Woodlake Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation
Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation
-
Upload
tularekingslinkedlearning -
Category
Documents
-
view
101 -
download
3
Transcript of Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation
![Page 1: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Visalia Unified School District
![Page 2: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
District Design Team
• Bill Davis, Director CTE• Fernie Marroquin, Principal• Ray Vazquez, Learning Director• Jennifer Fifield, Teacher• Larry Buenafe, Vice-Principal• Matt Seals, Industry Partner• Tou Lor, Vice-Principal• David Sharp, Industry Partner• Rick Hamilton, Principal• Todd Oto, Assistant Superintendent
![Page 3: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
VUSD Distributive Leadership Model
![Page 4: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
575Students District Wide
Students enrolled for 2015-16
![Page 5: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
VUSD Linked Learning Academies
• Opening Fall 2015• Agricultural Bioscience & Technology: VTEC• Architecture & Engineering: Redwood• Computer Science: Mt Whitney• Engineering & Ag Manufacturing: Golden West• Health Science: Mt. Whitney• Media Arts: El Diamante
• YOP Fall 2016– Law & Justice: Redwood– Public Safety: Golden West– International Business: El Diamante
![Page 6: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Academy Development and Structure
• District-wide Professional Development on the NAF Model• On-going coaching support by
Pathways Coach, Kris Costa• 4 Academies completed YOP
with NAF• 2 Completed Year One
Assessments
![Page 7: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Curriculum and Instruction• Implementing National Academy
Foundation Curriculum in Health Science• Adopted Project Lead the Way curriculum
for Architecture and Engineering at Redwood H.S.
• Adopted Stem Academy curriculum for Engineering & Ag Manufacturing at Golden West H.S.
• Embedding AVID strategies into multiple academies
• Utilizing boot-camps and summer sessions to support students with rigorous academics and8-9 transitions
• Integrated Projects implemented in Health & Engineering Academies this year.
![Page 8: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Work Based Learning
• Hired a WBL Coordinator• Focused on Career Awareness
activities in two academies this year• Developing a WBL Planning
Map for next year• Documented $170K of in-kind
investment by the community of Visalia.
![Page 9: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Advisory Boards
• Developed and refined 6 Linked Learning Academy Advisory Committees• Maintain the Visalia Partners in
Education Committee as VUSD District-Wide Advisory Committee• Partnerships with Visalia Chamber
of Commerce, Visalia Economic Development Corp., Tulare County Farm Bureau,
![Page 10: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
CHALLENGES
• Large District Implementation at multiple sites.• Changing public perception of
academies and open academy structure.• Transportation Planning
![Page 11: Visalia Unified School District - Celebrating Partnerships 6-16-15 Presentation](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032506/55cc766abb61eb301e8b4598/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
NEXT STEPS
• 3 more academies begin YOP next year.• Opening 6 academies
district-wide.• Expand Linked Learning and
CTE Staff• Expand WBL Activities to
Career Exploration.