Whether you're a die-hard sports fanatic, a fair-weather fan, or you don't care to watch or follow any sports team, it's hard not to have pride right now. With both a major league and a college national championship for our state this year, it sure feels good to be a Georgian!

As parents, we remain die-hard fanatics of our children every single day. It doesn't matter if our children have a rough day, week, month, or year, we don't let that discourage us from continuing to support our children through all their mountains and valleys.

As a #TR1BE, we are most successful when we remain #FocusedForward as a whole and focus our efforts on a common goal. Although there are smaller goals along the way, with different obstacles and hardships to overcome, the ultimate goal of a every LC student's #TR1BE is to educate, empower, and prepare them for a successful and productive future.

One student's future and definition of success can be very different from another student's. By embracing those differences and working to individualize a plan for every student, each of us contributes to achieving that ultimate goal and celebrating another champion in the state of Georgia!

At the beginning of the school year, we asked parents to take a quick survey for each school for which they have children attending. The survey was to measure parent engagement perceptions from you the parents! To continue improving in this area, we are asking for you to take the same 10 question survey again at the mid-year (and one more time in May). It'll take you no more than 3 minutes, and we value your feedback!

January 10: Report Cards Sent Home

January 17: Teacher/Student Holiday for MLK, Jr. Day

February 7: 3rd Nine Weeks Midterm & Parent Notification for Grades

February 18-February 22: Student Holidays

One of the parent engagement tools we started using two years ago is SchoolStatus. As a parent, you might not know it by this name as you just receive text messages or phone calls from your child's teacher like you receive a text or call from your friend or family. Rather than asking parents to download Remind or ClassDojo and join all of their child's classes, SchoolStatus cuts out all that extra work on parents and opens up the lines of communication!

As one of the early adopters of this platform, our school system is featured in a recent case study. Check it out by clicking on the link below!

We have quite a line-up of projects to roll out this spring here in Lumpkin County!

Our teachers are working hard every single day as a contributing member of your student's #TR1BE helping him/her make the needed progress to achieve that ultimate goal of creating another champion!

As parents, we are also contributing members of our child(ren)'s #TR1BE, and our role is critical in our child(ren)'s success. LCSS is excited to provide additional opportunities to parents in the coming months to partner with your child(ren)'s teachers, schools, and the entire district. Stay tuned :-)