Los Angeles High School Coalition for Reform

• Watch this page for updates and postings of all the work that is going on in the Reform Coalition. 
• Find out about dates and ways to get involved - your voice is critical!
• The current workgroups are Literacy, Math Achievement, Quality Instruction and Evaluation, and School Climate.
• As the groups meet, they are going to post up their notes.  These ideas will be part of the discussion at the October 9th meeting of the Reform Coalition.

Workgroup Notes

Next Meeting October 28th at 3:15 p.m. in the Community Room

So far there are great ideas. We need to hone them down into debatable propositions and then vet them with the staff.

Please bring updated ideas from your workgroups to the meeting on thursday.

To start that process, Mike Scharf, Ms. Nigosian, and others went to the school site council last week in order to formalize the Reform Coalition so that it has official standing with the body that oversees proposed revisions and the final vote on the Single Plan for Student Achievement (the "guidebook" for our school). The process will be hopefully be completed by November 10th. 

Ms. Nigosian and Ms. Rabinowitz also went and talked to Mr. Gaston, as did I and Mr. Pineda, in order to find out about how to combine the efforts fo the Track to Traditional Committee wtiht he Reform Coalition - esp because there promises to be plenty of overlap around things like Bell Schedule changes and interventions. Mr. Gaston stated that he wanted the two committees to work together and that he did not see the TTT committee as submitting revisions for the single plan, but rather making recommendations to relevant groups (like SBM and SLC leads) so that they could submit changes. Especially, once the committee is formalized, he thinks there should be representatives (formally, because there is already a lot of overlap in participation) at each from each.

Now for what's next:

1. we have to figure out if those of us who are off-track want to continue to meet, if yes when!?

2. does it make sense for the LAHS reform coalition to put something out like a report or notes or key areas of potential proposed change to the staff at the track change or wait until February?

3. Someone suggested a survey of some kind going out to the staff so we could be getting feedback now...do we want to do this?

4. Parent involvement is critical, as is student participation - how are we thinking about getting that started?

5. and finally, how are the work groups going to arrive at their intial recommendations? That means no more notes but an actual proposal. Of course, the proposal would not be final, but it would allow people to respond or offer feedback more easily.