Alameda Science and Technology Institute

About

Early College Highschool

Story

Alameda Science and Technology Institute is located on College of Alameda campus in Alameda's West End neighborhood. First opened in 2004, ASTI is a collaboration between Alameda Unified School District and the College of Alameda. ASTI was planned and conceived as a small high school providing a rigorous college preparatory curriculum to students living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Students earn two years of college credit during their junior and senior years. The ASTI program actively implements project-centered learning and inquiry-based instruction in a teamwork setting, resulting in interdisciplinary work that spans the major content areas.

Mission

ASTI's 2005-2006 School Accountability Report Card Vision Statement reads as follows: "All students at Alameda Science and Technology Institute will be prepared to enroll and succeed in college courses. To realize these ends, ASTI gears its rigorous instruction on critical thinking and effective communication while emphasizing a focus on math, science and technology to equip its students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed and compete in the new American economy." As an Early College High School, ASTI adheres to core principles that define these schools: most important of these to ASTI is the stated priority of the national ECHS initiative "to serve low-income young people, first-generation college goers, English language learners, and students of color, all of whom are statistically underrepresented in higher education and for whom society often has low aspirations for academic achievement."