Celebrate Mondays!
LSE school celebrated this Monday with the theme of Diving Into a Great Year!!
We like the Mindset of Win Monday Win the Week so we try to do something fun each Monday to set the tone of the week!
5th grade students getting trained this morning on how to raise and lower the flag. 5th grades students take on this responsibility each day. They impress every year with this task!
Mrs. Ball’s 1st Graders practiced their graduate profiles of collaboration and creative thinking while investigating their Math Workplaces today.
Kids working on independent learning activities in Mrs. Erdman's class
Third grade students worked together as a team to stack cups into a pyramid. All Graduate Profiles: responsible, confident, creative thinker, effective communicator, and being a collaborator were on display during this activity.
Today, third graders got their minds and bodies ready for music class with a Brain Break!
Mr. Johnson's class was excited to sign their bully free pledge. It's going to be a great year!
Students in Mrs. Landis’s class are showing off their wallets and ready to start earning Decision Dollars!
LSSC is in the need for Substitute Teachers in all grade levels. We recently increased the compensation as follows with the hope of increasing our candidate pool.
Indiana Substitute Teacher License $75 per Day
Indiana Teacher License $85 per Day
Retired Linton Teacher $100 per Day
If you are interested in becoming a substitute teacher, please apply online at www.lssc.k12.in.us or contact Lisa Andis at 812-847-6020.
LSSC is applying for a connectivity grant which, if awarded, will offset the cost of purchasing new Chromebooks for our students. A part of the grant application is a short parent survey. Please consider answering this two question survey to help us be successful in this grant progress. The grant can be found at this link. https://forms.gle/MrsokeFBUxtj1H3f7
The USDA has announced that as an outreach due to COVID, free school lunches will be available to all students through the 2021-2022 school year. We are pleased to be able to pass this along to our families. The free lunches will include a tray meal. Additional items will still be available for purchase.
Today is a very special day. Not only is the sun shining bright, also today is our annual Community Appreciation Day!
The purpose of this annual day, established by the Linton-Stockton School Board, is two-fold. First, we want to show our gratitude and appreciation to the entire Linton area community for the support shown to our schools, students, and staff throughout the 2020-2021 school year. You have supported us with you time, talents, prayers, presence, and donations. The community is always there when our many athletic teams, clubs and organizations ask for help. The community always answers the call when volunteers are needed. The community, in normal times, comes out to our over 340 events through a given year. The community supports fundraisers and gives generously. We appreciate you!
Our second purpose of the Community Appreciation Day provides an opportunity to share with our students the importance of giving back. All students, K-12 will be participating in some fashion today. While they will be out of the classroom for a portion of the day, the lessons they learn will be invaluable.
Our students will be making thank you cards, delivering baked goods, drawing inspirational messages for Glenburn residents to see, sprucing up the city park and planting flowers, hosting a car wash for city workers, washing police and fire trucks, preparing meals for community employees, volunteering at the clothing barn at LFCC, walking through the streets of Linton picking up litter, cleaning out the city flower beds, cleaning up the fairgrounds, helping out the humane shelter and Saran Church and participating in the spring clean up of Goosepond.
Follow the action on Facebook as we will be taking snapshots of our students in action and posting all day.
Linton-Stockton Schools loves the Linton area community!!!!
LSSC held an Open House and Ribbon Cutting for THE CONNECTION CENTER this morning. This is the first phase of the Ready Schools Grant with more more to come. Tune in to WTHI and WTWO this evening for more!
Pace Community Action Agency, Inc, is expanding our STEM Camp scholarship program to include girls and boys from Daviess, Greene, Knox and Sullivan Counties. In the past we hosted a boys’ program, Boys and Beyond, but due to COVID-19 we are postponing that with the option for boys to receive the STEM Camp scholarships.
There are a variety of camps in our area that provide hands-on technology activities for youth. Camp options vary from day to overnight, and the camps do not have to be located in our service delivery. Scholarships are Pace’s way of making sure that financial issues do not stop individuals from attending STEM camps.
Interested individuals should identify a camp of interest and complete the STEM Camp application on our website at https://www.pacecaa.org/stem-camps. Financial reimbursement may include the cost of the camp and mileage to and from the camp. Apply as soon as possible as there are a limited number of scholarship payments available. After applications are received, individuals will be notified if they are accepted as a scholarship recipient.
Consistent with our mission of improving the community and encouraging self-reliance, these scholarships help children and teens learn skills in STEM related fields. STEM related careers are one of the fastest-growing fields in the job industry with above average pay. According to STEM Occupations: Past, Present, and Future by the US Bureaus of Labor Statistics, the average wage for STEM occupations is $87,570, nearly double the national average wage for non-STEM occupations. Dr. Bertha Proctor, Pace CEO, comments on this program, “These scholarships are a valuable way we can help ensure that all kids have access to a variety of educational experiences. We are excited to be able to offer this program to the community.”
Linton-Stockton in in need of substitutes in the following areas:
Substitute Teachers
Substitute Custodians
Substitute Food Service
Call 812-847-6020 or apply online at www.lssc.k12.in.us
Linton-Stockton Schools is planning on offering an After School Program beginning in August. Our vision is a program open to students in grades K-12. Students would be separated into age appropriate locations. The program would be an extension of the day and be open until 6:00pm. The program would include snacks, home work assistance, an evening meal for those who request, field trips, fitness, arts, STEM and social activities.
This program will be funded through CARES Act dollars. In addition, we have the opportunity to enhance and sustain the program through the 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant. This competitive grant requires us to provide evidence for the needs for such a program.
We would appreciate parents completing the survey found at the link below so that we can gather your responses and provide the data in our application. Thank you for taking a few minutes to complete the short survey and help LSSC continue to improve and increase the services we offer to our families.
Survey Link: https://forms.gle/rrewHkKpfXuRCZ5H7
Over break LSSC changed the vendor of our call alert system. when you receive a call from the school it will originate in Arkansas. We are sharing this information with you so that you do not disregard our important calls as spam when you do not recognize the number.
You can expect the first call on our new system this evening when Dr. Goad confirms our return to school plans for second semester.
In September we announce that LSSC had been approved for the USDA Free & Reduced Meal Program waiver to offer all students free meals through December 31st.
We are now happy to announce that the waiver has been extended through June of 2021. This will allow all students at LSSC to eat both breakfast and lunch free for the remainder of the school year!
Download our new app to have everything you need to know about Linton Stockton Schools at your fingertips. Go to the App Store on your phone and search for Linton Stockton Schools for this free app. While it is still under construction, we are sure you will enjoy the convenience.
