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La Mesa‑Spring Valley highlights coaching, districtwide alignment in third year of NCUST partnership
Summary
District leaders presented results from a three‑year partnership with the National Center for Urban School Transformation, saying principal coaching and alignment to the district's instructional framework have driven measurable improvements in classroom practice and school audits.
District staff on Tuesday told the La Mesa‑Spring Valley School Board that the district is entering the third year of a three‑year partnership with the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST/ENCAST), and described the work as a systemwide effort to align coaching, curriculum and principal leadership with the district's framework for instruction.
The presentation, described by district staff as "our annual update on our partnership," emphasized NCUST teams' school visits in the partnership's first year, which included classroom observations, stakeholder interviews and written reports for every school site. Those reports, staff said, were used to focus the district on five key areas: professional learning, schedules and routines, teacher collaboration, principal observation and feedback, and communication and celebration.
District staff said the partnership is…
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