WVUSD: 2016/2017 Year-End Results
Area of Focus # 1: Student Achievement
Goal:
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Prepare all students with a rigorous, engaging, and comprehensive K-12
instructional program to meet the high expectations of College and Career
Readiness and empower students to become contributing global citizens.
Objectives:
• Implement and refine rigorous instructional systems using California State Standards,
assessments, research-based instructional practices, and technology that prepare
students to be College and Career Ready
• Close the Achievement Gap among subgroups, including groups such as English
Language Learners, students with special needs, and low socio-economic students; and
will include opening access for historically underrepresented students to take upper-
level, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate courses by providing
Academic Language Development within the contexts of English Language Arts (ELA)
instruction and a Districtwide focus on articulated writing processes
• Deliver collaboratively-developed Curriculum and Instruction in all classrooms and
measure its impact on student progress by using data from tools well-aligned with
current and future accountability requirements to adjust instruction, provide
interventions, and offer enrichment such as Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts,
and Math (STEAM) focused programs
• Develop the Whole Child guided by our Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP)
and by providing learning opportunities in core and elective academics, character
development, visual and performing arts, health and fitness, Career and Technical
Education programs, Social and Emotional Learning, Online Learning, and other co-
curricular activities
• Provide Professional Development opportunities for all staff focusing on California
State Standards, (Math, English Language Arts, English Language Development
Standards, and Next Generation Science Standards), future standards (Social Science),
instructional practices, best practices for divergent learners (including students with
special needs), character development, diversity, technology, and assessments;
feedback from stakeholders will guide District actions through the use of survey methods
• Showcase Awards and Refine/Expand Existing Programs, plus Explore Future
Programs that will provide students with the 21 st Century skills needed for them to be
College and Career Ready and to become contributing global citizens [including, but not
limited to, the expansion and further development of the Project Lead the Way (PLTW)
program, Dual Language Immersion (DLI), and College and Career Pathway
development, etc.]
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