LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! I just wanted to say that I heard some good discussions Wednesday about the strategies being used to reach the various SMART goals. There are a lot of good things happening in the classrooms of LCHS! Please take the time to share this with others, let them know what we are doing and how it is helping our students. As the winter sports season is ending, the spring season is beginning. As you know the spring can get really hectic with students gone for various reasons. Please make sure students are keeping up with their classwork and if they start to slip, let the parents know. I have also had quite a few PASS plans take place. Remember to get these done early so that their is a chance for the parent to help get a student passed. I have been asked about Junior Assessments and when they will be this year. Looking ahead at the calendar, Iowa Assessments will be the week of April 11. We will do our local assessments the week of April 25. I will send out more details once...

Happy Friday! You all should have received a memo regarding requisitions for next school year in you mail boxes. We will be using the online requisitions again for next year, so please fill those forms out. Remember to use all caps when entering in your request. If you need a vendor that is not on the list, please let Kim know and she will add it for you. If I haven't made it to your department yet with projected enrollment numbers for next year, please stop by and see me. Midterms went out yesterday. This would be an excellent time to contact at-risk parents and hold a PASS Plan. It also would be a good time to talk to parents of students who have shown improvement and let them hear good news also. Wednesday next week we have our extra-hour building meeting. This time you will meet in your mixed groups and use the same protocol as before. Make sure you bring data from your strategy to share with your group. Give your group members a little time to look at your data and then ...

Happy Friday! Just a reminder midterm is this coming week. We will run midterms Thursday morning around 9;00 so please make sure your grades are updated by then. If you have a Senior looking like they may be in trouble grades wise, please let me know so I can check graduation progress. I have seen many emails going around about scheduling PASS plan meetings. This is an excellent time to get these done. It still gives the student and parent time to make a positive change to get moving in the right direction. I plan on trying to get to your PLC meetings in the next couple of weeks to start looking at numbers and potential sessions. The hope would be to have this done by the end of March. We are winding up our winter activity regular season. The wrestlers will have their district meet Saturday in Council Bluffs. The robotics club is competing at WIT this Saturday for a chance to move on to the state competition. The bowling teams will be competing in their state qualifying meet her...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone got to enjoy the extra days off this week. It is my guess that we will now be into the next week after Memorial Day for school. I am sure the board will decide in March/April sometime. I just wanted to touch more on moving parent teacher conferences next year to the beginning of October. This will give us a great opportunity to reach parents sooner in order to help with students that may be struggling. The earlier we have these conversations, the more of an impact we can make on the student's learning. It will be a little different at first, but we need to try something new to see if we can boost parent/student attendance. I am including a link to an interesting article on grading. I think it is appropriate for what we are discussing as a building. The article talks about standards based grading, I want to assure you that we are not moving towards a true standards based grading policy at the high school. In order to do this, we will need to educa...