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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