SHASTA UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT STATE OF THE DISTRICT

ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020

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2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 20 ATHLETIC PROGRAM 4 SUPERINTENDENT’S 21 LOCAL CONTROL AND MESSAGE ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN 9 SCHOOLS &FACILITIES 22 BUSINESS SERVICES/

FINANCE/ FACILITIES 12 MEASURE I 14 STUDENT SUCCESS 25 TRANSPORTATION

15 ADVANCED PLACEMENT 26 HUMAN RESOURCES

16 MUSIC, ARTS & DRAMA 38 NUTRITION SERVICES 18 CAREER TECHNICAL

EDUCATION

GOVERNING BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Joe Ayer Connie Pepple Ron Zufall President President-Elect Clerk Current Term Expires Dec. 2022 Current Term Expires Dec. 2022 Current Term Expires Dec. 2020

Jamie Vericker Greg Hartt Board Member Board Member Current Term Expires Dec. 2020 Current Term Expires Dec. 2020

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OUR MISSION Educating Every Student for Success

WE VALUE Superior Academics Universal Respect Healthy Students Safe Campus Dedicated Staff

OUR VISION To inspire and prepare every student to succeed in high school and beyond. Our Board and staff are committed to excellent education through academics, the arts, athletics and activities. Our students gain the confidence and skills to adapt in their ever-changing world. Together with our families, we develop responsible members of the community.

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A Message from Superintendent Jim Cloney The 2019-20 school year was another successful year in the Shasta Union High School District (SUHSD) despite it being one of the oddest school years on record. In the fall, we dealt with Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) in our community. Unique from other school districts in the area, the SUHSD has schools served by both the Redding Electric Utility (REU) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). Only PG&E engaged in the PSPS as a preventative measure against wild fires. Foothill High School spent several days without power, but the students and staff there persevered and the school remained open with no school days lost. However, as of March 16th, the entire District went into a distance learning mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our schools ceased face-to-face instruction and direct contact with students of any kind in mid-March and remained closed for the balance of the school year. Students were graded on a “Pass / Incomplete” system for the Spring semester and teachers provided all instruction either online or with materials that were sent home with students. It was a challenging experience for all involved to say the least. Graduations were held in drive through or drive in formats and the Class of 2020 had a sendoff unlike any other class!

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All three of the comprehensive school sites also had major construction projects going on throughout the school year. The irony of the COVID-19 shutdown was that it came at virtually the same time as the completion of construction on the new twelve classrooms at Shasta and Enterprise High Schools and the new aquatic center and solar panel installation at Foothill High School. Other major projects that will be complete before the 2020-21 school year begins include the replacement of the football fields at Shasta and Foothill, the track surfaces at all three schools and a tremendous about of new paving totaling over $4 million dollars. Construction continues into the current school year and more information can be found in this document regarding Measure I projects.

Another change brought on by the COVID-19 shut down was a delay in the approval of the 2020-21 Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) as a required aspect of the funding model for schools in California (Local Control Funding Formula or LCFF). This normally would have been done by June 30 of 2020; however, that due date has been delayed to December 15, 2020. In the interim, we continue to work on the goals included in the 2019-20 LCAP. Since its inception, the LCAP has replaced the District’s Strategic Plan, while placing an emphasis on programs designed to meet the needs of English language learners, foster youth and lower socioeconomic students. College and career readiness is the cornerstone of the LCAP, and our staff remains dedicated to the aspirations set forth by the Reach Higher Shasta collaboration whose motto is, “Every student, every option.”

Our goals in the LCAP are straightforward and meaningful:

1) Successful completion of a California State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards aligned "A-G" curriculum. 2) Successful completion of Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathways. 3) Improving student engagement, support, school climate and safety.

By successfully completing these goals, the District’s graduates will have all postsecondary options available to them.

The Shasta Union High School District has much to be proud of, beginning with a supportive and visionary Board of Trustees. As funding for education is a seemingly constant concern, the Board continues to ensure quality programs are available to our students. As we have for years, the Shasta Union High School District continues to serve students in the “four A’s”: Academics, Activities, Athletics, and the Arts.

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ACADEMICS

The schools of the SUHSD have consistently scored above State averages and have led other local high schools on all academic measures. California’s state-wide

testing program has been renamed the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CASPP), and normally our 11th grade students participate in it by completing the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing again in the spring of each year. Another ACTIVITIES victim of the COVID-19 shut down was the CASPP program that was Our schools all offer a wide variety of activities to match our canceled for 2020. Our students various students’ interests and to keep students actively enroll in Advanced Placement engaged in school. Research regarding student success courses at a high rate, and they also shows a clear, positive correlation between student take and pass the Advanced achievement and involvement. Students who are involved Placement exams at a very high rate. in activities at school are more successful at school. It’s that Over the past several years SUHSD simple. Understanding this relationship is the foundation s Message teachers have embraced the from which we build outstanding clubs, student government implementation of the State programs, and service groups for our students. From the Standards. Our math program has Associated Student Body (ASB), to the Science Teams, to completed the transition from the the Future Farmers of America (FFA), to the Key Clubs, our students are involved in a variety of opportunities beyond

traditional math model to a fully integrated approach. This transition the classroom that provide for learning in an entirely has not been free of obstacles and different way. These students are learning what it takes to setbacks, but with our staff committed be a productive citizen in our community. Aside from the to the process, I know all students will groups and clubs, all of our schools have also developed benefit. Literacy continues to be complete Link Crew programs to help ease the transition of emphasized in all aspects of the our incoming 9th graders to the high school environment. curriculum, which has led to all kinds The Link Crew program pairs incoming students with upper of new lessons designed to enhance class mentors to give them the best possible chance at students’ critical thinking and problem success in high school. Each of our schools has also solving. implemented an intramural program to better engage their student population at lunch. Also, the staff in the attendance office at each school has developed an attendance incentive program. Students can’t learn if they don’t attend school regularly so we are doing whatever we can to increase attendance all the time!

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Superintendent’s Message

ATHLETICS

We are proud to continue to offer a full complement of boys and girls sports for the fall, winter and spring sports seasons. Shasta Union High School District teams compete in the Eastern Athletic League of the Northern Section of the California Interscholastic Federation (NSCIF). The competition level is always high, and so is the support for each school from the students, staff, parents and community. Our teams all had great success in 2019-20, and even with the cancelation of the spring season due to COVID-19, our schools won multiple league and section titles in both boys and girls sports. The season was filled with team and individual accolades for our students. The vast majority of our coaches are also teachers or staff members. We have very few “walk on” coaches, which means our coaches understand the importance of athletics in education and work with that balance every day. Nearly 50% of the student body at each school is involved in some sort of athletic team. Each school also has an active Athletic Boosters organized by dedicated parents that raise funds to support the athletic program with their time, resources and energy. The coaches and administrators of the SUHSD follow the tenets set forth by the NSCIF and have been long standing proponents of the “Pursuing Victory with Honor” ideals adopted by the NSCIF.

ARTS

The arts are alive and well in the Shasta Union High School District. All of our schools have band, choir, and drama programs. As with activities and athletics, research supports our belief that the arts are a critical component of a quality school system. We back up that belief by requiring all of our students to take at least one fine arts course as a requirement for graduation. Our students perform and compete at all levels: locally, regionally, and even nationally in some cases. The parent dedication to these programs at all of our schools is outstanding. Whether it be organizing a fund raiser, volunteering to help with a performance, or chaperoning a trip, the parents of students in these programs help us “take it to another level” like few schools in our area can. With literally hundreds of students involved in these programs, we continue to create well rounded graduates.

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Superintendent’s Message

THE FUTURE

Never before has the school year started with as much uncertainty as the 2020-21 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The District has developed a four phase plan for reopening our campuses – ranging for a full return to traditional instruction to a full distance learning model. The simple truth is w e may move between the various phases as the school year moves forward due to varying degrees of coronavirus transmission and the shifting of local conditions in hospitals. Construction continues into the current school year from the Measure I Bond funds. New classrooms at Enterprise and Shasta High School have opened for teachers and students, along with the aquatic center at Foothill High School. The fields and track surfaces will be ready for the new school year. New paving, an Ag barn at Foothill, a shop building at Shasta, and the reconditioning of multiple classrooms at Enterprise are all scheduled to take place during 2020-21. Our administrative teams and all staff continue to push our students to new heights academically. As the funding for education in California has been disrupted due to the economic impact of the pandemic, enrollment will hopefully see a slight increase in 2020-21. The LCAP requires very clear objectives, strategies and measures to determine if the District is succeeding. Student achievement, particularly in the area of college and career readiness, is the highest priority. As we move forward this year, a heavy emphasis will be continued on the implementation of the California State Standards and using our assessments results in both English Language Arts and Math to help guide instruction in the classroom. 2020-21 will be another exciting year, although we certainly hope to not experience the disruptions of 2019-20. I have n