Welcome to Terrell ISD Curriculum DEIC

Purpose: In compliance with Education Code 11.251, the District-Level Committee shall advise the Board or its designee in establishing and reviewing the district's educational goals, objectives, and major district-wide classroom instructional programs identified by the Board or its designee. The committee shall serve exclusively in an advisory role except that the committee shall approve staff development of a district-wide nature.

Composition: The committee is composed of teachers professional non-teaching staff members, parents, community people, business representatives, and the superintendent's designee, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction.

Members are elected in September of each school year.

Board Policy governing the district-level planning and decision-making process is as follows:

• BQA Legal and Local
• BQ Legal and Local
• BQB Legal and Local

Policy may be viewed at any campus office or at the central office.

Planning-P                             Staffing Patterns-SP
Budgeting-B                          Staff Development-SD
Curriculum-C                         School Organization-SO

Print Suggestion/Concern form to submit to the DEIC.  The Educational Improvement Council will be only concerned with the broad based instructional goals and objectives of the district.  The Council will only be involved with addressing the district’s education goals, objectives and major district-wide classroom instructional programs.  (Texas Education Code #21.930)

Meeting Schedule 2011-2012

      August 25, 2011                           3:30 pm                    Agenda/Minutes
       September 29, 2011                     3:30 pm                    Agenda/Minutes
      November 10, 2011                      3:30 pm                    Agenda/Minutes
       January 26, 2012                         3:30 pm                    Agenda/Minutes
       March 22, 2012                           3:30 pm                    Agenda/Minutes
       May 17, 2012                              3:30 pm                    Agenda/Minutes

All DEIC meetings will be held in the TISD Board Room

District Educational Improvement Council Members (18) 2011-2012

Professional Staff:
(4 regular program elementary classroom teachers, 2 regular program secondary classroom teachers, 3 non-teaching campus-based professional employees, 1 teacher to represent TAC/DAEP/Phoenix, and 1 at-large position to be determined by the committee to reflect the ethnic/gender diversity of the staff or lack of representation of special programs.)

WHB                              Amy Beam (E)
JFK                               Elizabeth Griesbach (E)
JWL                               Lara Reed (E)
WES                               Johnye Beshear (E)
FMS                               Jason Moore (S)
THS                               Craig Grazioli (S)
TAC/Phoenix/DAEP          David Hagston
At-Large: (1)                   Laura Espinoza

Non-teaching campus-based professionals: (3)
(Counselors/diagnosticians/librarians/administrators
 
Diagnostician                  Charlotte Mathews
Counselor                      Gina Carpenter
Administrator                 Larry Lewis

 Parents: (2)                    Shelly Rogers
                                     Angie Cooper

Community (no children enrolled in school district): (2)
                                    Steve Howie
                                    Ashlyn McCreary 

 Business:(2)                   Pierre Wilson
                                     Cozette Moore 

 Superintendent’s Designee:(1)
                                      Stacey Ellis, Executive Director of Human Resources & Student Services

District Improvement Plan 2010-2011