LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! Only 4 more school days next week until a much deserved Christmas break. This will be my last Friday Focus for the year, so I hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. On Monday, I need to have the Seniors vote during advisory for class color, flower, and motto. We will not have an episode of The Harbor on Monday.  Thursday we get out at 2:30. The morning classes will be normal with the afternoon classes shortened. The students who pay the dollar for Children's theater will be dismissed around 1:30 by the office. I will be coming around to ask some of you to watch doors so students don't bug out. During our last assembly, we had a few who decided they would rather be someplace else.  When we come back on Tuesday, January 3, we will have advisory. The next round of the STAR assessments has been moved to the week after semester test. I will let you know when that has been completed, so you can take a look at the data. Hav...

Happy Friday and another week closer to Christmas break. I would like to thank all of you for cheering for an Oklahoma victory last Saturday, it really paid off as they won their 10th Big 12 Championship and 46th Conference Championship.  Next week we have a district in-service day on Wednesday. Your groups' CIA members will be sending out an agenda, if they haven't already, before then.  I would like to take this time to discuss/remind why we are doing this curriculum work. One of the best ways to increase student achievement is to have a clear curriculum that is the same for every student. Those of you who teach common classes, need to assure that all students, no matter their teacher, receive the same curriculum. When I say the same curriculum, I am not implying you have to teach the class the exact same way, but you do need to have the same essential learnings, texts, and writing assignments.  As we move through our curriculum work, we will be creating the comm...

Happy Friday and Happy December! We are now through the 2nd qtr mid term and will be drawing this semester to a close quickly. Semester test are January 11-13. The 11th and 12th will be the main test days with the 13th being a make up day.  Thank you to those who scheduled PASS Plan meetings the past couple of weeks. I know some of the meetings were hard to schedule with parents not wanting to come in. I appreciate your efforts to help all of our students achieve at high levels. Continue to push our students, it is a good thing to have the students struggle with the content. We do not want to lower our standards to make it so they don't struggle. The more the student struggles with the material, the more it will be ingrained into his/her long-term memory. Just continue to provide the extra help to those who lack the confidence or background knowledge to reach the standards.  Looking ahead, we do have another extra hour meeting next week on December 7. You will continue t...