Tara Evers

The West Rusk Intermediate District/Campus Improvement Plan for 2024-2025 outlines strategies to foster a safe, nurturing academic environment, maximize student accomplishments, and develop lifelong learners and productive citizens. Key objectives include increasing STAAR scores, developing effective instructional leaders, enhancing parental engagement, and recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers. The plan also emphasizes a comprehensive coordinated school health program, addressing health education, physical education, health services, nutrition, mental health, a safe school environment, staff wellness, and family and community involvement.

This Improvement Plan for West Rusk Elementary for 2024-2025 aims to enhance student performance and prepare students for future success. The plan focuses on improving reading and math skills, maintaining high attendance, fostering parental and family involvement, ensuring 100% highly qualified teachers, and creating a safe, drug-free learning environment that promotes good character. The overarching vision is to provide a positive, nurturing environment where all students can reach their highest learning potential and become productive, educated, independent, and successful citizens.

This District/Campus Improvement Plan for West Rusk Elementary for 2023-2024 outlines strategic goals to enhance student performance and the learning environment. Key priorities include improving student reading and math skills, maintaining good attendance, fostering family involvement to support academic performance, ensuring 100% of core academic classes are taught by high-quality and effective teachers, and creating a safe, drug-free learning environment that promotes good character.

This strategic plan overview details the Texas Education Agency's essential and foundational strategic initiatives. It is structured around key action areas aimed at fostering Ready Students, Rigorous Engagement, Continuous Improvement, Supported Educators, and Aligned Systems, with an emphasis on actionable goal-setting. A core focus is the modernization of the Texas Student Data System (TSDS) through an upgrade to Ed-Fi 4.0, which seeks to enhance data quality, improve student learning, and provide timely, accurate data for funding, accountability, and school support.

The Board discussed and approved several items, including a resolution for a Rusk County disaster declaration to set the tax rate, a roof bid from Landmark Roofing, and the purchase of a special education bus. Additionally, the Board approved a contract for district fleet, property, and casualty insurance, adopted both an amended 2023-2024 budget and the 2024-2025 budget, established the 2024-2025 tax rate, and authorized changes to several upcoming board meeting dates due to holidays and administrative requirements.