Dougherty Valley High – Academic Leadership

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

Academic Leadership is an elective yearlong course that trains and equips students to tutor and support peers in their academic classes. Academic Leadership will develop essential collaborative and interpersonal communication skills. Academic Leadership tutors will assist teachers in providing academic and organizational skills to students, which includes, but is not limited to: World Languages, Languages Arts, Mathematics, Sciences, Social Sciences, Visual or Performing Arts. These academic leaders will receive instruction, strategies, and training using the inquiry method that encourages higher level thinking by students, as well as skills, techniques, and methodologies based on the California Teacher Performance standards and Career Technical Education Model Curriculum foundation and pathway standards for Education, Child Development, and Family Services Industry Sector .