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What’s New? • A balanced budget for 2022-2023. • Starting teacher salaries of $57,000. • A pay increase of 2% of midpoint – at least $1,250 – for all teachers, nurses, and librarians to bring salaries to the market median. • A general pay increase for all other employees of 1% of midpoint of their pay grade. • Overall tax rate decrease of 14.43 cents in 2022, which represents a $626 annual savings for the average homeowner in GCISD. Find more tax rate info at www.GCISD.net/Finance. policies approved in August 2022 related to books, curriculum, and controversial topics. Full policies can be found on the GCISD website. • Updated, revised, or newly created community-facing curriculm documents in four core content areas. • Reviewed recurring safety practices, completed drills, and implemented weekly exterior door sweeps. • New and revised
Student and Staff Recognitions and Achievements CMS Band Takes Second at State The Colleyville Middle School Honors Band staked its claim as one of the very best bands in the state over the summer by winning second place at the Texas Music Educators Association
State honor band competition. The TMEA awards are given based on recordings of three songs that each band played in the spring.
GCISD Teachers of the Year Win Region 11 Awards Christina Hayes, GCISD Elementary Teacher of the Year, and Josh Smith, GCISD Secondary Teacher of the Year, were named “best of” essay award winners at Region 11’s Teacher of the Year Banquet. Hayes is a fifth-grade ASPIRE Academy teacher at Glenhope Elementary. In her essay about “Connecting Students to the Community,” she shared that she likes to bring in experts and provide real world experiences so students can see meaning in what they are learning. Smith, head band director at Heritage Middle School, won in the “Growing through Advocacy” essay category. His essay tells the story of how volunteering for a teacher leader role on a committee helped him grow and positively impact students.
CA Alum Returns for First Teaching Job The summer before she began high school, Avery Jones had just moved back to Texas, was looking for a small school and wanted to get an early start on college coursework. She found the right place at the GCISD Collegiate Academy at Tarrant County College Northeast, where students to work on their high school diplomas and associate degrees at the same time. Now three years after her high school graduation, she’s going back to Collegiate Academy — as the school’s new Algebra 2 teacher.
Prepared by Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District | www.GCISD.net | (817)251-5375 28 Earn AP Capstone Diplomas, 17 National Merit Semifinalists Announced GCISD is proud to announce that 28 students earned the College Board’s AP Capstone Diploma™ during the 2021-22 school year, and 17 members of the Class of 2023 have been named National Merit Semifinalists. AP Capstone is a College Board diploma program that is based on two year-long advanced placement (AP) courses: AP Seminar and AP Research. To earn the AP Capstone Diploma, students must earn scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research and on four additional AP exams of their choosing. The nationwide pool of National Merit Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants from the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, in each state.
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