Summary Of Hillsboro High School Slc

The Hillsboro High School’s SLC was designed to improve student academic achievement by providing a personalized academic setting, along with academic interventions based on recommendations made by the study team involved in the writing of the SLC grant. The research the study team made indicated that incoming ninth graders often face anonymity, low expectations, and early academic failure. The goal of the SLC’s was to address these problems by creating a structure that provided students with a more personalized learning experience, and in turn we would see an increase in student academic achievement in the areas of reading and math, as measured by state assessments and student participation in rigorous course work. The SLC model implemented