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Janus Liberal Arts High School
Curriculum
Janus Liberal Arts High School offers high school students’ a liberal arts education that includes studies in disciplines from the Humanities to Natural Sciences to the Social Sciences. The liberal arts program empowers students and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It provides students with broad knowledge of the wider world as well as in-depth study in a specific area of interest. Liberal arts education helps students develop skills like critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, and analytical abilities. JLA offers high school students’ a liberal arts education that is interdisciplinary-based covering topics in the humanities, as well as social, natural and formal sciences. Please review some of our course offerings below!
The JLA Approach
JLA teacher’s proactively plan varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they can express what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can as efficiently as possible. This instructional approach will be the method used for one hour of the day during the extended portion of the school day. There are many benefits to this piece of our program:
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Provides immediate academic intervention
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Homework Help
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Reinforce instruction
The Core Curriculum at Janus Liberal Arts High School takes seriously, our mission to engage students in the fullness of a liberal arts education: to learn, reflect, and live with an expanding awareness of one’s responsibility to self, community, and the larger world. As such, our curriculum aims to prepare students for rich and fulfilling lives in a context of rapid change here and around the globe.
The Liberal Arts curriculum, at JLA, is designed to inspire greater levels of academic achievement by linking student interest and talent in the arts to all aspects of their educational experience. By tapping into their strengths as artists, teachers lead students to improve their overall skills in reading, writing and science. JLA is particularly concerned with bridging the achievement gap and providing a challenging curriculum for all of our students.
The curriculum at JLA is aligned with the Common Core Standards and are in alignment with our academic goals. The Common Core State Standards provides a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. JLA students will graduate fully prepared for the future.