The mountain group did their ES meeting/Focus group meeting today - Tuesday.

As the secretary, I am e-mailing you our material that we developed.

The mountain group met on 2-23-04, Monday. Secretary: Joanne Gregg

We discussed:

1.Experiences we had getting accredited at other schools in different districts.

2.We then began to break up into groups and 'brainstorm' ideas for our assigned

WASC criteria.

3.Many innovative ideas came to the surface regarding our area of discussion --

C: Support for Student Personal and Academic Growth.

Our group joined point #8: All students receive appropriate support to help

ensure academic success, and point #9: Students have access to a system of

personal support services, activities and opportunities at the school and within

the community, together.

This created an all encompassing list of areas for consideration.

1.Individualized instruction

2.AESS services ˆ consisting of a weekly meeting with a credentialed teacher

familiar with their needs.

3.PLS Learning Styles Assessment web source

4.Educational web sites

5.Access to Edusoft tests, and standards

6.One on one tutoring as required

7.Special Education services

8.A wide variety of curriculum choices tailored to their individual abilities,

needs, and state standards

9.Star test scores and on the spot evaluation of basic abilities by use of the

WRAT test

thereby enabling curriculum to be selected specific to the child's needs and

abilities

10. Distance learning, videos, computers, tapes, and Cds

11. Parent website and support

12. Parent listserve

13. School newsletter

14. A wide range of service and product vendors, enabling the parent to meet

the individual needs of the student.

15. Group Educational activities

16. Contract Program Activities

17. Learning Center classes

18. Community college classes

19. Parent networking

20. Parent advisory board

21. Parent Education

22. Guidance counselor

23. Internet Service Provider available to families

24. Unit studies option

25. Learning center to give our school a „brick and mortar‰ feel

26. Generous Instructional funding and freedom of choice by the family

After compiling these numerous concepts about our school, we then embarked on

ideas on how to gather data to help us examine our school with respect to these

criteria statements. We all concluded that the best way to establish data

that can be analyzed would be to develop an ES survey that encouraged each ES to

consider the criteria with respect to each of their students. Useful data would

include:

1.Number of students receiving report cards ˆ giving a measurable way to

evaluate student progress

2.Number of students attempting and passing the CAHSEE test

3.Number of students attempting and their respective scores on the STAR test

4.Number of students taking advantage of a variety of vendors

5.Number of students participating in various classes offered at the Learning

Centers

6.Number of students using tutoring for special needs

7.Number of students using Contract Program Activities

8.Number of students using the AESS provision

9.Number of students using the GEA provision

10. Number of families and students willing to support the Learning center sites

11. The amount of support families/students voluntarily donated to support the

Learning Center sites

12. Number of students/families participating in the Listserve

13. Number of students participating in home study groups

14. Number of students participating in home play groups

15. Number of students signed up for Edusoft

16. The percent of Instructional Funding that is used for core subjects ˆ

reading, math, history, and science

17. Number of students that re-enroll for the next school year

18. Actual number of students that graduate from 12th grade (or 11th grade)

19. Number of students that continue on to higher education

20. Number of students that continue on to vocational training

21. The amount of longevity of students in our school, i.e. More that one year

22. The number of students that come to our school as a 'last chance' and graduate

Our group determined that the home groups could, at their meeting, develop

questions for the survey to measure the above data. We also determined that the

survey could be distributed to each ES through:

1. An All ES e-mail, or

2. A link on an ES meeting agenda

We also determined that each ES would review his current student list and fill

in the survey, one per each student, where the criteria and data applies.

We also determined that the survery should be of a format that requires

filling in bubbles, with no additional writing.