LPA Community Listening Session-Virtual

Thursday, September 17, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm

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Lori Christensen (ICS) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

8-31-2020

Superintendent’s Message to the Community

Dr. Paula Henry

Lake Park Audubon School District

Celebrating Community Involvement in Planning for Growth

And Long Term Facilities

(This is the eighth article in a series)

I hope this update finds you well. It has been a crazy summer to say the least. I want to start by saying Thank You to all teachers, staff, students, parents, administration and our communities as a whole on their patience’s and support as we navigate the start to a new school year during these challenging times. We couldn’t do it without everyone’s support and hard work.

There are definitely a lot of unknowns as we move into a new school year. Yet we have found one thing to be certain, our schools continue to provide stability and structure for students to grow emotionally, mentally and physically. We have heard from students and parents that students want to be back in school sharing thoughts, experiences and learning with their teachers and peers. This is great news! Teachers and staff miss our students. Having a personal connection with each and every student is really what makes learning successful.

With that, we continue to plan for the future and part of our planning is providing the right learning environment for our students and staff. As I have mentioned in my previous articles, our elementary school is need of major repairs. These needs won’t go away, they will only get worse. We are also taking this time to reevaluate our programming needs, making sure future plans accommodate future growth for our students.

As we continue to look towards the future our vision to engage the community in our growth and long-term facilities planning, has not changed. Over the last several months, the planning committee has identified with the help of industry professionals, specific deferred maintenance needs at the Elementary School, district enrollment projections and educational adequacy needs for 21st Century learning environments. Highlights from these assessments can be found within the series of articles.

The next steps in the planning process is to conduct a series of Listening Sessions with various stakeholder groups to effectively gain input. The input from these listening sessions will help the planning committee align the common priorities across each stakeholder group with the known facility improvement needs.

Your input and involvement is needed! Throughout the month of September you will have an opportunity to take part in the listening session process. Each listening session will ask the exact same questions, so we ask for you to attend only one. We will be offering both an in-person opportunity or a virtual opportunity, please feel free to join whichever one you feel most comfortable with. The in-person listening session will be following the governors orders for social distancing and face mask requirements. Virtual listening sessions will be utilizing Zoom.

Times and dates of listening session opportunities are listed below. Please check back regularly to our website https://www.lakeparkaudubon.com/ or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lpa2889 for more details.

As your superintendent, I am proud to serve in a community that truly demonstrates care for children and their schools. Thank you for your dedication to all of our children. We love them all and will continue to demonstrate this through a welcoming environment daily.

Please call or email me at any time. I welcome your feedback as we grow and improve education daily at Lake Park Audubon Schools; a joyful community of creative learners.

Respectfully,

Dr. Paula Henry

Proud Superintendent of Lake Park Audubon Schools

Community Input – We Listen (Listening Sessions)

Tuesday September 15th at 6:30 Audubon Elementary School

Thursday September 17th at 6:30 Lake Park High School

Thursday September 17th at noon Virtual Session