After over a year of preparation; parents, teachers, and students welcomed the WASC Visiting Committee. The three days of the WASC visit consisted of a series of meetings where the WASC representatives met with a series of different focus and home groups ranging from school culture to the school curriculum.
The WASC team consisted of diverse individuals who arrived with the intention to observe the school. “Their purpose was to verify the school’s over two hundred page self-study report,” said Mayra Tercero, president of the Visual & Performing Arts small school.
For many this may seem as an easy task: however, over the course of the three days the WASC team arrived at school at around 6:00 a.m. to meet with the school staff. Additionally, each WASC member was assigned a certain section, which they had to analyze. On March 11, the last day of the visit, they presented their findings in the 4:30 p.m. community meeting with the administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and students.
“Based on the comments of the visiting committee we are doing well,” said Principal Jesus Nunez, who like the rest, anxiously awaited the comments from the WASC visiting committee. Further details will be posted on the school website throughout the month in regards to the comments that the WASC committee made.
While it may seem like the end of the ongoing stress of the people who collaborated on the report, the WASC process continues and will continue to foster the school’s growth.
