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to order. The time is 5:34 p.m. In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551, this meeting is officially open with the quorum present. At this time, we'll hear public comment addressing items on the agenda. Let me
remind you that because of the restrictions by the Texas Open Meetings Act, board members may not engage in a verbal exchange about a subject that has not been posted. We will listen and take notes, but the board's prohibited from responding to any inquiries made. >> President Martinez, we have no public. >> We have no public comment. Great. So
then we will move on. Um, next we will move to presentations and I will turn it over to Dr. Mullinar. >> Thank you, President Martinez. And I'm excited to share with you this evening um our last board meeting I shared our benchmark scores and this evening I'm
sharing our NWA map middle of the year scores with everyone this evening. Just a reminder our new grade level norms and 2025 the NWA they changed their national
norms to align with postcoavid norms across the nation. So when we talk about norms this evening we're talking about national norms. These are not Texas norms or forth ISTD norms. This is a comparison to how our students are progression progressing nationally
across the state of Texas or across the United States not just within Texas. So why do we look at to map data especially our MOI data or middle of the year data? It's because it is one of our Lonear governance goals under progress measuring progress monitoring. Our goal
one as we know that we have adopted is the percent of our third grade students that score meets grade level or above on star English language arts in reading ELR will increase from 38% to 53% by 2030.
We have done two six weeks assessments that I shared in our November report and then of course we did our benchmark report that I shared out in January. So you see right here in the middle uh we have our target for our middle of the
year map data. Last um year 2425 we were at 44%. Our middle of the year target is coming in at 57% when we were looking at our third graders for ELR. So, just as a reminder to everyone, our progress monitoring to
see if we'll meet our goal for 2026 at 41% on STAR and we utilize MAP as one of those progress measurements for our students. So, here it is broken down actually by grade level. And I just wanted to do a
little reminder of definitions when we look at this. What does met projected grade level mean under MAP? It means it's our expected growth in a student's academic performance and the goals are grade level expectations. So these are
are for our students that are on that grade level. And all of those targets are for that particular grade level you see listed there. And a map grade level norm is our performance levels of a student in relation to their peers and that same grade level across the nation.
So when we look at these, we are very happy of course to see a lot of green in all the um areas there. Uh but I always want to point out and remind everyone that our goal one is around our third graders. So when you look at our current
fourth graders this year, you'll see that we had a 20% gain at a 67. If you go back up to our last year third graders, they were at a 49 49%. So then when you look at what they did
as fourth graders this year, you see they're at a 67%. So it's always important to remember that when we're looking at these comparisons that we go back to that same cohort. So we're really proud of how we're doing. So our third graders last
year who were at a 49 scored a 67 this year. And then when you look at our second graders, we're at a 37%. They're coming in at a 66% already for middle of the year. So, we want to thank the our teachers for all
their hard work and our campus leaders. And then you'll see our other grade levels there, but um I'm just showing and pointing out our third grade goal for this one. Now, here is when we talk about subgroups. We know that this is also
what we're monitoring and is a really important target for us around closing the gaps. We know we need to close the gaps with our African-American students um in relation to our white students. When you look here for our grade levels here, um I want us to look at our
African-American students and you'll see that this year we are closing those gaps. when you look at the met grade level norms that we had 13% and our white students had 4%. So we are starting to see our subgroups closing
the gaps um between our African-American students and our white students. And then you also notice um and we you know you heard me start to really talk about chronic absenteeism and the impact of our students not being in school. And that's something that our campuses they
all of our campuses have a goal in their campus improvement plans through CIP around attendance and especially looking at their chronic absentee students and that you'll see that we're making great progress with 12% gain and met projected growth and when we look at their met
grade level norms we have a 8%. And of course, very proud of our special education students as well as we're looking at how we're seeing the growth in both of those areas for our special education students. Here's our Spanish scores. Just a a
reminder that we have a lower population of students, group of students who take our assessments in Spanish. And some of these students actually take them in English and in Spanish. But you'll see here that we're also showing gains for our Spanish dominant students um who also receive instruction English. So
you'll see some of their scores are in our English as well as in our Spanish scores here this evening. Goal two for our LSU goals is of course our third grade math. Our target is to be at 50% by 2030. That's an increase
from 35% for 2026. Our target on STAR for third grade math is 37%. Last year at this point on our MAP scores for middle of the year we were at 42%. We are now at 57% for our middle of the
year MAP scores. Just once again just to stay consistent of what we're looking at on our grade levels. If we look at our third grade students on MET projected growth from last year, they were at a 53 and now as
fourth graders, they're at a 66. So, we're seeing them still make gains and increase. And let's look at our current second graders. For last year, they were at a 41 and this year as third graders, they're coming in at a 65%.
So once again, we're seeing how we are increasing and meeting our targets across our grade levels here. And then once again, we're going to look at uh closing our gaps here and look at our subgroups. When you look at met
grade level norms for our African-American students are coming in at 13% versus our white students at 8%. So that once again shows how we're really closing the gaps. And then of course continue increase with our chronic absenteeism. And as we pointed
out, just super proud of double-digit gains for our special education students and met projected growth as well as met grade level norms. So, we want to continue always making sure our parents understand every piece of data we collect, whether it's a six-w
week assessment, it's a map, middle of the year, beginning of the year, or end of the year, or whether it's a star or a benchmark, we send home family reports because we think it's very, very important. That's how we're always going to increase our parent partnership. And we do believe our parents must
participate and have a voice in their child's education. So we will we already have load loaded our map parent family reports into our parent portal. So this evening we want to remind our parents to please go into the parent portal. You
can find this information as well as um we send that home. We do have our parent teacher conference day coming up this Monday. um on our campuses that will also have shared reports and they actually have some great definitions and
how to read those reports available in the portal as well. And just a couple quick reminders, our nonatsy campuses are doing their parent teacher conferences on Monday, February the 16th. And all of our designated 14
ATS campuses, our students that uh attend school will attend school that day. But we have designed on those ATS campus campuses school and family learning day. So we have some workshops set up that our students and our parents
will participate in as well as some special um curriculum things that our parents can observe in the classroom real time. But just a reminder if your student if your child attends a campus one of our ATSI identified 14 campuses
it is a regular school day. So, we need them to attend as well. We rolled out um beginning of February our prek and new student pre-registration. We are really trying to make sure our new parents coming in
for prek have the ability to start pre-registering so we can make sure that we're ensuring um not only spots on campuses, but that we are working with our staffing needs. So, any new preK or new student in Fort Worth ISD, you'll
see here from February the 2nd to March 31st, we're asking you to just start that pre-registration. That way, we can monitor all of our new students coming into Fort Worth IC and we are seeing those numbers climb every single day. So, we're tracking those. So, we're very
excited about our incoming preK, but then also across other grade levels. We have students coming in um back to us from some of our other um charter schools and even private schools, but then we have some students out of district that are reg pre-registering as
well. And then we'll start the actual process April 1st is our more of our structure process around what documents you need and then we'll do our back to school forms August 1st. But if you are a current student in Fort Worth ISD, do
not worry about pre-registering. You do not have to go through that process. We have you covered. All you have to do, you're automatically going to roll up. And then on August 1st, we'll just send you those back to school forms, which is
really just verifying your current contact information so we can make sure we can get a hold of you if needed. This is something I'm very excited about. Our prek preview nights. So, we are kicking these off starting next um
actually February 10th. So, one will actually start tonight and then it runs through next week. So, each of our pyramids are hosting prek preview nights that our parents and our new prek students can come in, see their school that they're going to be registering
for, and then also we can help them with any pre-registration. So exciting for our four-year-olds and some may even be three getting ready to turn four to come into their big school where they're going to really live out their elementary career. So those are by
pyramid and you'll see that we have the site there ford.org back/prek that you can find the date on your pyramid is hosting and that's all of our elementary schools will be hosting those.
So, I'm going to talk about my Saturday and I got to spend my Saturday morning visiting three campuses. We have many campuses that participate in Saturday school and they call it Saturday camp, level up, literacy camps, math camps.
And so I picked three this Saturday and got to visit them and see not only our students engaged in academic excellence, but then the commitment around our teachers to be working on a Saturday and
serving on a Saturday. But what I also saw around the campuses was volunteers. We had parent volunteers there as some of them were spouses of teachers that were there also facilitating. But the best part of that Saturday visit on
those three campuses was excitement for our students to be there on a Saturday. There was quite a bit of snacks. I'm not going to kid you. There was um definitely some chips being handed out, some pizza and some wings for lunch, but that really drove the attendance and we
know it's only going to increase. Here you see a picture at Monik Middle School. So I got to visit Monic. That was my first stop, Monic Mustangs. And to see these middle schoolers, I want to tell you, middle schools, middle schoolers, it's really hard to get a smile out of them and get excitement.
And out of my three campuses, they were the most excited. They were engaged. They I think they couldn't wait for the pizza and wings. Um, but here you'll see just a picture of some of our students as well as our teacher and our principal just working with our students. And
here's another picture of them. And like I said, just look at the excitement of middle school students being engaged that day. My second visit was at West Hanley Elementary and you'll see they were really working on writing workshops. So, this board has been very
gracious to approve a new writing curriculum this year for Jane Schaefer to really make sure that we are not only building capacity of our teachers for writing, but also providing a writing curriculum for our students to be successful not only on an assessment but
learn how to write. When you can write well, you read better and you just learn at a faster rate. So at West Hanley um elementary just exciting writing workshop that was in place but what I love to see at this campus is that they
started with a writing workshop piece and ended the day with a math piece as well. So our students were exposed to both writing and math but the teachers the math teacher was helping during the writing portion and then the writing teacher went and helped the math teacher
as well. So these students were actually being able to receive instruction from two certified teachers and West Hanley was recruiting across the district the best teachers to make sure they were providing Saturday instruction for their students. So here you'll see an example
of some of our students here. Um and what other part about Saturdays is that it's very casual. Our students aren't in uniform. So they always wanted to share what they were wearing, their hats or sweatshirts and engage in those conversations and they get to have a little bit less structure that you'll
see um present there. This group of young men which also at West Hanley um they were just could not wait. They read me their essays. They had done a great job working on their graphic organizer and they were writing about sombrero and just how they were working and
collaborating together. And look at those smiles. So, so just really enjoyed spending some time there. This teacher here, this is a teacher from CC Moss Elementary who was teaching Saturday school at West Hanley with our bilingual
students. And um those you've heard me before say how my husband likes to join me when I do some visits and on Saturday he was with me and he left that classroom just talking about just the caliber of teacher that was teaching
writing. These are she was teaching students that she does not normally teach on a daily basis. The engagement level and the quality of instruction was just amazing. And she was teaching the entire Jane Schaefer curriculum all the
way to a T. So just some celebrations and then couple other um pictures of some of our dual language students. Here I took a picture. You can see our new curriculum Jane Schaefer writing right there in progress. So you can see how our students are utilizing that
curriculum with the graphic organizers and how that's translating as well. Just another group picture there. And now I want to share a story about Learius Hodgeges. So Learius Hodgeges is a third grade student at Brisco
Elementary who um was at Saturday school on Saturday. So that was my last visit of the day and they were wrapping up um to go eat their lunch and had the opportunity to talk to Learius and his teacher and um she shared with me that
Learius entered her classroom below grade level um probably over a year below grade level and a reading level and just this past week he had met grade level for a third grade student and was reading aloud to his class and participating engaging
and the entire class erupted in applause and just celebrated him without a teacher prompt on how well he has progressed in reading. So, there are great things going on on these campuses every single day and we see that. We saw
that in our data, but we're seeing it every day. And I just have to thank our teachers and our leaders for staying focused on our students every day on instruction and then implementing our new curriculum and an instructional framework.
So, at this time, I'll take any questions. Jesse Dar. Thank you, President Martinez, and thank you for this report, Dr. Molinar. I am very excited by the progress that's being made um that is being measured and
being um quantified uh not only in smiles, but also in numbers. And so, thank you for this report. The curriculum that you have put in place with this board support appears to be working. And so thank you for
that. Uh with the Saturday school, um how are are students selected to go to sat Saturday school or is everyone invited to go to Saturday school? How how is it determined who shows up for Saturday school? >> So there's different criteria depending
on what the focus of that Saturday is. So the principles and the executive directors of school leadership help identify the students. We always use data and if you ever visit a campus, I always encourage you to say, "Hey, can I see your data room because there you'll
see where each campus is tracking individual student data." So, it's very specific to invitations. But what I loved, I'll give Monique Middle School a huge shout out because some of their students who are at on grade level or above grade level were invited to come
to mentor and actually work with the other students. And we all know that we learn from our peers the best. And at Monty, they're already putting that in place. Um just walk in and you see just fabulous PTA providing um just a warm
atmosphere, sign in, and just a great handoff when our students walk in. And so it really is dependent on if they're doing a writer's workshop like we saw at West Hanley, then of course they're looking at the students of how they scored on the writing portion and then
their second part was a map. So it can change. Um and then it's usually in a cohort of Saturdays that are consecutive. Many of our campuses are not holding Saturday school this Saturday because it's Valentine's Day and you know we always work around attendance and the more our students
here are how greater our Saturday schools are the attendance will increase as well. Okay. Thank you for um beginning this report with those good numbers but by reminding us that students are far more than a number and by ending the report with pictures of
students and teachers doing the hard work that needs to be done. So, thank you, >> Trusty Lynch. >> Trusty Lynch. >> Yeah, thank you, Dr. Molinar. Um, super exciting numbers. Just a couple quick questions. You said there were new grade
level norms for MAP scores. So, when you're looking at 2425 to 2526, is that a similar data set or or different? >> So, in 2025, they redid the norms for postcoid. 2024 you still have precoid.
Um so if you notice on page I believe it's two we have a a disclaimer there and these are national norms set. So these aren't just Fort Worth IC or Texas norms but um MAP did reorm. Um and I'm
so proud of all the green but we still have a a long way to go. Um but we're seeing that across the nation where our students are progression progressing with grade level norms. >> Okay. And and is it how how do you
predict with a new kind of norm um to star? So we do we do have um one of the reports if they are projected to meetar not meatstar um those we look at how close those projections were last year
and then we look at where they are middle of the year. One of the important things is that we not use one data set. So that's why you see on our goals we utilize the six week assessments our benchmarks and our um map. So there's there is a report that shows those
projections and it definitely is increased from last year. Um however we have to remember that map is not star formatted. So it's a different assessment. So that's why we show um at least three different GPMs that we're
monitoring goal progress measures and we'll be doing our second benchmark um starting this month and then we'll um and then all the way into March. So then we'll be able to really see that second benchmark which is star formatted and a
release test that is a state release star formatted test. um we have a better idea of projections for each of our students and be able to go deep into individualized um support plans. >> Okay. All right. Thank you
>> trustes. Any other questions or comments? All right, we will move on to number four, board review of student expulsion appeal. At this time, we will move to agenda item 4A, the board review of
student expulsion appeal appeal, which requires meeting in close session as authorized under section 551 of the Texas government code, sections 551.071 and 082. We will call the parties involved when it's time to come forward. And the time is
5:58 and PM. And the date is Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. We will now recess and reconvene for executive session as authorized by chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code under sections 551.071 and 082.
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recessed open session, convened executive session, adjourned executive session, and now reconvened open session at 8:00 p.m. with the quorum present. We are now at action agenda item seven, board deliberation and render decision
if any on the student expulsion appeal. Do I have a motion? >> Trusty Phillips. >> Thank you, President Martinez. I move to amend the expulsion decision as discussed in close session and authorize board counsel to issue the decision to
the parent. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Dr. Rodriguez. Any discussion? Please move to voting. 53. Motion fails. I have an alternate motion.
>> All right. Trusty D. Do wait. Good. I move to approve the board's expulsion review as decision as discussed in close session and authorize board counsel to issue the decision to the parent. >> Do I have a second? >> Second.
>> Trusty Jackson. Any discussion? Trusty D. No. >> Oh. Please move to voting. Motion passes 53. And at this time, I'm going to pass over to Trusty Jackson for a comment. >> Uh, thank you, President Martinez. It's
a privilege uh tonight to share a few words in honor of our dear colleague, a 12-year council person who served as mayor pro Tim until her choice to retire in May of this last year, 2025. The Honorable Gina Bivvens chose her partners in community work very
carefully. In working with her, you were first known to work for the greater good or she wouldn't work with you. uh she implemented the plan and you followed it and you stayed on task and you always overd delivered and you always remained ahead of schedule. Gina served East Fort
Worth but she also served greater Fort Worth with equivalent tenacity. She delivered an unsurpassed amount of revenue and development to improve the quality of life for all Fort Worthians. Gina was recognized as a leader locally, statewide, and at the national level.
and she brought those accolades, honors, and money home to us. It was through this multi-tered work she delivered for Fort Worth and was entrusted to do so by her East Fort Worth constituents for two decades. Our Fort Worth ISD board of
trustees will deliver a resolution to her family, her mother, Mrs. Betty Bibbons, her sister Melanie, and her brother, Whan. in Miss Bibbon's honor and for her amazing work on behalf of all children
in our city. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Jackson. The time is now 8:05 p.m. and this meeting is adjourned.