LAUSD District A Small Learning Community: Middle Schools (MS)

LAUSD District A A Framework Small Learning Community Houses or Grade Centers Coring (6 th -Grade) Teaming (7 th -8 th Grade)

LAUSD District A Terms ( from the Concept Paper )  Small learning Community  House Plan  Coring  Team-teaching

LAUSD District A Small Learning Community  Separate learning unit within a school  Students, teachers, and staff grouped together  Common space

LAUSD District A House Plan  Also Grade Centers  Students and teachers grouped together in smaller groups  Students are cored; share the same teachers  Own discipline policies, etc.  Share departments, curriculum, other programs with the larger school

LAUSD District A Coring  6 th Grade  English/History  Mathematics/Science  Refer to LAUSD’s policy bulletin on the 6 th -Grade core

LAUSD District A Team-teaching  7 th and 8 th grade  A team of teachers share students and collaboratively plan their instruction and curriculum

LAUSD District A SAMPLE MODELS  English Only  English Learner  Students in the Developmental Reader and Writer Course (DRWC)  And other learners