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2009-10 Subject Selection Form
 
The 2009-10 MSSH Subject Selection Form includes Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Foreign Language
 
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9th Grade Small Learning Communities
 

Mission: Our entering students will successfully navigate a rigorous academic curriculum, discover opportunities for personal exploration through self-selected extracurricular activities and become leaders in their school community.

Vision: To develope a community of engaged self-learners who will embrace the opportunities for academic, social and personal growth and responsibility that characterize the high school environment.

 
 
 
Academy of Communications Arts

Mission: To develop students who embody the values of the technology driven global communications of our century and demonstrate consistently the highest levels of critical thinking, ethical decision-making, social responsibilty, global awareness, and professional learner excellence to communicate effectively and create work of high quality.

Vission: To educate students to think critically, communicate effectively, and create work of high quality using evolving technology. Furthermore, preparing students to pursue post secondary studies in communications and the arts including: advertising, art and art history, digital imaging, graphic design, journalism, multimedia, public relations, radio, television, and video.

 

Strand: TV Production and/or Journalism and Web Design

 
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Academy of Education, Public Service and Security
 

Mission: To use innovative and hands on activities to give our students practice in the skills they will need to excel in a career in education, public service or security.

Vision: To empower our students to become responsible members of families and society and to prepare them for careers and leadership positions in education, public service, and security.

 
Strands: Early Childhood Education and Army JROTC
 
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Academy of Health Science and Medicine
 

Mission: To develop a career focus in the fields of health, personal training and sports medicine, and to provide experience through internships, mentoring programs and clinical experiences in preparation for post-secondary opportunities.

Vision: To develop future medical professionals who have a social conscience, are highly skilled and serve as role models in the community.

 
Strands: Medical Lab Assistant, Personal Training, and Sports Medicine
 
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Academy of Hospitality and Tourism
 

Mission and Vision: To prepare our diverse population of high school students for post-secondary education and careers in hospitality and tourism.

Our academy stresses the three R's Framework; rigorous academic learning experiences, relevant hands-on work experiences that will serve to develop student's thinking and problem solving skills, and relationships developed through business/school partnerships that prepare young people for future careers critical to post-secondary education and career success.

 
Subjects: Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism, World Culture Geography, Computer Applications for Tourism, Travel Marketing and Management, Marketing OJT, and Internship.
 
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Academy of Visual and Performing Arts
 

Vision: To build and strengthen artistic skills and foster support in the education of the Arts. Teachers offer expertise knowledge and curriculum content in which all levels of students will find success. The Visual/Performing Arts Academy has a vision that all Art disciplines play a vital role in today's society and that students can continue their artistic talents in any College, Institute, University and/or Workplace.

Music Performance Mission: To build a learning environment that provides the highest order of education in all main facets of music, to establish a foundation for life-long development in music, and to offer programs that are tradition based, but future oriented. To provide the skills necessary for students to develop their unique talents to the fullest and the opportunity to perform in concerts and special events throughout the community. In pursuing this Mission, we encourage a high average of achievement by the performance of fine music and selection of valuable projects.
 
 
Drawing/Sculpture Mission: To use Art, Science, Technology, English, and Math inclusive hands on activities, that incorporate artistic content and techniques of creativity, interpretation, and imagination. To increase student's knowledge and appreciation of visual art and for students to produce original works of art, that reflect their own voice.
 
 
Dance Mission: Performance is the key to the total development of the dancer. It is through the process of applying all that one has learned about performing that a dancer matures into an artist and becomes a master of his or her craft. By studying a broad assortment of techniques including, Ballet, Contemporary, Hip-Hop and Jazz, our students are equipped to enter a field where the versatile dancer is in the greatest demand.

 
Strands: Music Performance, Drawing or Sculpture, Dance Performance, Theatre Arts/Performance
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