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Shafter High School
Kern Union High
Kern County
2001
API Base Report
Project Name
Richland/Shafter CSUB RSC Partnership
Project Partners
Richland Middle School
CSU Bakersfield
Project Director(s)
Edwin Sasaki
Interim Asst. Vice President
CSU Bakersfield
9001 Stockdale Hwy.
Bakersfield, CA 93311
Tel: (661) 664-3420
Email: esasaki@csub.edu
Michelle Jackson
CSU Bakersfield
9001 Stockdale Hwy.
Bakersfield, CA 93311
Tel: (661) 664-2489
Email: mjackson6@csub.edu
Summary
Richland Middle School, Shafter High School, and California
State University Bakersfield (CSUB) have forged a partnership
(its acronym is RCS) to help students successfully complete
the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE), finish their
high school degree, and be prepared to pursue a university
degree. The middle school and high school teacher, the university
faculty, and the administrators have worked on the grant since
November 2000. Each partner is confident for its prospects
for success.
The RCS Partners hip has adopted a multi-pronged approach.
Its core approach will involve middle and senior high school
faculty in a curricular alignment effort to ensure the 6th
grade through 9th grade courses are designed and have content
that enables student to pass the CAHSEE. Along with the alignment
effort will be a year-long series of in-services that will
showcase new pedagogies for use in those classes, examine
learning styles and how to organize classes to accommodate
different styles, and address many other topics. A second
prong will be to involve the parents and the community of
Shafter in creating an atmosphere that encourages and supports
the students to pass the CAHSEE and to prepare for university
study. A final prong will be the provision of various means
of support and assistance. CSUB will employ its students as
tutors and mentors. The partnership will engage Shafter residents
to also mentor the high school students about the importance
of completing a college preparatory curriculum.
The RCS Partnership promises to be a model that successfully
works with limited English speaking population that comes
from lower economic circumstances. This model will be useful
to many other institutions throughout California.
CAHSEE
Report and Evaluation:
Shafter High School (.pdf, 244K)
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