LCHS Friday Focus

   Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week!  Congrats to Mrs. Carter for being named the Employee of the Month for the school district. Mrs. Carter was nominated by Mrs. Wonders and Mrs. Sadoski. Mrs. Carter's husband, daughter, and granddaughter were able to help us with the  surprise. Announcements Your Tier 2 Plans are due today. Please make sure they are in the shared drive in the Tier 2 folder.  I will be working on the Early Warning System and will be moving students around from study hall to the success center based on the current grades. Be patient with me as I get this done as it will take a little time.  Next week is homecoming, hopefully you have had enough time to find your outfits for each day. On Monday, October 5, I will have a sophomore class meeting regarding class rings in the little theater during advisory followed by a senior class meeting regarding ordering graduation cap and gown. We do have our second inservice day...

  Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! Hopefully this weekend's football results go better for me.  I wanted to take a quick moment to say a huge thank you for your focus and energy during our first Science of Reading session. I know diving headfirst into background theory and foundational research can feel a bit heavy, but getting aligned on the why makes all the difference as we move forward together. The great news? We aren't starting from square one. We are actually stepping into a multi-year, district-wide effort. In fact, our current Freshmen are among the very first students to benefit from this systematic approach at every single grade level before walking through our high school doors! To see how our work fits into the bigger picture, Scarborough’s Reading Rope gives us a great roadmap: Here is how the work breaks down across the grade bands: Elementary: Heavy focus on word recognition—phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition—w...

    Friday Focus Happy Friday! This coming week we will have our first inservice day of the school year.  As we map out our professional development for the year, I want to give you a clear picture of where we’re heading and why. This year, our PD focus will center on the Science of Reading . I know the reaction some of you might have when you hear "reading PD" in a high school building: I teach Chemistry, Auto Tech, or Geometry. I don’t teach reading, so how does this apply to me? That reaction makes complete sense if we’re talking about teaching kids how to decode letters or sound out words. That’s not what this is. In a high school setting, this is about disciplinary literacy —how students read, process, and write within your specific field. A student can’t solve a multi-step word problem in calculus, analyze a source document in history, or execute a safety manual in shop class if they struggle to navigate the specialized language of that subject. You aren't being as...

  Friday Focus Happy Friday! It is our first 3 day weekend of the school year and officially week 1 of the college football season. I wish your team luck unless they are playing Oklahoma or if it is UT, nobody really likes the shorthorns anyway.   Tuesday would be a good day to refresh your students on the classroom rules and procedures. The honeymoon phase this year is not near as long as it has been in the past, usually we can make it to homecoming.  On September 16, during 3rd and 4th period, I will be administering the Civics Exams to 70+ seniors that have not taken this exam yet. This is a new state requirement for graduation. Students must earn a 60% or higher sometime during their 4 years in high school. Students will be taking this exam normally in government class their Junior year. Students can take it as many times as needed. Homecoming and Parent Teacher Conferences will be here before you know it.  Homecoming 2026 Monday, September 28 - Airport Adve...

  Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great first full week of school. I know I am a little more tired than I have been in a while.  I want to thank everyone for hitting our policies hard with the students. If we continue to do this, the rest of the year will be much easier. I am taking cell phones and earbuds from students when I see them with them in the hallway during class time. My guess is the students didn't believe we would do this.  I think the start of the year has gone very smoothly, this in large part due to all of you. Again, thank you for all you do for our students. With the start of September, we do have 2 building in-service days this month. CIA will send agendas out to the staff the week we have those inservices.  As some of you started to hear this week, Nohava has moved onto the high school to replace our roof and skylights. Most of the skylights in the classrooms will be done this week. Next week they will be doing the skylight in the...