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Skyline District 5 is excited to have in place this year's 7th and 8th grade Honors Program for Language Arts and Math. These subjects focus on advanced skills in preparation for secondary honors and AP course work in high school. Honors courses provide expectations and opportunities for students to work at an accelerated pace. It engages them in more rigorous and complex content and processes, and it also utilizes their higher level thinking process to develop authentic products that reflect the student's understanding of key concepts. The curriculum in each honors course includes appropriate adaptations for accelerated and enriched learning for pursuing in-depth studies that require abstract and higher-order thinking skills. Student accountability is stressed.

Placement in the honors program is based on multiple criteria including the student's performance on the AIMS scores, benchmark testing, attendance, attitude, previous class grades from each block, and effort. Factors such as the desire of the student and parent or guardian to be in the program are also taken into consideration. Once the student is in the program, he/she must maintain an A or B average, have good attendance, exhibit good behavior, show true effort, and have a positive attitude.
 
One of the most critical components to the success of every student is parent involvement and support from home. Parents are committed to ensuring that students are responsibly completing homework and projects that often require additional time outside of the classroom setting.
 
Although the program has only been in place for a portion of the year, we have already seen growth in both subjects. Our students are excited, enthusiastic, motivated and humbled that they were selected to be recipients of Skyline District 5's Honors Program. We are continuously working to refine the program based on what works best for the success of our students.

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