Curriculum Design

The ACLC curriculum is based on the California Content Standards and has been reviewed and approved by both the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the University of California. The graduation requirements exceed those of the Alameda Unified School District and include all requirements for admission to the University of California. In addition, all graduating seniors must have completed at least one semester of a college course, completed a senior project, and compiled a senior portfolio (see Learners).

Educational Philosophy

The Alameda Community Learning Center (ACLC) is an educational laboratory that seeks to create a dynamic learning community by embodying the best practices of teaching and learning in a non-competitive manner that supports individuals to actively discover their own potential, recognize their own value and worth and practice responsibility to the community. To this end, the ACLC provides a safe, connected, and flexible learning community.

The program places emphasis on developing reading, writing and speaking skills to enhance understanding and effective communication; using the tools of math and science to become aware of how the universe works, and developing an understanding of how government, economics, and social science impact individual and global interaction.

Based on their knowledge, learners design their own goals and life plans including responsibility to others and active citizenship. We embrace the idea that this is an on-going process of continual change and improvement.