LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! With only have school 2 days next week, this will cover the next couple of weeks as I won't send one out next Friday. Looking ahead, the All-State Music Festival is Saturday in Ames. Good luck to those participants. During the next 2 advisory times we will watch the Harbor videos. Episode 19 will be on the 20th and Episode 20 will be on the 27th. We do get out a hour early on Tuesday, November 21. The bowling team will have their first match of the season on Monday. Girls basketball will play their first official game Tuesday vs. Hinton. Both bowling and basketball is in Le Mars. We have our extra hour meeting on November 29. At 7:30 am I will need everyone to come to the library as Sandy Downing will be meeting with us to go over a new leave request system. Yes, another change, but this one should be easier. You will need to use your Web Link log in for leave request. Sandy will explain all of this at that time.  If you haven't had a chance to purchase you...

Happy Friday! Looking ahead to next week we have our district in-service on Wednesday and our building fire inspection on Thursday. Chief Schipper, Mike, and myself will be walking around checking things out. I am sure he will walk into your rooms to check them out regardless if you are having class or not. Just a heads us, we do get out early on Tuesday, November 21 at 2:30. If you are looking for something to do tonight or tomorrow, come and watch the play, "Just Another Snow Day". Start time is 7:00 pm in the Little Theater. The students tell me it is going to be an awesome show! In our cabinet meetings, we are doing a book study on "Poor Students, Rich Teaching Mindsets for Change" by Eric Jensen. I learned several things about poverty that I didn't consider before. According to the book, "poverty is a chronic experience resulting from an aggregate of adverse social and economic risk factors. (Jensen, p. 6)" The words that stood out to me here ...

Happy Friday! First off I want to give you some dates to put down on your calendar. On Wednesday, November 8 we will have a shelter drill at 9:20. You may want to review your procedures with your classes to remind them where they need to go. We will also have an extra hour meeting on Wednesday. Please continue to work on your curriculum work from the district in-service day. This month's district in-service is on November 15, and our second extra hour meeting is on November 29.  For those of you who have trimester classes, the trimester ends on the 16th. Midterm for 2nd quarter is December 8. This is the latest you should do a PASS Plan meeting. If you think their is a chance a student may sink in the last four weeks of the quarter make sure you do a plan for that student. After December 8, I will not accept PASS plans as that is not enough time for a parent to assist in the process.   I also want to take the time to reflect on our PD plan to date and to update ever...