Lessons Learned
Accountability Goals
The School met all six targets from the SY 2012-2013 Accountability Plan. Please see the chart below for a
breakdown of the targets and performance.
2012-2013
Indicator
Measure
Classes Tested
2010-2011 Target
Student Progress
Supera Test:
Evaluaciones
Essenciales
Spanish GED 100 & 200
64% will advance one grade level
in language by the end of the
school year.
85.7%
Student Achievement
Test of English
Language
Proficiency
(TEAAL)
ESL Levels 2 & 6
74% of students who complete the
TEAAL post test will achieve a
cut score of 70% at the end of the
semester.
75.0%
ESL Levels 1 & 4
75% of students completing ESL
Levels 1 & 4 in the fall semester
and continuing ESL classes in the
spring will achieve CASAS test cut
scores of: 200 & 220 respectively by
the end of the spring sesmter.
83.2%
60% of students taking the Spanish
GED test will pass it by the end of
the fiscal year.
91.5%
Student Achievement
CASAS Test
Gateway
Spanish GED Test
Gateway
ServSafe
Certification
Leading Indicator
Average Daily
Attendance
Spanish GED testers
Culinary Arts
90% of students in the Culinary
students who do not
Arts program will earn the
already have ServSafe ServSafe Certification by the end of
Certification
the school year.
All classes
69%
Performance
100%
80.8%
The School has consistently
achieved its target for the Student
Achievement measure; however,
this year we only surpassed the
target by one percentage point.
As we work toward even higher
percentage rates for this target,
we have applied a number of
techniques that we will build
upon moving forward. Based
on regular monitoring of school
performance data school leaders
have developed faculty support
plans that include techniques
such as coaching, targeted
professional development, and
classroom assistance.
With an 81% average attendance
rate, the School surpassed
the target of 69% this year. In
addition to our students’ intrinsic
motivation, the attendance
incentives continue to facilitate a
high level of attendance among
our adult student population. We
plan to continue the incentive
program moving forward.
However, we anticipate that
the new adult education PMF
may result in lower average
attendance rates in future years,
and we will be monitoring this in
school year 2013-14.
For the past two years, the School
has been able to consistently
meet or surpass the Spanish GED
passing rate target. This year 92%
of students passed the GED test.
This represents 32 percentage
points higher than the target rate
of 60%. The lesson learned is that
to achieve passing rates of this
level a great deal of investment
of human and financial capital
is required. This school year
there were various schoolwide, project-based GED events
including the math and science
fair and the math Olympics that
allowed GED teachers to take
ownership of large scale projects
and for the stude