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Nines Program
Because high school can be different, Foothills School rededicated itself to its Nines Program in the 2009-10 academic year. The goal of the Foothills Nines Program is to be a highly personalized learning experience that continues to demonstrate the school's values of teaching responsibility and community development, while also exceeding the standards for high school education established by the State of Idaho.
Foothills recruited an outstanding faculty member who has nearly 20 years of professional outdoor education and wildlife biology management experience. The Nines program at Foothills has incorporated authentic project work (this year’s class is creating a book on the Boise Foothills plant life), regular working field trips and overnight experiences, and arts performances – all alongside an accelerated and integrated curriculum that has provided our students with 16 credits this year, which is 4 more than students enrolled in the public programs earn. Additionally, we have plans to include the required Biology 10 course in 2010/11 school year, thereby increasing the number of transferable credits to 18 by the end of the coming academic year.
For more information about the Nines Program and openings for the 2010-11 academic year, please contact Jo Henderson, Interim Education Director, or Emily Williams, Academic Program Coordinator.
Nines Program
The 2009-10 academic year marks the return of the Nines Program to Foothills School. The program has distinguished itself through authentic learning opportunities and students earning more high school credits than their counterparts in public and other private schools.
What Distinguishes Us
Our low student-teacher ratio of 9:1 permits personalized attention to student needs.
We hire, train, and retain outstanding faculty who are committed to our unique approach to education and to learning about each student - the relationships our faculty have with students is part of what makes the Foothills experience markedly different from other schools.
Our faculty teach in teams so that we are able to bring a breadth and depth of perspectives in each dyad's instruction.
Unlike all public and charter schools, we are not "graded" in the public sector and are not required to spend classroom time preparing students for or administering standardized tests; our alumni have proven time and again that their skills as thinkers and problem solvers enable them to succeed at test taking - we simply don't believe it's a way to encourage the love of learning that drives our daily experience at Foothills.
Our classroom curricula is benchmarked against national standards in each academic area.
COMING SOON...THE NINES PROGRAM CURRICULUM MAP
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Middle School and Nines Program Brochure
