LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! I hope everyone enjoyed their extended weekend and is ready to make our final push to the end of the year. I have been keeping an eye on several seniors who are on the edge of not making it to graduation. I will be starting to call home and update parents instead of sending letters next week since we are cutting it close. Speaking of Seniors, we will need to do Senior semester tests differently this year. If you have any ideas besides having each of you give the test during class please share. The Senior's last day will be on May 13, with semester tests on May 14 &15. Graduation rehearsal is on the 16th.  This Saturday we get to host prom. Thank you to Nancy Isebrand and our Junior class sponsors for all the work you have done to help make this a successful night. Reminder everything is moved up an hour from last year to accommodate the After-Prom.  Please continue to push the students to meet our expectations. The weather is warming up and we are see...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Thank you for you flexibility and patience as we finish the ISASP today. Please keep notes on what went well in your room, and ideas on how we can improve on this process for next year. Instead of meeting as a big group on April 17, Neal and I will try to get to every group to get your feedback. I am curious on what you all thought about the block schedule we ran on Thursday and Friday. When I taught in Vermillion, we ran our normal 50 minute classes on Monday-Wednesday and then the block on Thursday and Friday. This could be something we can look into for future years. When I first started teaching at Vermillion, I didn't know if I would like the 90 minute class period. However, I found the students could get a lot more accomplished during that time. I structured my block with a mini lesson 20-30 minutes, then depending on what we were doing, working on a research project, bringing in guest speakers, giving my assessments, or doi...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Thank you for you flexibility on Monday with the ALEKS testing. Our students did rather well on them. This is the first time we have given this assessment for WITCC for our kids to get into the college math classes. Next week, I need to meet with Seniors during advisory to go over end of year items with them. We are getting closer to having a schedule complete. I am still waiting on the financial literacy status, but I do have 2 schedules built. One, if the financial literacy requirement is delayed and one with it being implemented next year. The bill to delay did pass the Iowa Senate 48-0. If nothing has been decided by next Friday, we will proceed where the students take the personal finance requirement so we can get moving on this. We do have our assessments next week. Remind students to do their best, their scores do impact them by what we do the following year. Also, students must be proficient to qualify for concurrent enrollm...