Recapping Our Work With the Staff at MetWest High School
MetWest High School — a partnership between the Oakland Unified School District (Oakland, Calif.) and the Big Picture Learning Network — prepares its students to recognize and take advantage of all the resources that can further their personal well being, as well as the well being of their communities.
Here at Eagle Rock, our Professional Development Center has been working with MetWest for two years now — with associate director Dan Condon as the lead — on ways that the school can use relevant, key data indicators to guide them in their work.
In particular, MetWest is interested in using data to support existing efforts with respect to their students:
- Real world thinking
- Critical thinking
- Social and emotional intelligences
- Literacy and communication
- Resistance to oppression / social change agents / promoters of social change
Our most recent engagement with MetWest took place in Continue reading…