HB High School Schedule

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain the HB high school schedule. 7 blocks meet 50 minutes each. But one block is taken up by TA/I Block/Equity and Community. Do HS kids take 7 classes (including PE) like other schools. How does that work with all these other things in the day?

[Anonymous]

Actually there are 8 blocks each day, but there is a rotating schedule so all classes don't meet every day. Every class meets 4 days a week, not 5. So HB teachers have to squeeze in more content into less time.

A lot of high school students don't fill up all 8 blocks electing to have a free block instead, but some do.

TA/I block/equity blocks are worked into the schedule. TA is not a full block. I believe there is one short i block and one long i block each week.

Honestly I find the HB schedule really confusing but it makes sense to the kids so I don't have to understand it.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much. That’s super helpful. And I noticed they don’t seem to have intensified classes for high school other than math. Is that true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. That’s super helpful. And I noticed they don’t seem to have intensified classes for high school other than math. Is that true?

That is correct. Just regular and AP.

Another thing people may want to know: a lot of the AP classes at HB are not actually separate AP classes. The AP students and the non AP students take the exact same class together. The AP students may get slightly different work and they take the AP test at the end but it's otherwise the same class. I guess they don't have enough students to justify two separate classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. That’s super helpful. And I noticed they don’t seem to have intensified classes for high school other than math. Is that true?

That is correct. Just regular and AP.

Another thing people may want to know: a lot of the AP classes at HB are not actually separate AP classes. The AP students and the non AP students take the exact same class together. The AP students may get slightly different work and they take the AP test at the end but it's otherwise the same class. I guess they don't have enough students to justify two separate classes.

They get a lot more work -- more assignments, longer assignments, more reading, etc. Starting over the summer. There is a lot of curriculum differentiation, even though the kids are in the same classroom.

[Anonymous]

Really? That sounds like a challenge for the teachers and the AP students. What classes is AP handled like that?