College Access Amid a Pandemic

The Los Angeles Times interviews several members of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Community regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college access. Read the full article at LATimes.com   Throughout Los Angeles, counselors have had a hard time reaching many of their students. The lack of reliable technology continues to be an issue. Most troubling, counselors said, some students…

Ouchi Leadership Shares Math Success Story with California Educators

Earlier this fall, the California Department of Education invited Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Ouchi High School Principal Dea Tramble and Assistant Principal Jaime Hahn to present to more than 150 educators from across the state at the annual California Assessment Conference regarding the successes of the school’s math program. The presentation, entitledA Case Study – One School’s Journey…

Diversity in Curricula

Over the past months members of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ staff have been working to update the English Language Arts (ELA) curricula to reflect greater diversity. Over the past spring and summer, members of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ELA School Support team–-including Megan McGrail, David Schnall, Anne Krieg, Parinaz Banks, and Melissa Green––began a critical assessment of middle and…

Burton Tech Only High School In CA To Receive the Prestigious National Blue Ribbon Schools Award

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the 2020 National Blue Ribbon Schools awards, a prestigious recognition for schools’ overall academic achievement or progress in closing achievement gaps among scholar subgroups. This year, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Burton Tech has been named as a recipient of the award for their exemplary achievement in closing gaps for scholars. Burton…

Co-Teaching Model

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Kory Hunter Middle School adapts a co-teaching model for distance learning with successful results for scholars and teachers. Upon reviewing Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Kory Hunter Middle School academic data a few years ago, Principal Omar Reyes found that the needs of the most vulnerable population of scholars––English Learners and Students with Disabilities––were not fully met. He…