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Siena maintains a 10:1 student-teacher ratio across all courses. Due to our small class sizes, teachers can personally engage every student and adapt curriculum materials to meet their learning styles. 

Small class sizes also foster more positive collaboration, encouraging empathy and respect.

While we have a rigorous college preparation academic program at Siena, we also recognize the importance of building students' self-confidence and encouraging their areas of strength and interest.

Siena offers a wide range of arts classes including studio art, digital photography, music, makers space, and drama. Teachers incorporate flexible projects and assignments into their curriculum, allowing students to design creative solutions to meet the requirements.

Siena incorporates first-hand experiences to make learning come alive. Our students take cross-curricular field trips and are visited by a number of engaging guest speakers throughout the year. Some of our past experiential opportunities have included traveling to:

• Local art museums, theaters, and musical venues (e.g. a middle school trip to see Synetic Theater’s movement-based version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night after reading the play and acting out scenes in the classroom);
• The Supreme Court of the United States to hear oral arguments in addition to visits with former clerks of Supreme Court justices to prepare for High School Mock Trial;
• The National Zoo to examine organisms interacting with their various environments in connection with a unit on ecology; and
• The Baltimore Shock Trauma Center to see real-life applications of the sciences and learn about medical career paths from nurses and doctors.
  In addition to monthly outings/speakers, Siena provides a number of additional experiential learning opportunities:
• Every year, our high school students participate in 2-week internships that help them explore career interests, meet professional mentors, and practice career skills;
• Students take part in our annual Stewardship Day activities; and
• Students participate in a number of school-based service learning projects and programs throughout the year.

Siena provides in-depth college advising. Parents and students receive general information on the college process throughout their time at Siena and receive advice about high school coursework that will best prepare them for college.

Individual family meetings take place during a student's 11th grade year, with a goal of helping students explore a variety of colleges and universities that offer support for students with learning differences. We also partner with college placement consultants to support families in the college search, and to help students find a good match with the proper support upon enrollment. Time is set aside for 11th and 12th graders to visit schools, and a number of college representatives meet with Siena students at Siena.

Our College Counselor goes above and beyond the four years of high school to assist with the transition to college, advising students how to set up accommodations for themselves, helping them collect and organize their high school course materials, and checking in with them during their first year of college.

We know that strong communication and collaboration among students, families, teachers, and administrators is paramount to our students' success. We communicate with families throughout the school year in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

• Weekly e-newsletters
• Weekly course preview emails from teachers
• Parent-Advisor phone calls each quarter
• Parent-Teacher conferences each semester
• ParentSquare: a web and smartphone app used for mass communications (emails, texts, notifications, calendar events, sign-ups and photo/file sharing)