Advanced Placement Curriculum
Young Women’s Leadership Charter School is offering, for the first time, Advanced Placement courses for college credit. This summer teacher’s had intensive training and planning for their AP classes. Students who enter Advance Placement (AP) classes are required to take a minimum of two Advanced Placement (AP) classes for the 2011-2012 school year. These classes are AP Human Geography and AP Language and Composition. The first group of AP candidates at YWLCS prepared vigorously during the summer with an intense and purposeful summer book club. The students were also given two summer assignments as a prerequisite, which allowed students to delve into great American Contemporary and classical literature (The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes were Watching God), Middle eastern cultures beliefs and norms and how these works of fiction and non-fiction impact them globally and socially. The AP Coordinator (Kim Lundy)met with parents and students several times this summer to assist parents in understanding how to support their student as the year unfolds. These workshops gave parents and students a clearer vision of the expectations and benefits for all stakeholders.
Kim Lundy, the former Executive Director of Excelsior Learning and Development Academy, literacy coach, development specialist and teacher, piloted several educational programs, developed instructional plans and goals and assists schools who want to raise the educational rigor and expectations for their teachers and students. Through these efforts students have entered and completed prestigious universities across America to include UC Berkley, Columbia, Emory, Florida Agriculture/ Mechanical University and Savannah State University. She has had great success with AP, Honors/Gifted and Standard based programs in Florida, Louisiana, Georgia and Illinois. Kim believes that education opens doors for the disadvantaged and underserved and that, education also keeps those doors from being shut again.