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SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Capstone Service Learning

Grade 12 Grade 11
Course Number OPT800 Course Number OPT700
Full Year Course – 1.0 credit Full Year Course – 1.0 credit
Prerequisite: none Prerequisite: none
Recommended For: College Bound/Technical Recommended For: College Bound/Technical
Education Education
Estimated Fee: none Estimated Fee: none

Students participating in the Option program Students participating in the Junior Option
will be enrolled in the Capstone course. program will be enrolled in the Service
Students will select a topic or topics that they Learning course. Students will complete an
are passionate about and they will choose how exploration of a variety of service learning
to integrate curriculum from their other courses topics such as homelessness, environmental
into projects throughout the year. The pollution, disability awareness, refugees and
instructor for Capstone will help students make migrants, food insecurity, and human
connections with organizations and businesses trafficking. Following this exploration, students
in the community to get involved with projects will select an issue on which they are
that are authentic and meaningful. passionate and conduct cross-disciplinary
research on this issue. From this research,
students will create a project on which they

Transition & Wellness will work in cooperation with a local service
agency in the Cleveland area. Each student will
Grade 9 produce a final presentation of their issue and
Course Number OPT009 project that will demonstrate the authentic and
Semester Course - 1 credit
Prerequisite: Must be in the Option Program connected ways that they have grown through
Estimated Fee: None this experience.
th
Recommended For: Students in 9 Grade Option
Program

Students participating in the Option program
will be enrolled in the Transition & Wellness
course. Students will work with student mentors
and the teacher to develop habits and skills to be
successful in life and work environments.
Students in this course will become self-directed
learners, collaborative workers, effective
communicators, and complex thinkers.

This course may be used to meet the physical
education graduation requirement.