Replicable Practices

• Instructional strategies such as levels of questioning, performance tasks, lab practicums, claim-evidence-reasoning, and paragraph frames are consistently used schoolwide.

• King provides multiple opportunities for students to master the curriculum such as daily after school tutoring, re-teaching, scaffolding, intersessions, individual monitoring plans, and support classes in English and math.

• All students maintain an AVID binder monitored by their advisory teacher and reviewed in once weekly advisory class.

• Counselors provide for student’s social-emotional needs by offering workshops on anti-bullying, sexual harassment, social skills development, and restorative justice practices.

• Teachers at King collaborate and calibrate best practices through lesson study, instructional rounds, department and team planning days, and team meetings.

• The school focuses on best practices for ELD pedagogy, including reading for comprehension, collaborative conversations with roles and sentence stems, and vocabulary development as well as AVID strategies.

• New teachers are given one full week of on-boarding, as well as support and mentoring throughout the school year.