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March 3, 1845
(Statehood)
Pictured very top:
National Junior French Honor Society induction ceremony including Principal Jackson, Asst. Principal Wood, and Dr. Williams (OCPS Chief of Staff). Please see story below.
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Box Tops Reminder
Please remember to save your Box Tops For Education coupons for LNMS. We use these to support our PTSA.
Thank you!
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13700 Narcoossee Road
Orlando, FL 32832
(407) 858-5522
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This week is the last five-day week of the third marking period (no school on Friday, March 15th). Please remember that this coming Wednesday, March 6th is a regular school day with no early dismissal to accommodate SAT/FSA testing across all of OCPS.
Congratulations to our boys and girls basketball teams as they won their games in last week's playoff round. They now advance to the next round on Monday, March 4th on our home court -
playoff schedule. Please come on out and cheer on our Knights. Both teams have yet to lose a game!
Finally, we will have our March School Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting on Tuesday, March 5th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. As always, all members of our school community are invited and encouraged to attend.
Have a nice week.
With Knight Pride,
Stephanie R. Jackson, M. Ed.
Principal, Lake Nona Middle School
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This year's Parent Survey is still open. If this applies to your household and you have completed the survey, thank you very much. If not, kindly do so in the next few days. The combined results are of big help in improving our school practices.
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Students created their own "Panel 61" after studying the work of a famous African American artist.
During Black History Month, after studying
artist Jacob Lawrence's 60 panel series, students participated in an art contest to create a work depicting their "Panel #61."
In the final, 60th panel of "The Migration Series," Jacob Lawrence leaves us with the words "And the migrants kept coming." Today, more than 70 years later, Lawrence's epic narrative continues to have powerful reverberations. The contest winners are:
- 1st Place: Anisa Palma
- 2nd Place: Elizabet Davarachvili
- 3rd Place: Madison Mills
From left with their art: Madison Mills, Anisa Palma, and Elizabet Davarachvili
Honorable Mention: Charlotte Banks (Left) and Iliana Rodriguez
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March 3 - Happy 174th Birthday Florida! (Statehood 1845)
March 4 - LNMS Kiwanis Builders Club Diaper Drive all week (please see below)
March 5 - SUPER TUESDAY SPIRIT NIGHT at GNC
March 5 - SAC - Media Center - 5:30 - 7:00 PM
March 6 - FULL SCHOOL DAY - NO EARLY RELEASE
March 6 - SPIRIT NIGHT at CHILI'S
March 7 - Washington DC Parent Meeting - Cafeteria - 6:00-7:00 PM
March 8 - Gradventure permission slips and money due (please see below)
March 9 - Saturday Tutoring - 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
March 10 - Daylight Savings Time (set clocks ahead 1 hour)
March 12 - BIG BLAST- PTSA fundraiser through PE - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THIS PTSA EVENT
March 13 - PTSA - Media Center - 5:00-6:00 PM
March 14 - End of Marking Period
March 14 - SUN GAMES - Track and field - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THIS PTSA EVENT
March 15 - Student Holiday/Teacher Workday
March 18-22 - Spring Break
March 28 - Box Tops For Education drawing. The top student in EACH grade will receive a $10 Rise Pies Pizza gift card.
HIGHLIGHT: BLACK HISTORY MONTH POETRY SLAM
(Please see story below)
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Ying Expo Winners and Awards
Special Awards
ASM Materials Education Foundation - Award to
Eliot Tongue for his project investigating the tensile
strength of fishing lines (Eliot pictured below)
U.S. Air Force - Award to the team of
Dhillan Sahl, Srokam Ganta and
Lorenzo DeFalco for their project investigating how to make aircraft invisible to RADAR (team pictured below)
Category Awards
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Intelligent Machines, Robotics and Systems Software
Ivan Goponenko (7th grade) - 1st Place
What Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Best at Chess?
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Adres Arevelo (6th grade) - 3rd Place
Solar Powered Water Desalination
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Engineering and Material Sciences
Eliot Tongue (6th grade) - 3rd Place
Testing the Tensile Strength of Three Common Fishing Lines
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Plant Sciences
Casey Jewett (7th Grade) - 3rd Place
Green Thumb on the Red Planet
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Arman Kakavand (8th grade) - 4th Place Honorable Mention
Do females pay more attention to traffic rules than men?
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Biomedical and Health Sciences
Team of Kaley Cooper, Javier Omana, and Gabriel Omana (6th grade) - 4th Honorable Mention
How Heat Affects Protein
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Environmental Engineering
Oskar Armstrong (7th Grade) - 4th Place Honorable Mention
How Does Temperature Affect the Output of a Solar Panel
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Physics and Astronomy
Team of Dhillan Sahl, Srijan Ganta and Lorenzo DeFalco (6th Grade) - 4th Place Honorable Mention
How do you make an aircraft invisible to RADAR?
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2nd Annual Poetry Slam
Our Knights proudly showing their recognition certificates.Thank you to all the students that participated and for doing such a fine job this year.
Our 2nd Annual Black History Poetry Slam was this past week with 3 place winners and 1 honorable mention. All of the participants did a phenomenal job in presenting their original piece of poetry.
We also had a very special guest,
Mr. Timothy Babatunde-Tokundo Adebule, owner of
Three Masks, Inc. art gallery. He donated t-shirts to all the students who participated in this year's Poetry Slam.
- 1st Place: Anisa Palma $100
- 2nd Place: O'Maj Reeves and Aliyah Lee $50
- 3rd Place: Kai Wakefield $25
- Honorable Mention: Anabel Kirkland and Matthew Marino Movie Tickets
- Other students who participated were: Michael Palma, Carlos Hernandez, and Juan Castellanos
Black History Month 7th grade trivia contest winners
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Mr. Timothy Babatunde-Tokundo Adebule on stage last week. His company donated the t-shirts.
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Snapshot of this year's Poetry Slam underway
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One of the artwork pieces on display pertaining to Black History Month
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Anisa Palma (1st Place)
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Aliyah Lee and O'Maj Reeves (2nd Place)
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Kai Wakefield (3rd Place)
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Matthew Marino (Honorable Mention)
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Anabel Kirkland (Honorable Mention)
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Joyelle Mandy (MC) and Wanda Perkins (Dean)
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Both the boys and girls basketball teams will be hosting the next round of the playoffs on Monday, March 4th.
Lake Nona Middle School 2018-19 Girls Basketball Team
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Lake Nona Middle School 2018-19 Boys Basketball Team
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"Writes of Spring" - What does it mean to be a good neighbor?
Orlando Repertory Theatre and the graduate students of the University of Central Florida's Theatre for Young Audiences MFA program work in partnership to present
Writes of Spring, an annual writing and creativity contest dedicated to celebrating the works of youth in Central Florida. The project strives to support literacy, critical thinking, and creative expression by transforming the words of young people into a fully produced show.
This year's prompt invited students to ask the question, "What does it mean to be a good neighbor?" With entries from 884 students across Central Florida the selection process was vigorous. Seventy of the students' writings were chosen for the final production.
Out of those 70, 11 students were from Lake Nona Middle School!
Student winners:
- Alexandra Drauer- 6th grade
- Rosemarie Menard - 6th grade
- Angelica Rivera - 7th grade
- Cassidy Chafin - 7th grade
- Grace Marshall - 7th grade
- Thomas Sanchez Jurado - 7th grade (withdrawn)
- Valeria Martinez - 7th grade
- Gianna Santiago - 8th grade
- Isabella Boilini - 8th grade
- Kylanis Colon - 8th grade
- Rhea Jacob - 8th grade
The play was called
Neighborhood Watch. The story line was about how all of the animals in the neighborhood went missing and a group of kids in the neighborhood set out to solve the mystery. The Orlando Rep had therapy dogs in the lobby for everyone to pet before and after the show!
Angelica Rivera (7th)
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Kylanis Colon (8th)
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Rosemarie Menard (6th)
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Valeria Martinez, Cassidy Chafin, Thomas Sanchez Jurado (all 8th grade)
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National Junior French Honor Society Induction Ceremony
The National Junior French Honor Society - Voltaire Chapter had their 3rd induction ceremony for 26 new members.
Our NJFHS still holds the distinction of being the very first and only middle school French Honor Society in Orange County Public Schools.
OCPS Chief of Staff, Dr. Bridget Williams attended the ceremony and awarded the new inductees their official certificates of membership.
* Also pictured at the very top of this week's issue.
Vive La France!
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Kiwanis Builders Club
Regional Diaper Drive runs March 1 to March 12. Thank you for your support!
LNMS's Kiwanis Builders Club is participating in the Regional Diaper Drive run by the Kiwanis organization. They will be collecting infant diapers March 1-12, 2019. Diapers should be turned into a students' 1st period teachers or the front office.
FUN FACT: Did you know the average baby goes through close to 3,000 diapers in a year?
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Partner in Education Spotlight
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March is Women's History Month!
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The students in Mrs. Smith's theatre class were engaged in an introduction to dance technique last week. This is as it applies to musical theatre performance with a focus on proper body alignment, placement and conditioning, musical theatre dance vocabulary, and moving as part of an ensemble. Here you see her students learning the dance routines to "Hairspray."
Above and below: Mrs. Smith's theatre students learning the dance routines to "Hairspray"
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Advanced Orchestra Music Performance Assessment
The LNMS advanced orchestra performed at their Music Performance Assessment at Seminole State College (above). They performed on stage for 3 judges who wrote comments about their performance. Good luck with your final scores Knights!
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REMINDER: Gradventure - 8th Grade Students
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This year's Gradventure trip will take place on Friday, May 10th, 2019!!!!
Tickets will cost $110 this year. This price includes a ticket to both parks, t-shirt, meal vouchers and transportation to and from the event. All money and permission slips must be handed into
Mrs. Pragel no later than
Friday, March 8 at 4:00pm. For questions, please contact
Mrs. Pragel at
veronica.pragel@ocps.net
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REMINDER: Disney Dreamer and Doer
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Application due Monday, March 11, 2019
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Weekly Success Indicators
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Key indicators that directly or indirectly impact student achievement
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Success Indicator
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Feb. 8
(5 days)
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Feb. 15
(5 days)
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Feb. 22
(4 days)
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Mar. 1
(5 days)
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Classroom visits by members of the LNMS administrative team (both formal & informal visits)
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82
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79
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82
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98
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ProgressBook login-ins by LNMS families
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1,200
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1,220
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951
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1,185
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Teacher attendance rate
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96%
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97%
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97%
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96%
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Attendance rate - 6th
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95%
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92%
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93%
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94%
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Attendance rate - 7th
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95%
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94%
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95%
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96%
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Attendance rate - 8th
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95%
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95%
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96%
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94%
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Tardies to school - 6th
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36
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20
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NA
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37
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Tardies to school - 7th
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25
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20
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NA
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17
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Tardies to school - 8th
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36
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30
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NA
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41
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Tardies to class - 6th
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26
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10
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12
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15
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Tardies to class - 7th
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34
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8
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11
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23
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Tardies to class - 8th
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38
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80
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12
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15
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On-time bus arrivals - a.m.
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100%
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90%
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100%
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95%
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On-time bus arrivals - p.m.
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100%
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100%
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90%
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90%
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Library book circulation - 6th
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42
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NA
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NA
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NA
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Library book circulation - 7th
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66
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NA
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NA
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NA
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Library book circulation - 8th
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18
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NA
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NA
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NA
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Restorative Justice
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0
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3
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4
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2
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Tutoring - Tues.
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62
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29
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31
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35
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Tutoring - Wed.
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NA
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NA
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NA
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106
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Tutoring - Thurs.
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58
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36
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68
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77
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LAN School Tracking
(goal = 15)
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5
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12
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15
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18
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Credit: Mrs. Wood, Assistant Principal
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