Susan Lautchang Del Mundo

A 3rd grade teacher at Towne Avenue Elementary in 2009

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, Del Mundo ranked:

Most effective overall.
Most effective in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 11 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Most effective in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 7 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Del Mundo's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Towne Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Susan Del Mundo's Response:

I have been a teacher at Towne Ave. since 2001. Since then I have been encouraged to attend PDs for my personal & professional growth updating myself of current teaching tools & strategies to help my students succeed. In the course of time, I picked up ideas, experimented with them, adopted & implemented those I found were effective instructional strategies. A few of them are: standards based instructions, strong classroom mangement, HIGH EXPECTATIONS, differentiated instructions in a diversed classroom, DIBELS, RTII, & others. I use RUBRICS to guide students: rubrics for effort & achievement, rubrics for group discussion, rubrics for writing. Students learned to lead PT conferences,too.

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