District Advisory and Accountability Committee

The District Advisory & Accountability Committee offers parents, students, other residents and staff of the district the opportunity to become involved with the improvement of the educational system.

We are thrilled to be welcoming back Brian Herley as the DAAC Chair, and a warm welcome to Jessica Lambuth as the Co-Chair this year! We have a lot of good work to do and our planning sessions have already sparked some great conversation.

Updates for this year's DAAC Meetings:

- Times have changed: DAAC will be held from 6:00 - 7:30 pm this year. Slightly shorter meetings, with more time for families and community members to get things settled at home before coming to the meeting.

- Locations TBD: We will begin with our first meeting in the Boardroom at Admin, but our following meetings will be at different district locations throughout our boundaries. We want to bring some closer to you, and give you the opportunity to learn more about our great schools.

- Meetings will still be Hybrid, to the best of our abilities: We will still have google links available for each meeting, but we know that using different locations means that there will be different technology supports at each site. We promise to do our best, but we may not always be able to offer the seamless format you are used to. 

- Promoting In-Person Participation: While hybrid options will be available, we are hoping to encourage in-person work. We know that we build stronger connections when we are in the room together!

- Meeting previews and summaries: We are hoping to offer a preview of each meeting's topics the Friday before the meeting. When you receive your usual meeting reminder, take a look and click through any links and docs that you want to spend time on before coming on the following Tuesday. This will be posted the same day on the DAAC webpage, tsd.org/DAAC so that anyone checking out the meeting can prepare as well. Then, following our meeting, any decisions, ideas and additional considerations that we take away will also be added to the website so that anyone who missed the meeting can easily see what the main themes were. Hopefully this will help with the requests for info ahead of time and make it simpler for participants who join part way through or miss a meeting.

Overall, we are looking forward to the work and the collaboration at DAAC! Thank you so much for partnering with us! Remember, DAAC is open to staff, families, and community members. Feel free to bring a friend or someone who is interested in the work we do. All meetings are open.

Kristy Richards

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Coordinadora de participación de la familia y la comunidad

Family and Community Engagement Coordinator

Thompson School District

970-613-6871 (office)

970-305-5941 (cell - text)

Centro para Familias

Family Center at Stansberry

tsd.org/familycenter

(970) 613-6808

We gratefully acknowledge the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux) land on whose ancestral homelands we gather, as well as the diverse and vibrant Indigenous communities who make their home here today.

Summary of September Meeting:

At this month's District Advisory and Accountability Committee (DAAC) meeting we welcomed School Accountability Committee (SAC) leaders and principals in addition to our usual DAAC members, totalling 39 participants!

- Brian Herley, our DAAC Chair and a district parent, welcomed us and conducted the usual opening business

- The 2023-24 DAAC Voting Member Roster was presented by Jesse Tijerina, Director of State and Federal Programs, and new members were invited to join

- Kristy Richards, Family and Community Engagement Coordinator, conducted a "Lingo Bingo" activity to help familiarize the group with some of the specific words and definitions that would be used in the upcoming data presentation.

-  Dr. Melissa Schneider, Chief Academic Officer, presented state assessment data, starting with some celebrations. Then she led us through the District Performance Framework, and some year-over-year performance results from the CMAS, PSAT and SAT results. Dr. Schneider also shared the strategies being put into place at the elementary and secondary levels in response to the data presented. Groups of participants then commented on trends and what they could see reflected in the data. The full presentation can be found here and further results can be found at https://www.cde.state.co.us/assessment

- Jesse Tijerina closed the meeting with some clear connections to both Strive 2025 and the recommendations made by the DAAC.

- We were again joined by our Board of Education Member, Nancy Rumfelt. 

Our next meeting will be October 24th at the administration building boardroom. The calendar invite will be updated, and you will receive an email notification as well.

* There were no voting items at this meeting

** There are no follow-up actions or survey items from this meeting unless you want to be added as a voting member of DAAC. Then please contact Laura.Copeland@tsd.org

Preview of Upcoming Meeting:

(coming soon)

Colorado Department of Education District Accountability Handbook August, 2021  

2023-24 DAAC Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes

DAAC/SAC Responsibilities Overview
Recommendations to the BOE from Last Year

(Combined SAC/DAAC Meeting) 
State Assessment Results
District Unified Improvement Plan

Attendance Data
FSCP Implementation Teams in Schools

(5th Tuesday,  due to Thanksgiving)

(2nd Tuesday, due to Winter Break)

(Combined SAC/DAAC Meeting)

DAAC Q&A

Get Involved Today:

Email Laura.Copeland@tsd.org to receive reminders and invitations to meetings!

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