Beechwood Independent board

8 meetings on our record, 4 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · 1,527 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · May 11, 2026: Beechwood board approves auditor contract, discusses naming stadium Play 21:30
Newest meeting we have: May 11, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Amy Sleet, Board Member, Chairperson · Jeanne Berger, Board Member · Kyle Burns, Board Member · Brad Hood, Board Member · Laura Wooten, Board Member, Vice Chair

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 15 minMonday, May 11, 2026Beechwood board approves auditor contract, discusses naming stadiumAI in schoolsSpeakers: Jeanne Berger, Kyle Burns

Play 21:30

Board meeting · 1 h 21 minMonday, April 13, 2026AI in schoolsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Laura Wooten, Brad Hood, Kyle Burns

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 03 minMonday, February 9, 2026

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Board meeting · 56 minMonday, December 1, 2025Reading and test scores

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The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 4 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingAmy SleetBoard Member, Chairperson · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameJeanne BergerBoard Member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Kyle BurnsBoard Member3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Brad HoodBoard Member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Laura WootenBoard Member, Vice Chair1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting

Meetings on our record

All 8 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

April 13, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition8%4%–14%

Budget and finance8%4%–12%

Public comment2%0%–6%

Safety and discipline0%0%–26%

The two readers didn’t agree on 24% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 8 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 13, 2026, heard from 4.

4 on Apr 13, 20264 speakers2 speakers0.6 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 8 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	May 11	Apr 13	Feb 9	Dec 1
Jeanne Berger	Present	Present	Present	Present
Amy Sleet	Present	Present	Present	Present
Laura Wooten	Present	Present	Present	Present
Brad Hood	Present	Present	Present	Present
Kyle Burns	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2100360 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district