St Johns Unified District

Planting and growing a garden at Coronado Elementary after school and throughout the summer will teach children how to grow their own food. Food harvested will particularly benefit low-income children, foster care youth, and students experiencing homelessness, but will benefit all children with unique needs. Caring for the garden will also provide all students/children with outdoor exercise and social interaction, in addition to building self-esteem that comes with harvesting and eating food they have grown themselves.
Revision #3 5/12/2022: Replace Coronado Elementary with St. Johns High School.

St. Johns High School will offer a summer Woodshop class and a summer Weights class to give students a way for them to learn new skills, keep busy during the summer, socialize with their peers during the summer months, and get much needed exercise in response to improving their social, emotional, and mental health needs. St. Johns High School will offer a summer woodshop and a summer weights class to all enrolled students (including all racial and ethnic groups, economically disadvantaged students, children with disabilities, English learners, gender, and migrant status; students experiencing homelessness; and children and youth in foster care.

St. Johns Middle School will offer extended day clubs - specifically a culinary club, an art club, and a Battle of the Books club to provide students with after-school enrichment in response to improving their social, emotional, and mental health needs.

New classroom computers to replace 8 year-old hardware that is slow and outdated. This will assist the teachers to access updated software and technology that will benefit all students, including students from low-income families, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, children in foster care, and migratory students. New computers will allow teachers to use newer software to combat learning loss in the classroom.

ACT Prep course all eligible students (including students from low-income families, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, children in foster care, and migratory students) can afford to prepare to take the ACT for college entrance and to pay for the test itself to improve their ability to obtain a higher education after high school. Making sure all students have the necessary prep materials for the ACT test without regard to cost alleviates the burden on disadvantaged students taking the test unprepared because they were not able to afford the study materials.

Teacher Study Groups: Reteach for high school students on Fridays during the school year (August-May) (SJHS is currently on 4-day week) to address learning loss in the classroom as a result of Covid-19 using reteach through teacher-directed one-on-one instruction with students via current Board approved curriculum. Math: enVision Geometry, enVision Algebra I, enVision Algebra II, enVision Mathematics Common Core by Savvas Learning Company. Offered to all enrolled students (including all racial and ethnic groups, economically disadvantaged students, children with disabilities, English learners, gender, and migrant status; students experiencing homelessness; and children and youth in foster care). Students are chosen by individual teachers using grades measures, Performance Matters, and ACT Benchmarks.

Freckle will be used specifically for SPED students who need additional math and reading intervention.

Beyond Textbooks will be for all students, but targeted at all disproportionately impacted students who need math intervention.