CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS TO WATCH

Decision-making is based on striving toward the goal of providing every single student with highly rigorous and relevant academic instruction every minute of every school day.

The school is an AVID Academy and AVID-trained staff use AVID strategies school wide that include the Critical Reading Strategy and Cornell note-taking.

AVID elective classes participate in tutorials two days per week, bringing questions from any class and having peers help discover misconceptions to further understanding.

Teachers use critical thinking and link learning to real-world applications, a crucial role of every lesson and students do this by engaging in scenarios/situations to simulate real world experiences and how

they might apply this knowledge.

In PLC’s, teachers create assessments, and then create lessons that will allow students to be successful in those assessments.

In student-led conferences, students walk their parents through their assessment data, examples of their work, examples of needed improvement, and lastly their goals.

Project-based learning, the inquiry process, and integrated units of study are the outcome of blocking core subjects.

Teachers use common prep periods to plan instruction, analyze data, and other instructional activity.

A campus peer mentor is responsible for building relationships and providing guidance to students.

Teachers actively provide opportunities for students to reflect and set future goals, which equip them to lead their parent conferences twice a year.

As a result of housing a community collaborative and a counseling center as well as partnering with local service programs, the school offers family counseling, case management, and other services.

The school hosts parting workshops that are developed in conjunction with the Parent Center.

Students in leadership elective work towards running Renaissance Rallies, record and broadcast the “Daily News,” and help keep the campus a well-functioningplace.