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Challenging College Preparatory Academics
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Outstanding schools are dedicated to assisting
all students succeed in a challenging academic environment,
meeting or exceeding state and local standards.
All Leadership
Public Schools students are expected to take a challenging college preparatory
curriculum based on the University of California admissions requirements. There
is no second track at a LPS: lower standards for traditionally underserved
students are unacceptable.
We believe that students attain
understanding both within disciplines and across disciplines.
They can explain, interpret, and apply; they have perspective,
can empathize, and exercise self-knowledge (Wiggins and McTighe,
1998).
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Our
students will develop their academic skills in their classes,
through our leadership program, and within elements of our support
program, such as the Academic Literacy and Numeracy course. In
particular, we seek to develop students who:
• Seek depth of understanding and persevere when confronted
with complexity and ambiguity.
• Manage knowledge: receiving, expressing, organizing, processing,
evaluating, storing, and
retrieving it as necessary.
• Think critically and creatively in analyzing information and
solving problems.
• Apply a range of knowledge and skills to new situations, and
adjust to a variety of learning formats.
• Communicate in disciplined and imaginative ways, expressing
ideas and information in
more than one language.
• Present convincing arguments in written and oral form.
• Relate current issues and perspectives to their historical
antecedents.
• Possess a repertory of images of the human person as presented
in literature, biography and history.
• Understand, appreciate, and express qualities of beauty in
the creative arts as well as in
natural and built environments.
• Are creative thinkers, moving out of their established frameworks
of thought to generate
fresh insights and perspectives.
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We
recognize that in addition to their roles as academic institutions,
schools impart a wide range of non-academic knowledge, skills,
habits, and values.
While acknowledging that some of this occurs
serendipitously, Leadership Public Schools explicitly addresses
these non-academic attributes where possible.
We believe that co-curricular activities and sports are central to
a complete education. Students initiate and participate in a range
of clubs and activities. Art, dance, and music activities, as well
as intramural and interscholastic teams, are offered at all Leadership
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Students at Leadership Public
Schools must take the standardized tests required of all California
public school students. Consequently, we adopt the California
state standards as our curriculum framework. All students are
expected to meet the standards, although some may take additional
time to meet them and others, such as English language learners
and Special Education students, may need additional support.
Note that all our students will
meet the University of California a – g entrance requirements.
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