School-Within-A-School
**Preliminary**
School-Within-A-School (SWS) is a democratic program at Brookline High School serving approximately 120, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. All SWS students remain members of the broader BHS community, and the program as a whole is completely enmeshed with the main school. In SWS, students enroll in highly rigorous courses, and they commit to promoting a just and empathetic community of teachers and students. Within the program, students take English, Social Studies, Biology, and Chemistry courses, as well as a weekly “Town Meeting” class. SWS functions as a separate administrative unit within the High School, with its own Coordinator who also serves as the counselor.
Personnel
• There are no changes other than annual salary adjustments.
Services, Supplies, Other and Capital
• There are no changes other than rebalancing expense categories.
FY20 Objectives
• Continue to modify a peer discipline model, with a focus on attendance.
• Identify ways to promote equity for students across all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
• Identify ways for students who have struggled previously to achieve success in school.
FY21 Objectives
• Develop a new student support class based on a modified version of Tutorial.
• Continue to modify a peer discipline model, with a focus on attendance.
• Identify ways to promote equity for students across all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
• Identify ways for students who have struggled previously to achieve success in school.
• Determine needs for continued success in the areas of staffing and programming.
FY19 Accomplishments
• Design and implementation of new student support structures, including a new version of SWS Tutorial.
• Create new peer discipline mechanism.
• Focus on early-warning based interventions focused on attendance.
FY20 Accomplishments
• Design and implementation of new student support structures, including a new version of SWS Tutorial.
• Implement revised version of peer discipline mechanism, with focus on attendance.
• Introduction of new courses based on shared student and faculty interests.
• Involvement of students in ongoing revisions of democratic governance.
• Focus on early-warning based interventions focused on attendance.