LCHS Friday Focus

          Happy Friday! With only two days next week, I won't be putting out a Friday Focus. I will either be recovering from my first attempt to make a Thanksgiving meal or in the hospital for food poisoning. Before you say anything to Kristin, I am the one making the Turkey, I am sure the green bean casserole will be safe.  Hopefully you had the chance to watch the stream of the play last week. Mrs. Ohrlund and crew put on another fabulous production.  I know there is lots of frustration on students not doing any work when they are home quarantined or in isolation. The MTSS committee presented me with a couple of plans on how to try and get those students who are behind additional help during the school day. I want to remind you that we do need to take time to build in interventions into our normal class time like last year. Again, you are under no pressure to get to a certain point in the curriculum. It is better to go slow and make sure students un...

        Happy Friday the 13th! I hope everyone has had a good week. With midterm quickly approaching, it is next week, please make sure you are wrapping up any PASS Plans and any first quarter incompletes that are still outstanding. With our high COVID rate in our county and zip code, I will allow you to do PASS Plans through Google Meet or by conference call.  Also next week we have our second screener date. We will give the Star Assessments on November 18, please plan accordingly.  The end of the trimester is also next week. I plan on storing those grades on Monday, November 23.  With our county's high Covid rate, we will continue to limit school access to visitors during the day. If you are scheduled to have a guest speaker, (Officer Vickery is ok to talk to your class) it will need to be done via Google Meet. The front office will be stopping the visitors in the office when they try to check in and to let them know that we can't allow them any furt...

          Happy Friday! I hope everyone has had a good week. Thank you for your patience with the students with the quarantine and those put in isolation. I know it is difficult and frustrating when the student is gone for an extended amount of time and then doesn't do the work while they are gone. It is not ideal to be trying to catch them up while moving the other students forward. I would recommend that those students who do not do the work while they are absent be assigned times to come in before or after school to get caught up. This may help motivate them to do more work if they have to be gone for extended amount of time. Even the students that do the work at home may still have gaps in their learning. Online learning is not the same as learning in class, and we know not every student is going to be successful in this method of learning. Again, I want to stress that you do not have a set point to get to in the curriculum. We can only do so much in the day...