What are we doing well?

LTUSD - State of the District/LCAP and Community Conversation Feedback

(Numbers next to list items indicate multiple similar responses.)

 

Creating a Warm, Welcoming, Caring Environment for Students, Parents, and Staff 

  • Creating a warm welcoming, caring, environment for students, parents, and staff - 10

  • Build good relationships with family, student and teachers - 4

  • Personnel talking to parents in generalized understandable manner

  • If students have any problems, we make sure someone sits down, listens, and tries to help them

  • Principal works hard to listen to parents - 2

  • Support for students

  • Focus on healthy classroom learning environment

  • Kindness week at Meyers School 


Coordinating with Local Organizations to Share Resources 

(examples: internships and scholarships)

  • Community Partnerships - 5

especially Boys & Girls Club

  • Community Connection

  • Good partnership with Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC)

  • Partners active in supporting the schools and agencies


ELD P.D. - 2

  • Accountability, collaboration and new hires at High School


English as a Second Language (ESL)

  • Family engagement for Spanish-speaking families 

  • I very much like the support for the bilingual immersion program

  • There is more communication in Spanish now

  • The Distinct is interested in helping our (Spanish speaking) children

  • Bilingual program

  • Spanish not just at Bijou


Extensive Student Behavior Services

  • Extensive student behavior services - 5

  • Wellness room at Bijou Elementary School

  • Student support systems

  • Wellness centers - 8

  • Creating Wellness as a focus at elementary level


Dedicated Staff, Coaches, and Support Staff - 2


Highly-qualified Staff and Great, Dedicated Teachers

  • High qualified staff, great teachers, dedicated - 7 

  • Teacher professional development opportunities - 4

  • Curriculum

  • English Language Development (ELD) program


  • Encouraging students to do their best

  • Meeting students’ academic, social, and basic needs

  • Teachers support one another

  • Attendance coaching by teachers and staff - Sierra House and Mt.Tallac

  • Recruit new staff


Increasing Community Interaction

  • Increasing communication - 7

  • Newsletter at the site and District level  - 4

  • Communication from the district office - 3

  • Text, phone, email and Facebook blasts - 2

  • Communication on snow days - 3

  • Working harder to communicate with all educational partners in the community

  • Responding to rumors

  • Involving parents and their children in more activities and events

  • Parents square website

  • City, County, and District collaboration

  • Sharing interest

  • Enhancing the diversity of opportunities for kids

  • Communication about sports and education


Math 

  • Engagement and learning 

  • Sierra House - Math Focus

  • Math night at Sierra House

  • Math engagement at elementary levels


Open and Available for Discussion 

  • Educational topics

  • Committed to continuous Improvement

  • Recognizing need for improvement and taking action

  • Asking for feedback - 3

  • Providing opportunities for conversations

  • Meetings like this

  • Collaboration and teamwork - 2

  • Progressive, unique

  • Allow for positive change at each site 

  • Embracing change 

  • Trying to improve climate through ideas (Flex, Advisory, Wellness Center)

  • Being transparent

  • Making adjustments

  • Solving problems

  • Community forums - engagement and partnerships

  • Methods to unite - Team meetings 

  • Handling the fire storms that have come up

  • Prompt timely meetings

  • I like this type of meeting


Course Options

  • Provides variety of unique courses - 3

  • Activities for students - 2

  • Snowshoe Club

  • My child likes to come to school - 3

  • Opportunity to learn a new language

  • Getting clubs back at Bijou

  • Bringing ski/Snowshoe to Elementary - 2

  • Band performance at Elementary from STMS

  • Music at all schools - 3

  • Bringing back the Arts - 5

  • Sports - 6 

  • TAP assemblies - 2 

  • Buddy program

  • Dedication to Outdoor Learning Gardens, etc

  • Pathways

  • CTE

  • Emphasis K-5

  • Alternative Ed programs

  • Kid’s education of nature of Tahoe

  • Nutrition/ garden education programs

  • Counselor - Mrs. T

  • After school boys and girls club for all students - 2

  • Common language with single Focus

  • All School assemblies

  • Multiple Pathways to success


Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

  • Music and drama department as an outsider outstanding - seen outstanding


Special needs

  • Teacher understanding of developmental disabilities

  •  Integration with special needs kids

  •  Accommodation at various sites 

  •  Special needs kids are supported lots of options for them

  •  IEP support resource specialist Bijou 

STHS

  • Block schedule

  • High School administration is directing attention to issues

  • College and Career counselors - BRAVO

  • Davenport Wallace Phil Bryant, Sunzeri, Elliott 

  • Electives: CTE, field trips, sports medicine, dental, cooking, mechanics, theater,

strength and conditioning, AP English Lit, 

  • Eighth grade tour of high school 

  • Information about transitioning to high school 


STMS

  • Working collaboratively to improve STMS

  • Snowshoe


Safety

  • Use of security cameras

  • Improve pedestrian access to Sierra House

  • Safety - my child feels safe at school

  • Security personnel


Transportation

  • Bus schedules have been timely


Miscellaneous

  • Focusing on increasing achievement - all kids can learn

  • ILA - good

  • Single Focus - 2

  • Plans driving result - improvement

  • TW one program - essential to life skills

  • IE - LVF, TYFS - partnerships for more overall wellness

  • Strong intentions for equity

  • Opportunities to volunteer - 2

  • Vertical alignment of TWB1, TK-12 -2

  • Tahoe Valley - SEL

  • Talented leadership team in place

  • Looking at data to create solutions - 2

  • Synergy between elementary schools

  • Satchel Pulse


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