Welcome to my website! I hope you'll find information here that is valuable to you. Please feel free to call or email me when you have questions or just want to chat about your child's progress. You are surely your child's first and most influential teacher, and your child's ideas about education and its significance begin with you. Whether your child is a Freshman beginning high school or a Senior thinking about applying to college, he or she deserves your attention. Encourage good study habits and discourage satisfaction with mediocrity. Further, discourage your child from dropping rigorous classes to take easier classes where he or she might earn an "easy" grade. Ultimately, the "easier" class is counterproductive in the overall scheme of your child's education. Above all, exhibit a commitment to continued learning in your own life. Help your children understand that excellence in education cannot be achieved without intellectual and moral integrity coupled with hard work and commitment. Young people look to their parents and teachers as models for such virtues. LINCOLN-WAY'S ONLINE GRADE REPORTING SYSTEM: As you know, Lincoln-Way has an online grade reporting system. You should have a password to access your student's grades, and your student should have his or her own password to see grades. I will make every effort to keep my students' grades as current as possible so they are meaningful. Often, though, a writing assignment or an essay type test will take a bit longer to grade. In this case, I will wait until I have all sections of the class graded before I post. Sometimes, too, during the quarter your student's grades may not be a fair indicator of how he or she is doing in the class. Some students do well on some assignments and not as well on others. Talk to your student about progress in the class to see if this is the case. Continue to watch his or her grades to see if there is a pattern of improvement as the quarter continues (often there is). Always feel free to email me about your child's progress, but honest conversation with your child is the best indicator of how things are going. This year I will not be sending out progress notices for your students. I will keep my grades as up to date as I possibly can. This seems a better way of conveying your child's progress than a report sent in the mail which may be out of date before it reaches you.