As the 2023 - 2024 school year glides towards completion, our county wide education team looks back at a year filled with activity supporting local school districts, successes of local kids and teams while at the same time planning for the upcoming year.  
 

RECRUITMENT

As we wind down the current school year, we are already preparing for next year.  Our budget and business office folks have been “in the trenches” of the upcoming school year for a few months already, developing financial strategies while also keeping a close eye on the state budget negotiations.  
 

With an eye on future years, we are also proud to announce that the Trinity County Office of Education (TCOE) has launched a new recruitment video that features staff and leaders from every school district in the county. 
 

Funded by TCOE, and produced by Happy Valley Film Co., the video promotes working at local school districts and life in Trinity County overall.  We launched the video on social media this week and already it’s garnered a huge response! 
 

RETIREMENTS

It’s with a combination of happiness and sadness that we say goodbye to Laura Dawson and Ann Hill, who are both retiring at the end of this school year.   With combined decades of service to the schools and kids of Trinity County, Laura and Ann are both leaving a legacy of great works and impact for us to continue.  We are hoping to see them both out enjoying their new lives in the community!! 

DRIVEN BY DATA

While our school districts recently wrapped up this year’s standardized testing sessions, we spent a good chunk of time supporting districts based on last year’s test scores that are outlined on the California Dashboard and the California Test Results websites that give two different views of standardized test results, by county, district and school site .  Our Differentiated Assistance work has started to yield results for our local school districts and we’re looking forward to working with all school districts on continuous improvement objectives. 
 

We’re also pretty pumped up about our emerging use of data and analysis tools at multiple districts.  Many of our school districts are using either the IXL or iReady diagnostic platforms to help individual students fill in their knowledge gaps and grow their individual strengths.  Our instructional coaches are working with many faculty members in the implementation of these supportive tools.  Additionally, we recently hosted a session with representatives from our data analysis platform, Qualtrics, that we’re utilizing more and more countywide to assist districts with everything from test scores, attendance, and health referrals to community feedback and overall community demographic profiles.  We hope to expand use of all of these tools in the upcoming school year! 
 

HAPPY SUMMER / SEE YOU NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
All in all, we are incredibly proud of the accomplishments of our local school districts over the past year and are looking forward to both some down time over the summer (hit the rivers and lakes is the advice from our recruitment video) while also planning for the upcoming year.