Following deliberation from the November meeting, the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board of trustees approved new goals for LEAD 2.0, which advance its current LEAD 2021. The vote passed 6-1, with trustee Jorge Rodriguez voting against.

LEAD stands for Leading Excellence — Action Driven. The district describes LEAD as a plan that impacts every aspect of GCISD through core objectives and specific strategies.

Over the past eight months more than 1,000 GCISD stakeholders contributed to the process of refining the current LEAD 2021 strategic plan to create the next steps of LEAD 2021 that will be called LEAD 2.0, according to district documents. Four new goals were developed by the staff, students, trustees, and the community with the aim to build on LEAD 2021.

The four identified new goals are:

  1. Actively identify and remove barriers that limit access to and opportunity for learning;

  2. Design learning environments that support social and emotional well-being;

  3. Create a culture that fosters learning environments that reflect student voice and promote student engagement; and

  4. Effectively communicate with targeted audiences.


Each of these goals is accompanied by a picture of success, detailing the end goal for students, parents, the district, and, where applicable, school structures.

"I do not feel the goals reflect strong academic goals for us to continue to achieve as we have now in LEAD 2021," Rodriguez said before the vote took place.

He said he would vote against the motion because while he had no issues with these new goals, he wanted the academic goals of the district to be more clearly defined.

Trustees Becky St. John and Jesse Rodriguez said following the discussion during the November meeting, they sought more clarification about what the board was seeking to accomplish with the LEAD 2.0 goals.

"I want to make sure I understand, the existing strategic objectives, as they are in currently in LEAD 2021, are not going away," St. John said, with the board agreeing. "I think that’s an important point, because these goals, these enhancements, they’re not supplanting the work the committee originally did."

The LEAD 2.0 goals will go into effect January.