March 6, 2020

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Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. We do have our in-service meeting on Wednesday. The CIA group has quite the plan in place for you after I cover the ISASP and our Iowa School Performance Profile. Please make sure you bring your data and what you did for interventions or enrichments. 

 As we begin our spring activity seasons, schedules will need to be flexible as there are so many activities dependent on the weather. Hopefully this weekend will see lanes painted on our track to get ready for our first home meet on March 31. 

 We ended a rather successful winter season for multiple activities. Both the boy and girl basketball teams made it to the substate final and came within a game of qualifying for state. The boy and girl bowling teams made a return visit to the state meet. We qualified 5 wrestlers to the state meet with 2 wrestlers placing. Robotics made a trip to the state competition. Jazz Band qualified for Iowa Jazz Championships later in April. Large group speech had numerous acts be selected to the all-state festival. Five members of the dance team are dancing for the All-Iowa Dance squad this weekend. Show Choir is just getting started in their competition season and IE Speech will have their state competition on March 14. 

 We will be rescheduling the evac drill from Thursday to next week sometime. Once we get a time figured out I'll let you know. 

 Don't forget to get requisitions into me. Please make sure you put FY 20-21 in the requisition description. If you don't, I'll reject it so you will need to resubmit. These are due on March 13.

 The end of the quarter is on 3/17; grades will be due on 3/20 so report cards can go out.

 Have a great weekend!
Mark

Assistant Principal's Happenings

I will be out of the office on Friday and won't be able to answer my phone for most of the day.  Please let Dr. Iverson know if you are having any issues with students.  On Monday, the student council kids will be going outside and cleaning up trash that has collected over the winter.  We will be doing that during advisory time.  If you see them don't worry that they are out there.  

I still am getting a lot of reports of verbal harassment happening in the school.  Please make sure you are stationing yourself in the hallways when you can so we can have witnesses if things are happening.  That is the piece that is often missing and it becomes a case of someone accusing the other without evidence and the other person denies it occurred.  I still discuss it with the kids and let parents know but it limits me on what I can do for consequences without solid evidence.  I have emailed several groups of teachers who to watch out for because they are in their classes.  If you have any questions about these kids please let me know.  

Ideas from the library



Success Center Updates

March is National Reading Month (in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday.) Let's build a culture of learning by encouraging students to put down their phones and pick up a book!  Their reading skills will grow the more they read, and think of all the amazing places books can take them.  Happy reading!


Technology Tidbits by Mr. Wingert



Upcoming Activities

Saturday, March 7
TBD - Lewis Central Show Choir Contest

Wednesday, March 11
4:00 - 6:00 pm Cheer Tryouts

Saturday, March 14
8:00 am IE Speech State Contest @ Carroll Keumper

Tuesday, March 17
6:30 pm NHS Induction Ceremony

Friday, March 20
3:30 pm Boy/Girl Track @ Buena Vista University

Saturday, March 21
TBD - Hinton Show Choir Invitiational

Sunday, March 22
5:30 pm Show Choir Banquet

Monday, March 23
11:00 am Boy/Girl Track @ University of South Dakota

Tuesday, March 24
6:30 pm HS Vocal Recital

Thursday, March 26 
6:00 pm CTE Advisory Meeting
7:30 pm Orchestra Concert

Saturday, March 28
State Solo/Small Ensemble Contest
12:00 pm Boy/Girl Track @ South Dakota State

Monday, March 30
8:00 am IHSSA IE Speech All-State Festival @ Cedar Falls

Tuesday, March 31
5:00 pm Boy/Girl Track (Home)

Thursday, April 2
Sine Nomine Honor Band - Storm Lake

Friday, April 3
4:00 pm Girls Tennis vs. Cherokee
4:00 pm Boys Tennis @ Cherokee
5:00 pm Music Booster Pancake Supper

Saturday, April 4
ACT Testing

Monday, April 6
4:00 pm Girls Tennis vs. Sioux City North
4:30 pm Girls Track @ Cherokee

Tuesday, April 7
TBD - Iowa Jazz Championships @ Ames
ISASP Testing High School
4:00 pm Girls Tennis @ Sioux City East
4:00 pm Boys Tennis vs. Sioux City East
4:30 pm Girls Soccer @ CB Jefferson
4:30 pm Boys/Girls Track @ SBL
6:00 pm Boys Soccer @ CB Jefferson

Wednesday, April 8
ISASP Testing

Thursday, April 9
4:00 pm Girls Golf vs. Western Christian
4:00 pm Boys Tennis @ Sioux City North
5:00 pm Boys Track @ Cherokee

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