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Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reportdepartment envisions using released questions from other states to create apool of questions to pull from. These weekly reviews would give students anopportunity to look at different types of questions and become more familiarwith question phrasing and the wording of them. Personalization occurs asteachers offer tutoring, extra credit, and work with students individuallyand/or in small groups.All teachers at Verdugo Hills High School are certified in Cross-CulturalLanguage and Academic Development (CLAD) and are therefore prepared toserve the English Language Learner (ELL) population across the curriculum.ELLs comprise of eight percent of the student body at VHHS making thedesegregation of this critical group of students throughout the school day.ELL students attend regular or “sheltered” classes where teachers utilizedSpecially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) strategies toscaffold the learning process for these students. The practice of integratingELL into the mainstream population at VHHS allows these students tobecome acculturated to the school, the community, and American society asa whole. Ensuring that VHHS’ ELL population is successful in the mastery ofboth the English language and all of their content areas has become a highpriority to all of the faculty and staff at the school. Over the course of thelast three years, they have fallen in to the category of PerformanceImprovement (PI) as deemed by their CST results. The faculty at VHHS hasresponded to this situation by attending SDAIE strategies professionaldevelopment to sharpen their instructional practices. The VHHS facultyconsiders the ELL population a high priority and continues to work toimprove this critical area.Gifted Students are enrolled in AP courses and honors classes and receiverigorous instruction. Honors and AP teachers align their course curriculumwith the CDOE State Content Standards, while also ensuring that studentsare prepared to take the AP Exam for their course. Student at VHHS scorewell on the AP exams and are encouraged to take AP courses.The Humanitas School of Law and Justice SLC have used interdisciplinaryessays as the foundation of their program for years. Students areprogrammed into linked English and Social Science classes, and at the endof some units, students are given a prompt that incorporates bothVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 122
Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reportdisciplines’ standards.SPECIAL EDUCATIONAll Diverse Learning Academy teachers hold students with mild to moderatedisabilities to a high level of academic rigor. Diverse Learning Academystudents who have universal access to either core instruction or thealternate curriculum and each receives evidence-based instruction. Studentsidentified with specific learning disabilities receive additional differentiatedinstruction and support. Instruction is matched to student needs based onlevels of performance and rates of student progress based on data frommultiple measures including ongoing progress monitoring. Strategicinterventions include more intensive time and focus, guided practice, graphicorganizers, instructional conversations, cooperative learning, Socraticseminar, more engaged practice time, asking relevant questions, andadjustment of curricula and instruction/intervention.Other strategies and resources Diverse Learning Academy teachers and staffutilize to engage students include a variety of technologies such ascomputers, document readers, LCD projectors, and websites for research.Teachers also arrange field trips to locations such as the Getty Museumwhich allows students to have hands-on experience. Staff members alsoarrange field trips to colleges and universities to help expose students tohigher education opportunities. In addition, informational and interventionassemblies are held to teach and discuss self-advocacy skills, what it meansto have a disability, the difficulties of going from high school to college, andhow to get support from the university or college for their particulardisability.EVIDENCE• Math Contests between Classes• Interdisciplinary Essays in Humanitas• Use of the reader writer notebook in English• English Department Rubric• Pacing Plans in Foreign Language, English, Math, and Social Studies• Posted Standards in most classrooms• Standards-based textbooks and teacher generated materials.Verdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 123
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