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A '''Small Learning Community''' ('''SLC'''), also referred to as a '''School-Within-A-School''', is a [[school organizational models|school organizational model]] that is an increasingly common form of [[learning environment]] in [[United States|American]] [[secondary school]]s to subdivide large school populations into smaller, autonomous groups of students and teachers. SLCs can also be physical [[learning space]]s.

The primary purpose of restructuring secondary schools into SLCs is to create a more [[personalized learning]] environment to better meet the needs of students.<ref name="AFA">''Architecture for Achievement - building patterns of small school learning'', Victoria Bergsagel, Tim Best, Kathleen Cushman, Lorne McConachie, Wendy Sauer, David Stephen. Mercer Island, WA. 1997. Page 101-104. {{ISBN|978-0-9796777-0-0}}. Retrieved 2016-04-07</ref> Each community will often share the same teachers and student members from grade to grade. Teachers in these units usually have common planning time to allow them to develop interdisciplinary projects and keep up with the progress of their shared students.

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* Career Academies are generally a three- or four-year structure developed around a career theme or [[Career Clusters]]. Characterized by career-related electives and integration of career theme across entire academic curriculum.

* Freshman Academies are structure designed to support 9th grade students as they transition into high school.

* [[Magnet Schoolsschool|Magnet schools]] are a career-themed SLC that includes accelerated course-work for Gifted & Talented students.

== Courses ==