Educational Services
Our vision for students at SRCS centers on utilizing both technical and adaptive strategies to address systemic, institutional, and structural inequities. We emphasize an
asset-based approach to foster student success, removing the predictability of success or failure pervasively linked to social or cultural factors.
Key Initiatives and Goals
Prioritizing Diverse Student Learning Needs:
- Tier 1 Academic Commitments: Collectively, we continue to move forward from calibration to action, reducing overidentification of students with disabilities, ensuring proper support for English Learners, and promoting engagement, agency, and likelihood of preparation for A-G coursework.
- Asset-Based Alternative Learning Environments: Beginning in middle school, including work-based, CTE, and early college credit opportunities, ensuring every student can envision a successful future for themselves in SRCS, starting as early as the 7th grade.
Expansion of Impactful Programs:
- Math Redesign: Now almost two years into the initiative that started in grades 4-12, we are enhancing its impact in secondary education and extend it to TK-3.
- Ethnic Studies Expansion & Integration: As the leading authority in ethnic studies, our division will continue to build out courses and extend offerings, demonstrating how the tenets underlying this curriculum can be applied across all courses, aiming to make the term ‘ethnic studies’ obsolete by embedding its values throughout our educational practices.
- Expanded Learning Opportunities -Together with educators and community-based organizations, increasing academic support for students and their families by creating tailored, engaging, and rigorous (before and after school; intersessions; and summer programs) enrichment opportunities for students
Inclusive Future Planning:
- Literacy Program: Through our foundational skills program and our CCD/DELD curriculum, we focus on an asset-based approach that recognizes the diverse strengths of all students, and employing a balanced, critical perspective, our foundational skills strategy reinforces our commitment to enhancing A-G course readiness.
- High-Wage, High-Skill, High-Growth Sectors: Pathways in technology, healthcare, education, and climate-related fields to support seamless transitions from high school to college and career, benefiting students and the future workforce.
If you have further questions
Savannah Brown
Secretary, Educational Services