Isaac Benavides

Dickinson Independent School District's strategic direction is centered on cultivating excellence and empowering learners. Key priorities for 2025-26 include providing effective teaching and learning experiences for continuous student success, ensuring a physically and emotionally safe, healthy, and equitable environment, prioritizing family and community partnerships, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse and effective staff, and providing operational services to support student learning. The overarching vision is to produce confident, collaborative, goal-driven learners who become empowered citizens in a global society, achieving academic excellence and making meaningful contributions.

This document outlines two distinct math acceleration pathways for students in grades 6-8. The first pathway, 'Course Compacting (Honors Math),' enables students to complete Algebra I in 8th grade, focusing on a faster-paced curriculum for those with strong math skills. The second pathway, 'Credit by Exam (Math),' allows academically ready 5th-grade students to skip 6th-grade math and potentially take Geometry in 8th grade. Both pathways detail specific courses, standards, curriculum, and assessments, emphasizing high school credit opportunities and the importance of consistent performance for advanced academic progression.

The meeting included recognition of Dr. William H. King III for over three decades of service to Dickinson ISD, honoring the district's Gold Medalists and Best of Show winners from the 2026 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program. The Board also recognized members of the Facility Services Team as Winter Weather Heroes for their professionalism in preparing campuses for severe winter weather. Reports and presentations covered the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year Audit, Student Attendance Report for the 3rd Six Weeks, the Monthly Tax Collection Report for December 2025, and the 2024-2025 Annual Report. Furthermore, Dickinson ISD was honored as a 2026 Career and Technical Education District of Distinction.

This Strategic Plan outlines Dickinson Independent School District's commitment to cultivating excellence and empowering students to become confident, collaborative, and goal-driven learners. The plan focuses on key objectives including developing life skills, preparing students for college, career, or military, enhancing communication and self-advocacy, fostering technological skills, building resilience, and promoting social-emotional well-being. It is structured around five main goals: prioritizing family and community partnerships, providing robust operational services, recruiting and retaining a diverse and effective staff, delivering effective teaching and learning experiences, and ensuring a physically and emotionally safe, healthy, and equitable environment for all.

This Campus Improvement Plan for Silbernagel Elementary School outlines several key goals for 2025-2026. The plan focuses on providing effective teaching and learning experiences to ensure continuous student success across all subjects and offering comprehensive educational opportunities. It prioritizes creating a safe, healthy, and equitable physical and emotional environment, aiming to improve student attendance and physical fitness. The plan also emphasizes strengthening family and community partnerships to increase parental involvement. Additionally, it addresses recruiting, training, and retaining diverse and effective staff committed to professional growth, and ensuring efficient operational services, including budget management and technology integration, to support student learning.