LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday!   I hope everyone has had a great week! Thank you for the flexibility in running our screener schedule on Wednesday. The MTSS committee would like to hear your feedback on the schedule. Did you like it better with the block of time or would you rather give it during the advisory time?  On Monday during advisory, there will be a Junior class meeting to kick off their fundraiser for prom. We will meet in the competition gym.  I am kind of at a stand still for the schedule for next year right now. There are a few things that have to be decided before I can finish it. Once I have a good, workable schedule, I'll send that out. When the schedule is created, the students are loaded. PowerSchool then gives me data showing how many requests were satisfied and how many students were fully scheduled. From there, tweaks will be made to the schedule. Once I start loading students, they may see a schedule in the PowerSchool app. That will not be official until ...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. It is that time of year again to think about summer maintenance. Let me know if you need anything fixed in your classroom. If it isn't a major job, please let Mike know about it now so they can get an early jump on the small jobs. Please let me know by Feb. 28. On Wednesday, students in grades 9-11 will take the Reading and Math screener for a second time. Please tell your students to report to the same place they took the screener the first time. Senior's will be allowed to leave at that time and senior advisory teachers please check on the teachers around you to see if they need a break. You can find the schedule here if you need it.  Congrats to the Boy and Girl Bowling teams as they qualified for the state bowling meet, to the Robotics team who also qualified for the state tournament, Colton Hoag, Brenick Hoppe, Jake Francksen-Small, Justin Otto, and Dylan Carlson for qualifying for the state wrestling meet.  and the Jaz...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone has has a great week! Today, we will pass out midterms along with copies of the Foundations "Teacher of the Year" flyers. I will ask you to pass these out during your 6th period class as we have a few teams leaving early today. Please check you mailboxes during lunch to get your midterms.    Congrats to members of the Large Group speech teams in the following categories for earning all-state honors: Choral Reading, Group Improv, Group Mime, Solo Mime, and Musical Theater. The Group Mime and Solo Mime will perform at the festival held in Ames on Feb. 22. Good luck to the bowling teams, wrestling team, and girls basketball as they start first round playoff next week. The boys basketball team will start the following week.  Looking ahead, we have a shelter drill on Feb. 19 @ 2:00 pm. We also have extra hour meetings on Feb. 19 and 26.  Have a great Monday! Mark Assistant Principal's Happenings Happy Valentine's Day!...

Happy Friday! Midterms of third quarter are on Thursday of next week. Please make sure grades are updated by Friday morning so midterms can be sent home that day. Please have the students complete the third quarter midterm during advisory on 2/18. There will be a meeting during advisory on 2/10 for students that were in challenge in middle school in the little theater. Dates to be aware of: Trimester 2 ends on 2/25.  For those groups that I was able to visit on Wednesday, thank you for the good discussion on the the 15 day unit plan. I am meeting with CIA to discuss some of the concerns that were expressed. I don't think I was as clear as I thought I was in last week's blog. For the March meeting, you need to share the data from the interventions you are doing in one section. However, I do want you to start implementing this in all of your classes for the rest of this year and next school year. This is the least intrusive way to do interventions during the school day witho...

Happy Friday and last day of January! As we enter February we are getting closer and closer to warmer weather. I will be concluding department meetings next week so hopefully I can get to work on the master schedule for next year.  We will do our make up extra hour meeting on Feb. 5. The two scheduled extra hour meetings are Feb. 19 and 26. For the Feb. 5 meeting, please meet in your department to work on building in intervention/enrichment times into your unit plans. You should now be planning intervention/enrichment times in all of your classes for the remainder of the school year and keeping track of the data.  During the March building in-service we will meet in grade levels to discuss your intervention data. By this day, please submit your unit plans  in the shared drive folder for your area'  showing what interventions were done, along with the data spreadsheets that indicate what students received the intervention and the results.  This will also help...

Happy Friday! I don't know where this week seemed to go. I had intended to write this part of the Friday Focus early in the week, but now it is Thursday and I am just getting to it.  We will meet as an entire staff on Wednesday, 1/29 in the library for our extra hour meeting. CIA members will review the 15 day challenge. Something I want you to keep in mind when we do this is that we are being judged differently than in the past. We can no longer just focus on students who were not proficient on the state tests, we need to make sure all students grow. A student who was proficient on last years ISASP but doesn't make growth will count against us. So the old game rules no longer apply, and we need to adapt to the new rules. On the school report cards, growth has the biggest impact on our score that determines if we need to do the SAMI process. The point of the 15 day challenge is to have scheduled intervention time during the class period. Interventions need to be individuali...