Search our Site: sitemap Chugach School District 9312 Vanguard Drive #100 Anchorage, AK 99507 Phone: 907-522-7400 Fax: 907-522-3399 info@chugachschools.com Information Request Form		Chugach Standards-Based System • Shared Purpose • Relevant Standards • Multiple Assessments • Meaningful Reporting • Effective Instruction Shared Purpose "Click Here" for an interview with Angela Totemoff, former CSD student. "Click Here" for an interview with Community member from Whittier, Dean Rand, on the importance of a Shared Purpose. Chugach School District (CSD) involves all stakeholders in its strategic planning process - including students, parents, community members, and businesses - to develop a Shared Purpose, organizational performance goals, a five-year timeline of activities, and one-year targets. The goals address student learning and development in basic skills, individual needs of students, character development, transition skills, and technology. In 2001, stakeholders gave high satisfaction ratings to CSD in these five outcome areas with basic skills at 96 percent, individual needs of students at 89 percent, character development education at 84 percent, transition skills at 89 percent, and technology at 89 percent. "Click Here" for interview with Bob Crumley. Chugach School District includes traditional native communities and non-native communities in the Prince William Sound area, along with individual homesteads located in mountainous and isolated island terrain to the south and east of Anchorage. Chugach students are scattered throughout 22,000 square miles of this pristine, isolated and remote area. Our school reform efforts began due to the realization that 90% of our students could not read at their grade level and were having difficulties experiencing success after high school. Our first step towards reform was the initiation of the Onwards to Excellence program during the 1995-1996 school year. Throughout this process, regularly scheduled town meetings, business partner meetings, and school meetings were held to garner input about our common values, beliefs, and goals for our school system and our students. Goals were prioritized and action plans developed and implemented in order to achieve these goals We now refer to the goals as our Five Focus Areas: Basic Skills, Individual Needs of Students, Technology, Transition (School to Life), and Character Development. Using input from our schools, communities, and businesses, CSD developed performance standard continuums for our ten content areas. The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has granted Chugach School District a waiver to forego traditional Carnegie units, or credits, as graduation requirements in lieu of our performance standards as graduation requirements. Our students have demonstrated remarkable improvements on a variety of assessments, including the California Achievement Test. "Click Here" for interview with a teacher about why CSD needed a change to the standards-based system. Below is just a snapshot of the gains that we have seen in the last 8 years: Although student performance continues to improve, as documented in various formats, the Chugach School District is always looking for ways to improve. Our continuous improvement model has been implemented through ongoing staff development, which we strive to have 30 days of annually for all CSD teachers. This improvement process has led to researching the Baldrige Criteria and beginning the implementation of a comprehensive evaluation process that includes and connects student, teacher, classroom, school, community, and district evaluation tools and procedures. "Why Change? Click Here" for interview with CSD principal. « Back to Chugach Standards-Based System
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