GISD District Goals

Gatesville ISD HB 3 Board Goals and Plans: 2021-2025

(Approved/Revised 3-25-2024)

Early Childhood Literacy

The percent of 3rd grade students that score meets grade level (not approaches but actually meets) or above on STAAR Reading will increase from 46% to 58% by June 2025.

	Overall	Hispanic	White	Eco Dis	Cont. Enrolled	Non-Cont. Enrolled
2021	46%	33%	51%	36%	48%	41%
2022	49%	36%	54%	39%	51%	44%
2023	52%	39%	57%	42%	54%	47%
2024	55%	42%	60%	45%	57%	50%
2025	58%	45%	63%	48%	60%	53%

Strategy	Person Responsible	Resources	Benchmark
Have teachers attend Reading Academies PD	Scott Harper	Region 12	Artifacts / Certification of Teachers
Continue to implement Reading Workshop Model – Guided reading, stations, etc.	Scott Harper / Campus Principals / Barrett Pollard	Fountas & Pinnell Classroom; Region 12; BAS; Leveled Readers	MAP; running records
Provide Reading Intervention PD and emergent reader strategies to teachers	Scott Harper, campus instructional coaches	Region 12 Specialist – Brittany Thomas	Classroom walkthroughs; improved MAP scores

Early Childhood Math

The percent of 3rd grade students that score meets grade level (not just approaches but actually meets) or above on STAAR Math will increase from 47% to 59% by June 2025.

	Overall	Hispanic	White	Eco Dis	Cont. Enrolled	Non-Cont. Enrolled
2021	47%	29%	55%	41%	48%	43%
2022	50%	32%	58%	44%	51%	47%
2023	53%	35%	61%	47%	54%	50%
2024	56%	38%	64%	50%	57%	53%
2025	59%	41%	67%	53%	60%	57%

Strategy	Person Responsible	Resources	Benchmark
Provide multi-year PD including math workshop model, stations, guided math, etc.	Scott Harper, instructional coaches	Region 12 Math Specialist – Arash Abnoussi	Classroom walkthroughs, artifacts, improved math benchmark scores
Continue to implement Math Workshop Model – guided math, stations, etc.	Scott Harper, Barrett Pollard, Campus principals	Professional development through instructional coaches	Classroom walkthroughs, artifacts, improved benchmark scores, PLC / data meetings

CCMR

The percent of graduates that meet the criteria for CCMR (from 2018-2019 TAPR Report) will increase from 91.4%% to 95% by June 2025.

	Overall	African American	Hispanic	White	2 or More Races	Sped	Eco Dis
2021	91.4%	88.9%	88.4%	93.2%	77.8%	95%	90.4%
2022	92%	90%	90%	94%	79%	96%	91%
2023	93%	91%	91%	95%	80%	97%	92%
2024	94%	92%	92%	96%	81%	98%	93%
2025	95%	93%	93%	97%	82%	99%	94%

Strategy	Person Responsible	Resources	Benchmark
Increase industry certification offerings	Scott Harper; High School principal, Yancey Sanderson	Industry Certification tests	Improved passing scores on industry certification exams
Offer expanded dual credit opportunities through CTC and On-Ramps (low cost / low barrier)	Scott Harper and Barrett Pollard	UT On – Ramps; CTC	Increased enrollment in dual credit offerings
Continue to improve student participation and scores on college entrance exams like ACT, SAT, and TSIA	Scott Harper, HS principals and counselors	ACT, SAT, and TSIA prep materials	Improved participation and scores on these assessments

2019-2020 District - Board Goals (Approved 8-29-19)

Safety, Discipline, & Attendance: GISD will put students first and continue to improve its facilities and processes to keep students safe, while improving discipline and attendance procedures to reduce misbehavior and truancy.
Literacy: GISD will strive to have every student reading and writing proficiently through the use of guided reading strategies, more writing activities in classrooms, and more one-on-one writing conferences between student and teacher.
Curriculum, Technology, & Professional Development: GISD will follow an aligned curriculum, provide our teachers with quality professional development, and continue to invest in technology devices for our students in an effort to ensure that our students are becoming increasingly successful under the current accountability system.
Finances & Facilities: GISD will operate under a balanced budget, spend taxpayer dollars wisely, and direct money toward the fund balance when possible, while ensuring that our school buildings remain in good working condition.
People-Focused: GISD will provide social-emotional services for our students, offer a wide variety of courses such as Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes, and invest in our employees in order to improve retention.