JCS Mission Greetings Upper School Families,
I hope life is treating you well, we're knee deep into Distance Learning and are almost to the final month of May. Schools are similar to children, there are quite a few complexities and due to the national crisis, a few more issues were added to the pot. The beauty of that, is we can meet the challenge, innovate, adapt and grow.
There are two significant academic determinations I would like to bring to your attention.
The first is finals week. I've spoken to the faculty leaders and we discussed finals week. In conversation, we wrestled with various factors such as student's mental health and academic integrity and wanted to acknowledge the challenges our students have met this year. For these reasons, our faculty will use differentiated assessment strategies to assess student's mastery. We will be finishing the year at the same time, meeting the State and National requirements but since the world looks different, our exam's will as well. Our goal is to measure student learning but also lower anxiety and give student's an opportunity to end the school year on a positive note.
The second adjustment is to the 2020-2021 academic schedule. Given the significant amount of change this year we want our students to come back to something that feels safe, consistent and familiar. To provide that, we will stay with our seven period schedule and will not be rotating classes next year.
Today we will be sending out the course registration packets. We are excited to continue to provide the courses most requested, with the addition of some exciting new offerings, such as Sports Medicine and ACT/SAT Prep, to name a few.
We are close to the finish line for this historic school year. JCS is proud of the manner that we as a community have risen to meet this crisis and in doing so, have been a light to many in need. That has been one of our consistent prayers, that our joy, compassion, grace and kindness would be seen so that He would be glorified.
Please feel free to set up a call with me at any time, I am here to serve.
Sincerely, 700 S Delaware Blvd • Jupiter, FL 33458 • (561) 746-7800 |