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1. What are you most proud of in your specific category? Why? I am proudest of our movement to make grades more equitable and accurate. Specifically, we are moving toward all teachers no longer giving 0% to students for missed assignments.

2. What needs to be fixed or continued to be worked on within your category? We have a long way to go to make our grading policies equitable and accurate. I'd like to see standard-based or skill-based grading in all English classes, in particular.

3. What interventions does your department offer to help students achieve content standards? (This can be academic or social-emotional) We are currently requiring English 9 and 10 students who are not at-grade-level readers to attend reading intervention during FLEX twice a week.

4. What common practices has your department established to ensure a common learning experience for all students.  (benchmarks, common essays, project, writing agreements, test retakes, etc.). All English teachers begin the school year with a common writing task (per grade level) which we assess with a common rubric.

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1. I'm proud of my Art Department's cohesion  and unity while helping students achieve School-wide Learner Outcomes. We meet every month to align our perspectives
2. The relationship between FUSD and FUDTA feels one-sided at times. It would be nice for the district to prioritize retaining teachers and communicating with the union.
3. In the Art Department we all use Google Classrooms to house lesson materials and quickly provide unique feedback to students.
4. Our department has standardized late work deadlines each quarter & we make agreements on department-wide practices together during regular meetings.

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1.  What are you most proud of in your specific category? Why? I am most proud of the Flextime interventions that allow for students to receive extra support in areas where they may need it.

2. What needs to be fixed or continued to be worked on within your category? I think that access to more Chromebooks would make it easier to give common assessments among same subject classes.

3. What interventions does your department offer to help students achieve content standards? (This can be academic or social-emotional) Extra help during Flextime is offered to students and some teachers allow test retakes.

4. What common practices has your department established to ensure a common learning experience for all students.  (benchmarks, common essays, project, writing agreements, test retakes, etc.)
The 10th grade benchmark project has proven to be a valuable learning experience for students.

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1. Washington has created a fully functional College and Career Center and  hired a College and Career Specialist.  The center is a  fully functional computer lab.  The specialist has set up a monthly schedule of events that appear on a calendar outside the lab, are in the bulletin and announced regularly to stakeholders.  The specialist is also very involved in class presentations, college Wednesday's, the AVID curriculum and other college prep activities with students, families, and staff.
2. The College and career center technology is outdated (there are plans to update the technology this spring)
3. The College and Career Specialist is highly qualified and experienced in college prep.  They are a former adult AVID tutor.
4. Assessment is not a standard practice for the College and Career Specialist. However data collection will show student next level enrollment/pathway selection.

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Broussard Group C.                             1. I'm most proud of the utilization of husky/flex for students who need it most. I am also proud of the diverse focus groups that students can be a part of. 

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Broussard Group C.                             1. I'm most proud of the utilization of husky/flex for students who need it most. I am also proud of the diverse focus groups that students can be a part of. 

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2. We need to work on improving better communication among staff in order to help students achieve success in their classes especially in the beginning of each semester.
3. The interventions my department offers include, extra time on tests and quizzes, preferential seating, allowing students to take tests in core support class, extra time on assignments.
4. Common practices in my department include collaborating with colleagues in order to help students achieve success in classes that they may be struggling with.

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1. We have excellent EI lessons for all students (created by a strong EI committee). I am honored to be nominated as a Husk-ei, thank you for the snacks!
2. We could create stronger relationships with students as well as parents.
3. The ELD teachers work on interventions for students in ELD classes.
4. The English department uses grade level assessments in the beginning of the year, as well as common rubrics for benchmark essays.

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1. SDC teachers have been consistently engaging students with direct instruction and challenging them to meet the standards associated with each subject. Flextime has been utilized to great effect and staff is engaging in interventions to support student behavior and learning outcomes.
2. I-Ready results have shown that students are way below grade level in reading. Adding supplementary curriculum or a program such as IXL ELA would help fill in the gaps in reading skills.
3. As is appropriate in the SDC setting, instruction tailored to meet the needs of each class where the goal is to challenge students in the ZPD. This manifests in a variety of ways including utilizing strategies from UDL and adapting the general curriculum for the SDC setting.
4. Contracts are offered to students who have fallen behind giving them an opportunity to catch up. Some teachers have replaced zeros in the gradebook with some other point value to help students catch up. Some teachers are collecting cell phones when students use the restroom to reduce distractions.

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1.  I'm proudest of the fact that we offer a wide range of activities and interventions to address the needs of our students from academics to artistic/cultural, to mental/emotional health.

2.  We can continue to build and improve the programs that exist and encourage more students to become involved and seek support.  More opportunities for student to directly engage with one another in discussions and activities would be an effective way to make a positive difference in their lives.

3.  Our department offers a variety of intervention activities and reviews students that aren't meeting benchmark standards.  Students can re-take assessments, performances and projects can be revised with support & direction.  For mental/emotional health we offer live performances (open mics, productions, concerts) and art gallery walks for students to participate in.

4. Our department uses similar self-assessment and peer assessment tools to provide opportunities for students to be self-reflective in their creative work and also assess the work of others in the class. In this way students are able to maximize their understanding of their art and how their work impacts others.

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1. I am most proud of the flextime interventions being offered. The interventions give students a straight forward path which makes it easy for them to find the help they need, whether it's reading, math, science, or whichever subject. It also allows clubs to meet and interact with their members and set up future goals.
2. Something that needs to be worked on is the overall use of Google classroom. I think having one app for kids to keep looking at will help students to be more consistent with their school work.
3. The math department has an after school intervention program that offers tutoring for students of all levels.
4. The math department offers test remakes, which helps students who might have had a bad few days and weren't ready for the initial test. We are also getting better at sharing common material and assessments.

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1.I am most proud of of the focus groups that Washington offers as they have shown to increase the feeling of belonging among the students.
2. I believe that if we were able to get access to more Chromebooks we would be able to more successfully integrate technology into the curriculum.
3. Our department allows students to make up assignments and tests. We allow students to come in during flex time or lunch for additional help when needed. This allows students to come in during the school day as opposed to after school.
4. The social science department has common projects that the Sophomores and Juniors do in collaboration with some of their teachers from other departments as well.

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1.  What are you most proud of in your specific category? I AM proud of the MMA art academy and  their effort to encourage risk taking and critical thinking though art based education.

2. What needs to be fixed or continued to be worked on within your category.

I think we as a staff need to  not only follow data from testing but here student feedback try and understand their emotion needs.

1. What interventions does your department offer to help students achieve content standards? (This can be academic or social-emotional)
All the art department is excellent at offering afterschool and husky period time for interventions and extra assistance.

2. What common practices has your department established to ensure a common learning experience for all students.  (benchmarks, common essays, project, writing agreements, test retakes, etc.)

A the art department we all teach different subject but we make efforts in making sure students are being introspection and critical thinking.

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Group A: Most proud: how we as a school work to create a warm, welcoming, challenging environment for every student.  We work to create support every student where they are at--there are writing centers, and math and science centers to assist with individual needs and there are interventions such as Reading Plus to assist students with their reading abilities.  Very happy we finally got the district to update its required literature for every grade level to include non-white, non-male authors in most grade levels, and to have texts which take on issues our students are concerned about.
2: We do not have the technology needed to really support using technology in the classroom.  1-1 computers for students would be such a help.  We need smaller class sizes in order to be able to support the individual more in the classroom and to reduce the feeling of overwhelm for both staff and students
3: English department has Reading Plus to assist with reading ability, and has been running interventions with those who need it most.  The writing center is in place after school twice a week to assist with writing needs.  ELD has use of IXL, iReady, and Lexia Powerup to assist with reading and comprehension skills.
4: English department requires specific lit to be read at specific grades, as well as specific types of writing to be taught. ELD has standards and measurements. Students take the ELPAC each year to assess. As well as iReady.

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1. We are working hard to provide support and additional services to our students (Writing Center, Math tutoring, Science tutoring). We continue to evaluate our students and their needs.
2. We need to continue to build our technology. All students (and teachers) need access.
3. The English department is currently providing intervention to 9th and 10th graders through the FLEX period. Students are utilizing the Reading Plus program to improve their skills.
4. The English department has a 10th grade benchmark project in connection with the Social Science department. An 11th grade TED talk project is in the works.

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1) What are you most proud of in your specific category? I am proud of PLC community where we together work and discuss the results of the assessments to learn from each other.
2) What things need to be fixed or continued to be worked on within your category? To improve students' performance we need to have or work on more resources that help students with different needs.
3) What interventions does your department offer to help students achieve content standards? Our department offers math help for all the students who need extra help outside their class. They get extra help before they re-take the tests at math center.
4) What common practices has your department established to ensure a common learning experience for all students? We discuss the curriculum to make sure we are on the same page in order to help students progress.

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Counselors reaching out to every sophomore and create a 4 year plan. We revisit the plan as Juniors. Being able to reach out to all students this way is very helpful as it initiates a conversation with students on creating and planning goals. I also like that we get to meet with all of them and get to know them a little better. We also recreated the sophomore career unit so that it is more interactive.

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1. We use common and effective assessments to evaluate student learning results.  We give students retake chances to bring up grades and keep them motivated.
2. Fine tune prerequisites for some courses.
3. Retakes and math center help.
4. Common quiz/test, same grade weights, retakes.

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I am proud of flextime and the number of different clubs.
We can have more electronics in the classroom.
We have Math center Wednesday and Thursday after school.
We have retakes on test.

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I’m most proud that we provide students with academic support/intervention during flextime
2. We need to continue to improve  on having standardized test to measure students progress
C. Special edu uses standardized testing to measure students’ academic performance
4. We need more evidence based intervention to support students academic needs

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1)  Science center - useful for students who do not have enough time during flex

2) Reaching more students

3) Retakes, flex offerings, science center

4) Aligned chemistry standards, common grading scales, test retakes for D/F

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Mrs. Vedula - Focus Group A - Vision & Purpose

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1.  What are you most proud of in your specific category? Why? (ex. Flextime Interventions, Multimedia Art Academy, Avid, etc.) I am most proud of the emotional intelligence trainings provided to both staff and students. I think this is such an important part to helping WHS establish a culture where everyone feels they belong and can contribute positively to the WHS community.

2. What needs to be fixed or continued to be worked on within your category. Technology needs to be updated regularly and also we need to add the number of chrome books that staff and students can access to help bring technology into the classroom.

3. What interventions does your department offer to help students achieve content standards? (This can be academic or social-emotional). The math department utilizes test retakes for all students in all classes who score below a certain percentage to help them learn the material and demonstrate understanding. There is also a math center that students can attend two times per week after school and once per week before school.

4. What common practices has your department established to ensure a common learning experience for all students.  (benchmarks, common essays, project, writing agreements, test retakes, etc.) The math department utilize common final exams between course alike classes.

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1. I am very proud of the Leadership team and their focused effort to help rebuild the Washington community after being away for 18 months. They are constantly looking for every student to feel like they belong to Washington High School to the point where school is a place every student wants to be as opposed to a place they just have to be.
2. The school culture is only as strong as the staff buy in, and if we can get the staff to be supportive of all programs on campus, our students will see that every program is wonderful and we would see a lot more participation than we already do.
3. FLEX time offerings for all students to make up quizzes/tests, ask follow up questions.
4. We have a writing agreement in terms of style and have all adopted the CLEAR paragraph model. The use of DBQs and FRQs is used throughout the department as well.

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1. I am most proud of the collaboration amongst departments, staff, and students. Washington continues to support students in various ways such as access to DECA and AVID. It is a community effort supporting students academically as well as providing real life connections through collaboration and standardized teaching. 2. We need more ways to incorporate better technology in every classroom. 3. SPED offers various modalities for students to access their core content. There is 1x1 assistance, small group sizes, revisions of essays and retaking of test until material and content are mastered. Student have opportunities to improve their grades which boost self-esteem. 4. Our department has a general outline of student expectations that we follow. We use benchmark assessments and test retakes as a common practice.

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1)I am proud of Math center for providing extra help to the student
2) Would like to support my students learning by using more technology to help them understand concepts better.
3) We have Math center on Wednesdays and Thursdays after school to provide extra help to the students.
4) We have common assessments

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1. I am most proud of Flextime Interventions. Students learned with extra support during flextime period in a small group and stay more focused.
2. Flextime should stay same at least three days a week, it's an effective way to support our students to their learning.
3. Our department offers various methods of raising grades, make up assignments and learning moreduring that time. In additon to it, our department offers counseling services with in a group and/or individually to support social/emotional issues of students.
4. Test retakes is the top common practice to ensure a common learning experience for all students.

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1) I'm most proud of how math and science departments each have a procedure for students to complete re-takes of exams. This allows students to demonstrate increased mastery of concepts, while enforcing rigor by requiring them to attend study sessions beforehand
2) We could improve on applying information about skill gaps to current learning. Testing may uncover common gaps, which teachers can then adjust lessons to address misunderstandings and similar shortfalls.
3) The Special Education department offers collaboration around students struggling across multiple classes. We offer each other support in reaching students during down time in each others' classes, and in pulling students into Flextime for content recovery.
4) The Special Education department has common expectations for student behavior. We often have Friday Quizzes, which are generally short and low-stakes. This allows for students to make up work in other classes, and/or have brief check-ins with their teachers and case managers.

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1. I am most proud of the EI curriculum that our school is implementing weekly. There is a tremendous need for EI instruction and support across campus and our weekly EI activities are targeting this need.
2.I think need to improve utilizing/organizing FLEX time to maximize student benefit.
3. SPED department offers individualized education plans to help students with special needs achieve the standards within their program.
4. Each sub department within SPED collaborates to establish their own common learning experiences for students (RSP, MM, MOD-SEV)

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I am most proud that the health education class builds knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about health and a positive introspective view of who they are and who they want to become in the future. The class motivates students to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease, and make better decisions in all areas of their life.
2. I would be interested in having more mental health support due to the increased mental health emergencies I am seeing in the classroom on a daily basis.
3. The most important aspect of intervention strategies in health class is a one-to-one conversation and support regarding the topics that are discussed in class.
4. The writing assignments have been the most effective part in making sure every single student has the experience needed for all of the most important aspects of health education and well-being.

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1. Embedding “office hours” into the school day is a move that acknowledges and alleviates any equity issues regarding student (and staff) scheduling. Often times, students have a multitude of obligations that exist outside of the school day that range from extracurricular, all the way to working to help with family finances. By incorporating office hours into the school day, we provide opportunities for students to engage with extra help, or with make up assignments that factor into the daily runnings of the day. 2. Regarding areas that need to be worked on, is certainly marketing and reaching to parents/guardians about the varying offerings we have on campus from tutoring to elective classes. Further to incorporate parents into varying activities ranging from fundraisers to participating in showcase/open house/back to school night. 3. Interventions for the English department range from flex offerings for reading plus/reading supports, writing center held after school, as well as ELPAC assessments for ELD students (from level 1 to being on the verge of reclassification) 4. Common practices include benchmark assessments such as the Human Atrocities project, the TED Talk, district benchmarks, and diagnostic writing assessments

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Counselors share materials and presentations that are given to all students in a grade level. Regular collaboration on developing our program.

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1. Things that I am proud of in Curriculum is the preparation we take as teachers to prepare students to be successful outside of high school through support and interventions. We provide them a safe learning environment with E.I. and using real world experiences, to connect what they are learning in class to what they may experience else where.
2. I would like to see more integration between different classes. For students to have more connections between courses.
3. My department allows for test retakes and we have the Science center that is a place for students to receive after school tutoring.
4. Common practices within the science department is allowing test retakes. A developed framework the teachers follow when developing their lesson plans using the 5 E practices.

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1. I am most proud of the EI Awards that the Emotional Intelligence Committee has created for both students and staff. Students and staff can nominate other students/staff members who display strong emotional intelligence skills and this allows for a stronger focus on building these skills and recognition for those who exhibit them.
2. I think we need to continue building on E.2 and developing a more trusting environment for all by continuing community circles or similar practices that allow students to open up and feel more comfortable with one another without judgment.
3. The English Department began offering Reading Plus Intervention every week for students who placed below grade level on their Reading Plus Assessment. This has helped students increase their reading comprehension, vocabulary, and reading pace.
4. We have CLEAR Paragraphs established school-wide so that students can have a common writing experience in all classrooms. We also have the Resilience Benchmark Project for Sophomores which includes the same assignments for all students, regardless of which English or History class they are in.

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1. I am most proud of our open enrollment policy for students taking AP classes. This allows more students the opportunity to challenge themselves and take courses they are more passionate about rather than staying on the course they were placed in.

2. The school can improve in providing more electronic resources in the classroom so that teachers have more access to different types of teaching resources such as SMART boards or classroom computers. Coming back from the pandemic we have learned that technology can really be a great tool when paired with good lesson planning.

3. The math department offers the math center where students can go to get help on their homework or get tutored by teachers and volunteers

4. Retakes are given to students who performed poorly on tests as well as contracts for students who wish to improve their grades

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Counselors meet with students who are having difficulties adjusting to the school routine again. It is an ongoing concern.

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4.  Common lab formats, agreements regarding which standards to cover

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4.  Common lab formats, agreements regarding which standards to cover

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1. I am most proud of the focus groups that we have on campus and the way that the advisors for each groups collaborate with each other.

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1. I am most proud of the focus groups that we have on campus and the way that the advisors for each groups collaborate with each other.

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2. Improvements can be made with communication and similar assessments.
3. Before and after school one on one interactions with students and reading plus.
4. Common assessments and writing prompts. Test retakes and common projects.

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1. I am proud of our DBQ curriculum - many teachers across departments teach students how to structure an argument around a set of sources.

2. To succeed at continuing our standards-based curriculum, we should continue to foster a collaborative culture in which teachers share their curriculum lessons with one another.

3. Our department regularly reviews a list of students who have Fs or Ds on their progress reports. Each teacher then follows up with those students and allows them to make up missing work.

4. Our sophomores all work on the Resilience Project to ensure department-wide focus on historical research skills.

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1. I am most proud of the Multimedia Art Academy. We offer solid support to at risk students while also engaging them with relevant career based curriculum. 2. Staff technology development, as highlighted over distance learning, needs to be improved. 3. The Multimedia Art Academy hosts a weekly intervention for students that have at-risk grades. The English depart hosts a bi-weekly reading plus intervention for students with low reading scores. 4. Our department has common benchmarks (10th grade resilience and 12th grade senior project.

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1. Most proud of: The 10th grade benchmark, while subject matter is tough, it does allow students to learn about other parts of the world that we maybe don’t get to in our world history course, but also allows students to see the change and continuity on a global scale when it comes to human rights and allow them to reflect upon them, and in the process of learning and building research and writing skills also helps build empathy within our student body. Also proud of the EI committee, and educating students on the 5 components of EI, and the Monday lessons that allows them to reflect on times in their lives when they have demonstrated the components.

2. Still needs improvement: FLEX time and getting students to maximize its purpose across the whole campus. Because our EI lessons are still new, that is still an area of growth for us, but we are definitely moving in the right direction.

3. Dept interventions: quiz retakes during FLEX. Some teachers offer contracts to students who have fallen below 60% to help them get back up above it.

4. Common practices: 10th grade resilience project. Grades 10-12 complete multiple DBQs a semester.

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1. I am most proud of Washington's push towards strengthening Emotional Intelligence in both staff and students. We have prepared lessons during Husky period, we have introduced community building circles throughout campus, and the quarterly EI award to "catch" students who demonstrate high EI or who have built up their EI through the year!
2. Community building still needs to be strengthened. Coming from a distance learning year our students are still carrying trauma and some have a resistance to building connections with peers and adults.
3. FLEXtime offerings/help, the fine arts department has a very generous late policy with no deductions to help students prioritize without being penalized, and the arts create a welcoming, safe space to build adult/student communication which is used to scaffold Emotional Intelligence.
4. The fine arts department aligns curriculum within similar subjects (ex. Art 1), we have chosen the same national standards to focus on each year within the entire department, and we are currently working on aligning all of our grading/late work/ re testing guidelines to ensure a fair yet rigorous arts experience throughout the school.

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1.  Science center - centralized area for student help.
2.  Differentiation of honors levels versus college prep standards.
3.  Science center - centralized area for student help and retaking assessments.
4.  Chemistry teachers have developed a framework of topics to be taught at the college prep level for the year.

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1-I am proud that this is our school! I Focus Groups have time to meet during Flextime, and Flextime is also great for interventions.
2-I would like to see more offerings that are given all quarter, so if a person wants to attend a Yoga offering, and they miss out on going, they should be able to sign up for it the following week. But if its an offering, like teaching an intro to French or basket weaving, they could sign up for the classes at the beginning of the quarter and it will restart again the following quarter...
This would be a great way for students to learn about Electives such as Ethnic Studies which may inspire someone to sign up to take the class.
3-We have World Language Tutoring during flextime and after school World Language tutoring, when students cannot attend our flextime tutoring because they are being asked to join other teacher's interventions on Thursdays.
4-In the past our Dept. has done common formative assessments and we join up within the same language levels to do project based learning assessments together.

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1. As evidenced by class syllabi, we are delivering a strong, rigorous academic framework, however we are also striving for inclusivity and representation of our extremely diverse student body.
2. Staff does a great job of collaborating informally but a more structured and robust system for collaboration would be helpful.
3. The English department is implementing reading plus to target students who are below grade level in their reading skills.
4. The English department has common texts used across grade levels and common essays as well.

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1. I am most proud of our work with emotional intelligence. We are working really hard to improve the EQ of every student on campus. We use Husky period as a time to teach students and we even have EI awards ceremonies every month to celebrate students and staff who are demonstrating the most recently discussed EI theme.
2. I think we need to improve on our fluency with using Infinite campus to communicate with  parents. There's still a learning curve with our parents, students, and teachers between using gmail and IC as a communication tool.
3. Our department has a science center after school several days a week for students to get help in science after school. This is also a time when they can re-take tests/quizzes if needed.
4. As a staff we have the CLEAR paragraph structure that we use to make sure when doing lab reports and argumentative writing that we can all be using the same terminology.

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Counselors meet with students who are struggling and develop strategies to apply to their academics.

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1.)  I am most proud of the Math Center allowing the student's to get extra help, go back over old material to be able to retake tests to show that they learned the material.

2.)  I feel that we need time to be able to look at the data from the common Final for example. What questions are being missed more often and why? Change teaching, go more in depth, reword question etc. Currently, there is no time in the year to do this.

3.) Math Departments interventions
Math Center and  test retakes

4.) Common subject Finals, Test retakes, District Benchmarks

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1. In Category E, I would have to say that I am most proud of how WHS handles students of concern. We have a great flow chart that starts students off with a COST referral, and that referral really allows teachers to identify students of concern no matter the concern or amount of contact/communication we've have with the student about that particular issue. I have been able to identify a number of students over the years that have turned out to have thoughts of suicide, showed self-harm, and even students that needed to be reclassified from GenEd to SPED for one reason or another.
2. I would say that we could really make a focus on adding to the professionalism of our students within our classrooms. Taking pride in doing good work and handling yourself in a appropriate and professional manner shouldn't be mocked or thought of as uncool, it should give a sense of pride. We could really stand to build a culture where all staff members encourage and reward professional attitudes and acts of professionalism on part of our students. This would also aid in the classroom management issues we so often struggle with.
3. We offer FlexTime and after school tutoring for students. We also offer test corrections and project makeups so that students can sit down with approved tutors to better understand where they went wrong and correct their work and lift their grade.
4. As a department, we have created and shared similar/common projects and exercises over the years. We offer test retakes and a comprehensive tutoring program organized by level (1-4). We make sure to refer to activities and terminology that other teachers use to refer to topics so that students who've experienced those teachers can best locate themselves within a certain topic/concept to best understand it.

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1. I'm most proud of the Multimedia Art Academy. I think we are providing a rich CTE experience within the academy as well as building a solid and supportive community over the course of the 3 years of the program. The Arts, Media and Entertainment sector is one of the fastest growing employment sectors in California, and the academy provides an entryway into careers in that sector.
2. I think we need to do a better job of getting the word out about the art academy.
3. the MMAA is currently offering a weekly flex time intervention for 10th grade students with low grades in any of their classes (either MMAA classes on non academy classes)
4) Each year the Fine Arts department chooses common standards and assessment practices to focus on for the year

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1. I am most proud of our Wellness Center and COST team that creates a safe space for students on campus and helps connect students with resources.
2. Within this category we need to improve getting the word out about the resources available on campus to all stakeholders and have space staffed by different school members to create further connection and provide students with more staff contact.
3. Our department provides COST, SSTs, one on one meetings, and classroom presentations to ensure students can access academic, and social emotional services.
4. Grade level presentations, grade level meetings, and resources available in offices for all grades.

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3. What interventions does your department offer to help students achieve content standards? (This can be academic or social-emotional)
MMAA provides Flextime interventions (esp in 10th grade). Art teachers provide opportunity for projects to be remade, revised and improved upon to build mastery and confidence.

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1. I am most proud of the collaboration of staff and students as well as the diversity of our community. Teachers have been covering each other with all shortages given the circumstances. Students have been so positive with the clubs, inclusion, and school community. 2. Building on the community and collaboration culture is amazing. If staff and students continue to work together, I believe it shows the WHS community to work and communicate well as a whole. 3. Our SPED department offers time for test retakes, social emotional time outs, counseling, and social activities for SPED and GE students. 4. Our department offers projects, peer resource activities, and inclusion awareness.

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Sara Moshirvaziri
We’re doing Spanish tutoring on Thursdays or during Flex time so we’re really working towards students reaching their goal.

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Focus group B:  Most proud of achieving shared standards and approaches and applying interventions for math students.  Re-takes and other interventions have improved student morale around their math experiences.  Allowing for credit recovery, applying rigorous standards fairly, and using interventions consciously has improved student morale around math and testing.  It has also promoted a growth mindset, which allows for errors, and the ability to learn from errors and improve understanding.  Feelings of defeat and hopelessness have decreased dramatically with these interventions, standards and approaches.  ---Mr. Hess

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Focus group B:  Most proud of achieving shared standards and approaches and applying interventions for math students.  Re-takes and other interventions have improved student morale around their math experiences.  Allowing for credit recovery, applying rigorous standards fairly, and using interventions consciously has improved student morale around math and testing.  It has also promoted a growth mindset, which allows for errors, and the ability to learn from errors and improve understanding.  Feelings of defeat and hopelessness have decreased dramatically with these interventions, standards and approaches.  ---Mr. Hess

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Many opportunities for learning on campus outside of the classroom

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Most proud of helping students to learn a method for solving problems in chemistry and physics.  This will be very valuable skill going into college. Also proud of helping students experience real physical phenomena through demonstrations and labs. I hope they come to like and respect science.

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Most proud of helping students to learn a method for solving problems in chemistry and physics.  This will be very valuable skill going into college. Also proud of helping students experience real physical phenomena through demonstrations and labs. I hope they come to like and respect science.

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Drage - Group D

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The support programs for student achievement

Fixed-report looks ok to me

Science offers scirnce center

Department has similar standards and some common labs

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1) I am most proud of the work done within individual classroom in regards to EI. Whether the students like it or not I have noticed an observable uptick in the students ability to communicate and use language that shows knowledge of their own emotions which leads to an overall in crease in school culture.
2) I think Washington needs to work on integration across socioeconomic lines. Students with different backgrounds have completely different school experiences.
3) Our department currently offers science centers to help students focus on growth mindset.
4)Our department has a uniform lab rubric to help students come away with common 5E practices.

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2. What needs to be fixed or continued to be worked on within your category?
Time for meaningful student feedback and PD around collaboration and revision.

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Probably do more intervention and push more for language learning and inspire students to take Spanish not for UCs but as a life skill.

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1. I am proud of how students and staff use FLEX time for interventions, to receive help, and to build academic responsibility and relationships. It has also given me the opportunity to work with small groups of students regularly.
2. Because of a change in core novels in ELA, working with other grade-level teachers to develop compelling curriculum for the new novels.
3.  In ELD, using standards-based grading and allowing students time to retake and improve their English skills has been important for all ELD teachers. We have been working on correctly placing students and developing supports if students are struggling. Also, connecting students with counseling and finding opportunities for them to work in small groups with each other and teachers has been important this year.
4. In ELD, we give common assessments to ELD 1, 2, and 3 students to check their understanding and create a baseline at each level. We have developed ELPAC practice to support students in their language testing.

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1. I am most proud of the efforts that we are attempting to put forward to try and allow for equitable and more rigorous assessment across departments and campus. There has been an effort put forward in the last few years for there to be more common assessments, whether informal or formal, as well as data analysis to see how to better serve students on campus.

2. I think the next step for our category of assessment and accountability is the follow through piece. I think there has be a strong start of similar assessments created, but the back end of looking at the results and making decisions regarding grading, accessibility, and reteaching continues to be an area of growth.

3. SPED offers many different opportunities for reteaching, slower pace, one on one opportunies for learning, retaking, and small group learning in order to improve student's ability to reach content standards. For my role as a Resource teacher specifically, it's a lot of communication between myself and the general education teachers to see what they student needs to be working on and how I can reteach that information in my classroom.

4. Our department is unique in that we have subdepartments within it. The resource team in general has a general outline provided to us from the district in relation to overall expectations for our students, and we have not yet created a shared expectation for all the classes on campus regarding student access and success.

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1) Most Proud of CLEAR Paragraph created by the Writing Task Force and used in all departments.
2) There can be some communication improvements.  The current pandemic has made it hard to coordinate or feel connected to other staff members.
3) The department offers various methods of improving one's grade, but the most common has to be the ability to retake tests.
4) Shared among our department is retake tests and CLEAR paragraph.

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I’m most proud of the progress the students made through all level of Spanish. Once they get to AP Spanish they are prepared more and more each year.

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1. Most proud of The Hatchet for posting so much content and interacting with students/staff/parents/the community. 2. Online material/info about the school should be easier to access/view for parents. 3. Reading Plus Intervention for struggling readers through Flextime. 4. Resiliency Project 10th grade benchmark. -Jacob Mogey

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1. Most proud of The Hatchet for posting so much content and interacting with students/staff/parents/the community. 2. Online material/info about the school should be easier to access/view for parents. 3. Reading Plus Intervention for struggling readers through Flextime. 4. Resiliency Project 10th grade benchmark. -Jacob Mogey

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Group D   3.  We have a science center Mondays and Thursdays after school for students to get additional help or to take makeup assessments.  

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Group D   3.  We have a science center Mondays and Thursdays after school for students to get additional help or to take makeup assessments.  

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1. What are you most proud of in your specific category? Why? (ex. Flextime Interventions, Multimedia Art Academy, Avid, etc.)
I am most proud of MMA Academy - we build community and encourage safe risk-taking and critical thinking through art and student cohorts that support each other over 3 years and 3 classes each year. Projects, collaboration, ART!

I also am proud of my Dept. and our self-examination, inventiveness, mutual professional support, similar assessment standards and commitment to student reflection and feedback cycles.

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WASC Report Summary C - If possible your responses should be more personal and reflective of your role as a Husky.

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WASC Report Summary C - If possible your responses should be more personal and reflective of your role as a Husky.

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Areas of Strength:
● Washington continues to focus on embracing diversity both inside and outside the
classroom. Staff and student committees have been formed to provide resources to all
with the intent of providing the Husky population with information and education in
human demographics including acceptable and unacceptable approaches within a
widely diverse society.
● Washington, as a collective staff, continues to expand its collaborative efforts in
planning, instruction, and assessment. Many departments collaborate within themselves
and with other departments in creating student projects in an effort to make learning
‘real’. This allows students to apply learned information to life beyond high school
● Many strategies were being implemented and utilized prior to COVID and continued
virtually. These enhanced strategies have continued back into live instruction.
Washington’s approach and acceptance of using these strategies illustrates open
mindedness on behalf of staff to improving technological resources and trying new
approaches to educating our students.
● Washington, at the direction of the district, continues to implement new and improved
technological resources to allow for better communication between all stakeholders.
Assignments, grades, email, and other communicative channels are used by all faculty.

Areas of Growth:
● Washington has created student and faculty driven groups to address student and family
perceptions of the Washington school community. The need to continue to grow and
apply learned information is noted and a continuous improvement process.
● Washington will continue to cultivate connections within the community and industry to
create ‘live’ class projects that allow students to apply learned material in real world
situations. Washington recognizes that success is not only gauged through standardized
assessment, but even more so in how students are able to apply learned knowledge and
skills as they grow and advance beyond high school.
● Washington has been able to document and facilitate intra-curricular and
cross-curricular projects. This development and implementation is ongoing.
● There is a need to develop an ongoing staff development plan in technology and
technological resources. Virtual learning highlighted this need and it is being addressed
at both the site and district levels.

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Dr. Burns  - Focus Group C - Instruction

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Dr. Burns  - Focus Group C - Instruction

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1. I am most proud how we have continued to expand the way in which we collaborate within subjects and across subjects.  Washington has made many advances in how students are learning more than just academics but also real world applications.  Washington's CTE, Business, AVID and other special programs make a conscious effort to create both academic and real world connections through standardized teaching, project based learning, collaborating with core departments, and service learning.
2. Teaching and learning model continuous improvement.  There are always areas of growth.  A noted area of growth would be our ability to record, disaggregate, and analyze data in a way that the data shows more than just score performance; a way to show the whole student through a data lens.  And then using this data to help shape instruction strategies.  We also need to ensure teachers and stakeholders understand that data is more than just numbers collected to fulfill a task, but that we use the data to draw conclusions and to help plan better ways of meeting student needs.
3. Business/CTE/AVID offer a multitude of interventions from customary 504 and IEP interventions to project and assignment modifications.  Most all classes are project based to incorporate real world learning.
4. Common practices - industry certification alignment - project alignment - DECA membership and projects - Perkins V alignment.

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1) I am most proud of DECA and the Business Pathways!  DECA has grown a lot in the last ten years, and has become an integral part on campus.  Both as a co-curricular (CTSO) and as a part of instruction (being integrated in the Business pathways and CTE courses).  We have achieved feats we never thought possible, including winning two International Titles and electing four state officers!  The fact we have garnered support from the Mayor Lily Mei, Councilwoman Teresa Keng, Councilwoman Teresa Cox and Councilwoman Jenny Kassen is all the more amazing!
2) I think we can improve on more implementation of technology on our campus.  With so many amazing resources out there with SMART boards and advanced calculators we can engage and dazzle our students with so much more!  (if we have the funding)
3) Math has the Math Center that provides a lot of extra help.  Business allows flexibility for students to reach certifications
4) Math has common benchmark assessments and departments collaborate on formative assessments. Business also provide common certifications and the teachers collaborate on curriculm.

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1. I am most proud of the number of active clubs on campus. 40 + (!) This shows dedication from our staff to help support students.
2. I think we could improve upon "E2.3. Atmosphere of Trust" on campus between student and staff. Really making circles a focus (?)
3. MMA has an intervention for students who have a D or F in one of their four core classes.
4. Resiliency Project for Sophomores, Junior US History research paper.