LCHS Friday Focus

  Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. We made it through graduation breakfast, practice, and award night. I was thinking that Wednesday is just as about as busy of a day as the Friday of homecoming for me.  This will be the last Friday Focus for the school year, so I'll try to remember to have everything you need to know to get through the last week of classes. Please remember contracts are due to Central Office on the 23rd. I do have a basket on my desk where you can turn it into me and I'll get it to Central Office.   We will be running the advisory schedule on Monday. On Tuesday, we will use the last day of school schedule. On the last day of classes students will be checking out. Please sign their check out sheets. If they have school property that needs to be returned, please document it on the sheet. During advisory that day, they will turn in their laptops. Please look at each laptop and make them turn it on for you. If there is any da...

Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Please don't forget to grab lunch in the lounge today. This is just a small token of appreciation for all that you do.  It is hard to believe it is May 9 already and we only have 7 days of regular classes left. Mrs. Leavitt will be sending information out regarding summer professional development. We will post our QR codes on the office window like last summer. You will have 15 hours again to learn about something that interests you and is applicable to your position.  Today is the last day for our Seniors. If they are not taking your semester test, please sign their checkout sheets today. Seniors will need to turn in their Chromebook to the library. Cody and/or Tracy will be in there to collect the computers. Seniors will take their semester tests on Monday and Tuesday. They need to have all the tests done by the end of 5th on Tuesday. Senior final grades are due at 8:00 am on Wednesday, May 14. I have been asked ab...

Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week. Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week , and Adam and I will be providing lunch on Friday. I truly appreciate your dedication and willingness to work with students—even when challenging. Your professionalism and commitment to doing what's best for students never wavers. Senior Information It's hard to believe that next week will be the seniors' last week of regular classes. On Friday, seniors will be checking out with their teachers. Please sign their checkout sheets if they don't need to take semester tests on Monday or Tuesday. Seniors must turn these sheets into the office before leaving for the day. IMPORTANT: Senior grades are due by 8:00 AM on May 14. This is a firm deadline as Mrs. Davis needs to prepare final awards for that evening. All seniors must have 50 credits by this time to participate in graduation. Semester Tests Mr. Moss will distribute semester test lists indicating which students must tak...

  Friday Focus  Happy Friday!   I hope everyone had a great week. It is hard to believe this is the last Friday in April and we will be starting our last month of school next week. This time is going to go by fast.  Congrats to Mrs. Dunn for being named the Crystal Bell Teacher of the Year. She gave an outstanding speech on Wednesday night at the banquet.  I would like you to look at the PASS Plan spreadsheet to make sure you have turned in a PASS Plan to me. If it is not on there, then I don't have it documented it took place. A student can not fail a class if there was no PASS Plan.   The seniors are getting closer to graduation. I have several that are failing classes that are needed for graduation. I encourage you to call home and talk to the parents to let them know what their student needs to get done to pass your class. I am also communicating with parents, but I can't tell them what needs to be done to pass. Seniors final day of class is May 9. They...

     Friday Focus  Happy Friday!   I hope everyone had a great week. We have made it through prom, now the only major day to make it through is graduation. Since we don't have school next Friday, this will be the Friday Focus for the next 2 weeks. This week the 2025 and 2026 football schedules were finally released. Homecoming next school year will be September 26 and for the 26-27 school year it will be October 2. The dance will be September 27 from 9-midnight.  Next Thursday, the students will be dismissed at 1:30. We do have our 2nd to last inservice of the year. The CIA has a fun activity for you all to do to see all the great lessons you created from you learning this school year.  As we are getting 4th quarter going, remember April 14 is the midterm and the last day to have had PASS Plans. Any student at risk of failing your class will need to have a meeting and the form will need to be turned into me so I can document the meeting. You all have a...

    Friday Focus  Happy Friday!   I hope everyone had a great week. Just a reminder that I will need all classes to report to the competition gym on Friday at the start of 2nd period for our big announcment!  This week I had the opportunity to record my first podcast with Iowa Workforce Development. They came to Le Mars on Wednesday to record a segment on our EMT program and partnership with Le Mars Fire and Rescue. They took video of the class and the students practicing their skills. Three of our students, Mary Sullivan, Nolan Boehmer, and Sebastian MacGregor, were also interviewed for that segment. It was some nice publicity for a great program. Thank you for your work during inservice on Wednesday. I found it interesting looking at the AI posters we all created in November to see how far we have come in our learning on AI. I find that I am using it more and more to complete tasks where I may not have the exact word to write what I am thinking. Maybe this is...