St. Paul’s Lutheran School
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There were great reports coming from the March 23 grade level team meetings. God is certainly blessing the work of His called servants at St. Paul’s!

Next grade level meeting will be scheduled for April 25. For curriculum mapping protocol, please bring your maps of March in your targeted content area. May the Lord continue to bless the ministry of our LES!!

TEAM ministry meeting was held on Friday, March 30 in Belle Plaine. School counselors will meet again in June. The purpose of the TEAM minsitry program is to assist the ministry team to focus on the God appointed mission of the school, care for each of its members, assist a school ministry team to improve and grow professionally, and train the whole child. Kurk Kramer is our school counselor. The counselor reports to CPS under a number of categories. I have copied the page and posted it in the workroom.

As I shared in faculty meeting on Wednesday, I plan on ordering Terra Nova again for next year. Rationale is that the principals’ conference would like to see the direction CPS is going to take now that Terra Nova contract is up for renewal, PLS and SPL will not be sharing resources (physical and financial) to accomplish the MAPS testing goal, the number of students to test will not be a reasonable number for the school district to schedule given their tight testing timelines at this late date, and we do not wish to be found without a testing contract going into next year. We will continue to search for ways to make this work.

Grades 5-8 will meet in the lecture room. 5-8 please read through the article “Making sure that assessment improves performance”

The three key questions we will look to address in this segment of the assessment workshop package are:

1. What are the key practices of using assessment to improve student performance?
2. How does St. Paul’s implement these practices?
3. How are these practices reflected in constructed-response items and academic prompts?

The Minnesota District has not been real good about using the TEAM Ministry process in the last several years. The principals will attend a training session on March 30 in Belle Plaine. Dan Whitney is our district coordinator. I will be out of the building for the afternoon.

Mrs. Brandel will take the kids to Jefferson for testing this spring to help us prep for next fall. The children currently with her are all in the system. If there are other students that we would like to add to the list, we need to inform her. Student can be in grades K-4. The reading testing date is scheduled for Monday, April 23 from 1-2:30 p.m. The math testing date is Wednesday, April 18 from 1-2:30 p.m.
Please reply to Mrs. Brandel to add the child to the list. She will prepare a note to go home.

On the BOCD meeting agenda is the first draft of budget requests. I have posted it in the workroom for your reading enjoyment. The board will read through, revise if they want to and recommend to council for first reading at the end of the month.

Also on the agenda is replacement for Bob Hulke.

We will report on Curriculum mapping goals, Recruitment and retention committee, PTO (social committee).

Let your students know that MLC sent a thank you on Friday, March 16. It is a poster down across the hall from the lecture room. Encourage the kids to stop by and read it.

David Stoltz contacted me about his school staying overnight. They will be in our gym/lecture room the night of April 19 into the morning of April 20.

They are here on MLC recruitment.

Pastor Paul Schar from Fort Atkinson will be staying overnight at school with a group of students visiting MLC. They will be here on Thursday, March 22.