- Monday: No School-Professional Development
- Tuesday: Class Color Day
- 6th Grade-Yellow
- 7th Grade-Red
- 8th Grade-Blue
- Wednesday: Black Out for the LMS football team
- Thursday: White Out for the LMS volleyball team, Hat Day for a $1 donation
- Friday: Plainsmen Pride
Celebration is an important part of our school culture and Spirit Week provides an opportunity to have fun and build community. It's going to be a great week of learning and celebrating our pride in our school.
During professional development on Monday, we discussed grading norms. Grades are an important tool for communicating learning progress. In order to communicate learning effectively, grading practices needs to be consistent across classrooms, grades, and subject areas. Currently, all staff are weighting grades in the following way: 70% of the grade is based on activities that assess a student's mastery of standard, 20% of a student's grade is based on a student's progression toward mastery of standards, and 10% of a student's grade is based on practice, exposure, and engagement of standards.
In layman's terms that means 70% of a students grade is based on assessments, 20% on classroom activities, and 10% on homework. That's an oversimplification, but provides the basic idea. Some teacher are weighting using total points others are using the settings in Powerschool. The outcome is the same with both methodologies. The reason for weighting is to make grades more reflective of what students know, understand, and can do. Just like we don't judge the success of our favorite sports teams on how well they practice, we don't want to base too much of a students grade on practice and activities leading up to the game, or final demonstration of learning.
- September 25 No school-professional development
- October 2 Girls' basketball and wrestling informational meeting
- October 3 Picture retakes
- October 5 PTO meeting
- October 25-26 Fall conferences
- October 27 No school-fall conferences
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