Business, Technology, and Design (BTD)

Unifying Vision/Identity BTD will provide a personalized,

supportive, and collaborative academic environment.

BTD values trust, fairness, mutual respect and high expectations for all stakeholders.

We are committed to graduating students:Career orientedGlobally awareEconomically, and technologically literateCollege and career ready

Rigorous, Standards-Based Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Thematic units and Project Based Learning A-G Curriculum Career Technical Education (CTE) pathway

courses Computer technology Digital imaging Culinary arts Automotive technology

Instruction guided by Rigor and Relevance Framework and continual data analysis

Common instructional strategies A uniform “white board configuration”

Equity and AccessOpen and inclusiveCulturally relevant and linguistically

responsive instructional environmentTier 2 and 3 interventionsEffective collaboration with special

education teachersEL Master Plan with focus on

reclassification

Personalization We will foster academic foundations, communication skills,

critical thinking, leadership, collaboration, employability and career development, technical/technology skills and goal setting.

Our faculty will utilize data analysis of student interests, parental surveys and prior academic performance.

Looped career pathway classes enable instructors to establish and employ effective, adaptive pedagogy.

Opportunities for job shadowing, mentoring, work experience, apprenticeships and internships with our community partners

Complementary classes at district occupational centers, ROP community locations, adult schools and local community colleges.

Accountability and Distributed Leadership

School-wide leadership team will hold staff accountable to ensure the success of all students.

Small school coordinator Peer observations Continual data analysis of student progress

and growth Parental Involvement

Collaboration/Parent and Community Engagement

Student led conferences School-wide parent conferences, meetings and other events Communications through a variety of 21st century technologies:

Regular monitoring of the school climate and culture through parent, student, and faculty surveys.

E-mail system ConnectEd communications Utilization of the Sylmar website

Our existing resources such as the Parent Center, our Sylmar Neighborhood Partners and Educare

Provide parents with learning opportunities such as workshops on topics: A-G requirements, intervention programs, CAHSEE workshops and assisting their student to become college and career ready.

BTD’s coordinator will reach out to community organizations and institutions to advance professional relationships and student opportunities

Professional Development 5-Day summer training focused on Project-Based

Learning and thematic units Weekly meetings Banked Tuesday professional development

“Cycle of continuous improvement” Analyze data from CST’s, CELDT, CAHSEE, periodic

assessments and common/formative assessments. Peer observation calendar and a schedule to

analyze the observation data Teaching and Learning Framework, Rigor and Relevance

Framework Summative assessments which will determine the content

of future professional developments.