WASCCDE Visiting Committee Final Presentation

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WASC/CDE Visiting Committee Final Presentation

• YOLO HIGH SCHOOL
• February 22-25, 2009

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Organization Vision and Purpose, Governance,
Leadership and Staff, and Resources

• Areas to Celebrate
• Clear and Coherent Vision of What Students Should
  Know and Perform
• All Staff Are Properly Credentialed
• Reinstituted a Site Council

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Organization Vision and Purpose, Governance,
Leadership and Staff, and Resources (cont.)

• Areas for Focus
• The district and site administration need to
  coordinate efforts to design and implement a
  program that adheres to the provisions of
  EC48430.
• Moving forward there should be a focus on
  identification, training and implementation of
  best instructional practices for at-risk youth.
• District and site administration need to ensure
  that all available site resources, library,
  computer lab, digital projectors, green house,
  garden, etc. are properly installed and utilized.

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Standards-based Student Learning Curriculum

• Areas to Celebrate
• Students have access to academic courses
  necessary to meet graduation requirements
• Staff are dedicated to student success and
  achievement
• The efforts of staff to provide exposure to
  vocational opportunities available to students
  after graduation
• Creative use of individual independent study
  contracts to meet elective requirements
• Intervention classes to support student success
  on CAHSEE

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Standards-based Student Learning Curriculum
(cont.)

• Areas for Focus
• There is a critical need for vocational courses
  accessible to Yolo students
• There is also a need for adequate elective
  courses for students to fulfill graduation
  requirements

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Standards-based Student Learning Instruction

• Areas to Celebrate
• Community partnerships are being developed to
  incorporate resources for alternative student
  based learning
• Work experience students receive school credit
  for out of school work programs
• A goal is to put in place a technology
  infrastructure dependent upon future funding

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Standards-based Student Learning Instruction
(cont.)

• Areas for Focus
• EC48430 states
• It is the intent of the Legislature that
  continuation education school and classes shall
  be established and maintained to provide all the
  following
• An opportunity for pupils to complete the
  required academic courses
• A program of instruction which emphasizes
  occupational orientation or work study schedule
  and offers intensive guidance services
• A program designed to meet the educational
  needs of each pupil, including, but not limited
  to, independent study, regional occupational
  programs, work study, career counseling, and job
  placement services as a supplement to classroom
  instruction.

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Standards-based Student Learning Assessment and
Accountability

• Areas to Celebrate
• The adoption and use of Data-Director to analyze
  student assessment results
• Based on identified student needs, interventions
  have been successfully employed which resulted in
  an over 90 pass rate on the CAHSEE
• Maintained and expanded the special education
  services
• Employed interventions that have resulted in a
  dramatic increase student attendance
• Numerous interventions that resulted in dramatic
  decreases in the incidents of misbehavior both in
  classes and on the campus

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Standards-based Student Learning Assessment and
Accountability (cont.)

• Areas for Focus
• Develop academic and personal interventions to
  increase student performance on the CA Standards
  Tests
• Staff needs to be trained to implement the
  district adopted Read 180
• Staff needs in-service and training on strategies
  specifically designed to implement instruction
  for at-risk youth

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School Culture and Support for Student Personal
and Academic Growth

• Areas to Celebrate
• Active ASB/leadership program to promote the
  school spirit and to improve the school
  environment
• Student are articulate and engaged in expressing
  their concerns relating to school environment,
  quality/quantity of food, need for elective
  courses, vocational classes, availability of
  individual contracts, appreciation of staff, and
  individualized attention
• Relative few incidents of serious behavior
  problems
• Students welcomed WASC committee
• Positive impact of two campus supervisors on
  school environment

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School Culture and Support for Student Personal
and Academic Growth (cont.)

• Areas for Focus
• Site administration and staff need to develop,
  publish and distribute a student handbook to all
  students and parents
• Students involved in ASB need to be given a tour
  of the future YHS campus and the opportunity to
  share observations with other students and
  parents
• District and site administration and staff must
  develop a philosophy, attitude and commitment to
  meeting the academic and vocational requirements
  for graduation for all their students

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Schoolwide Strengths

• Staff dedicated to student success and
  achievement
• Based on identified student needs, interventions
  have been successfully employed which have
  resulted in over 90 pass rate on CAHSEE
• Employed interventions that have resulted in
  dramatic increases in student attendance
• There are relatively few incidences of serious
  behavior problems
• There is an active ASB/leadership program to
  promote and improve school spirit and environment

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Schoolwide Critical Areas for Follow-up

• There is a disconnect between the goals of the
  district administration and the legislative
  intent expressed in the following code.
  Administration needs to coordinate efforts to
  design and implement a program that adheres to
  the following provisions.
• EC48430 states
• It is the intent of the Legislature that
  continuation education school and classes shall
  be established and maintained to provide all the
  following
• An opportunity for pupils to complete the
  required academic courses
• A program of instruction which emphasizes
  occupational orientation or work study schedule
  and offers intensive guidance services
• A program designed to meet the educational needs
  of each pupil, including, but not limited to,
  independent study, regional occupational
  programs, work study, career counseling, and job
  placement services as a supplement to classroom
  instruction.
• There must be an immediate and intense focus on
  identification, training and implementation of
  best instructional practices for at-risk youth
• The district and site administration need to
  ensure that appropriate site resources are
  provided, such as, computer lab, digital
  projectors, greenhouse, garden, etc., and that
  these sources are properly installed and utilized

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Making It Happen!

• Single School Plan
• Continued Care and Concern For Students
• Improvement of Student Learning
• Improvement of Credits Earned
• More Graduations
• More Celebrations!!