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  • Electives – Student Leadership
AVID 9th (8730,8731)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

AVID’s mission is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. Visit the international website here: https://www.avid.org/

AVID prepares all students for college readiness, whether students are planning to attend a community college, certificate program, or a 4-year university after high school.

In the AVID elective at TVHS, students will be taught the skills they need to be successful in college. From organization & study skills to financial planning and life skills, AVID teaches both hard and soft skills. AVID creates a supportive environment for students to grow into independent young adults. Students learn a variety of skills & strategies to support them in all of their classes and prepare them for the rigors of college. Students engage in career & major exploration, college campus visits, and receive tutoring twice a week in class. AVID students enjoy field trips, guest speakers, and access to current university students. The AVID elective becomes a home away from home, as cohorts of students stay together during their four years of high school. AVID students receive extra time and support in class as they apply for scholarships and college together.

  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
AVID 10th (8732,8733)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective

AVID’s mission is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. Visit the international website here: https://www.avid.org/

AVID prepares all students for college readiness, whether students are planning to attend a community college, certificate program, or a 4-year university after high school.

In the AVID elective at TVHS, students will be taught the skills they need to be successful in college. From organization & study skills to financial planning and life skills, AVID teaches both hard and soft skills. AVID creates a supportive environment for students to grow into independent young adults. Students learn a variety of skills & strategies to support them in all of their classes and prepare them for the rigors of college. Students engage in career & major exploration, college campus visits, and receive tutoring twice a week in class. AVID students enjoy field trips, guest speakers, and access to current university students. The AVID elective becomes a home away from home, as cohorts of students stay together during their four years of high school. AVID students receive extra time and support in class as they apply for scholarships and college together.

  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
AVID 11th (8734, 8735)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective

AVID’s mission is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. Visit the international website here: https://www.avid.org/

AVID prepares all students for college readiness, whether students are planning to attend a community college, certificate program, or a 4-year university after high school.

In the AVID elective at TVHS, students will be taught the skills they need to be successful in college. From organization & study skills to financial planning and life skills, AVID teaches both hard and soft skills. AVID creates a supportive environment for students to grow into independent young adults. Students learn a variety of skills & strategies to support them in all of their classes and prepare them for the rigors of college. Students engage in career & major exploration, college campus visits, and receive tutoring twice a week in class. AVID students enjoy field trips, guest speakers, and access to current university students. The AVID elective becomes a home away from home, as cohorts of students stay together during their four years of high school. AVID students receive extra time and support in class as they apply for scholarships and college together.

  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
AVID 12th (8736, 8737)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective

AVID’s mission is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. Visit the international website here: https://www.avid.org/

AVID prepares all students for college readiness, whether students are planning to attend a community college, certificate program, or a 4-year university after high school.

In the AVID elective at TVHS, students will be taught the skills they need to be successful in college. From organization & study skills to financial planning and life skills, AVID teaches both hard and soft skills. AVID creates a supportive environment for students to grow into independent young adults. Students learn a variety of skills & strategies to support them in all of their classes and prepare them for the rigors of college. Students engage in career & major exploration, college campus visits, and receive tutoring twice a week in class. AVID students enjoy field trips, guest speakers, and access to current university students. The AVID elective becomes a home away from home, as cohorts of students stay together during their four years of high school. AVID students receive extra time and support in class as they apply for scholarships and college together.

  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
CSU Campus Connections (9600)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
  • Family and Consumer Science – Education and Training
  • Family and Consumer Sciences
Elementary Tutor (8628, 8629)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Attendance reviews, application, and interview

  • Work outside school assisting elementary school students and teachers.
  • Have their own transportation, a positive manner, a nearly perfect attendance record, an acceptable scholastic average, and teaching as a possible future career goal.
  • Supply the coordinator with three letters of recommendation and an application.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Harold Ferguson High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Freshman Seminar (8718, 8719)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Instructor approval required

  • Prepare students for high school life academically, socially, and emotionally.
  • Build the foundation of what it means to be a successful student and human being.
  • Establish a strong culture and community and teach students what it means to be a Mountain View Mountain Lion.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Leadership (8616,8617)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective

  • Provide participants with the opportunity to meet current district leaders and represent a student voice to connect with district departments, high schools, and the greater Loveland community.
  • Complete a few tasks focused on building leadership knowledge and improving skills.
  • Keep a record of activities by creating a personal student leadership portfolio.
  • Student applicants for SLC must be aware that attendance and active participation is mandatory.
  • Applicants must have the support and commitment of their high school and administration (the signature of the student’s administrator is necessary for the application to be considered by the Advisory Committee).
  • Attend one monthly session each month, as well as one District Accountability Committee (DAC) meeting.
  • Mountain View High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Peer Buddies (8694)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Instructor approval required

Grades 10, 11, 12 at Thompson Valley High School

  • Demonstrate how to work well with teachers and other students in the classroom, model effective organizational skills, study skills for their peer buddy, and assist with note-taking, reading, and clarifying directions for their peer buddy.
  • Help the student they are assigned to in developing good social and academic habits so they are successful in the classroom, and provide support to the classroom teacher by helping to identify and meet the needs of their peer buddy based on his/her goals.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Peer Partners (8632,8633)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Counselor approval required

  • Learn how to help other students effectively.
  • Go through special training in how to be a good listener, how to communicate with others effectively, and how to help others make decisions.
  • Help all students with school-related problems, conflict resolution, and minor personal/family difficulties with ICAP plans.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
  • Business and Marketing – Computer and Digital Technologies
  • Business and Marketing – Marketing
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Service Learning (5090)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

explore issues of local and global importance, develop a focused mission statement for the class, then work with classes, school organizations and local non-profits to coordinate service as action in response to these issues.

  • Electives – Student Leadership
Social Emotional Learning (8500,8501)

Credit: 0.5 Elective

Through both personal exploration and investigation of social, emotional, behavior, and mental health theories, students will learn more about who they are, their social and emotional strengths and areas for growth, and how that impacts their communication and relationships.

Students will learn how to communicate effectively, maintain healthy positive relationships, navigate resources in the community, and create healthy boundaries with self and others in order to gain emotional stability.

  • Harold Ferguson High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Social Emotional Education (8814)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

Society is quickly changing. Skills in technology are embedded in everything we do and learn. However, as we are progressing technologically, it seems our social and emotional management skills are suffering.

In this class, students will learn and practice skills in healthy communication, motivation, conflict resolution, and overall emotional management. Assignments will include the application of these skills to relationships with parents and guardians, teachers, siblings, friends, and employers.

Students will develop the self-awareness and emotional stability to thrive in high school and beyond.

  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Sources of Strength (8690,8691)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective

Society is quickly changing. Skills in technology are embedded in everything we do and learn. However, as we are progressing technologically, it seems our social and emotional management skills are suffering.

In this class, students will learn and practice skills in healthy communication, motivation, conflict resolution, and overall emotional management. Assignments will include the application of these skills to relationships with parents and guardians, teachers, siblings, friends, and employers.

Students will develop the self-awareness and emotional stability to thrive in high school and beyond.

  • Loveland High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Student Council (8614,8615)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Elected and/or appointed; BHS & TVHS Student Council application required

  • Learn and practice all areas of leadership.
  • Become skilled in the art of leadership.
  • Work as a team to create positive change and exciting activities for school.
  • Spend hundreds of hours outside of the normal school day working on Council activities.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – Student Leadership
Teen Court (8698,8699)

Credit: 0.25 Career Pathway Elective
Credit: 2.0 hrs Community Service per session

Sessions are held Tuesday afternoons at 3PM in the Loveland Municipal Courtroom when TSD is in session. Students must provide their own transportation to and from each session. For more information, contact Tracy Evangelista at 613-5986 or visit https://www.lovgov.org/services/municipal-court/loveland-teen-court.

In Teen Court, students will:

  • The Thompson School District, in partnership with the City of Loveland, provides student volunteers an opportunity to review low-level juvenile cases and render sentencing (usually in the form of community service and future Teen Court sessions) as a means of steering young offenders toward more productive choices.
  • Students will work alongside the City Prosecutor's office, the municipal court judge, and other TSD advisors, learning how to assume the roles of a prosecutor, defense attorney, court clerk, judge, and jury member.
  • The Loveland Teen Court Program hears 45-50 juvenile cases per school year.