January 2015

ALC Film students took a trip to the Rose Wagner Theatre to see two films as part of the Sundance Film Festival. The first film, "Dark Horse" is about a small town in Wales whose community members all pitched in to raise a race horse and watch it compete (and win) against other horses owned by billionaires. Then they saw "Most Likely to Succeed" which is about the current educational system in the U.S. and how some schools are trying to look to the future to train innovative thinkers and creators. It was directed by Greg Whitely, who has also directed "Mitt" and "New York Doll." Students were able to talk with him for about 15 minutes after the screening.

It's that time when classes are changing and students have the opportunity to receive college credit while taking classes here at ALC. Students enrolled in the ALC classes listed below can be concurrently enrolled (Concurrent Enrollment-CE) in these high school classes and UVU and thus receive college credit while receiving high school credit. This opportunity saves families hundreds of dollars in tuition.

Receiving college credit while in high school requires a two-step process. First, students must apply for admission to UVU. After admission, students register for the UVU course. This link http://www.uvu.edu/concurrent/ gives great instructions for this process.

The Advanced Learning Center's Computer Programming teacher, Mr. Eastmond, reported great success with the results of students taking the computer programming skills certification test. Eleven out of thirteen of his students received a skills certificate with two of those receiving a 100%. Our Health Sciences teacher, Miss Grant, reported that 100% of her students received Emergency Medical Responder Certification after taking their test this week. Congratulations to all students receiving certifications! Your hard work has paid off!

Five members of ALC's administration, faculty, and staff attended vital accreditation training in Salt Lake City this week. The Advanced Learning Center is in the process of becoming accredited with an initial review having been completed last fall. The ALC is now a "Candidate for Accreditation". We are now in the throes of collecting data to provide evidence for our evaluations. We look forward to becoming fully accredited as it will allow us to more fully serve a greater number of students living within the Nebo District.