Overview
Skyline High School seeks to build an International Baccalaureate (IB) program that creates a better world through a high-quality international education. Skyline is currently an IB candidate school* for the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) covering grades 6-10. IB-MYP is a curriculum framework with emphasis on critical and reflective thinking and communication, intercultural understanding, and connections between academic disciplinary studies and the real world. MYP culminates in a 10th grade personal project and certificate of completion of the program.* Students interested in the IB-MYP must apply.
The IB Difference
The IB's programmes are different from other curricula because they:
- encourages students of all ages to think critically and challenge assumptions;
- develop independently of government and national systems, incorporating quality practice from research and our global community of schools;
- encourages students of all ages to consider both local and global contexts; and
- develop multilingual students.
IB Benefits
- Emphasizes IB Learner Profile: principled, communicator, knowledge, thinkers, reflective, risk takers, caring, inquirers, balanced, and open-minded; gives all students a global perspective
- Student-centered learning (inquiry-based; self-motivated) puts the learner in the driver’s seat to direct their own understanding of important topics
- Standards-based grading using skills rubrics (MYP criteria) not points for completion of work (gives more accurate sense of student progress)
- Flipped classroom & project-based learning (less busy work and direct instruction during class)
- Prepares students for more rigorous and challenging coursework in their 11th and 12th grade years (pathways, Diploma Program or Career Program)
Course Progression
Freshman Year:
- English 1 - Survey of World Literature
- Geometry
- AP World History
- Biology
- World Language: Spanish, French or Mandarin
- Physical Education
- Computer Science Principles
Sophomore Year: (proposed schedule)
- English - American Literature
- Algebra 2/Math Analysis (Compression Course)
- AP US History
- Chemistry or AP Chemistry
- World Language
- AP Computer Science or Elective
- PE (Students who play a sports can choose PE Independent Study as an 8th period)
- Elective (if taken PE Independent Study instead of PE)
