PTA Corner
In case you missed it previously. Please click HERE to view the Lutz Prep PTA Welcome Back to School video.
General Assembly Meeting
Please join your Lutz Preparatory PTA Executive Board for the first general assembly meeting of the 2020-21 school year. The agenda for the meeting is to approve the 2020-21 budget and discuss committees.
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Three Wellness Questions to Discuss as a Family Daily BEFORE Leaving for School
We are relying on our families to be good citizens in our community in our efforts to keep everyone healthy and safe. Click HERE to view our COVID-19 Protocol
Attendance & Being On Time Matters! Lutz Preparatory School K-8 school hours are 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM on early release days)
On campus students must be in their seat and eLearners must be logged into Canvas and ready to start the day at 8:00 AM when the bell rings and morning announcements begin.
Entry locations for all buildings will open promptly at 7:30 AM for on campus student arrival.
Please review the academic calendar on our school website and make every effort to schedule appointments and vacations outside of these dates. Good attendance leads to academic success!
New Procedure to Report Student Absence
Due to new health protocols that we have in place for the 20-21 school year we have created a new method for notifying the office if your student will be absent. We kindly request that you fill out the linked form instead of calling or emailing the school.
Please click HERE and complete the online form to report your child's absence.
iReady Fall Diagnostics Begin
Our school is implementing a Mathematics and Readingprogram called i-Ready. Below, you will find information about the program and how we will be using it in the classroom. We will begin our FALL Diagnostic assessment window beginning on Monday, August 31, 2020. This does not mean that all students will begin on Monday, however in the next couple of weeks, ALL LP students will take the assessment. Please wait for further information from your child’s classroom teacher regarding this.
What is i-Ready? i-Ready is an online program that will help us determine your child’s strengths and areas for growth, personalize their learning, and monitor their progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows us to meet your child where they are and provides us with data to inform instruction.
Thei-Ready Diagnosticis an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions to suit your child’s needs. Each item a student receives is based on their answer to the previous question. For example, a series of correct answers will result in slightly harder questions, while a series of incorrect answers will yield slightly easier ones. The purpose of this is not to give your child a score or grade but to determine how to best support their learning.
What can I do to help?
To help prepare your child for the i-Ready Diagnostic, encourage them to:
Get a good night’s sleep and eat a full breakfast the day of the assessment.
Try their best on each question and try not to rush.
Try not to worry about questions they do not know—remind them that it is expected that they will only get about half of the questions correct.
Be respectful of other students who take longer to finish.
"Use paper and pencil to show work for math questions”
How will eLearners be assessed?
All eLearners will be proctored taking their iReady assessments via zoom by their classroom teacher. Students will login to zoom with their teacher and when instructed will login to their iReady account to begin the assessment.
Important Details for eLearners:
Zoom camera must be on
Student must be in a silent work space
Student must wear headset/headphones for the entire assessment
Student must submit a copy of his/her scratch paper for math assessment to teacher
Learning Coach/Parent is not allowed to assist in ANYWAY
Learning Coach/Parent is not allowed to read ANY items on the assessment to the student
If student has a testing accommodation, those will be permitted to be provided by the Learning Coach/Parent per the 504 or IEP document (our ESE/504 staff member may consult with you as needed)
What happens next?
The i-Ready Diagnostic will provide results that help us identify your child’s strengths and determine next steps for instruction. Our teachers will share these results with you throughout the year and assist your child in setting goals that are led by this data.
If you have any questions about i-Ready, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher. You can also learn more about i-Ready by visiting i-ReadyCentral.com/FamilyCenter.
Before and After-School Care Registration
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Aftercare is currently at capacity and not accepting additional enrollment, if you would like to add your student to the wait list please complete the updated form on our website and you will be contact if an opening comes up.
Half day only aftercare is still available and morning care is still available.
Please click HERE to visit our website for full details and the updated registration form that includes a wait list option.
There is limited space available in these programs, sign up now to secure your spot.
Password is: Studentid! (HCPC Student ID with exclamation mark on the end - example: 1234567!)
If you do not know your student ID or need help resetting your password please email administration@lutzprep.org
Please note, the Lutz Prep link to log into Canvas is different that that of the HCPS District so some of links in the district tutorials below will not work for LP. Our Lutz Preparatory parent accounts will be rolling into place over the next few weeks and we will send out detailed instructions with log in information soon.
The tutorials are good overviews for learning about Canvas. But, students should always use the link above to log into our Lutz Prep Canvas server.
On campus students are required to wear the LP Uniform as outlined in charts/visual guides in our Handbook.
eLearning students will be required to wear a collared shirt with no logos or writing on it. Students may also wear LP uniform shirts. IMPORTANT: Persons that could also be viewed in the background of the student should also be appropriately dressed.
Red's Team Sports has let us know they have shipped out all orders placed by 8/12/2020 as they committed. Many orders should have arrived over the last few days.
Please see the following list that can be worn in place of the LP logoed polo shirt if parents DO NOT have their uniforms in place by the first day of school.
Standard uniform bottoms
In place of the required LP polo that has not been received, students may wear the following:
ANY solid colored shirt with sleeves (short or long; no tank tops) to include:
t-shirt
polo shirt
regular shirt
LP spirit shirt (to include LP clubs, LP athletic teams, LP academic teams, Leader in Me, Pay It Forward, etc.).
You may want to check out the parent created LP Swapshop Facebook page for uniform swapping.
Board of Directors
Lutz Preparatory School, Inc. is operated by a board of directors made up of community members with diverse and strategic expertise. Please click HERE for a full listing of our current board members and the assigned representative to facilitate parental involvement.
The meeting schedule and past meeting minutes of the board or directors are posted on the Governance tab of our school website. Meetings are open to the public and are published in our NEWSFLASH and on the Governance section of our website. Next Meeting: Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 6:00 PM via zoom.
New Director: Please welcome our new member, Dominic Kouffman who began his term on our board at the August 27, 2020 meeting.
Announcement from the Board Regarding Additional Building Construction
As Lutz Prep was managing the extraordinary events of the last several months arising from COVID-19, the Board has also continued to focus on advancing the project to build an additional building which would expand the overall Lutz Prep enrollment by 200 students.
The final building design and construction planning phase of the project is complete. However, it is also clear, as a school, we were facing a range of uncertainties regarding the future. These included matters such as:
the amount of per student funding we would receive in coming years
whether or not the school can continue to operate as it has historically done
fluctuating interest rates for the bond to finance the project
the timing on resolving some project related issues.
These issues all contribute to increasing the overall risk the school faced in moving the project forward. As a result, the Board has decided that it would be prudent to ‘pause’ moving forward with the project until there was some clarity around these issues. The Board will continue to closely monitor developments over the coming months, and fully expects once there is more clarity on the path forward and they have confidence that the school can proceed with the new school building without undue risk, the project will be re-initiated.
This means the completion of the new school building is delayed at least one year, with the target to have the new building ready for the 2023-2024 school year. The Board will provide updates as further decisions are made.
