LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! It is hard to believe it is already Friday. Thank you for your work during our inservice on Wednesday. I know the data analysis task was a little more difficult when we don't have the test or questions to look at to see what our students missed. We will be getting some segregated data in December sometime, but that will be on our report card. Also, I heard some good discussion in the different groups. The freshmen group started to identify teachers who were willing to check in more frequently with their at-risk students. These teachers had already developed that relationship with the student. This is a small way that can make big gains. If the student feels like he/she has someone pulling for them, their effort and attitude can change for the positive. Looking ahead, the 2nd quarter midterm is on November 26. All PASS Plans should be done by this time. I show we currently have 110 students failing one or more classes. I have only had 19 PASS Plan meeting forms tur...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. As we close out our first full week in November, Thanksgiving Break will quickly be approaching. For those of you who have trimester classes, the trimester ends next Friday. Grades will be due on Tuesday, November 19 at 8:30 am. I will then store grades.  We do have our building inservice on Wednesday. Please bring your laptop to the library. We will spend the first part looking at our ISASP data. The GREAT news is that our building scored well. We were above 80% proficient in all areas. This is something you should be very proud about. The data conversations will look a little different this year and I'll go over the various data sources. We will not have test questions or know what questions the students missed. At this time ISASP does not provide this.  I would like to give a plug for the fall play coming up next week. Performances will be on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. You can buy your tickets in the office o...

Happy Friday! As we wrap up the first week of quarter 2, please make sure you have completed PASS Plans for all at-risk students by 11/26/19. I have already talked to all the seniors that failed a first semester class and will be working on the other grades. Mr. Formanek is also talking to those seniors and will be pulling opens.  I have had some questions regarding the retake policy. The retake policy does give you the flexibility to determine what the student has to do to show they have learned the material better. Please don't ask them to do a ton of work while they are trying to keep up with the current work. Many of the students I am talking to about their grades, tell me they don't do the retake because they can't do that and current work. They don't realize that I have their grades up when I am talking with them, so I ask them why they are not doing their current work. For these students, who are not doing anything, we need to wear them down. We need to be re...

Happy Friday! Today is the last day of the first quarter. Just a reminder grades are due Tuesday at 8:00 am. Please make sure you have verified your grades, please follow these instructions: Choose the class from the Class Selector. Choose the reporting term from the Term Selector. On the bottom of the Traditional Grades, Standards Grades, or Comment Verification page, click Final Grade Status. In the dialog, select (term) Final Grades are Complete checkbox, and enter any comments in the field. During advisory, please have the students complete the Quarter 1 reflection.  Looking ahead, we have our extra hour meeting Wednesday. These will be grade level plc's and will meet in different rooms. Please refer to Mr. Bahr's email on rooms. For those of you who teach students from multiple grade levels, please attend the grade level where you have the most "at-risk" students. If you need to go to another grade level, please feel free to do so. Everyone needs to co...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone has had a good week. Thank you for your work during in-service this week; lots of good discussions were taking place regarding assessments. Please keep these discussions going. This is how we will continue to grow as a staff. At our CIA meeting we were discussing our next district in-service time and wrapping everything together.  For those of you who have been asking how do I get tier 2 time into my weekly schedule next in-service will provide some insight. Remember tier 1 is having grade level instruction for all students. This is what you are doing everyday, whether it is during guided practice or independent practice time or it could be when instruction is taking place. You are providing all students that grade level, rigorous curriculum.  Hopefully the ISASP data is here on November 4, then we will also spend part of the next in-service analyzing our data.  Next Friday, October 25 is the end of the quarter. Grades will be due Tuesd...