LCHS Friday Focus

               Happy Friday! I hope every one enjoyed the extra time off this week. I am glad we didn't get as much snow as projected. Who knows if we would have been in school today if we had gotten that 10+ inches of snow.  The MTSS group will be asking you to sit down with each student in advisory to go over their score from last year and help them set goals for this year. They will also have a slideshow for you to use to go over with your advisory the importance of the ISASP. If you don't have access to a TV in your advisory room, please let me know. I do need everyone to do this.  ISASP are scheduled for the week of March 27. We will run the block schedule for 4 days. On March 27 & 28 we will give the  reading  and  math  tests and on March 29 & 30 we will give the  science  and  writing  tests. If you are going to be gone on the day of the ISASP, please remind me so I can make su...

              Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a chance to enjoy the upcoming 3 day weekend. We have now completed all of our shelter drills for the school year. As we do draw closer to spring, please make sure students are aware of what to do if we have sever weather.  We have a number of students that are behind in their school work. Please take the time to call home or email parents. When I ran the F list, we had 206 students with 1 or more failing grades. It always seems this time of year this happens and then the students recover. Please stay on top of those students who have low grades and providing interventions. For those not doing work, ask them what their plan is?  We have seen a uptick on the number of underclassmen already behind on credits. We currently have 37 students at the alternative school. 6 of those are seniors, the remaining 31 students are freshmen through juniors. Now is the time to start hyping up ISASP with the...

             Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! This week is National School Counselor's week. Thank you Judd and Melissa for all the things you do to make us better.  It is that time of year again when requisitions for next year will need to be filled out. You have an instruction sheet that was put in your mailbox on how to do the requisitions. Please make sure you put FY23-24 in the requisition description. If you do not do this, then I will reject the requisition and you will have to start over.  Along with the requisitions starting, I am also starting my list for summer maintenance. If you have something in your room that needs to be fixed or painted, please let me know. I will try and make it around to each room. I want to thank CIA for organizing the in-service. I know some were expecting more strategies, but I do think we all needed to hear and see the changing demographics in Le Mars. I also thought it was worth whil...

            Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! We are getting closer to wrapping up the registration process for next school year. As the counselors get the final students registered, they will go through the request and clean up any duplicates. Once this process is done, I will schedule meetings to go over numbers and sections for next year.  We are in the process of advertising for several openings for next school year. If you know of any Auto, Math, English, or Ag/Science candidates please encourage them to apply. We are also looking for a Head Girl Basketball coach. Coach Irwin has decided to hang up the whistle and Coach Dyhrkopp will be taking the boys position.   Midterm is today and grades should be updated by 8:30. Amy will run midterm reports this morning and we will have you hand them out at the end of 8th period. If you have students struggling, now would be the time to have the PASS Plan meetings. You may want t...