The following items will be required of all seniors:
- Every senior will prepare a résumé and letter of introduction.
- Every senior will prepare for presentation a “senior project” that represents some aspect of her/his educational life experiences.
- The members of the Class of 2010 must each complete 40 hours of non-school time community service between 6/20/2006 and 3/5/2010. (It has been strongly suggested that students have completed at least ten hours each year in school.) A minimum of twenty hours must be completed by 1/8/10.
- Each student will include in his/her portfolio a list of the courses he/she took during each year of his/her high school career. The list will serve to help exit interviewers better understand each student's background. This list need not include grades.
- The Annual Senior Exit Questionnaire will be updated for all members of the Class of 2010 to complete. It is a tool to help the Academy assess the effectiveness of the total school program.
- Working with his or her guidance counselor, each senior will complete a high school to post-graduation career plan. This process starts during the freshman year and includes material from the students entire high school career.
- Every senior will keep a monthly journal (September to March) to document the progress being made on meeting the portfolio requirements. It should be shared monthly with the advisor.
- Every portfolio will include a beginning of project and a separate end of project narrative. In these, the student will describe his/her portfolio plans and experiences.
- Each senior will present his/her completed portfolio, including a senior project, to a committee of community members during a thirty-minute exit interview
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