTHS, WE USUALLY HAVE A PLANNING TEAM OF AROUND 20 FOLKS THAT WE WORK WITH AFTER, YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE SELECTED, WE WORK WITH YOU TO DECIDE WHO THE 20 DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS THAT ARE REALLY HELPING JUST TO GUIDE THE WORK ON A ON A MONTHLY BASIS THAT MEET TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH IDEAS, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING INPUT ALONG THE WAY FROM OTHERS, BUT WE HAVE A WORKSHOP THAT TALKS ABOUT THOSE DIFFERENT STEPS ALONG THE WAY, AND EACH STEP IS A DIFFERENT THEME, AND THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT ARE USUALLY DONE. OOPS, SORRY. I'M SORRY I'M GOING THE WRONG WAY. IN THE PAST, WE DID THESE ALL AT THE SAME TIME. AND SO DIVIDING THEM OUT OVER TIME. SO EACH MONTH IS A DIFFERENT THEME AND FOCUS THAT WE FOCUS ON OVER, OVER A PERIOD OF TIME. LOTS OF WORK THAT GOES IN BETWEEN IT. THE ONLY ONE THAT'S A LITTLE BREAK IS DATA COLLECTION. WE USED TO DO IT IN A MONTH, AND WE REALIZED THAT THERE'S NO WAY WE COULD COLLECT DATA THAT IN THAT FIRST TIME AROUND, STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT. OUR FIRST MONTH IS JUST ABOUT STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT. WE KNOW THAT EACH OF YOU ALL REPRESENT DIFFERENT DISTRICTS AND YOU HAVE DIFFERENT CONSTITUENTS. SO THE FIRST MONTH IS JUST FIGURING OUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET TO DIFFERENT CONSTITUENTS. ARE WE GOING TO GO TO ARE WE GOING TO CONDUCT, YOU KNOW, SESSIONS AT FAITH BASED ORGANIZATIONS THE WAY THAT HANNAH MENTIONED? ARE WE GOING TO HAVE FORUMS WHERE WE BRING, YOU KNOW, STAFF AND STUDENTS TOGETHER? SO WE FIGURE OUT ALL THAT TOGETHER. WE'RE NOT PRESCRIBING AND TELLING YOU EXACTLY WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE LIKE. THE GROUP HELPS COME UP WITH THOSE THINGS. ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? I'LL JUST ADD AND HANNAH MENTIONED OUR RHODE ISLAND WORK WHERE WE VISITED 19 SCHOOLS. WE ALSO DID A WHOLE BUNCH OF STAKEHOLDER MAPPING TO IDENTIFY WHO IS IT THAT WE NEED TO HEAR FROM, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND HOW WILL THIS INITIATIVE IMPACT THEM. AND THEN BASED ON THOSE NEEDS, WE IDENTIFIED, WHAT ARE THE STRATEGIES WE CAN USE TO REACH THE NUMBERS THAT WE NEED TO REACH AND GET THE INFORMATION FROM THEM. SO IT'S VERY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LIKE A TOOLBOX THAT WE PULL FROM. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE REALLY CREATING THE PLAN IN THAT FIRST MONTH BASED ON WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM YOU. THAT ANSWER? THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO LET'S SAY IF OUR BOARD DECIDES TO GO WITH THROUGH WHAT CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THE PROCESS WOULD BE. POST STRATEGIC PLAN AND FOLLOW UP AND UPDATE OF STRATEGIC PLAN. SO WE WILL I MEAN, WE NEVER GO AWAY. SO WE'RE ALWAYS HERE. SO WE'RE THERE. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT YOU'VE IMPLEMENTED THE PLAN. I MEAN, TO THE POINT YOU DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH DON'T TALK LIKE YOU HAVE OTHER THINGS TO MOVE ON TO. WE UNDERSTAND THAT, TOO. WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU TO THE POINT THAT THERE'S A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE IN PLACE SO THAT YOU CAN OPERATE, OPERATIONALIZE THE PLAN. WHAT I HONESTLY, ONE OF THE THINGS I LEARNED FROM DOCTOR RAVOSA WAS HELPING TO ESTABLISH A ROLE THAT REPORTED TO THE BOARD EVERY SINGLE MONTH ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN. IT'S A BOARD, A BOARD REPORTING MECHANISMS THAT WILL HELP SET YOU UP WITH. SO THAT ON MY HOPE AND AGAIN, IT DEPENDS. YOUR SUPERINTENDENT MIGHT THINK OTHERWISE IS AS FAR AS CREATING EXPECTATIONS. BUT MY HOPE IS THAT ON A MONTHLY BASIS A LEADER FROM THE DISTRICT AND USUALLY AN OPPORTUNITY, SOMEONE THAT'S INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING PROCESS REPORTS TO THE DISTRICT, THE PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTING THE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES. SO OUR PLAN IS TO GET YOU UP AND SUCCESSFUL SO THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST BECOMES ANOTHER PROCESS OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING. SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH OUR OUR ENGAGEMENT, OUR HOPE IS THE REASON WHY WE ALSO HAVE EIGHT MONTHS AND I KNOW IT SAYS ABOUT BUILDING THE MUSCLE IS THAT BY THE TIME WE GET TO THE LAST STAGE AROUND GOVERNANCE AND MONITORING, YOU GUYS ARE GOOD TO GO. YOU'VE ALREADY STARTED LIKE ACTIONING ON SOME OF THE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES THAT ARE THERE, LIKE IT'S NOT. AND AGAIN, THAT'S WHY WE SPREAD IT OUT. SO IT DOESN'T JUST WHAT WE FOUND IS WHEN DISTRICTS LIKE DO IT REALLY QUICKLY IN THREE MONTHS, LIKE THERE'S A BETTER CHANCE THAT YOU WON'T ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THE THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LEFT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? AND SO WHEN Y'ALL TALKED ABOUT VISITING SCHOOLS WHAT WHAT IS WHAT IS YOUR VISION OF WHAT YOU WOULD GET FROM VISITING SCHOOLS? DO YOU OWN THE CLASSROOMS OR ARE YOU JUST THERE TO TALK TO STUDENTS OR WHAT IS THAT? SO VISITING SCHOOLS, WE REALLY WANT TO WALK THE HALLWAYS. WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE OF THE DISTRICT. WE WANT TO TALK TO ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS. SO WE WERE IN VISALIA, CALIFORNIA AND VISITED SEVERAL SCHOOLS THERE. WITHIN THAT, WE WE TYPICALLY MEET WITH THE PRINCIPAL AND AT FIRST AND JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION, SHARE MORE ABOUT THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THE VISION, BECAUSE WE WANT TO INCORPORATE THEIR FEEDBACK AND WHAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH INTO THE PLAN. SO IF THEY HAVE CERTAIN PAIN POINTS, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING THAT AND AT LEAST AWARE OF IT TO BRING IT INTO OUR DATA. BUT THEN WE TALK TO STUDENTS AS WELL. WE VISIT THE CLASSROOMS. THEY TYPICALLY THE PRINCIPAL WILL TAKE US ON A TOUR AND WALK US INTO THE CLASSROOM. LET US TALK TO STUDENTS. TYPICALLY IT'S NOT DURING THE MIDDLE OF A LESSON. OR IF IT IS, WE'LL JUST KIND OF STAND IN THE BACK AND OBSERVE. BUT IT'S REALLY JUST A CHANCE FOR US TO GET TO KNOW THE DISTRICT BETTER AND HEAR VOICES NOT ONLY OF THE PRINCIPAL, BUT THEN TEACHERS AS WELL, AND SEE WHAT ARE THINGS YOU HOPE TO [01:30:01] SEE IN THE PLAN. BECAUSE WHILE WE DO HAVE SOME TEACHERS AND ADMIN AND PARENTS INVOLVED IN THE THE WORKSHOPS, WE DO. NOT EVERYONE GETS A CHANCE TO DO THAT. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GIVING EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A VOICE. I DON'T KNOW. AND JUST WHEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE SCHOOLS, WE WANT TO GET A DIVERSITY OF SCHOOLS, RIGHT, SO WE CAN GET A FULLER PICTURE OF THE DISTRICT. AND IT PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING FROM ALL THESE OTHER CONVERSATIONS? SO PART OF IT IS LIKE A BACKSTOP OR A CHECK ON WHERE WE'RE GOING, MAKING SURE WE UNDERSTAND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SUCH AND SUCH A SCHOOL OR SUCH AND SUCH A POPULATION, HOW CAN WE ACTUALLY SAY THAT WE'VE SPOKEN TO THEM AND CAN PULL THAT EXPERIENCE? AND THE EXAMPLE THAT HANNAH GAVE VASILI IS A CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. 7% OF THEIR KIDS GO OFF TO FOUR YEAR COLLEGES, 7%. THAT'S IT. GO OFF TO FOUR YEAR COLLEGES. AND THEY WE MET, WE WENT TO WE VISITED, WE VISITED ABOUT 30 SCHOOLS. WE WENT TO THIS ONE PARTICULAR EXPULSION SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA. THEY HAVE LAWS. IF THEY EXPEL KIDS, THEY CAN'T ACTUALLY JUST BE EXPELLED. THEY HAVE TO GO TO OTHER SCHOOLS. AND WHAT WE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR FROM THE TEACHERS THERE IS THAT ALL OF THESE OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE FAILED THESE KIDS. WHY THEY'RE HERE, LIKE WE DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES IN PLACE AT THESE SCHOOLS. WHY THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER ENDED UP HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE HAD SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT ISSUES OR SIGNIFICANT INITIATIVES AROUND TEACHING AND LEARNING, BUT TO HEAR IT FIRSTHAND FROM TEACHERS TELLING US THAT, LIKE, WE FAILED THESE KIDS, WE FAILED. THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE WOULDN'T HAVE HEARD, LIKE WE WOULDN'T HAVE MEANT IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT POWERFUL FOR US TO BE ABLE TO THINK ABOUT THE INITIATIVES THAT NEEDED TO BE PUT IN PLACE. IF WE HADN'T HEARD IT FIRSTHAND FROM FROM THE YOU KNOW, FROM THE TEACHERS AND SEEING KIDS THERE, SEEING KIDS THAT LOOK JUST LIKE MY MY SON'S THERE KNOWING THAT, LIKE, IF THEY WERE IN A DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND THEY HAD BETTER SUPPORTS FOR THEM, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES THAN WHERE THEY WERE RIGHT NOW. AND WHICH FOR US, IT JUST FUELED SOME OF OUR SOME OF OUR FIRE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE PUSHING THE DISTRICT TO BE BOLD ABOUT THE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES THAT THEY WERE PUTTING IN PLACE. ONE. I HAVE ONE. ONE MORE QUESTION. MAKE IT QUICK, I WILL. I APPRECIATE YOUR TIMELINE, BUT HAVE YOU USED THAT TIMELINE ON A SCHOOL DISTRICT AS LARGE AS OURS? BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SEVERAL A LOT OF SCHOOLS AND A LARGE SCHOOL DISTRICT. SO THE VESSEL ONE WE MENTIONED WAS ABOUT THE SAME TIMEFRAME. IT'S ABOUT, I KNOW YOU'RE 41,000 OR ABOUT 35,000. SO WE HAVE DONE IT FOR THAT. AGAIN, WE'RE FLEXIBLE. WE'RE IF IT NEEDS MORE TIME, WE CAN SPREAD IT OUT A LITTLE BIT LONGER AND VISIT MORE. SO WHEN WE'RE HERE, USUALLY FOR TWO DAYS, WE'LL HAVE A WORKSHOP. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL SPEND THE REST OF OUR TIME EITHER INTERVIEWING, INTERVIEWING BOARD MEMBERS OR GOING OUT AND VISIT SCHOOLS. SO WE'RE INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE. IF WE NEED TO STRETCH IT ANOTHER MONTH, LIKE WE'RE NOT, WE WON'T SHORTCHANGE THE TIME WE WORK FOR. WE ALL WORK FOR REALLY BIG CONSULTING FIRMS BEFORE, AND WE HAVE VERY STRICT GUIDELINES FOR WHEN WE HAD TO GET DONE. WE'RE A SMALLER FIRM, SO WE HAVE A LOT MORE FLEXIBILITY IN WHAT WE CAN DO. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO THE BOARD WILL DEBRIEF LATER ON AND THEY'LL MAKE A DECISION. YOU WILL HEAR BACK FROM MISS LOGUE. OUR CFO AND HER TEAM. PROBABLY AROUND THE FIRST, 1ST OF AUGUST. WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING IN JULY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE WE KNOW IT'S URGENT, BUT IT'S NOT THAT URGENT TO MAKE A DECISION RIGHT NOW. AND SO YOU'LL HEAR BACK FROM US FIRST BY THE 1ST OF AUGUST ON OUR DIRECTION. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO MISS LUDWIG. AND SHE CAN ANSWER AS MANY AS SHE CAN. GREAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. SO TIMELINE FOR US. WE CAN DEBRIEF NOW DISCUSS. WE ARE ON CAMERA. SO TALK ABOUT THE THREE, WHAT WE THOUGHT, WHAT WE FELT. WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE OUR THOUGHTS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR MINDS. NOW, IF THERE WAS ONE THAT STOOD OUT OR STOOD UP WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION UNTIL AUGUST 1ST. WE COULD ALSO DEBRIEF WHAT WE WANT TO SAY NOW, AND THEN ALSO SEND OUR THOUGHTS TO DOCTOR NIVENS AND THEN WE CAN FILL OUT THE RANKINGS. SO THAT'S HIM. AND THEN WE CAN AS A COMMITTEE RECONVENE AS WELL. SO IS THERE ANY THOUGHTS OR ANY ANY I FEEL LIKE THE SIZE OF OUR DISTRICT. AND THE TIMELINE IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ALL THREE FIRMS, LIKE HOW MUCH TIME THEY'RE WILLING TO PUT ON THE GROUND HERE. I DON'T KNOW. IT WAS KIND OF HARD TO TELL SOME OF THAT TIME WISE, AND EVERYBODY'S FLEXIBLE. I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY THAT, BUT ARE THEY REALLY GOING TO BE ON THE GROUND AS MUCH AS WE THINK? IS THE COST GOING TO GO UP EVERY TIME WE ASK THEM TO COME BACK HERE? AND THERE'S ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING I LOVED ABOUT EACH ONE, AND THANK SOMETHING I DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT EACH ONE. [01:35:04] SO IT'S A MATTER OF FINDING WHO'S GOING TO WORK WELL WITH US THAT WE CAN HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH. AND I THINK THEY ALL HAVE THEIR GOODS, BUT WHO WE CAN. BUT LIKE YOU JUST SAID, MANDY, I WORRY ABOUT WHO'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE HERE CONSISTENTLY. WE CAN, WE CAN. IF THE BOARD WOULD LIKE, WE CAN ALWAYS COME UP WITH FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS AND BUT NOT JUST FOR ONE FIRM. AND SO IF THE BOARD WOULD LIKE US TO SEND OUT FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS, WE CAN SEND THOSE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL FIRM THAT THAT RESPONDED TONIGHT. AND THEN WE CAN SEND THOSE RESPONSES BACK TO THE TRUSTEES. SO LIKE ONE QUESTION I HEAR IS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, EXACTLY HOW YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE TIME FRAME LOOK LIKE. AND SO WE CAN ASK EACH OF THEM TO CLARIFY THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE IF YOU IF YOU WOULD DESIRE THAT. ANYONE COUNCILMAN. THE OTHER ONE WAS NINE AND I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT. JEEZ, I DON'T THINK THEY DID A TIMELINE, BUT I THINK IT'S JUST THAT THEY. YEAH, IT MIGHT BE A NINE, 8 OR 9 MONTH TIMELINE, BUT THEY'RE ONLY GOING TO BE IN TOWN A DAY OR TWO DAYS. AND SO ARE THEY REALLY ABLE TO GATHER EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO GATHER IN TWO DAYS IS A LITTLE CONCERNING, BUT MAYBE THEY CAN. MAYBE THEY CAN. I DON'T KNOW, I'M NOT SURE. AND I WONDER IF, LIKE WITH JG, IF THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S A NON-ISSUE BECAUSE THEY ARE LOCAL. THEY ARE LOCAL BECAUSE WITH ALTON BEING IN FULSHER AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE ALREADY HAVE PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE WITH THEM, THERE'S THAT FAMILIARITY. FAMILIARITY, WHICH IS AND I KIND OF KNOW. WELL, I KIND OF LIKED THAT IDEA OF LIKE, KIND OF WHAT WE HEARD IN THAT SESSION KIND OF WORKING NOT BACKWARDS, BUT YOU HAVE YOUR PLAN OF SUCCESS OR PORTRAIT OF A STUDENT OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, A PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE AND THOSE THINGS THAT YOU DEEM AS SUCCESS MARKERS OR WHATEVER. AND THEN YOU AND THEN YOU KIND OF HAVE REALITY, LIKE, WHERE ARE WE? CLOSER. OH, SORRY. I WAS JUST SAYING THAT I KIND OF LIKED WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THE JG GUY ABOUT HAVING, LIKE, A PORTRAIT OF SUCCESS AND ENGAGING WHERE YOU GUYS ARE AND THEN HOW TO GET TO WHAT YOU AS A DISTRICT VIEW OR YOUR COMMUNITY VIEWS. WE VIEW SUPERINTENDENT VIEWS ADMIN VIEWS AS WHAT WE DEEM AS LIKE A SUCCESSFUL STUDENT AND HOW WE CAN GET THEM THERE, OR SUCCESSFUL DISTRICT. IN WHAT WAYS? I DON'T KNOW. I LIKE THAT CONCEPT. AND WE HEARD THAT WHEN WE WERE AT THE ONE OF THE MEETINGS THE LAST OVER THE LAST WEEKEND, AND I JUST THOUGHT, OH, I WORRIED ABOUT THE SECOND ONE SEEMED IN THAT IT'S JUST MY OPINION WAS GETTING DOWN IN THE WEEDS, WAS GETTING TOO SPECIFIC ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS. THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A LITTLE BIT BROAD, SO WE CAN WORK WITH THEM AND NOT TO AREAS SPECIFIC. AT LEAST THAT'S MY OPINION. AND I DON'T KNOW IF SHE WAS JUST GIVING US IDEAS, BUT I THOUGHT YOU'RE GETTING KIND OF IT'S A LOT OF RATTLING. BUT BUT LIKE YOU JUST SAID, SUZANNE, YOU HAVE TO. THEY KIND OF. JG WAS SAYING, THIS IS WHERE YOU START, BECAUSE I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND WORK FROM THERE, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A GOOD PLAN THAT WE'VE USED. WE JUST NEED TO WORK AND SEE HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER OR CONTINUE OR NOT THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH COMPLETELY. YEAH. I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD HOLD ON TOO TIGHTLY. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS WONDERING, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WAS AN OPTION TO UPDATE, UPDATE THE PLAN, OR START A NEW PLAN. SO HAVE WE. NO WE HAVEN'T WE HAVEN'T DECIDED THAT. WE HAVEN'T DECIDED. WE'VE WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH WRITING A BRAND NEW ONE. OKAY. AND UNLESS WE DECIDE THAT THAT'S NOT NECESSARY, THAT'S THE DIRECTION WE'RE HEADED. AND THAT COULD BE A FOLLOW UP FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS IS BASED OFF OF OUR CURRENT PLAN. WHERE DO YOU SEE US AND WHAT DO YOU SEE? OF I MEAN, THEY'RE GOING TO OF COURSE WANT THE LARGEST CONTRACT, BUT I DON'T THINK THEY CAN REALLY DO THAT WITHOUT TRULY TALKING AND HAVING CONVERSATIONS AND KNOWING WHERE WE WANT TO GO AND HOW WE WANT TO DO IT. AND AS A PROFESSIONAL, SHOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY IF THERE WERE BASED OFF OF WHERE OUR HISTORY AND ALL THAT, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THAT WE HAVE THE RUBRICS IN FRONT OF US. IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT THAT ALL OF US FILL OUT THESE RUBRICS. WE'RE KIND OF SORRY THAT RUBRICS KIND OF VAGUE TO ME. WHEN DO YOU WANT THAT TURNED IN BY? YOU HAVE A DATE. YOU WANT US TO TURN THAT IN? I'D LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT A LITTLE MORE. RIGHT? YEAH. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT TONIGHT. BY NO MEANS. SO. YOU. I DON'T KNOW. IT'S LIKE A MERGER. GOOD EVENING. YES. SO EACH OF THE TRUSTEES WILL FILL OUT THE RUBRIC, AND THEN THE SCORES ARE AVERAGED AND RANKED. WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEM AT AT SOME DATE PRIOR TO THE AUGUST 5TH MEETING, BECAUSE THAT'S THE MEETING WHERE WE WILL SHARE WITH YOU THE AVERAGES AND THE [01:40:08] RANKING. AND AT THAT POINT, DOCTOR NEVINS CAN START NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE VENDOR, THE NUMBER ONE RANKED VENDOR. WILL WE MEET AS A POLICY, I MEAN, AS A COMMITTEE AGAIN ON THIS OR. NO, WE CAN. SO WHAT PRESIDENT LAMBERT WAS SAYING IS AFTER YOU DEBRIEF TONIGHT, YOU CAN SEND YOUR COMMENTS AND YOUR RUBRIC TO ME AND MY OFFICE, AND I GIVE TO JILL. WE CAN DO THE AVERAGE AND THEN OUR WEEKLY UPDATES. WE CAN LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE STAND WITH THAT. OR WHAT WE CAN DO IS GET ALL THAT INFORMATION. AND THEN THE POLICY COMMITTEE, THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE CAN MEET AGAIN AND THEN DISCUSS THAT, AND THEN THAT COMMITTEE CAN MAKE A DECISION BASED OFF OF THE FEEDBACK FROM THE ENTIRE BOARD. AND THEN THAT AND THEN THAT WILL MOVE ME INTO THE DIRECTION TO AT THE AUGUST MEETING, WE'LL MAKE A DECISION. THE BOARD WILL APPROVE IT. THEN I WILL GO TALK TO THAT FIRM ABOUT PRICING, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. SO IT'S REALLY UP TO THE BOARD. THERE REALLY IS NO THERE IS NO COOKIE CUTTER WAY TO DO THIS. THIS IS CUSTOM TO HOW YOU FEEL BEST. SO THE QUOTES THAT THEY GAVE US, THAT'S NOT LIKE A FINAL. THAT'S JUST A DID WE ARE THERE ANY FROM METEOR? I DIDN'T SEE ANY BALLPARKS FROM MYSTIC, BUT BETWEEN JG AND CREW THERE'S A HUGE PRICE DISCREPANCY. OH REALLY? IT'S HUGE. IT IS. IT'S LIKE VERY LOW TO ALMOST LIKE MORE THAN $700,000. $100,000. WHAT LESS TRAVEL THROUGH WITH SEVEN THREE. IT WAS LIKE ONE. I HAVE IT AT $100,000 A MONTH. PLUS 2500 TRAVEL FEE. YEAH, I THINK IT CAME OUT TO ABOUT ONE SEVEN. I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE 117, 120 ON THROUGH. I JUST SAW IT. I LOOKED AT IT BEFORE I CAME HERE. I DON'T REMEMBER IT BEING THAT MUCH. MAYBE I'M MISTAKEN. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT. WELL, YOU KNOW THOSE LADIES. THEY'RE NOT SO. JG 60, AGE 20 OR 30. YEAH. AM I WRONG? IT SAYS $100,000 TO BE BILLED MONTHLY IN SEVEN EQUAL INVOICES OVER THE COURSE OF SEVEN MONTHS. SCOPE BASED ON THE WORK. THERE COULD BE 100,000 TOTAL SPLIT IN SEVEN PAYMENTS. IF I IF I MAY, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE THAT WE STAY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW. THEY THEY REALLY SHOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN US THAT INFORMATION YET. AND SO I'M NOT SURE IF WE SHOULD DISCUSS THAT OPENLY YET. CLAY IS NOT HERE TO REALLY GIVE US GUIDANCE ON THAT. SO I'M JUST GOING TO ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION TO MAKE SURE I PROTECT THE BOARD IN THAT ASPECT. AND SO I'M NOT SURE IF WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. THEY'RE NOT REALLY SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT THAT. YEAH. BECAUSE THEY THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE PRESENTED THAT FROM THE BEGINNING. SO THEY DID I MEAN REALLY THEY DID. SO I THINK IT'S FINE IF WE HAD A CONVERSATION. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE I PROTECT THE BOARD FROM ANY KIND OF FUTURE SITUATIONS THEY MAY COME ABOUT. BECAUSE THIS, THIS, THIS VIDEO WILL BE LIVING ON A WEBSITE FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? BUT AFTER THE BOARD SELECTS SO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE YOUR INFORMATION AFTER YOU SELECT, THEN IF YOU DO SELECT A FIRM, NO MATTER WHAT THEY PUT IN THAT BOOKLET, I WILL GO TO THEM AND SAY, I KNOW WHAT YOU PUT IN THE BOOKLET, BUT WHAT'S WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE BEST PRICE YOU CAN DO FOR US SO THAT WE WILL HAVE NEGOTIATING POWER WITH THAT. AND THEN THE BOARD ALSO HAS THE PEROGATIVE TO RANK. SO THE BOARD CAN SAY WE LIKE THIS FIRM FIRST. IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT, THEN YOU CAN GO TO THE SECOND FIRM AND HAVE A DISCUSSION. AND SO THE BOARD CAN SAY, WE ONLY WANT TO TALK WITH THIS FIRM. IF IT DOESN'T WORK, WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK OUT AND START THE WHOLE PROCESS OR WE'LL GO WITH THIS FIRM FIRST. IF THEY DON'T WORK OUT, GO TO THE SECOND FIRM. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK OUT, THEN WE'LL START THE WHOLE PROCESS. SO AS I SAID, THE THE PROCESS IS TAILORED TO HOW THE BOARD WOULD LIKE. DID ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RUBRIC ITSELF? IT'S LIKE A IT'S NOT REALLY A QUESTION. I JUST FEEL LIKE, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DIFFERENT? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DIFFERENT OR MORE DETAILED? I DON'T KNOW, I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT. OKAY, WELL, WE HAVE TIME. I MEAN, THE GOOD THING IS WE HAVE TIME. WE COULD DO THAT. AND IF WE DO MEET AGAIN AS A COMMITTEE, IT WOULD BE A GOOD WAY, LIKE YOU SAID, TO GAUGE WHO YOU KNOW, WHAT WE ARE AND MAYBE A CONSENSUS, I JUST DON'T. YEAH. THE GOOD THING IS, IS THE GOOD THING IS WE HAVE TIME. AND SO THE REASON WHY THE COMMITTEE DECIDED THIS TIMELINE WAS BECAUSE WE CAN DO ALL THIS NOW. WE CAN START IN AUGUST WITH A FIRM. AND SO WE STILL HAVE A FEW MONTHS TO TO THAT HAPPENS INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL AUGUST TO START THIS PROCESS. SO THIS IS GOING TO BE A YEAR LONG PROCESS. AND SO WE'RE IN A GOOD WE'RE IN A GOOD SPOT RIGHT NOW DECIDING ON WHO WE'RE GOING TO GO IN OUR TIMELINES. I HAVE A SUGGESTION IS THAT IF EVERYBODY ON THE BOARD, INCLUDING MR. HUBENAK, IS NOT HERE, WOULD WOULD TURN THIS IN, I DON'T KNOW, ROUGHLY BY JULY 20TH ISH, THEN THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE COULD PLAN A DATE THAT WORKS [01:45:02] FOR EVERYBODY'S SCHEDULE, AND THE THREE OF US COULD GET BACK TOGETHER WITH THE ADMINISTRATION SO THAT THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME TO HAVE THAT DECISION BEFORE THE AUGUST 5TH MEETING. I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD WAY TO GO. I KNOW WE COULD OBVIOUSLY GO BACK AND WATCH THIS, BUT CAN WE GET THE SLIDE DECKS THAT THEY USED TO SEND TO US VIA EMAIL? YES, MA'AM. OKAY. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT JULY 20TH IS A SATURDAY, SO. YEAH. JUST MONDAY. YEAH. YEAH, THAT MONDAY IS THE JULY 15TH, IF WE CAN PLAN ON. SURE. THAT WOULD GIVE US TIME TO SCHEDULE A PLANNING COMMITTEE AGAIN, A MEETING AGAIN. AND THEN WE COULD HAVE THOSE RESULTS BY THE AUGUST 5TH BOARD MEETING. JULY 15TH. IF THERE IS ANY MORE DISCUSSION. THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED AT 5:56 P.M.. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.