WVUSD: 2019/2020 Year-End Results
College and Career Ready
School closures, resulting from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, marked the need
for teachers to increase their knowledge of Educational Technology and Distance Learning, and
they rose to the challenge! Beginning with a Saturday, March 14, 2020, planning session that
included over 70 teachers, grade level counselors, elementary learning specialists,
administrators, and classified staff, WVUSD developed a template for online resources across
all grade levels that would support students with Phase 1: Enrichment Resources. Students
and their parents accessed online resources through the website http://LEARN.wvusd.org. This
enrichment lasted for a four week period … leading up to our Spring Break.
During the four-week enrichment period, over 125 teachers, plus administrators, elementary
learning specialists, instructional deans, instructional technology coaches, and many other
support staff members developed Phase 2: Distance Learning, which began for all students on
Monday, April 20, 2020. This was an unprecedented departure from normal schooling and
WVUSD quickly transitioned to a new environment using online tools (with ongoing development
of the http://LEARN.wvusd.org website) and platforms (such as Google Classroom) to continue
student learning through the end of the 2019/2020 school year. The collaborative endeavor to
create Phase 2: Distance Learning took into consideration the well-being of every student. The
plan emphasized relationship before rigor, grace before grading, patience before programs, and
connections before lessons.
Prior to this historic change, a great amount of work took place at each school site and the
District Office to continue supporting WVUSD’s commitment to serve, Every Student, Every Day.
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways continued to assist students in discovering
and pursuing their passions. The number of course articulations with Mt. SAC increased with
the addition of Engineering & Theater Production. Students with special needs successfully
accessed CTE courses at both high schools. The number of students with special needs who
apply and are admitted to community and four-year colleges continues to rise.
Use of the iReady program, an interactive online learning environment, at the elementary level
provided additional differentiated instruction for students in math and reading. The program is
designed to assess students and then provide individualized instruction.
Use of digital online resources such as Illuminate (K-12), ALEKs (secondary math), Benchmark
Universe (K-5 ELA), Discovery Ed (K-12), Imagine Learning (ELL), and Think Central (K-5 math)
continue to provide additional instruction and assessment for students in math, reading, and
content areas such as social studies and science. The digital online resources provide teachers
tools for differentiation and pathways for students to access learning through different modes.
Data analysis continued to impact teaching and learning this year. Use of the California
Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Interim Assessments provided
teachers with valuable information regarding student progress toward mastery of standards.
Other types of formative assessments, such as common assessments, were also used by
teachers to make instructional decisions.
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