Smaller Learning Community (SLC)

What is SLC?

The goal of the Smaller Learning Community is to create a safer, more intimate and supportive learning environment for North’s high school students through incorporating and expanding our pilot 9th grade academy, VIKES; team teaching, adult/academic advocates; block scheduling; career academies; magnet focus program; and other proven strategies.

What is the goal of the SLC?

The Omaha Public Schools Smaller Learning Communities project will provide the needed infrastructure for increased retention, reduced suspensions and expulsions, higher academic excellence, increased student participation in extracurricular activities, employment, and articulation and success in postsecondary education.

What is North doing to support SLC?

• Promotion of various programmatic features in newsletters and school websites
• Recruitment of students for program participation
• Recruitment of parents for program participation
• Project-related professional development offerings for staff and teachers
• Referrals of at-risk students
• Integration of program activities into all curricular areas
• Release time for staff and teacher to attend program-related training and workshops
• Recruitment of new business partners
• Assessments and inventories, counseling, guidance, and scheduling assistance for students
• Student recognition via the SLC Student of the Month program

What is the SLC Student of the Month program?

Each month, the SLC team teachers select one student from each team as "SLC Student of the Month."