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Jun Xiao, parent of a student at Westwood

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Jun Xiao, parent of a student at Westwood

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Wants everyone to have a voice and seek out RRISD

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Mentor experience, involved in the community, interested in learning more about experiences in Round Rock
woolridge4thepeople@gmail.com

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Been participating in equity opportunities; eager to learn more
cory_vessa@roundrockisd.org

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Parent/Volunteer in McNeil Learning community

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Parent/Volunteer in McNeil Learning community

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Interested in sustainability; views as a parent; learning and listening

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Taught for 15 years in Round Rock; McNeil community;

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Former teacher, wants to be more informed; focused on positive behavioral systems that support all students

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Represents half of Round Rock, former RRISD student and educator in SAISD; been involved with EIS

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Interested in ways students of color are impacted disproportionately

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Interested in listening and learning

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Tiffanie Harrison, teacher and candidate for RRISD Place 6

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Tiffanie Harrison, teacher and candidate for RRISD Place 6

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Eager to hear from educators, passionate about racial justice, candidate.

info@tiffanie4rrisd.com

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Form Georgetown, supporting underprivileged students in RR as well

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Interested in listening and learning

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Parent perspective- older student using technology well, but for kindergartner, it is a challenge. Parents working from home, have some flexibility. What is it like for single parents or parents that can't stay home? 

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Parent perspective- older student using technology well, but for kindergartner, it is a challenge. Parents working from home, have some flexibility. What is it like for single parents or parents that can't stay home? 

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Didn't seem like students had a choice as far as going back or staying home was concerned; seemed like a lot of people didn't have the choice although this parent did

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Facilities for Families is a program that is community based- using empty business spaces- to have a place where kids can go to safely work;  Would be nice for kids who need safe spaces for virtual learning to have a place to go where there are people who can surpervise. Partnering w/ businesses- have all of the faciilities and spaces they need; Partner with grassroots organizations to find the students who need help;  seeing push back from some teachers;  Brookwood is seeing that their residents are not experiencing/seeing community spread of Covid-19
Janna Wehring with South East Georgetown Community Council          janna.wehring@segcc.org                                   cell:  (512)591-0825

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RRISD is in a hold harmless state and district is reaching out to TEA and advocating for more time for hold harmless; Not seeing problems with attendance, but-- Enrollment has a significant drop; certain that all districts are experiencing similar, and this affects funding; Everyone knew we'd face enrollment drops, just didn't know to what degree. Most districts have been able to manage a seemless transition between virtual and in person

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Question to Cory from parent- What is your personal commitment to equity

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Question to Cory from parent- What is your personal commitment to equity

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Vessa- speaking on behalf of the board- RRISD's commitment to equity is significant; budget includes funding of equity task force, social workers, etc. Willing to put money behind doing the important work.

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Getting information in front of the board is difficult and impersonal, even as a white stay-at-home mom. Silver lining about Covid is that we're used to doing things online, so maybe that can be used to increase the reach; the process and information needs to be easier and more accessible; you even have to do digging to find out who your board members are; anything we can do to remove barriers is helpful

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It seems scary to go to the board meeting; feels intimidating for anyone, and certainly when there are language barriers and other things; coming from a position of privilege it's already intimidating, even without language and racial barriers;  PTA doesn't represent the entire community;  what are areas where we can engage and include different areas of the community and population? Even if it's going to churches and festivals, etc. Reaching OUT to them is the best approach.

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Getting information out is hard; policy and rules make it harder; seeking out community advocacy is difficult due to barriers

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Instead of having top down policies guiding the district, we have silos, differences and disparities between schools; for example w/ Environmental project- some schools don't even have recycle bins in their cafeteria, but others have sustainability focused programs (and the equipment that supports those)

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Teaching real history, inclusive curricula, etc. should be incorporated into every day learning, not just "international day" or Black history month, etc. Parents and teachers who support this shouldn't get pushback.

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Parents of color on PTA, campus partnerships with Equity Task Force to address racial equity... need more of this

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PTA's on some campuses have more money, resources, and volunteers; would be great to combine PTA efforts to support all of RRISD schools and not just one school vs. another

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Silos of information- different things being done on different campuses and we don't know about unless you show up to a forum like this; would be nice for the district to highlight the good things happening on campuses so good ideas can be shared

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Vessa-- wonderful things can be done on the PTA council; reach out to her so she can connect the PTAs and help with engagement at the council level- Cory_Vessa@roundrockisd.org

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Most PTA members are white moms; this is not easy for men and men of color w/ cultural differences; Nothing to relate to culturally speaking from personal experience; not that people of color are excluded, but there could be more bridge-building

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How can the board of trustees support this and get behind the efforts of organizations such as PTA to make those connections;?

Vessa's response- the district has better tools and mechanism in which to do this; board members not all on social media, there is not single board media account, etc.

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Because PTAs have been historically white, even if you push out information, only certain people are going to be included/reached; Going to have to think more outside the box to reach the people who need to be brought in so we can hear their viewpoints

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need to do something completely different than we've done before (CW)

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we need more 2-way communication, transparency, and bringing people into the process; if the new board can be supportive of that, then successes and community engagement will be more likely to happen; Cory Vessa is on social media, please engage with her; she thinks that the board can do a better job and so can the district;

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Engaging people from different backgrounds; Vessa does this as much as she can; but, some communities don't use social media that way; for example, Asian community doesn't use Facebook and some communities don't have the time or the same channels of communication; we need to find other ways to engage them.

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What Jun brings up (mostly white moms in PTAs, difficult for men or BIPOC people to engage due to cultural differences) is why we really need to find more ways to engage the community as a Board.

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I didn't get a chance to bring it up during the session, but wanted to be sure this makes it into the discussion: given the history of policing and overwhelming current evidence of it's continued use as a tool to oppress and villify black and brown people, my question is: How will RRISD ensure that the newly formed RRISD PD does not participate in racist behavior? It's very formation as a police department, and not as a social services unit causes distress to BIPOC. Then there is the issue of hiring and training, which if not done extremely mindfully will likely replicate racist structures. There is a unique opportunity here to re-imagine the role of SRO's within the context of school behavioral support, and I hope RRISD will strive to be on the cutting edge of that work.

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I didn't get a chance to bring it up during the session, but wanted to be sure this makes it into the discussion: given the history of policing and overwhelming current evidence of it's continued use as a tool to oppress and villify black and brown people, my question is: How will RRISD ensure that the newly formed RRISD PD does not participate in racist behavior? It's very formation as a police department, and not as a social services unit causes distress to BIPOC. Then there is the issue of hiring and training, which if not done extremely mindfully will likely replicate racist structures. There is a unique opportunity here to re-imagine the role of SRO's within the context of school behavioral support, and I hope RRISD will strive to be on the cutting edge of that work.