Alameda School Plan 2003/04

Alameda High School was a 9-12 school with an enrollment of 1,754 in 2003/04. To review Alameda's state Academic Performance Index scores since 2000 click here. Here is the latest STAR data available from the state of California for Alameda.

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Single School Plan Components

Fall 2003

1. What are the major strategies in your plan?
• Identify incoming 9th graders reading below AUSD benchmark by AUSD multiple measures.
• Provide a full period literacy class to 20 9th graders far below benchmark.
• Implement a Targeted Student Student Study program to identify what strategies and practices are effective with low literacy students.
• Increase explicit teaching of literacy skills in all content areas.
• Implement a Targeted Student Student Study program to identify what strategies and practices are effective in engaging disengaged students.
• Create and usea Student Engagement Rubric on whihc teachers can identify attributes of motivated students and mark student growth in these areas.
• Implement a Learning Supprt Team to work with students having difficulties in the area of academics, attendance or health.
2. What are your inquiry questions?

Student Achievement Questions

• Within the students reading below benchmark (by AUSD multiple measures), what reading skills and strategies are lacking? How can these be addressed?
• Among students the students perceived to be academically capable but performing below a 1.75 GPA, what skills, practices, attitudes or motivations are lacking?

Teacher Practice Questions

• To what extent are all AHS teachers explicitly teaching reading skills and strategies applicable to their course work and to what extent are those practices effective in teaching missing skills to target students?
• What teacher practices are effective in increasing engagement of target students as measured by an improvement in one or more of the staff-defined engagement benchmarks? What correlation exists between increasing students' engagement and increasing their scholastic achievement?

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