JICHS Leadership
Team Report
December 2022
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December 2022 JICHS LT Report…At a Glance
20 Piano students Achieved Superiors at State Piano Festival. 10 got PERFECT scores.
Michele Johnson,
Equity Coach
Sheli Ballard,
Instructional Coach
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Leslie McLaughlin,
Testing Coordinator
November Professional Learning
WICOR Walkthroughs
Equity & Access
Leadership Team Goal Presentation
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IB ANthropology students went to ethnic restaurants to study the “business of ethnicity”. Essentially, students were investigating the intersections of globalization, ethnicity, and capitalism to see how some individuals have leveraged their ethnicity most students visited local restaurants, while 2 visited restaurants in nyc. They found that the local community culture played a significant role in the authenticity of the ethnic restaurants they visited.
Sam’s trip to melvins
Anna’s trip to bumpas
Hannah’s trip to el kiosko
Isa’s trip to istanbul
Coach Hilyer’s US History students created a review video to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire.
International Baccalaureate
IB Shadowing
PreIB and JICHS Recruitment
The JICHS IB Programme hosted 62 students over the past 2 weeks as part of IB Shadow Days.
Interested 8th grade students visited during morning or afternoon sessions attending 2 of the 11 course options offered.
Prospective families also received follow up communications detailing the application process for and advantages of the PreIB Programme as well JICHS through CCSD School Choice.
Students visited from middle schools across the district including Mason Prep, Orange Grove, Haut-Gap, Buist Academy and Camp Road among others.
Reflecting on Current Practices and Future Goals
The IB Committee has been working diligently to identify opportunities for attracting and retaining a greater number of JICHS students in our Programme. This work directly supports the charter goals by engaging students with the rigorous coursework and rewards of an IB education.
Some notable action steps identified and begun by IB faculty include:
Examining Opportunities
IB Sciences (Group 4) at JICHS!
IB Thankful!
The IB Sciences (Group 4 courses) have to complete a mandatory Group 4 project each year. The project kicked off with an IB Thankful event to go over event specifics and to allow students to start planning.
The Science Department is sponsoring monthly ‘Cookie Camaraderie’ events for IB students. Each month has a theme. Students receive invitations to each event. December’s event will be a Holiday Cookie Decorating competition.
Field Experiences!
Environmental Science (Ms Reeves)
Students have been learning about all things horseshoe crab! Their final activity was a visit to Folly Beach to meet with a DNR scientist who taught them more about horseshoe crabs and allowed them to simulate beach surveys to look for horseshoe crab eggs.
IB Biology HL - Year 2 (Lyles)
Students spent the day collecting Spartina alterniflora seeds that will be used for experiments by IB Biology HL Year 1 students this spring. Students also completed their November field experience at the Angel Oak Tree on John’s Island
Physics (Mr. Kreamer)
Students participated in a trebuchet competition at USC on Saturday, November 12. The team will compete once again this Spring at USC.
Biology 2 (Mrs. Lyles)
Mrs. Lyles’ biology 2 students visited Coastal Expeditions to go on a boat tour to learn about our saltmarshes, harbor and birds. Students visited the newly reconstructed Crab Bank to learn about shorebird nesting sites. While there they were able to hunt for shark teeth!
Physical Education-Weightlifting/ Varsity Sports
-Weightlifting classes continue to utilize the new weight room with final max lifts to take place after the holidays.
Physical Education- PE 1/Varsity Sports
-All PE 1 classes will be taking their final fitnessgaram assessments after the holiday break. This will complete their 3rd and final assessment.
-Varsity Sports classes continue to prepare for their upcoming seasons during their sports classes.
The Unified P.E. students played basketball against Bishop England before Thanksgiving. Both teams played a great game, but our Trojans came out victorious over the Bishops with a stunning last minute winning shot for a final score of 33-32.
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Town of JI Lights, Percussion/Jazz Concert
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-We are gearing up for our EOC exams and preparing students in our English 2 courses.
-The department is giving students an option to compete in an essay contest that is being promoted by the West Ashley Optimist Club. It is a state-wide contest and the winning student could win $2,500 in scholarship money.
-We are sending our summer reading reminders for all second semester students taking English courses in the spring.
CTE
DECA Club members participated in the DECA Regional Competition on Wednesday, November 30 at WAHS.
The following students qualified for State Competition:
Congrats DECA!
FBLA sponsored their annual Little Debbies for Little One’s Bake Sale to help support March of Dimes.
Thank you FBLA for all you do!
Visual Arts Department
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Mr. Arnett, Mrs. Gunther, Ms. Purvis, and Ms. Read
Art 2: Conceptual Ink Portraits
Art 2: Conceptual Ink Portraits
Art 2: Conceptual Ink Portraits
This Week with Ms. Purvis
3D Design Theme: Environmental Problem Birdhouse created from the trashed materials that threatens the habitat or bird.
Art 4: Students are exploring revision & refinement. Ms. P is conducting one-on-one critiques using the Sustained Invegiestation Rubric to help guide students to think about & identify connections between material choices, how they work, and the inquiry questions that are guiding their portfolio development so they can refine or revise works to meet category 3
Ceramics 1: Glazing Personal Heritage Piece, finishing Food Piece, and practicing on Pottery Wheel.
Art 1: Finished Linocut Printmaking, working on Composition and 3 Methods of Collage
Art 1: Collages
Art 1: Collages
Art 1: Black-Out Poetry
Art 1: Black-Out Poetry
Ms. Bruns created a project for her Spanish I classes where students had to research a Spanish-speaking country's traditional dishes and currencies. They then created a food truck along with a menu using their food vocabulary. Students also had to write an "about" page for their business, which included a description of their food truck and of themselves.
Ms. Lowman’s Spanish 3H classes completed a selfie project to describe how they feel using estar, sentirse, and tener.
AFJROTC UNIT SC-922
Community Service Projects
Our Campus Cleanup
Disabled Vet Assist
Folly Beach “Sweep the Beach”
Toys for Tots Event
Inter-JROTC Competitions
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The Center for Student Learning has been busy! During the month of November, we scheduled 12 appointments utilizing 9 different tutors. Three of our students were so happy with their tutoring sessions, that they have booked recurring appointments. We already have 6 appointments on the books for December. Keep referring your students to us! We have had really great feedback from both tutors and those receiving tutoring. Here is what some of them have had to say:
"She is a great tutor." - Alyssa P., 12th grade
"Got more tutors like that."-John P., 12th grade
"I think we did well! We worked through a listening exercise and broke down the sentences so she was able to understand them better. I gave her some advice that helps me. She was understanding well on her own the time we finished and said she felt more confident." - Kate H. 12th grade
"I assured him when he worked out the problems that he was doing it correctly and I helped apply some of the terms to help him better understand his work." - Elisabeth D., 10th grade
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JICHS Unified Programs
Bringing together students of all abilities!
The Unified Program has made JICHS more inclusive:
Special Olympics provides annual funding and has designated JICHS a
Unified Champion School!
Lowcountry Youth Activation Summit, November 9, 2022
JICHS Unified Youth Leaders joined area Unified programs at The Special Olympics sponsored, Youth Activation Summit held on November 9.
Students gained new ideas! JICHS is growing aspiring leaders through events like this!
Unified Club Halloween Party
Unified Games and Club
Unified Cheer
Unified Basketball Game
JICHS vs. Bishop England