Jackson County Herald-Tribune (Edna, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Page: 3 of 20
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Wednesday, September 4,2013
Jackson County Herald-Tribune
Page 3A
Ganado Tidbits
Survey available online
Sat. 7:30 am - 5 pm Closed Sundays
Mon.- Fri. 7:30 - 6 pm
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Tuesday-Friday:
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(Between Dominos Pizza and Herman Novak Insurance) 7 a.m. -1 p.m.
The second annual Ganado
KJT Hall Praee Z Lasky
Benefit to restore the KJT
Hall will be held on Saturday,
Sept. 7. Plates of barbecued
brisket with all the trimmings
will be served from 11 a.m. - 1
p.m. dine in or to go. Tickets
are available at Serendipity in
Ganado or by calling Cori
Hoskins at 782-8246.
After the Football Game
Socials will be held at the fol-
lowing churches: Sept. 13-
First Baptist Church, Sept. 27-
Assumption Catholic, Oct. 25-
First United Methodist and
Nov. 8 at St. James Lutheran
Church.
The Ganado High School
Class of 1969 will hold a class
reunion on Saturday, Oct. 26
beginning with a tour of the
high school followed by a get
together at the American
Legion Hall. For more infor-
mation call Paulette McElveen
or Wanda Butner at 409-939-
1931.
‘There is still work to do’
• Continued from Page 1A
dents scored an 88 on student
achievement when the target
score was 50; a score of 33 for
student progress when the tar-
get score was 21; a score of 79
for closing performance gaps
when the target score was 55
and a score of 94 for postsec-
ondary readiness when the tar-
get score was 75.
“Student achievement looks
at all of the tests put together,”
she said. “Student progress
looks at a student from year to
year so they take the student’s
score in the previous year and
this year, then they subtract
that score and they take it
through a flow chart to deter-
mine whether they did not
make satisfactory progress or
made satisfactory progress or
whether they overexceeded it.”
Dominguez said closing the
performance gaps is looking at
how well the economically
disadvantaged students and
different ethnicity groups of
students perform on the test as
compared to non-economical-
ly disadvantaged students and
the white student population.
She said postsecondary readi-
ness measures the dropout
rate, the graduation rate and
also looks at the numbers of
students under each gradua-
tion plan, minimum, recom-
mended or distinguished. It is
a measure of whether or not
the students are prepared for
college or the workplace.
The student progress index
is weighted. The TEA will
also be weighting the closing
performance gaps index next
year.
“They’re going to be look-
ing at the gap between the
numbers of students that hit
that advance score and the
ones that don’t so that
advance score will be weight-
ed more heavily than just
meeting the standard,” she
said.
Out of the four USD
schools, Industrial
Elementary East was the only
school to receive a distinction
for academic achievement in
Reading/English Language
Arts.
“To earn a distinction, your
campus must score in the top
quartile of a comparison
group of 40 campuses similar
to your own demographically
around the state on certain
indicators,” Dominguez said.
“All of the campuses had
indicators in the top quartile
of their comparison group in
certain areas. They just did
not have enough in the same
area in order to earn a distinc-
tion in that area.”
She said the district is
pleased with scores for each
campus. Dominguez said it is
nice with the new system that
student progress is finally
being taken into account.
“We are happy with our
overall student achievement,
but there is still work to do,”
she said. “Our teachers have
already begun the process of
digging into our data to
address curriculum and align-
ment issues that we see with-
in the content areas. Many
have also attended training
this summer to prepare for the
upcoming school year.”
Thank you!
The family of Wesley Hendry wishes to extend a heart-
felt thank you to everyone who participated in and helped to
make a great success of the benefit barbeque held on his
behalf.
To the Jackson County First Responders, a special thank
you for all your dedicated hard work and the time spent in
organizing the benefit (cooking, preparing the food, auction-
ing off all the donated items and baked goods).
To all our family, friends, businesses and many others who
donated cakes, pastries, items for the auctioning, volunteer
their time and those who came out and gave their support to
the benefit.
We can't thank you enough for your tremendous outpour-
ing of love and support.
We wish God's blessing to all of you.
Wesley, Brianna, Colby & Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hendry
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sessions were over they
would return and give a
report based on what they
learned.
“After that the application
process is open,” Strauss
said. “We’re taking applica-
tions for the superintendent
position and then we will be
back to assist the board in
members attended the com-
munity input sessions. Each
session lasted about 45 min-
utes. Strauss said after talk-
ing to about 35 faculty/staff
members she found there
was a wide range of charac-
teristics they wanted to see in
a superintendent.
Connie Marthiljohni said
she has worked for the dis-
narrowing that down from
the best candidates to their
top candidates. From there
they can begin the interview-
ing process and interview
their top six or eight candi-
dates. They then narrow that
down to three, which will
lead to their top choice.”
trict and has had children
and grandchildren go to
school at Edna ISD. She
hoped the board could find
someone who worked with
parents and students.
“I want him to listen to
parents and try to understand
what that person is going
know they can come to them
without it being held against
the child with the teacher.”
She said Edna High
School Principal Demetric
Wells would make an ideal
superintendent.
“I could see Demetric
Wells [as superintendent]
because he is totally fair and
straight with everybody,”
Marthiljohni said. “He treats
everybody equally.”
Anyone who could not
attend the community input
sessions can fill out a super-
intendent survey online at
https://texas.executivesearch
s e r v i c -
es.com/applicant/public/Sea
rchSurvey.aspx?searchid=25
She said five community through,” Marthiljohni said.
members and 40 faculty/staff “They should let parents 3
Students on track to succeed
• Continued from Page 1A
group of campuses, according
to a TEA press release.
“The teachers and staff at
Ganado ISD are working very
hard to help all our students
master the curriculum
required by Texas,” Ganado
ISD Superintendent Jeff Black
said. “We are all very proud
that two of our campuses were
recognized for those efforts
and hope to carry that momen-
tum into this year to continue
improving.”
The district and all three
schools exceeded scores in the
following indexes: student
achievement, student progress,
closing performance gaps and
postsecondary readiness.
“When evaluating how to
help our students improve
their mastery levels, we do not
focus on the indexes, but
rather focus on how to best
help each of the students
improve their level of learn-
ing,” Black said. “The higher
ratings will continue to be
earned as the students perform
at improving levels of mas-
tery.”
The target score for student
achievement was 50 for the
district and all three schools.
The district received a score of
75 percent, Ganado elemen-
tary had a score of 79, Ganado
Junior High had a score of 73
and Ganado High School had
a score of 75. Student achieve-
ment represents a snapshot of
performance across all sub-
jects, on both general and
alternative assessments, an an
established performance stan-
dard.
The target score for student
progress was 21 for the dis-
trict, 30 for Ganado
Elementary, 29 for Ganado
Junior High and 17 for
Ganado High School. The dis-
trict received a score of 31,
Ganado Elementary had a
score of 42, Ganado Junior
High scored 36 and Ganado
High School, 26. Student
progress provides an opportu-
nity for diverse campuses to
show improvements made
independent of overall
achievement levels. Growth is
evaluated by subject and stu-
dent group.
The target score for closing
performance gaps were 55 for
the district and all three
schools. The district earned a
score of 70, Ganado
Elementary had a score of 76,
Ganado Junior High had a
score of 65 and Ganado High
School had a score of 71.
Closing performance gaps
emphasizes improving aca-
demic achievement of the eco-
nomically disadvantaged stu-
dent group and the lowest per-
forming race/ethnicity student
groups at each campus or dis-
trict.
The target score for postsec-
ondary readiness was 75 for
both the district and Ganado
High School. Ganado
Elementary and Ganado
Junior High do not score in
postsecondary readiness. Both
the district and Ganado High
School received a score of 95.
Postsecondary readiness
includes measures of high
school completion, and begin-
ning in 2014, State of Texas
Assessments of Academic
Readiness (STARR) perform-
ance at the postsecondary
readiness standard.
He said the district is confi-
dent that students will meet
standards next year when the
TEA raises the bar for student
performance.
“I am very confident that
our teachers and staff will
work very hard with our stu-
dents to help them achieve to
the best of their ability,” Black
said. “Based upon this year’s
measurements, it appears that
the students of Ganado ISD
are on track with doing very
well on all measures next
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Lundstrom, Chris. Jackson County Herald-Tribune (Edna, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 4, 2013, newspaper, September 4, 2013; Edna, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth774305/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jackson County Memorial Library.