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East Side Union High School District
From 2006 through 2008, QTEL worked systemically with four high schools in this large San Jose, California, school district to build their capacity to raise the academic achievement of the schools' students, especially those who were English language learners, and to prepare them for successful transitions beyond high school.
The partner schools — Yerba Buena High School, James Lick High School, Silver Creek High School, and Mount Pleasant High School — participated in professional development for all teachers at each high school. An initial emphasis on promoting academic oral and reading skills was designed to help teachers move high school English language learners past the intermediate plateau, where many stall out linguistically and academically. This was followed with professional development to prepare second language learners to work at increasing levels of conceptual, academic, and linguistic sophistication, with an emphasis on academic writing and building the competencies for success in college.
QTEL also worked with each partner school to develop an informal level of teacher leadership in the core high school academic disciplines, as well as to support the development of teacher leaders in formal roles to assume the professional development of their colleagues beyond the duration of the QTEL partnership.
Support for this work was provided by the James Irvine Foundation.
See also Latino College Preparatory Academy in San Jose.
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