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Updated: September 30th, 2021

CMS, GenerationNation, and ShareCharlotte have partnered with Youth Service America on a project to boost student service in the Charlotte area. Check this flyer to get more information about joining!

What does it mean to be an International Baccalaureate school?

IB Mission Statement-

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who hope to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people with their differences, can also be right.

Source: International Baccalaureate Organization

Randolph Mission Statement-

The mission of Randolph Middle School is to challenge all students to become inquiring and knowledgeable learners with compassion and understanding of others.

Source: Randolph Middle School

What does this look like at Randolph in action?

As a North Carolina public school, Randolph utilizes the NC Common Core standards. As an IB magnet school, our philosophy of how we teach these standards aligns with the beliefs of the Middle Years Program. Students at Randolph engage in content, texts, and questioning that encourages globally and conceptually focused academic development. Students will review topics set for within the NC Standards and extend their understanding through tasks that bridge our modern world with what they are learning in the classroom.

In addition to traditional academics, students are required to take a Language Acquisition (Foreign Language) course each year and have additional elective options such as Career & Technological Education (CTE), Visual Arts, Band, Chorus, Dance, Drama, and/ or Orchestra. Randolph currently offers French, Latin, and Spanish as Language Acquisition options. Students are scheduled to take year 1 (High School credit) of their chosen foreign language in the 8th grade. Upon successful completion, students will enter High School with one credit completed. (Successful completion of the Language Acquisition course is required in order to maintain a seat the following year at Randolph IB.)

Students are also assessed throughout the year using IB Criterion Rubrics. These rubrics focus on students skill development and demonstration of content knowledge. IB Criterion Rubric grades are sent home at the end of each semester with CMS reports cards.

Service as Action: Being an IB scholar outside of the school house

All Middle Years Program students in CMS are required to participate in Service as Action in order to maintain their magnet seat for the following school year. Over the calendar year, students are to participate in activities outside of school that further their globally conscious development by giving back to our Charlotte community. This service element of Randolph's IB program is also part of the Middle Years Program philosophy of Service as Action.

For information regarding Randolph's Service as Action program, please visit the RMS Service as Action webpage.

For additional information regarding Randolph Middle School, please visit the RMS Website.