Kaizen Education Foundation dba Mission Heights Preparatory High School

Mission Heights is offering both a summer program as well as additional classroom aides to make sure that students have the ability to recover credits so that they can graduate on track with their peers. Mission Heights is designed with an AVID program and has always reached out to students who may not have had college as a plan. Mission heights serves a population that is 308 economically disadvantaged and 24 ESS and actively outreaches to the community to serve students who are either desiring a college education and/or need an opportunity to recover credits so that they can become a HS graduate.

The LEA will utilize the 20% set-aside to target practices and interventions that address the learning loss experienced by subgroups most impacted by COVID-19 (those that qualify as low-income, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, children in foster care, and migratory students); due to the socio-economic status of the school population, all students may benefit from these targeted practices. The set-aside funds will be used to reimburse instructional interventions with paraprofessional, social-emotional interventions with School Counselor and Thrively software, and instructional support with multiple software purchases targeted to the specific needs of students in order to address learning loss due to COVID-19.

The remaining funds will be used to provide additional services that allow for enhanced learning opportunities, space and technology for social distance, and other items which will enable the school to remain open after the initial shutdowns from the crisis. Purchases will include expansion of learning space for social distance, technology (computers and firewall) to enable technology-enhanced learning, and a marketing campaign to recruit teachers, reenroll students that left, boost summer school and special events enrollment, boost student/family engagement and notify about COVID status and reopening of school (recruitment / retention pay, marketing specialist, search engine marketing, website hosting and redesign).

All student success rates will be monitored by school staff and if progress is not seen, adjustments will be made to instruction and interventions as needed per individual student in order to increase academic achievement All student behavior referral rates will be monitored by school staff, and if needs arise, new Social Emotional supports will be given to reduce behavior incidents and increase academic achievement in classes.