Dear Life School Staff,

A few weeks ago, you participated in the Q12 Employee Engagement survey through Gallup. We would appreciate your participation with one additional employee engagement survey, which will arrive in your inbox soon.

Both surveys provide us with unique insights, and we encourage your participation.

Within the next week, you will receive an email that includes an access link. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and provide us with your feedback.

Energage, an independent research company, is conducting the survey. To protect your confidentiality, they will not disclose your responses to us. Department, team, or group scores are revealed only when there is a minimum of 5 survey responses. Managers at Life School may see the comments you offer on the survey's final page, so please do not write anything that could reveal your identity.

A few things to note:

If you do not receive the survey email within the next week, please check your spam or junk email for a message from “Energage Survey.” To open the survey invitation, you may have to confirm the email is not spam.If you delete the survey email accidentally, you will receive a reminder message within a few days that includes another access link.Please do not forward the survey email to a colleague. Each email has a unique code to prevent multiple responses from a single person.

Please reach out to Energage at 1-800-749-0187 or reply to your survey email if you have questions.

Thanks for taking the time to complete the survey. We look forward to your feedback!

Sincerely,

Life School Communications Team

Dear Life School Staff: 

We have exciting news! Beginning this August, Life School Mountain Creek is expanding to offer grades 7-8. We expect the addition of these grades to add convenience for LSMC families who, until now, have needed to bus their students to Waxahachie or drive them to Oak Cliff  to continue with Life School.

Dear Life School Staff,

As we head into the end of this school year, we are already looking forward to the 2023-2024 school year and the start of the 4-day school week! Typically, we communicate new compensation information before the last day of school. However, this year, there are many factors being considered during the current legislative session that could have a positive impact on compensation requirements for schools. 

With outcomes surrounding the session and its impacts on teacher raises, we do not have the necessary information to determine the complete compensation package for employees for the 2023-2024 school year. The regular session is expected to close on May 29, 2023, after which, we hope to have all of the necessary information.

Once the session has ended and the board has approved the 2023-2024 compensation plan, compensation statements will be distributed via email.

Thank you for your dedicated work, loyalty, and commitment to the success of Life School and its students. 

Regards,

Brent Wilson, Ed.D.
Superintendent, Life School

Dear Life School Staff,

Members of the District System Development Committee (DSDC) continue to meet as we prepare to implement the Teach Incentive Allotment (TIA) program for Life School teachers. In an effort to keep you better informed about this program, we have created a webpage on the Life School Extranet. We would like to encourage all teachers and administrators to click here and watch a brief 3-minute video to learn more about the TIA program and what it could mean for teachers in our district. Any questions that you might have regarding the TIA can be directed to TIA@lifeschools.net.

Also, today is the final day to complete the Stakeholder Engagement survey. We are asking all teachers and campus administrators to please click here to take the survey and provide feedback on the most recent decisions that have been made. The survey will close tonight, Friday, March 5th.

Please mark your calendars to join us for a Town Hall Meeting to gather additional feedback from our stakeholders. We would love to hear from you, please submit questions ahead of time to TIA@lifeschools.net.

• Town Hall Meeting
  March 24, 2021 from 4:00-5:00
  Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85041306218
  Meeting ID: 850 4130 6218
  Passcode: n7uh30

Subcommittee Recaps:

Spending & Funding

• Waiting on results from the survey to have final decisions

Stakeholder Engagement

• An email address, TIA@lifeschools.net, has been created for staff members to submit questions they may have
• District-wide Town Hall has been scheduled for March 24th at 4:00
• Each campus TIA Ambassador will be providing a TIA update during each upcoming staff meeting

Student Growth

• SLO One Pager
• Use One-pager for an overview of the three different phasesUse the phases to integrate into the existing practices of T-TessWalked through SLO’s from all aspects for the different grade levels and how the admin will use it
• Reviewed TEA rubric

Teacher Observation

• Principals will create a plan to give a T-TESS refresher during the beginning of the year
• PD
• Walkthroughs: Make sure all principals are using the same guidelines to look for when having walkthroughs
• Created items to add to the LS TIA Extranet
• Domains 2 and 3 are very important and teachers need to know this - Put this on the website so they understand how they are being observed and scored

Communication

• District push for the survey one more time
• Created a landing page to house TIA information on the website

Sincerely,

Life School DSDC Committee Members

• Alissa Russell-LSOCS
• Devonne Hutson-LSCO
• Jolie Bishop-LSL
• Megan Beck-LSCO
• Ana Cardona-LMSW
• Dewayne Volentine-LSOCS
• Joy Shepherd-LSCO
• Megan Rollins-LSMC
• Ann Glasco-LSCH
• Isabel Green-LSOCE
• Kelli Whicker-LSRO
• Scott Fuller-LSCO
• Bryan Craun-LSOCS
• Jenna Evans-LSC
• Kim Riepe-LSCO
• Stephanie Colwell-LSCO
• Casey Ballard-LSCO
• Jenna Ruebman-LSL
• La Rosa Barnes-LSOCE
• Stephanie Wolf-LSCO
• Dana Johnson-LSOCS
• Jennifer Villavaso-LSC
• Lee Coleman-LHSW
• Timothy McInvale-LSOCS
• Danielle Dillard-LSRO
• Jessica Barlow-LMSW
• Malissa Allen-LSCH