OPS Weekly Newsletter 10.5 COPY

October is packed with important deadlines, campus events, compliance priorities, and OPS action items!

Please take time to read the newsletter from top to bottom so you know what’s coming and what is expected. Staying informed helps us stay aligned, meet every deadline, and avoid any spooky surprises! 👻

Read it. Know it. Own it. Let’s have a SPOOKTACULAR week!

📅 DATE 👻 WHAT'S HAPPENING

🕸️ DON'T GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD!

October 16 is a BIG deadline! Our goal is 100% Income Survey completion. Please continue following up with families and closing any remaining gaps before the deadline.

Then get ready for America's School Safety Week, followed by our Fall Fest & Trunk or Treat to close out the month! 🎃🍬🐂

The Income Survey deadline has been extended to October 16. This is a NON-NEGOTIABLE deadline — every grade level must reach 100% completion!

🎃 OCTOBER 5–8 | PUSH FOR COMPLETION

It’s a SHORT WEEK, so act with urgency!

📄 Send surveys home with scholars
📲 Send the parent flyer + reminders
🏆 Add an incentive for returned forms
📞 Follow up through calls, arrival & dismissal

👻 OCTOBER 13–16 | FINAL PUSH

Another SHORT WEEK! Any grade level not at 100% will begin home visits to collect remaining surveys.

All remaining families should receive direct follow-up until their Income Survey is collected. October 16 is the finish line — 100% means 100%!

Deadline: October 16 | Goal: 100%

Close the gap early so we don't have to come knocking! 🚪👻

BELOW IS A FLYER IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH YOU CAN SHARE WITH PARENT AFTER SENDING FORM HOME WITH SCHOLAR.

How can a parent complete online? Parent may log into stream.ideapublicschools.org

Get ready for one of our biggest family events!

Every grade level is required to sign up for THREE stations: a Food Table, Game Table, AND Trunk. Sign-ups will open at The Longhorn on Monday, 10/5/26 at 7:00 AM and are FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE!

Please act with urgency and make sure your grade level is signed up for ALL THREE stations. Let’s bring the JOY and make Fall Fest an amazing experience for our Longhorn families! 💙💛🎃

This week, we did not achieve 100% attendance submission compliance. Attendance windows and expectations have been communicated through multiple reminders, and submitting attendance on time is a required responsibility.

Effective immediately, any failure to submit attendance within the designated compliance window will result in an automatic DAN. Please set alarms, build this into your daily routine, and ensure attendance is submitted within 9:47-10AM. NOT EARLIER OR LATER.

Be sure to remind scholars and make these incentives visible in your classrooms to ensure we are able to boost our ADA!

Effective IMMEDIATELY, make sure to celebrate 100% of scholars present within the grade level for the WEEK not "Highest HR".

Reminder - these celebrations should be celebrated during Academic Block on Fridays and should not impact core class instruction.

GTLs, ensure to pick up your items delivered for ADA celebrations and reach out to APO if you need any supplies to fulfill the celebrations.

🛡️ America’s Safe Schools Week

America’s Safe Schools Week is all about awareness, preparedness, and protecting our herd! Throughout the week, scholars, staff, and families will participate in activities that reinforce safety, reporting concerns, and emergency preparedness. Safe schools start with ALL of us! 💙💛

Our Facilities Team is currently short-staffed, and we need everyone’s partnership to keep our campus clean, safe, and ready for scholars each day.

Before leaving your classroom each day, please:

• 🧹 Sweep your classroom floor
• 🪑 Stack all chairs
• 🧽 Wipe down desks and surfaces
• 🗑️ Place trash outside your classroom for pickup
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⚠️ SAFETY CHECK: REMOVE UNAPPROVED ITEMS

Please take a moment to check your classroom and remove items that are not approved for classroom use, including standing lamps, plug-in air fresheners, and other potential fire/electrical hazards.

The lamp pictured is an example of why this matters: a plastic ball has been placed directly over the light fixture, creating a serious potential fire hazard. Please do not modify lamps, lights, or electrical equipment in this way.

A clean and safe campus takes ALL of us. Thank you for helping our Facilities Team and protecting our herd! 🐂💙💛

HUGE SHOUTOUT to our CNP Team!

Brackenridge collected an incredible 982 BOY CNP Survey responses—the HIGHEST in the entire district! 🤯🏆 No other campus even reached 600 responses! That is a huge lead over every other campus.

Way to engage our families, push with urgency, and represent Longhorn Nation! 🐂💛

Dates: October 13-16

Get ready, Longhorn Nation — National School Lunch Week is coming, and CNP is bringing the FUN!

🎉 Scholars can look forward to a week filled with special meals, games, activities, movies, prizes, and plenty of surprises as we celebrate our CNP team and the importance of school lunch! 💙💛

📣 GTL ACTION REQUIRED: All GTLs must ensure the National School Lunch Week presentation is presented to 100% of scholars BEFORE 10/7 EOD. This is our opportunity to get scholars HYPED, informed, and ready to participate!

✨ Our goal: Scholars should know what National School Lunch Week is, what fun is coming, and why they don't want to miss a single day!

🎪 Present it. Hype it up. Build the excitement. Let’s make National School Lunch Week a BIG deal at Brackenridge! 🐂🥳

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION LINK:

Every Day. Every Scholar. Every Minute Counts.

We’re keeping the attendance celebrations going ALL YEAR LONG! Our goal is to create consistent excitement around showing up every day while recognizing scholars who meet their attendance goals.

In this section, you will find YTD ADA & CA for each grade level and benchmarks to ensure you are on track to meet this goal before EOY.

Additionally, you will find the list of scholars who are at risk of Chronic Absenteeism.

Next Steps for Chronic Absentee kids listed below:

1. HR Teachers- Contact parent at 2 absences and identify how to prevent further absences.
2. GTLs- Contact parent at 3 absences and let them know they are at risk and identify how to support them through any barriers impacting the student's attendance.
3. APIs- Contact family at 5 absences for a meeting. Students may be at risk of not joining field lessons or could lose credit for the course (8th grade and up).

Team, I am restamping our non-negotiable attendance-taking expectations. Attendance must be submitted on time for EVERY attendance-taking period. Please set recurring alarms on your phone/computer to ensure deadlines are not missed.

6th/7th Deadlines: HR – 7:50 AM | P1 – 8:03 AM | P2 – 9:23 AM | OATP – 9:47 AM | P3 – 10:43 AM | P4 – 12:03 PM | P5 – LUNCH | P6 – 1:15 PM | P7 – 2:35 PM

8th Grade: HR 7:50 AM | P1 8:03 AM | P2 9:06 AM | OATP 9:47 AM | P3 10:09 AM | P4 11:12 AM | P5 Lunch | P6 12:48 PM | P7 1:51 PM | P8 2:54 PM.

Accurate and timely attendance is a critical part of our responsibility to maintain student safety, accurate records, and ADA compliance. Failure to submit attendance by the required deadlines moving forward will result in progressive discipline.

Please set your alarms today and build this into your daily routine. Thank you for ensuring this expectation is met consistently.

Period by period attendance is TEA required and will be taken the first 2 minutes of class

• DO NOT take attendance before 9:47, it will be considered OUT OF COMPLIANCE by TEA standards.
• Submitting OATP AFTER 10:00AM is OUT OF COMPLIANCE by TEA standards.

*If you incorrectly mark a student absent, you MUST send me an email and CC Jacquelin Garcia. The email must be as follows: COPY and PASTE THIS

Today, at (time) on (MM/DD/YY) I incorrectly marked (First Name Last Name) absent. Scholar was in class, with me from (start time) to (end time). Reason I marked student absent was because (state reason).

As a grade level, ensure you have an incentive and plan in place for each priority date below.

• October 7th
• October 13th
• November 20th
• November 30th
• December 18th
• January 6th
• February 11th
• February 16th
• March 5th
• March 16th
• March 25th
• March 30th
• April 22nd
• April 26th
• Last 3 days of School: May 24th, 25th, 26th

How to READ & UNDERSTAND the data below:

• EOY = End of Year
• If 25-26 EOY Data is RED that means your grade level EOY data INCREASED from 24-25 to 25-26.
• If 25-26 EOY Data is GREEN that means your grade level EOY data DECREASED from 24-25 to 25-26.
• Current Benchmark = The % your grade level should be at to be ON TRACK to meet your EOY goal.
• Current ADA = Current grade level % for the year.
• On Track/Off Track = Whether or not your grade level is meeting the weekly benchmark.

*** Just because your 25-26 EOY data is highlighted green does NOT mean you met the goal last year.

25-26 EOY Data Goal + Outcomes:

ADA- 93.96%

Met Goal: 6th & 7th Grade

CA- 19%

Met Goal: 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, & College Prep

3rd Grade — WAY TO HOLD THE LINE! Despite a horrible weather day this week, 3rd Grade only decreased 0.4 percentage points week over week and remains ON TRACK at 94.84%! That shows the impact of consistent incentives, family outreach, and urgency around getting scholars to school.

5th Grade — THE 95% CLUB CONTINUES! 🔥 5th Grade is holding strong at an incredible 95.22% ADA and remains ON TRACK! You continue to set the pace for Academy—keep protecting that 95%+!

Academy is currently at 94.34%, so we have an opportunity to close the remaining gap to our 94.73% benchmark. Shoutout to 3rd and 5th Grade for currently leading the way!

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

7th Grade is absolutely CRUSHING IT at 95.86%! 🏆 You are currently the #1 ADA grade level across the entire campus and more than a full percentage point above benchmark. Keep doing whatever is working!

10th Grade — 95% CLUB! 🔥 At 95.30%, 10th Grade continues to demonstrate what strong attendance can look like and is comfortably ON TRACK.

6th & 11th are holding the line! 6th Grade is ON TRACK at 95.09%, while 11th Grade is also ON TRACK at 94.79%, just above our 94.73% benchmark. That means 4 of our 7 CP grade levels are currently ON TRACK!

College Prep is sitting at 94.72%—literally 0.01 percentage points away from our 94.73% benchmark! We are right there. One strong attendance push can move CP as a whole ON TRACK! 🔥🐂

10th Grade is leading College Prep! 🏆 At 12.64% CA, 10th Grade is the ONLY CP grade level currently ON TRACK and is nearly 2 percentage points below benchmark! That is exactly where we want to be—keep protecting it!

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

List of Current CA Scholars

Target Grade Levels: 1st, Kinder, 12th Grade.

Lets ensure to connect with families and cut the behavior now before its too late.

Ask-

What can we do to support your scholar?

How can we ensure your scholar does not lose credit for having more than 15 absences in one year?

Do you need a VIA bus pass, uniform support, counseling services?

Be intentional. Support the family.

In this section, you will find our New to IDEA Student Persistence percentage per grade level, student leavers, and their reasons for WD.

When conducting outreach, please share the following flyers with them to ensure we are able to quickly enroll scholars!

For any questions or referrals please reach out to me immediately.

To gain tag, student drivers must meet contract requirements & pay $10 yearly fee. This is non-negotiable.

BLUE- CAR LINE

YELLOW- WALKERS

GREEN- SKY HAWKS

Upcoming Safety Drills- October

• October 20- SHELTER DRILL
• October 27- EVACUATE DRILL

This protocol MUST be followed when a student injury involves:

• Head injury
• Bodily injury
• Bleeding
• An injury requiring parent/guardian pick-up
• An injury requiring emergency medical response / EMS

+ Reunification Kit is ready to go in the event of us needing to go into a reunification.

+ All exterior doors have a campus map with 'You are HERE' visible on the map allowing them to identify where they are in the building quickly.

+ 1 scholar in college prep girls restroom stood on toilet and sensor didn't sound.

+ Room 102 put bookcase in front of the door and hid in the CC offices.

+ Staff and students responded to drill with urgency and clear direction.

^ State Troopers need KEYS & badges to unlock doors in the event that it's a real ER.

^ Not 100% of teacher doors had a blind down.

25-26 TEA Safety Audit- PASSED with Zero Findings!

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