La Sierra High School

• 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

Accountability Plan 2008 - 2009

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

API Growth

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AYP Levels: English

AYP Levels: Math

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%)

Percent of Students in ELA Quintiles

Percent of Students in Math Quintiles

Algebra 1 Geometry Algebra 2

2009 759 758 576

2008 739 821 429

2007 1030 707 503

2006 1075 678 413

CAHSEE Pass Rates

CAHSEE 10th Grade English Pass Rate

All Hispanics Whites Asian African American

EL’s SED SWD

2008 77% 72% 86% 93% 83% 47% 69% 27%

2007 81% 78% 85% 89% 81% 54% 75% 28%

2006 80% 74% 90% 89% 78% 60% 73% 26%

CAHSEE 10th Grade Math Pass Rate

All Hispanics Whites Asian African American

EL’s SED SWD

2008 74% 69% 82% 96% 67% 54% 68% 24%

2007 79% 75% 85% 93% 76% 59% 73% 19%

2006 80% 76% 89% 91% 65% 65% 73% 24%

CST Scores: Sciences

2005 2006 2007 2008

N= 606 707 699 652

Scale 320.1 323.4 319.6 329

Adv. 3% 7% 4% 8%

Prof. 17% 18% 19% 26%

Biology 9th

2005 2006 2007 2008

N= 289 265 222 189

Scale 315.9 314.3 315.1 312.8

Adv. 1% 1% 2% 3%

Prof. 13% 17% 15% 17%

2005 2006 2007 2008

N= 113 140 205 214

Scale 327.8 333.2 328 333.1

Adv. 4% 2% 4% 5%

Prof. 18% 25% 18% 23%

2005 2006 2007 2008

N= 240 237 235 271

Scale 313.5 307.2 316.6 304.5

Adv. 1% 0% 3% 1%

Prof. 11% 4% 8% 6%

Biology 10th Chemistry 11th

Chemistry 10th

CST Scores: Social Sciences

2005 2006 2007 2008

N= 614 720 751 812

Scale 323.4 323.4 319.4 312.6

Adv. 8% 19% 9% 8%

Prof. 21% 18% 14% 17%

2005 2006 2007 2008

N= 690 636 712 717

Scale 334 330.4 323.4 327.1

Adv. 12% 11% 10% 13%

Prof. 27% 23% 20% 22%

World History

U.S. History

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

Goals 2008 - 2009

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.

Student Success Goals

Program Goals

1) 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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