--------- let me drive the slideshow which um I apologize to those of you that okay I'm I might be a little slow so for those of you that don't know me I'm Diana mlin um I'm wearing the Austin peace W sure because that is our University here in
Clarksville um I'm the state uh commissioner designated by the governor um I was originally appointed in 2011 and it's just easier to keep who you have and so I've rolled over through several terms terms um I'm also a city council member in Clarksville Tennessee
and uh several of you know we've had some flooding um this weekend and um just continued prayers for our residents that are trying to figure out how to recover from this fortunately we did have the governor in town on Tuesday and he toured uh my city council Ward with
me and I'm hoping that um we might get an emergency declared which would be greatly appreciated okay um this is who we're expecting uh or who our Cate council members are there have been a couple changes since I
put the slide deck out um so when Nathan calls the role if you're representing somebody whose name is listed just please identify yourself um for the record thank you all right Nathan I'll hand it off to you sure enough uh James
Bo Griffin here and I'm here General Baker here Senator Briggs Dr Colmes here Mike
Craig Stuart County um M Mikela is that right Gregory child and youth Family Programs Army National Guard all right uh Christy Carroll Hill
here Dr Ted HL here Colonel Christopher midbury or Mr Peter Raymond for Colonel midbury we do have anyone here
representing the Garrison Commander at Fort we have two slow from Fort Campbell um we have uh lvia Garrett and um Karen dff Watkin so um hopefully Mr Raymond's on his way U do you want me to count one of
them as the designate yeah please count lvia Garrett okay uh and jeene Luna veter I know she's on here okay and uh Dr Katherine Stevens
Dr Stevens hey I'm here yay all right sorry I couldn't get on the actual team so dialing in uh no problem no problem we got um Master Chief Chris Bard for Captain
Torres yes sir Deb munas I I saw you come on yes I'm here uh okay Mark Reeves is absent Carissa po anyone with blue star families she was on hello can you hear me there she is hi
I'm here great uh Joey VAP um or Tiffany Campbell hi uh Tiffany yes uh Tiffany Campbell here representing uh Arnold Air Force Base
you've got 13 so you definitely have a quorum thank you everybody this is our best turnout to date can you can you see my slide that says minutes everybody okay great all right Nathan you still have the
floor great I I move that the recording of our minutes uh from our last meeting uh recording of the meeting from last time serve as the minutes therefore and that the recording for this meeting serve as the minutes for this
meeting you have a second second by Ted horal second by Ted horal all right uh there's been a motion in a second um all in favor do Voice vote I please
I hi hi hi anyone toose oh okay thank you oh I'm going the wrong way I apologize okay um so we have some newcomers uh or
visitors on today um some are fellows for the governor uh we also have some representatives from Department of Education and um we appreciate all being here but just in the most basic terms the compact that we represent is a state
law that was adopted in all 50 states in Washington DC that is the rule book for how educational trans transfers of military children K through 12 in a public school system or a publicly identified Charter School are handled um
I believe we were the 13th state um I can tell you that um from then to now the fact that uh we have all states it is so much easier to resolve issues for families because you're not trying to resolve issues in a state that doesn't
know what the compact is um we are housed under State Board of Education um Nathan James who's the Secretary of our Council he is the design for State Board of Education and him Katherine an and
Casey um take really good care of us as an organization and we appreciate them greatly um I'm 100% volunteer in this capacity um and so is Deb munus our M military education family lay Zone um so
we're were uncompensated volunteers um for those of you that are new to this meeting um we uh acquired uh Deb from the state of Ohio she was part of the first purple star school program uh which was started
in Ohio and she was part of the um public meetings Town Hall meetings stakeholder conversations about what the benefits of a purple star school program are and when her her husband decided to retire to Tennessee we were lucky enough to get her to serve in our in our role
as the U military education family Leone okay so I'm tracking that um that Billy King Dollar is on and I think I saw candy CER um and I is Deborah null
on okay um who else is with us um that wasn't listed here except for school leaz and officers we have you on a different slide are there any other visitors with us today hi I'm Amanda fella I'm also a Governor's veteran fellow listening
along with Billy thank you Amanda for being here anyone else okay thank you all thanks for being here okay um this is the the part of our
agenda where we're required by State Statute and our bylaws to elect persons to serve as the chairman of the state Council the vice chairman and the secretary and I believe the three of us
we just continually get rolled over it makes more sense uh the most sense for me to continue to serve as the chairman um as I'm the state Council um I'm sorry the um Commission the state commissioner um but we will always take nominations
for the floor for uh Vice chairman and secretary um if if nobody is interested or somebody like to make a motion to adopt the Slate of officers we can go that direction so I will entertain a motion if there's no conversation to adopt the
Slate of officers so moved by Ted horl thank you Dr horel as our by katr Stevens by katr Stevens thank you Dr Stevens All right so that we it's easier to count if anyone objects to the Slate
of officers please say so now okay I'll accept that as adopted by majority congratulations uh bo James Bo Griffin you're once again uh on here so thank you
um thank you for the opportunity you're welcome it's because you have a purple suit no okay all right um I I thought it was funny okay thank you Nathan okay uh so this is who this is
our state Council and I can tell you that um when we first started up uh we're trying to figure out which organizations in our state um would benefit from being part of the state Council for the Compact and also what
Partnerships we could form with organizations that serve military children so if you look at our list um we have uh directors and superintendant of schools around our military installations which is um uh Naval
activity Midsouth in Millington um we also have representatives from um oral Air Force Base and the school system system outside which is Dr Stevens um by State Statute we're required to have the Garrison Commander from Fort Campbell um
and also um the director schools from the most military child impacted um School District which is Clarksville mcgomery County Schools um and then some other organizations like the garden Reserve uh the Tennessee uh
PTA um the tsaa which is the organization that oversees um School athletics um blue star families which um I met Carissa a couple years ago she's the state director she actually lives here in Clarksville we kept running into
each other places so um but that's that's our state Council and um I understand that Tiffany will be um replacing uh Joey as Joey's pcsing but um we we appreciate you being
here and at any point if anybody has any questions um that aren't covered in this meeting today um just contact me um a phone call away all right well we'll skip uh Senator Brigg slide as he is tied up
today all right uh Christie um would you like to share with us some of the things that are going on with in your organization as related to uh military families sure um in Tennessee PTA of course is it's we advocate for all children and that absolutely includes
military children um what we've been trying to do is put out information about the thear program to schools across the state to really try to promote it and and help them understand it and you do such a great job when you explain what the compact is and I wish I just I need you on Loop because you make
it seem so simple and it is but it's you know when you're explaining it but um so that's what we do is we go across and we actually have the information out and and hopefully we're having another Workshop coming up soon um to for any school who's interested that can attend to kind of as we put Out programs for um
uh our units to learn about what they can do with their families so we put that out to to any school that's interested and and try to help promote the program for them thank you we appreciate your partnership and if there's anything we can do to help you uh educate uh your
members we are here to do so Carissa blue star families all right hi everyone so blue star fam is of course our Tennessee chapter we are committed to supporting um the military children uh that we serve and their families and um we ensure that
they have access to any Vital Information and resources that they do need um so with uh the compact we just to ensure that they have that access we're actually going to start sharing that in our neighborhood um that's a platform where military families and and
our members can actually share information and connect about resources in the community and um also we share this with families when they come to us if they need oneon-one assistance um also by referring them to our school leaon offices uh that are um
on for kemell and um I know our clut from MGI County School System um I was very pleased looking at the list at the number of schools that are listed as purple star schools already and they do an amazing job um with our youth my daughter was a um military kid and she
just graduated from the cmcss school so just um looking to collaborate more with our school system and also our school of a on officers to make sure our families have what they need thank you Chris puts on a great event during month of the military trial
called the dandelion festival and um if you're in the Clarksville area it's a really good event watch our compact Facebook page for that but I really enjoyed myself there especially the petting zoo oh
sorry all right they are not on all right General Baker thanks Deana can you hear me yes sir all right um well thanks for having me on today and um uh appreciate all the
council members being on them on a late Friday to get through this uh just like to say welcome to Amanda and Billy a couple of our most recent cohort of Governor veterans Fellowship uh fellows and we're real proud of them and um
thanks for giving me an opportunity today to talk a little bit to the council about uh how Tennessee Department of Veteran Services educate service members uh on the compact because uh this has really give us an opportunity to kind of do some uh
introspect ction and as a department and really think about this uh I have to kind of be a little transparent today and tell you that we have not been um we don't have a a formalized program about how to educate um our consist
constituents on the MCH 3 program and what it brings uh to military families across the state and and especially uh their children but uh we do think there's some opportunities that going forward we can we can explore one of
those being um we the governor signed an executive order July the 3 2023 establishing or reconstituting the TR Stars and Stripes Council uh made up of 13 members um Statewide go state
government uh veteran service organizations uh private sector uh and that Council uh also established some subcommittees one of those being education benefits that uh General Scott
Brer which many of you know uh is the chair of one of the things that they're looking at is how to expand uh the purple star School uh program Statewide uh I realize I think there's around 51
uh school systems currently that are part of that uh program and uh and they want to look at how they can um expand the program educate more folks about what the program does uh and and get it spread more across the state uh than it
is currently and then also they've made one of their um outputs uh metrics for the the next fiscal year to expand by 50% so I I think there's some
opportunity there I know the military Department uh has um you know 13 U military family redness um offices across the state that that they utilize to kind of educate the
guard you know members about what the mi3 program does and how they can utilize it and um you know there's some opportunities here for our department we've um informally had uh some younger uh students participate the last two
years in our Veterans Day program that the governor sponsors and the Memorial Day program as well so it's given youngsters an opportunity to participate in some of our events uh which we feel like you know the generational passing of the torch is always a good thing but
uh in terms of the MC 3 Program uh we're going to do some self inspection there and and really look at how we can start uh adding that to part of our out uh output in terms of just Outreach and and educating the public one one way may be
to put you know landing spot on our website that kind of talks about the program and what what it does and and maybe list some of the schools that are already members uh and well as well as I don't know does the council have any brochures or anything that they utilize
because we do a lot of Outreach events where we uh you know pass out brochures about different things the department uh provides do do y'all have that I can order um just very standard U MC3
brochures from the naal office but we do not have um I know Deb was working on drafting a purple star brochure and we'll ask her to touch on that when we get to her report but if you just let me know um if you want some of the um
standard issue if you will uh brochures from the compact um let me know how many you need and where you want them to go and I can request those any any of the organizations here sorry is that also something that what was the the mcec
organization would they be of of assistance with some of those things well um Deb Deb will talk about this when we get to her presentation but she wanted a Tennessee she was working on a Tennesse specific purple star uh award
uh brochure um because kind of like anything else each state runs their programs a little bit different um a majority of the states on the purple our schools um mick3 isn't the mick3 commissioner and MF are not facilitating
that I think that we're the only state that um where it's part of our duties that we've taken on um there actually people at the state level that that run it for their states so we wouldn't want
to put anything out there that has any contrary information to what we do so but we can work on we can work on that um but again Deb will will'll speak more to that when she gets to her um part and then at the end of this presentation um
there is a resource link that we'll take um if you need it we'll take you to some resources available on the national website um and then sir we um we actually have a landing page on the State Board of Education website that if
you just want to link that to your web page that Katherine and helps us keep that updated uh with who the state council members are what is going on with our purple star school program who the purple star schools are um and other resources like month of the military
child Etc so um that would probably be the easiest thing instead of repeating the effort that's already in place but I I love I love your internal inventory that you took I appreciate that thank you hey thanks Deana that's all have for
the council appreciate it okay well this is a great picture of Colonel midbury um he had a scheduled conflict um and we'll call on laquia um when we get to the school his own officers but there's there's his uniform um uh Master Chief
bu so it's a little the digitalization is a little different than yours okay um and you're playing the role of of Captain Torres I I am so uh you know a little bit different the captain is uh in captivity
right now on on a temporary Duty assignment and unavailable and he sends his apologies uh but first and foremost I'd like to thank everybody here that's on this panel and all the Educators throughout the great state of Tennessee that support our our military children not just for NSA Midsouth but everywhere
um we're truly blessed here at NSA Midsouth because we have Miss Jennifer Lundy that just makes this easy for us uh prior to her arrival we were struggling with this program a little bit um she's pure Rockstar status so all the credit to everything we do is all on her she tells us when to dress up and
where to go and we help out where we can um but our school aison officer is the best I've had in my 14 commands in the Navy so we're proud to have her thank you and I concur before Jennifer um arrived there there was a lot of turnover in that position and when
there's a lot of turnover there's a lot of inconsistency and folling through of of information but I think Jennifer I think we've been together 10 years now right pretty close I think that's about right I'm bling over here thank work yes
okay um did Michaela Gregory join us or anybody from the guard okay speaking of school officers so we're fortunate um in the state of
Tennessee to be supported by through three School aone officers one um at Millington um Naval activity Midsouth is Jennifer Lundy and then we have Karen and laquavia at Fort Campbell what's interesting about the Fort Campbell um
team is they also support the Kentucky side so um I'm sure when when we get to them they'll talk about how many different school systems they report to um and assist with in addition to having um two State Commissioners Steve blured
from Kentucky and myself I have a pretty big responsibility um area up there okay Jennifer take it away okay good afternoon everyone I'm school ason for Ena sport activity mids
sou um like Dana said I've been in this role for a little over 10 years now um and as far as like best practices go um for mix three for us in this area education is what what I'm into and why I got into this role and it's con education for our schools um when you think you've got it down a new faculty
member comes in and you got to keep that training piece going um so that's really like the one thing that has been critical here for us just making sure that you're constantly going out constantly sharing the information with your schools because you never know who a family is going to walk in those front
doors and go up to that desk to register and who they're going to come in contact with um so the more faces the more people you can share it with the better and just it's it's constant like I've been here it's a decade it's been a long time um and it's it's constant sharing and I learned that early on when you sit
back on your laurels and think oh I got this I want to that school and they're good they got it now that's when you realize oh you got to keep going you got to keep working it um because we have new like we have new school members come in new office members come in at those School sites we also have new military families come in so it's just constantly
educating those families um and then I think the other piece that um as far as like what really helps out is this purple star school award award has been absolutely fantastic um and it's really helped a lot with that education piece we have a point of contact at the school
site now so when a a person at like oh I'm not sure what to do here they know they have someone at their school that they're are purple star school that they can go to and ask for support um and that's been huge a lot of the issues that may have gotten elevated to me in the past I don't feel are getting
elevated because the schools are so educated and they're able to handle them now they have that PC there um and it's just really been a great thing and I'm really proud of our schools that have taken the initiative to get those purple stars and keep them um it's been
wonderful thank you Jennifer you're welcome it's our anniversary okay all laquia hi good afternoon everyone I'm laquia gett the schoolaz for Fort
Campbell also the state lead for Tennessee um when it comes to three so on behalf of the Garrison um just want to reiterate we we will be having like a start meeting so our student transition Response Team where we're meeting with all local um directors of school
superintendent so we cover over six districts um here on Fort Campbell to include Tennessee and Kentucky um and with that having two Commissioners um two different mindset two different states with two different Ru rules uh and laws can be challenging but it's so
rewarding when you're working with your mil milary connecting students and to agree with Jennifer having the schools being purpose star makes our job a little bit easier as we go in and educate the counselors educate the schools on what is purple star and what
is the MC three um them getting an educ um getting that information that guidance help Drive the transition uh smoother transition for those family in and out of the installation so we've seen a success with that and also our partnership with Montgomery County for
those um who live on the in but going to scho off the installation that's been a great success with working um working with the different districts even with our retiree so we seen a lot of success with that we've haven't had any issues I'm not sure what our um annual business meeting will look like this year because
we don't have anything to report um because everything has been going smoothly even with our postsecondary um education ensuring that the student wants they graduate if they're going to a different state that they're not being charged out of state fees um due to their parents transitioning PCS into different areas
so we've seen a lot of great success and um great support from all of our um districts Tennessee and Kentucky thank you thank you Karen I wanted to add to about the
awareness of it um I have been doing a lot of speaking with parents and uh giving them awareness of the Compact and sharing uh information information for transitioning families because I get the paperwork from the levy briefs the transition paperwork and so when I call
the families to see if they would like to have a youth sponsor I also when they uh I also bring up the awareness of the Compact and then I bring up a purple star and I'm when I explain that to them so that helps to mitigate a lot of challenges before they leave uh or
before they arrive because I also get the incoming families for transitioning so always take that chance to uh tell when they're going to Montgomery County or Christian County that about the purple star schools and it gets them really excited about it and and awareness of the compact because a lot
of parents weren't aware and then they'll say oh well I have this question so that helps to mitigate a lot of issues uh going and coming to the installation and to Marksville thank you Elaine did you join
so technically we don't have a air force School Lis an officer but elain who works at an England Air Force Base in Florida she's kind of adopted us because um she has um Airman that transfer
between her installation and uh Arnold quite often and so she's just kind of she keeps in touch with me lets me know what's going on potential issues that may be headed our way but um one of the cases I'm going to share with you later on the slide deck she really it was not
actually a compact related case but when you ask elain to help you with something she gets resolution she's like a pull she doesn't let go so um I I thought she was gonna join us but she's definitely a good partner that we have even though she's uh clear down there in Florida she
definitely cares about all military children does what she can to help us in Tennessee which we really appreciate okay hey Deb munus your turn hi everyone I want to kind of give you and
I think part of this was explained but purple star started out as really um the commissioner for the Ohio MC3 saying we still have schools that have no idea which leads to these um issues between
the school and the par military parents and they he really wanted to figure out how we could go about that so there was a lot of discussion about how we could solve this problem one is which you know people jump to First is well we'll just
put it in um to you know regulation for the schools they have to do this and if they don't then we punished and we decided that really wasn't any of our personalities
and we didn't think it was going to really lead to teachers um in the building or principles in the building adopting this with open arms so we decided that we would go another way well could we do an
award we were kind of in the same situation there really was no money to do anything um but we felt like if we did this award and the department of aded would
pay for the banners this story sounds very you know familiar um that we could go ahead and do this and so I think it was 2017 when the first class was
inducted um and since that time um I think we are now at 45 or 46 St states that have adopted a purple star program now Dan is very right the
issue with putting something um that comes from a different state uh becomes a dilemma because the way we do purple star may be different the rules and how you get the award may
be different now from what I have seen um most of the states adopt the same things and I you know I can tell you when we sat with parents point of contact was a huge thing because they felt like schools didn't know what was going on
with their transfer you know whether they could have time off when uh a parent was deployed so having a point of contact and then the second thing the parent said is they really need to know you know how to help because they felt
like there there just wasn't an organized way to understand because a lot of schools and I'm going to tell you I was school teacher many years and administrator they um even my school before I went to the Department of
Education didn't know that mick3 existed it was when Pete pulled me in and said we're having this problem will you be part of this committee so um getting that information out so the school
understands that this is a population that we need to support as they're making all these transitions or deployment so um we have a point of contact one of the other requirements is that point of contact has to take a training um related to
military uh family issues so thank goodness we have uh MCE and the national MC 3 and they have great trainings so that's our second piece of the puzzle
the third piece was really based on um and I'd never thought about it but as families transition many of them shop school first home
second so what they told us was we go through the your web the school's websites and we look to see which one seems like you know they're working with military families um what are their test
scores like I mean they really dive into the school's website where you know that are possibility for their child to enroll so our third piece is that we have to um have they have to have a
website and it has to have resources on there what ever they feel will serve their families we don't dictate what they have to put on there though sometimes I give a
little push and you know a little advice about you know things um but we want it to be for those families that they serve and they know them far better than you know us sitting here and discussing they
understand it um and then the the next thing is or our final piece is about um what activities they do to show the school to show the families that they're
proud to have these military families there and they are extremely welcome there and people are going to work hard to make things come about so I say all that in a long run most of those things show up in every single purple star
state but it really is the whole purple star um idea came about to help educate School Personnel on what military families go through and then also how to
help because sometimes being educated in something and really knowing how to help can be two different things so the every single comp component was driven specifically to that um point about we
need to have educated people in our schools to help these families and I think Tennessee has um we have schools that do extraordinary things and being a person that served in a couple different
spots it makes me very proud because you know when they do things for our military families they are also doing for things for their special ed kids their gifted kids their kids who have a difficult time reading so it just gives
you that feeling that they just take this on as one more piece to the entire puzzle so it makes me very proud very excited that they um take this on with such Gusto as as I go through their applications and their emails that they
send me it's great stuff so can we ready for your next slide I am I kind of went long on that one but I felt like we needed to kind of yeah so you can see that um the past what we've
done um we started very small Dean and I did those six schools at first time and you just wonder is it ever going to catch on well thanks to a lot of what you guys have done you can see every year we get a little bit stronger and this year is no different um you can ask
all the paperwork sitting on here on my on my table so you can go on Deanna all right so this year we have we have a phenomenal class we have a great mix of schools that are renewing and
schools that are brand new um and it's funny because and and years ago Pete and I had this conversation about you know schools when someone in the area kind of gets an award the other schools perk up their heads and go okay I think we can
do that and I think that's exactly what has kind of happened because I can see there's a little seed here and it just seems like it gets blown over you know a county over or two counties over so it's awesome to watch this kind of spread um
and this year it definitely did um and we have I'm going to tell you I'm very pleased because we have quite a few schools that the entire school district is purple star and this year
Clarksville is the first large school to go 100% every single y congratulations but but you look at um you look at a lot of our not a lot but
you look at several of our schools and they're 100% And that that means a lot to me because it shows that that comes from leadership both at you know at the district level building level that this
is something that's important and you can for some districts you can watch them grow over time and and it it's wonderful to watch so we do have 51 schools this year which is better a little better than last year um like I
said we're growing it's slow but we're growing um and I will take it so I'm very pleased yes I stars on there we wouldn't be able to see the words well thank you that is pretty
awesome I I I enjoy I really enjoy reading their applications looking at there's nothing like looking at pictures of teachers and families and Veterans celebrating it just um kids out
there you know planting things and working with veterans and it just is it's awesome I wish I could send you all all the pictures but you know I'm sure your emails would not handle that well
so I'll just tell you they are very cool before we before we go on to the next slide um we would not have a purple star school program in the state of Tennessee without Deb munis and when somebody submits an application and it's
not complete she personally will contact that potential point of contact and help them work through the application process so that they do qualify for the award um she's probably the hardest working person I know that doesn't get
paid just I just feel very L about you know these our families need it um you can also ask certain uh waitresses in um some of the
restaurants here in the Chattanooga area about this strange tall lady that found out I had a military spouse and was telling me about MC3 gave me an EMA um a website to visit told me about purple
star to check out purple star schools yeah you just don't even want to know I'm like a traveling know Sal person so you want to slide on okay but I was bragging on you you never let me
to do that but take a compliment oh well thank you ma'am it is great fun so now I just need um before before we do a vote um
on the slide um there was one school from Clarksville I think that I had Asis on I'm sorry bur starden yes yes I did that because they
came in um about Midway through and the first opportunity that they could sign up for the compact 101 course was um just a week or so ago and
so um I didn't know if I would get all the documentation so I just wanted to make sure that there was a reminder that we might need to discuss that particular school but that school did manage to get
all their documentation in bless their hearts because they really work very hard to get that ready for me so now I'm ready to go on okay all right so so we do have 51 schools that have turned everything in you can see I think
Dana sent out my sheet where I keep all my my documentation um and if we have a motion for uh us to approve those 51 schools that'd be
awesome make a motion I'll second krine Stevens so Ted made the motion and katr Stevens made the second okay so is there any do you want to go ahead no you're driving this
train well let's just hope it doesn't derail um so is there anyone I I think I'll follow your lead is there anyone that does not um approve of these 51 schools being purple star designes or purple
star awardees oh yes thank you so I that should pass um very nicely all right next steps um I have some emails up I was getting
ready for this meeting so um in the next couple days I'll be sending out um congratulations emails with that email will come a an award letter that can if
the school wants to use it they can't send to any media um so that press release is is there for them um this year there will be uh very limited
visits um so um if yeah they'll just be I think very limited visits this year um Deanna do you w to go to the next slide yes
ma'am all right um last year you can see that there was a group of us out and about and it was great fun I do enjoy um the schools they're very proud of what they have achieved you can see their
pride in what they've achieved and and I think that's that's great fun in anybody's mind [Music] um there maybe a few um visits this year the banners will be shipped to the
school um I think Dean I'm just going to ask other than maybe the ones that you're going to get that they be sent to the school that way if something doesn't work out then I don't have to feel like you know I'm I'm I have those in my hand
um Casey is a huge help we can work with him yeah yeah he's he's great he's awesome um with with 51 banners I mean I'll just we're gonna we're gonna have to spend an afternoon at the at the office and and put them out there and
the reason why there's you know limited uh visits this year is just our our our state board of education budget is a little bit tight below the line and I do not deficit spend so that's just not something we do at the state level um so
um we'll hopefully we'll be able to do a little more travel next year so and in addition to what Nathan said um every year I request certificates from the governor I'm just going to ask that those be be mailed
directly to the schools as well except for Clarks Montgomery County Schools um I'll I'll accept all those banners and certificates like we've done in the year's past except last year Deb and I had to meet an interstate exit to do an
exchange yeah we do some we get involved in some very interesting dilemmas in our in our world so um and with all that said the banners um just thanks Nathan
for you kind of stepping in there and helping us get those banners those are awesome they're beautiful um and it it's that's Casey he he he works that hard he he's so want to thank Casey Griffin for that
and yeah yeah he does all I have to do is message him with a favor and he he jumps on it um he's he's awesome um so uh with that said I want to talk
about uh the national MC3 and mcec if you're looking for something for a training um both of those sites have great trainings um some of them are longer um I usually send people to the
compact 101 because it's a great introductory um course for people and I feel like that helps our point of contact kind of step out there with um background in each of the components of the MCH 3
all right okay now we'll just take a tour of the tour of presentations from last year and stay Board of Education did some great job on the graphics um I'm guessing that was Katherine an
okay but these are some of the schools there's a man in a purple suit there um some of you might know him thanks Mom I wish I could see this purple suit I'm sure he has plenty of pictures in it we'll make sure you get
one but what's so interesting is you go from school to school and each one of them approaches it just a little bit different and it's nice to see how they do things to tailor to their Community um to their parents
it's it's great what they do there a lot of Clarks full ones and uh the man on the far right is U my state senator Bill Powers um he he uh for State purple up day gets his colleagues to wear purple and then sends me a picture which I think is great okay
Deb per are um okay this year um I think the application the online application worked well um so I think we'll leave it as such um we'll be using again using the
Tennessee MC3 web page um I'm going to be asking um Katherine to take down those documents for now until we're ready to start up again because I get people wanting to apply in May and so um
and I have to tell you I'm not very good at looking at the purple star email um regularly after probably four weeks after we do the this session so
um we're again going to use mcec um and the national MC 3 um I will review an updator and I'm going to include a new document um I think people
uh go through the application and there's questions on the application about what they learned and some of the people that I know are new people answer the questions before they take the training and so I want to
encourage them to um take the training then answer the questions because that helps me understand kind of where they are um and then when I look through the other documents it helps it all line up for me um
so did I have another page Dean yeah um I do have a brochure for the Tennessee MC3 that I send out to the schools to for them to have to share with parents um that document may be one
that um I could provide to people um so that they would have information and then could pass it on to other people so I could kind of send that out via email the other piece last or this
past summer I started doing a newsletter so I'm going to be trying to do that three times a year at the beginning of the year middle of the year and end of the year um just some I feel like people pick up a little bit every time they're exposed to
the information so none of it is like new new science it is just pieces I've pulled out to kind of help build bridges of knowledge um the other piece is I take some of the
best practices what I consider best practices um that our schools share with me and then I include that in that newsletter as as well so that maybe I don't know you know something to do to
help build a sense of community with uh those that are involved you know with the military then that newsletter may be able to help you make that step so it really is about sharing information both
on the Tennessee MC3 rules um the other part is giving them ideas that other schools are using to work with their their Learners um um the next one I'm I'm not sure
about um I have the newsletters I have the trifold the other piece that I'm thinking about is a Facebook group so people could get on and kind of share um give our point of contact a commun a sense of community
because we have people that don't have um High numbers in military but they may be scattered everywhere and so they may be a single you know in 150 miles of somebody
else so I just I'm toying with that if if you have any thoughts um I would make it a group a private group so that we don't get a lot I don't want to deal with scammers and other things but I
just I really have this strong sense that there needs to be some type of sense of community for those that go beyond you know the heavy military presence um and I think you guys have
talked a lot about um how do we reach school systems um and so what I will do is I will that trifold I think um has a lot of information on it both about MC3 and purple star um I will just need to
tweak it a little bit because I have left room on that document for um the schools to add their own information so maybe I'll leave a place so if it is tssa they could put in some information
about themselves um because I feel like it's a partnership with a lot of people so all right and same way with military recruiters so yeah I think that's all for me
um okay thank you Deb this is just looking ahead to scheduled um compact 101 trainings that are available um you don't have to be applying to be a p purple star school to go through the webinar there's a lot of good
information that's General across all the states okay um so um school system um members um since we're running kind of long if you have any suggestions on how we can reach out to um there's an
organization for um School office staff uh registar guidance counselors that we might be able to tap into when we send information out if you could email that to us not now but when you have an opportunity then we can include
information um to those organizations when we contact toss to send stuff out that would be helpful thank you um and then this is just um the communities across the state that have Recruiters in them um the the ones
highlighted in purple um we we have a purple star school presence in those communities or their military installation um but just keep this in mind um how we can get the recruiters and I did recently obtain a contact for
um very similar to a family resource person for recruiters um and hopefully her and I are going to be able to connect um here in the next couple weeks to talk about how we can more stream line information to them um it's it's probably very difficult to be the only
military kid in your school um and if they're ready with information as a parent um hopefully we don't have a lot of cases that come our way um which has been the case I think that um compared to 10 years ago Jennifer when we started
out we were probably um working more cases than we ever would have imagined um and for Ely either the parents are getting the information um and are armed with it before PCS is actually happen um
so they're already contacting their receiving School System about what is required which is so helpful for the transition of those kids and we do work cases in the summer um and and they're resolve really quickly and I would
probably say um I'm getting a fraction of the cases um that I used to because our schools officers are handling things before it gets to me and I know you all are saying that your cases are are decreasing as
well because as awareness travels across our state and across our um different branches of the military people are more prepared um I have been talking with Congressman green about and military service members don't freak out when I
say this about how there could possibly be a sampling of compact information whenever military service member goes to a school after they are E5 or higher just a sampling of what the compact is
um because those are your Future Leaders um those are the service members that are responsible for um other soldiers um and so we're we're we talk about this about twice a year but um if there was a way if somebody goes to plc or another
school they might just get a brief a quick brief on what the compact is they may not need it at the time but they may need it in the future and as a milit former military spouse I I knew that if things were handled at home then my husband could take care of what he
needed to do when he was deployed and that's just another thing to help our service members stay on Mission Focus so that hopefully I'll have a report on that um when we send out our annual report um in June um and I'm not going to read these you
all have the slide deck but um everything that we had was resolved so fast this year and it's all through relationships um you know we have directors of schools um and superintendent of schools as part of
this group um and we know exactly who to go to to resolve issues and even a super complicated one that was not a compact issue um I'll let them know it's not a compact issue but we can get you to the
person that can help you resolve that and that's that's what's great about this group we all work together um to do what's best for the military family but that was a that was a Dr Stevens's case she she solved that so fast but um
because of time I'm just going to skip through these um do you have any questions after you read them um let me know but it just kind of gives you an example um what we do as far as the compact goes we have uh to follow the state statute um and when we follow the
state statute there's a rule book of the rules for the Compact and we have to stay within those or I cannot intervene as a commissioner uh for the compact um so if there's something that pops up that's not a compact case again I'll let
them know and I'll explain why but the fact that all 50 states in Washington DC are all impact members um is super super helpful um I did every year I do include the uh stats for
um where impact Aid is going um in our state um and those of you in education or those of you that are parents usually the first part of school a letter goes home that asks questions if you are a um federal government impacted family and a
lot of time that determines where um Department of Defense defense impact Aid goes other impact Aid um and in some cases um DOA impact aid but I have all the stats and then the the link there is the resource of where I get it there's a really nice man in DC that helps me put
all the data together um this is the federal impact Aid payout for a fiscal year 24 you can see because of military families um and other federally impacted families in our state um the federal government is send in Tennessee about 52
million um in Impact Aid TI I would say I would double check for for Clarksville Montgomery County for fiscal year 24 we got about 1.3 million I think that 35 million is the history of impact aid for cmcss so I'm not sure if that's true for
others but I just wanted to flag that okay thank you it could also been a Deana typo um I'm My Own admin so as you all have seen my struggles with uh Google surveys and whatnots so
apologies um and then this is where the data is coming from and how it's measured um but this is uh the running total of military kids in our state from 22 forward and you can see we've had a decline in service members um this
typically happens every couple of years we have been flow as far as numbers go um based on our change at Administration we might be involved in more um military related activities going forward so um
we could see the number change uh again next year uh this is the breakout of military kids by branch and we do in Tennessee extend the services of our compact over to Garden Reserve children what whether
their parents are on active duty status or not that was something that Senator powers and Nathan helped us get a drafted up and pass through the legislature a military kid is a military kid this is the Breakout by age um this was the legislation that I
referenced about um that senator po sponsored about including language we did not the change was not in our compact proper statute but it was it falls under education but it basically states that we will we will take care of all military children in our state when
it comes to educational transfers um service Branch total um active duty and Reserve we do oh sorry um Dr Stevens does have some space force kids in her community although we didn't have we
don't and something that I I kind of puzzles me is um the compact language applies to the National Oceanic um organization and also the United um State's Health
Organization um because they are a type of service member although not proper military but we haven't been able to get data on how many of those children are in our state for several years which kind of leads me to believe that we don't have a presence um with those
organizations currently oh we definitely have the presence of the US Public Health Service but I don't know children wise there yeah Todd R couldn't get any data for
me okay um so this is something I need advisement on um I for the last two years have been on the finance committee for the National Organization and um Nathan knows this about me because him and I are a lot
alike we like fiscal responsibility um and not spending outside of the budget um and going in the to the deficit and I've been pretty vocal about planning for multiple years
and not um just going year toe um and so there is an effort now um for us to look at a dues increase uh currently the state of Tennessee let's see um
currently we pay a115 per military child that resides in the state of Tennessee um active duty so um it used to be where they were stationed but then it ended up Kentucky was paying more um on their end
because Fort Campbell is in Kentucky so it was changed to where the family resides and these are the stats for Tennessee and what the recommendation is is that the National Organization vote
to do a 4% increase um in dues um me personally I I don't think it's necessary um we handle all of the cases in Tennessee directly the national office isn't
handling any of our cases we're doing it ourselves um and I for those of you who've been around a while I've been pretty vocal about repaying State money to a National Organization and yet Nathan figures out
how to cover our banners in his budget um and occasional travel for purple star School awards but we don't have any funding in the state of Tennessee to run our organization ation not that I'm asking for it but I have a hard time looking at sending more money to a
National Organization when we're doing all the work here so um we're supposed to have a very long finance committee meeting in March um to look at uh the dues increase I have asked multiple times for breakouts and light items
about where money is going um how much benefit time um the the staff get Etc um and so I'm I'm bringing this to you um for thought because when we meet in as a
National Organization in October for our national convening of Commissioners I believe this topic is going to be on um on deck for us to vote um I will provide any information that I have about this
to you guys when I do my June annual report Nathan I'll talk to you on the side but um just I wanted to make you all aware of what we're looking at and this is based on our current numbers um and the trend uh for military children
has gone down slightly e year in Tennessee um so this is for informational purposes um this is basically a three to four dues increase based on uh how it will be applied to the National budget
for the National Organization they're a pseudo government entity because because they're housed at the Council of state governments in Lexington Kentucky but um they just applied a do increase to each bucket not explaining yet what each
thing within those line items is so I'm hoping to get more information on that because I like to read the city budget line by line okay I and I want to read this one line by line also um so that's just a continuation of
that so moving on to month of the military child here's some pictures from last year this is Chris's event um so month of the military child is coming up uh Clarksville Montgomery County Schools did something really cool it the date
for purple up Tennessee is actually in their parent calendar um and we as a state will be celebrating our national purple up day will be on the 16th of April and there's the cmcss
calendar right there Dr Luna veter there thank you for doing that um so our goal is to do our purple star School uh Awards um get those to the schools for April and then um each
school system um or entity is encouraged to do something within your organization for month of the military child like um in other jurisdictions you can contact your local government and see if the mayor or um superintendent of the county
would do a proclamation um if buildings in your community would light up purple um there's some really fun things that that happen and I would i' love to post that stuff in tout Kentuck or tout Tennessee
in the past we've had um the bridg own Arena Nashville's lit up purple on our purple day we've had um other government buildings AC across the state that have done that as well and um since we started doing that here other states do it as well but it just it's exciting to
see um what different communities do to support month of the military child um if you go to our website we uh Katherine Anne posted the most recent um information about month the military child but here are some ideas um I love
unique things that you all do um and then this is our landing page on the state um Board of Education um the resources tab will take you to um the rules um copy of our TCA code which is
our state statute on the compact it's been updated with um the state um the TCA code for covering Garden Reserve children um it lists who we are State council members a purple star school award resources for month of the
military child um state has really done an excellent job um taking care of us and we we greatly appreciate it okay so I think I got us kind of caught back up um are there any public comments so the
public would be um our fellows that have joined us and um our guests from um Department of Ed if you all have any comments that you'd like to share with us and I'm looking forward to partnering with you all to get our information on
your page um that was initiated by a Penn State study that basically said nobody can find information about the compact in Tennessee because in a lot of States I'd say we're the only state where the compact falls under State Board of Ed um most people are going to
Department of Ed's face websites Nathan you have information on that you lit up your microphone not on purpose oh okay okay no no it's just it's it's statutorily housed with us it's not you know I don't
know how to make that interesting well it was brand new and Governor Hassam was just looking for a place and he was like oh let's throw a dart Department Evette or stateboard ofed gets you fine with us yeah me
too okay um and then General Baker just to let you know that um I know Scott very well and he actually reached out to me last year about what um they were trying to do um and so he could not
attend today um but he definitely has um we've been engaged with him um or I have and I know you have two about how they can help us um so I'm trying to see if he can't find somebody from their organization to join our Council which
would be great um and then in other news um we do have a new um council member that will be joining us um after after this meeting um Dr Allison Clark she's the superintendent of schools for
Arlington City Schools she's replacing um Dr Mayo who passed away unfortunately in August from a medical battle um but she uh thanks to Jennifer Lundy she's connected us and she's she wants to be
part of our group which is great um so does anybody else have anything to share all right well I appreciate everything you do for our military kids and all kids in general and our service
members thank you for your time and um I think we're a great group uh Deb Deb is an excellent job and uh I'm excited for people to start posting them their pictures with their banners it would be
great um I'll entertain a motion to adjourn I move we adjourn is there a second second okay thank you so let the record reflect we're adjourning at 5:21 pm thank you all so much have a great weekend I appreciate you greatly thank
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conting she'll be here in just a moment by the way cther trying to tell us going sorry hey we are going live right now just sorry to interrupt the beautiful conversations two minutes yeah I believe Marsha has
overcome her technical difficulties and is on her way yeah e his auers is also signing in hours 9 o'clock AM Central Time 10 o'clock Eastern time I call this meeting to order Casey Griffin on our staff will call the road to establish a
quorum Mr cins here miss auberson Mr Holt here Mr Gentile here Mr Jensen
here Miss Johnson here miss Maxwell here M mcinturf here Mr mullenhour here Mr Wells
here Mr chairman here Mr chairman you have a quorum I declare a quorum is present we are duly convened and this time I call on our general councel Miss Rachel supe to read the statement of necessity for an electronic
meeting Miss supe good morning Rachel supe general counsel pursuant to Tennessee code annotated Section 8 44108 B3 the Tennessee State Board of Education hereby submits its Det determination of necessity for its
special CL board meeting held electronically at 9:00 a.m. on February 21st 2025 TCA section 491301 requires the State Board to meet at least quarterly due to the inclement weather on the date of this meeting and
to ensure that the state board members staff and the public can avoid hazardous travel conditions on the morning of this meeting the state board made the determination that its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting on February 21st 2025 should be conducted
electronically this meeting includes consideration of a number of revisions to state board policies and rules as well as approval of Charter School authorizer evaluation reports thank you thank you Mr supe as I said yesterday in our Workshop it's
unfortunate that we can't meet in person I always value the interaction that we have with our board members and our staff and our constituents but uh safety first is is most important and so because of that we are having this meeting electronically we did have a few
glitches yesterday uh teams meeting had and uh hopefully we're through those but just ask the uh people who are watching online if we have issues just just hang there uh I will say that yesterday we had an excellent Workshop uh very robust
discussions on several different items including uh from score on their credential framework and Algebra 2 report uh Tennesse educator survey and authorizer evaluation so with that I would ask if any board members would like to make any opening
remarks if none Dr Morrison just a few uh points of uh additional information from yesterday thank you chairman eie we did have a really robust discussion on a number of topics um as part of our Workshop we were really sorry not to get to meet with the teachers of the Year from
around uh the districts in Tennessee which we plan to do and we look forward to hosting them again soon because their Insight is always so valuable on so many issues uh but we started Instead at 12:30 and as chairman eie said went through in in pretty good detail the three authorizer evaluation reports that
will be before the board today that's ASD the charter commission and Metro National Public Schools um we heard from score again on impact credential framework that they developed uh our vice chair Daryl cins was part of that working group and it was really good to walk through the results of that working
group and the framework that has um been developed and will be of assistance to us and others at the state level as we think about connections between education and Workforce for our students we also heard from Alan coverstone who um was contracted to help support the board on Algebra 2 report that was
required by legislation last year again a really nuanced helpful report that will help guide our uh decision-making process moving forward as a board and as a state as we think about the math that all students need to know to be successful in their various career paths so more to come on that and then we
heard from our partners at Tara the education uh work through Vanderbilt and looked at the results of last year's educator survey some really interesting insights there about how our educators are feeling we also looked at a couple of their uh working briefs that have just been released on um tutoring and
the impact of those programs across our state as well as perceptions of early career teachers which are of particular interest as we think about the pipeline and how to retain recruit and retain high quality educators for our students so would encourage anyone that wasn't with us yesterday to go to the state board's website all the slides for those
presentations are posted there um as well as links to the algebra 2 report that was referenced in the one presentation so appreciate everyone hanging in especially in a virtual format yesterday for all those presentations but thought it was a really great discussion on a number of important topics some of which we'll be revisiting today so thank you chair e
turn it back over to you thank you Dr Morrison I do want to remind everyone that since we are meeting electronically ask that you identify yourself uh when you're making motions in seconds also uh uh try to use the raised hand if you
want to be recognized uh because I won't be able to see everybody on all the screens at all times if I don't acknowledge you and you want to uh speak then please uh interject and and let me know just say your name name and you want to
speak also remember our board meetings as well as TCA 44108 both require all votes taken during electronic meetings that includes even the policy uh votes have to be taken by call of roll and REM reme remind all presenters to avoid
jargon for possible so that everyone listening understands the subject matter with that uh we will move into the um consent items uh which includes the adopting agenda minutes from previous meetings licens or discipline settlement approaches and master plan
supplement is there a motion to accept the consent items or any changes all right Warren Wells a second so we have a motion to uh approve the consent items as is in a second uh I thought there was going to be a motion
for a change of the agenda to move an item up on the agenda is that correct or not Mr ahead Mr H or not Mr Hol uh Mr cbins were you
trying to speak yes sir uh move that we moved the um item on election of board officers up to the top of the agenda okay uh can I suggest maybe we move it to uh just before the first
reading items uh following the LC your discipline items uh to that would would that be okay yes sir that's fine okay so we have a motion to amend the agenda to move the election of officers we have a couple of board members who are who may
have to leave early and I think it's important that uh all board members participate in in that election of officers to just before the items on first reading uh there's a motion for that Mr Wells did you did I were you seconding that yes I'll second that okay
uh so Mr uh Griffin Would you please call the role for the amendment to the consent items with changing the agenda Mr cobbins hi Miss Albertson
hi Mr Hol hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi M Maxwell hi M mcinturf hi Mr Mullen hi Mr Wells hi Mr chairman hi chairman
you have 10 eyes so the motion to amend the agenda has been passed now we will vote on the consent items with the amended agenda is there a motion to accept the consent items as amended darl cin so move Mr cins mov is there a second Larry Jensen
second there is a second uh we have a hand raised by Miss Johnson did you want to speak Miss Johnson no I was raising my hand so I could make a motion okay thank just jump in there don't don't worry about raising your hand so so if
you're making a motion you don't need to raise your hand just jump in I apologize for that so we have a motion in a second uh for the uh consent items as as amended U Mr cobbins I mean Mr Griffin will you please call the row Mr cins I
Miss auberson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour hi Mr
Wells hi Mr chairman hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes I'm motion passes okay let's move on to the next item report items first item is State Board of Education member
reports uh any board members like to report on activities they've participated in over the last few months this is go ahead this is Warren Wells I do we um and uh I'll I'll also allow Dr mwell to speak if she if she'd
like but we had a day in the district in Warren County uh which was which was a great day and uh and Anna joined It joined me it was awesome to have her again but uh we spoke to um student panel a uh teacher panel an
administrator panel um and and learned a lot uh from them uh they had two things that were that were really really really uh uh extraordinary they have um a food truck that uh they're they're doing the students are kind of learning how to how
to operate a food truck and so they served us lunch uh it was it was amazing and um if you know Warren County you know that there's a lot of nurseries down there and so they also have a uh mobile Nursery truck that uh the students are learning some job skills
out of as well and um and then one of the things I took away from the day uh mostly would be and uh chairman Ebe you this might be right up your alley a little bit is they have a uh no device policy that they that they implemented
um and so I was talking to uh to them about it before the before the meetings and they kind of um gave a little heads up that the students may be a little a little bitter about it or a little prickly um and so when the students came in I was expecting that and it was
actually the exact opposite um they said they they didn't like it at first but that um they have better conversations at lunch uh and and with their with their fellow students uh they felt that the bullying uh in the schools had been
cut down uh due to that and um that it just to it made their made their day easier um and I will tell you when when I was first told about it I thought uh I have a student who um who plays a lot of sports a lot of extra you know extra activities and so I try to keep up with
him you know what is he doing is he going to get food that afternoon and things like that so I kind of started stressing about uh imagining my son not having communication uh but uh I think they may have may have won me over that that may be a way for us to to go so but
that was uh that that was our day in in Warren County but uh Dr Maxwell if you have anything i' would love to let you speak Mr Maxwell thank you Warren it was a very it was a great day and like Warren said
they have so many things happening there in Warren County and you know I just want to say under the leadership of Dr Grant swallows they are really doing some impressive things and I just have to second what Warren said about the student panel you know we can't forget
that our students whether they're four years old or 18 years old they are a very valuable resource that we need to tap into on a lot of things uh you know they have a perspective that I think we always need to bring to the table so
thank you Warren for letting me join you uh I really do appreciate that and also uh chairman Evie H I was able to join you because we both represent the yata Special School District we share uh Scott County um Dr Jenny Phillips was
very welcoming and again her students that she invited to be with us I thought shared great perspectives on education curriculum social issues you know like cell phones and other things that that are front and center for them so we
enjoyed that visit very much um just a couple of other quick things I I do appreciate getting to attend the toss legislative and learning uh session where Sarah Nathan and Ally did a really great job of presenting uh the letter
grade hearings um information about that and also the scores future forward Summit I felt like was very very informative and something that we we really need to continue to look at and especially with their presentation yesterday and one last thing um I'm
really proud of everybody in the state of Tennessee with the last n results uh the national assessment of educational progress that's something where kudos to a wide swath of people students teachers
administrators directors tdoe everyone legislators everyone that has played a part in this upward Trend so I think that's very encouraging for the state of Tennessee very well said Miss Maxwell
other comments yes Mr cobbins yes sir um had the opportunity recently to join uh the Tennessee educators of color Alliance uh cohort that they have here had here in
Memphis uh Dr dares George who leads that organization invited me and they're being trained on advocacy and how to engage with public officials and leaders to advocate for their schools and their uh districts and so that was really
informative and now I have about three meetings out of that where they put their uh ADV advocacy skills to work and look forward to sitting down with them individually uh at their organ also had the opportunity to attend
the future forward Summit put on by score which was fantastic um this was the second year that they've done it and it keeps growing uh where they bring industry and education and uh most recently this past week had the opportunity to sit down
with uh Dr richond Who was the interim superintendent here in Memphis and Shelby County just to understand some of the goals and um decisions that he'll be having to make over the next few months as he um Works to to write the ship
there so uh thank you for the opportunity to share thank you Vice chair cins Mr H thank you Mr chairman um I was also able to uh attend the score future forward uh conference and then also the
a portion of the toss uh conference in Nashville a couple weeks ago and the only thing I would add on that was um it was just very encouraging to me to see the dialogue that has existed um between stateboard staff um in part and in
particular the superintendent regarding the a through F hearings I know we have the rule regarding that on the agenda for today and just to see the amount of feedback that um had been thoughtfully received by Sarah Nathan and ali um in
in working to formulate um what we're going to be doing with those hearings um was was really encouraging to me thank you Mr H any others I'll just say uh I too attended the uh the score fast forward Summit and
uh uh reiterate all the comments that were made about what an outstanding Summit that is and how much it's growing year to year um also with uh Miss Maxwell the visit day in the district up in onid city was very
special uh also attended the southeast core meeting uh with Ally and with Nathan uh down in uh uh Cleveland Tennessee that's always a very good opportunity to meet with the superintendant and hear what issues are
on their mind and then uh on the nasby the National Association state boards of Education you now have a monthly member exchange meeting where we meet with uh state board members from all across the country and look at the challenges that
they have uh and compare those to the challenges that you can learn from that and some of the things that we're talking about here like math uh graduation requirements uh Etc are equally being discussed across the country so those meetings meet once a
month the next meeting is on Monday March 3D I think Katherine an will send out the notification for that encourage any board members who are available to to sign up and just sit in and listen if they can but uh with that uh again I
really appreciate all the engagement our board members have I think it's this really really important aspect of of our work we'll move on into the next item which are report items um first item is state
is uh mathematic supports act report uh Dr Amy Owen thank you Mr chairman good morning state board members and staff it's nice to see you all this morning I'm Amy Owen senior policy director for the Department of
Education this report item was required by the uh by chapter 551 of the public of 2024 also known as the mathematics supports act that act included a number of different components uh some of which you'll see today for example the CTE
teaching as a profession math practicum course is part of this act as well but this report item is specifically a landscape analysis and what the department did is we spent about six months Gathering both quantitative and qualitative data on math achievement
instruction intervention and preparation for grades K through eight we conducted a survey of school districts to look at what professional development opportunities they've provided teachers recently and what they wish they could provide um because part of the ACT is that the department will provide a free
optional professional development for K8 teachers in math starting this summer we also surveyed Ed prep providers on their practices for preparing teachers to go and teach math whether that is a K5 elementary teacher who's going to teach
math as a part of their day or someone who's teaching highlevel math in grade 612 for their entire day and we also conducted interviews with several school districts that have high math achievement in specific populations of students so high achievement for grades
35 or among English Learners to learn about their effective practices finally the report includes the recommendations of a math expert review panel that the department convened again is directed by public chapter 551 and that group made some wonderful
recommendations that will inform our professional development that we are obtaining so I'm happy to take any questions you have about this report item it's a comprehensive report gives you a pretty good lay of the land of what's going on with K8 math instruction and we were excited to be able to provide this
information sorry I was muted uh thank you Dr o are there any questions for her I have a couple of questions uh one thing first let me say I thought was an excellent report really really well written and had a lot of good data in there um one one of the top goals for
professional development is differentiating students or at different levels I think I was on page 20 report what's the best way to do that how do we do that I mean that's The $64,000 Question right having been a classroom teacher it is it that's one of the most
complex things is that you have students in your room with a variety of different backgrounds and ability levels for your subject um what our nape data is really showing we actually have some of the strongest Improvement in grades four and eight math throughout the country and we
believe that's because we've been emphasizing that we need to help all students access grade level standards we don't need to you know kind of backtrack or say that students need less than we need to provide supports that get them
up to that grade level instruction um that can look different for different students districts have a variety of processes uh using response to instruction and intervention to help students who have specific gaps in areas of knowledge or skill right when they're
starting to encounter their cont that content in their class so ensuring that interventions and supports are aligned with the sequence of math that students are learning for their grade level is an extremely important strategy
thank you also uh like in readers we have reading screeners uh we have one that the state recommends uh do we have something similar for that in math and is there a general screener that because if you don't know where the students are then you know how do you how do you move
them forward so I appreciate that um I talked a little bit with our math content experts about this topic um it is a best practice in math that your screener be aligned with your adopted curricular materials as much as possible so that you're screening for things in
the order that students are learning them in that school year if you're screening for something in September and the students aren't meant to learn about it until April the screener might show some results that you know the student might get there eventually they just haven't gotten there at this point in the school year so because of that we
don't have a single math screener that the state is recommending because districts could choose their own curricular options um from the state approved list there is an option under our Ela Tennessee Universal screener contract for districts to use as web for
free um however they can make different choices if they like to make sure that their screener is aligned with their curriculum excellent thank you any other questions for Dr one another thank you very much chairman just a comment I think it's I've really
appreciated the partnership with the Department of Education as we thought about these two reports the one that we talked about yesterday which was more of a high school focus and then this K8 landscape review that Dr Owen has um shared with us because I think it's going to be really important as a state that we think about the whole Continuum
of math instruction because it's hard to think about what students should be doing in high school without thinking about the preparation that all students need to be successful in whatever math Pathways they may try to access in the high school year so I just think um it's a good example of of the work to really
think about holistically math instruction the good work that's happening from the Department to support that work currently and where else we might want to to lean in and help teachers and students um in this area so again appreciate you sharing this with with us Dr Owen look forward to some
more conversations across our agencies good point thank you Dr Morrison okay next item fiscal accountability standard report Dr Owen again thank you Mr chairman um I'm presenting this item on behalf of the department I've talked with our finance
experts about it but you have very detailed questions just be aware that I may need to follow up with them and get back to you the State Board District and school operations rule 0520 01-02 requires the department to verify that any funds generated in the state's
K12 funding formula are being budgeted for uh the appropriate eligible expenses including any legal requirements for the use of those funds and if there are any districts that fail to meet those standards the board the department is requ to notify the board by January 15th
annually um and we did send yall this cover sheet by January 15th happily there were no districts to report in this category for the 2023 2024 school year so the cover sheet serves as the entire report just to make you all aware that there were no districts that failed
to meet that minimum standard thank you any questions for Dr Owen thank you very much Dr Owen thank you all next on the item is the report on Algebra 2 and again as we said we had a very good discussion on this yesterday
uh I would encourage anyone in uh who's watching online to go back and and review that from yesterday but uh we'll call on Dr coverstone and Michael durine to give us an update or short
version Michael durine Deputy executive director of policy and research with the State Board this report pursuant to chapter 583 of the public acts of 2024 evaluates potential alternatives to the algebra 2 requirement for high school graduation in Tennessee uh it examines recent updates
to Algebra 2 standards which this board oversees facilitates that process and how alternative mathematics courses and Pathways make maintain rigor align with post-secondary and Workforce demands and support diverse Pathways driven by student interest as the chairman mentioned we
contracted with Dr Alan coverstone who engaged with stakeholders across the state including representatives from the Department of Education and the Tennessee higher education commission and uh presented his findings in detail including multiple recommendations yesterday during the board's workshop
and he's here today as well if there are any more detailed questions this report was submitted to the Tennessee general assembly on the statutory deadline January 31st 2025 and we'd be happy to take any questions that you may have any further questions following
yesterday's discussion again I think uh you know what what followed on to our discussion yesterday is that getting the data on our existing Algebra 2 program we just change those standards is going to be very critical as we continue to look and see how we
can best meet the uh needs of our students prepare them for college for their uh uh intended careers and uh I think it's important to to continue to get that data as we can if no further questions or comments on
that again Dr coverstone thank you so much for your efforts and we look forward to continuing discussions uh with you in the future thank you next item is automatic teacher license directions Mr Todd Madison I believe is
gonna handle that today yes sir good morning uh Mr chairman and board members Todd Madison Senior associate Council for the State Board of Education uh first item we have for you are the automatic teacher license actions these are the automatic
revocations uh state law and board rule require the automatic revocation or the automatic permanent revocation of an Educator's license for certain criminal offenses in classifications set forth in law these individuals have either been convicted of one of the specified
criminal offenses or their conduct meets the classification as determined by DCS as such we recommend the approval these automatic actions we have a recommendation to approve the automatic license is there a motion to accept that
recommendation Mr chairman this is Jordan M hour so move Mr bolar moves is there a second Brian second Mr Holt seconds we have a motion in a second is there any further discussion if no discussion I'll ask Mr
Griffin to call the Please Mr cins hi Miss auberson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi
Miss Maxwell hi M mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour hi Mr Wells hi Mr chairman hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes motion passes next item is uh
department of human resour Human Services actions Mr Madison these are the automatic act um automatic system as as required by law um state law state law board rule requir the automatic suspension of an
Educator's license for failing to comply with a court order for support this individual has fallen out of compliance with his court ordered obligations as such we recommend his license be suspended until board staff receives notification that he has come into
compliance we have a recommendation uh to uh approve the Department of Human Services license diretion is there a motion to accept that war moved Mr Wells moves M hour seconds is there any
discussion if no discussion uh Mr Griffin please call the rooll Mr cobbins hi Miss Roberson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss
Johnson Miss Johnson you you just pushed the button to mute your yourself there you go it's Maxwell hi M mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour
hi Mr Wells hi Mr chairman hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes motion passes before we go to the next item on teacher Li discipline actions Mr James reminded me back on
member report uh an activity that he and Dr Morrison and I participated in uh that was the new legislator meeting uh where it was over at the baker school at University of Tennessee uh 10 new legislators who joined the legislature
this year uh Baker School was having a meeting to orient them and we were invited to come Dr Morrison gave a very nice presentation about the state board and state board's actions and it was an excellent opportunity to meet the new legislators and and since then actually had a follow up with some of the uh
representative Tom St and a couple of the others so uh thank you for reminding me of that Mr James next item is teacher licens or discipline actions we usually deal with these uh in mass as a consent agenda and
on this agenda isn't listed that way so I'm going to ask first ask board members to have any of these cases that they would like to take up separately and following that I'm going to ask if we can deal with the other ones on a consent agenda if we don't then we'll be voting each one individually uh by roll
call is there anyone who would like to have any of the existing items pulled out for further discussion Miss Johnson unmute yourself could we pull out Miss Smith's
case he request pull out Miss Smith Mr cins item a uh Mr beard Mr beard any others okay so what we're going to do is we're gonna I'm going to move that the
other items besides item a in item J item a Brian Beard and item a Brenda Smith be handled on a consent agenda is there a uh second to that uh motion moves uh Mr Jord Mr Molen hour
moves with that Mr Griffin will you please call the role to accept the recommendations that have been presented to us by uh the U our Council for all the other items except for item only and
item Mr chairman M Mr chairman I'm sorry we we've got to take a vote to create the consent agenda first and then and then do adopt it thank you sir so first we made we had a motion to create consent agenda uh and we had a second for that
uh with those two being pulled out uh Mr Griffin could you please call the role for creating the consent agenda Mr cobbins
hi Miss auberson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi M Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss MAF hi Mr Mullen hour hi Mr Wells hi Mr
chairman hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes we now have a consent agenda uh for all the items on the L discipline except for item a Brian Beard and item J Brenda Smith so now I'll ask Mr Mr Madison to
uh brief us on those consent agenda items Mr yes thank you Mr chairman um so the remaining items are Item B through I um and items K and L uh these are the staff's recommendations for license
action by way of consent Order each of these individuals has agreed to their proposed action against their license due to alleged Mi misconduct under board role board's legal staff recommends approval of these actions we have a recommendation from
the board staff for items B through I and for K and L is there a motion to accept that recommendation Jordan M so Mr M AR mov is there a second Warren Wells second Mr well second uh Mr Griffin we
Poli call the role for accepting the recommendations for items B through I and K and L Mr cobbins hi Miss auberson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss
Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr mullenhour hi Mr Wells hi Mr chairman hi Mr chairman
you have 10 eyes consent agenda then passes we now have two others to bring up first we'll bring up item a Brian Beard Mr Madison do you want to quickly brief that or Mr cins would you like
to uh ask your questions Mr Madison you want to brief that one Alex Anderson associate Council State Board of Education um Mr beard was um in December of 2021
just briefly he he assisted an unlicensed staff member in the um improper restraint and transportation of a student um this one is obviously fairly old because the incident happened about four plus years ago um so happy to
take any clarifying questions that Mr cins might have uh and provide some some helpful context if available Robins yes sir I may have overlooked it but I just wanted to make sure I was clear on what is the
professional that he provided proof of yes so he he uh himself submitted u a retraining in uh CPI so Crisis Prevention intervention Crisis Prevention intervention that's a mouthful um and he did that prior to us
being able to review and bring this uh fully through our processes to you before you today okay um and the six months retro active just to make sure I'm clear means that he's not um quote unquote been off the job
this is just sort of a procedural um action uh four years after the fact that we'll be logged and um quote unquote in his file is that the way that that
works uh yes sir the uh retroactive suspension would mean that he could from here here forth go forward without any kind of time out of the classroom it is our understanding based on what's available that he has not been in a
classroom since this incident in 2021 though serve no time well I know within the within the file it said that he was essentially relieved of his duties um during the course of the
investigation I guess what I'm trying to get clarity on is as a result of of any of this if he has experienced any um any time off the job as a result of this
action of the action before you no go ahead I'm sorry no I'm sorry the underlying incident yes triggered him being uh relieved of his duties at his former school and again it's uh according to the information we have he
has not been employed in a in a public school since that time um so this is the the recommendation before you which is a six-month retroactive suspension is uh more of a formality at this point to
say that you know he has already uh served the time backdated to that incident okay he would be eligible to be back in a school provided that he has maintained whatever credentials and certification
he would need to maintain his license yes okay let me ask this let me ask this question and then I think Mr H has a question had he decided you know he was he was put on lead at the time that he had this incident and then he resigned
and ostensively that was longer than obviously the six months suspension what we're asking for uh had he decided sometime between that time that he was is going to go back into the classroom and then we
brought this uh action upon him then at that point in time we would probably required a six-month suspension not made it retroactive if he had not been off the job for more than six months is that correct assumption uh chairman eie there there
are a number of factors that go into um into those recommendations the Review Committee examines the entire personnel file as a whole the dis record obviously that you have before you um there were a number of other factors that resulted in this
being a kind of a delayed um being four years down the road before it made it to you so it would have definitely been considered at what point in time we had the ability to review the information as well as where he was at in his career and if he wanted to go back into the
classroom um but I think I can safely say that yes that would have been something that was considered had that occurred thank you Mr Mr Hol first then uh Mr Molen hour after that thank you Mr chairman what licensed your action was taken against the other
educator who was involved in the improper restraint thank you for the question Mr Hol uh there was no uh action taken on our part because it was an unlicensed assistant um that assisted him okay
thank you Mr M hour thank you Mr chairman quick question councelor Anderson the timeline was referenced uh this this having taken four years is there a procedural reason why it's taking so long to get to this point I
just want to make sure that if there are uh let's call it icebergs in the process that we are uh getting out our ice chippers and getting those out of the way because we need to address these as quickly and promptly as possible thank you yes and absolutely Alex Anderson's associate Council the um so there were
various processes that that we that we just usually well actually I mean typically we take a back seat too so if obviously if an Lea does an investigation we take a backseat and wait for that to conclude um other
various that can involve law enforcement and this isn't just talking about Mr uh Beard's case but various other investigative entities and agencies within the state if they are involved to some degree then we take a backseat to to them because we do not have
investigators ourself and allow all of that to play out so that we uh can present the most comprehensive picture of facts to you um once they all become available so I don't know if that
answers your question Mr Mullen Hower but that is to say we followed our typical procedure um in waiting for other investigative agencies to do their part and then get information to us cins did you hit cins did you have
any other questions uh no question just a just a comment um similar to um similar situation that we discussed at our meeting in November in Stanton with another
educator um just want to make sure we all understand this is an eight-year-old child with a disab ility and um and to read the commentary of the witnesses and the um the
Educators involved is um um just discouraging that uh professional trained adults um when we have to resort to these types
of actions it just shows a breakdown in the training and professionalism of those individuals and I know these situations are very difficult I know they're volatile I know that they are um
um scary in some instances uh but that's why training exists that's why Professional Standards and expectations exist and uh the safety plan in this case was not followed
even though Mr beard uh was one of the individuals that signed off on this particular child's safety plan and so there were a number of breakdowns in this process where on the other end of it we have a a child with um a
disability who uh experienced this and and will likely never forget it and a parent who uh was physical uh bruises and um and knowing that their child was handled it in that way and
so um just want to be on the record as an advocate for these children and these parents um and ask that in all instances uh leas um Educators School
leaders recognize that this is why we have training and this is why we have plans and IEPs so that uh these children have every opportunity to be successful and protected in these environments that are
supposed to be nurturing where parents entrust their children to us so I just want to be on the record with that comment very well said vice chair cin of course uh you know this board uh we don't have to take the uh
recommendations for any of these if if we feel that they're not ation so uh encourage board members that things change uh something different we've done that in the past to speak said yeah I didn't have
any suggested changes to the recommended action thank your comments any other comments or questions we do have a recommendation then on item a Brian Beard for suspension six-month retroactive with preprofessional
development um we had a motion do we have a motion to accept that recommendation we had we had a motion in a second correct Mr James I think we did uh Mr Griffin will you please call the
role Mr cins hi Miss auberon hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi M
mcinturf hi Mr mullenhour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes motion passes next item is uh item I Brenda
Smith suspension of six months retroactive uh before we have a discussion is there a motion to accept uh the recommendation this which doesn't mean we can't change it down the road but just to get it on the table for discussion Mr chairman Mr Jordan mull so
moved Mr mull hour moves Mr Wells did I see you second Warren Wells second so we have a motion in second uh on Brenda Smith suspension six-month retroactive I think Miss Johnson was the one who had
requested pull this uh first Mr Madison would you like to have somebody please brief us remind us of what that case is and then we can ask questions Mr chairman Ryan shanan associate council state board of education um item J Brook Miss Brenda
Smith was before the board in November 2024 and the recommended action was a formal reprimand at the board meeting in November the board voted to table the matter until a later board meeting and instructed board staff to bring an alternate recommendation to the board in order to comply with the board's
instructions board staff contacted Missi attorney Miss Smith has consented to a six-month retroactive suspension of her license the board May accept the recommendation reject the recommendation outright or reject the recommendation of propos a new sanction
as has been indicated thank you Mr chairman thank you Miss Johnson you're the one I think that asked to have this one pulled um would you please like to ask your questions um just had a couple some
questions yes um let me first share with you that I've lost a child and with all of the things that are happening with guns it's very difficult
for me to say that a six Monon um retroactive discipline is enough and my reasoning being we don't know that if Miss Smith
had a gun in her purse on other occasions and just was never found out um we don't know having been in a school and many
schools it was stated that a child was not um In Harm's Way but we all know that children are children regardless of their age and that just because it was in a faculty land doesn't mean that a child could not have
had access to the purse a different faculty member found the purse and obviously turned it into those in administration or the powers that be which lets me
believe that they had questions about the legality of a gun being in a purse if they didn't they would have just returned it to Miss Smith and said oh you know you left your purse
here don't feel comfortable with a six-month discipline I feel like everybody makes mistakes heaven knows I've made plenty I'm not saying that her license need to be needs to be
revoked I just feel like maybe a Year's discipline would be more appropriate or something that gives more of a statement that we take this very serious um I know there were no criminal charges filed um I don't understand why
um she just was able to slide through all that um there is a no tolerance for anybody else and it's almost like she got a pass and am I correct that she has already
been working somewhere else or and how did that how was that allowed uh first of all thank you Miss Johnson for the the comments that you shared with us today um I was able to confirm through her attorney that as of
July 2024 she has um obtained employment in another school yes um after she was non-renewed by the district at which this conduct occurred okay any any other further comments uh
Miss John no okay uh very good thank you for those comments Mr H has this end up um I just have a question about the process by which um this educator would
find employment at another school um I I assume that that other school would be would see that this pending investigation and potential licens your action had taken place is that right that's correct so whenever uh teachers
Place into review that's uh marked or notated in t ENC Compass School Districts have access to that information and they they're able to see that information however our board rules clear that um being under review is not an action in and of itself and that
Educators can be employed while they are under review as you know something could be unsubstantiated or substantiated so it's uh but yet they able to see that okay and I assume it's a part of the standard um intake process for new
teachers to check that system such that they would have been aware of of this I'm just trying to make sure that it's something that we have systems in place such that um a new employer would be aware of this pending investigation sure um I imagine that is the case I can't
really speak for the hiring practices of the districts I can say that I do get phone calls from principles directors of schools asking about teachers who are under review or asking about teachers when they're placed under review and um you know we we we answer those questions
as best we can um and then otherwise I mean uh entities as a public institution you know we can always provide information through public rec requests for instance so oh is she teach go ahead CH I was just going to
ask if she's teaching in a public school that requires a license for her right now I I don't I don't know that I can answer that I'm I I am not exactly sure if the school she's in is a public charter or if it's I don't I think it's a public
charter I don't think that it is a uh public school she is in a I'm sorry Mr uh chair pel Nellis Deputy general counsel for the State Board of Education the educator is staffed at a public charter school and public charter schools are required to follow the same
lure requirements as a traditional public school thank you m Nellis Mr J next I'm sorry Mr just to wrap it up briefly Mr Shanahan could you remind us when the incident occurred such that if if the
board were to um recommend a one-year um retroactive suspension when would that have expired so if if we're going from day to incident uh that was March 28 2024 so we're we're approaching a one year right
now so it would not be retroactive in that case it would it would cause some time out of the classroom since we're we're in February of 2025 now so if it was one year then that would there would be a not just a retroactive consequence
but a forward looking consequence of approximately one month is that right um well it would have to be um consented to by the educator so if if you were to amend that recommendation today and then I take that uh to her it could be some
time before they consent to that and then um my understanding is that it would be back before the board in May so it would it would functionally operate as a as a fully retroactive suspension if that were the case um if you were looking at something more perspective it
would have to be kind of longer a longer period at time from now could the board if we wanted to say non retroactive for one month or three months or whatever then that would go
into effect at the time that everything was pass and and consented to is that correct that's correct so for instance if you uh if you decided today to a three-month perspective um take that back to the teacher if they consent to
that then that could be back before the board and say May and then it would be uh effective from when it becomes uh when it's entered um however um my understanding is she would also be able to op U
or should be able to exercise her her rights um as it relates to that um so it could uh it could also go toward a hearing thank you Mr Jensen then Mr
mow um I have a a question around the training uh it's necessary to carry a firearm what do we require in terms of you're a teacher and you're carrying a firearm on a campus what
training uh is required in order to be able to do that if I may um our Deputy uh General Council P Daniel melis uh is probably the best to answer that question Miss NIS thank you Mr chair P
Danielle Nellis Deputy general counsel for the State Board of Education Mr Jensen before I answer your question I want to be really clear that in the case that we're dealing with Miss Smith was not permitted to have this weapon on
campus the statute generally or the laws generally prohibit firearms from being on campus people carrying firearms on campus first and foremost there are certain statutory exceptions that would allow for someone to carry firearms on
campus for example 3917 1309 B1 and uh c1a say they can be used solely for instructional or School sanction ceremonial processes um if they're contained in a private vehicle by a
non-student uh adult under 397 139c and they're secured individuals such as uh school resource off officers are permitted to have weapons on campus having gone through significant training and then of course um as this board is
aware during the last session last legislative session 39171 1301 and 496 815 were amended to allow Educators to be armed if and only if they completed
rigorous training requirements if and only if they completed rigorous training requirements and had approval from multiple local stakeholders so I just want to be really clear that if somebody is permitted to have a weapon on campus
Because of a certain statutory exception or because they have met the requirements they are all people who are trained Miss Smith did not meet those statutory requirements was not one of the individuals who had been um uh identified as somebody who could have a
weapon on campus so I just want to be really clear about that that is that is uh really important for us to all be aware of did that answer your question Mr Jensen yeah follow up on this is it
within our perview to require her to have some sort of safety training as a part of our response to to this that be required to gun safety course or some something that would be a part of our
six months or a year or whatever it is plus uh is that possible for us to require that Mr Jensen we have broad leeway in the type of professional development we can recommend because we are the sole
Authority the board is the sole Authority as it relates to lure and training here in the state of Tennessee however we we are not in this situation dealing with a case where somebody did not know they were wrong Miss Smith knew
she should not have it there on campus she was immediately remorseful about having it on campus she indicated it was a mistake to have it on campus and so I'm not sure how effective recommending any type of U General safe be safe on
campus you know profession professionalism uh training or anything like that would be I'm also um wary of recommending any type of weapon safety training as counsel because this is again not a situation where she's an
educator who was authorized to have a weapon on campus she should not have had the weapon on campus she did not meet any statutory exceptions okay thank you Mr melar thank you Mr chairman um Council fanan
first question for you uh have we received any new facts since our last uh meeting where we where we talked about this particular case um no new facts that that would uh pertaining to the incident or
the conduct um I mentioned a moment ago that her attorney did confirm that she had obtained and and has made maintained employment since July of uh last year 2024 okay okay thank you um kind of
stepping back for a moment you know this is obviously a it's a sensitive topic both personally for some um of us and then also uh you know politically it's it's a sensitive topic I get that I think one of the things we have to do as a board is is try to be very objective
and um and thoughtful and I see everybody doing that uh I would caution against a couple of things that I've heard even today uh first uh Miss Johnson I'll I'll mention you a comment you made where you suggested that we we could infer for
example that um that Miss Smith may have uh done uh brought her gun on campus you know multiple times or or times prior to this this one instance uh I I think we have to be very intentional to not infer hypothetical infractions facts or
circumstances because it can I think unduly sway judgment so I'll caution against that the second thing I would caution against is um I agree with a comment that the chair our chairman mentioned earlier about um you we we do
have latitude to disagree with staff recommendations and I think there are and will be uh times when that is appropriate uh on the same hand uh it's important for us to also support their process and the work that they do to investigate and understand matters I
don't know where this particular one lands on that uh on that scale uh I think that there's probably a good case to be made either way but I do think that we should um just be mindful that anytime we go against staff recommendation it it it has the potential to undermine their ability to
for example negotiate consent orders in the future uh and we also just have to be mindful that decisions that are made by this board today uh do have the potential to set some sense of precedence going forward and uh I know that our staff is mindful of that and
and we'll go back and look at how we've handled matters in the past and uh I know that they try to anticipate how future matters might arise and how we can be uh consistent in in our narrow band of adjudication in these kinds of matters but but we have to be um we have
to be careful to go against their recommendations because they are uh I think our staff is spending a lot more time looking into the details of each of these matters and uh and to include things like uh are we being consistent with past decisions how does this play
out in future scenarios uh and I just want to be careful to not um look at this one set of circumstances very narrowly and uh and make the mistake of undermining the work that our staff does so uh with that
being said I'll just say like my intent is to vote for the staff recommendation I understand that others May uh disagree with that that and and uh and have cause for that but I do want to flag those two elements of caution for us thank you Mr chairman thank you Mr melar Mr
Hall you're muted thank you Mr chairman um I know this is this is a difficult issue um to the point of of whether we can make reasonable inferences I mean I think that that is our our job right I mean that we're not going to leave common
sense at at the door no inves ation uncovers all facts the point of of a process like this is to after an investigation to to make decisions as best we can based on the facts that were developed from an investigation and from the reasonable inferences that we as
thought the people can make um you know as a father with two uh Elementary School age Sons um you know it it it scares me and and worries me if if the precedent that we make is there's no
sort of forward-looking consequence for bringing a a loaded firearm um into a school um and I can understand how reasonable Minds can disagree on this um and I I'm I'm certainly reluctant to do something that
would result in a a a teacher um being out of the classroom but I also think that part of what has happened here and part of the reason why staff bring these recommendations to us is because ultimately it's our job to make decisions on on what the consequence
should be and my understanding is this is an area where we don't have a lot of precedent you know we we had the consent slate earlier where it's relatively simple um we have precedent that you know prior comparable offenses should result in future comparable offenses but
when there's not much precedent that's why this was flagged for us that's why our job is to decide what the the right precedent should be um and then that will guide um the staff and their ability to negotiate andent agreements going forward so for that reason um I
would personally favor a um at least the one-year retroactive suspension with a at least one month forward-looking component as well um because as I understand it even if we do the one year because of the procedural process that
comes after this um there would not be any forward looking component to it um and I understand that your mention is a serious thing to have on somebody's transcripts um but just to me as a father with you know seven to 10 year
olds in school right now um you know knowing there could be a loaded firearm somewhere in that school um and things turned out they turned out fine here in this instance but um you know we are the ones setting the president I think that's an appropriate pres to
say Thank you Mr Holt um I agree with you Mr Hol I'm I'm concerned by the fact that uh teacher would bring a loaded firearm to school and uh thank goodness that the teacher who
found it followed procedures and took it in and turned it in but the fact that there was loaded firearm in the school by a teacher I think uh results in action that this board must take I don't think six month
retroactive uh the right action to take I but I think the teacher needs to be out of the classroom for a period of time to think about what they've done and for other people to think about what's what's happened there and so uh the year suspension with uh
the requirement that at least one month of that being counted out of classroom what bothers me is what Mr Shanahan was saying is that if we just put in a year retroactive of the hearing process could take that and eat that whole period up I i' do believe that this the teacher
should be out of the classroom uh for a period of time in one month sounds about right um so and we don't take this likly and I think it is our responsibility uh I think what I've heard from uh uh Council NE Nellis is
that uh this is an unusual situation we are setting a precedence uh for an unusual situations not one where we can look back and see what's happened in the past and follow on that I mean we do respect the the recommendations by this by the councils here uh certainly we
respect those but it is the requirements of the board to take the action that we think is is the proper action um M Johnson did I see you had your hand up or I did I just wanted it to go on record that I do hold what our
Council recommends in high regard and in no way am I trying to undermine or demean what they have gone through in making their recommendation uh because I do value their opinions and always look for them for
guidance so let me understand that if this board decides to do something different than what is recommended then what we should do is is say that we don't agree with the
recommendation as is but we would recommend that uh these actions be taken and then you would take those back to the council and negotiate that with with their council is that correct that's correct but I think it I think it's
appropriate we can vote on the action or we can make a motion to amend the action but if we make a motion to amend the action I think it's appropriate that we give guidance to our attorneys on what action we would like to see in the
negotiation process so we have a recommendation a motion in a second on the floor is there any thought about amending that or do we want to vote on that motion is there amendment to that M mcinturf then Mr Jensen I'm sorry this m
first you're muted sorry I just want us to think about also the students that'll be in her class next year that will be if if we're going to say a month that's not only punishing her it's it's punishing her class and and also that could keep her from getting a job next year so we're not punishing her for a
month we might be punishing her for an entire year um as a teacher I think about she's been through a lot already I mean I could only imagine if that would happen to another teacher that I know and
um it's not just six months retroactive it would be extremely embarrassing I mean that that would be the ltest thing of this but I think she's gone through I mean almost a year of having to think about this every single day when she wakes up um I agree with Jordan that we
can't think about things that may or may not have happened we have to look at the facts and the facts are that this was a negligence case so I think about have we ever done a year suspension for just negligence and I know this is totally different it's very it's very serious
but she was not intentionally doing anything wrong she this was just this was this was a terrible mistake but I don't know if we need to take away a month of her in a class room and away from her students for something that I know that she's since like I've read all the things she's very apologetic and she
knows that she will never do this again but also understand that we want to make a it I don't know how to say just like you know just make sure that nobody no teacher ever does this again so I I don't I just want us to think about also the students in that future classroom too thank you miss mcinturf you
obviously bring a perspective that the rest of us would don't have to so Mr yes right Shanahan associate council state board um if I may just U add a couple of things and address uh M meur um so the
um the range for negligence I don't have specific cases or anything for you right now but um is formal reprimand up to a two-year suspension um and then as far as the 12 month or one-year retroactive suspension
and then including that one month prospective um assuming uh she did agree to it and I bring this back to um the board in May that one month prospective would occur when the when the um the
consent order is approved by this board so that that one month would actually occur over the summer and um wouldn't necessarily keep her out of the classroom I don't I don't know how the the school schedule is at that school she teaches that but
um that would it wouldn't necessarily keep her out of the classroom thank you Mr shanon Mr Jon you H your hand up muted uh I I have a a comment after the vote on this matter if I may I don't want
to just say during this where we are in this process but I do have a question or two afterwards so we have have Miss Maxwell thank you chairman ay Anna Maxwell this is a very difficult situation um and the reason that uh in
November when I I couldn't um agree with Council and I will discuss that a little bit further in a moment was that I felt like this merited more than just a formal reprimand because it is very serious and I'm very appreciative to our Council for
taking a look at and going back and coming back with something Beyond a formal reprimand and I think there have been a lot of good points made by each individual member that has spoken and I've I've sat here
and thought about it also and you know as a former director there have been Zero Tolerance cases that arise uh you know directors were faced with this and some and you know usually it is a one-year expulsion um
and it's hard because sometimes those cases were not intentional either um not meant to harm which leads me to uh think that we probably need to really
think about this um in terms of the precedent that's set and uh considers things that each of the members have brought forward this morning thank you m Maxwell any questions or
comments so we have a motion and a second on the floor to accept the uh six-month retroactive uh suspension I mean the yeah six-month retroactive suspension um is there any desire to
amend that motion if not we will ask Mr Griffin to call the rooll on the motion okay if not then oh Mr H chairman E I don't know what the best process here is whether we should have a vote first on the motion but I I did
also want to get on the floor at some point um The Proposal of the one-year retroactive and Oney year excuse me one month prospective I think it would be appropriate to amend the current motion because if we pass this motion or don't pass this if we pass this motion then it
would be over so if you want to you want to uh make an an amendment to that then I would recommend you do that now and we'll vote on the amendment the amendment passes then we'll be voting on the motion with Amendment if Amendment doesn't pass then we'd be voting on the
motion as originally presented thank you Mr chairman then I will so move for an amendment with a for the consequence to be a one-year retroactive suspension of uh the educator license and then one month
prospective we have a Amendment to the motion is there a second Miss Johnson did you second I I'd like to Second Is there further discussion on the amendment if no discussion on the amendment we do have uh Mr Griffin
please call the row voting on the amendment for the one month one year plus one month as Mr Holtz stated Mr cins I miss oberson I
Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcin tur
hi Mr Molen hour n Mr Wells hi Mr chairman hi Mr chairman you have nine A's
okay so the motion as amended passes uh or the amendment passes uh now Mr James do we vote on the original motion as amended yeah on the on the motion as amended right what what we've
effectively done as a board is is made a motion by way of substitute and and so yeah I I think we' so Mr Griffin is there any further comments or discussion on the motion as
amended if not Mr Griffin please call uh roll vote all the rooll for the motion as amended Mr cins I serson hi Mr Holt hi M Mr Jensen
hi M Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour day Mr Wells
hi Mr chairman I Mr chairman you have nine A's so the motion does pass and so this then gives you the direction or to go back to renegotiate with they attorney yes thank you Mr chairman board
members thank you m now yes I had one comment on this Larry Jensen um I like somebody I think we talked a little bit about this yesterday but I'd like to know on the inservice training or
wherever this occurs where our teachers are this issue is reviewed discussed walked through so that there Clarity uh about the policies around guns on campus Etc I I we don't have I
don't have to have an answer right now but I really would like to better understand how we are training uh teachers to to this uh issue that does have such implications that so that somebody who's negligent or
forgets that uh it just seems to me that that this is a critical part of training uh to be on a campus whether it's a teacher or administrator or whatever I would like to know what where that occurs in the training in service or
wherever that might be thank you I think that's a good point Mr J particularly as our carry laws Chang throughout uh throughout time I think that's very important other comments or questions and we'll now turn our attention to the election of board
officers section two of our board meetings policy outlines that the most senior member of the board as determined by years of service will preside over the election of officers we find ourselves in a interesting parliamentary
situation uh I have made it clear that I seek to uh seek another term as chair and I think Mr cins who is senior to me by a month is likely to be nominated as Vice chair so that would mean that the two most senior members are being nominated for office and it's a courtesy
we have both declined uh to preside over this activity so third senior third member in seniority among that is Mr Jensen so I will ask Mr Jensen to preside over the election Mr Jensen thank you chairman e uh our uh board
member policy 1.2 section five related to the method and election of Officer States the chair and vice chair of the board shall be elected uh by the m members of the board for a term of two
years uh at this time I will open the floor for nominations for chair um Warren Wells okay Mr West yeah so um I I think um chairman EV has done an absolutely amazing job um uh leading this leading
this group and um I would like to nominate him to uh another position of a chair uh that nomination is on the floor is there a second chy M second Chrissy Maur second uh miss
mcinturf the provides a second on that uh that Mr eie has been nominated uh by uh Mr West and second by Miss mcinturf for election is the office
of chair of the board and that nomination is duly made and seconded are there any other nominations for uh chair again any nominations for uh the role of chair one more time are there any
nominations for the chair hearing none uh we will uh proceed to a vote if there was U since this is an electronic meeting and the law requires votes in electronic meetings to be taken by call the roow I will ask Mr Griffin
to call the roow remember to answer your name with the last name of the person for which you wish to vote Mr cins Daryl cobbins Bob eie Mr cins eie Miss
auon Bob auberson chairman eie miss auberson eie Mr Holt Ryan Holt chairman
Eve Mr Holt eie Mr Jensen uh Larry Jensen Mr eie Jensen eie Miss Johnson Mara Johnson Robert eie Miss Johnson
eie Miss Maxwell Anna Maxwell Mr eie Maxwell eie miss mcinturf chrisy mcinturf eie Ma Turf
e Mr Mullen Jordan molau Robert eie Mr Mullen hour eie Mr Wells Warren Wells eie
eie chairman eie eie for eie eie eie Mr Jensen you have 10 votes for Mr eie thank you Mr uh members of the board by your vote
you have reelected The Honorable Robert Bob eie of the third congressional district to serve as the chair for the ensuing two-year term Mr eie do you accept I do thank you and and thank you
to the board for your continued uh trust and confidence in me it's a it's a great honor to serve the state of Tennessee and and serving with the board members that I do and with the staff just makes it makes it uh just so so valuable to me
and and and I pledge to continue to to serve in the best way I can uh this job is one that you can make to whatever you want to make and spend as much time as you can I'm fortunate that I don't have a full-time job which allows me to to spend as much time as I can in Nashville
and working with the staff I'm really proud over the last couple of years uh how this board has really increased its engagement uh with the um uh throughout the state I mean just the reports that we heard today just shows how much each
of you are engaged in representing the 770,000 people that each of you do and um as we continue I use my acronym learn to do a better job we l we listen first we e we engage that's how we listen we
act a act we don't act until after we've engaged and listened in our we respect the opinions of each other just as in the discussions we just had today we didn't always agree but we respect those opinions and then end we navigate through the process with our focus on
the students as long as we keep that doing I think this board will continue to do the excellent job that we're doing so thank you for your trust in me and thank you Mr Jensen Mr E I think I speak for the board we're U excited that you're going to continue in this role you've done a
wonderful job and it's uh greatly appreciate which if everybody will give you a thumbs up just as an acclamation I would appreciate uh I now open the floor for the nomination for the office of Vice chair Mr Jensen yes I would like to
nominate Vice chair cins for another twoyear terms Vice chair is there a second Jord M hour second um chairman eie has nominated and
Jordan member Jordan maler has seconded the nomination of Mr Daryl cobbins to serve as the vice chair for the ensuing two years are there any other nominations U again are there any other nominations unless I hear uh a
nomination then we will move to a vote there being none Mr Griffin if you will call the role and again remember to answer your name with the last name of the person for which you wish to vote Mr
cins Daryl cins Daryl cins cins for cins Miss auberson bonie auberon Mr cins Roberson toins Mr
Holt ran Holt I'm Mr cins cins Mr Jensen Jensen cins Jensen
cins Johnson Miss Johnson Marsha Johnson cobbins Johnson cins Miss Maxwell Anna Maxwell Mr cobbins Maxwell cobbins M miss mcinturf
mcinturf cobbins mcinturf cobbins Mr Mullen hour Jordan Mullen hour cins thank you Mullen hour cins Mr Wells Wells cins Wells cins
chairman eie Mr eie for Mr cins Mr Jansen you have 10 votes for Mr cobbins thank you Mr Griffin by your vote members you have reelected The Honorable Daryl cobbins of the ninth
congressional district to serve as the vice chair for the ensuing to your term Mr cobbins do you accept yes sir would you like to make a comment certainly uh thank you so much
uh to my colleagues for your vo of confidence do appreciate the opportunity the past two years to work alongside chairman eie and our incredible staff and all of you uh just to make sure that our almost one million students uh in
Tennessee have the resources that they need to be successful so look forward to continuing that and and uh taking Tennessee to high heights so thank you very much thank you Mr cins uh we appreciate your willingness to
serve and members I declare that by your vote and pursuant to Tennessee code annotated 49-1 d301 B and our board members and board member policies you have duly and legally elected The
Honorable Robert Bob eie of the third congressional district is chair chair and The Honorable darl cobbins of the ninth congressional district as the vice chair of the Tennessee State Board of Education for the ensuing two-year
term with that Mr chairman I turn the meeting back to your leadership thank you Mr Jensen and I do look forward to serving with Vice chair cin the next two years he is an outstanding person and representative for our board with
uh let me suggest we take a 10 minute break before we go into items for first reading so it is now 11:34 let's or 10:34 your time let's uh just before 10:45 we'll restart thank you
e e e for e e e e for e
e for e e e e e start back in 1 minute and we'll move on to items on first reading our first item is
CTE uh course standards Mr deol um good morning chairman eie and board members I am deborra null assistant Commissioner of postsecondary Workforce mil for the Tennessee Department of Education I'm here today to present to you on first reading Career and
Technical education course standards this item includes new courses within the following CTE clusters energy and sustainable resources which is a new Career Cluster and Education and Training the energy and sustainable
resource course were created based on revised framework of CTE clusters and educator feedback to align more closely with industry and postsecondary needs the Education and Training math practicum course was created in response to chapter 551 of the
2024 the mathematics support acts PC 551 requires the department to offer this course by the 2526 school year and further requires a course to align with the recommendations of the mathematics expert review panel also convened
pursuant to PC 551 the panel's recommendations were provided to the department CTE team to support the development of these standards industry Partners in secondary and postsecondary Educators have reviewed these new courses for alignment
with education and Workforce needs additional feedback will be solicited between first and final reading the C course and standard change will go into effect for the 2526 school year the Department of Education recommends
acceptance of this item on first reading and the State Board of Education staff concurs with this recommendation we have a recommendation for first uh CTE uh career clusters and energy and sustainable resources is there a motion to accept the
recommendation mowo moved Mr Mull moves is there a second an a Maxwell second it's Maxwell seconds is there discussion any questions for Miss n or comments I'll just say this is that uh I'm really excited to see the new energy
cluster I think with the governor's emphasis on making Tennessee the uh nuclear energy state of the of the country and and seeing that uh within the cluster I think it's really great that our school systems are Contin to to support that activity let me ask just
one question what percent of our students actually take CTE courses yeah that's a great question and so I can provide um some numbers and then I can convert them into percent for you and follow up um now when I talk
about the number of students I can extract student enrollments and this is students are enrolled in CTE courses which means a lot of our students are taking more than one CTE course during a school year so for the 20 uh 2023 24
school year we had um 765,7 162 student enrollments if I can give you the concentrator data that means students who took two or more courses um I want to highlight that in
2022 23 we had 101,000 students however in 23 24 we had almost 120,000 students so we saw an increase of about 20,000 students who concentrated in that CTE if I look at the middle school
numbers which are really exciting and I think this is a lot of it's based off of our Innovative School model funding back in 22 23 we had only about 21,000 students involved in the middle school and our CD courses last year we had over 46,000 so we saw a huge increase on our
middle school students so you can see a really large increase and after this meeting I'm happy to provide a additional context um through email for you as well thank you that's that's outstanding Mr Jensen I would just encourage the
members if you have not gone to a Career and Technical Education Center or in your area to do so uh I think you'll be greatly encouraged and uh Vice chair cins and I were recently at one of the
schools here and it was I the kids were in ties they were smiling they were it was just really an encouragement to me to to see the application of what we've been talking about it's easy to talk
theoretical numbers Etc and that's important I'm not diminishing that but I simply encourage our our members to find a way to get to one of those schools and spend a little time and understand what they're doing on a daily basis so I just
uh personal uh excellent point Mr Jensen it's really really gratifying to see the impact that uh CTE is making on our students and uh in the education to Workforce as we continue to do that any other
comments yes may I highlight one more last one more last thing I just really want to highlight and this this to me speaks volumes our graduation rate high school graduation graduation rate for our CTE students 98.3% excellent thank you all right we have a
motion in a second uh to accept the first reading uh the CTE career clusters uh is Mr Griffin please call the RO Mr cbins
hi m oberson i Mr Hol hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr
molau hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi chairman eie you have 10 eyes thank you motion passes on first raing Mr Jensen you have your hand raised is that from before or you all right next item is
literacy and Specialty area standards for educated preparation policy 5 505 Dr Jessica dainy good morning thank you Jessica dainy I'm the manager of Statewide dyslexia strategy on the special education and student supports team in
the office of academics I will be presenting on the literacy and Specialty area standards for EP policy 5505 this um literacy standard ERS included in this policy outline the knowledge that our EPS must equip teacher candidates with regarding
Literacy for Early Childhood um Elementary and special education specialty area programs the Tennessee literacy success act and TCA 49122 which is our 2016 dyslexia law that outlines um the requirements to screen students
for characteristics of Dyslexia includes several expectations for EPS to ensure teacher candidates are adequately trained for supporting students with difficulties these expectations include but are not limited to an understanding of learning disabilities that can impact
reading development and skills acquisition the use of appropriate assessments including Universal screeners to determine risk and drill down assessments to pinpoint your cause as well as the analysis of multiple types of data to make instructional support decisions for all students based
on individualized need and this is all done within our adopted framework of the Tennessee's response to instruction and intervention or RTI squared so to continue improving ep's literacy programming this item proposes the following changes um one we
uh propose the inclusion of speech and language disability eligibility information in addition to sld or specific learning disability and basic reading reading fluency or reading comprehension within the content knowledge standards we've also proposed some minor vocabulary shifts to
incorporate language of current research literature such as multi-century and multi modal as well as to mirror the language of the Tennessee literacy success act and um subsequent Department guidance that has come out since the passage of U many of these laws and
stateboard rules and then the emphasis of screening for characteristics of Dyslexia on the development of reading and foundational skills associated with Word level deficits rather than the specific criteria for student support plan eligibility these proposed changes are
going to ensure appropriate focus and EP programming um for preparing pre-service teachers for their careers as well as for enriching the knowledge of inservice teachers who are advancing their careers or pursuing certifications the Department of Education recommends acceptance of this
item on first reading and that the SBE staff concurs with this recommendation thank you Mr Dy we have a recommendation for literacy and Specialty area standards for Education preparation policy 5.55 is there a motion to accept the recommendation
H moved Mr Holt moves is there a second Jenson second Mr Jensen seconds is there any discussion no discussion Mr Griffin Would you please call the rooll Miss cins
hi Miss auon hi Mr Hol hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson I miss Maxwell I miss
mcinturf I Mr Molen hour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes motion
pass next item is Educator preparation policy 5.54 Mr Michael morning chairman and members of the board Michael derline Deputy executive director of policy and research with the State Board the educator preparation policy sets forth requirements for Education educator preparation providers
and the programs they offer leading to Tennessee lure this includes requirements related to clinical practice and clinical mentoring in October 2024 state board staff convened the educator licensure Review Committee and discussed plans uh to recommend a phase out of the edtpa performance
assessment while strengthening strengthening activities that take place during a candidate's clinical practice experiences in addition to aligning with recent changes made to the educator preparation rule the recommendation before you seeks to strengthen aspects
of clinical practice including requirements related to the number of formal observations clinical mentors Andor supervisors must conduct during clinical practice and the tool that must be used expectations related to how data from formal observations must be used
for for candidate growth development and progression throughout the program expectations related to EP design of structure for observations including pacing and the role of the mentor and supervisor and removing the requirement that clinical practice take place in two
settings allowing for a deeper experience in a single setting if the board approves this policy the department will initiate a review of ep's clinical practices requiring EPS to submit documentation demonstrating alignment with these requirements I do want to note that this item pairs
with the next item proposing to drop via TPA assessment for EPS with Department approved clinical practices with that I would be happy to take any questions you may have you have a recommendation on education preparation policy 5504 is
there a motion to accept the recommendation Warren Wells so move Mr Wells moves is there second Chrissy mcinturf second Mur seconds are there any questions for Mr derline Mr derine I'll just ask are the
EPS on board with this overwhelmingly yes um I will say we are still having some discussions with a few folks around the job embedded uh pathway um but this is on first reading so we anticipate if we do need to make changes we could do so between readings
thank you and my understanding is there continues to be an increase in the number of student teachers coming in through the job embedded Pathways is that correct that is correct um for the 2022 23 cor cohort about 42% of
completers were job embedded um previously the 2122 cohort that number was about 36% so we are seeing a pretty significant increase in job embedded candidates any other questions Miss mcer I just wanted to
tell Michael thank you for all your hard work I'm sure there are a lot of future teachers out there that are excited about this thank you no further discussion uh Mr Griffin please call the role Mr cins
hi Miss Roberson hi Mr Hol hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi M mcinturf hi Mr Mullen hour hi Mr
Wells hi chairman Eevee hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes motion passes thank you next item is professional assessment for Tennessee educator policies 5105 Mr
derline thank you Michael derline Deputy executive director of policy and research with the State Board the professional assessments for Tennessee Educators policy outlines General assessment requirements as well as pedagogical specialty area content literacy skills assessments following
discussions with the educator lure Review Committee this item proposes removal of the etpa lure requirement beginning on July 2026 for candidates completing Department approved clinical practices the committee advocated for strengthening clinical practice
requirements which is reflected in proposed revision to the educator preparation policy which you just voted on if the board approves these two policies it will set forth a process by which EPS would make appropriate shifts to clinical practice submit documentation to the department and the department would then carry out a review
process ultimately leading to approval or denial of clinical practices if approved candidates would no longer be required to take a pedagogical assessment for lure beginning on July 1st 2026 And to clarify that would be all clinical practice Pathways in addition revisions
have been made to remove certain assessment requirements for specific individuals seeking to reactivate a license and with that I'd be happy to take any questions you may have we have a recommendation for professional assessments for teny educator policy
5105 is there a motion to accept ran Mr Holt moves is there a second to Mr Hol second Hol moves and Mr Jensen second is there any further discussion if no discussion Mr Griffin
please call the role Mr cbins Mr cobbins I think Mr cobbins had to leave all right Miss auberon hi Mr Holt
hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi
chairman Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion passes thank you next item is textbook and instruction material waivers rule 052018 Miss Brianna Summers good morning cheer eie and board members my name is Brianna Summers I'm
the director of policy and academics at the State Board I have before you the textbook and instructional materials waiver rule revisions on first reading state law charges the State Board to prescribe textbooks and instructional materials based on recommendations from
the textbook and instructional materials quality Comm Commission State law also directs the State Board to approve or deny waver requests from districts that wish to use textbooks or instructional materials that are not on the approved list um State board's textbook and
instructional materials wave over will before you further outlines this process this rule revision proposes first clarifying the process for leas if no textbook or instructional material exists for a given course or grade level and this is really in
response to district and in partnership with the Department of Education and their feedback this proposed revision aligns with state law to not require waivers if there isn't a list and this revision also mirrors current practice second it also allows leas to
submit research and evaluation on proposed textbooks and instructional materials to better inform the board while they're making decisions on improving or denying waiver requests this is actually in response to chair e feedback from our November meeting in which we had a waiver request before us
uh and this is to support evidence-based and high quality adoption for any textbooks or materials that come before the board finally there's other clarifying and Technical edits to support public transparency and effective implementation I'm happy to take any questions you may
have we have a recommendation for textbook instructional materials waivers rule 0521 d18 do we have a motion to accept uh CH E so moved and I have a question when we get to it okay Mr mire moves is there a
second chy mcinturf second mcar seconds we have a motion in a second we have discussion Mr Millau thank you Mr chairman uh BR this is regarding o24 uh subsections H and I just a quick question this is regarding the uh
statements of assurance uh there's nothing that I was able to find in the rule that would um address a viol a of uh in particular H and I if someone were to submit a statement of assurance and it were to be found after the fact that
uh that that the textbook was not in compliance I'm assuming that the statute itself would add would uh apply redress uh in other words we don't need to have a process within this rule to uh address a violation violation of h&i is that
correct thank you for your question Mr Mullen Hower um you're absolutely correct if they found in violation um their findings sent back to the district that you know something like Common Core prohibitor Concepts um and we wouldn't move forward with the waiver application but happy to take any feedback that you
have between first and final reading for further Clarity but but just to clarify I understand that if the the material were to be found in violation at that time then it would you know the the waiver would not be approved if it turns out that we we didn't catch it uh and
the textbook were to be used in the classroom uh and then at some point someone were to raise the flag and say hey this this textbook violates the statute I'm assuming that the statute at that point has adequate language to address the issue yes um I can pull that statute language for you and send it but
both for pra Concepts and Common Core there are potential actions that um the commissioner of Education in particular can take if they are found in violation okay great I just want to make sure that we didn't need to address that scenario in this rule set thank
you other questions no other questions we have a motion in a second to accept textbook and instructional materials waiver rule 0520 0118 Mr Griffin please call the role Mr cins Mr
serson hi Mr Holt Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi M mcinturf hi Mr Mullen
hour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion passes thank you thank you next item is accountability hearings
rule 0520 92- Point of1 through 04 Miss Rachel supe good morning Rachel supe general counsel for the State Board of Education TCA 493 112 authorizes the State Board of
Education to call for a hearing in Lea that operates a public school or a public charter school that receives a d or an F letter grade to report on the school's performance and how spending decisions may have affected its
performance goals following the hearing the State Board May recommend that the Department of Education impose a corrective action plan um or audit and investigate the Lea or public charter schools academic programming and spending the department of education is
required by Statute to report on the outcomes of a recommended corrective action plan to the State Board stateboard staff have engaged in a great deal of stakeholder engagement and Outreach in order to develop this role
um that started specifically in 2022 as our staff connected with Maryland and Colorado uh to see what they're doing in terms of accountability hearings uh and to help that inform what we could be doing here in Tennessee while neither state currently
operates with hearings similar to the process um that is outlined in Tennessee code annotated state board staff G valuable insights into how these accountability structures were established in those two states between 2023 and 2024 state board staff
continued to consult with National Education groups B weather and the Aspen Institute specifically to develop the initial framework for what these hearings should look like and to conduct focus groups with key stakeholders throughout the development process the
State Board staff regularly engaged with state legislators state board members state board staff Tennessee Department of Education staff uh the Tennessee organization of school superintendents directors of schools district and school leaders Charter School leaders and the
Tennessee school boards Association we began crafting the rule in June 2024 and re-engage stakeholders at that time in addition to some additional stakeholders including score the Tennessee Charter School Center and the Department of Education School turnaround team their office of
academics and their assessment and accountability teams we've also engaged with uh leas that operate higher performing schools with similar demographics as some of the states lower performing schools schools including meter Nashville Public Schools
and Memphis Shelby County Schools and Tipton County Schools stateboard staff have presented updates on the development of these rules at tsb's annual convention in November 2024 tosses legislative conference in February of
2025 and through the state's superintendent study Council meetings so this product really is uh Collective feedback from a variety of stakeholders and Lea staff um as well and both the department and
uh state board staff encourage the passage of this rule on first reading and with that I'm happy to take any questions you may have we have a recommendation for accountability hearings rules 0529021 through .04 is there a motion to
accept Mara Johnson I I move Miss Johnson moves I will second that motion too have a motion and second are there discussions or questions Mr H thank you Mr chairman uh Mr I've got a
few questions about the the rule um in section threea it says that one of the categories for um leas that will be summoned for a hearing are leas that
have um at least one public school that received an F letter grade in both of the two consecutive school year is Our intention there that that should be the same school um so if an Lea has one school that received an F last year in a different school that received an F
two years ago that would not qualify is that right I appreciate the question it's a common question that we've received so we've already talked about how we can further clarify that language between first and final to make it clear that it does refer to the same school so
um if you have um a apple tree middle school and it receives an F in one year and then an F in the following year um that's what we're talking about we're not talking about two different schools great thank you we'll make sure clarify
that in in section excuse me 04 uh state board recommendation subsection one b um which discusses the um the recommendation of
consequences such as um the audit investigation or the corrective action plan in in 1B um the second sentence it says the corrective action plan shall include an analysis of the current plan and it
wasn't clear to me and I may have missed it what what the current plan is we're referring to in the rule sure and we and again that's something we can also clarify a lot of the schools um or leas I should say that we're going
to be seeing at this um at these hearings are already going to be on some type of either turnaround plan or um Improvement plan corrective action plan of some sort and our goal uh is to not
add any additional burden um create yet another plan so uh the goal is to incorporate that into a plan that they already are required to have in existence great that makes sense um and
my last question in um the same section 04 uh subsection five um it it talks about apportioning costs and that apportionment is subject to the state board's approval um and it wasn't clear to me what what the ational
costs would be what what examples of that might be and then how the State Board would decide whether to abortion cost or not we are um actively engaging in conversations with the Department on this exact issue to make sure that we can put together um a policy which we
will bring to the board for approval on first reading at the May meeting and that policy will be specific to accountability hearings process and we'll flesh out what the abortion me should look like um if any so that when you all are presented with a a bill or a
division of how it should be uh you know a portioned um you all have the guidance you need to know whether or not to approve the recommendation for the apportionment that's provided by the department so we'll make sure to get clarity on that by May when we bring the
policy and just to a high level that does that mean that so this is it this isn't a situation where the board is recommending a corrective action plan on a US school or or Lea that has drf um
that there would be costs of fulfilling that plan and that this contemplates that the this the Lea may may bear those costs but also someone else and would that be the state board or who else would bear the cost of the corrective action plan if not the Lea for public
Char school I believe this is actually set out in statute so I will um I want to give you the exact language um okay so in the statute that sets up these accountability hearings um let's
see it says the department shall apportion the cost of implementing a corrective action plan imposed between the dep Department in the Lea or public charter school so the statute contemplates that
there's you know an option for tdoe to put some of those costs um on the Lea or Public Charter School it gives the department discretion to make that uh proposed apportionment and then it would come to the board to approve prove that
they might decide not to abortion any cost to an Lea they might decide to abortion the total cost to the Lea that would be up to the department um but then like I said it would come to you all for approval got it so the cost would be born by the department in the first
instance unless they recommend that it be born by the Lea or school and that would be subject to approval I'm not sure what you mean about the first instance um there's not like a default to to the department being the bearer of the cost um so I apologize if I misunderstood your
question but it would uh be up to the department to kind of come to the state board with a proposal whether to put any Associated costs on the department put them on the LA or public charter or split them somehow between the department and the Lea but there's no
world in which uh the statute authorizes or allows for or requires the State Board to be paid for the cost of any corrective action great all right thank you other questions I've got I've got some
questions uh misse uh just a couple of areas where I think maybe we can improve the the wording section 3B it says Lea has at least one Public School whose letter grade decreased from a d to an F in the two consecutive years in which
school letter and it goes on and on just seems like me may we just said uh has one Public School whose letter grade was an F immediately following the year in which it received a d just uh take a look at that I'll send it to you just
for between first and second reading um that makes um a lot of sense I know that that language in particular has been an area where people have suggested and requested some clarification so uh your recommendation is one that we will
incorporate okay um let's see uh also qu says any Lea or public charter school called for a hearing based on the criteria stated in paragraphs 3 and four of this rule shall not be called for another hearing for the next two consecutive school
years is the reason for that to provide time for the schools to implement corrective actions or what why why may they not be called for another two years it's a good question um there's a
few reasons um mostly we want to give an Lea or public charter school that's been called for a hearing some time to uh Implement any of the recommendations that come out of the hearing um and they need time to do that and then additional
time to see whether there's any potential impact from those recommendations what we don't want is for an laa or Public Charter School to be called for a hearing and then end up right back before the board for a second hearing before they've even had time to
really see um the outcomes from the recommendations stemming from the initial hearing um so that really is what it's about wanting to make sure they have time to to implement before they're given
additional recommendations on top of the first set justest you might want to add that into the wording just to make it clear and also our clear our expectations is is that uh you know we want during that time for them to provide corrective
action just something to think about um under o rule 03 it says accountability hearing is to be held according to Tennessee uniform administrative procedures act TCA 45301 I looked up that act and it talked
about uh holding a contested hearing and so my question is will the board uh members who sit on this committee be trained in how to hold these both hearings if they're considered as con contested hearings hopefully they're not considered contesting I think we want
them to be Pro you know proactive but will we be trained on board members be trained on how to hold the hearing absolutely we are still in the process of um working with stakeholders and other you know legal council to make sure uh we hold these hearings in
accordance with state law and the citation um is is meant to be to the UAP the uniform administrative procedures act more broadly which is what the following uh the 301 refers to um in
Latin it's a legal term meaning you know the whole section essentially so everything that would come after 3012 um these aren't contested case hearings in that you know they won't be before an administrative law judge but we will make sure that they are formal and
proper procedures are followed and that all hearing committee members are trained on procedure you will also have your legal counsel know with you at these hearings to to provide that support as well thank you uh and going back to the
purpose of the hearings I think the intent is to promote quality education so uh should we state that upfront the purpose of the hearings or maybe put that in policy or something so people know that the intent is to improve absolutely I think we can do that in
policy I think that's a great suggestion and we really want to make sure that um it's clear that the purpose of these hearings are to have some public dialogue generate ideas hold accountability but not to be punitive in any way and then my last comment under uh
rule 04 it it talks about the three options a b and c uh of which you know the actions going to be taken and uh I may have misread that but it just seemed very confusing to me what said option A is no
action option b is no action option C is no action with this my question was could well can we not take action in option one and two after talking I think we can but let's look and see if we can't clean that wording up just a little bit to make it a little clear we can absolutely uh clarify that wording I
think perhaps reformat reformatting that section will make it a little easier if we make it a more of a detailed bullet pointed list uh the statute authorizing these hearings gives the board pretty limited uh selection in terms of what
they may prep propos corrective action plan or an audit and investigation so we are a little bit limited uh to those three or the hearing committee could propose no recommendation meaning no corrective action no audit um so the the
way we have outlined in Rule now is is meant to set up like a three tier system um but like I said we'll certainly make sure it's clear so that it doesn't imply that no action is the only choice for the first time in Lea or public charter
school is is at a hearing thank you Mr mow yes thank you Mr J just a couple of questions Rachel first one just kind of stepping back a little bit how many of these hearings do you anticipate this this committee is going to need to hold on an annual basis if we were to take
the rule as it's written currently and apply it to last two years worth of letter grade data we would have about 28 hearings so an Lea or public charter school 28 of them uh and we anticipate that they will last about 60 to 90
minutes each that said we are expecting that our first year we have the largest number of leas or public charter schools called for a hearing but we expect that the number diminishes decreases in the years
to follow so we don't anticipate that it'll be 30 or 28 you know every single year okay um I guess uh Nathan I'm G to push on the spot here for just a moment and just ask
uh this was a good idea like in the legislation yeah it it came out of a house committee uh actually and um the the house education I I think it was I
think it was the full education committee uh and then going into the finance Ways and Means Committee uh there was a block of legislators that were not ready to vote for Tissa and the
increased funding that went with it um because of their concern that it like the be does not force a district to spend money according to the uh differentials and things that go into the funding itself that those decisions
are left to the local level so as a compromise what that group of legislators came up with was the idea that okay we'll vote for Tissa but there needs to be some public acknowledgement there needs to be a public hearing that
takes place in the event that with this extra money the uh the school districts are still having dnf uh schools and uh so it was given to the board to uh to make that happen uh the
one Amendment uh that I was able to to work in in that process was to make it a committee of the board instead of the whole board explaining that uh you all serve for five years at a time and it's a labor of love because you're unpaid uh
so that was you know was successful in being able to get that done but that depending on who you talked to it was between nine and 11 members of the house that were um uh maybe would have been unwilling to
vote for Tissa without this language okay well um I'll go out on a limb here and just say I think this needs to be Revisited by the legislature because it does not seem practical to me to take this board's time or even a committee of this board's time and have
28 or 30 hearings a year for an hour or an hour and a half or three hours I'm sure they're going to run long uh it does not seem like the best use of this board's resource um I think there's also going other people in the state who are very well qualified to do this work I'm not saying the work's not important it
is important but I think it found the wrong home uh so you know we're we're putting a position where we have to put rules in place I understand that and and uh you know I understand that we are required at this point to put some structure around it but it does not seem
to me like a practical solution to an important problem Mr chairman and members I I would say it is uh it's a function of of uh being trusted in the space uh that's that's ultimately
why the the board was uh was selected there I I remember being called into that committee uh at the time because you you had the Senate education committee was meeting down the hall and that's where I was and I got the the call to come down to this one and this
was being put together and they put together that language there um but uh you know I would I would say it's it's nothing that we sought as far as that goes but uh but we were U selected U
because of our our reputation I guess and being trusted in the space but I did make the point that you all serve with is quite a bit to do so yeah yeah to be clear I I I do appreciate the legislator's
trust but in order for us to actually remain trustworthy and to apply our resource and our time and our energy to the things that matter we we we can't get drawn into endless committee meetings and subcommittee meetings so I appreciate their trust but it does not
strike me as a sustainable model I said my piece uh uh I appreciate the work you've done on it Nathan I know that uh I know that you work hard in trying to communicate coordinate among all the various stakeholders uh so I
appreciate what you've done on this one thank you Mr mol hour interesting comments for sure and when you think about 38 of these hearings at an hour to an hour and a half it it is a and um you know uh as a committee I you're talking uh at
least a week's worth fulltime of of hearing the hearings again I do say I think it's important that people whether it's us or somebody else that these hearings are used for the benefit of the schools to improve the schools I think that's what that's the that's the main benefit and if we hold the hearings
that's where I'm going to be coming from on it so the only other thing I'll add to that point is that um this is the first time in the country that we're we're seeing something like this that we're doing an accountability hearing model um and it
does mean that it's raising a lot of new questions for us and what our role is in all of that the good news is that we can further refine what our hearings look like as we do these hearings year after year we're going to get more and more data and feedback as to what's working
and what's not working for these hearings so we are always striving for continuous Improvement and can make changes to these rules in order to do that we really do value the trust that the legislature has put in US I mean that's very important for us and U A lot
of that has to do with the staff that we have in Nashville working so closely with the legislature so that's that's important we have have a recommendation a motion and a second uh on accountability hearing rules 0520 9201
through 04 U there's no further discussion Mr Griffin please call the role Mr cins uh Miss auberon hi Mr Holt
hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell Miss mcer hi Mr Molen hour I with
hesitations Mr Wells hi Mr chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion passes on first reading thank you next item is opportunity public charter school policy 6114 Mr
Rachel sup right Rachel supe general counsel for the State Board of Education public chapter 1066 of 2024 created the opportunity Public Charter School which is Charter School designed
to serve students in grades 6 through 12 with at least 75% of those students being at risk which is defined in statute the Tennessee State Board of Education is charged with promulgating rules um to carry out that uh statute
and we've brought before you uh updates to our Charter Schools rule to imple implement um the public chapter changes regarding opportunity Public Charter School and this is now a policy that accompanies that rule the policy is meant to do a few things it requires
that an opportunity Public Charter School verify a student's at risk eligibility at the time of enrollment or re-enrollment it also establishes the type of Doc mentation that these schools can use in order to verify that a
student um meets the definition of at risk and the policy also provides verification forms that must be used and submitted to the opportunity Public Charter School at the time of enrollment or re-enrollment um this is another area where we've sought to collect
stakeholder feedback um and we will continue to do that between first and final the state board and Department urge uh adoption of this policy on first reading and I'm happy to take any questions about it we have a recommendation on opportunity Charter Public Charter
School policy 6114 is there a motion to accept Warren Wells I'll move Mr Wells moves is there second ran Holt second Holt second have a motion in a second are there any comments or questions for Miss supe
I would just say again there's an area here I think we can improve the uh Clarity States says in table one uh says has been retained at least twice in any one of the grades kindergarten through eight k through
eight or the student is more than one or the student is one or one or more years behind and I think if you just change that to at least one year that might clarify that a little bit better I think that's what the intent was so suggest between first and second reading we um
Can clarify that between first and final and that language is I know we've discussed from statute but we can certainly make it make it clear without changing the statutory meaning any other questions Mr H thank you Mr chairman U I had one question
Miss hupe um under subsection 2f um it says what what we would require for documentation on household income and it
lists um most recent pay stubs W2s wage statements 1099s tax filings um and I wasn't sure what the number of those is required we say most recent but then
it's plural past stubs so I was wondering if we could clarify um is that going to be the two most recent is that you know two from the past year um something like that just to make sure that everyone reading it knows exactly what it is that is the minimum
requirement I appreciate that recommendation I think that makes a lot of sense we borrowed this language um from some federal laws um regarding programs um benefit programs where people have to show their income uh but I agree with you we we can tighten it up
to make it extra clear thank you thank you any other questions we have a recommendation a motion in a second for opportunity public charter school policy 6114 Mr Griffin please call the rooll Mr
cins M auberon hi Mr Hol hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi Miss Maxwell hi
hi M mcinturff hi Mr Molen hour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have 10 eyes motion passes opportunity public charter school policy
6114 we move on to our action items for final reading first item is Educator licens or policy 5.52 Miss Taylor Reed good morning Taylor Reed senior director of educator relationer food the department Tennessee State Board of
Education educator relationer policy 5502 outlines General licensure requirements including application and duration of licenses professional development points and endorsements this item revises the validity period for professional level licenses to align
with recently passed rules and legislation this item establishes two new provisional integrated endorsements to expand options for licensed educators to teach in a special education classroom for up to 3 years while completing requirements for the full endorsement this item also expands
options for educators to obtain additional endorsements removes specific grade bands from allowable district flexibilities and allows the department to determine applicable endorsements and flexibilities there have been no changes to this item since first reading the Department of Education recommends
acceptance of this item on Final reading the S SP staff concurs with this recommendation and with that I'm happy to take any questions thank you we have a recommendation for final reading educator Life Center policy 5.52 is there a motion to accept Jensen sub Mr J moves is there a
seconds Mr Wales seconds is there any questions from Miss Reed no questions Mr Griffin please call the role Mr cins Miss
auberson hi Mr Hol hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson Johnson you're muted he's muted Miss Maxwell I miss mcinturf
I Mr mullenhour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie I and Miss Johnson also voted I Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion
passes thank you next item is Career and Technical education course standards Miss Deborah n uh good morning again chairman eie and board members again Deborah null assistant Commissioner of postsecondary Workforce and Military Readiness at the Department of Education here today to
present to you on Final reading Career and Technical education course standards this item includes revised course standards um for the following CT career clusters which is Education and Training it also includes new courses within the following CTE CER clusters so energy and
sustainable resources with the clean energy program of study and marketing and sales under the marketing research and analytics program of study CD courses have been created and updated based on revised framework of the CTE career clusters and educator
feedback to line more closely with industry and postsecondary needs industry partners and secondary and post-secondary Educators have reviewed these new and revised standards there have been minor grammal changes between first and final reading
the department solicited additional feedback between first and final reading but did not receive further input the Department of Education recommends approval of this item on Final reading the State Board of Education staff concurs with recommendation I'm happy to take any
questions at this time have a recommendation for Career and Technical education course standards do we have a motion to accept on Final reading Jensen so moved Mr Jensen moves is there a
second Chrissy mcinturf second m m seconds thank you we have a motion a second Career and Technical Education court standards are there any questions no questions Mr Griffin please call the role Mr
cin M harbertson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson
hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion
passes Mr Jensen has his hand raised you're muted Jen you're muted uh well miss n's on the line here uh she mentioned a few minutes ago the CTE graduation rate would you repeat that uh
again please just so I make sure I got it correct yes the the current last year's graduation rate was 98.3 and do you have a number of how many students that is uh I presume that's Statewide uh but what's the
number on that do you have that of students yeah so that that was the question that chairman eie proposed at the very beginning of the question for the last um item I don't I know how many students have engaged in CTE as far as
taking courses which was a little over 76 and I know how many concentrators there are which is about 120,000 I'd be happy to do a followup in um capture unique student counts for you um so that would clarify that question
thank you I I this seems to me to be noteworthy I mean beyond the State Board um I think if we can say we got a 98.3 graduation rate it's going to be a significant number of students and it
just seems to me that that needs to be the public needs to understand that and somehow that needs to be communicated perhaps back into the legislature and they may know it but it that's pretty noteworthy to me and I I would just like to make sure
that's uh thought about how we communicate that uh among ourselves uh among families and students and obviously to the general public I think that's an excellent point
Mr Jensen uh I think all the numbers that Miss null presented I mean the the number of the thousands of students that are taking CTE classes uh you know the emphasis obviously Tissa putting funding in specifically for t t for CTE classes you
know if there's something that we can do I agree with your thought processes is we need to highlight all this and you know maybe there's something that uh the department can put out and uh send out just the success that we're having in our CTE classes across the state would
be great okay uh next item is uh Fine Arts academic standards Dr christophy Wall morning chairman Evie and board members chrisy wall assistant commissioner for the Department of Education uh over academics here uh with
the Fine Arts uh academic standards on Final reading these are previously brought to you all um during the November meeting um and so for this final reading we'll review that TCA 491302 A8 authorizes the State Board of Education to approve all academic
standards and adopt rules and policies governing courses of study in public schools additionally stateboard rule 0520 D 01-03 subsection one notes that state board approved standard shall be used for all courses and grades in K12 the
approved standards are uh to be the basis for planning and instructional programs in each local school system stateboard standards review policy 3209 requires that the State Board review Fine Arts academic standards at a minimum of every eight years the
Tennessee Department of Education conducted stakeholder Outreach during the 2023 2024 school year to recruit subject matter experts from the following disciplines within Fine Arts and those include Dance Theater media art Visual Arts General music
instrumental music vocal music and music theory these subject matter experts convened in March of 2024 to recommend revisions to the Fine Arts standards the subject matter experts included representation from Fine Arts Educators at the elementary through High School
level District instructional supervisors and Adent professors districts also submitted input to guide these recommendations and best practices from professional organizations um were also utilized during the revisionary process the department collected public feedback
between first and final reading with the public comment period perod ending January the 10th of 2025 Avenues of feedback solicitation included Department Publications District Arts administrators uh contact list uh leaders from various Arts professional
learning organizations across the state and uh members of the Department's art Leadership Council based on feedback from these stakeholders minor wording and table reformatting edits were made for further Clarity on the standards revision document there are no other
edits on Final reading to these standards the Department of Education recommends approval of this item on Final reading and the State Board stock concurs with the recommendation I'm happy to take any questions related to this item thank you we have a recommendation
on Fine Arts academic standards is there a motion to accept the recommendation Warren Wales so move Mr Wales moves is there a second Max well second Miss Maxwell second we have a motion in a second are
there any questions for Dr walls I'd like to make one comment that these fine arts classes are just as important uh as the CTE classes I mean you look at the students that do very well in that they're they're doing well in school too and so I'm really glad to
see these standards and and uh you know those are important very important classes I know my granddaughter takes dance and stuff like that and and uh it's really important thank you any further questions or
comments Mr G please call the r Mr cins Miss auberson hi Mr H hi Mr Jenson hi M Miss Johnson
Johnson I'm trying I there you go Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr Mullen hour hi Mr Wells
hi Mr chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion passes thank you Dr wal thank you next next item graduation substitute policy Miss debor null morning debor null is the
commissioner of postsecondary work force of military Readiness for the Tennessee Department of Education here today to present to you on Final reading the graduation substitution policy 3103 um the state board's graduation substitution policy outlines allowable
course substitutions for graduation requirement credits this item proposes clarifying the allowability of using a course substitution to set aside one graduation requirement and elective Focus the Department of Education and State Board of Education have provided
long-standing guidance to local education agencies that students may use a course substitution to satisfy One requirement while also counting the course toward their elective Focus for example a student may count a course in the graduation substitutions policy as a
substitution for required math credit and use the course to meet their elective Focus this item codifies this guidance and policy to provide clear expectations for leas students will still be required to earn the minimum number of credits required for their
deployment type there have been changes since the first reading to add newly approved CTE courses to the list of allowable substitutions for the fourth credit Math course the newly approved course substitutions include data science 1 and data science 2 effective
in the 20252 six school year which are added to the computer science category of approved course substitutions the Department of Education recommends approval of this item on Final reading and the State Board education staff concurs with this
recommendation I'm happy to take any questions we have a recommendation for graduation substitution to policy 3.13 is there a motion to accept that recommendation bons oberson so moved
oberson moves is a second Chrissy mcinturf second CHR mcinturf seconds we have a motion in a second for graduation substitution policy 3103 are there questions Miss null or comments no questions or comments Mr
Griffin please call the role Mr cins Miss Roberson I Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson
hi Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr mullenhour hi Mr Wells hi chairman EB hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes
motion on graduation sir substitution policy 3103 passes on Final reading next item is High Mr Michael dur derland Deputy executive director of policy and research with the State Board the Tennessee Board of Education high
school policy 2103 Builds on the rule to further Define graduation and other instructional requirements for high school students this item aligns with recently adopted changes made to the rule related to mathematics specifically it would remove the requirement that students take a math course or approved
math substitution in each of the four years of high school and replaces it with a requirement that students take a math course or approved Math course substitution in at least three years additionally changes have been made to align with other changes made to the rule to reduce the percentage for
which EOC scores count for a students's grade reducing it from between 15 to 25% down to 5 to 15% there have been no changes to this item since first reading with that I'd be happy to take any questions you may have we have a recommendation on high
school policy 2103 is there desired action to approve bonie erson so moved erson moves is there a second Marsha Johnson second Miss Johnson second are there any
questions for Mr derine no questions uh Mr Griffin please call the rle Mr cins Miss Albertson I Mr halt Mr
H he may have had to leave too I I apologize I thought I unmuted but had hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson hi
Miss Maxwell hi M mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion on high school policy 2103 passes on Final reading next item
charter school rules 05201 1401 0103 and 04 Miss Rachel Sue Rachel supe General councel State Board of Education uh this rule is now brought to you on Final reading after passing on
first reading back in August of 2024 just to refresh your memory uh where we are the State Board is charged with outlining various requirements and Rule related to oversight and operation of charter schools as well as Charter authorization requirements including the
approval of a charter school allocation of state and local funds to Charter Schools um and enrollment as you already heard me talk about public chapter 1066 of the public acts of 2024 created the opportunity public charter school so
this rule has now been amended to reflect those changes in statute some of the notable changes that have been made between first and final reading uh based on a number of things including various stakeholder feedback uh are as follows
um in the section regarding the approval of Charter School various clerical inform formatting updates and removing duplicative language regarding allocation of state and federal funds we've removed outdated language that referred to the state's prior funding
formula for schools and in terms of enrollments we've made clarifications regarding requirements for a residential model opportunity Public Charter School clarifying the enrollment preference es that must be used as set out in statute
defining articulation agreement um and delineating the verification requirements for students enrolling in an opportunity Public Charter School including a reference to the stateboard policy uh for opportunity public charter schools which you heard
me speak about earlier today and the last one is just establishing the process for evaluating an opportunity public charter schools uh enrollment numbers and what those steps need to look like if after three consecutive school years um an
opportunity Public Charter School fails to meet the 75% at risk enrollment requirement the stateboard staff had a r making hearing on this item um on ooc October 2024 and we've consulted with the charter commission um the Tennessee
Department of Education and uh the department of children's services the Tennessee Charter School Center as well as Lea's authorizers and Charter Schools between first and final reading um the state board and Department uh urge adoption of
this rule on Final reading and I'm happy to take any questions we have a recommendation on charter school rules 0521 or 14113 and 04 is there a motion to accept the recommendation War Welles so moved Mr
Wales moves is there a second G mull second Mr mow second are there any questions for Miss sup no questions Mr Griffin please call the RO Mr cins Miss
auberson hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jenson hi Miss Johnson hi miss Ma Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr mullenhour
hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes motion passes thank you next item educator preparation providers and special area program approvals M Brooke Amos uh good
to see you all chairman EV and members of the board Brook and as assistant commissioner OFA Capital with the Department this item contains action recommendations for educator preparation providers EPs and the specialty area program staffs which are the endorsement programs for example Elementary
education K5 for the existing eppp Christian Brothers University Southern adventage University the University of Tennessee Southern Vanderbilt University Rutherford County teach now and Nashville teacher residency it also contains a recommendation for a prospective EP all this I will cover
these recommendations by type and provide some overarching context noting additional information is included in the cover letters this is what is a little lazyy comprehensive reviews of existing EPs and STS the Department of Education is responsible for the review of eps and STS once an EP receives
initial approval the EP must participate in a full approval review process managed by the department within three to five years once an EP re that full approval the EP May obain its approval status through the national case uh Council for the accreditation of
educator preparation or a the association for advancing quality educator preparation accreditation pathway or through a state managed comprehensive review process every seven years action recommendations ring from Full approval exemplary status to denial
of approval are made by the department reviewed by our advisory committee on educator preparation and then must be approved by the State Board of Education uh pursuant to our educator preparation rule 0520 0204 we now discuss joint Cape
accreditation and State Specialty area program University spring 2024 the review team concluded that the EP meets cap expectations for standard five because the provider met expectations on all standards and the provider is
recommended for full approval the provider is also recommended for full approval for specialty area programs Southern at University spring 2024 the review teams included that the EP meets expectations on All Cape standards no critical dep agencies were
exited the provider was recommended for full approval all reviewed specialty are programs were also recommended for full approval the University of Tennessee Southern spring 2024 the review team concluded the EP meets expectations on All Cape standards no critical
deficiencies were cited the the provider recommended for full approval all reviewed spary program are also recommended for full approval Vanderbilt University spring 2024 the review team concluded that EVP meets expectations on Cape standards 1
through five and Cape Advance standards 1 through 4 some minor stipulations were cited the review team included the EP did not meet expectations on Cape Advanced standard five quality assurance system and continuous Improvement and some major stipulations were cited
because the provider met expectations on three or more standards that fell below expectations on one or more standard the providers recommended for full approval for the initial lure level and probationary approval major stipulations for the advanced lure level the providers recommended for full approval
for specialty area programs transitioning to State managed EP and staff comprehensive reviews R County teach now spring 2024 the review team concluded that the EP meets expectations on Cape scers 1 through five some minor stipulations were cited because the EP
met expectations on all standards but F below expectations on one or more components across multiple standards the provider recommended for full approval minor stipulations the provider is recommended for full approval for all specialty area programs and EP shall submit to the department a plan for
addressing the areas in need of improvement within three months of receiving full approval minor stipulations EP status changes when an EP um receive full approval with Minor St ulations the department May recommend
the State Board removal of the minor culations if the EP has adequately addressed the areas of need of approv it Nashville teacher residency Department reviewers have reviewed the EP action plan and subsequent evidence provided during the annual process monitoring reviews since 2022 the department
concluded that the EP needs expectations in the areas in need of improvement and recognized the removal of minor culation the provider is recommended for a status change to full approval transition to new EPs and St seeking initial approval
after a proposal um of initial approval ep the department shall recommend to the board either initial approval or denial of initial approval all Memphis the Department of Education reviewed all memphis's proposal for recommendation of initial approval as a new PP and Associated staffs in multiple
endorsement areas the department reviewed team concluded that all Memphis meets expectations on initial EP proposal and should be granted initial approval to proceed with the implementation of the new EVP and recommend educator preparation candidates for endorsements and reading
Specialists all nus is therefore recommended for initial approval recommendation overall is that the department recommends approval of this item on First and final reading and its component parts and State Board of Education staff concurs with this recommendation happy to take any questions you all have thank you Miss
amus so we have a recommendation for educator preparation providers and Specialty area programs approvals is is there a motion to accept M hour so moves well hour moves is there a second waren Wells second well seconds
are there any questions things questions uh first I'm glad to see retherford County doing so well and uh how many similar programs do we have across the state where Lea also serves as an EP yes thank you for that question
currently we have four leas as EPs and are working with a another Lea um on a proposal have the ones the four we've had been in business long enough to know how the teachers uh performance ones
that come through those uh great question that's a great question um they have not had um as long of a tenure as um some of our other epays they also um most of them too do have academic
content areas but they're um more focused in the occupational space although we are certainly um happy about their progress um today be interesting to to track that and get that data as we go through the years
absolutely any other formal uh questions or comments if not Mr Griffin please call the role on education preparation providers and special area program approvals on Final Reading Please call the role Mr cin Miss
robton hi Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson Miss Johnson give it a thumbs up or thumbs down Miss
Maxwell hi Miss mcer hi Mr mullenhour hi Mr Wells hi chairman eie hi Mr chairman you have nine eyes
motion passes thank you Miss amus next item our 2024 2025 annual performance goals andos annual measurable objectives Dr Ho good afternoon Mr chairman and board members my name is shya ho senior
director of accountability and Reporting at the Department of Education I'm here today to present 2425 annual performance goals and objectives C TCA 49-1 d602 requires the stable of Education in conjunction with his commissioner to
establish appropriate performance goals and measures for schools and districts the performance goals and Majors must include at a minimum student achievement student growth and other appropriate indicators of performance annual performance goals also known as our schools as uh annual measurable
objectives OS provide schools and districts with targets which help interpret recent performance and prioritize future efforts unlike other states Tennessee sets each of these targets individually for each schools and districts and for each student group using the most recent available
performance as their starting point for each goal Amo targets are yearly targets for Improv in Performance Based on prior year results School Amo targets expect schools to decrease the percentage of of students whose performance does not meet
the standard by half over the course of eight years double Amo targets expect a percent of students not meeting the standard to decrease by half in four years Amo targets are rounded to one decimal place the Amo Target formulas for recent
indicators are presented in the cover sheet for your reference the department only sets Amo Target when a school has 30 or more valid tests or students in the prior year in 2425 School level os are calculated for achievement
chronically absm graduation rate and ready graduate indicators these three level os are calculated for achievement chronically absentismo want to know that in a typical year District level os are also calculated for the English langu English language
proficiency assessment which is also known as Al indicator however in 2425 Theos for the Elba indicator are not calculated due to assessment transition from vaa to Elba 21 presant to state bo rules 0520 D
01-19 the department will calculate alpaos when two years of ala um assessment data become available the Amo targets align with the requirements of federal accountability in the every every student succeeds at by providing major M ments for all
student groups which include economically disadvantaged students students from major racial and ethnic groups students with disabilities and English Learners the Department of Education recommends approval of this item on First and final uh the State Board staff
conquers with this this recommendation with that thank you and I will be happy to take any questions if you have any thank you Dr hope uh so we have a recommendation on First and final reading for 2024 2025 annual performance goal and annual performance objectives
is there a motion to accept I'll call Mr Mr Wales moves is our second chrisy MF second MF seconds are there questions I I have a question uh this is an item in the past that's
gotten a lot of attention from uh district superintendent directors Etc U have we gotten any comments from them on these projected amoss or any uh any thoughts about that external
sources no uh because the I think that in the past few years there were some changes to the methodology so I think there were more conversation around that time since then the methodology has stay the same so we have not heard of any feedback in the current
year other questions or comments no questions or comments Mr Griffin please call the RO Mr cins Miss auberson
I Mr Holt hi Mr Jensen hi Miss Johnson Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcinturf hi Mr Molen hour hi Mr Wells
hi chairman eie hi Miss Johnson not on my screen so she was going to have to step away right think she said she had to leave yes okay Mr chairman you have eight eyes motion passes thank you thank you
Dr hope next item uh 2024 authorizer evaluations Mr Nathan James uh thank you good afternoon Mr chairman members I'm Nathan James I'm the deputy executive director for legislative and external Affairs and
this is the authorizer evaluations uh 2024 first and final reading about which we gave a presentation yesterday TCA 49131 145 charges the board with ensuring the effective operation of charter school authorizers in the state
and evaluating authorizer quality state board rule 0 52014 1.08 outlines the evaluation process authorizer ratings and evaluation follow-up actions authorizers are evaluated at least by by anually and the evaluation process culminates with
an evaluation report that's presented to the state board for approval at the meeting following the conclusion of each evaluation year the evaluation process includes a thorough review of documentation submitted by the authorizer and narrative explanation of the documentation the clarifications and
context provided by the authorizer during a document brief an interview with the authorizers charter school leaders and a review of the authorizers appeal history as applicable and these authorizers are evaluated against the 21 standards within state board policy 6.
triple1 uh quality Charter authorizing standards and uh the ratings go from exemplary to commendable satisfactory uh and and so on so looking at the 24 evaluation outcomes uh the 2024
evaluation year marked the conclusion of the state board's second cycle of authorizer evaluations the three authorizers evaluated in 24 received their first evaluation back in 2022 all three authorizers demonstrated growth and progress over the last two years and
earned a score of satisfactory or higher with the achievement School District getting a 2.19 satisfactory and uh the Metro Nashville Public Schools at 2.9 with satisfactory Tennessee public charter schools commission at 3.76 are
exemplary and uh want to point out that this item supports the state board's strategic focus on engagement and accountability outlined in your master plan by ensuring authorizers are held accountable to the Quality Charter authorizing standards through analysis of the authorizers policies and
practices with that uh Mr chairman the State Board staff recommends approval of this item on First and final reading we have a recommendation on First and final reading for 2024 authorizer evaluations is there a motion to accept Gord M moves Mr mow moves is
there second Chrissy mcinturf second back seconds are there any questions or comments for Mr James I'd like to say a couple of things uh we did have a pretty healthy discussion on this yesterday and I would just like to thank Alie and her team for
all the work that she does going through and if you look at this over the last few years you see the numbers are going up uh from one year to the next which uh shows the the value of the uh
evaluations and also the implementation of the Shadow evaluators I thought was something really interesting yesterday is which allows uh people to sit on the evaluation team their school district is not being evaluated they don't have a
vote uh but they see the process and again I think that's a critical part of Lessons Learned and implementing Lessons Learned so uh kudos to Ali and the team for doing this Mr Jensen had a stand up you're you're muted Mr
Jensen I was curious if it would be appropriate for you as the chairman perhaps and maybe uh executive director to write a letter of congratulations to those that are in the exemplary
status you happy to do that with Dr Morrison yes chairman again we can take that up the valley but I think that's an excellent suggestion I don't see any reason why we couldn't do that other comments or questions no comments or questions we do have a recommendation uh Motion in a
second for 2024 authorizer evaluations Mr Griffin please call the r Mr cins Miss auberson hi Mr Holt hi M Jensen
hi M John Miss Maxwell hi Miss mcer hi Mr mullenhour hi Mr Wells hi chairman Eevee I Mr chairman you have
eight eyes motion passes that concludes our items for final reading next on the agenda is other business are there any other businesses that we need to take up Dr Morrison do you have any final
comments I don't it's been another full day I appreciate everyone's continued engagement and really thoughtful Dialogue on so many different issues from educator licensure discipline certainly all the other student uh facing decisions that you
all nothing else from me and with that uh I look forward to seeing everyone in person at our May meeting which is uh the workshop would be May 29th and the meeting would be May the 30th so best every I lied sorry you made me think of
one more thing this will be coming but between now and our May in person meeting we will have a special called meeting uh where the board will be uh asked to vote on First and final reading for an emergency rule related to education Freedom scholarships as well as um a permanent rule so that should be coming to your calendar if it's not
already on your calendar for March 20th and more information about that special call meeting will be coming soon thank you for reminding me at that glad glad you glad you brought that up if there's nothing else uh then I will call this meeting adjourn thank
you for