Coppell ISD Launches COMMUNITY BASED ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM

Data Dashboard

Coppell ISD released its first Community Based Accountability (CBAS) online dashboard and “CBAS At A Glance” brochure in September 2022.

The CBAS dashboard includes data from the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years focusing on three pillars — Student Learning and Progress, Professional Learning and Quality Staff, and Safety and Well-Being. For the 2022-2023 school year, CISD will focus on these three pillars along with the Engaged and Well-Rounded Students pillar and the Fiscal and Operational Systems pillar. In the 2023-2024 school year, CISD will focus on all seven pillars, adding the Student Readiness pillar and Community Engagement and Partnership pillar.

Student Learning and Progress

Students are our top priority and we want to ensure we are meeting their learning and progress needs.

Professional Learning and Quality Staff

In order to educate all students to the highest academic standards, we need to have quality staff and make certain that they have the professional learning necessary to deliver great teaching.

Safety and

In order for CISD to accomplish our mission, we need to take care of the safety and well-being of our students and staff.

How well students are able to persevere through setbacks to achieve important long-term goals

“CBAS allows Coppell ISD to share, through a holistic view with all of our stakeholders, that our district is producing future-ready learners and leaders. CBAS matters, because it means our community, which includes our staff, our students and their families, our businesses, and our community members, holds the district accountable.”

— Dr. Brad Hunt, Superintendent

Wilson Elementary Principal Cooper Hilton said, “Our CBAS work is for the direct benefit of our CISD community and families. It is based on our community values and what we believe success looks like as a district.”

The Texas Education Agency rates schools and districts based on results from the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests. CISD has received an “A” from the state’s ratings each year they have come out. According to Dr. Hunt, the state’s standardized tests do not completely measure learning and growth in CISD schools.

“While we are proud of our ‘A’ rating, we don’t believe it gives a complete picture of our district, our students, or our schools, because of its high reliance on the STAAR test,” Dr. Hunt said “Our innovative CISD staff are partnering with our students and families to create learning experiences that defy the ability of a standardized test to measure the growth. As we like to say, ‘You can’t test that.”

This fall, in conjunction with the release of the CBAS data dashboard, CISD has brought together a group of students, parents and community members, teachers and staff to form a CBAS

Advisory Group. This group will help shape how CBAS data is measured and shared with the district community.

CISD also is a member of the Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC), a group of Texas school districts working to build on the success of community based accountability systems already in use in districts across the state by developing next-generation measures and assessments that would enable wider use of such systems.

Learn more at www.CoppellISD.Com/CBaS

— CISD Parent

“My teachers gave me the opportunity to apply my learning to real-world problems, ensuring that I not only did well on tests, but that I also understood how their lesson concepts could be applied to the real world.”

— Anekah Kelley 2022 New Tech High @ Coppell Valedictorian 2022 National Merit Finalist Attending SMU to Study Biophysics

Knowledge is power and I believe CISD powers its students with the knowledge required for the practical world. CISD is diverse and really invests in each and every student. This is evident in the quality of the teachers and staff that truly care for their students. CISD does not compromise on quality of learning and lives up to their mission statement of nurturing relationships and impacting the world positively.

— CISD Parent

— CISD Parent