All Santa Susana High School students participate in The Troubadour Advisory Program (TAP), a class which meets for 23 minutes on Wednesdays and Thursdays. TAP is unique to SSHS and supports the school-wide goal to guide all students toward academic and personal success.

TAP is designed as a support system providing personalized academic guidance within the school’s structure of Schools and Academies. TAP advisement involves teacher advocates who regularly monitor student academic progress as related to graduation requirements and preparation for career and postsecondary education. Students meet in TAP twice weekly and remain with the same TAP teacher for three of their four years of high school. During the senior year, students move into “Troubadour Advanced Planning,” which groups students with mentors including the school counselors and administrators, and prepares students for graduation and for the world beyond high school.

TAP advisors follow a curriculum specific to grade-levels and curricular paths. Lessons require students to complete regular self-reviews of academic progress. Quarterly student assignments such as examining report cards provide an opportunity for TAP teachers to address the individual needs of each student. Positive feedback is given for satisfactory grades, while encouragement and suggestions for improvement are given for unsatisfactory performance. No student is overlooked and all academic questions and concerns are confronted sooner rather than later.
The TAP Program also lends to the supportive climate of Santa Susana High School. A time for announcements to be broadcast and information to be distributed, TAP is an opportunity for students to receive information pertinent to their academic coursework as well as their extracurricular programs and activities.

Santa Susana is dedicated to helping its students achieve. We know, however, that a team effort is required, and we appreciate the support you give that allows us to work successfully with your children. We cannot do it without you.

We want to help students achieve, but we need their help. A passing grade in TAP can be earned by simply arriving on time, participating in advisement activities and demonstrating respectful, cooperative behavior.

A passing grade in TAP can be attained through:

• Good Attendance (truancies and tardies are considered)
• Participation and completion of activities
• Cooperation (proper classroom behavior)

• The six “No’s” of SSHS: No eating/drinking; No headphones; No heads down or sleeping; No cell phones during class; No hoods up during class; No sunglasses on during class
• The guidelines of each individual teacher must be followed
• Each tardy will result in a one hour detention