May 18, 2018

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Happy Friday! It is graduation weekend! A big thank you to Beth Collins, Amy Davis, Amy Schmidt and Lisa Eisma for getting everything ready for graduation and the senior awards ceremony. Much of what they do is under a big time crunch since the awards program was moved to Wednesday night. Amy D. basically has the afternoon of Wednesday to finalize our top 10 percent and the other academic awards. 

We will run advisory on the 21st and 29th. On the 29th, please have the students complete their S2 goal summary sheet. Also on the 29th, we will let students out at 3:15 to clean lockers. Please be outside your rooms and sign off on lockers. Make sure all tape has been removed and their is nothing left in the locker. For those of you near the middle school, please make sure our students don't go down there until the bell rings at 3:30. Neal and I will be floating around and will try to assist with that as well.

 Thank you for those responsible for organizing the retirement dinner Tuesday night at Archies! 

 With senior semester tests behind us, the rest of the students have semester tests on May 30 and 31. We will take periods 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 on the 30th and periods 3, 4, and 8 on the 31st. Teacher checkout will be on June 1. Beth, Neal, and I cannot sign your checkout sheets until after noon. Test Schedule:

May 30 
8:30 - 9:40 Period 1
9:45 - 10:55 Period 2
10:55 - 11:45 Lunch
11:50 - 1:00 Period 5
1:05 - 2:15 Period 6
2:20 - 3:30 Period 7

May 31
8:30 - 9:40 Period 3
9:45 - 10:55 Period 4
11:00 - 11:50 Lunch
11:55 - 1:05 Period 8
2:00 Employee Recognition.

Have a great weekend!
Mark 

Staff News

We have hired an English teacher, Ashley Alons, who will replace Kristen Fober next school year. Kristen is moving to the ELL position and will be at Clark now. Thank you Kristen for your work with our freshmen this year.

Staff as Learners




Students as Leaders

Assistant Principal's Happenings

The new student council will be meeting in the library today, May 16, during 8th period.

Librarian's News

All student library books will be due May 23. We know students may not be done with a book at that time, so they may visit with us about an extension. However, for the most part, it will take us all of the following week to get all the books collected. Please encourage students to return them if they are done. Some students have had books in their lockers or cars since August 28. 

 If you plan to use part of the summer to update computer skills, check out this blog: Tech Tools for Leaders. I intend to check some of these out and see if I need to "upgrade" my skillset! 

Success Center Update

We are putting together rosters of students who will be in the Success Center next year.  If you identified someone at the data analysis yesterday or have someone in your classes who you believe would benefit from being assigned in here starting in August, please send me a note or stop and see me!

Instructional Coaches Corner

Richard Byrne released a post on Mother's Day that listed Twelve Tools for Building End-of-year Review Activities (That Aren't Kahoot Games). He has them broken down into 1) Video Based Review Activities, 2) Game Based Review Activities, 3) Old, Reliable Flashcard Activities, and 4) Quiz Based Activities. This article is definitely worth 5 minutes of your time.

Some good end of year tips for closing out your Google Classrooms:

  • Return and grade all work to the students
  • Export grades if necessary
  • Hide the classroom calendar in Google Calendar
  • Archive your classes
  • Create an ‘Archive’ folder in Drive and move the class folder in there
This is a link to video showing how to do all of the items listed above.

 Among other Google products, Quizzes has been receiving some updates. Some of them are 1--Quiz answer suggestions, 2--Autocomplete answers, 3--Automatically grade checkbox and multiple choice grid questions, 4--Give decimal grades, 5--Improve understanding with YouTube video feedback, and 6--See the total number of points in a quiz. If you would like to read a more in detail description, click here.

 Google recently released another to-do app called Google Tasks. Click here to see how it compares to Google Keep.

 If you are a Google Sheets user, click here to read 5 power user features.

Articles Worth Reading

LCS Smalley Says Goodbye

Upcoming Events

Sunday, May 20
- 3:00 pm Commencement

Monday, May 21
- 4:00 pm Varsity/JV Baseball @ SC East
- 6:00 pm Varsity/JV Softball @ SC East

Tuesday, May 22
- 5:30 pm Varsity/JV Baseball vs. SBL
- 5:30 pm Varsity/JV Softball @ Boyden-Hull

Wednesday, May 23
- 5:30 pm Varsity/JV Baseball @ Sheldon
- 5:30 pm Varsity/JV Softball @ Sheldon

Friday, May 25
- TBD Varsity Softball @ Heelan Tournament
- Boys State Tennis Tournament

Saturday, May 26
- TBD Varsity Softball @ Heelan Tournament
- 3:00 pm Varsity/JV Baseball vs. Heelan

Monday, May 28
- No School
- 1:00 pm Freshmen Baseball vs SC West
- 5:15 pm Varsity/JV Baseball vs. SC West

Tuesday, May 29
- 5:30 pm Varsity/JV Baseball @ Rock Valley
- 5:30 pm Varsity/JV Softball vs. SBL

Wednesday, May 30
- Semester Test Day 1

Thursday, May 31

- Semester Test Day 2
- 12:30 pm Freshmen Softball @ SC East

Friday, June 1
- TBD - Varsity Softball @ SC West Tournament
- 12:00 pm Freshmen Baseball/Softball vs. Sheldon
- 5:15 pm Varsity/JV Baseball vs. Spirit Lake

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