Northwest ISD presents draft 2025–26 District Improvement Plan emphasizing literacy, staff retention and student wellness
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Summary
District administrators presented the draft 2025–26 District Improvement Plan, highlighting three strategic goals—literacy and academic progress, recruiting and retaining staff, and strengthening culture and safety—with strategies including expanded literacy supports, a Principal Pathway, a district code of civility aligned with Senate Bill 12, and a new student wellness center.
District leaders presented trustees with the draft 2025–26 District Improvement Plan (DIP), outlining strategic goals and specific strategies intended to guide district and campus improvement work over the coming year.
Dr. Griffin (speaker 7), leading the presentation, said the DIP is a "living, breathing" document rooted in the district's vision and strategic goals approved in 2023. Priority 1 centers on literacy: strategies include responsive teaching and differentiation, foundational literacy support, strengthening writing across content, and common academic vocabulary, with the stated outcome of increasing the percent of students meeting or exceeding a year’s growth.
Priority 1.2 focuses on academic progress across content areas by emphasizing high cognitive demand lessons and formative assessment tools; Priority 1.3 centers on college, career, military and life readiness, including increased access to TSI, CTE completion strategies and a military awareness program.
An administrator (speaker 12) presented Goal 2, which aims to recruit, value and retain staff through university partnerships to expand teacher pipelines, a planned staff engagement survey, onboarding and hiring improvements tied to new legislation, competitive total compensation strategies, principal leadership development via a new Principal Pathway, additional wellness leave days, and an expanded Red Rover timekeeping system to improve efficiency.
Goal 3 focuses on culture, safety and student supports. Dr. Griffin described a tiered behavior support framework (Tier 1–3), a new elementary discipline alternative education program, attention to chronic absenteeism, and youth mental health first‑aid training for staff. The district announced the kickoff of an NISD student wellness center beginning this week at Northwest High School and a plan to develop a large‑scale reunification process for centralized emergency pick‑ups.
The DIP will go to the district's DEIC committee for feedback and a vote; staff expect to return to the board at the next meeting for final approval. Board members asked clarifying questions about staff listening sessions, community rollout of the code of civility (to align with Senate Bill 12), and streamlining teacher paperwork. Mr. Spruill (speaker 4) praised a planned "new‑to‑NISD" quarterly survey intended to gather feedback from families who recently joined the district.