Replicable Practices

• Decision-making is based on striving toward the goal of providing every single student with highly rigorous and relevant academic instruction every minute of every school day.

• The school is an AVID Academy and AVID-trained staff use AVID strategies school wide that include the Critical Reading Strategy and Cornell note-taking.

• AVID elective classes participate in tutorials two days per week, bringing questions from any class and having peers help discover misconceptions to further understanding.

• Teachers use critical thinking and link learning to real-world applications, a crucial role of every lesson and students do this by engaging in scenarios/situations to simulate real world experiences and how

• they might apply this knowledge.

• In PLC’s, teachers create assessments, and then create lessons that will allow students to be successful in those assessments.

• In student-led conferences, students walk their parents through their assessment data, examples of their work, examples of needed improvement, and lastly their goals.

• Project-based learning, the inquiry process, and integrated units of study are the outcome of blocking core subjects.

• Teachers use common prep periods to plan instruction, analyze data, and other instructional activity.

• A campus peer mentor is responsible for building relationships and providing guidance to students.

• Teachers actively provide opportunities for students to reflect and set future goals, which equip them to lead their parent conferences twice a year.

• As a result of housing a community collaborative and a counseling center as well as partnering with local service programs, the school offers family counseling, case management, and other services.

• The school hosts parting workshops that are developed in conjunction with the Parent Center.

• Students in leadership elective work towards running Renaissance Rallies, record and broadcast the “Daily News,” and help keep the campus a well-functioningplace.