I would like to encourage all of our Lakeview families and PTSA members to attend the upcoming general membership meeting of the Lakeview PTSA on Thursday, January 14th @ 7pm at Lakeview. One of the important items that will be shared will be how we are working to improve teaching and learning school-wide through collaborative best practices for grade level or subject area teacher teams. 

As they say, "None of us are as smart as all of us," and that is as true in education as business, medicine, or any other professional field. If we are to ensure that all students learn at high levels it takes a team of teachers using meaningful student data to plan and respond to unique student needs, a process we call PLCs, or Professional Learning Communities. Providing teachers training to enhance collaborative practices will help us reach our school vision of "Students empowered to achieve success" and the PTSA purpose of "promot[ing] the health, welfare, safety and education of children and youth in home, school and community." 

Ms. Westra began this work last year at Lakeview and we are continuing that journey with an increasing number of our Lakeview teachers receiving training in collaborative best practices. I encourage you to attend next Thursday's meeting @ 7pm to learn more about our next steps as a school in improving teacher collaboration, along with other important PTSA and school updates.

Thanks,

Steve

P.S. We are still in need of volunteers for our annual vision and hearing screening. Please consider volunteering some time next week to support this critical screening process:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c49a4a829a3fc1-lakeview