(Vol. 1, No. 2 - Spring 1997)
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Find out about LBUSD's
"recipe" for middle grades reform
"The Long Beach Unified School District is committed to raising standards
for dress, behavior, and academic achievement so that all middle school
students taste success."
-- from A Recipe for Success
A new report from the Long Beach school system documents the district's
campaign to raise middle school achievement through standards-based reform.
While the report is generally positive about accomplishments to date, it's
also frank about what remains to be done. In a section called "Lessons
Learned," the report candidly points out past errors and potential
barriers to success. Example: The report notes that schools still "struggle
to find ways to bring standards alive for parents and to enlist parents
to assist their children in attaining the standards."
Standards-Based Middle School Reform: A Recipe for Success lays
out the district's strategy for using academic standards to guide instruction
and assess student progress, providing sample standards, diagrams and test
questions. Other topics of particular interest to parents include an explanation
of the district's new approach to summer school and a look at expanded opportunities
for parent involvement.
A Recipe for Success helps remove some of the mystery and confusion
about the current changes underway in the Long Beach middle grades. Parents
and community members who care about the future of the public schools need
to read this detailed report. For a copy, contact Kristi Kahl, assistant
to the superintendent for middle school reform, at (562) 997-8465. Supplies
are limited.
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