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 About the Middle Years Program (MYP) @ SHHS

 
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In the fall of 2010, Smoky Hill High School, in partnership with Laredo Middle School, became the first authorized IB Middle Years Program (MYP) in Cherry Creek School District.

The Middle Years Program at Smoky Hill High School:
  • provides a framework of academic challenge that encourages students to embrace and understand the connections between traditional subjects and the real world. 
  • recommends, but not required, successful completion of Algebra 1, GPA 3.25 or above, and successful completion of one year of a World Language during middle school.
  • consists of eight subject groups: English, a Second World Language, Humanities, Science, Math, Arts, Physical Education, and Technology.
  • requires students to fulfill 10 hours of community and service in 9th and 10th grade. 
  • requires students to complete a personal project, a significant piece of work, that is the product of the student's own initiative and creativity at the end of the 10th grade. 
  • prepares students for the SHHS IB Diploma Program (DP).
Please view the following short film for further information regarding the Middle Years Program: http://blip.tv/file/3639400

For more information and questions, please contact the IB Department at 720-886-5420.
 

 About the Diploma Program (DP) @ SHHS

 
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In 1991, Smoky Hill became the second IB Diploma School established in the state of Colorado.  Smoky Hill is the only Cherry Creek School that has two IB programs under one roof:  the Diploma Programme and the Middle Years Programme.  In addition to our outstanding faculty and long-standing academic excellence, we are recognized for:
  • providing a seamless transition into the IB Diploma Program (DP) by offering the last two years of the Middle Years Program (MYP) for 9th and 10th grade students.
  • offering Theory of Knowledge at night for those students who need more flexibility in their schedules.
  • offering two pathways through history:  History of the Americas and History of Europe (both available as HL & SL options).
  • offering four IB world languages:  French, Latin, Japanese, & Spanish.
  • offering four options for the sciences:  biology, chemistry, ecosystems and societies, & physics.
  • offering Theater and Visual Arts (including Digital Media Studies in our state-of-the-art digital media lab) as IB Arts options.
  • offering IB Business Management, Philosophy and Psychology as HL & SL options.
  • providing three specially trained IB counselors dedicated to helping our IB students with course selections and college preparation.
Please click on this link to view a short film about the IB Diploma Program.
http://blogs.ibo.org/ibtv/2010/06/08/education-for-a-better-world-the-ib-diploma-programme/
 
Need to know more?  Contact the IB Department at 720-886-5420.
 

 Contact Information

 
IB Diploma Coordinator:
E. Patricia Wetmore
720-886-5420
IB Middle Years Coordinator:
Alisa Wills-Keely
720-886-5420
DP CAS Coordinator:
Laura Buddington
720-886-5614
MYP Personal Project Coordinator
Jen Radosevich
720.886.5591
IB Parent Group President:
Karen Mitchell
303-693-5860
 

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