Verdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 1

Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reportproduction.2. Monitoring - How effective are academic support programs to ensurestudents are meeting all requirements, including the CAHSEE?All SLCs, including the Magnet, adjourn for a day to meet with students on aone-on-one basis. Students are asked to review their grades in classes aswell as their performance on the CSTs. Teachers and students discuss testtakingskills, and any other issues that the student is having academically.Students are asked to set a goal for the CSTs. Afterwards, teachers from theSLCs gather to debrief and to discuss student responses.Students are also put into small groups to discuss preparation for theCAHSEE exams and the CST tests. Test-taking skills are reviewed, as arespecific areas of confusion on the test. Each student is asked to set apersonal goal for a score on the test, and teachers discuss with the studentsstrategies for attaining that goal.3. Curriculum – Other Evidence - What have you learned from examiningadditional evidence regarding this criterion?The cored academic departments have been working on increasing a varietyof institutional strategies employed in class and have aligned all courses tothe state content standards. Most teachers strive to engage students to usehigher order thinking skills through inquiry and various other strategies.EVIDENCE- Master schedule- StaffingSTRENGTHS- Rigorous, standards-based curriculum- Support opportunities (including credit recovery) for students- Variety of instructional strategies employed- Multiple tutoring opportunities- CAHSEE prep programs- Real world connection in Perkins, film-making, digital imagingVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 111