Saturday, March 16, 2013

The Time is Now
 
It's hard to believe that my family and I have been in the Lomira Community for 3 school years already.  From the day that we began to expore the option of moving to Lomira, we heard from so many people that this was the ideal, welcoming, caring place to live.  And every day that we have been here since has been a blessing. The people that we have met, become friends with and worked with have all been amazing, caring folks. This is exaclty the type of environment that I want to be sure to maintain for your students everyday as they enter the Lomira High School doors.
 
Education is a tumultuous world right now.  There are new initiatives, new standards and new legislation coming at us virtually everyday. These changes are important & necessary for schools to continue to grow and evolve as quickly as our world is.  Yet with all of this overwhelming change and excitment, our main focus is, and will always be your child.
 
You'll hear things like, "Common Core State Standards", "Assessments", "Teacher Effectiveness", "Interventions",  "Response to Intervention", "PBIS", "21st Century Learning", "One-to-One initiatives", "College & Career Readiness" and so many other phrases that it will overwhelm you.  But the important part to realize as we all grow in this evolutionary educational process is that as educators we will do everything that we can to ensure that your Lomira Lion graduates from high school as a young adult who is able to not only function in the "adult" world, but thrive and excel. It will take all of us in partnership to make generation after generation of successful, focused, and driven young adults.  And we can.
 
As parents keep these three "R's" at the fore-front of your parenting philosophy:
Respect, Responsibility & Resourcefulness
If your child truly grows up to embrace and live by these values, everything else will fall into place.
 
Together we can take the entire Lomira community into a bright and competitive future - and the time is now!
Thank you for your continued support of education, the teachers who inspire learning and children. 
We WILL need them - let's make them good!

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