During a Jan. 24 board of trustees meeting, Judson ISD reviewed the 2021-22 district improvement plan.
This plan helps guide the district departments and campuses to improve student performance to meet the required standards set by the state.
In the plan, JISD has five goals laid out, each with different strategies that are given a percentage value based on a formative review.
According to Superintendent Jeanette Ball, goals and strategies are created by working with individual departments and using campus improvement plans to feed into the district plan.
“Each of the departments work on their specific area, and we also take it to our site-based management committee to look at those goals,” Ball said. “It is a process that we go through from the departments, the site-based management and then the board.”
Trustee Rafael Diaz Martinez, Jr. asked about the percentage breakdown and whether the lower percentages are critical and need to be addressed. Diaz used the example of the strategy to promote positive parental involvement by using Military Student Transition Affiliate at Copperfield for military-connected families to improve the well-being of Texas military and veteran families, which had a November report of 5%.
“At what point do we start identifying that some of these are critically behind, and then when we look at it again in February, determining if we are on track to meet that goal,” Diaz said.
Chief Innovation Officer Cecilia Davis explained that goals are varied by each department, and lower percentages could still be considered on track.
“There might be some goals set by an outside entity,” Davis said. “The outside entity would determine where we are during the goal.”
To better monitor the goals and student progress in each department, the board requested that the plan be brought back quarterly rather than annually.
