EL SEGUNDO HERALD May 14, 2015 Page 3 School Spotlight ESHS Receives Six Year Accreditation By Jaime Mancilla, Principal of El Segundo High School The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Visiting Team concluded their El Segundo High School accreditation visit on March 11th with a report to all stakeholders in the El Segundo High School library. The report was a summary of the group’s findings after three and a half days of classroom visits, meetings and discussions with all ESHS stakeholders. The library was packed with the entire faculty and staff, district personnel, members of the Board of Trustees as well as parents and students. All present had participated in some way or another in the school’s year and a half long mandatory self-study that preceded this visit. Each member of the six-person visiting team presented a portion of the report and at the end of each segment the member shared his or her thoughts on the school’s strengths and areas of focus. Some of the strengths mentioned were the overwhelming community support, a prominent school culture that embraces a Cycle of Improvement and the open access for all students to participate in rigorous classes. They noted that the areas we should focus on were deepening and strengthening critical thinking, reading and writing; improving college and career readiness; and continuing to align assessment and curriculum, assessments and instruction to Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. These next steps received the full support of all stakeholders at ESHS. The team concluded their report and thanked the El Segundo community for its incredible hospitality. They also commented on the fact that the packed library epitomized everything they felt about their experience during their visit. This accreditation process truly reflected a community effort. The visiting team left with their report and the recommendations that they would make to the WASC Accrediting Commission. As part of the process, the WASC visiting committee is not authorized to reveal what their recommendation is to the commission. Their report and recommendation is read by the Commission and the Commission validates it by approving the recommendation. The ESHS stakeholders felt that the report was fair and accurately described every aspect of our school. Overall, they were very comfortable with the report. On Friday, May 1st, ESUSD Superintendent Dr. Moore and ESHS Principal Jaime Mancilla each received an email from the WASC Accreditation Commission granting El Segundo High School a full six year accreditation with a one-day mid-term visit. This is the best term or outcome a school can receive and is a validation of all that is going well at El Segundo High School. Upon hearing the news, El Segundo High School Self-Study Coordinator, Mark Doering, stated “I’m very proud of all of the work that everyone has put in over the last year and a half. I’m excited with the outcome. It motivates us to move forward with Common Core, technology, and most importantly, meeting the needs of all students.” When asked about the news, Dr. Moore replied, “I commend the entire faculty and administrative team for this tremendous accomplishment. Earning a six year accreditation is truly significant. It serves as evidence of the collective contribution of all participants to examine the instructional program and analyze student data for the express purpose of developing meaningful goals that will positively impact student learning. El Segundo High School team received feedback that they indeed modeled and embraced the best practice of the ongoing cycle of improvement. As a professional learning community, the faculty was vested in the betterment of the school. The visiting team also validated the outpouring of support the school receives from the Ed! Foundation, business partners and the community-at-large. El Segundo High School has much to be proud of for a job well done!”• Reality is Another Wonderfully Bizarre Outing From Quentin Dupieux Unanswered Financial Questions? Can I really afford to retire? • Do I take a lump or annuity? How do I pay for college? • Where is my paycheck going? Are these the right investments? • How can I reduce taxes? We provide sound objective advice for a planned and secure financial future. Call us for a free no obligation get acquainted meeting. 310.706.4123 Eileen S. Freiburger, CFP • El Segundo Resident ESF Financial Planning Group Twenty-Nine Years of Experience in the Industry • www.esfplanning.com No commissions, no pressure, and no long term contracts. 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However, in Dupieux’s refined Dadaist style, this happens to be for the very best, as his newest feature film Reality (Réalité) once again falls in line with his other realitybending comic send-ups (2010’s Rubber, 2013’s Wrong Cops) which makes for another wonderfully bizarre and absurd outing that continues to raise artfully interesting questions while confronting the very medium itself. With his third feature film, Dupieux (AKA electronic music-maker “Mr. Oizo”) has found a story about showbiz that he finally seems ready to tell. Gone is his freshman debut with the killer car-tire gag in Rubber, as well as his sophomore shenanigan-laden midnight movie Wrong Cops; in Reality, the story of a film director who discovers that his passion project film has already been made – and by his alternate-reality self. There are a million more moving pieces that propel the flat-out ridiculousness in this movie. Reality certainly falls in line with what fans of Dupieux’s should expect, but for those new to the director, it should be said that you might have to take a real leap outside of the comfort zone on this one. The movie opens in a wordless sequence where a backwoods rifleman takes out a tranquil deer, brings it home, and proceeds to gut his claim. Much to his young daughter Reality’s (Kyla Kenedy) amazement, a blue VHS tape fall out of the innards, but when pressing the witnessed impossibility, her father dismisses the notion of a video tape being able to get into the belly of such a woods creature – because that would be crazy. This is the sort of confounding anti-logic that both Dupieux and the film thrive on. Meanwhile, in real time, filmmaker Zog (John Glover), sits on the edge of his seat at a remote screening room, where he watches that very scene of Reality and the videotape and the deer, seeing her stare back into the camera itself. It’s a circus act of selfreferences and meta-dwellings that makes for a silly, fun watch. Aside from this and many other head scratching rabbit holes, Reality mainly centers around a public-access channel camera operator by day, budding artistic filmmaker by later-that-day Jason (Alain Chabat), who sets out to find the ultra-specific and correct “dying human shriek” sound effect that he needs to make his new film about a killer microwave (no doubt a sly wink to Rubber). With appearances by Reality’s cross-dressing principal, Henri (Eric Warheim), and publicaccess show host in-an-itchy-rat-costume, Denis (Jon Heder), the film circles around to these seemingly non-connected stories, but finds a common (if long-shot) thread to pull the entire story together in its final act. So, where does a film like this, one built on the honest intention of being purely meaningless and non-logical, stand among his other films, and movies in general? Where Film Review Alain Chabat in Reality. Photo courtesy of IFC Midnight. Correction See Film Review, page 13 In Brian Simon’s city council article for May 7th, he quoted council member Marie Fellhauer as saying that the golf professionals knew “how to make The Lakers better and all those years did nothing.” The quote should have been “how to make The Lakes better.” We regret the error. • El Segundo School District’s message board announces the news.
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