LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! Today is my traditional longest work day of the year. As we wrap up homecoming week, thank you to those that participated in the dress up days. I don't know if the staff or students did a better job with the roll out of bed and come to school. With the 7 am meeting that day, I think it may have been the staff.  Classes will dismiss today after 4th period. Student Council will be dismissed to the competition gym after 1st period to start decorating for coronation. Football players and cheerleaders will be going to the elementary schools like in past years. Coronation will start at 1 and the parade will follow. Hopefully close to 2:00 pm. It would be great to see the staff at coronation. I know some of you do have parade lineup duty. The LCS Foundation is taking nominations for Employee of the Month again. The last person was recognized in February 2019. Please take the time to nominate one of your peers. Nomination forms can be found here: http://www.lemarscsd.org...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week.  We are starting to see an influx of illnesses in the high school. There are several other bugs going around besides Covid. It is still expected that courses are up to date on Schoology so students can access work when they are absent. A secondary benefit is Jakki and Shelli can see what kids need to do when the student is in the Success Center. Also, please take care of yourselves, I know several have come to school when not feeling the best. I also know that subs are hard to find, but let that be my problem, not yours. If I can't get certified subs, I may have to give classes study hall and have an aide supervise or move them into the study hall in the commons. If possible, we can look at combining classes. I did this with Biology this week and combined 4th and 5th periods. I do appreciate your desire to be here, but I would like you to be healthy.  Homecoming is next week, I encourage you to dress up for the different days. It...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Thank you for your work during Wednesday's extra hour building professional development. As we move forward in our PLC journey, we are using more of a vertical aligned PLC framework. This framework was chosen because many of you are basically singleton teachers. In order for us to have meaningful conversations about what is happening in the classrooms, we need to find common skills between the courses. For some, this is easy to do, for others it is going to take a little more time. The process on how we do this is what is important. This is a process that can be used to discuss content also. On Wednesday, CIA is going to discuss data collection. Identifying how you will collect your data will assist in developing the common formative assessment. Then your next step will be to develop the common formative assessment. Tomorrow, marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This was one of those days in our history where you remember w...

     Happy Friday! Thank you for your work Wednesday morning in our first building professional development meeting. It was great to hear the different conversations regarding what kitchen utensil matches your personality. Some groups even started to identify other people's utensils and why they saw them that way. Thank you to CIA for planning our professional development. They put in extra hours to make sure our time is spent doing the activities that will help us move forward with PLC's.  Getting to know each other in our PLC's is vital for us to start to have frank conversations about data and teaching strategies. Each person needs to believe their PLC is safe place where you can talk with you peers to help you find effective teaching strategies and help remove in-effective strategies.  Thank you for your assistance in getting through our first screener of the year. In order for this to be effective, this needs to be a data point for our students and how they...