LCHS Friday Focus

          Friday Focus Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all had a great week. I hope everyone has adjusted to the time change, there were a couple mornings my body thought I should get up at 4:45 instead of 5:45.  I’ll be out of the building today after 6th period to take Tanner to Iowa City for a swim meet. Next week, LCHS proudly presents Les Misérables ! Nightly performances run Thursday through Saturday at 7: 00 PM, plus a 2:00 PM matinee on Saturday. Tickets are $10 in the office or on Bound, and all proceeds go right back into supporting next year's show. I hear the show is fire. We’re already nearing the Quarter 2 midterm! It's wild to think we only have two full weeks and a two-day week before Thanksgiving break, followed by three full weeks and two days before winter break. As we get closer to midterm, a quick reminder on PASS Plans: if parents don't reply to your emails, please follow up with a phone call. There's a high chance those emails are...

        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...