ARISE High School - Granicus

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The staff will meet three times a week for a total of five hours with one of those hours
specifically devoted to "student study" meetings. At these weekly meetings, teachers
will look at individual students' progress and discuss specific student needs,
challenges and strategies for moving the students forward on all fronts: passing
individual classes, improving skills, scoring higher on state tests, successfully
completing graduation requirements, etc.
PLAN FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE ACADEMICALLY HIGH ACHIEVING
ARISE will offer a highly personalized learning environment for all of its students,
including those who are academically high achieving. With the school's focus on
student-centered projects, differentiated instruction, internships, and other out-ofschool
opportunities, every young person will be challenged and stretched
appropriately. On the classroom level, for example, a student who comes to the school
as a high achiever, will be encouraged to choose a more sophisticated text for a
literature circle in his or her humanities class. This same student might pursue a highlevel
internship that demands sophisticated math, science or communication skills and
take a class at Mills College.
These students will be identified in the same way as the "academically low achieving"
students. With ARISE High School's highly personalized approach, our advisory
structure, and regular student study team meetings, data will be collected and
analyzed regularly with a lens towards determining how to best serve the needs of the
individual student. State test and grade data will be examined for incoming students
(based on their previous records) and supplemented once their careers at ARISE High
School begin with updated test and grade data along with other classroom and schoolbased
assessments.
It is the goal of ARISE High School that ultimately all of our students will become "high
achievers" and students will be provided the necessary support for this to happen.
PLAN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS
ARISE High School will identify English Learners through the home language survey
and the student cumulative files. Identified English learners will take the California
English Language Development Test (CELDT) to determine their levels of proficiency
in the English language. The test, as well as the school's own local assessments will
help to determine the personalized educational plan best suited to each individual
student.
As with all of the other sub-groupings of students, the school's English learners will
also benefit from the highly personalized approach of ARISE High School by having
an advisor and other teachers who serve limited numbers of students and are thus
better able to respond to individual needs, offer extra attention and support. While
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ARISE High School
Charter Petition Submitted to the Oakland Unified School District
July 18, 2006