LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! As I am writing this I am reflecting back on the last couple of weeks. I know many of you are busy creating enrichments for our students and our college classes have started up again online. If you have any questions regarding your classes or what you can be doing at this time don't hesitate to ask. I want to clarify one question, " Can you give students make up work from 3rd quarter?" This is not new learning and the student is doing work that has already been assigned. This can be graded and entered into your gradebook. This is very important for seniors as we don't know if we will be back on April 13. I am going forward with the plan that we will come back on that day, but I am making preparations for if we don't. I do not know what will happen with credits or how we will figure semester grades. So far, the state is asking us to err on the side of the student in awarding credit. That will be a conversation I'll have to have with Dr. Webner ...

Happy Friday! Thank you for all the feedback on our inservice on Wednesday. The April inservice will be a work day so you can have time to work on enrichments and interventions. Our May inservice will be looking at our ISASP data and then wrapping up our professional development for the school year. The expectations for the rest of the year in regards to enrichments and interventions is that they will take place in at least one prep. Ideally we want you to start moving these into all your preps, but that won't be the expectation until next school year. During Advisory in the next couple of weeks, please take the time to have the students take the practice test on the ISASP. They can be found here . It would also be good to test the app installed on the computer to make sure it works. I don't believe the students actually use the app for the practice tests. With the increase of organizations cancelling events, please be flexible as plans for different activities could chan...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. We do have our in-service meeting on Wednesday. The CIA group has quite the plan in place for you after I cover the ISASP and our Iowa School Performance Profile. Please make sure you bring your data and what you did for interventions or enrichments.  As we begin our spring activity seasons, schedules will need to be flexible as there are so many activities dependent on the weather. Hopefully this weekend will see lanes painted on our track to get ready for our first home meet on March 31.  We ended a rather successful winter season for multiple activities. Both the boy and girl basketball teams made it to the substate final and came within a game of qualifying for state. The boy and girl bowling teams made a return visit to the state meet. We qualified 5 wrestlers to the state meet with 2 wrestlers placing. Robotics made a trip to the state competition. Jazz Band qualified for Iowa Jazz Championships later in April. L...

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...