The primary purpose of restructuring secondary schools into SLCs is to create a more personalized learning environment to better meet the needs of students.[1] Each community will often share the same teachers and student members from grade to grade. Teachers in these units usually have common planning time to allow them to develop interdisciplinary projects and keep up with the progress of their shared students.
Theme-Based Smaller Learning Communities or Focus Schools are usually formed around a specific curricular theme. Examples might include "Success Academy" or "Humanities".
Houses may be themed or non-themed or separated by grade levels.
Career Academies are generally a three- or four-year structure developed around a career theme or Career Clusters. Characterized by career-related electives and integration of career theme across entire academic curriculum.
Freshman Academies are structure designed to support 9th grade students as they transition into high school.
Magnet Schools are a career-themed SLC that includes accelerated course-work for Gifted & Talented students.
Coursesedit
Core courses include:
SLC Portfolio
SLC Honors World History I: Prehistory - 1500
SLC Honors World History II: 1500–Present
SLC Honors United States History (or SLC Honors European History)
SLC Heart of Advanced Science (In some schools, this course is called "SLC Integrated Advanced Sciences")
SLC Honors English I
SLC Honors English II
SLC Completion of Advanced English (In some schools, this course is called "SLC Honors English III")
Electives include:
SLC Language Enrichment (French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or German; depending on school)
SLC Ethics and Philosophy
SLC Theory of Knowledge (may not be available in most SLC schools; effective 2019)
SLC Modern Technology
SLC Computer Sciences
SLC Arts
SLC Music Theory
SLC Design
SLC Psychology
SLC Reading and Writing Lab
Other courses:
Bridge to SLC
This is a course for students in grade 8 admitted to SLC in the following year of high school. This prepares students in the structure of SLC with maths, humanities, sciences, and English with an advanced level of preparation. The class conjoins all courses spread in weeks.
^Architecture for Achievement - building patterns of small school learning, Victoria Bergsagel, Tim Best, Kathleen Cushman, Lorne McConachie, Wendy Sauer, David Stephen. Mercer Island, WA. 1997. Page 101-104. ISBN978-0-9796777-0-0. Retrieved 2016-04-07
External linksedit
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Background and Structure of Career Clusters
U.S. Department of Education SLC Program
Career Academy Support Network
National Educator Program
January 01, 1970
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