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West Valley principals, staff and students showcase PBIS, culinary class and multilingual supports
Summary
School leaders and students presented PBIS outcomes, a new culinary arts class and ELD/ WIDA-focused professional development; presenters said tiered interventions cut exclusion incidents and increased engagement.
Principals Amber Stiles Gill and Anita Clark and staff presented highlights from the mid-level campus on Nov. 10, emphasizing a district strategic plan goal: a culture of safety and belonging. They outlined teacher-clarity strategies, student-created values posters and a refined Tier 1 PBIS approach the school said reduced instructional hours lost.
School leaders cited about 5,800 instructional hours lost across roughly 1,200 students in 2023–24 and reported a substantial drop after consistent Tier 1 implementation in 2024–25 (presenters stated the figure as '38'). The presenters said that change represents nearly 2,000 instructional hours saved compared with earlier years and credited teacher collaboration, flowcharts for responses to minor and major incidents, and tiered supports.
Students and staff also showcased a new culinary arts course, student-run PBIS store operations (average sales about 400–500 every other week), and after-school club activity, including an "AcuScience" STEAM club that demonstrated experiments and supervised work with syringes and scalpels as part of structured CTE learning.
Jesse Golbeck, multilingual coach, described ELD release days in which teachers reviewed WIDA and iReady data, committed to three classroom scaffolds and planned small-group strategies to support multilingual students. Staff said survey windows and data summits will share performance and perceptual data publicly on the district strategic plan website.
The board and community members praised the presentations; several public commenters later referenced the teams' work to illustrate why facility upgrades, like an auditorium, would support expanding arts and extracurricular opportunities.
