Small Learning Communities
San Lorenzo High School is home to three small learning communities: Bay Area Digital Arts (BADA), East Bay Arts (EBA), and the Law, Leadership & Culture Academy (LLC). All learning communities offer students various experiences in college and career preparation through a common Advisory period, special 9th grade elective, career-themed electives, work and college exploration visits, and on-campus during/after school clubs and activities.
Bay Area Digital Arts
The Bay Area Digital Arts (BADA) small learning community is all about digital arts. BADA provides a rigorous academic program promoting a college-going culture while allowing students to learn outside of the regular classroom environment through guest speakers, field trips, after-school activities, and access to local colleges and media outlets. Students today are well aware of the power of digital communication - they use cell phones, social media, and computers everyday. We seek to build on our students’ natural interest in the digital arts to help create the next generation of visually literate, media savvy, academically successful individuals. Students receive hands-on experiences while learning skills that both meet “a-g” college requirements and prepare them for careers in media. Students also receive support from their teachers to help with their work, and have access to equipment.
Law, Leadership, & Culture
In a rapidly changing and growing modern world, the Law, Leadership, and Culture (LLC) small learning community is where academic rigor in legal, lingual, and cultural aspects of the world serve to connect students to society and discover their place in the world. As part of LLC, students will develop public speaking and communication skills, learn human conflict resolution skills, connect with learning institutions and professionals outside the high school setting, and much more! Students will also have the opportunity to be certified Peer Advocates. LLC offers Criminal Justice I and II courses and a Peer Mediation Course I and II, both of which include a variety of job experience activities and field trips.
East Bay Arts
EBA has been a safe and inclusive small learning community where all students will embody the artist's Studio Habits of Mind and graduate striving towards liberatory justice, prepared to individually and collectively engage in the productive struggle necessary for lifelong learning and success. We want every student to feel seen, heard, loved and supported. Our students can access college preparatory classes, master the state standards, complete the UC/CSU a-g requirements and grow as artists. Our cross-curricular grade level projects are based in real world problems and incorporate the arts to encourage student engagement and agency. It is our hope that, through an arts-integrated and anti-racist approach, our students will critically engage with one another, the curriculum, and society to become leaders and advocates for social justice.
