LUSD EMPOWERED EDUCATORS
Recruitment, Capacity, and Impact
Empowering & Motivating for Today and Tomorrow
Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) in central California is on a mission to ensure every student, or Lindsay learner, has a performance-based learning experience that allows them to succeed academically and personally. To achieve this vision, every learner must have the very best educators to support them on their journey.
LUSD has become a national leader in implementing innovative, community-based, and research-informed professional learning pathways to improve educator recruitment, capacity, and retention. The district works to ensure its educators, like its learners, see themselves as active learners and that their professional growth is personalized and data-driven.
This website showcases three core elements of LUSD’s educator recruitment and training programs, as well as the research it conducts to measure the impacts of these programs on learner success.
LUSD is committed to recruiting the best possible educators for its learners through a new Residency program as well as an innovative, community-based recruitment pipeline that is filling educator vacancies with recent LUSD graduates.
LUSD designs its professional learning to be personalized and competency-based, organizing all adult learning around the Instructional Look Fors and Site-Level Conditions, which provide the skills needed for the district's Performance Based System.
LUSD has developed personalized, competency-based professional learning pathways for its educators and has partnered with the national nonprofit TLA to explore the link between these professional learning approaches and learner experience and achievement.
About Lindsay Unified School District
Lindsay Unified Public Schools (LUSD) is a 4,068 student K-12 district in California’s Central Valley. The district, aligned to uses a “performance-based” learning system in which every student (who Lindsay terms "Learner") progresses through learning standards at their own pace. Educators (called “Learning Facilitators”) guide Learners towards resources and provide direct support as they develop evidence of mastery and move along their own pathways.
Launched in 2007 through the adoption of a visionary, district-wide strategic plan, LUSD has become a model for competency-based learning nationally. The district uses a number of tools, but relies heavily on Empower, a competency-based learning management system, to support its model.
