LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! We made it through another crazy week. With the upcoming girls appearance at the state tournament, be prepared for another crazy week. Teachers should have received the web link instructions for requisitions for next year. Please note the due date as March 12. Your budget will be the same as in past years, so far our total has not been reduced. Please email me if you need me to add money to your budget for items that may not be ordered at the beginning of the year. I will then see where our budget stands and if I can do that. I had a conversation earlier this week about our PASS Plans and some of the stress some of you may be feeling. Please don't think of PASS Plans as the first intervention you try. You may call home and talk to the parents and express your concern about their child's grade, you can have the student come in before or after school, we can look at putting the student in the Success Center, or we can find them a peer tutor if appropriate. You...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week and are ready for the three day weekend. I know I am. Looking ahead we host the NWI Jazz Festival on Monday. If you are not doing anything around 5:00 pm come and check out our jazz band perform in the little theater. Our students selected to the All-State Large Group Speech Festival will perform on Saturday in Ames. The Lady Bulldogs will make their initial appearance in the 2nd round of districts on Saturday. Game time is at 7:00 pm and we play at home. The boys will make their playoff debut on Monday playing Algona at 6:30 pm.  Tuesday we will have advisory. There is a district in-service on Wednesday. On Friday, I have a Lakes Conference Principal's meeting. If you have anything you are wondering on how another school does something, let me know and I will try to find out. Melissa and Judd are closer to getting everyone registered for next year. Right now we only have 8th graders left. Thank you to them for their hard work in ...

Happy Friday! As I prepare to give the school board an update on our professional development plan, I can't help to reflect on what we have done so far this year. I have heard more discussions on depth of knowledge and how to increase the depth of knowledge in the classroom, than I have heard in previous years. Yes, I do realize that we have focused on DOK this year, but this is a way to increase rigor in the classroom with our current content that I haven't heard in the past. Please continue to think of ways to push our students. If we don't continue to push and ask for more we will not meet our goals. If you don't remember, our goals for this year are for 87.47% of students in grades 9-11 to be proficient in Math, 86.22% proficient in reading, and 83.10% proficient in Science. Last year, we met 2 of the 3 goal areas. When we started this school year, many us thought this was going to be the last year for Iowa Assessments. The Department of Education had even picke...