LCHS Friday Focus

          Happy Friday! Looks like we had a very successful week in our various winter activities. We had 7 of our 14 large group speech entries selected as All-State, Colton Hoag placed 4 at state wrestling, the girls bowling team brought home a state championship, and the boys bowling team finished in 7th place.  Today marks the beginning of our 3rd trimester. Second trimester grades will be due on March 1. All teachers should have received an email from Kim regarding requisitions for next school year. I now have my information, so requisitions are due by March 15. If you know you will need some items throughout the year from Walmart or other local places, please let me know. I need to develop my budget and get it turned into Sandy. If I don't budget for it, you may not be able to get it later on. Make sure you follow Kim's instructions. The description should have FY21-22. I will put a procedures sheet in your mailbox today. You may have seen there is a ...

        Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! It appears we will have a heat wave coming at us the beginning of next week. Who thought 40 degrees sounded like a heat wave?  On Monday, Judd and Melissa will be registering grades 9-11 for next year. The 8th graders have all been registered. I hope by the first week in March we will have solid numbers to hold department meetings.  There has been some confusion on when the end of the quarter will be. I do have March 12 down as the end and that is the way PowerSchool is set up also. Then end of the 2nd trimester is Thursday. Grades will be due on March 1.  I have gone around and asked about summer maintenance. Some of the request I received are normal maintenance issues that if you email Mike it can get fixed sooner. Anything that poses a safety risk should also be emailed to Mike and I so that it can be fixed right away. If you have a question on if something can be repaired now rather than the s...

      Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a chance to enjoy some relaxation and stays warm during this 3 day weekend.  Thank you for your work during in-service this week. CIA believed this year needed to be about giving time to get your curriculum on Schoology. Looking ahead to next school year, we will be getting back to our normal in-service/extra hour meetings using the PLC framework to guide our instruction and work during pd time.  This past week we have made some staff additions for the 21-22 school year. Joining us in the Science department will be Cortney Nelson. Cortney is currently student teaching with us. She will be teaching Biology next year and will be in room 131. We also hired Ken Vigdal to be the next head football coach at LCHS. Ken will be teaching in the middle school. Also next year, we will be starting a new Computer Science program. Our CS program will be led by Gabe Davis as he joins us from the middle school. Gabe will be in room 120. Wh...

    Happy Friday! Today is midterm for 3rd quarter. Please make sure all your grades are updated by Monday at 8:00 am so Beth and Amy can run the midterm reports. Thank you to those who have had PASS Plan meetings or extended PASS Plans from 1st semester. For those that have trimester classes, we end the trimester on 2/25. Grades will be due on March 1, so report cards can go home to those that have trimester classes.  Today, marks the last day of Counselor Appreciation week. I would like to thank Judd and Melissa for all the work they do for our students. They have to wear many different hats and must be able to shift to a different hat at a moments notice. Without their hard work, our school would not be where we are today. Thank you for assisting our students. You are there for the students when they really need someone to talk to, ask for advice, or help plan their future. Thank You! I would also like to thank Stephanie Buhman for her extra hours of work organizing ou...

  Happy Last Friday in January!  It is hard to believe we are already into February. We will be getting into our scheduling process pretty heavy this month. The goal is to get everyone registered so we can start working on the master schedule. The ultimate goal is to have the master schedule completed by April so we can get it to the students.  On Wednesday, I made an announcement about prom and what it may look like. I am including the information here in case someone asks you what we are doing. When we developed our prom guidelines, our ultimate goal is to stay in live instruction and not to do something that may make us move to a hybrid or remote model. As you will see below, these are all based on the 14 day average for positive cases. Some of this could change if any of the variants are found in Plymouth County. The capacities were figured by looking at the usable space in the areas and how many people we could safely have and spread out.  Prom Date: April 10 CO...

                    Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. As we enter our last week of January and get ready to move into February we will be nearing our 3rd quarter midterm. Midterm is on February 5. I also want to remind you that I am allowing you to extend a PASS plan from 1st semester to 2nd semester. All I need you to do is contact the parent and then let me know who you are extending it for. I have had some that have emailed the parents and included me in the email.  That will work.  I also want to encourage you to take the time to look at the Star Reading and Math data in our next extra hour meeting. Check out your students and see what areas they have difficulty in especially in reading, because we are all reading teachers. Hopefully the students looked at their scores and areas where they are not as strong. I do think we had a handful of kids not give a good effort based on how long it took them to test and t...

                  Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. We will be starting the registration process for the 21-22 school year in the next week. Letters were mailed home to the incoming 8th grade parents informing them that we will not have our live registration meetings. Judd and Melissa have a video online that goes over what we would have discussed that night. My goal is to have the bulk of kids registered by mid February. Hopefully, I then can meet with departments to go over numbers. We are about 2-3 months behind in this process than we normally are, but it will move along quickly and we will have a schedule before too long.  Thank you for the great start to second semester. If you have students who have returned to live learning from remote that have gaps, we can discuss if the success center is an appropriate placement for them. We have moved a couple in there already.  Also, thanks to those who took my survey on s...