LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! It it the last day of the 3rd quarter. Reminder that grades will be due on Monday at 8:30, so Beth and Amy can run report cards and we can send them out before break. If you have a senior fail, please let myself and the guidance office know so we can check their graduation status. We do have a building meeting next Wednesday at 7:00 am. We will meet in the library and will go over the data from the STAR assessment given this week. This will be our final push to the Iowa Assessments that will be given April 12-15. We will use the assessment schedule in the student handbook. The reading test will be given on the 12th, math on the 13th, and science on the 14th. The students will take the test in their advisory rooms. I will be meeting with the Juniors during advisory on April 4 to go over our local assessments and to let them know who is in the random sample. The social studies and health tests will be on April 26, with the other tests on April 27. If you are looking...

Happy Friday! Don't forget to move your clocks ahead a hour Saturday night. Just a few reminders for the upcoming weeks. The end of the quarter is next Friday, the 18th. Grades will be due on the 21st at 8:30 so Beth and Amy can run report cards and get them sent out before spring break. Requisitions are due on March 14 to me. Make sure when you fill out the form online you use all caps and include shipping. If their is no shipping, please add a comment so I know. I will go through them on the 14th and either approve or have you make adjustments to them. We also have an evacuation drill on Thursday, March 17th at 2:05 pm, weather permitting. That will leave us with one more evacuation drill for the year. Barry and Nicki are starting to input information to create our schedule for next year. When we get the schedule finalized, we will send a copy out to you. It should be sometime in April, hopefully. Next Friday is also the Music Boosters Spaghetti Supper here at the high ...

Happy Friday! I would like to thank the grading committee for getting a proposal done for our building. They will be sending it out for input on Monday. But before they do that, I wanted everyone to know the expectations set before the committee. First I asked them to decide what the purpose of our grades are. Throughout history, schools were used to sort students from the haves and the have nots. To do this, they needed a way. So lo and behold the 100 percent scale was created. Their was no research or anything used to create this. It was something that was just done. Today, there still is no research to support the 100 point scale, but it is something that all our parents, us, and basically everyone not in school now grew up on. It is something people can accept because it has always been done that way. Now the grading committee was told that we were not going to transition to standards based grading. To do this is going to require more than just a committee of 4 people. This ...