2017年秋冬学期，我们见证了FLIS中学部许多激动人心的改变：校园大家庭中迎来了新生以及新同事；调整了上课时间，这让我们能够整合更多基于学习的项目，锻炼更高水平的思维技能。在第一学期的每周例会上，我们也发布、表彰了不少美妙的成就。我为HSP 1班学生们感到非常高兴，整个班级都进步许多，如今他们都进入了HSP 2班，也就是向迈入主流班更近了一步。而目前主流班的学生们，也都在朝毕业所需的24-26个学分努力。为了更好地帮助大家，下学期我们将增设一个大学备考班，并重整生活技能课，以便能有更多机会，锁定学生们需要并感兴趣的学习技能。我们将继续课后辅导，帮助那些在课堂上稍有困难的同学，以及那些教师们认为在某些领域需要提升的同学。FLIS的学生从这些长期课时中获益良多。未来，更高水平的思维技能强化、以及个性化辅导也将逐步兑现。


Fall of 2017 witnessed some exciting changes to FLIS Secondary School. We welcomed many new students and staff to the FLIS family. We also switched the schedule to an A and B day approach with three 90 minute blocks each day and two forty five minute blocks. The block schedule allows us to incorporate more project based learning and stress the higher level thinking skills. There were many wonderful achievements during the first semester many of which were acknowledge and celebrated in our weekly assemblies. I am very pleased with our HSP 1 students as the entire class progressed and are now in HSP2 and thus one step closer to being mainstreamed students. Our current mainstream students are all progressing towards the 24 to 26 credits they need to graduate. In order to serve our students better next semester we are adding a college entrance test preparation class and reorganizing our life skills classes so that we can have an additional opportunity to target learning skills that are of need and interest to students. We will continue our mandatory after school tutoring program for students who are struggling in classes and target additional students if teachers find areas that need to be improved. Students at FLIS benefit from the longer class periods, the emphasis on higher level thinking skills, and the individualized tutoring that will be offered.