Smaller Learning Communities

In the fall of 2000, Western High School was awarded the Smaller Learning Communities Grant. It is a federally funded grant aimed at making large schools feel smaller to the student body. We have a number of goals to accomplish at Western High School over the three-year life of the grant&endash;

• To support the SIP initiatives through

• Helping to improve reading skills

• Helping to improve math skills

• Helping to improve attendance rates

• Helping students set goals and learn more about career interests 

• To improve communications between the three campuses

• To encourage students to choose a general career path, or cluster, and to choose classes that will lead them toward their goal

• To develop a large speaker's bureau list made up of community members to support classroom career activities

• To provide career shadowing and internship opportunities for students and teachers

• To provide students with more information about county programs they may be eligible for

• To educate staff members about new programs at Western High School

• To provide mentors for students who need them

We look for the assistance of all the Western stakeholders in this undertaking.

Pam DeLucia, Smaller Learning Communities' Grant Coordinator

Dawn Bronstein, 9^th Grade Cluster Leader

Neena Grosvenor, 10^th Grade Cluster Leader

Janet McClain, Main Campus Cluster Leader

 BRACE Advisors

Sandy Williams, Main Campus

Karen Siegel, 10^th Grade Campus

Claudette Jones, 9^th Grade Campus