Strategies: Sanger High School

Most teachers utilize best practice strategies like team teaching, scaffolding, cooperative learning, graphic organization, checking for understanding, differentiated instruction, Cornell note taking, vocabulary development, and guided reading and writing.

• Consultants have two to three inclusion periods, during which they:
• Work with general education teachers one on one.
• Model lessons.
• Act as a resource through research.
• Help general education teachers reformat assignments, notes, or exams.
• Work with students in class or one on one.

Paraprofessionals and consultants also keep binders for each general education teacher with which they work. The binders hold exams, notes, and assignments and are used to help students one on one and as references for other general education teachers.

The entire staff has worked diligently to create an environment of high expectations and rigor. This has been accomplished through many best practice trainings, such as:

• Curriculum Mapping with Dr. Heidi Jacobs
• Professional Learning Communities with the Richard DuFour
• Leadership training with Dr. Douglas Reeves
• Leadership training and systems change with the Riverside County
  Achievement Team and Steve Zuieback
• High Point training for English learners
• Differentiated instruction based on the principles of Carol Ann Tomlinson
• Benchmark assessments through Edusoft

Also, teachers at Sanger High School have been used as the experts they are by providing workshops for colleagues.

Sanger Unified School District continues Sanger High School's shared vision through its work with Springboard Schools (formally known as Bay Area School Reform Collaborative). Schoolwide collaboration has become the cornerstone upon which Sanger High School has built its foundation, and this work has been recognized—SHS has been named both a California Distinguished School and a CalSTAT Leadership Site in collaboration.