• Mission, Vision, and Values

    Our Mission

    Promoting academic scholarship and critical consciousness to empower scholars to create a world that helps them achieve success; creating a school community that develops leaders committed to creating a more equitable & inclusive society. 

    Our Vision

    Justice, Access, & Growth for every student. Every day! 

     

    School Colors: Green, gold, black

    Green=hope

    Gold=success

    Black=power

     

    Our Mascot: Jaguar

    Jaguars play an important role in maintaining the structure and function of the ecosystems they inhabit. As top predators; they’re confident and balanced. And they roar!

     

    Our Core Values: “JAG”

    In order to achieve our mission, we have three core values to help define our “JAG.” 

     

    • Justice: We believe in creating a world that is fair and just. We hold ourselves accountable for promoting fairness and identifying injustice where it occurs. It is our core belief that all students can achieve and are expected to at high levels. Rigorous literacy (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) is paramount to deepen students’ critical thinking in order to begin to take action. Our teachers set high expectations, use culturally engaging curriculum and differentiate instruction and support all learners. 

    • Access & Advocacy: We each have equitable access to opportunities regardless of human ability and experience. By intentionally providing access to all opportunities for our middle school students, True Justice will be able to harness the incredible talents of our school community. This is accomplished through collaboration, accountability, and advocacy. Our students are required to transform their communities through service learning projects and community service. Under our model of collaboration, joint responsibility is key to student success.  

    • Growth: We have growth mindsets. We believe that we can improve and work every day to learn something new. Under this philosophy, we embrace character development, focused on teaching our students to be compassionate, courageous, confident and balanced (like the Jaguar!).