La Sierra High School

1. The State of the School Student Performance Data Goals for 2008 – 2009 School Year P.L.C. Implementation Initiatives and Interventions Needs and Next Steps for La Sierra La Sierra High School Accountability Plan 2008 - 2009

2. The State of Our School • We achieved our API target for 2008 and are planning for a great leap (678 – 715) this year—and we need one if we are to keep pace with similar schools. • Our school is safer and better organized than it has been in years • Our staff have improved their skills and ability to work together in the past three years • Our fastest-growing population is our English learners, having nearly doubled in five years • In the fall of 2011 La Sierra will begin to undergo enormous change as Hillcrest High School opens

3. API Growth TEXT BOX

4. AYP Levels: English

5. AYP Levels: Math

6. AMAO Results for English Learners AMAO 1: % of EL’s annual CELDT growth (58%) (Target = 50.1%) AMAO 2: % of EL’s at CELDT proficiency (26.6%) (Target = 28.9%) AMAO 3: % of EL’s making AYP ELA: 29.6% (Target = 33.4%) Math: 30.5% (Target = 32.2%)

7. Percent of Students in ELA Quintiles

8. Percent of Students in Math Quintiles

9. CAHSEE Pass Rates

10. CST Scores: Sciences Biology 9th Chemistry 10th Chemistry 11th Biology 10th

11. CST Scores: Social Sciences World History U.S. History

12. Why is LSHS Improving? • Stable faculty • Strong results from feeder schools are aging up • Growing the AVID program and culture improves the school • More literature and longer writing are getting infused into the English program • Increased emphasis on building a college-going culture and improved image of the school through better discipline

13. Goals 2008 - 2009 Student Success Goals 1) Increase API to at least 715 for in the spring of 2009. 2) Increase student attendance to 97%. 3) Increase the 10th grade CAHSEE pass rates to 85% in English and math. Program Goals • Partner with department leaders and RCOE to successfully implement our collaboration model. • 2) Improve the campus climate by: • -Firm, fair, and consistent enforcement of school and district student behavior policies; • -Designing and implementing a program which de-gums the campus and improves cleanliness; • -Strictly enforcing the new policy on public display of affection • 3) Implement a Focus Student program in which all certificated employees identify 5 focus students to follow for the year.

14. Implementation of PLC • LSHS staff approved weekly late starts last fall • AUSD supported LSHS with $38,000 for staff training and development through an RCOE team • Each department has met three times, developed its norms, and identified SMART goals for the year • SMART goals for departments must support one of the three identified school-wide Student Success Goals • This Thursday each department will report on its SMART goals in a whole-staff meeting

15. Assistance for EL’s and SWD’s La Sierra has over 800 English Learners and 212 students with disabilities For English learners we have: -Created a full-time teacher-coach -Put together a sheltered teachers working group -Invested in and begun using two laptop computer labs -Last spring a sheltered geometry class had the highest class average in the spring geometry benchmarks! For students with disabilities we have: -Struggled—quite honestly -Created a new resource center

16. Assessment Strategies • Some English teachers use the McDougal Little reading inventory; most do not • We lack a systemic reading assessment and are in the process of addressing this for all freshmen this year • Math and science teachers have common assessments for units and semesters • Social science teachers discuss assessments together but write their own using the publisher’s item bank • English teachers have developed some common assessments • Foreign language teachers have common assessments and have gone so far as to develop and score their own benchmarks

17. Interventions Available • Tutoring is available before and after school in all subjects • We have established student-led tutoring on Thursday mornings in our library—as promised • Selected students are being identified and pulled from SOAR for extra assistance during the school day in specific subjects • An Intervention Task Force meets regularly and is working to develop a more formal, explicit pyramid of interventions.

18. Special Programs • The Health Academy continues to be the strongest anywhere, placing seniors at Kaiser Hospital for two hours a day in their second semester • The Business Academy has recovered some enrollment, has new computers, and is desiring improved community connectedness • RCOE CTE offerings include fire science, sign language, business, culinary arts, retail merchandising, and health occupations • AUSD CTE classes are available in drafting, wood shop, and home economics

19. La Sierra’s Needs from AUSD • Continued support for PLC development • Fully fund AVID as an AUSD priority • Get us Revolution Prep or other effective online assistance for CAHSEE • Partner with us to implement READ180 by the start of the second semester • Commit to full acquisition and implementation of materials in the next English adoption

20. Rowing Our Boat in the Same Direction Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle