- State College Area High School
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Welcome to 9LC!(9th Grade Learning Comunity)Mission:...to promote a successful transition for incoming ninth grade students by providing a system that encourages responsive teaching and learning. Teachers collaborate in order to help students reach their potential, establish healthy relationships, and discover their strengths and passions in a safe and welcoming learning environment.
What does 9LC look like?9LC is a purposeful, transition-based learning community consisting of 5 cohorts of teachers. Cohorts include 1 English teacher, 1 Earth System Science teacher, 1 Physical Education and Health teacher, and 1 World History I teacher. All incoming freshman are assigned to a cohort. Cohorts provide supports built through teacher collaboration time to create meaningful relationships with 9th grade students. Collaborative time focuses on student achievement, student progress, and transition topics.
Additional Information:- 9LC teachers will present and model strategies intended to help students gain social skills, career explorations, study skills and habits, health and wellness
- Students are not at all limited in their elective choices
- Cohort groups are not as prominent as middle school teams; students may not realize they are on a cohort
- Baseline data is being collected with a plan to analyze the program’s success and inform future direction
- Begin exploration of college and career options; introduce Student Learning Communities (SLCs)
- 9LC teachers will present and model strategies intended to help students gain social skills, career explorations, study skills and habits, health and wellness
Last Modified on August 20, 2020