CVUSD honored at White House
The Coachella Valley Unified School District is being represented at President Obama’s Next Generation High School Summit at the White House on Tuesday.
Watch CVUSD in live panel at White House at 10 a.m.
Superintendent Darryl Adams and the Board of Trustees made the announcement on Monday.
District officials said the summit is focused on the transformation of American public high schools to better serve all students and prepare them for future opportunities, college and career success. The White House initiative is centered on preparing them for the high wage fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.
Teachers, administrators, researchers, industry and foundation leaders attending the summit will discuss how to better train teachers and customize learning methods and subsequent student assessment to demonstrate mastery in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs, officials said in the release.
Dr. Adams stated, “The CVUSD Board of Trustees directed staff and myself to transform our high schools several years ago to ensure that our students would graduate prepared for College, Career, and Citizenship. To achieve the Boards objective we have developed and begun the implementation of an all-inclusive 5 point transformation. CVUSD’s transformation includes: implementation of Wall-to-Wall Academies, instituting a district-wide UC/CSU A through G curriculum, launching a personalized learning program which has become nationally recognized Mobile Learning Initiative, creating a state of the art professional development program, developing a new proposal to rebuild Coachella Valley High School into a High Tech STEM to STEAM Next Generation High School.”
President Obama’s 2016 budget calls for the establishment of a new $125 million competitive program administered by the U.S. Department of Education to help communities across America launch Next Generation High Schools that will be laboratories for cutting-edge STEM teaching and learning, demonstrating the reform that the president has championed, according to the release.
“CVUSD will aggressively compete for this opportunity to continue our journey on the road to educational excellence,” Dr. Adams said.
