Disctrict Goals

1. Promote Academic Achievement for All Students.

2. Maintain a Safe and Healthy School Environment.

3. Provide Opportunities that Develop Positive Character.

4. Guide and Prepare Students for Post-Secondary Opportunities..

Program Goals

• Criminal Justice and Criminal Investigation students are taught a wide range of employable "Soft Skills" such as: How to fill out an application for employment, creating a resume, creating a 5-year plan, public speaking, and much more.

• Students are also taught to appreciate the campus and to help improve the student body attitudes by instilling pride in their campus through leadership.

1 year goals, 2 year goals, and Beyond 

• Collaboration with counseling department

• 100% completion rate

• Post-secondary and workforce ready

• Long term career employability

Plans 

• Creating an Extended Learning Program to help students with learning the job duties of security guards.

• Starting a Caruthers Campus Security Team (CCST) to help out with parking lot monitoring and security at sporting events.

• The ROP courses for Criminal Justice and Criminal Investigations are elective classes and therefore open to all 11th and 12th grade students at the school.

• Students who are potentially interested in the Public Safety pathway are given priority registration into the classes.

• The counseling staff inform the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students about the requirements and opportunities of selecting ROP courses multiple times throughout their high school career.

• Website is current, maintained, and updated.

• Every year the course is evaluated and plans for improvements and changes are discussed for the years to come. 

• Advisory committee membership includes the Madera County Sherriff department, the Merced County Sherriff department, the Fresno Sherriff department, the Madera Police Department, the Fresno Police department, Selma Police Department, and the Fresno City College Police Academy.

• Chain of command for instructor - The instructor makes contact with the ROP Advisor on campus, the Vice Principal, the Principal, and the FCOE ROP representative, to handle conflicts of scheduling, planning, and classroom issues. 

Notes from Evaluation Packet

Proper policies in place for training equipment and materials 

Proper budgeting process

Plans in place for maintaining and replacing consumables, course content, software, equipment, and/or instructional support materials.

Evidence 

• Entire budget for the ROP classes totals $10,000.

• My program uses this budget on an as needed basis yearly. When an item is damaged or in disrepair, a district requisition form is completed and passed through various channels for the items to then be purchased upon approval. 

• Each year the program uses the provided funds for 2 field trips and replacement equipment and consumable materials like gloves, fingerprint cards, report forms, evidence bags, casting putty/clay, etc.

• An on site ROP Advisor is in place for making decisions about consumables, course content, software, equipment, and/or instructional support materials. The instructor also works closely with the Fresno County Office of Education to procure new equipment and learning opportunities.