A Typical Week at Skyland Community High School

 

Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays:

Morning

After entering the clean and well-maintained Cole building, past the Community College of Denver’s East campus on the first floor, you are greeted by friendly staff and students who wish you a good morning and give you a smile.  At 8:30 AM, your advisory joins the rest of the school at the auditorium balcony or in the cafeteria for Pick Me Up, an invigorating opening activity that gets your day started on a positive note.  PMUs might be guest speakers or all school activities, and they always include announcements and shout-outs.  For the rest of the morning you have a combination of advisory (interdisciplinary academic class with a focus on literacy and Big Picture methods), math class with the Math Literacy Project, integrated science lab (for 9th and 10th graders) and project work time (where you work on your individualized projects and meet one-on-one with your advisor). 

Afternoon

At noon there is a 45-minute break for lunch. After lunch, it’s another combo of advisory, math and project work time, based on your individual schedule.  You may also have a science lab or other workshop, and if you are in 11th or 12th grade, you may be going off to a college class.  On Fridays, we have a town meeting where students engage in the democratic process by bringing and voting on their own proposals for school improvement.  On other Fridays, students meet in committees to improve the school in one way or another.

 

Tuesdays, and Thursdays

New students

As a freshman, you will begin spending these days in a workshop designed to give you professional workplace and job-hunting skills, as well as help you identify your passions.  As you gain these skills, you’ll start looking for an internship.  By the second half of the year, all new students are expected to have started an internship – a real world learning opportunity in the community in the field of your passion!

Returning students

As an upperclassman, you are expected to jump right in and find a new internship, if you didn’t already line one up last spring.  You spend these two days learning more about your passion and completing a rigorous project that goes deeply into several subject areas.  You may also be taking a college class on one of these days.