Here are some of the services the career center offers. Students may stop by during break, lunch, or after school. Parents are welcome too. If you are making a special trip to visit the Career Center please call ahead. The Career Center is a busy place and not always available.

• College Catalogs and updated files
• Index of majors at most colleges
• College handbooks
• Subjective references on college programs
• College CD's
• Academy, military and ROTC information
• Statistical information on College Admissions for Langley students
• Information on web sites for college and career information
• College representative visits

• Program and web sites for Career Exploration
• Career Reference Library
• Books on careers
• Personality Profile Testing

• Scholarship file containing applications for current scholarships
• List of web sites for scholarship search
• FAFSA and CSS Profiles forms
• Instructions for filing FAFSA online

• Files containing a variety of summer programs
• Community service information
• For job openings and volunteer information, read the bulletin board outside the career center

Omit Course Form for Class of 2016
2012 Course Catalog
Academic Support
Graduation Requirements
Humanities Course Selection Chart
Math Sequence of Courses
Omit Course Request
Schedule Change Packet
Biology (9th grade)

Advanced Placement
AP Parent Letter
AP Program Information
2012 AP Course Expectations
2012 AP Course Contract
AP Please Excuse Form

Honors Program
Honors Program Information

Academy Courses
2012 Academy Course Contract

March 27th – Parent Information Night: Dealing with student stress

Students wishing to be considered for the civics seal, should submit their completed application to their government teacher by Wednesday, June 1st for review and acceptance. Applications are available on the Langley website, the student's government blackboard site, or a hard copy from the teacher. Click here for the application.

FCPS is documenting the successful completion of service learning projects for students in grades 6, 8, and 12.

High school students who accumulate the required service hours will be recognized at graduation by wearing a service learning cord or some students will earn a Virginia diploma seal of excellence in civics.

For those students graduating in the Class of 2011, they need to complete 20 hours of service in order to be recognized with a service learning cord.

For those graduating in 2012, they need to earn 30 hours and for those graduating in 2013 and beyond will qualify with 40 hours of service.

The goal is to complete 10 hours per school year. Students wishing to earn a civics seal need to complete 50 or more hours of service. Service is considered when students choose to participate in faith based or civic or political related services. The activity must have a secular purpose and be based on a need in the community.

Activities need to affect individuals beyond the immediate religious community and may not include preparation or participation in the performance of religious service. For civic related service, activities must occur in a public place under the supervision of an adult. Fund raising does not count.

Students wishing to receive a service learning cord, must submit a verification form to their school counselor by June 6th.

Students wishing to be considered for the civics seal, should submit their completed application to their government teacher by Wednesday, June 1st for review and acceptance. Applications are available on the Langley website, the student's government blackboard site, or a hard copy from the teacher.

For more information: http://www.fcps.edu/is/servicelearning/

For the service learning cord verification form: http://www.fcps.edu/is/servicelearning/documents/SL_VerificationForm.pdf

ANNUAL BOOKMARK CONTEST:

FCPS is hosting a countywide bookmark contest. The theme of this year’s contest is “Making My School and Community Drug and Bully Free”. All artwork must be individual’s original, hand done creation. A parent/guardian must sign the entry form stating it is an original piece. It should be a positive message and not include any alcohol, drug, or weapon paraphernalia. Enteries must be on poster board and drawing should be vertical (7 inches wide, 22 inches high). The medium is limited to pen and ink, tempera paint, markers, crayons, and colored pencils. For more information, see your art teacher or Sonya Williams (Student Services). All entries are due to Sonya Williams office by January 27th. Click here for entry details.

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ARBORETUM BONSAI INTERNSHIP:

The U.S. National Arboretum has just announced the first ever Bonsai Internship in the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum. This unique internship is targeted for high school students and is being sponsored by the National Bonsai Foundation. It is a paid internship that will take place this spring. Click here to find out more.

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VOLUNTEER FAIRFAX:

Volunteer Fairfax would like to wish you well as you start the new school year!

Attached you will find a two-page application for Volunteer Fairfax's youth involvement initiative, the Youth Advisory Board. This Board, sponsored by Volunteer Fairfax, is a unique opportunity for high school students who display leadership qualities to participate monthly meetings throughout the school year that teach them how to be forces of positive change in their community. The students will put their skills to use by working together to coordinate Fairfax County's second annual Global Youth Service Day. This year, we hope that April's Global Youth Service Day will engage more than 700 students around Fairfax County. An enthusiastic, active Youth Advisory Board will not only ensure the success of this event, but also advise Volunteer Fairfax on how to better focus its youth-centered programming.

Participation on the Youth Advisory Board will teach youth a broad array of leadership skills that can be applied to any life experience, as we rely on a state-of-the art curriculum that includes both classroom instruction and experiential training. Graduates of the previous Youth Advisory Board have gone on to promote student engagement at schools like Stanford and the University of Virginia. The deadline to submit applications is Friday, September 30. To learn more about this initiative, please read the attached application.

Click here for the application

Parents of 8th graders currently enrolled in high school courses such as foreign language, algebra and geometry may request that the final grade in these classes be omitted from your student’s transcript. No credit will be earned in the course if you elect to take this option. This request must be in writing and returned to the Student Services office by September 1, 2012. The link to the form for omitting a course can be found here.

Langley High is excited about launching a student-to-student mentoring program for our school that will strive to enhance our school’s climate and will also help provide a positive transition for our freshmen students. Please click here for more information.

Parents of 9th, 10th, and 11th graders are strongly encouraged to attend Curriculum Night starting promptly at 6:30pm. Read More...

Can you recognize an unhealthy teen relationship?
Do you know how to best help a friend, son or daughter, who's in a troublesome partnership, at home or away at college? If so, you might want to attend an evening program sponsored by the Safe Community Coalition in partnership with McLean High School PTS, Langley High School PTSA, the Madeira School, and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology PTSA. Click here for more information.

If you attended Junior Parent Night on Tuesday January 10th, 2012, please click here to complete the survey about your experience. Thank you.

February 13, 2012 will be the last schedule change committee meeting for 2011-12 school year, all schedule change request must be submitted by February 10th

National School Counseling Week 2012, "School Counselors: Helping Students Be Brilliant," will be celebrated from Feb. 6-10, 2012, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of professional school counselors within U.S. school systems. National School Counseling Week, sponsored by ASCA, highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career

First Quarter Student Services Newsletter

Langley High School is offering the ASVAB Exam on Thursday, February 16th at 7:30am in the Career Center. You must sign up by Friday, February 2nd in the Career Center.

Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors are eligible to take this test.

What is the ASVAB?

THE ASVAB is:

- a multiple-aptitude battery that measures developed abilities and helps predict future academic and occupational success.
- administered annually to more than one million military applicants, high school, and post-secondary students.
- the most widely-used multiple aptitude test in the world.
- offered to high school and post-secondary students as part of the ASVAB Career Exploration Program.
- a tool to help students learn more about career exploration and planning, in both the civilian and military worlds of work.
- free of charge to participating schools.
- was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense with input from a panel of career development experts and designed to encourage students to increase their level of self-knowledge and to understand how that information could be linked to civilian and military occupational characteristics.

What is on the ASVAB?

The ASVAB subtests are designed to measure aptitudes in four domains: Verbal, Math, Science and Technical, and Spatial.

Why should I take the ASVAB?

- To learn more about your interests, aptitudes, and potential career fields.
- To assist you in your career planning.

Students are under no obligation to visit with a military recruiter after taking this test. However, if you are planning a career in the military, this test is essential

DISCLAIMER:
These materials are neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Fairfax County School Board, the Superintendent, or this school.