Academic Dean Aimée Dorr and Vice Chancellor Janina Montero, Co-Chairs Preparation & Box 951521 - Moore Hall Educational , CA 90095-1521 UCLAPartnerships

July 15, 2005

Dr. Dhyan Lal Superintendent Lynwood Unified School District 11321 Bullis Road Lynwood, CA 90262

Dear Dr. Lal:

In an earlier letter congratulating you on your appointment as Superintendent of the Lynwood Unified School District we indicated we would provide more detailed information about UCLA’s “substantial human, professional, and financial resources to the district” since 1998. Please find enclosed three brief reports highlighting the programmatic services funded by the University of through UCLA’s Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP), UCLA’s School University Partnership Program carried out by the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies’ Center X, and the School Management Program (SMP).

We are extremely proud of the achievements accomplished in the Lynwood/UCLA Outreach/ UCLA School Management Program partnership. These achievements include: • Increased API scores > 75 point increase at Lynwood Middle School from 2001-02 to 2003-04 > 77 point increase at Lynwood High School from 2001-02 to 2003-04 • Significant increase in the passage rate on the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) > 38% increase in mathematics from 2001-02 to 2003-04 > 29% increase in English/language arts from 2001-02 to 2003-04 • An increase of 75% retention of new teachers over the past three years • Academic development support for 9,429 college-bound students

Funding for the programs came from the following sources: • 78% ($2,734,287) of program funding came from University of California’s outreach funds • 17.9% ($626,600) of program funding came from state money (II/USP funds) that were made available by the state for only this type of program • 4.1% ($142,000) of program funding came from Lynwood Unified School District general funds UCLA continues to be interested in the success of the Lynwood Unified School District. If either of us can be of any assistance in achieving this goal, please call on us.

Sincerely,

Aimée Dorr Co-Chair, Academic Preparation & Educational Partnership Programs Dean, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

Janina Montero Co-Chair, Academic Preparation and Educational Partnership Programs Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs

Enc: UCLA Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) Report UCLA School University Partnership (Center X) Report UCLA School Management Program (SMP) Report cc: Rachel Chavez, President, LUSD Board Martina Rodriquez, Vice President, LUSD Board Jose Luis Solichi, Clerk, LUSD Board Maria G. Lopez, Member, LUSD Board Guadalupe R. Rodriquez, Member, LUSD Board Nadine Barreto, Director, Lynwood Partnership Dan Chernow, Director, School Management Program Debra Pounds, Director, Early Academic Outreach Program Jody Priselac, Executive Director, Center X UCLA Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships and the Lynwood Unified School District from 1998 – 2005: Highlights from a Seven-Year Partnership

UCLA Early Academic Outreach Programs UCLA School University Partnerships UCLA School Management Program

Presented to Lynwood Unified School District Superintendent and the Members of the Board of Education

July 15, 2005 UCLA Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) Highlights of EAOP in the Lynwood Unified School District

The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) was established in 1976 by the University of California to expand postsecondary education opportunities for California’s educationally disadvantaged students. Specifically, the goals of the UCLA EAOPrograms are to increase the academic competitiveness of students so they are college ready and admissible to the University of California. By successfully completing the UC A-G requirements, college entrance exams and participating in extracurricular activities, EAOP participants prepare to be admissible to the most selective colleges, like UCLA, upon high school graduation. EAOP works collaboratively with schools to provide students with challenging academic enrichment activities. In short, EAOP is an academic preparation program that prepares students for the opportunity to make college possible by working together with families, educators, schools and communities to promote and cultivate a college-going culture.

Currently there are 92 schools participating in the UCLA Early Academic Outreach Program: 60 high schools and 32 middle schools representing nine school districts in Los Angeles County. In the Lynwood Unified School District, EAOP has operated in Lynwood High School, Hosler Middle School (until its closure in ‘03) and Lynwood Middle School for over 15 years serving over 20,000 students and their families. We are also currently working with the ninth graders at the new Lynwood 9 West Academy campus who are participants in our Career Based Outreach Program (CBOP). CBOP is a program designed to provide an early college outreach experience and graduate/professional school outreach services and opportunities to targeted high school students (Scholars) and UCLA undergraduate students (Fellows), respectively. Using a service learning model, Fellows mentor and help scholars map an educational plan as they explore their own career and graduate school interests and options while also helping scholars do the same. Fellows help Scholars develop the necessary learning tools that will allow them to begin to take responsibility for their own learning. The Scholars then share this information with other students in their school or with students at the middle school level, reinforcing what has been learned. The goal of the Fellow/Scholar sessions is to help the scholars become proactive learners.

EAOP has two full-time site coordinators assigned to work in the Lynwood schools with a host of UCLA undergraduates known as Bruin Advisors and CBOP Fellows providing services. Many are former Lynwood students working alongside staff to help Lynwood students become college knowledgeable, ready and admissible.

UCLA EAOP offers academic preparation activities and opportunities for students and their family in four categories: 1) Academic Enrichment which includes Saturday academies emphasizing math, critical reading, writing and analytical skills, and summer residential academic boot camps at UCLA; 2) Academic Advising, where staff will develop for students a 3-4 year individualized academic plan (IAP) which is monitored regularly, offer mentoring; tutorial assistance and or referral; assistance with college applications, personal statements and FAFSA; 3) Test Prep Workshops on the PSAT, ACT, and SAT I/II; and 4) UC Education which includes parent/family college preparatory workshops, college informational meetings; Financial Aid/FAFSA workshops, college conferences, concurrent enrollment; campus visits; service learning projects; study skills/learning tools instruction as well as UC admission/A-G in-service training for school personnel. At the end of each year, EAOP administers a senior survey to all EAOP seniors. The survey is designed to summarize UC A-G course pattern completion, UC eligibility, and post-secondary enrollment plans. Below are the results for the class of ’03 based on students who responded to the senior survey.

• 4,333 EAOP seniors • 1,477 (34.08 %) applied to UCLA • 3,236 survey received • 524 ( 35.47 % ) admitted to UCLA • 1,759 (54.4%) UC eligible • 294 ( 56.10 %) enrolled at UCLA • 3,128 (96.7%) attended post secondary institution • 2,384 (73.67%) attended 4-year institution

Lynwood High Class of ’03 College Plans EAOP % UC Eligible Other/or Seniors UC Private Community College unknown Lynwood High 106 48% 20 18

The EAOP class of ’04 senior survey is still being compiled. However, we do know for Fall 2004 there were 38 applicants to UCLA from Lynwood High with 14 students admitted for a 36.8% admit rate.

The following chart summarizes the number of Lynwood Unified School District students served by the UCLA EAOP from 1998-99 through 2004-05. Grade Level - EAOP Students

Academic Year ONLY 6-8th 9th 10th 11th 12th Grand Total 2004-2005 TBD - TBD 75 61 136 2003-2004 1,250 375 75 61 106 617 2002-2003 * 81 65 106 139 391 2001-2002 * 93 157 139 102 491 2000-2001 * 157 139 102 41 439 1999-2000 * 139 102 41 43 325 1998-1999 * 102 41 43 94 280 1997-9998 * 41 43 94 107 285 Grand Total: 9,429 988 622 661 693 2,964 * From 1998 to 2003, approximately 8,179 middle school students in Lynwood received EAOP services. These numbers do not include the 700-1,000 non-EAOP Lynwood students served by UCLA EAOP since 1998.

Since 1998-99, UCLA has spent $489,688 in University funds to support UCLA EAOP services to Lynwood Unified School District students.

YEAR SCHOOLS COST NOTE 1998-1999 LHS $68,685 CBOP expenses at Lynwood HS only 1999-2000 LHS, HMS $53,990 2000-2001 LHS, LMS, HMS $87,362 2001-2002 LHS, LMS, HMS $115,173 2002-2003 LHS, LMS, HMS $82,618 2003-2004 LHS, LMS, HMS $40,930 Does not include summer bootcamps 2004-2005 LHS, LMS, HMS $40,930 Does not include summer bootcamps TOTAL $489,688

Thank you for the opportunity to share this cumulative summary our UCLA EAOP’s work in the Lynwood Unified School District.

Debra Pounds, Ed.D. Director, UCLA Early Academic Outreach Programs UCLA Center X and Lynwood Unified School District Partnership 1998-2004

1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 Totals UCLA Outreach Funding 628,000 628,000 437,887 182,698 135,278 132,736 $2,144,599 LUSD Contracts with Center X 27,536 79,794 --- 207,110 874,575 666,000 $1,855,015

Center X Programs for Teachers Goal: Deepen content knowledge and strengthen pedagogical practices • Mathematics Leadership Teacher Groups • Elementary Mathematics Institute (EMI) • Secondary Mathematics Summit • LUCI Algebra and Geometry for secondary teachers • Algebra Project for Elementary Teachers • Staff Development Sessions on CAHSEE • Literacy Leadership Teacher Groups • Results Training • Literacy and Science Institutes for K-5 Teachers • Secondary Literacy Summit • Biology Institutes • Social Science Institutes • Instructional Improvement Coaching in literacy and mathematics • Summer Leadership Institutes • Teacher Leadership Coaching • New Teacher Induction and on-going support • TEACH Lynwood • Instructional Assistants Symposium • Special Ed Compliance Workshops • Non-classroom Personnel Workshops: Your Role as a Member of a Learning Community

Center X Programs for Students Goal: Improve academic performance of students • Young Academicians (Mathematicians, Readers, Writers & Archeologist Institutes) • LEGO and Robotics Programs • Writing Before College Workshops • 9th Grade Analytical Reading & Writing Institute • Algebra Bridge Program

Center X Programs for Parents Goal: Increase parent involvement and understanding of curricula for college admission • Parent Curriculum Project • Family Math Night • Family Reading Literacy Night Center X Programs for School and District Administrators Support Goal: Support LUSD in developing and striving toward vision, strategic plan, instructional leadership, implementation of state requirements • Education Trust Retreats and conference Attendance • Development of the Ed Trust Action Plan • Principals Institute in Mathematics • Administrative Leadership Coaching • Board and Superintendent Retreats and Study Sessions • Superintendent Cabinet Study Sessions • Assistance in creating a district-wide vision for student achievement • Assisting in developing structures for hiring and selection of school personnel • Facilitating Department Meetings • Developing curriculum and assessment protocals • Support during WASC accreditation • Grant Writing - Reading First Grant Awarded

Examples of Successes API Results Lynwood Middle School Lynwood High School 2001-2002 475 464 2002-2003 533 525 2003-2004 550 541

New Teacher Retention: 75% over last three years

CAHSEE Pass Rates: Mathematics English Language Arts 2001-2002 12% 31% 2002-2003 32% 57% 2003-2004 50% 60%

Parents: • Over 200 parents participated in 13-week Curriculum Institutes • Parent representatives attended the American Education Research Association Chicago 2003, to present their research findings as parent researchers. Valerie Nunez, Emma Street & Mary Johnson (2003). Toward a Critical Parent Involvement and a Bottom Up Accountability System in Public Education: Voices from the Margins. AERA 2003 • Parents participated in developing professional development workshops for teacher education programs. Teachers emerged with strategies on how to involve parents in the schools as agents of change instead of dependent observers in their student's education. The parents presented workshops at: • Loyola Marymount University Teacher Education Program • Cal State Dominquez Hills University Teacher Education Program • Cal Lutheran Teacher Education Program • UCLA Teach for America Program • UCLA Teacher Education Program • Whittier Union Migrant Parent Program • ABC Unified School District Teacher Prof. Development • Southgate Middle School Teacher Prof. Development

Jody Priselac, Ed.D. Executive Director, Center X–UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies UCLA School Management Program and Lynwood Unified School District: Work on Immediate Intervention Underperforming Schools Program (II/USP) Grants

Schools: Abbott ES, Agnes ES, Hosler MS (now 9 West), Lincoln ES, Lynwood MS, Rogers ES, Roosevelt ES, Twain ES, Lynwood HS and Lynwood MS.

UCLA’s School Management Program (SMP) was involved in these schools from the time each of the schools was identified as eligible for the Immediate Intervention program or as a ynwoodL District Grant school subject to the same criteria. UCLA SMP faculty convened the working groups to write the plan as required by the State or the District. SMP convened and facilitated the parent meetings to promote understanding of the reason and process behind their identification and then gathered their input for the plan as required. SMP did surveys of staff and community and carried out walk-throughs of almost every classroom in these schools to identify challenge areas that would be addressed in the plan. SMP worked with the schools to assure compliance with the II/USP requirements, both in the content and format areas. SMP assisted them in their presentation to the local school board as required. On approval of the plan by the State, SMP assisted as a state approved provider at the schools, paid for with state funds (except in Lynwood District grant schools), with their implementation of the plan both through convening and conducting local meetings on implementation and providing professional development to address the organizational and curricular requirements of the plans. We continued to meet with and monitor the progress of the schools as they moved toward and reached exit from the program through achieving their required goals. (Hosler MS began when it was a district grant school to prepare for II/USP inclusion when it was a middle school. The process and involvement was the same as the above-mentioned schools until it was reconstituted as 9 West).

In many cases the transformational change has continued as their capacity to do so was enhanced. SMP coaching has prompted administrative leaders to clarify their academic goals and identify how to support staff in achieving these goals. The Administrative Team met regularly with grade level chairs conducting conversations on how to implement a cohesive language arts program particularly in the schools fully implementing Open Court in all grades. With the support of SMP coaches, they have begun to identify what data they are going to pay attention to on an on-going basis to measure their progress toward achieving their goals. They are working on refining their ability to use on-going assessments to focus instruction. Most welcomed opportunities to hone their skills in using protocols to look at student work as a faculty and as grade level teams. SMP’s role has been to build the capacity of school leaders to facilitate change that enables them to meet state and federal goals as well as the personal and District goals to which they are deeply committed.

The following chart summarizes funding sources for SMP’s involvement with the Lynwood Unified School District as its State Immediate Intervention Underperforming Schools Program (II/USP) provider. II/USP state funding was used except where LDG (Lynwood District Grant) is designated and where District funds supported efforts. Numbers are rounded off. In 2003- 04, except for the District Office work, Lynwood USD work was through the UCLA-Lynwood Partnership. In 2004-05, some professional development days were completed before District cancelled contracts. These figures are not shown. The Partnership continues the Lynwood Middle School contract for this year. School 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 Abbott ES $34,000 $38,000 Agnes ES $30,000 $35,000 Lincoln ES $26,000 Lindbergh ES $36,000 $ 35,500 (LDG) (LDG) Rogers ES $26,000 Roosevelt ES $36,000 $35,000 (LDG) (LDG) Twain ES $34,000 $42,000 Lynwood HS $47,000 $100,000 (w/UCLA partnership) Lynwood MS $33,000 $3,600 $40,000 Hosler (9 West) $26,000 $35,000 District Office $35,000

Dan Chernow, Ed.D. Director, UCLA School Management Program