In the school’s progress report, Lizama detailed how the school leadership addressed the concern on student learning, curriculum and instruction, student personal and academic growth, resource management and development, and implementation and monitoring of an action plan.
This week, the WASC team is expected to meet with the students’ parents, including PTA officers, and teachers.
The team started its four-day visit on March 1 to review student achievements and the school facilities.
During its previous visit, the team told the school to continue to develop its curriculum alignments and establish closer ties with the Head Start program and a junior high school.
The team also recommended that Lizama should bring closure to the conflict with Head Start with the assistance of the Public School System.
In her progress report, Lizama said Head Start has developed a handbook to be shared with the San Antonio school.
Head Start, she added, assessed its students, and the test results were shared with the San Antonio’s kindergarten teacher.
The Head Start students also had an opportunity to visit the kindergarten classes, Lizama said.
The Star Match and Star Reading test results of the sixth graders were shared with junior high school counselors, she added, and every year the junior high school’s counselors come to San Antonio to register the sixth graders and provide an orientation on the classes offered by the junior high school.
Regarding the conflict with Head Start, Lizama said her school was able to recover one of the two classrooms being utilized by Head Start, and these classrooms now accommodate one of the second grade classes.
The report did not explain what the conflict with Head Start was all about.
According to Lizama, San Antonio teachers and staff work on the accreditation process every other Wednesday.
She said they have divided into various teams to address WASC’s recommendations and revise the school’s action plans.
“Our teachers and staff have revised our action plan to address and reflect the goals of Public School System in reading. We also have incorporated our Adequate Yearly Progress Plan into our School Action Plan, which will include our specific yearly goals for students’ progress in the four core subject area,” Lizama said.
WASC said the school should continue analyzing assessment data to clearly establish student academic needs, and to focus on school improvement efforts including curriculum revision, modification and areas of emphasis.
Lizama said their school is learning to use data to drive instruction and establish clear goal for student academic needs and growth.
“Not only have our teachers taken part in various assessment workshops for reading, math, science and social studies, several of our teachers have also taken part in the development of CNMI standards-based assessments,” Lizama said in the report.
