In-Service Presentation Latino/ Hispanic Students at Point Loma High

Hi, good afternoon staff teachers and administrators.

My name is Cynthia and today we're gonna be talking

about the latino latino population in Point Loma high school.

So a brief overview regarding Point Loma high School, it's

located in the northern region of SAn Diego.

Um Point Loma is comprised of approximately 1000 8, 146

students from grades 9 to 12.

And this is based on the most recently updated data

report, which would be from the previous time of Covid.

So this is not going to be considered a title

one school because of 40 of the students must qualify

for free or reduced lunch, but they do offer some

sort of financial assistance for those students who need it.

So a little bit of information regarding the student demographics.

This is actually a graph of the different ethnicities enrolled.

Again, this was information previous to Covid.

So here you have the data presented and then on

the right, it pretty much just displays that data in

numerical form.

Um, so you can see roughly the diversity between the

students and you notice that the largest population is actually

going to be white caucasian, but the second largest would

be the hispanic or latino population.

So a little bit of information regarding um english learners.

So on the left, you're gonna see a graph describing

the number of students at the school who are classified

as english learners when they enrolled.

Um, and you'll see the various amounts there, but more

specifically, you'll see um which languages these english learners speak

and the majority of them as you can see here

is a spanish.

So the graph to the information to the right is

actually just a depiction of the graph in the middle.

So you can see roughly um How many students are

another language.

And then you see here that 89 are Latino or

Hispanic. So a little bit about the achievement data on

the left.

You'll see a graph that is only the set of

information from the latino hispanic population.

Um This is regarding the C.

A. S.

P. P.

English language arts literature results.

The state test of course.

Like I said earlier this is information previous to covid

because because of covid they weren't administering the state tests.

So that's the information particularly for the hispanic community and

in the middle is basically the numeric information regarding that

data. So you can see roughly the data in terms

of other ethnicities and then the latino hispanic population and

how they did in terms of nearly meeting the state

goals in the year um the last year before they

administered that test and then to the right of it

you'll see the graph of all the ethnicities.

So you can kind of compare um they're great averages

and their scores.

So next you'll see a little bit more achievement data

but this is in regards to the mathematics test and

the first graph to the right.

I mean sorry to the left again you'll see just

a subset of data for the hispanic latino population in

terms of them having nearly met, um, Of the percentage

of students having nearly met the state goals.

And then you'll see that same graphs, um, information numerically.

So you can get kind of like a better look

at the percentage and for them it was 37% with

the passing or nearly passing score.

And then, um, to the right.

Again, you'll see in comparison to other ethnicities just so

you can roughly compare and contrast them.

So now we're going to talk a little bit about

the challenges and the barriers that latino hispanic students face

in terms of why they're not doing so well academically

nowadays. Um, a lot of the things have to do

with either poverty, family stressors, um, low teacher expectations in

terms of, um, it's unfortunate, but teachers or counselors or

other administrators just don't view them as doing academic academically

well. So they're already predisposed to have that idea that

latino students or ethnic students just don't do well, but,

um, there are also negative stereotypes of immigrants.

They're, they're at a lack of resources.

Um, there's quite a lot of language barriers, not only

between students and, um, teachers, but between parents and teachers

as well.

There's also a lack of counselor, teacher or staff involvement,

like I said, um, there's a lack of parental environment

or support because of that barrier.

There's a lack of peer support between each other.

There's limited opportunities.

Um, Hispanic latino students are being perceived as academically inferior,

so, uh, people don't try to even help them get

better in any which way.

Um, there's also peer pressure involved and racism.

So some recommendations and strategies would be that um, first

of all, students thrive when they function optimally academically socially

and psychologically.

But in order to achieve achieve all these things, it

takes help from teachers, staff counsellors and family.

So it's a collaborative effort.

It can't just be one party trying and then um,

the other party doesn't do their best.

It takes literally everyone working together advocating for these Children

in terms of uh very importantly, would be counselors developing

multicultural and advocacy competencies to distinguish which interventions would work

for what student populations in terms of everyone has a

different culture.

Right? So culturally there's things that are appropriate for some

families to do, and unfortunately appropriate for others families to

do. But as counselors, counselors should be educated enough in

the multicultural feel realm to know which interventions would work

best for what type of student populations.

It's not a one size fits all approach.

It has to be either through individual um counseling interventions

or through knowing which systemic barriers are preventing them from

succeeding. And that honestly just takes time effort, knowledge it

takes from the counselors and them being informed and then

knowing what they need to do in order to not

view any sort of student population in a different matter.

Um, so like I said, it's not only counselors, but

teachers must also be willing to work with students who

are struggling academically, um, instead of just giving up on

them and they should also advocate for their success.

So in terms of reaching out to their parents in

whatever way they can and trying to get them involved.

That's also necessary in order to help this population.

So we need to try and find more ways to

incorporate parents, families, um, student involvement with in their education.

We need to also, as educators implement multicultural lesson plans

along with career development or exploration.

We need to speak to all students regarding college opportunities

and further educational goals.

We can't just single out which populations we would think

are gonna end up in school or college because their

parents did.

Um, that's just not something you can do nowadays.

We have to work our hardest to make sure that

every student has the opportunity to make it to college

by having those resources by speaking to them, by speaking

to their parents, by just informing them so they're well

aware of the process of what to do of what

there is out there in terms of um, financial assistance

or just any type of information regarding school should also

be given to them.

Um, again, speaking to all students regarding college opportunities and

further goals in terms of raising more cultural awareness and

research regarding stereotypes of the latino population because sometimes they

think that it's themselves that's doing something wrong that just

keeps getting in trouble.

But sometimes it's it's also family issues, it's systemic issues

that they have no control over.

But we can definitely a system in any which way,

once those situations are taking care of, we can then

focus on the education portion and get them up to

the level.

So there's no um, education gap between them and other

ethnicities. So here are the references.

And if anyone has any other questions, please let me

know. Um, I will leave my information stated here, Thank

you.

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