Alameda Community Learning Center

Alameda Community Learning Center
Location
210 Central Avenue Alameda, California, 94501
Information
Type	Public Charter
Established	1992
Staff	~15
Enrollment	~215
Athletics	Dark Meat (Ultimate team)
Information	Phone: (510) 521-7543 Fax: (510) 521-7350
Website	http://www.alamedaclc.org

The Alameda Community Learning Center (ACLC), formerly Arthur Andersen Community Learning Center, is a 6th-12th grade charter school located in Alameda, CA, sharing a campus with Encinal High School. It describes itself as an educational model that empowers all youth to take ownership of their educational experience, to celebrate their diverse community, and to actively participate as members in a democratic society. It now focuses more on being a democratic society where students can decide what they want. ACLC's student population is representative of the general population of Alameda, CA, with slight under-representation of Asian learners (students) and an over-representation of Caucasian learners. Enrollment in the ACLC occurs according to a district run lottery system due to a high demand and relatively low learner spots available.

History

The Alameda Community Learning Center was created as a school in which the Graduate Profile of the Alameda Unified School District could live and breathe. The Graduate Profile is a document that was created at a visioning conference held by the AUSD in partnership with Arthur Andersen in 1992.

The product of this conference, the Graduate Profile, contains the ideal skills, qualities and work habits of a successful high-school graduate. Arthur Andersen funded the start-up costs for the school and endowed it with state-of-the-art technological resources and facilitator training.

After its first five years, it became apparent to all involved that this school needed to become a Charter School where the economic and educational decisions that determined the fate of the school would be made by an ACLC Governing Board composed of facilitators, parents, learners, community members and a district representative. This charter status allows the school to seek its own grants, determine its own standards, and enact policy that meets the needs of this unique environment. Facilitators (teachers), parents and learners (students) are involved in all levels of decision making.

Courses

The ACLC has a set of graduation requirements designed to meet University of California requirements. They also have a Digital Music program, and have an optional online language learning program, via Rosetta Stone.

Ultimate Frisbee

The ACLC is home to the now four-year reigning #1 Ultimate Frisbee team in California, Dark Meat. Dark Meat accepts players from sixth grade up to senior year, and is divided into several sub-teams:

• Junior Meat (All middle schoolers)
• Sweet Meat (All girls)
• Raw Meat (Junior varsity, some middle schoolers)
• Dark Meat (Varsity)

Dark Meat has competed in the UPA High School Western Championships, and won 3^rd place in 2006, but came down to 13^th in 2007.{{http://www4.upa.org/scores/tourn.cgi?div=17&id=4807

DVS

The ACLC offers an elective course called TV/Media, commonly known as Digital Video Studio (DVS). TV/Media allows learners to learn the arts of making various kinds of movies, from documentary to short films. Because of this class, ACLC has a green painted room for special effects purposes dubbed the "Green Room." The TV/Media course is UC approved as of 2006. Recently, the main TV/Media room has had some controversy because of lack of supervision outside of class time, and before the addition of a large window into the room, the TV/Media room could be easily vandalized by learners.

The class also has an amount of videos on the Internet:

• Mega Shog 2 by Kraxy Juce Productions
• The Musician by Piur
• Pencils: Thievery Is All Around Us by Ryan Bince

External links

• ACLC website