Excellence:  Advancing student achievement in all areas.


Goal: Meeting the Needs of All Students
Actions:

• Expand after school and summer programs

• Expand career preparation training

• Develop plans to reach the potential of students with unique needs including English Learners, At-risk, GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) and Special Education

• Establish Family Resource Centers

• Devise opportunities for students to think critically, research and solve problems

• Incorporate multiple assessment strategies to evaluate student learning and progress

• Provide an exciting, challenging curriculum responsive to needs, learning styles and individual interests

• Ensure mastery of the grade level California adopted standards

• Ensure equal access for every child to the core curriculum

Goal: English Bridges To Opportunity
Actions:

• Expand community school concept (preschool to adult education)

• Collect more in-depth assessment data at enrollment

• Improve customer service to incoming families

• Address the needs of English Language Learners at the secondary level

Goal: Preschool Access for All
Actions:

• Ensure reliable kinder transition and articulation

• Conduct age appropriate assessments

• Expand preschool access to all children

• Expand family/student learning activities so that all children reach their highest potential

Goal: Visual and Performing Arts
Actions:

• Make the visual and performing arts an integral part of school life

• Expand coordination of district funded arts program

• Study creating a magnet arts school

• Expand course offerings in arts program

• Infuse visual and performing arts standards into core curriculum

• Expand collaborations with existing visual and performing arts organizations

• Provide additional visual and performing arts opportunities in the after school and summer school programs

Goal: Inquiry-based Science
Actions:

• Create consistency in program delivery

• Integrate science across curriculum

• Implement hands-on inquiry based science

• Ensure quality science instruction on every site

Goal: Professional Development
Actions:

• Provide training opportunities for professional growth, multicultural sensitivity, and positive customer service

• Maintain an environment of continuous “life-long” learning

• Implement sustained staff development

• Seek funding mechanisms for new initiatives

• Create a teacher training center and demonstration school

• Create manageable teacher workloads with built in planning time

• Create opportunities for staff to meet with district personnel

• Devise opportunities to reduce teacher stress

• Provide teacher training in instructional methodologies and techniques

• Develop a teacher training program that is focused on preparing teachers to interact and communicate with families

• Provide training to families about the educational process, how and why it is changing and how to support classroom instruction

• Review service demands and staffing levels annually

• Offer employees opportunities for second-language acquisition