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Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD board meeting, date not confirmed yet

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What happened

What happened at this meeting

Carrollton-Farmers Branch trustees discuss rewriting committee deliverables during team of 8 training 0:13

  • The Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Board of Trustees held a team of 8 annual training led by presenters from Commit. 0:13
  • Presenters led discussions on technical and adaptive leadership, observation versus interpretation and the role of trust on a board. 7:59
  • A presenter said the board had been sent an anonymous survey on the board operating procedures and that the results would be pulled into themes and provided as a working document for the policy committee. 2:29:59
  • A speaker summarized that the chairs of the 3 existing committees would rewrite their deliverables and bring them back to the board for consideration, and that a communications committee was under discussion. 3:18:24

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Item by item (9)
  1. Call to order and public comment 0:13
    • The meeting was called to order at 5:32 PM on September 17th, 2026. 0:13
    • No forms to speak during audience for guests had been submitted as of 1 o'clock PM. 0:35
  2. Introductions and reflections on behavior changes 1:22
    • A presenter introduced a new member of the Commit team, who said the new member's career started in teaching in the district. 1:22
    • A speaker said goals the board set last year appeared in campus improvement plans principals discussed. 6:39
    • Carolyn Benavides said campus scores have improved with a plan brought to the district. 7:50
  3. Technical and adaptive leadership 7:59
    • Kim Brady read a definition of technical leadership as applying established knowledge, expertise and procedures to a problem with a generally known solution. 14:58
    • Cassandra Hatfield read a definition of adaptive leadership as mobilizing people to confront complex challenges and change beliefs, priorities or behaviors. 15:09
    • Marjorie Barnes said technical leadership relies on knowledge, expertise and procedures, while adaptive leadership is about people coming together to solve a problem. 15:35
  4. Costs and benefits of behavior 19:48
    • Paul Gilmore gave the example of an athlete who gives up other activities to stay consistent and get the benefit of winning. 23:24
    • A presenter described parallel processing as a leader's behaviors being unconsciously mirrored throughout a system. 33:01
  5. Mindset, observation and interpretation 38:44
    • A presenter said mindset and beliefs drive behavior and behavior produces outcomes. 39:30
    • Cassandra Hatfield said there was time for only one question, which was chosen very carefully so it would be perceived as a support structure, and that the desired outcome was that principals felt heard and supported. 49:22
    • Asked by a presenter to read the bold text on interpretation, Paul Gilmore read that it is a conclusion, assumption or judgment about what the observation means. 52:12
  6. Self-betrayal reading and trust 1:16:40
    • A presenter had trustees read an excerpt from the book Leadership and Self-Deception. 1:20:07
    • Cinthya Noda Vazquez said leadership starts in small moments and the truth can be scary and hurtful. 1:22:43
    • One board member said the board is all about the kids and outcomes and that this should unite members. 2:02:01
  7. Board operating procedures and survey 2:07:16
    • One board member said committees are in theory supposed to save others time through focused work by a small group. 2:18:45
    • A presenter said an anonymous survey with 4 questions had been sent and that themes from it would be provided to the policy committee as a working document. 2:34:03
    • A speaker raised expectations for board attendance at events such as homecoming parades and football games. 2:38:21
  8. Committee deliverables and communications committee 2:45:13
    • One board member said that under the presenter's definition of a start and end point and a clear deliverable, the committees' deliverables are not there. 2:48:50
    • One board member said the board should put out a survey and use existing groups such as the ambassadors and the bond committee instead of creating new ones. 3:07:29
    • A speaker said governance would be related to BOP and policy, operations would change to external audit only and leadership would be legislative only. 3:19:00
  9. Closing 3:21:22
    • Trustees gave one-word reflections on the evening, and Cinthya Noda Vazquez offered the word transformational. 3:22:23
    • A speaker stated the time as 8:56 PM. 3:24:16

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Video: posted by the district as “Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD - School Board Meeting - Work Study - 9/17/2026”