CVUSD HOMEThree cheers for the Chino Valley Unified School District staff for being recognized as a Model PLC at Work School District by Solution Tree! Not only is CVUSD one of two California school districts to ever be awarded this global distinction, but it is the only school district honored coming out of the Coronavirus pandemic.
To capture such a distinguishing honor that only 37 school districts internationally have been able to achieve, the District was approached to complete a rigorous application process where CVUSD administrators presented clear evidence of consecutive data showing increases in student achievement scores over the past three years and the implementation of PLC methods districtwide that are embedded in CVUSD’s culture and day-to-day practices.
During the 2018-2019 school year, the District established committees of teachers and instructional coaches to identify districtwide essential standards for each grade level or course. Districtwide implementation of essential standards began in the 2019-2020 school year and committees executed formative Essential Standards Assessments (ESAs) that are administered three times a year to monitor student learning around the established essential standards.
Cultivating clarity around essential standards and deconstructing each standard into clear learning intentions and success criteria has won the Chino Valley Unified School District recognition from other leading educational agencies, such as Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), an independent, non-partisan research center led by faculty directors at Stanford University, USC, UC Davis, UCLA, and the UC Berkeley. In its December 2023 report What Does it Take to Accelerate the Learning of Every Child?, PACE representatives applauded the actions CVUSD has taken to help schools focus on the work of teaching and learning while ensuring that its system supports the scaling of high-quality practices across district sites.
For their commitment and success for applying an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve, Michael G. Wickman Elementary, Country Springs Elementary, and Canyon Hills JHS, have also been recognized by Solution Tree as Model PLC Schools and Butterfield Ranch Elementary as a Promising PLC School. Three additional CVUSD schools are patiently awaiting determination on their applications submitted to Solution Tree to verify if they will also proudly wear the badge of being a Model PLC School.
