LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday and one more week closer to spring break.  On April 3 during advisory, Youth on Main Street will be here to speak to the sophomores in the Little Theater. Please have the sophomores report down there. I also will need the teachers that have sophomores for advisory to report there. Please sit with the students around the little theater. Iowa Assessments will be on April 4-6. We will run the formative assessment schedule that is in the student handbook on those days.  We have our building in-service times on April 5 and 19. Like the past meetings, please work on curriculum work. The district professional development day is April 26.  Congrats to the music students for their performance at individual small group ensemble Saturday. They had numerous students earn division 1 ratings.  Band students earned 27 I's, 7 II's, and 1 III. Choir students earned 28 I's, 24 II's, and 2 III's. Orchestra students earned 5 I's, 3 II's, and 3 III's. ...

Happy Friday, 3 quarters down, 1 more to go. Make sure you continue to push the students for this final quarter. With the weather warming up, this would also be a good time to remind students of the dress code. If you see a dress code infraction, please address it with the student. If the student does not respond to you, then let Mr. Utesch or myself know and one of us will talk with the student. Please take this time to refresh yourself on the dress code as well.  On Monday, the 27th, please do the third quarter reflections sheets with the students. The assembly that was going to be on April 3, will now be on April 10 during advisory. The assembly will be in the competition gym.  On April 3, we will have a Sophomore class meeting in the little theater. Rich Zitlo and Becky Klohs will talk with the students about the Youth on Main Street Program. The Youth on Main Street Program was designed by Rich and Becky with the hopes of getting students interested in the history of ...

Happy St. Patricks Day! Only 2 more school days and we start 4th quarter. Just a reminder grades will be due at 8:30 am on the 23rd. Also, please make sure you have the updated PASS Plan form for all PASS Plan meetings. The updated form can be found on our PD website.  Thank you for those who have been scheduling the PASS Plan meetings. We have seen a little influx in the number of parents not wanting to come to the meetings. Please still have the meeting, with the parent not wanting to come this gives you a little bit of insight on what type of support the student may have at home. These are the students we should be concentrating on to form positive relationships with the school as they are most likely not getting a positive perspective of school at home. You may want to call home on these students when they are caught up or did something good. To date, I have had 39 PASS Plans turned into me for 120 classes. With the Spring activity season getting started, this would be an...

Happy Friday! Don't forget to spring your clocks ahead this weekend. Just one more reminder that all your requisitions are due to me on the 13th. If I don't hear from you, I am assuming you will not need anything for next year.  Mr. Borchers and Mrs. Addison are starting to work on the master schedule for next school year. I have had several teachers request study hall duty for their 7th class since they only have 6 to teach. When I consider who I assign study hall and lunch duty, I take into consideration what department you teach in and how many others from that department also have a duty. For instance, next year I need to have 6 people assigned to 5th period duty. I do not want to have more than 2 people from each department have duty during that time, otherwise it will load up their other sections and it makes it more difficult to get students courses they request. This will leave 4 others that will have a study hall duty and 2 more that will be assigned the commons be...

Happy Friday! I have had a chance to meet with most of the departments to go over the course numbers for 17-18 school year. I do have a couple more to meet with later today and next week. Thank you for your input in creating the schedule. This has to be one of the hardest jig saw puzzles to put together. Once we have a master schedule, it will be sent out to you. Don't forget to get requisitions done on Web Link. If you need assistance please ask.  We do have a building extra hour meeting on Wednesday. Just a reminder to be at your meeting before 7:00 am so your group can start on time.  The end of 3rd quarter is on March 21, grades will be stored on March 23 and report cards will be distributed on that day.  Next week during advisory we will have the next video from the Harbor series. Discussion questions will be emailed out. Students will do their 3rd quarter reflections on March 27. Those forms will be placed in your mailbox next week sometime. Have a great w...