Humanitas

Humanitas is one of the nation’s oldest and most successful learning communities, engaging more than 400 teachers and 11,000 students in Los Angeles high schools. The program improves the academic achievement of disadvantaged students by strengthening the knowledge, skill and job satisfaction of their teachers, and by engaging students in a close knit learning experience that keeps them together with caring and dedicated teachers over much of the course of their high school experience. 

Humanitas offers students, the majority of them from low income and minority backgrounds, the opportunity to participate in a challenging, interdisciplinary learning experience organized around relevant themes that encourage critical thinking, writing and verbal skills.  Humanitas teachers work together to develop themes and plan instructional activities, and benefit from ongoing training and support, quality lesson plans and themes, and access to expert teachers.

For additional information please Linda O’Neill at: (213) 622-5237 ext. 262 or visit the Humanitas web site.