Remote Learning During Covid-19*

R4

That the Santa Barbara County school districts and the Santa Barbara County Education Office work together to develop a common summative testing program to be adopted for all Santa Barbara County school districts for the 2022-23 school year. GUSD Response Recommendation 4: Will not be implemented. Hopefully, our local districts will be in-person and return to the use of State testing as a common assessment across school districts, eliminating the need to have other, additional common assessments. Beyond using the State assessments, determining a common local measure across all Santa Barbara County Schools would require further analysis. Currently, our school district utilizes the Renaissance system for benchmark and progress monitoring. Other school districts may have unique student, device, and budget needs that lend themselves to prefer another assessment system. We are currently in a contract for this assessment system through the 2022-2023 school year; moving to an alternative common measure would cause financial loss to our district and others. Additionally, a new assessment system would require additional staff professional development, parent education, and influence factors in other minor but essential areas such as color-coding systems linked to Renaissance outcomes for checking out books in the library. Since we already have our professional development allocated to other topics for the 2022-2023 school year, moving to a new assessment system so soon would impact additional staff learning planned. Finally, our district would strongly prefer not to move to another assessment system since we finally have a solid data collection system that lets us analyze student outcomes over time. Moving to a new assessment system at this time would disrupt the quality of data analysis we can conduct on our student learning as a whole, as well as by student groups.

R5

Santa Barbara County Schools outline their plans to attain federal and State grade-level math and English language arts standards. GUSD Response Recommendation 5: Requires further analysis. It is reasonable that districts and the County expect students to obtain grade-level objectives. However, it is also essential that districts can meet the needs of our specific students. Additionally, as districts have varied resources, plans should reflect those differences. Should a common plan be needed, it is expected that the County can synthesize information from the current plans that currently exist in each school district.

R8

For each Santa Barbara County school district to develop plans by the start of the 2022-23 school year to encourage community organizations to continue providing critical academic and emotional support. GUSD Response Recommendation 8: Will be implemented. During summer 2022, the GUSD school social worker, Assistant Superintendent of Pupil Services, and community liaisons collaborate with GUSD community partners to ensure the ongoing provision of academic and emotional support.

R9

Each Santa Barbara County school district maintains adequate internet services for all students if distance learning or an emergency should again require remote learning. GUSD Response Recommendation 9: GUSD continues to provide mobile hot spots to families that need internet access and maintains an inventory of additional devices should any new families need help with access. We will also continue to use our technology division to communicate with local providers to identify affordable internet service for families and GUSD Community Liaisons and school site staff to help parents navigate access to the affordable plans and determine the need for additional hot spots. Sincerely and respectfully submitted, autoyloa Dr. Diana Galindo-Roybal Superintendent Goleta Union School District 401 North Fairview Avenue • Goleta, CA 93117 • (805) 681-1200