#LEO

Last weekend, the Perry Central Band played at half time during the IU Football game.  (The poor kids had to learn the IU fight song!)  Regardless, it was a perfect evening, a lot of scoring by the Hoosiers and an enjoyable time.  At the game, someone had a shirt on sitting next to us that said, "LEO".   You could see those three letters everywhere.  After doing some research on twitter, I learned that LEO stands for "Love Each Other" and the IU Head Football Coach, Tom Allan, started the year with this one word in hopes to help his players fight through the pandemic and other losses that had occurred to their football family.  Coach Allen knew that he needed to get his team to lean on other and their own faith (something bigger than us) or the weight of the world can become to heavy.  

Like the Hoosiers, we too have been dealing with our own heaviness with the stresses of the pandemic in our own community.  Also, last week was an even tougher week for our own Commodore Nation.  The loss of Carson Lasher was a blow to our entire community. Luckily, our community embraces the word LEO as well. Like always, our community continues to come together and support each other;  students were leading prayer at our athletic events, our entire gym was painted in yellow for the volleyball game on Thursday night and we continue to hold each other up by checking in with each other and through good deeds.  

I feel so fortunate to live in a community that not only believes in caring for each other but continually
shows their love in many, many ways.  LEO not only goes for the IU Hoosiers, but also for our Commodore Family.   

 **  Tuesday, September 28th is our Coaches vs. Cancer Volleyball game.  On Tuesday, we will encourage everyone to wear pink or their Coaches vs. Cancer shirts - and of course, jeans for a donation to the Lasher and Hinton families.  If you would like to make a donation, you can do so in the high school office next Tuesday. 

Important Information: 

Grade Level Meetings (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGES BELOW) - This week (week of September 20th), we would like to shake our PLC time up a bit.  We are going to meet by grade level - this way our special education teachers can stop in and you can talk with your peers about students you have in your classes and brainstorm solutions.  Below is a schedule.  If you teach students in the grade level listed for the day, you are welcome to attend.  If you have special education students in the grade level, please attend so you can keep up-to-date on these students. We will meet 11:45 - 12:24 or as long as you can make it work in your schedule.  

PLC Grade Level AGENDA

       7th Grade - Monday, September 20th  Health Lab   (MOVED) to Friday, September 24th

       9th & 10th Grade - Wednesday, September 22nd   Health Lab

       8th Grade - Thursday, September 23rd   Health Lab

**  Due to the funeral on Monday, we are canceling all PLC meetings Monday.  We will start grade level meetings on Wednesday.  Please talk to your lunch partner for WIN coverages.  If you both need to attend, please let Jody know and she will find coverage for you!

Faculty Meeting Change:  Due to a training on the 21st, we would like to move the faculty meeting to Wednesday, September 22nd.  We will meet at 7:25 a.m.  Mark your calendars!  Breakfast will be served!

College Go! Week:  This week is College Go! Week and teachers are invited to wear jeans and their favorite college gear.  It is a great week to share your college experiences with your students and talk to them about opportunities they have beyond high school.  Thanks to Dana for putting together a fun week.  Students will also have an opportunity to get help filling out their college applications this week.  

     College Fair - Tuesday, September 21st (8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.) at Ivy Tech, Tell City -   We are very lucky to have a college fair, right here in Perry County!  Each year we try to send students so they can talk to college representatives and be thinking about their future.  This year we are focusing on 11th grade students and a few seniors.  Here is the list of students so far (more 11th graders will be joining pending the submission of permission slips).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LCt5Tfg8G2BGDL6s5a23RuBV1r6Atw0b/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102292190392160915858&rtpof=true&sd=true

After School Tutoring:  We are trying to increase the number of students who get tutoring after school.  Tutoring is a great idea, but takes a lot of coordination.  Typically a struggling student shows up to tutoring begrudgingly - and has no idea what they need to work on!  :-)  Michelle Duncan has offered to help us try to fill that gap by increasing communication between the student, the tutor and the teacher.  

      If you recommend a student for tutoring after school, please let families know that the student needs to check into CIA (sign-in) in the high school commons area and they will help them find the tutor.  Below is our tutoring schedule: 

           3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

       Monday - Abbie Brockman

       Tuesday - David Walters

       Wednesday - Emma Hanebutt

        Thursday - Grant Doyle

      

Perry Central Jr./Sr. High School Vision Statement

2021-2022 Vision:  Connect with others, Collaborate with Teams, Continuous Improvement, Create Authentic Learning Opportunities, Celebrate!    

Purpose:  Each student to show one year of growth. 

Goals:  

• Increase ILEARN Pass Rate by 10% Math/ELA  (10 more students)

• 20% of our students will earn an Industry Credential by the time they graduate (17 students) 

• Increase number of students performing at grade level on power standards by 10%  (10-12 students per grade level)

• 100% of our time will be spent loving these students until they learn.  

(You can find the Link to our Vision Story HERE.)