Help Support Our Mission!

Rigor. Technology. History.
Language. Current Events.

In order to create well-rounded respectful students, we bring rigor, technology, history, and current events into our classrooms.
Foreign Language And Global Studies is a teamed program of students, teachers, and parents. Students in our program have a dedicated team of teachers that purposefully collaborate to create rigorous interdisciplinary units and projects in order to expand students' global awareness and increase their knowledge of current events.
Our program earned Hilltop Middle School the distinguished honor of being recognized as a California Gold Ribbon School due to our core values: innovative teaching approach, effective integration of technology, and commitment to preparing the 21st century learner in a global society. We also offer the most languages at the middle school level in our district, with all participants in the program taking a foreign language class: Spanish, French, Italian, or Chinese. We are proud of the diversity of population of our students who represent all of the San Diego South Bay area and Sweetwater Union High School District.
Excerpt taken from ClassroomOfTheFuture.org:
"Hilltop Middle School in Chula Vista will receive the Achieve Award for its Foreign Language and Global Studies program. With a dedicated team of students, teachers and parents, FLAGS creates rigorous interdisciplinary projects to encourage collaborative problem solving and foster global perspectives. Students engage in mock trials, Socratic seminars, blogging and digital media creation to become effective communicators and critical thinkers...."

Our Mission Statement
The F.L.A.G.S. Program at Hilltop Middle School is committed to serving students interested in learning world languages by providing all students with rigorous learning and personalized relationships to ensure their success as responsible, globally-conscious students. Our curriculum brings together the strength of modern technology, community partnerships, problem solving, interdisciplinary instruction, and global perspectives in a student-centered, collaborative, project-based community, preparing them for the 21st century.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the school year,  all  Foreign  Language  and  Global  Studies Students will be :
*Critical and Creative Thinkers
- problem solving, creative thinking/expression, higher order thinking (analyze, synthesize, evaluate), make connections across disciplines.

*Effective Communicators 
- Reading, writing, listening, speaking, organizing, and presenting ideas, questioning, defending arguments.
​
*Mathematically Adept
- applying appropriate mathematical techniques, reading, analyzing, summarizing, and predicting data across disciplines.

*Global/Civic Minded
​- natural, political, social, and economic issues in local, national, and global communities.

*Technologically Adept 
- gathering, analyzing, and creating information; appropriately using a variety of programs, applications, and platforms; distinguish between credible and non-credible resources.

*Fluent Multi-Lingual
- demonstrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills; compare and contrast cultural and language concepts with one's own; develop an awareness and appreciation of traditions, customs, and beliefs related to the target language.