Val High & Val Academy Instructional Coach

⚔️✨🛡️VVHS Ts meet to discuss DMOL data 📈. How better to structure these chats 💬 than using ✨TEAM INTERVIEW✨ @KaganOnline?! ✅ Ts write 2-3 ?s they’d like to ask their colleagues ✅ Each T stands to BE interviewed for 2 min ✅ then ROTATE Try this w STUDENTS!

🛡️✨⚔️You’ve never seen middle school students get so excited about DATA! 📈🤯💥🎉😱 Getting clear on where we’ve been & the WORK ahead of us to KNOCKOUT 🥊 the CAASPP! Val Verde Academy is in the ring and READY to fight! 💥🥊 Here’s a round of Math practice @PlayBlooket !

⚔️✨🛡️CAASPP Showdown Round 2! School-wide competition hosted on Zoom in all Advisory classes. Math game on @PlayBlooket! ✅Play ✅ Review results ✅ Play again! 🤯💥Watch LEARNING happen Knights are going to KNOCKOUT 🥊 the CAASPP! @Val_Principal @RCOEALTEDU

✨⚔️🛡️Happening EVERY WED from now till testing across the entire campus on Zoom: 📣CAASPP SHOWDOWN! 😱 🥊 Fast & Curious style! @eduprotocols ✅ Play ✅ Review data & Coach ✅ Play again! #knockouttheCAASPP @SmarterBalanced @PlayBlooket

✨🎲🎰⚔️Knights take on a Vegas-style celebration “FABULOUS FAFSA” to honor SENIORS 🎓 that got their paperwork in order to “CA💰h in for college!” We are leading the pack in RivCo Continuation High Schools in submissions for FAFSA! @FAFSA @RCOE #altEd

I got to attend this spectacular monthly event that recognizes students from MVUSD, VVUSD & @mvcollege that have showed exemplary strength in the face of obstacles. Thank you 🙏🏼 for hosting March Air Field Museum. Congrats 🎉 to our Ss from VVHS & VVA!

🛡️⚔️✨Monthly ELAC & School site Council meeting for VVHS & VA. Got something to say? A suggestion, question, or idea to make life better for students on campus? Join us. 😉 1x a month 8:30 - 9:30am in the Library. We also recognize outstanding Ss & their families 🫶.

@askMsQ 🙌🙌🙌

Students use AI when they’re overwhelmed, anxious, confused, or racing impossible deadlines. Not because they’re lazy. Because they’re human. If we focus only on detection, we miss the opportunity to redesign learning, teach ethical use, and create work too meaningful to fake.

⚔️🛡️✨Knights engage in catered experiences for Black History Month! Today we learned about George Washington Carver and his work with soil 🌱& peanuts 🥜 Our knights got to try an array of popular peanut butter snacks! 😃☀️ Thx🙏🏼 Wellness Center! @vvhs_knights @val_principal

⚔️🛡️✨Knights prepare to GOOAALLLLL for it & LEVEL UP on #ELPAC testing during our rally today⚽️💥🥅🌎! #englishlearners #testprep #levelup @Val_Principal @VVUSD_Family

💘 🛡️ ⚔️ ✨ “Paint 🎨 & Pizza 🍕” with PBIS! Knights were able to cash 💰 in their MINGA points and participate today during Advisory & Lunch! Bravo 👏🏼 Ms. Whitmer! Thank you for what you bring to our campus! @Val_Principal

⚔️ ✨ 🛡️ ⚽️ ✏️ 🗣️ 📖 Our Admin got into classes today to get our Knights pumped 💥 to #LevelUp on the #ELPAC! #reclassify #eld #multilingual @val_principal @vvhs_guidance @vvhs_knights @vvusdedservices @vvusd_live Good luck Knights! “Let’s goooooaaalll ⚽️ 🥅 💥 for it!”

⚔️ ✨ 🛡️ I 💛CCL days! ✅ Kagan Structure: Listen Right ✅ Brisk AI: turn any article ➡️podcast ✅ MLK “I Have a Dream” Listen Right ✅ Data review 📈 & goals @KaganOnline #kaganambassadors @briskteaching @SmarterBalanced

@JustinUnruh16 This is probably one of the best teacher reflections I’ve read in a long time. So true. And so many kids fit this profile. Not bad. Not rude. Just not motivated. Total apathy… what do we do with that? Thank you for sharing.

This blog post is a pivot. It’s about the unmotivated student—the one who doesn’t want to be there, doesn’t want to work, and doesn’t see the point. Then I gave him permission to try. 🔗tinyurl.com/theunmotivated

🛡️✨⚔️Knights got a dose of HOPE from Jeremy Bates, the “Hope Dealer.” Starting off 2026 with an assembly about bridging the gap between what we KNOW & what we DO 🤯. Success & talent can be held by anyone willing to make choices that open up more choices. @Val_Principal

🔔ALERT: NEW CLUB ON CAMPUS- Friday Night Live Join FNL, sponsored by Riverside County Dept. of Mental Health, to help students: 💜 Make healthy life choices 💜 Be a LEADER 💜 Support their community The advisor? 💛Ms. Vargas! 🙂 @Val_Principal

✨⚔️🛡️COLLEGE KICK OFF WEEK LUNCHTIME TRIVIA! 🛡️⚔️✨ Thank you Guidance Dept! #vvusdcollegekickoff2025 @Val_Principal @ValVerdeUSD @RCOE

@CA_ASCD No. We should expect learning and feedback to happen in class. And let families have their time in the afternoon and evenings.

Should Students Have to Do Homework? Here's What Teachers Really Think edweek.org/teaching-learn…

✨⚔️🛡️Thank you @RCOE an excellent two days of learning, growth & renewed commitment to serving our Ss. Special shout 📣 to Ms. Glenn for her PACKED HOUSE 😱 presentation! @Val_Principal @ValVerdeUSD #altEd

A Monday morning question for you: Are the results I am expecting aligned with the habits I am following each day?