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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Bay Area Educational Consulting, Martinez, CA, for the latter to foster the on-going School Improvement and "Focus on Learning" process and build an effective Professional Learning Community by facilitating the WASC self-study process by training the principal and instructional leaders in process; facilitate Professional Staff Development sessions related to WASC/school improvement efforts so that they are integrated into the CSSSP; promote school community agreements through the principal and leadership team that will establish norms for staff interactions and decision-making; train instructional leaders and model use of protocols that maintain and support effective communication and decision-making processes to support the accreditation process; support and facilitate data base inquiry so that the professional learning community will be informed as to student achievement, and to inform improvement of instructional practices; implement the WASC Self-study process for the WASC Committee Review taking place in February 2015 and to maintain the school organization as an effective equity-centered professional learning community that focuses on student achievement and continue improvement of those structures and practices that focus on student learning; supporting the whole school professional learning community to engage in on-going cycles of inquiry using multiple data sources (at the level of classroom, teacher team, and whole school) to assess and inform instructional practices, student interventions, professional development, curricular decisions and school design at Ralph J. Bunch High School, for the period October 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, in an amount not to exceed $10,000.00.