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Palo Alto High School

WASC / SPSA Annual Update to BOE Jan 26, 2016

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Dreaming BIG

We support all PALY students as they prepare to thrive as global citizens in a rapidly changing world. We develop our students’ knowledge, critical thinking, and problem solving skills and nurture their curiosity, creativity, and resilience, empowering every child to reach his or her full intellectual, social, and creative potential.

GOAL 1: Systems Alignment

Systems alignment for greater consistency around learning

• utcomes to reduce undue stress
• Strategy 1: Aligning Student Learning Outcomes
• Strategy 2: Data: Creating and Leading Cultures of

Inquiry

GOAL 1: Systems Alignment

Progress on Strategy 1: Aligning Student Learning Outcomes

• Essential Learning Outcomes identified in each course by June 2016
• Release days provided for this work (thank you Site Council!)
• Many courses on track to complete common syllabi by June 2016
• Discussions and agreement on best practices around homework, grading,

and creating common assessments (both summative and formative)

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Professional Learning Communities “PLC’s”

GOAL 1: Systems Alignment

Progress on Strategy 2: Data: Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

• All teachers use Schoology to post homework and assignments
• Regular attendance taken through Infinite Campus
• End of Course survey successfully administered
• California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) and Challenge Success (CS) Survey

administered Fall 2015

• “SART - School Attendance Review Team” established

GOAL 2: Instructional Practice

Research-based instructional practices that increase student engagement for ALL students Strategy #1: Ongoing Professional Learning (PL) “Paly as a Learning System”

GOAL 2: Instructional Practice

Progress on Strategy 1:

• Began journey to becoming a PLC school
• Groundwork for RtI (Response to Intervention) started (COST, Tier 1

universal design and access)

• Focus on increasing student engagement through professional learning
• Parent communication and outreach expanded

“Creating a collaborative culture is the single most important factor for successful school improvement initiatives and the first order of business for those seeking to enhance the effectiveness of their schools.” —Eastwood & Lewis, “Restructuring That Lasts: Managing

the Performance Dip,” Journal of School Leadership (2002)

GOAL 2: Instructional Practice

• Marcia Tate - “Worksheets don’t grow dendrites”
• Learning Strands
• October 9th - Moonshots in Education
• “Tech Tuesday”

Welcome to Paly’s First Demo Slam!!!

Matt Hall-Kahoot.it Game based formative assessment Michelle Steingart-Chrome: Ad Block extension! George Vuong-Screencasts:Instructional Video Lessons Paul Hoeprich-Keepvid.com Saving and editing YouTube Videos Kevin Duffy-Annotate pictures and visuals with ThingLink Mona Siegel-Quiver (Augmented reality coloring) Liz Brimhall-Using Nearpod for Interactive Lectures

VOTING WILL OPEN AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE DEMO SLAM (See the link in the email I sent earlier today)

GOAL 3: Innovative School Culture

Innovative school culture promoting global competencies, creativity and empathy

• Strategy #1: A Shared Vision for Our Future
• Strategy #2: Global Competencies and Increasing

Student “Choice and Voice”

GOAL 3: Innovative School Culture

Progress on Strategy #1: A Shared Vision for Our Future

• What kind of school do we want for our students and staff in 2020-2021?

What is our “North Star?” More to come!

• Challenge Success partnership and CS team expansion continues
• Pathway development continues
• Design thinking in classrooms

Challenge Success

Creating an Innovative Culture

Sources of Strength

Future Ready

GOAL 3: Innovative School Culture

Progress on Strategy #2: Global Competencies and Increasing Student “Choice and Voice”

• Advanced Authentic Research program implemented
• Tutorial becomes “flex time”
• Parent education “parents as learning partners” expanded
• Technology integration and blended learning to personalize learning
• Pathways in STEM developing to increase participation

Flex time

WASC Growth Targets

• By 2018, we will lower school-related stress levels which students report

feeling as measured on the Challenge Success (CS) survey

• By 2018, student, teacher, parent perception data will improve as

measured by the CS survey, Source of Strength survey, and CHKS survey

• By 2018, we will be better aligned in homework, assessment, grading, as

reported on the Hanover Survey and Challenge Success survey.

WASC Growth Targets

• By 2018, we will increase by 25% the number of African American and Latino

students taking AP and Honors courses

• By 2018, we will reduce our truancy rate by 50%
• By 2018, we will reduce our number of students who do not graduate by 50%
• By 2018, we will reduce the number of students not enrolling in college by 33%
• By 2018, we will reduce the overall ratio of students who are not “a-g” eligible in

all categories by 33%

Palo Alto High School

We want most of all to create a culture of care at our school that will improve teaching and learning for ALL

• students. In the words of English teacher Lucy Filppu, “Our

hope for the future is that all learners will thrive and kindness will prevail.”