LCHS Friday Focus

   Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Growing up I was a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes comics. I saw this one on twitter and got a little chuckle. Without fail, it seems our students struggle in the 3rd quarter before picking it back up to finish the year.  Monday is the last day of Trimester 2, we will have kids moving to PE and Careers classes. Trimester 2 grades are due on 2/28 by 8:30 am. I have scheduled number meetings for next week. I will go over sections and get input for things I need to consider when making the master schedule. I hope to have the master schedule done by the end of March.  I do have a couple of seniors I am keeping an eye on in terms of credits and making it to graduation. I will start meeting with these students a little more frequently. I am going to have a senior class meeting on March 4, during advisory, to start to go over graduation information. We will meet in the Little Theater. I will keep them there the entire period s...

  Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Here's to the three day weekend! I hope everyone has the chance to relax. If you are looking for things to do over the long weekend, the girls basketball team has a playoff game here Saturday night at 7:00 pm or you can come and listen to the Jazz Band on the 19th. They perform at 4:20 in the middle school auditorium. The boys basketball team kicks off their post season on Monday also. They will play at 7:00 pm at MOC. Good luck to the students performing at Large Group All State Speech on Saturday in Ames. Also good luck to the boy and girl bowling teams as they have their state meets next week.  In the coming weeks, we will be getting ready for ISASP. Those teachers administering the ISASP will need to do the security training. This can be done at either the Feb. 28 or March 13 inservice. There are a couple of ways to do the training. One is by a group. If your department picks this route, make sure to follow the directions s...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. I will be out of the building today as Tanner and I head to Iowa City for the state swim meet. Unfortunately he is there only as a teammate and not swimming. He had a great season anyway. During cabinet this week, we have started to formalize a reunification plan in case we have an emergency where we would need to reunify students with families. This could be needed for a situation where we can't dismiss school because of something going on in the neighborhood or if we have to use our ALICE procedures. This would be a good time to update your rosters in the emergency folders that are by your door. If you are missing your emergency folder, please let Mr. Moss know so you can get a new one. Once the process is formalized, we will do some in house training on the process so people are familiar with it. It is important that everyone understands the process because most likely Adam or I may not be at the reunification site right away....

  Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Congrats to Crimson and Black for their division 1 rating at state. Our girls wrestling team is also at day 2 of the state wrestling meet, Keira and Des are still wrestling. Also good luck the large group speech performers on Saturday. Earlier in the week I shared the Honors Program guidelines with you. I have received feedback from a couple so far. If you have strong feelings one way or the other, please let me know. I plan on setting an informational meeting for the parents soon. Judd and Melissa are starting the registration process for next school year. Once the students have all been registered, I'll have department meetings to go over numbers and sections. Then the fun begins creating the master schedule.  Midterm for third quarter is coming up next week on Feb. 8. Please make sure you have entered in all grades and have added comments under quarter 3. Amy will run the midterms after 1st period that morning for distributi...