The Board of Trustees of the Kennedale Independent School District will hold a their regular monthly Thursday, January 19 at 7:00 pm at the Kennedale High School Media Center, 901 Wildcat Way in Kennedale. {{more:Read more …}}The meeting will open with a public hearing on KISD?s Texas
Academic Performance Report (TAPR) which was formerly known as the Academic Excellence
Indicator System (AEIS).
In executive session the Board will consider Superintendent Gary Dugger?s annual evaluation, contract and salary. In open session the Board will consider the following items under new business:
- district annual financial report
- vendors for roofing repairs
- Kennedale ISD as a District of Innovation (more info below)
- 2017-18 school calendar
- resolution concerning the state?s A-F grading system for public schools (see below)
Other items will include recognitions, personnel items (if any) and the Superintendent?s report including campus updates from campus administrators.District of Innovation …Kennedale has developed a plan that must be approved by the
Board and then presented to TEA for approval as part of the steps to become a District of Inovation. DOIs may be
exempted from a number of state statutes; have greater local control
as the decision makers over the educational and instructional model for
students; increased freedom and flexibility, with accountability, relative to
state mandates that govern educational programming; and empowerment to innovate
and think differently. Read more @ TEA
Districts of Innovation
Kennedale?s plan would allow:
- the district to hire
individuals with industrial experience to teach career and technical classes
that may not have traditional teaching credentials but meet teacher
certification requirements designed by the district;
- allow the hiring of
part-time professionals to teach specialty classes;
- allow more flexibility in
planning the school calendar with goal of balancing the first and second semesters
in length and aligning with calendars
for TCC, Advanced Placement Exams and other mandated test including STARR/EOC;
- and
allow more flexibility in assigning teacher mentors;
- and allow a 3 hour pre-k
program instead of the state?s 3.5.
Plan Of Innovation
A-F Grading Accountability …
The 84th Legislature passed HB 2804, changing the Texas schoolaccountability system so that every campus and district receives one of five
ratings from A-F. Much like students receive grades in individual subjects and
those are combined for a GPA, the law requires schools and districts to be
issued grades based on five different areas of performance or ?domains,? and
those five grades must be combined into a single overall rating. A-F
Accountability Resources.
The roll-out of preliminary grades this yearhas met with serious criticism from school districts and school boards across the state.
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