This Week at LPHS, March 4-8

Hello All,

We have very little on the calendar this week and nothing that should disrupt instruction, so it's a great week to work in the small group instruction, student talk, and opportunities to respond that we have been talking about all year.  I look forward to getting in to your classrooms to see this taking place.

Tuesday:

* During 4th hour, you will show the Two Minute Drill for this week.  (I will get it to you tomorrow afternoon)  In that drill will be an update to our attendance incentive for final exams.  It will be as follows:

*Students that miss 3 or fewer classes in your particular hour, have a 75% or higher going in to finals and have not been suspended, will be exempt from taking the final and attending your hour on the scheduled final exam day. 

* I recognize that there are some concerns regarding student growth, tardies, and other areas.  Please know that we are working towards solutions on all of them, but that we need to get something in place to improve our attendance ASAP.  In addition, we will be making changes to enforcing our attendance policies as well. 

* As a reminder to what was discussed at our last staff meeting, you are required to call home for any ODR that is the result of skipping your class or any minor offense.  ODRs that are completed without communication home will not be addressed by administrators until this is completed.  You are the best source of information on events leading to the ODR and communication with our families is key to our success moving forward!

Wednesday:

* African Well Project Video and Activity during 4th hour.

On Thursday I will be visiting all of the co-taught classrooms, following mostly the schedule used with Mrs. Beninghof last week, but also trying to get in to the rooms that we missed.  As a reminder, during this time we will be looking for Specially Designed Instruction and identifying how you are meeting the IEP goals of students in the classroom.  If you have not done so already, please consider making the one page "cheat sheet" for each of your co-taught hours that includes each student with an IEP and their goals on it.

I will work on getting you the screencast of my Small Group Instruction PD from our last PD day this week.  If you have any questions on what we are looking for, I'd love to help out and have that conversation with you.


Saturday:

* Happy Birthday, Courtney West! 

Have a great week!