- Faculty Blog -
Two groups will be staying at the school in coming weeks as congregations bring upper grade students to tour the MLC campus. One group of students will be here Thursday night October 12. Friday they will tour MLC. The second group will be overnight on Friday, October 20.
LifeTouch will be here for picture retakes on Monday, October 2. We will begin retakes at 7:50 a.m. Students who did not get their picture taken on registration day or want to try again may do so. The idea is to get as many retakes completed before the beginning of the day as possible.
We have booked a band from Mexico through Community Education. This is on our calendars, October 10. Workshops will be conduct throughout the day. Grades K-2 9:15 a.m., Grades 3-5 10:15 a.m., Grades 6-8 12:30 p.m. Workshops will last about 50 minutes.
Please use the tubs distributed on Friday for paper recycling. The big green trash cans on wheels will no longer be used. Waste Management has been charing us for recycling paper. We will begin giving it to NUAGA. They will come and pick it up on Friday’s. If more pick ups are needed, they will come more often. We should leave the tub outside our doors on Friday after school. We will continue to have Waste Management pick up our other recycleable products.
Monday, September 25, we have three men beginning their student teacher experience. Mr. Nicolas Bush is in Mr. Biedenbender’s room. Mr. Peter Iles is working in Mr. Plocher’s room. Mr. Joel Cordes is in Mr. Dretske’s room. Student teacher welcome at St. Paul’s is Ocotober 1 during the 8 a.m. service. Grades 5-8 sing at the service.
Given some sunny weather in the next few days, we will conduct a fire drill. We are looking at Tuesday a.m. sometime. We will avoid any testing times. Please review with your children were they are going during a fire evacuation.
Amanda Luwig, a junior at MLC, has contacted us looking for a classroom for observations. Given her MLC schedule, Tuesdays after 10 a.m. would work the best. She would need two. She is a married student. Please reply in the comments to pick her up. Then reply to her email dolly7000@hotmail.com or call her via cell phone 507.217.1796.
Mr. Schaefer and the BOP has been working hard on a number of school projects. They continue to install emergency lighting throughout the building. Emergency light fixtures have been installed in the Lecture Room, Raider Room, two fixtures in the hall outside the Lecture and Raider Room, band storeage room, boys locker room, girls locker room, both stairwells, outside room 18, outside the offices, principal’s office, and secretary’s office. Other shelter in place areas yet to be done are the Band Room, and the Storeage room downstairs. We will also install an emergency lighting fixture in the boiler room.
Also, they are working on outside lighting. Along the south side walk and near the front steps new fixtures have been installed. Two new lights along the front of the building are also in the works. Those fixtures would match the two new ones.
Be sure to say thanks to the BOP members- Mr. Schaefer, Mr. Bietlich, Mr. Rich -when you see them.
A follow up note to out Wednesday faculty meeting. Northwest Evaluation Association is the company which sell the MAPS testing software product. This is software is placed on a server onsite. Student tests are uploaded back to the company. Once the company has the data, they return results in days. We may test up to four times yearly without penalty. There is a training package with the program. Tests are in math, reading, and english. Comments on the positive side stress that this testing systems is more of a tool to assist in instructional decisions than a report of a test. The focus is on student growth. WELS LES/ALHS Principals’ conference will hear a presenter on this topic November 17.
A few highlights on the board meeting from this morning: