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True Colors: Blue Week!

A few months ago our 8th grade students participated in a classroom lesson called True Colors. Each student learned about personality types and completed various activities to show them what "color" their personality is. This week we are featuring our "blue" students. We are bringing in two "blue" professionals who have a career in a blue-related field. They will be speaking with our students about their careers during lunch. Tuesday we will be featuring a local author and Wednesday we will be featuring a photographer. Please remind your students to sign up if they are interested in attending these sessions during their lunch period. Stay tuned for more guest speakers throughout the rest of the year!

Spring Break Conversation Starters

These questions are based off of classroom lessons we have done. True Colors lesson (8th grade): - What "color" are you? What does that mean about you? - What are the other colors? What do those colors represent? - What color are your friends? What color do you think I am? - What jobs would be a good fit for your color? Do any of those interest you? Career Cruising/EDP lesson (7th and 8th grade): - What types of things did you do on the Career Cruising website? - What were the results from the matchmaker assessment? Did any of those career options interest you? - Did you learn about any careers that you hadn't heard of before? Did any of those jobs seem interesting? - What are you post-graduation plans (military, tech school, college/university, etc.)? - What did you learn about those options? - What else did you learn from the Career Cruising website? We hope this helps spark some conversations over Spring Break! Especially those of you who have lengthy road trips planned.

M-STEP

M-Step testing starts on April 13 and runs until May 26. You can find schedule and testing information on this page http://lastesting.weebly.com/. Starting on April 13, we will run No AF Schedule everyday, except Fridays.Good luck to all of our students who will be testing!

Career Cruising/ Educational Development Plans

Yesterday we started the Career Cruising/Educational Development Plan classroom lesson with our 7th grade students. The students take a Matchmaker assessment that matches their interests with a list of potential careers that could be a good fit for them. The students can click on various careers and learn more about them including job descriptions, a "day in the life" schedule, earnings, etc. It was fun to see the kids get excited and talk with their peers about various careers that they might enjoy and excel in. We also have our students create long term and short term goals and fill out a pick sheet to help with scheduling next year. Both 7th and 8th grade students will be participating in this lesson and filling out part of their EDP. Educational Developments Plans are educational plans that students create with their counselors. These plans follow students up to the high school so that their high school program and career pathway goals can be correlated. Students can access their EDP at any point in time online at www.careercruising.com. Students have been assigned a username and password.

PSAT Follow-Up

After all of the snow we got, we were finally able to administer the PSAT to our 8th grade students. And let me just tell you, they blew the staff away! Our 8th grade students did an incredible job taking the test. They handled themselves very maturely despite the long testing hours and everything went smoothly.

End of 2nd Trimester is Here!

It has been a very eventful trimester for our LMS students and staff. Many of our students have participated in numerous activities this trimester including Festival, drama performances, sports, PSATs, True Colors - just to name a few. With everyone moving at full speed, the end of the trimester snuck up on us. Tomorrow is the last day of trimester 2 and it is a half day for our students. We are hoping this bit of extra time off will get them refreshed and ready to dive in to trimester 3 starting on Monday.