Additional Courses
Career Internship 3
Students will gain hands-on experience through an internship in the community. Students will develop employability skills, gain work experience, and complete a portfolio.
Student Leadership
This course will offer students development in leadership skills that can be applied at RHS and in the community. The class will focus on promoting school pride, studying past and present leaders, and developing interpersonal skills. Students will be expected to complete a service learning project that applies these leadership skills.
Student Leadership 2
This course will offer students the opportunity to develop and improve on areas such as goal setting, effective communications, servant leadership, organization, time management, and decision making. Students will develop leadership skills by learning from leaders in our school and community, as well as from a book study, and building relationships with a diverse population of students at RHS.
Peer Insights
Provide opportunities for positive student-to-student interaction between RISE and regular ability students, students serve as a role model, writing skills through the journaling process.
Sports Broadcasting Internship
Students will learn basic skills in graphic design, social media marketing, web stream production, and game-day operations that go into creating sporting events and broadcast journalism. Students will participate in the game-day production on the school’s web streaming platform and game-day production. Students will learn a variety of roles on game day including directing, camera, play-by-play and color commentary, in-game social media, show control, and statistics. Students will be involved in pre-game preparation including social media, graphic design, hype-video, and program rosters. Students will be required to work at some of the events outside of the school day as part of the curriculum.
AP Seminar Capstone
AP Seminar is a foundational course that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives. Using an inquiry framework, students practice reading and analyzing articles, research studies, and foundational, literary, and philosophical texts; listening to and viewing speeches, broadcasts, and personal accounts; and experiencing artistic works and performances. Students learn to synthesize information from multiple sources, develop their own perspectives in written essays, and design and deliver oral and visual presentations, both individually and as part of a team. Ultimately, the course aims to equip students with the power to analyze and evaluate information with accuracy and precision in order to craft and communicate evidence-based arguments.
Syllabus Approved by College Board
AP Research Capstone
AP Research, the second course in the AP Capstone experience, allows students to deeply explore an academic topic, problem, issue, or idea of individual interest. Students design, plan, and implement a yearlong investigation to address a research question. Through this inquiry, they further the skills they acquired in the AP Seminar course by learning research methodology, employing ethical research practices, and accessing, analyzing, and synthesizing information. Students reflect on their skill development, document their process and reflection portfolio. The course culminates in an academic paper of 4,000-5, 000 words (accompanied by a performance, exhibit, or product where applicable) and a presentation with an oral defense.
Syllabus Approved by College Board