March 23, 2018

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Happy Friday, It is hard to believe that we are down to single digits for the number of Friday's left in the school year. That means, this year is about done. Thank you to those of you who have scheduled PASS Plans now. I do know how crazy and busy this time of year gets. Remember the purpose of the PASS Plan is to remind the parent and student it is their responsibility to get the work done and study. It is our responsibility to provide the opportunities and to continue to check to make sure our students are learning the material. 

 Something Neal and I have been discussing is doing some sort of college wall in the lunch room. What we were thinking of is hanging a pennant then putting staff names under the pennant. If you have another idea, please let us know. 

Students will be taking the CPT for concurrent classes on Tuesday in the library. We do have our extra hour meeting on Wednesday, after that one, we only have 4 more. Also on Wednesday we get out at 2:30. We will run our 1 hour early out schedule.

 I will not have a Friday Focus next week, so looking ahead at the calendar we have a fire drill on April 4 @ 11:00 am. Music Boosters will have their Pancake supper on April 6. Iowa Assessments are the week of April 9th. We will run our testing schedule. Mrs. Hill and Mr. Kopperud will get you more info on the testing. The spring play is April 12 - 14. Extra hour meetings in April are on the 11th and 25th. 

 Have a good weekend!
Mark

Students as Leaders

Good luck to our students performing at State IE Speech All State Festival next week. They are Joey DeBoer, Max Hardyk, Angela Conover, and Caden Washburn.

 Congrats to the students who were inducted into our NHS chapter on Tuesday night. 

 Justin Tyler, Jack Loutsch, Luke Sudtelgte, Robby Hodson, and Chloe Evans are attending the NASA Space Settlement Competition in Houston.

 On April 6, we have a few students participating in the CTE Skills Day at WITCC. Competing in the CAD/Design areas are: Robby Hodson, Eric Isebrand, Justin Tyler, Nicole Hartman, Annie Carver, Hibiki Kitilach, Nick Ward, and Lane Poulson. Auto: Tyson Weiler, Robert Murra, Kaden Ostermyer, and Clayton Luschen. Welding: Alec Arens, Ab Cerda, Riley Kluver, and Logan Kibby.

Assistant Principal's Happenings

Special Education Reminders:

1. Please make sure you are reviewing the IEP requirements outlined for special education students in your classroom.  These have been shared with you at the beginning of the school year in a google document.
2. Remember that it is your responsibility as the classroom teacher to make sure that accommodations are being made as well as provided.  If you are not sure how to provide them, then consult one of the special education teachers for ideas.
3. Do not expect that special education teacher to make the accommodations to your test, quiz, or assignments without ample time to review the material.  You need to make the accommodations, give the item to the special education teacher to review the accommodations, then take recommendations on how to change instruction to meet the student's needs.  
4. Reminder that not providing appropriate accommodations to student's on IEP's or denying them the rights to these accommodations will be hard to defend in a court case, if an issue should arise.

5. If it says that it should happen on the IEP, then it must happen in the classroom!

Librarian's News

The library will be closed all day Tuesday, March 27.  The college placement tests will be proctored there. We have 98 students taking the test, so there you will be missing students for up to 2 hours at a time. Most of them will not take the entire time, so they should return to class upon finishing their test. The 5th hour study hall will be in the little theater that day. Thank you for your cooperation in this endeavor. 

Prom plans are well underway. We do need CLEAN one-gallon jugs so we can make punch ahead of time and store it in the fridge. If you have any, please bring to library. Clean empty "cool whip" containers are also needed (about 20) if you have any to donate. And, if you want to see the kids all dressed up, please consider helping for an hour or so. We will need door monitors throughout the evening. 

Success Center Update


Instructional Coaches Corner

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 My last tip this week is very exciting. Thanks to Mr. Oetken's student teacher for giving it a try, we discovered how to use our SWIVL units to share real-time video. You can use your favorite video streaming app like Zoom, Skype, or Facebook Live. One reason to get excited about this is the opportunity to help home bound students. A student who is home ill for a day or a prolonged period could now Zoom in using their phone, tablet, or computer and be a part of your class at its scheduled time helping them keep up in class and cutting down on the number of students needing to get help outside of the regular school day.

Upcoming Events

Friday, March 23
- 6:30 pm Dance Exhibition

 Saturday, March 24
- TBD Varsity Boy/Girl Track @ SDSU
- 8:00 am State Solo/Small Ensemble Festival

 Monday, March 26
- IHSAA IE Speech All-State Festival @ Cedar Falls

Tuesday, March 27
- 5:00 pm Varsity Boy/Girl Track @ Unity Christian

Thursday, March 28
- 1 hour early out

Tuesday, April 3
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy Tennis vs. Sioux City East
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy & Girl Track @ SBL

Thursday, April 5
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy Golf @ Rolling Hills Golf Course
- 5:00 pm Varsity/JV Track @ Cherokee

Friday, April 6
- Music Booster Auction
- Music Booster Pancake Supper
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy Golf vs. Hinton
- 5:00 pm Varsity/JV Girl Track @ Cherokee

Saturday, April 7
- 8:30 am Varsity/JV Girl Tennis @ Spencer

 Monday, April 9
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Girl Tennis vs. Spirit Lake
- 4:00 pm Varstiy/JV Boy Tennis @ Spirit Lake
- 4:30 pm Varsity/JV Boy/Girl Track vs. Heelan, SBL, SC East, SC North, SC West, & Spencer

Tuesday, April 10
- Iowa Assessments
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Girl Golf vs. ELC & Storm Lake
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy Golf v@ Storm Lake
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy Tennis vs. Cherokee
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Girl Tennis @ Cherokee

 Thursday, April 12
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Girl Tennis @ Spencer
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy Tennis vs. Spencer
- 4:45 pm Varsity/JV Girl Track @ Sioux Center
- 7:00 pm Spring Play - Little Theater

 Friday, April 13
- 5:00 pm Varsity/JV Boy/Girl Track @ Sioux City Relays
- 7:00 pm Spring Play

 Saturday, April 14
- ACT Testing
- 8:00 am Varsity/JV Boy/Girl Track @ Sioux City Relays
- 9:00 am Varsity/JV Boy Golf @ Spencer
- 7:00 pm Spring Play


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