The Language Arts and Mathematics Labs are designed to provide all ninth and tenth grade students with additional instructional time in these key content areas when they are in their trade/technology cycle.  Utilizing the content areas, students are taught strategies to be able to become independent and self-motivated learners with a greater responsibility for their learning process.  These learning skills and strategies are then able to be transferred into all classrooms, both academic and technology related.

Students receive ¼ credit for each lab, thus a total of ½ credit a year or 1 credit over the two year period.  Labs are graded and computed into the student’s grade point average.  Multiple types of learning styles are addressed in the labs utilizing a wide variety of materials in order to best address the needs of all students.

Language transition support services are provided to English Language Learners in the labs by continued monitoring of their language needs and modified as the student’s proficiency in the second language grows.  The Labs represent a coordinated school-wide approach to improving content literacy following a research based model from the University of Kansas’ Strategic Instructional Model.