Our staff showing off their new 2024-2025 school shirts! Thank you to our LCE families for the support in getting this school year off to an excellent start! | |
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Lawton Chiles Elementary School 2024-2025 Theme:
Level Up 2.0 - It Only Gets Better!
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I am Glenda L. Martinez, your Parent Engagement Liaison for Lawton Chiles Elementary. My role is to bridge the gap between school and families. I support families, school staff and build community partnerships. I am passionate about life, family and helping others. My goal this year is to promote literacy and assist our LCE families by creating a cohesive, collaborative and coordinated system of support while building capacity in families so that all students can experience success.
Contact
Tel: (407) 737-1470 x. 3572311
Email: glenda.martinez@ocps.net
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THANK YOU!
Thank you to all the parents that joined us during Tears and Cheers breakfast on the 1st day of school. Looking forward to a fun and exciting year with our new students!
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We were so excited to have a wonderful turn out for our Tears and Cheers Breakfast on day #1 of school. Our families were learning what to expect the first year in school. | |
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SAVE THE DATE!!!!
Tuesday, Sept. 10th - OPEN HOUSE!
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TalkingPoints school-to-home communications: | |
Positive Parent Phone Calls | |
The chart is titled "Refreshing Relationships" and is sponsored by Jeremiah's Italian Ice at Waterford Lakes. Each time a teacher makes a positive phone call, they put the student's initials and their name in a square. When the chart is full ... Jeremiah's Italian Ice for everyone! | |
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2024-2025 Family Guide
* Please click images below:
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The OCPS Parent Academy is committed to making a sustainable impact on student success, parenting and advocacy and personal growth/wellness. Our goal is to empower, engage and educate families and caregivers by providing high-quality training sessions, resources and access to skills and services.
The OCPS Parent Academy offers district-wide, face-to-face Parent Academies, Learn Where You Live events which take place in each learning community, and virtual Lunch & Learn events on Facebook Live.
In addition to the OCPS Parent Academy events, there are monthly trainings held by the Curriculum and Digital Learning, Discipline, Exceptional Student Education, Multilingual Services, Professional Learning and Student Services departments for families.
Parent and families can register for all Parent Academy events at: Parent Academy Registration
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TWO SHORT, BUT IMPORTANT VIDEOS FOR PARENTS.
In the past two weeks, OCPS Superintendent of Schools Dr. Maria Vazquez has released a pair of short videos to help our Lawton Chiles Elementary parents.
Please, if you have questions regarding either the parent consent forms which are required, or getting your child properly set up with their bus route, take just a few minutes to watch these videos. They are not long at all. Thank you.
PARENT CONSENT FORMS
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Monday, Aug. 19, 2024
On this week's episode of Mondays with Maria presented by Addition Financial, Dr. Vazquez and Jamie Holmes are breaking down what you need to know about our back to school forms and what they mean.
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Monday, Aug. 26, 2024
On this week's Mondays with Maria presented by Addition Financial, Superintendent Maria Vazquez is addressing concerns that some families might have about transportation this year and what the district is doing about it. You can see a list of frequently asked questions on the front page of our website.
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Accessing "FAST" and statewide test scores: | |
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MTSS for our Students
MTSS is a Multi-tiered system of support for our students at Lawton Chiles Elementary School. We work alongside families to assist the development of the whole child as we look at specific interventions that may be needed for students to continue to be successful at school. When a student is struggling, we look at what the possible reasons could be and as a team develop possible responses. As family members, you are encouraged to participate in MTSS conversations where you will receive updates on how students are progressing with their interventions. For any questions regarding the MTSS process at Lawton Chiles Elementary, please reach out to Mr. Astone at Matthew.Astone@ocps.net.
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Parent Volunteers Needed!! | |
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We would love to have nothing but 100% Parent Involvement with LCE. If you have not done so, please go to OCPS site and sign-up to become an ADDitions School Volunteer. Once you do that, you will need to watch a short safety video on your dashboard before we can place you to our school. This does not take much time, but please understand we ask this as part of our ongoing safe school security efforts. Please sign-up today!
Below is the link to volunteer at Lawton Chiles Elementary:
https://ocps.samaritan.com/custom/503/opp_details/103490
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FortifyFL is a free mobile app that allows anyone to anonymously report suspicious activity to school officials and law enforcement agencies. The app was developed after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act was passed in 2018, with input from students at the school. Thank you for installing this app today. Please remind your child that if they should ever see or hear of something suspicious or unusual this school year, please say something to any teacher, counselor, administration member or our SRO right away.
Thank you for your cooperation and support.
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Illegal passing of stopped school buses:
This is a quick reminder to all Orange County drivers about running through buses' stop arms during these early weeks of back-to-school. In 2021, the penalties for failing to stop for a school bus and passing a stopped school bus on the side where children enter and exit doubled. It is imperative that all motorists properly stop for school buses so all of our students can arrive at school or home safely.
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Source: Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
This is a troubling state-wide issue at the start of the new school year, so we ask our local community to be careful when approaching a stopped school bus. In a popular story which ran this past week from nearby Hillsborough County (Tampa), over just four days, from August 12 to August 15, deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office issued 2,391 warnings for stop-arm violations. (For now, drivers who violate the stop-arm warning and flashing red lights urging them to stop will receive just a warning, but starting Sept. 12, violators will be slapped with a $225 ticket - more than red light violation fines.)
* Please also remember that using a wireless communications device in a handheld manner while driving in a designated school crossing, school zone, or active work zone area is against the law and extremely dangerous.
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The new policy allows for parents to get a call notifying them of their child’s absence in the beginning of the day as well as the end of the day.
OCPS said each parent will know whether or not their child was in school at the beginning of the day.
High school calls will begin at 8:55 a.m., elementary school calls will begin at 10:05 a.m. and middle school calls will begin at 11:05 a.m.
The district said if your child is absent for more than half of the day, you will also receive a call in the afternoon.
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Our VPK students are exploring the learning resources within their classroom. | |
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Just above and below:
Many students on campus are working to set their LEVEL UP goals for learning for the year. Ask your child what their learning goals are for the year.
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Level Up 2.0 - It Only Gets Better!
Ms. Willis, Principal
Lawton Chiles Elementary School
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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11001 Bloomfield Drive
Orlando, FL 32825
Phone 407-737-1470
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This communication may contain information that is legally privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure, and intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Anyone who receives this message in error should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail, and delete the message from their computer and any printout thereof. Please note that OCPS utilizes spam and junk e-mail filtration applications in its e-mail systems. That filtering process may prevent or delay delivery of certain e-mail communications. If you do not receive a timely response to an e-mail communication, please contact the intended recipient by phone. | |
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