Phia Vue welcomes you! (photo courtesy of Ka Hang)

• Harding has two Gates Millennium Scholarship winners (2006 & 2008)
• The amount of scholarships earned by Harding grads increases every year!
  • 2006: $2,972,000
  • 2007: $4,549,574
  • 2008: $8,165,352
  • 2009: $8,244,760
• Harding offers:
  • 6+ College Access programs
  • Extended Day and After school tutoring
  • State of the Art College & Career Center
  • A culturally diverse International Baccalaureate Program 
  • Job Shadowing Program
  • Parent/Guardian organizations
  • Business and Community Partnerships
  • A tradition of welcoming new populations
  • Volunteer and Service Learning Opportunities
• Harding students graduate prepared!
• • 93.12% have completed Post-Secondary Education Plans
  • 93% have career goals and plans for reaching those goals
  • 100% complete a 6 Year Plan from 9th grade through 2 years post-graduation
    

Professional Learning Communities

Professional Learning Communities focus on learning rather than on teaching. Teachers and staff are partnering to work together building relationships, sharing ideals, creating a strong culture of learning, goal setting and measurments of learning. 

Small Learning Communities Harding High School is a highly competitive International Baccalaureate (IB) School that has its foundations in small learning communities. The school is divided into 5 academies. All 9th graders are members of the 9th grade academy. For grades 10-12, depending on interests, students join one of the following:

• Academy of Fine Arts
• Human Services Academy
• Medical and Environmental Studies Academy
• Science, Engineering, & Industrial Technology Academy

• School-wide writing improvement plan
• Foundation advisories
• Systematic academic interventions for students
• Collaborative teams in course content areas to build curriculum, common assessments and intervention strategies

The school community includes all Harding staff, St Paul community and families. We have an energetic staff. We have many strong community connections. We have one of the most active parent's organization of all St Paul schools. It is of upmost importance the family participates in every aspect of the school. 

Writing Initiative Update

Harding Students Demonstrate Growth as Writers

 Harding continues our commitment to improve student writing across the curriculum.  In addition to the content area courses, students have focused on developing their writing skills to reflect, develop critical thinking skills, and to learn new information within Advisory.   This habit of writing, which began by keeping a writer’s notebook, is the first step to our success as writers.   In addition, students have been given three opportunities this school year to write a one-paragraph response to a prompt, which was scored by the entire Harding staff on a 6-point rubric, modeled after the state of Minnesota’s rubric for the GRAD test in Writing. 

We are pleased to report that 43% of all students who responded to two or three of the prompts have improved their score by at least one point.  These are encouraging results.  The very deliberate and concerted efforts from the students and staff at Harding are responsible for this success.  We intend to persist in our efforts to improve the quality of every student’s writing skills.