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Appreciation
ap·pre·ci·a·tion
/əˌprēSHēˈāSH(ə)n/
noun
recognition and enjoyment of the good qualities of someone or something.
Thank you, Mrs. Stephanie Thomson for being an all around champion in our school community and for students. Stephanie leads the Social Committee and sponsors after school Rocket Club for students. We appreciate your dedication to LES and our students. Thank you!
In the Know...
- LES Book Fair, March 4-8
- Big Idea Fair, March 7th: Evening will include viewing of STEAM Projects, The Science Guy visit, and MakerSpace
- Maryland Integrated Science Assessment (MISA), March 11-14th, 5th Grade only
- Staff Meeting Planning Session, March 13th, Media Center
- The Common Ground conference will be held this year on May 2-3 in Ocean City. Priority will be given to those that have been selected to present at the conference but any other staff members that wish to attend will be placed in a lottery and all additional conference attendees that we can send will be pulled from this lottery. It is an expectation that all that attend bring back and share the information they acquired at the county level (system PD days; A&S choice sessions; New Teacher Seminars; etc.) If interested, please submit your name by, March 1st to Administration. For more information about the conference please visit http://www.commongroundmd.org/
- Information Technology Services has moved to DSS and Moakley 2. The main number for the department is now 301-475-2138. The extension is the same at this time.
- Updates to Unify/Performance Matters coming March 3rd:
- Interim Progress Reports for MP3: The window to enter interim grades for MP3 will open on Fri. Mar 1st and close on Thurs Mar 7th at 5:00 pm.
-Performance Matters will update to include new PowerSchool branding and logo, including the Unify name reverting back to “Performance Matters”. video
-A new response option will be added in Online Scoring for “Did Not Answer”. If a student skips a question, selecting this response will score that question as incorrect. video
-A new test setting option will be added to allow for larger bubbles on scan sheets. video
-A few minor updates will enhance usability within the site.