Program in America and California Explorations
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Program in America and California Explorations (PACE) is a Small Learning Community (SLC) at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento), which focuses on academic excellence, culture and civic events, and community service.
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[edit] Academic Excellence
PACE likes having the top students, top teachers, and advanced core classes. The PACE classes are taught in block scheduling for Freshmen and Sophomores. PACE students have their own advisor, and are usually all grouped together in all of their classes, though not all classes are PACE. PACE emphasizes on California history, government, and history.
[edit] PACE Summer School
PACE Summer School is a requirement for all incoming freshmen to PACE. PACE Summer School is unique because it is taught at Sacramento State. Students will take English, History, Writing, and Field Trip Preparation. PACE has a strict policy of absences during summer school. Students may not exceed 5 days of absences of the student will be dropped from the PACE Program. Students also have field trips during the 4 weeks at PACE Summer School. Past field trips students went to during summer school have featured river rafting near the American River, exploring San Francisco, and an overnight trip to Yosemite National Park. In Summer 2006, students went to the Sacramento State Adventure Peaks Challenge Course, Oakland Museum of California, San Francisco tour, and Donner Summit.
[edit] Community Service and Cultural and Civic Events
PACE believes that community service is a vital part of being an excellent student and person in society. It's a requirement to complete 15 hours community service or volunteering hours to pass your PACE classes each semester. There is a lenient, yet certain criteria on what counts as community service.
Cultural and Civic events are also what is believed to be a vital part of being an excellent student and person in society. PACE wants it's students to be aware of other cultures in the world, as well as the student's own. And PACE wants its students to realize that the public civic events, like a town hall meeting, are things that students can attend in the hopes the student can be enriched and possibly change the community. It's a requirement for each semester a student to do a cultural event (not of the student's own culture) or civic event. Again, there's a lenient yet certain criteria on what counts.
