System of Support
This is the level of support that applies to all LEAs before any additional intervention is triggered.
What is General Assistance?
For an LEA, including a charter organization, DTA is triggered when a student group meets criteria in this many priority areas
What are two priority areas?
This is the LCFF priority area tied to Academic Indicators and ELPI.
What is Pupil Achievement?
Within DTA, this is the planning document your charter must use to address performance issues
What is the LCAP?
On the Dashboard, this term refers to current year performance.
What is Status?
This is the level of support provided when an LEA meets eligibility criteria tied to performance concerns.
What is Differentiated Assistance?
For DTA eligibility, performance is examined through this lens rather than only through overall schoolwide averages.
What are student groups?
This is the LCFF priority area tied to Graduation Rate and Chronic Absenteeism.
What is Pupil Engagement?
When an LEA has a consistently low performing student group for 3 or more consecutive years, this must be included in the LCAP.
What is a specific goal for that student group?
On the Dashboard, this term refers to the difference between current year and prior year performance.
What is Change?
This is the highest level of support in California’s three tiered system, used for persistent performance issues over time.
What is Intensive Intervention?
This Priority 4 condition can trigger DTA for most student groups: Red in both ELA and Math, or Red in one and this color in the other.
What is Orange?
This is the LCFF priority area tied to Suspension Rate and, where applicable, the local climate indicator.
What is School Climate?
Under DTA, support providers are expected to do this with LEAs rather than impose a one size fits all intervention.
What is work collaboratively to identify challenges and opportunities?
These are the five dashboard colors used to represent performance levels from lowest to highest.
What are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue?
This is the name of the statewide framework that includes General Assistance, Differentiated Assistance, and Intensive Intervention.
What is the System of Support?
Beginning with the 2025 Dashboard, this student group is determined for Priority 4 using ELPI only, not ELA and Math.
Who are Long Term English Learners?
A Red rating on this indicator triggers Priority 8 eligibility for DTA.
What is the College/Career Indicator?
This is what DTA is supposed to analyze so that assistance is responsive to actual student and community needs.
What are local data and underlying causes?
For smaller n sizes on certain indicators, this modified table is used to reduce volatility from year to year.
What is the Three by Five?
Within this System of Support framework, the purpose of support is not merely to identify failure, but to strengthen this long term organizational ability.
What is capacity to improve?
This additional 2025 pathway can make districts, charters, and COEs eligible for DTA even apart from dashboard colors.
What is failure to submit required CALPADS data by the certification deadline?
These three LCFF priorities are local indicator driven and can trigger DTA when rated Not Met for Two or More Years.
What are Basic Services, Implementation of State Standards, and Parent Engagement?
This is the mistake DTA is designed to avoid: treating assistance as a fixed compliance script instead of this kind of approach.
What is a systemic, locally responsive improvement process?
This is why subgroup performance matters so much in DTA: it is the mechanism California uses to surface this issue.
What are inequities in student outcomes?