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Dear Justice Families,
We are one week away from welcoming our students back to Justice High School. This newsletter contains lots of information to help you and your child prepare for the start of the school year on September 8th.
Bell Schedule: Below is the Justice bell schedule. Students will be engaged Tuesday through Friday with four synchronous classes per day. Synchronous instruction will include teacher-led instruction, collaborative work time, and independent work time that may also include targeted and small-group support.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are “Red Days” and students will meet with their odd day classes, periods 1, 3, 5 and 7. Wednesdays and Fridays are “Blue Days” and students will meet with their even day classes, periods 2, 4, 6, and 8. Each class block will be 80 minutes in length and will be held through BBCU. Period 4 will continue to be our social emotional learning block (SEL) and Den Time.
Mondays will be used for intervention, enrichment and support. All students will be provided with asynchronous work, to be completed outside of regular class time and may be completed on Mondays. In addition, on Mondays, all students are expected to login with their period 4 teacher between 9:00-9:30am. Students should plan to attend class virtually for the duration of the period and attendance will be taken.
Student Schedules: On Wednesday, September 2, student schedules will be available for students and parents to view via StudentVue and ParentVue.
Virtual Opening: Justice will host a Virtual Opening on Thursday, September 3 beginning at 9:00am. By Wednesday, students will receive a phone call and an email to their fcpsschools.net account from their period 4 teacher welcoming them to the new year and detailing how they can access the event.
Rolling Gradebook: Given the uncertainty of schedules and virtual learning for all students during the 2020-21 school year, our school has decided teachers will use a rolling (cumulative) gradebook. A rolling gradebook allows for progress towards a final mark that captures the total picture of student grades, regardless of length of quarter or number of assignments in each quarter. Acknowledging that the coming school year begins on a later start date and will have both synchronous and asynchronous learning, it is important to utilize a gradebook type that provides maximum flexibility and ensures equitable grading practices to meet the academic and social- emotional needs of all students.
A rolling gradebook is an approved gradebook type per Secondary Grading & Reporting Policy and numerous FCPS schools/teams/teachers already utilize a rolling gradebook.
To learn more details about a rolling gradebook to include how it will look in SIS Student/ParentVUE, please take time to review the following video. Teachers will communicate grading design and policies via the course syllabus. Students/parents are encouraged to reach out directly to the teacher with additional questions.
As always, please feel free to reach out to me or any member of our admin team if you have any questions.
Last week's families submitted the following questions. Thank you for your questions.
- Do you have any information about Senior Portrait pictures? Will the school be able to coordinate the opportunity to get senior pictures taken? We are in the process of scheduling senior portraits and obtaining health and safety protocols for this event. We will send information out soon.
- Are there any forms that need to be filled out before the school year starts? See below under Early Bird Forms.
- Will 10th graders be taking the PSAT? Right now, 10th graders are not scheduled to take PSAT in October. If more information becomes available, we will notify families.
Please continue to submit general questions. We will share answers in our upcoming News You Choose Newsletter. You can find the Google Form here. If you have student specific questions, please feel free to reach out to any of our administrators. We are happy to help
Please be aware most teachers and staff are working remotely and will not be on campus; therefore, meetings and conferences largely will be online. We also understand a unique circumstance may necessitate a campus visit. Visitors to the Justice HS building must have an appointment in advance and complete the visitor questionnaire found here. Upon arrival at the school, please park in the visitor lot in front of our main entrance #1. You will need to ring the doorbell. Staff will respond to your call and confirm your appointment. If you do not have an appointment, staff will administer the health questionnaire prior to entry. All visitors are required to wear masks, check in and out at the front office, and maintain social distance throughout their visit.
We understand how the beginning of the year can be overwhelming with forms. Here are some you can access now.
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Emergency Care Form required for all returning FCPS students to review and update if needed.
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Emergency Care Card required for students NEW to FCPS.
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FCPSOn Computer Opt Out Form: Only for students who are not planning to use a school laptop. We highly recommend you use the FCPS laptop because all software and other applications will be loaded and accessible. Software used by FCPS and Justice HS cannot be loaded on personal devices.
More information will be sent later for other forms such as parental signatures needed for the Students Rights and Responsibilities Form, Medical Needs, Residency Verification, and Software Parental Consent Form.
This week, we will be offering additional opportunities to pick up laptops. Students will be able to pick up laptops from Mon-Thurs 8:30am-2:00pm in main office as well as on Wednesday, September 2nd from 4:00pm-6:00pm. Pickup will take place outside of door #1 and appointments are not necessary. If students have laptops from Glasgow Middle School, they may bring them and drop them off with us when picking up their Justice Laptop.
Masks and social distancing will be required and if students would answer “yes” to any of the questions below, we will reschedule for a later time for laptop pick up.
- Do you have a cough and/or sore throat?
- Have you had a fever in the last 72 hours (3 days)?
- Do you have any shortness of breath or is it hard for you to breathe?
- Is anyone in your house ill with a fever or a cough?
- Have you had any contact with someone known to have or under investigation for Coronavirus in the last 14 days (2 weeks)?
If you have any further questions, please email Jason Kagarise at JMKagarise@fcps.edu.
SIS Grade Books will be open for StudentVue and ParentVue access on Tuesday, September 17, 2020 at 6:00 am. The SIS Parent Account provides up to date parent and guardian access to their child’s student information, including attendance, report cards, class schedules, gradebook, course history, discipline, health, and school information, establishing another form of communication between home and school. Parents use the same username and password as the login for both SIS and FCPS 24-7 Learning. To create an account that will allow access to both, parents should contact Amanda Armitage at amarmitage@fcps.edu for an activation key. Parents with SIS Parents Accounts will automatically receive regular email progress reports with course grades to date beginning on Monday, September 21, 2020. Parents may log into their account to set their delivery preferences.
From Sept 8th-11th, the Justice HS SGA are hosting a virtual spirit week and would love for everyone to participate. We have dress-up days and social media challenges. Please #JHSWolfpack and tag @wolfpack_sga on Instagram and/or Twitter.
- 9/8: Class Colors/Justice Memory Day
- 2021: Red
- 2022: White
- 2023: Grey
- 2024: Navy Blue
- 9/9: Denim/Show Your Mask Style Day
- 9/10: PJ/Fav Movie-TV Show Day
- 9/11: Fitness Attire/Mindfulness Day
We are excited to welcome our Wolves to the 2020-2021 school year during our annual Wolfpack Welcome, the Virtual Edition, on Tuesday, September 1st at 6:30 pm! Students will have the opportunity to virtually meet school staff, find out about activities and clubs, and learn important information about the upcoming school year. The event will be streamed through YouTube Premiere – a Live Event. This link, https://youtu.be/Qupp9Go1VeI , will go live on September 1st at 6:30pm. We will also be sending the link to each student via their fcpsschools.net email address. It will also be posted on social media. For those who can’t join us on the scheduled date and time, recording of the event will be shared after September 1st for those who are unable to join us that evening.
Closed Caption Translation is available through YouTube in multiple languages;
- Click the settings icon at the bottom of the video screen.
- Click Subtitles/CC.
- Click Auto-translate.
- Select a language.
On Monday, September 14th, 2020 at 9:45am, the Student Services department will provide a presentation to seniors on post-secondary options.
Seniors will learn about the various post-secondary options:
- 4 Year University/College
- Community College
- Apprenticeship/Training Programs
- Military
- Gap Year
Students will have an opportunity to meet with their counselor to review the following but not limited to:
- Senior packet- The senior packet is due on 9/11/20 and can be found on the student’s school counselor’s Google Classroom page.
- Diploma type & Transcript
- Senior contract
- Sign up for an individual meeting with their counselor and answer any questions they may have about their senior year.
Instructions on how to access the Senior Unit will be posted in the student’s school counselor’s Google classroom.
For more information, contact your child’s counselor or Alicia Grande, College & Career Specialist, at agrande@fcps.edu.
College Planning Night for the Class of 2021 will be held virtually on Thursday, September 17, 2020 from 7:00 pm-8:00 pm. Parents and students are invited to hear about key timelines, procedures, and resources to help support their children in the college application process. Registration is required by submitting the Justice HS College Planning Night RSVP form by 3:00 pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. Blackboard Collaborate details will be emailed to registered attendees 24 hours before the event. There is a limit of 500 attendees through Blackboard Collaborate and attendees will be registered on a first come, first served basis. We ask that only one attendee per household registers for this event. A recording of the session will be available for those who are not able to attend the live virtual session. For more information, contact your child’s counselor or Alicia Grande, College & Career Specialist, at agrande@fcps.edu.
Seniors will receive a copy of their unofficial transcript and graduation requirement contract in the mail on or around September 14th. Seniors will need to review all of the graduation requirements necessary to graduate in June of 2021. If there are any questions, please contact your school counselor.
The CAS component of the IB Diploma has been simplified for the Class of 2021.
Here are the changes:
- There will be NO formal Collaborative CAS Project.
- Students must complete 3 total reflections.
- The first reflection will be on the Creativity Strand.
- The second reflection will be the Activity Strand.
- The third reflection will be the Service Strand.
- A scheduled CAS meeting with all Class of 2021 Full Diploma Candidates will take place on Monday, September 28th. An invite will be sent to the students with the exact time.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Jason Vanderburgh (jvanderburgh@fcps.edu) Elizabeth Buffenbarger (eabuffenbarg@fcps.edu) or Jennifer Kresse Rodriguez (jakresserodr@fcps.edu).
The EE team knows that starting school in virtual environment will present some new challenges for everyone, so we are working to support you in our mutual goal of successfully completing the requirements for the IB Diploma.
We have updated and emailed our extended essay calendar and sample assignment tracker to all diploma candidates. Candidates will also notice that their personal assignment tracker has been updated in Google Classroom to include the rest of the steps in the EE process (through February!). This information, as well as support documents for the EE process, is also available on our Blackboard site.
The first fall EE deadline is now September 11th. Please note that all steps must be completed one-by-one and in this order. If candidates are still working through the spring steps, that’s okay! They should to catch up on those as soon as possible to join the rest of the fall schedule.
Please email Traci Rogers (tarogers@fcps.edu) if you have questions or concerns.
We invite you to participate in our Back-to-School Virtual Town Halls. To participate in any of these virtual sessions, please complete this form: Virtual Town Halls. Follow-up information about accessing the Blackboard Collaborate sessions will be sent to all registrants. If you have any questions, please email Michelle Campiglia, Assistant Principal, at mrcampiglia@fcps.edu.
9/2: School and Community Resources, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Topics will include class schedules, school and community wellness resources, free and reduced lunch applications, and school supplies.
9/9: Clubs, Sports, and Activities, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Brian Garvey, our Director of Student Activities, will provide updates and answer questions about clubs, activities, and sports. Information will also be provided about PTSA and Boosters.
September 1 - Wolfpack Welcome, Premiere – a Live Event. This link, https://youtu.be/Qupp9Go1VeI , will go live on September 1st at 6:30pm.
September 2 - School and Community Resources Town Hall, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
September 3 - 4th Period Virtual Check-ins @ 9:00 AM
September 8 - First Day of School (virtual)
September 9 - Clubs, Sports, and Activities Town Hall 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
September 17 - Class of 2021 College Planning Night @ 7:00-8:00 pm
September 22 - Back to School Night - 6PM
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