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The Ahmanson Foundation

• Bell High School: Tracks A, B, C
Citigroup Foundation
• Belmont High School Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Cotsen Family Foundation
• Carson High School
Farmers Insurance Group
• Chatsworth High School J.B. and Emily Van Nuys Charities
Jewish Community Foundation
• Cleveland High School
Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
• Cleveland Humanities Magnet The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Rockefeller Foundation
• Dorsey High School
Roth Family Foundation
• Downtown Magnet High School Sidney Stern Foundation
Stuart Foundation
• El Camino Real High School
The Times Mirror Foundation
• Franklin High School Wachovia Foundation
Washington Mutual Foundation
• Fremont High School: Tracks A, B, C
• Garfield High School: Tracks A, B, C
• Granada Hills High School
• Grant High School
• Lincoln High School
• Marshall High School: Tracks A, B STAFF
• Monroe High School (5 SLCs) Jane Patterson, Director
Paul Payne, Assistant Director
• Narbonne High School Armine Asatryan, Program Manager
• North Hollywood High School Mario Mendez, Technology Coordinator
Yolanda Javier, Clerical Assistant
• Reseda High School Laura Ibarra, Clerical Assistant
• Roosevelt High School: Tracks A, B, C
COACHES & CONSULTANTS
• Roybal Learning Center
• San Fernando HS (2 SLCs) Lynn Browers
Susie Rees-Philippon
• School for the Visual Arts and Humanities Nikki Siercks
• Sun Valley High School Gabriel Lemmon
Dean Sodek
• Sylmar High School
Sue Anderson
• Taft High School Linda O’Neill
• Van Nuys High School
• Verdugo Hills High School
• Westchester High School 1055 W. Seventh Street
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For over 20 years, Humanitas has led the way in
implementing innovative teaching strategies that
have been proven to raise students’ academic
performance, keep them in school, and kindle an
abiding interest in learning.
Today, Humanitas is a network of more than 400
teachers working in interdisciplinary teams in 44
small learning communities at 27 LAUSD high
schools, affecting the education of over
approximately 13,000 students. These educators
devise integrated classroom curriculum that
engages students in an in-depth exploration of
the arts and humanities and, in the process,
expands student learning as well as teacher
knowledge and skills.
Using a unique team-teaching and team-learning
approach that emphasizes a theme taught across
multiple subjects, Humanitas has improved
student performance and increased teacher
motivation and skill. Based on data developed
in spring 2005, Humanitas students are, on
average, 30% more likely to graduate from high
school than are their peers.
• Three-day Humanitas Teachers’ Centers that
provide instruction on theme and writing-based
instruction that integrates the “arts”
• Two-day Humanitas Teachers’ Institutes that
provide instruction in various content areas
• Two-day trainings in Great Books Foundation’s
Shared Inquiry, a classroom reading/discussion
method for scaffolding rigorous material
• Two-day Humanitas Teachers’ Small Learning
Community (SLC) Retreats
• Access to a cadre of Humanitas Coaches and
Consultants
• Three-day curriculum trips presented by Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that focus on
the 11th Grade California Content Standards for
media literacy
• Curricular trips to the J. Paul Getty Museum in
Brentwood
• Quarterly updates to online newsletter
• Regular updates to online interdisciplinary lessons
• Humanitas Teacher Leader Retreat
• Humanitas Team Awards Banquet
Since its inception in 1985, Humanitas has
partnered with prominent art, business and
educational organizations wanting to affect the
instruction of students in Los Angeles. The Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, the California
African-American Museum, the Museum of
Contemporary Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
Page Museum La Brea Tar Pit, Loyola Marymount
University and UCLA’s Fowler Museum of
Cultural History are among the many providing
time and resources to Humanitas teachers and
students.
Now in our 22nd year, Humanitas held another
Teachers’ Institute at LACMA, focusing on the
critically acclaimed exhibit: “The Arts of Latin
America 1492-1820.” In 2005 and 2006, Teacher
Institutes were held around the Cézanne and
Magritte exhibits. From 2002-2005, under the
auspices of a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, LACMA educators worked
with teachers from Bell High School to develop
art-focused interdisciplinary lessons for online
publication. Those lessons can be viewed at
www.laep.org/humanitas
For the 2008/2009 school year, the J. Paul Getty
Museum is sponsoring 40 curricular trips for
Humanitas students.
Humanitas is in its 16th year of a partnership with
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
(AMPAS). Twice a year, teachers meet with
AMPAS staff and design a three-day media
literacy project for up to 400 eleventh grade
students.