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San Francisco Unified School District

697

DRAFT

1. School Description (see SARC)

2. Analysis of Current Conditions

3. School Vision Statement

4. School Site Priorities

5. School Activities

6. Educational Programs

School Site Plan for

Lowell High School

Table of Contents

2001-2002

Introduction: Analysis of Current Conditions (Needs Assessment)Lowell High School697

2001/2002

V1.2 In spring 2000, the school completed an WASC self study. The site developed action plans to compliment those in the site plan. The site metbimonthly during the academic year to review numerical and anecdotal data. During the spring, the school completed a self-review in preparation for thestate compliance review of the district, Analysis was also done of the site’s performance in standardized tests, especially as they pertained tounderrepresented minorities and multifunded students. In addition, an analysis was made of computers in the school and student and staff readiness toutilize educational technology.

Process for Data Analysis

The school achieved its API goal.The school increased the numbers of AP offerings by 4 courses.The number of AP exams itaken by students increased by 9%.The number of African American and Latino students in AP and honors classes is insignificant.ELL students perform on par with others students in the school

Academic/Performance

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Ninety eight point eight percent of the ninth grade class took the High School Exit ExaminationNinety-six point three per cent of our graduates go on to college.All significant subgroups increased their scores in the APIThere have been small but measurable increases in the 98 percentile showing of Lowell students in the STARReading comprehension scores in the SAT-9 test need improvement.Considerable number of computers for the school have been purchased with Digital High School and AB 2882 funds.PTSA & Alumni raise in excess of $100,000 for school use.

Areas of Success/Progress/Achievement

Thirty-eight per cent of the GATE identified students are not enrolled in an honors or AP class.There is no sustained program for supporting ELL students or monitoring their progress.Some physical parts of the plant need to be refurbished to support student achievement.Instructional materials need to be apportioned more effectively.There needs to be continued and increased staff development in the use of instructional technology.Elections for the parent groups in the SSC and ElAC need to be conducted according to regulations.The .4 FTE Curriculum Integration Technology Specialist (CITS) needs to be expanded to 1 FTE.The Wellness Center is not fully integrated into the operations, procedures and evaluation of the school.

Areas of Concern



2001/2002

The extended hours GATE counselor has identified and begun the counseling of GATE identified AA and Latino who have not taken an honors or APcourse.Expenditure of funds through API, Block Grant, and Site Based Budgeting Incentive Award has begun to address instructional supply issues.The Wellness Center has a coordinator, a nurse practioner, a mental health worker and a Site Resource Officer (SRO).Digital High School and AB 2882 has expended funds to improve student to computers and professional development for teachers.

Current Programs


Lowell High School

Vision StatementSchool Year: 2001/2002

WE BELIEVE THAT:

Lowell High School should be a humane and humanistic community dedicated to the pursuitof intellectual and moral excellence. Lowell High School should transmit the existing culture and at the same time encourage acritical examination of its institutions and values. The Lowell community should provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas. The Lowell program should be designed to prepare students to enter and succeed at thecollege or university of their choice Lowell High School should develop in its students sensitivity to the social and moralproblems and dilemmas confronting their pluralistic society. Every aspect of the Lowell program (curricular and co-curricular) should promote in studentsthe capacity to deal with their experiences intellectually and morally. Every Lowell student should have opportunities both inside and outside the classroom toparticipate in decisions affecting his own educational program. Emphasis should be given to individual initiative, experimentation and personal commitmentas essential aspects of the educative process. Lowell High School should develop in its students not only self-discipline, self-direction, andself-confidence but also a reasoned humility, a tolerance for the ideas of others and a perspective oftheir own incompleteness and capacity for further growth. Throughout the Lowell program emphasis should be given to individual and groupresponsibilities as well as to individuals and group rights and privileges. All members of the Lowell community should recognize and ensure the right of every othermember to be treated with fairness, dignity and respect. The Lowell community should be a model of a just and equitable society, where the rights ofevery individual are scrupulously protected and insured, and are the basis for study andinterpretation wherever appropriate within the instructional program. Lowell students should have maximum opportunities to experience, through the processes ofteaching and learning, the excitement, joy, and satisfaction of intellectual inquiry, reflection anddiscovery. In the Lowell program students should have opportunities to develop graphic, musical,manipulative and kinesthetic as well as linguistic and mathematical skills. The Lowell program should cultivate in students awillingness and ability to utilize their resources and those of the social, cultural, political and natural environments so as to further their intellectual and personal growth. Lowell High School, in addition to fostering mental growth, should provide activities designedto further the physical and emotional well-being of its students. Lowell High School should provide students with experiences which will promote lifelongenjoyment of their leisure time The goal of educational processes at Lowell should be the acquisition of knowledge for itsintrinsic value but also its application to lifelong learning.

Every facet of the Lowell program should be designed to help students to assess their owncapabilities, strengths and weaknesses in order to make wise and thoughtful intellectual, moraland vocational decisions.

We believe that at Lowell, the young people of San Francisco retain their traditional option ofattending a special high school emphasizing college preparation in the academic disciplines, a schoolin which the level and pace of instruction are such that academically talented students must strive toachieve success, a school in which the environment promotes academic, aesthetic, and social

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Lowell High School

Vision StatementSchool Year: 2001/2002

achieve success, a school in which the environment promotes academic, aesthetic, and socialinteraction and leadership. Inherent in this philosophic belief are instructional and co-curricularprograms that invite maximum use of self-direction and discipline. The Lowell community endeavorsto be a just and equitable society where individual responsibilities are clearly defined andwhere personal rights and dignity are guaranteed to all students, their caregivers, teachers,administrators, and classified employees. It endorses the concept of an integrated school that fostersan understanding and appreciation of cultural and social diversity which enrich the lives of allstudents.

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Action Plan OverviewLowell High School

Priority Area Objectives Measures Major Benchmarks

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School Year: 2001/2002

I. Academic Achievement:Significantly increase academicachievement and learning for allstudents, including closing theachievement gap, based on the2000-2001 achievement data. Focusmust be on reading and mathematics asmeasured by the Stanford 9Achievement tests and otherassessments as appropriate.

To move 90% of students in the IIquartile in math and English to the IIIquartile in math and English

Identify individual studentsMeet with students to determinedeficiencies.Asst. Principals will meet with teachersto develop strategies activities andmaterials and support services.

Increase offerings in AP and otherclasses

Increase sections in AP Statistics from 1to 3 for fall 2001.Implement classes in electronics andearth science for the fall 2001.Implement class in AP World Historyfor fall 2001.

Lists of identified students.Logs and notes of meetingsMinutes of meetings, strategies,activities, lesson plans. Test results

Textbooks purchased for Statistics classby May 2001.Textbooks and instructional materialspurchased for electronics and earthscience classes by May 2001.Textbooks and ancillary materialspurchased by August, 2001.

II. Academic Achievement: Ensurethat all students have access to acomprehensive education by providinga high-quality program of studies in theCore Curriculum areas(English/language arts, mathematics,science, social studies) visual andperforming arts, health and physicaleducation, world languages, andschool-to-career and technicalprograms where appropriate.

Improve numbers of historicallyunderrepresented minority students inhonors and AP classes in math,science, social studies, WorldLanguages, Visual/Performing Artsand English.

Review SAT 9 and GATE data toidentify students with high potential.Interview AA and Latino studentspresently in honors and AP classes as towhat motivated them and keeps themgoing.Students identified and motivated willenroll in an AP prep class during theyear.

Improve access of students byimproving counseling services,especially for underrepresentedminorities.

Allocate funds from the Site BasedBudgeting Award Incentive to purchaseanother 1 FTE counselor.

Improve success of students inmathematics.

Allocate a .2 FTE to teach problemsolving as a support class for thosestudents who are struggling with math

Lists of historically underrepresentedminority student recommended for APand honors classes.Establishment of a designated AP prepclass.Enrollment of students in AP andhonors classes.

Counselor will be hired for the2001-2002 school year.

The .2 position for a problem solvingclass will be funded for the school year2001-2002

Implement grading policies for LHstudents enrolled in regular ed classes.

Distribute the district generated gradingguidelines to teachers involved.Have regular ed teachers reviewguidelines with special ed teachers anddistrict personnel as appropriate

Established and accepted gradingguidelines in force.

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III. Initiatives to ImproveInstruction: Improve the instructionaldelivery to all students using bestpractices for student learning asreflected in Focus on Learningrecommendations (PQR/WASC,Compliance (CCR), whole schoolreform models, schoolwide programs,school-based curricular, instructional,or programmatic improvements.

Increase use of educational technologyby students and teachers in classes andin computer labs.

Install new computers in all educationalspaces where appropriate. Mobilecomputer labs can beused to fufill theDigital High School requirement of onecomputer per room.

Utilize Digital High School and SB1882 funds to continue professionaldevelopment in the use of educationaltechnology.

Continue to provide for variouscomputer education related topicsdeveloped and taught by site personnel.

Integrate Wellness Center personneland activities into the planning,procedures and evaluation of schoolhealth and safety. Utilize resources ofwellness center to refine the plan todeliver health services to the school.

The Wellness Coordinator and otherson the Wellness staff will meet inAugust during the professionaldevelopment days to develop a protocolfor defining lines of communicationand scope of responsibilities forwellness staff in relation to the rest ofthe school. Articulation meetings willinvolve all stakeholders.

Evaluation of Digital High School willreflect completeness and effectivenessof project.

Logs of attendance at trainings and Jmresolutions authorizing service.Flyers announcing offerings andschedules.A written protocol will be developed anddistributed to all concerned by9/30/2001.

The world language offerings atLowell will be supported byappropriate staffing and site generatedfunding

The Hebrew program will be supportedfor 2 periods.

The site will encumber $23,000 of itsfunds to pay a consultant to teachHebrew.




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IV. School Climate: Ensure a safe,secure school and learning environmentrelative to cleanliness, management ofthe facility and student behavior,consistent with State requirements fora Safe School Plan.

Improve cleanliness of hallways. . Develop a cleanliness is # 1 prioritycampaign involving all elements of theLowell community.Have students adopt a hallway anddevelop cleanliness rubrics.Develop rewards and enforcementprocedures.

Reduce the number of break-ins andthefts from the site

Identify areas prone to theft/break-ins.Install security cameras andrecording/reviewing devices.Monitor the tapes daily.

Renovate two toilets as a pilot to maketoilets cleaner and more attractive.Examine present utilization of buildingin light of new programs

Replace flushometers with automaticflushometers.Replace lighting. Replace toilet seats,install toilet seat cover dispensers.Thoroughly clean walls, floors andreceptacles.Alter toilet partitions.Administration will meet with staff andcommunity to address SilverFoundation Grant, Proposed AlumniBldg.

Are hallways adopted?Cleaning rubrics.Awards and enforcement activities andprocedures.

Theft will be reduced by 50%.Locker break-ins will be reduced by75%

Bathroom items in measure #3 will be inplace by August, 2001.The SSC subcommittee on buildingsand grounds will meet beginning inAug. 2001 to propose use of bldg.

Revise safety procedures and inserviceall staff.

Utilize professional development time atthe beginning of the fall semester in2001 to revise safety plans .Go over safety procedures with all staff,

Agendas of meetings.Compendium of safety handouts to thestaff and the site safety plan.




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V. Parent and CommunityInvolvement: Significantly increase theinvolvement of a broad base of parentsand community at the school level.

V1.2 Bring elections for parentrepresentatives for SSC and ElAC intoagreement with regulations. This willimprove parent/caregive/communityaccess to the SSC.

Rewrite by laws for parent/communitymembers of SSC

Continue to involve parents/caregivers/community in budgeting,policy making and evaluation throughSSC and other school committees.

Work with parent/caregivers/communityin the SSC to develop the site plan andimplement the Site Based BudgetingAward

Continued involvement of parents andcommunity in improving cleanliness,equipment, and support services isnecessary for academic achievement

Provide support for academicachievement through PTSA and AlumniGrants committees.

Elections for parent/communitymembers of SSC and ELAC will beheld for Fall 2001.

Minutes of SSC meetings, PTSAAcademic affairs meetings, PTSA andAlumni Grants meetings.

Published lists of grants awarded alongwith the amounts given.

The PTSA and the site staff willagressively recruit historicallyrepresented minorities.

The site administration will continue tovisit district middle schools to speak toeight grade students aboutL owell. Inaddition, the site administration willcontinue to send personal invatationsand information packets to identifiedunderrepresented minorities in middleschools.The PTSA and site administration willcontinue to work with the district andthe wider community about the Lowelladmissions policy.

Schedule of school meetings.Copies of lists and letters.

VI. Additional Priority: Optionalpriority. (Required for schoolsselected to participate in UrbanSystemic Program (USP)


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To move 90% of students in the II quartile in math and English to the III quartile in math and English

Priority/Objective/Activity #

Team/PersonResponsibleActivity Funding SourceTarget Population

I. Academic Achievement: Significantly increase academic achievement and learning for all students, including closing the achievement gap, based onthe 2000-2001 achievement data. Focus must be on reading and mathematics as measured by the Stanford 9 Achievement tests and otherassessments as appropriate.

Completion/Benchmarks


The principal, with the school community, will develop plans forimplementing the Site Based Budgeting Award rubrics to the sitebudget for the Fall of 2001. These plans will be voted on by theSchool Site Council

1 Improved flexibility of siteresources to improveacademic achievement for allstudents.

Cheng,Paul

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The administration and involved dept. chairs will allocate funds fromthe site budgets to pay for texts, instructional materials andduplication materials for increased honors and AP classes.2 Establishment and operation

of classes.

Brown,Olivia J.

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 79-20011 2,

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Targeted Population 1 = Bottom Quartile 2 = EDY 3 = ELL 4 = GATE 5 = Spec. Ed. 6 = All

Funding Source 1 = District 2 = CD 3 = SBCP 4 = Title I 5 = LEP 6=IIUSP 7 = Other


Improve numbers of historically underrepresented minority students in honors and AP classes in math, science, social studies, World Languages, Visual/Performing Artsand English.



II. Academic Achievement: Ensure that all students have access to a comprehensive education by providing a high-quality program of studies in theCore Curriculum areas (English/language arts, mathematics, science, social studies) visual and performing arts, health and physical education, worldlanguages, and school-to-career and technical programs where appropriate.



The GATE coordinator will assess district data about GATE identifiedstudents at Lowell to formulate a plan to assist underrepresentedminorities to enroll in more AP and honors classes. Additionally, theGATE coordinator will use this data to purchase materials to enrichinstruction at Lowell for GATE students.

1 Increase the number ofunderrepresented minoritiestaking AP and honorsclassses.

Glashagel,Charlotte1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

6-20022 1,

The use of new and existing computer facilities in the library, studycenters, Peer Resource, and the new student lab will increase supportfor underepresented minorities, GATE, special education, and ELLstudents. Computers purchased with ELL funds will be housed in thelibrary.

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Technology

Improve access to computersby 25% for underrepresentedminorities and other students.

Mahoney,John F.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 711/20012 1,

The special education staff, both at site and district level, will meetwith the administration and faculty to plan and implemenment staffdevelopment activities respective to continued integration of special edstudents into the mainstream of the school community.

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Curric. & Tech.

RSP and LH students willimprove attendance andstudent achievement atLowell.

Silverstein,LeeS.

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The summer school administration and staff for incoming ninthgraders will identify and counsel ELL and GATE identified students,especiall underrepresented minorities, about educational opportunitiesat Lowell

11 Logs of counseling sessions.

Brown,Olivia J.

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A counselor will supervise the progress of ELL students, trackingtheir test scores and reporting to parents if the students would benefitfrom demission from the program.12 Parents will be contacted

twice a semester

Tse,Janet

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The library staff in consultation with the subject matter teachers anddistrict staff will purchase supplementary electronic materials,periodicals, supplementary textbooks and materials to enhance theachievement of ELL students in language arts, social studies andmath. Additionally, more computer resources will be purchased toimprove access for ELL students while in the library.

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Ell

Improve literacy throughaccess to educationaltechnology.

Mahoney,John F.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 79/20012 2,





Improve access of students by improving counseling services, especially for underrepresented minorities.



II. Academic Achievement: Ensure that all students have access to a comprehensive education by providing a high-quality program of studies in theCore Curriculum areas (English/language arts, mathematics, science, social studies) visual and performing arts, health and physical education, worldlanguages, and school-to-career and technical programs where appropriate.



The staff will use professional development days to examine data fromSTAR, SAT/ACT and Advanced Placement tests for Lowell and planactivities to raise scores and increase participation, especially forAfrican Americans and Latinos, in honors and AP classes.

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SB 1882

Minutes of meetings thatdefine areas of need . Lists ofstrategies to improveparticipation of AA andLatinos.

Brown,Olivia J.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 79/20012 2,

Students, especially underrepresented minorities, RSP, and ELLstudents will have tutoring through CSF, peer tutoring , individualteachers, the Math club, and the resource centers. All ninth gradestudents will use the resource centers their first grading period, onlythose with grades below “C” will be required to use the resourcecenters. These resources will be available after school

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Curric. & Tech.

All students will benefit fromtutoring opportunities.

Brown,Olivia J.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 79-20012 2,

Administrators, teachers, parents/caregivers and students will maintainthe diversity of ethnic groups by seeking to bring to LowellHispanics and African-American students through the specialadmissions process and recruitment.The administration and other elements of the community will createan agressive outreach program.

8 Increase the numbers ofundeerrepresented minoritiesby 3-5% per year attendingand graduating from Lowell.

Cheng,Paul

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 710-20012 2,

All special education students in the RSP and LH program willcontinue to be provided tutorial support and supplementary computerresources to access the core curriculum and achieve academicachievement. In addition, the students in above classifications who arealso ELL and other ELL students will receive computer tutorials inthe library computer center after school.

9 Improve access to technologyand student achievement.

Silverstein,LeeS.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

11/20012 3,

The school will use the findings of the SAP and SST teams tosupport student attendance and achievement.

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2nd

Improve attendance and raisestudent achievement bydecreasing transfer rate by10%

Bogdanoff,GloriaL.

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III. Initiatives to Improve Instruction: Improve the instructional delivery to all students using best practices for student learning as reflected inFocus on Learning recommendations (PQR/WASC, Compliance (CCR), whole school reform models, schoolwide programs, school-based curricular,instructional, or programmatic improvements.



Teachers, parents, students and the community will meet monthly inthe Lowell Digital High School Cadre to implement the DHS Plan.In addition, the cadre will monitor the achievement of benchmarks inthe DHS 3 year plan.

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Technology

Improve access to anddistribution of computers forstaff and students. Provideenriched opportuniutiues forstaff and students.

Ross,Vernice L1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 711/20013,

Teachers, administrators, and appropriate classified staff will developand implement a professional development plan to enhance teachingand learning. Included in this plan will be literacy and computerliteracy across the curriculum as developed in WASC, Digital HighSchool, and SSC collaborations. This time will include a review ofthe effectiveness of the site's educational program.

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ProfessionalDevel.

Educational technologyappropriately used by all staffto improve studentachievement

Brown,Olivia J.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

3-20013 1,

The summer school administration and staff will assess the computerskills of incoming ninth graders. This is consistent with DHSbenchmarks.5 Logs of results.

Brown,Olivia J.

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Teachers will teach other teachers in the use of educational technologyusing computers in department offices and the SB 1882 professionaldevelopment lab, and the Library computer center.3

Curric. & Tech.

Eighty per cent of theinstructional staff willachieve Level I proficency.

Ross,Vernice L1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 712/20013 2,

The staff will utilize the Digital High School professionaldevelopment time to examine the best uses of technology to increaselanguage arts, math and science achievement in all classes. Thisprocess will be aided by visiting exemplary DHS schools. In addition,District and CTAP summer technology programswill be attended byinstructional staff.

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ProfessionalDevel.

Achieve year 1 DHSbenchmarks for stafftechnology proficiency. Have5% of staff attend thesesummer institutes.

Brown,Olivia J.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

7-20013 2,

The administration , the world languages dept. chair, the PTSA andthe district staff at BELA will continue to develop new strategies tosupport world languages at Lowell, including Hebrew.6 Minutes of meetings

Cheng,Paul

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V1.2 Bring elections for parent representatives for SSC and ElAC into agreement with regulations. This will improve parent/caregive/community access to the SSC.



V. Parent and Community Involvement: Significantly increase the involvement of a broad base of parents and community at the school level.



Implement new by-laws of the SSC that will governparent/community/caregiver elections.

1 Elections to be held in8-2001

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Students, staff, parents and community will work together to integratethe PTSA and community technology donations and the Digital HighSchool proposal to promote student and staff access to educationaltechnology via e-mail, print and publishing technology, the Internetand departmental web sites. Computer resources will be open beforeand after school.

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Curric. & Tech.

Improve computer access by100%.

Brown,Olivia J.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 711/20015 2,

The administration will encourage every teacher to prepare courseoutlines and expectations for distribution at the fall open house.Additionally, there will be interpreters available in the major homelanguages.

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Administration

All students and theircaregivers will benefit fromgoals and objectives that areunderstood and measurable.

Cheng,Paul1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 710/20015 2,

The site staff, students and parents in concert with the District Healthoffice, Emergency Preparedness office, the school nurse, and theresource police officer will continue to update our emergency plan toensure that all students and staff will be supported in cases of personalor natural disaster. This activity will be a part of our Safe Schoolsplan.

4 The school will have andemergency plan that coversvarious physical and healthemergencies.

Bogdanoff,GloriaL.1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

11/20015 2,

The PTSA Wellness Committee will continue to provide parenteducation classes in the evenings and Saturdays on topics pertainingto mental and physical health. Concerns raised will be addressed bysafe schools comm.

5 The school and PTSA willschedule 6 of these activitiesannually.

Cheng,Paul

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 79-20015 2,

The school will have a spring clean-up day with support from thedistrict and the San Francisco Department of Public Works. Inaddition, a site-planned fall and spring clean-up days will join parents,students and staff for school and community beautification.

6 Improve cleanliness of theschool and allow forcommunity-building.

Mahoney,John F.

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Lowell High School

Priorities Addressed PR1 PR2 PR3 PR4 PR5 PROGRAM

San Francisco Unified School District Department of Research, Planning & EvaluationPrograms in District Schools

2001/2002

AB 2882--Educational Technology Grants for High Schools

Beginning Teacher Support & Assessment (BTSA)

Close-Up

Digital High School

Exploratorium: (list)

Peer Assistance & Review (PAR)

Peer Resources

Safe School Healthy Student Initiative (SS/HIS)

SB 1882 (Professional Development)

SF Biotechnology Alliance for Science (SF Base)

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