“Great Schools – Successful Kids”

Educational Services encompasses the overall leadership, coordination, supervision and evaluation of student learning based on the California Content Standards in grades kindergarten through eight. The education team members across the district provide a standards-based academic program that focuses on utilizing research-based instructional strategies with effective and timely feedback that allows staff and parents to work together to make instructional decisions, which promote success for all students. Some examples of mandates and programs served by this division are:

 

• Development and Implementation of Standards-based Curriculum
• California State Textbook Adoptions
• Learning Support and Intervention
• Special Education
• Instructional Technologies
• English Language Learners
• Professional Development for Certificated and Classified instructional staff
• Federal Programs
• State Programs

Educational Services facilitates, develops, and supports the implementation of rigorous and innovative instructional programs within a safe and positive learning environment to help shape character, develop intellect, promote 21st Century learning skills, encourage collaboration, foster creativity, and provide for the joys of artistic expression. Some examples of the unique, strategic, and supportive programs that advance student learning are:

• Professional Learning Communities (PLC) using “real-time” student achievement data (Illuminate, Common Assessments)
• Response to Intervention (RtI)
• Systematic ELD (English Language Development)
• All the Arts for All the Kids: 4 lessons in each of the 4 disciplines of music, visual arts, theater, and dance
• Children’s Art Museum and Creativity Center
• Student-made videos created on the FSD Arts Lab Buses
• Student composers on the FSD Music Lab Bus
• Instructional Classroom Technologies: Interactive Promethean Boards, video streaming to the classroom, math and science virtual GIZMO laboratories, One-to-One Laptop/laptop carts, Podcasting
• Full-Day Kindergarten
• International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program
• Multiage Programs

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle