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