Bay Area

Notes for Accreditation Meeting March, 2004
 
 
At our second focus group meeting, we began by reviewing the guidelines for expected schoolwide learning results in order to use them as a point of reference.
 
We then looked at the assessment scores we had printed out and noticed immediately that many of our students were falling below basic and far below basic on writing skills.  There were other academic areas where this was true, but we thought that the writing skills and reading skills generally probably have a ripple effect on scores in other areas.
 
We thought it would be interesting and worthwhile to see the statewide and district results in these same areas.  We would like access to these scores if possible in order to do a comparison and see whether these patterns are only holding true for our students, or if what we are seeing is a reflection of what is also going on in the student population outside of our particular school.
 
We all agreed that we would like to focus on Language Arts, and in particular on writing both in this area and across the curriculum.