Accountability Report

Instructional Services

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Every student can find success, regardless of background, experience, obstacle or disability.

Instructional Services works with local school districts to help meet the diverse and comprehensive needs of all of their students by offering a broad array of alternative programs where students are able to excel in multiple ways. With over 150 diverse staff members... teachers, educational assistants, specialists, experts in curriculum and school improvement, school psychologists, support staff and more...we are committed to the success of every student, every school and our community.

Alpha High School
Alpha High School is a school-to-work program that serves the needs of students who have been unsuccessful in a traditional high school setting.

Alpha Turnaround
Turnaround provides school-readiness and skill development in academic content areas while promoting positive social behaviors.

Alternative Pathways
Alternative Pathways is an educational program designed to assist alternative high school students who are the first in their family to go to college, are from low-income families, and have the potential to succeed in higher education.

Arata Creek School
The Social Emotional Skills Program operates at Arata Creek School and provides direct educational services to elementary, middle school and high school students with social/emotional disabilities.

Attendance and Counseling
Attendance and Counseling provides support to students who reside in districts with enrollment of under 1,000. This support includes counseling to students who have irregular school attendance.

Regional School Improvement
The Regional School Improvement is comprised of four initiatives; Advanced Placement (AP), and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), High School Diploma Requirements and Secondary Literacy.

Curriculum Services, Support and School Improvement
Curriculum Support provides consultation and planning to support curriculum development, school reform initiatives, textbook adoptions, instructional models, student assessment, professional development needs and other curriculum areas as identified by districts.

Donald E. Long Program
The Donald E. Long Program is located at the Multnomah County Juvenile Justice Complex in Portland and serves students awaiting trials and hearings. Students receive educational and social skills to assist them in returning to the community and their home schools.

Helensview Phoenix - Pregnant and Parenting Student Services
Phoenix provides services to youth between the ages of 12-21 who are pregnant and/or parenting and identified as at risk and requiring individualized programming, prenatal and parenting instruction.

Helensview RISE - Re-entry into Successful Education
RISE provides an opportunity for youth ages 12-21 who have dropped out of school or who are experiencing chronic attendance/behavioral issues to receive individualized instruction, specialized support services (drug and alcohol counseling, gang intervention) within a context of jobs and careers.

Helensview Turnaround/Pride
Turnaround/PRIDE provides individualized academic, social services and job training for students ages 12-21 identified as at-risk and who have not had success in other conventional or alternative settings.

Trellis
Trellis serves students ages 12-21 who are on probation, parole and/or returning from state correctional facilities, both juvenile and adult.

Incarcerated Youth
Incarcerated Youth serves school-age youth up to 19 years of age without high school diplomas and youth with disabilities up to 21 years of age who had Individual Education Plans (IEPs) prior to incarceration who are detained within Multnomah County adult correctional facilities.

Migrant Education
A Title I-C grant from the Oregon Department of Education provides supplemental instruction to identified migrant students to improve academic and English language skills.

Migrant Education Pre-School
A Title I-C grant from the Oregon Department of Education provides children with learning opportunities for cognitive, social, emotional and motor skills development and a continuation of student learning in their native Spanish language through planned and informal activities.

Migrant Education Summer School
This supplemental five-week summer extension of the regular Migrant Education Program was funded by a Title I-C grant from the Oregon Department of Education for Summer 2008.

Oregon Trail Overnight
Oregon Trail Overnight provides fourth graders a two-day integrated educational experience in natural science, history, art, music and mathematics using the Outdoor School model of hands-on, applied field study.

Outdoor School
Outdoor School is a week-long residential environmental education program for sixth grade students.

Outdoor School Programs
Environmental education companion programs are provided to public and private school districts for students in grades 2 through 12.

Oregon Youth Conservation Corps
OYCC provides an opportunity for Alpha students to work on fee-for-service restoration and preservation projects for local agencies.

Student Assessment Services - Special Projects
The Oregon Department of Education issued contracts to Student Assessment Services to act as lead contractor to provide data corrections support, technical assistance, support and training on assessment procedures and administration of the score sites; and to provide help desk support, technical assistance and training to school districts participating in the state's on-line English Language Proficiency Assessment.

Student Assessment Services - Student Testing
Student Assessment Services provides districts access to test and survey processing, research, evaluation, professional staff development and student performance monitoring services.

Tech Prep - Carl Perkins Allocation
MESD manages the Carl Perkins Tech Prep allocation for the region.

Tech Prep Consortium
MESD provided support and technical assistant to district and community college professional technical programs.