LCHS Friday Focus

        Friday Focus Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all had a great week. Don't forget to set your clocks back 1 hour Saturday night when you go to bed. If you do forget, you will be here really early  on Monday. We’re already a week and a half into the second quarter, so if you gave any student an incomplete for Q1, please make sure to email me with their grade change as soon as possible. When I checked on Thursday morning, we still had 16 students listed with an incomplete. On a related note, semester tests will be taking place on Friday, December 18th for odd periods and Monday, December 21st for even periods. Our designated make-up testing day will be Tuesday, December 22nd, which will also feature a 2-hour early dismissal to officially kick off winter break. Let me know if you have any questions as we wrap up these first-quarter details. It’s also getting to that time of year when I start looking ahead to the next school year. If you have any ideas for...

       Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. First, I want to give a huge congratulations to Molly Boeve for being named our Employee of the Month! She was nominated by Ms. Hommes for her incredible dedication to our students and school community. Mrs. Boeve was pleasantly surprised by her family and co-workers during 1st period on Wednesday—such a well-deserved recognition! Speaking of great work happening around our building, thank you all for such an engaging professional development session last week! We kicked off our time together exploring the Science of Reading with a "Brain ~ Book ~ Buddy" retrieval exercise, zeroing in on why direct, explicit vocabulary instruction across all content areas is so vital for our students . Because vocabulary is one of the strongest predictors of reading development and advanced writing, helping our students master high-utility (Tier 2) and subject-specific (Tier 3) terms directly impacts their overall a...

      Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. As I make my way around the building each week, my main goal is simply to stay connected to the great instruction happening in your classrooms and keep a pulse on our shared goals. I wanted to share a quick update on what I’m actually tracking on my phone when I step into your room, just so there’s complete transparency around our walkthrough process. When I first walk through your door, I’m essentially capturing a quick snapshot of the room's immediate energy—taking note of what you’re doing, whether that’s leading a full-group lesson, working with a small group, or circulating for individual check-ins, alongside what the students are actively engaged in at that moment. Beyond that initial snapshot, I’m looking for the foundational APL routines we’re all familiar with, like smooth transitions, clear lesson objectives, and high-yield student engagement strategies. At the same time, I’m gathering evidence o...

     Friday Focus Happy Friday! Thank you for all of your assistance during homecoming week and then we started this week out pretty busy on Monday too, Sophomore and Senior class meetings, college fair, and then parent/teacher conferences. I need to remember not to schedule so much around homecoming. If you didn't get a chance to make it down the college fair, it was a successful event. Not only did many of our students go through, but lots of other area high school students. A big thanks to Judd, Melissa, and Amy organizing this event. We are looking for a date in the spring to do a career fair that would follow the same format as the college fair. The career fair will be open to more students from our building. Judd and I will look at the calendar to try and find dates between the winter and spring sport seasons, stay tuned. I have been working on expanding our formal internship/apprenticeship agreements with our local industries. Currently I am working with a couple o...

    Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great Homecoming week! I would like to recognized Mr. Bahr and Mrs. Cunningham for all their guidance for our student council to help pull off our homecoming festivities. I thought the auditorium was a great venue for the coronation ceremony Monday night.  Students will be in advisory until 10:15, then an announcment will be made to dismiss students to the competition gym. Please sit in the stands with the grade level of your advisory. Those that have mixed grades, please just pick one.  Just a reminder, I need to hear from you today if you do not want to be on the ballot to read names at graduation. Aides, this includes you too.  We will have our last night of parent teacher conferences on Monday. This is a great time to have those PASS plan meetings.  Reminders/Due Dates   Oct. 5 - Parent Teacher Conferences Night 2 Oct. 6 - Evac Drill #2 @ 1:10 pm Oct. 21 - End of 1st Quarter Enjoy the weekend! Ma...