Providing Rich Educational Offerings Despite Fiscal Constraints: Buena Park High School’s Story

The principal of Buena Park High School shares how this school works with its primary feeder middle schools to ensure successful transition, and creates a niche for every student to access a broad range of academic offerings.

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Presenters

Jim Coombs (Primary)

Principal
Buena Park High School

Ellen Ringer

Administrator
K-12 Innovation and Improvement Office, California Department of Education

Tom Parrish

Managing Director
American Institutes for Research

Description

If your school or district team is looking for ideas about how to improve articulation between elementary, middle grades, and high schools and to smooth transitions leading to unusually strong rates of graduation, attend this webinar to hear how a California high school is making systemic changes.

In this webinar, Jim Coombs, principal of Buena Park High School in Fullerton, CA, will share how his school works with its primary feeder middle school to ensure successful transition, creates a niche for every student, and works closely with administrative staff at Fullerton School District to provide a broad range of academic offerings ranging from award winning agricultural programs to a number of courses leading to college credit.

This webinar is targeted at school and district administrators, school counselors, teachers, school board members—anyone with an interest in strategies for promoting academic and graduation success at high poverty high schools. The presentation will highlight this cross-school coordination and how it has changed the focus of the students, faculty and administrators at these sites to ensure that all students have great opportunities to learn, graduate, and participate in post-secondary education.

This webinar is part of a theme in which Ellen Ringer of the K-12 Innovation and Implementation Office (formerly the "Middle Grades Improvement Office") of the California Department of Education, and Tom Parrish, Managing Director, American Institutes for Research, will present high-performing, high-need high schools via conversations with their principals. These one-hour webinars will focus on successful school transitions, programs leading to strong rates of graduation, and entrepreneurial approaches to provide every student with a broad range of opportunities to stay in school, graduate, and be oriented toward college.

This webinar theme is sponsored by WestEd and the American Institutes for Research as partners in the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd to highlight high performing districts and schools making a difference in student achievement.

See the description of the second webinar in this theme, Articulating High Expectations from K-12: Valley High School and Its Partners.

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