The Ector County ISD Board of Trustees will meet in a workshop at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the first-floor boardroom of the Administration Building, 802 N. Sam Houston Ave., to hear several presentations.
There will be a presentation and discussion of the 2022-2023 Targeted Improvement Plans (TIPs) led by Director of Leadership Susan Hendricks.
The process for TIP development will be shared and principals will share goals and strategies within their schools’ TIPs, supplemental agenda material said.
The Texas Education Agency requires TIPs for schools who perform in the bottom 5% of Domain III-Closing the Gaps in the accountability system. This year, the campuses are
Cavazos, Dowling, Downing, Ireland and Sam Houston. The board is required to approve Targeted Improvement Plans every year.
Trustees also will hear about the district’s facilities program and dyslexia.
Heidi Helferich, 504/dyslexia supervisor, will present an update of the dyslexia program. She will provide an overview of the dyslexia program including information regarding how students are screened, how they are served, the curriculum used in the dyslexia classroom, the district dyslexia therapists and a dyslexia grant.
According to the agenda material, dyslexia is a learning disorder that affects the ability to read, write, spell and speak.
There are 1,249 dyslexia students including 907 in general education and 342 in special education.
For 2022, there were a total of 50 graduates with dyslexia.
Odessa High School had 22, (82.35 percent) and six non graduates (17.65 percent); Permian had 21 graduates, or 84 percent and 4 non graduates, or 16 percent.
OCTECHS and Odessa Collegiate Academy each had two students and both graduated.
There are 34 dyslexia therapists; six also provide bilingual dyslexia instruction, the material detailed.
Sixteen dyslexia therapists are certified academic language therapists and three are also licensed dyslexia therapists. They serve all campuses.
A dyslexia grant, Do You See What I See, will also be reviewed. It’s $ 240,523 for year one and $222,279 for year two.
