February 26, 2021

By -

     

Happy Friday! Looks like we had a very successful week in our various winter activities. We had 7 of our 14 large group speech entries selected as All-State, Colton Hoag placed 4 at state wrestling, the girls bowling team brought home a state championship, and the boys bowling team finished in 7th place. 

Today marks the beginning of our 3rd trimester. Second trimester grades will be due on March 1.

All teachers should have received an email from Kim regarding requisitions for next school year. I now have my information, so requisitions are due by March 15. If you know you will need some items throughout the year from Walmart or other local places, please let me know. I need to develop my budget and get it turned into Sandy. If I don't budget for it, you may not be able to get it later on. Make sure you follow Kim's instructions. The description should have FY21-22. I will put a procedures sheet in your mailbox today.

You may have seen there is a special board meeting scheduled for today at noon. At that special meeting the board will hopefully approve 4 new positions in the school district that our ESSER II funds will pay for. We will gain one of these positions as either a half math/half science or if we can't find a science with a math endorsement, then it will be just a science hire. This new position will be used to teach Biology and General Science (for the 22-23 school year) and yet to be determined math classes. 

The registration process is wrapping up. Once we have most of the students registered, we will need to go through and clean up some of the requests. Students will make multiple request for the same class even when they are told it won't improve their chances of getting into the class. Once our data is clean, I will start to have department meetings.

I am sending a survey to the teaching staff regarding computers for next year. I need to get input on what your preferences are in regards to moving to a 1-1 or keeping our current model. I am also asking for input for changes if we keep our current model of getting a computer before school and then returning it after school. If we decide we would like to move to the 1-1 model, we will need to write a proposal to Dr. Webner outlining what it will look like, what training may be needed for staff and students, check out and check in procedures, classroom use, what to do when not needed in the classroom, how we plan on monitor student use, etc.

Looking ahead, extra hour meetings are on March 3 and 17, our last screener will be on March 17, shelter drill on the 31st at 9:20 am. District in-service is on the 10.

Have a Great Weekend!

Mark

Assistant Principal's Happenings

I will be checking on tardies and absences again this upcoming week and contacting parents where needed.  It's still early enough in the Semester that we do not have too many students on Attendance Contracts but that will likely be picking up soon.  I usually ask students to work with teachers to make up that time as it is class time that they are missing.

Remote-Learner update; our students are closer to being on track than they were at this point in the first semester, but we still have about 25 that are behind in some classes.  We have moved around 10 students that were constantly behind to the ILC to have more structure and they typically catch back up.  

Hopefully, we continue these warm temperatures.  Next week, looks great with 50 degrees most days!  I know the lunch students are very excited to get back outside after 3 months of sitting in the gym after lunch.  I hope many of you plan to have some outdoor classes this Spring where you can spread out and have a break from the masks for awhile.  

 Enjoy the weekend!

 Ideas from the library/video class/student council


Upcoming Activities

Friday, February 26
7:30 pm HS Vocal Concert

Saturday, February 27
8:00 am Individual Events Speech District Contest - Le Mars

Monday, March 1
4:00pm IHSSA IE Speech District Contest - Le Mars

Thursday, March 4
7:30 pm MS/HS Orchestra Concert 

Friday, March 5
Robotics League Tournament

Saturday, March 6
Robotics League Tournament
BVU Honor Band

Monday, March 15
IHSSA IE Speech State Contest - Le Mars

Monday, March 22
8:00 am NHS Induction Practice
6:00 pm Class of 2022 NHS Induction Ceremony
7:00 pm Class of 2021 NHS Induction Ceremony

Tuesday, March 23
HS Vocal Concert

Friday, March 26 
Robotics Super Qualifier

Saturday, March 27
Robotics Super Qualifier
State Solo/Small Ensemble Festival

Tuesday, March 30
5:00 pm Boy/Girl Track @ LCHS


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

March 7, 2025

By -
Image
  Friday Focus  Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week.  On Monday, I attended a DCAP workshop. You may be asking what is a DCAP workshop? DCAP is our District Career Academic Plan. Just like the student ICAP, Individual Career Academic Plan, the district must have one also. In the DCAP, we spell out what we are doing to prepare our students for college career readiness and employability skills. The DCAP consists of 7 sections, the main sections deal with course planning, work-based learning, and 5 essential components of ICAP.  The course planning section deals with the students 4 year plan and how the students and parents are advised on progress towards graduation. This is why we have the grade level registration meetings, our 8th grade CTE day, 8th grade parent meeting, etc so we can meet this requirement.  I am sure by this point, you are asking yourself how does this apply to me? This gets us into the next few sections with what we do in class matte...
Read more

May 16, 2025

By -
Image
  Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. We made it through graduation breakfast, practice, and award night. I was thinking that Wednesday is just as about as busy of a day as the Friday of homecoming for me.  This will be the last Friday Focus for the school year, so I'll try to remember to have everything you need to know to get through the last week of classes. Please remember contracts are due to Central Office on the 23rd. I do have a basket on my desk where you can turn it into me and I'll get it to Central Office.   We will be running the advisory schedule on Monday. On Tuesday, we will use the last day of school schedule. On the last day of classes students will be checking out. Please sign their check out sheets. If they have school property that needs to be returned, please document it on the sheet. During advisory that day, they will turn in their laptops. Please look at each laptop and make them turn it on for you. If there is any da...
Read more

September 19, 2025

By -
Image
  Friday Focus Happy Friday!   I hope everyone has had a great week. Today is midterm of the 1st quarter. Please make sure all grades are up to date. Amy will run midterms and we will hand them out during 8th period.   I have had my first PASS plan turned in, congrats to Ms. Hommes to be the first one to get one done. Unfortuately is is for a senior that needs his credits. Next week is homecoming, let the fun begin. Monday night at 7:30 pm is the coronation. Come out to the competition gym to see who will be crowned this year's King and Queen.  On Monday, we will have class meetings so students can sign up for the different competitions. Freshmen will be in the Little Theater, Sophomores in the Library, Juniors in the Commons, and Seniors in the Competition Gym. Teachers with the asterick by their name in the Teacher Handbook are the lead teachers and will need to take charge of these meetings.  Dress up days for Homecoming Week. YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!...
Read more