High Quality Instruction Matched to State Standards

By Dale Petrulis

We must take all steps to ensure that our students are offered a superior educational program that maximizes each student's potential and their ability to make good post high school choices.

Solution:

• adopt standards-based textbooks and materials in all content areas and at all school levels
• continue to align our daily instruction to adopted state standards, using teacher expertise and experience to make the instruction meaningful to students
• ensure that we provide all necessary materials for teachers and staff to perform their responsibilities
• hold high expectations for all students while ensuring that we give them the skills to meet those expectations
• invest in our teachers and staff by ensuring that they are provided ongoing standards-based professional development to continue a rigorous instructional program (AB 466-available in mathematics and language arts)
• invite, involve, and support our parents, as partners, in the education of our Redondo Beach students
• provide ongoing professional development for all administrators
• develop instructional leaders representing stakeholders from all groups, including teachers, classified staff, parents and community members
• provide emotional, social and character growth within the materials and teaching provided

"The measure of a society is its reverence for children" Dr. Arnold Gesell (Gesell Instutute of Human Development)