Lutherville Lab Report

What's gone down & what's coming up at the leopards' lair.

February 7, 2025

Lutherville Families,

This week we welcomed our Principal Intern, Ms. Aprell Reid to Lutherville. She has jumped right in and connected with staff and students and shared how joyful and focused she finds our school. We were out of the building on Tuesday at the BCPS Principal's Meeting, where I was asked to share many of the practices our staff and school use to activate student learning, build positive, inclusive culture, and engage our community. It was a great opportunity to reflect on, appreciate, and share, what a special staff and community we have here.

February is Black History Month, in our continued recognition of history and heritage months, this month teachers will share a read aloud focused on Black history and excellence, we will again partake in Arts for Learning Maryland's Blacktastic virtual assembly, and students in grades 3-5 will have the opportunity to attend Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts' Black History Month Assembly. Permission slips went home this afternoon for the field trip. Below is another opportunity from the Lutherville Black Legacy Committee. Members of the committee shared their experiences attending Lutherville Colored School #24 and integrating BCPS schools with our staff in October. Below is an opportunity to attend a presentation here in Lutherville on Saturday February 15th.

With the Inclement Weather day on Thursday, we have now exhausted our traditional weather day closures for the school year, and future weather days will include virtual learning on a 2-hour delay schedule. Additional information and details are below, including attachments.

Finally, Marking Period 2 Report Cards and Progress Reports were sent home with students today. They are also available online through the Student Focus Parent Portal.

Finally, we are beginning to get advertisements for summer camp opportunities and will be attaching them to the newsletter for interested families. This week we have Caliday and Camp Rock. Both do fill quickly, so if you are interested we recommend acting.

Have a great weekend, and GO BIRDS!

In partnership,

-Mr. McComb

Calendar Reminders:

Feb 10 - 100th Day of School Celebration

Feb 17 - School Closed (President's Day)

Feb 21 - Hula for Hopkins

Mathematicians working hard on a work place

LL and BCPS Climate Survey

Climate Survey

If you have not already, please take just a couple of minutes to complete the BCPS Climate Survey (available in 20 languages). This gives you an opportunity to offer feedback on both Lutherville Lab and the system as a whole. Getting your feedback is really important to us here at school to help us gauge strengths and growth opportunities. Thank you for your time and input!

Virtual Learning Information

BCPS has used all 3 of our allotted traditional inclement weather days. Should we have another inclement weather day we will have virtual learning.

BCPS's plan, approved by MSDE, requires 4 hours of learning with a 2 hour delayed start to the day (to allow teachers to pivot their instructional plans to the online environment.

Attendance is taken and counts on Virtual Learning days
Core instruction continues for students growth and achievement

Teachers have been practicing accessing and using Google Meets with students. Their codes (following the protocol of LL + Last Name) are posted on their Schoology page. Students can access Meets by opening a Chrome browser on their device and clicking on the "BCPS Links" folder where a direct link to Google Meet can be found.

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Virtual Learning Day Schedule 2.7.25.pdf

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“Gym-NEWS-ium” PE News and Notes from Mr. Bruns

Kids Heart Challenge

This month we will be, once again, participating in the “Kids Heart Challenge” to help raise money for the American Heart Association.

Students participating will join our “Kids Heart Challenge” special event during the school day in late February and get moving with fun activities, learn about keeping their hearts and brains healthy and feel great about helping others. Not only will you be helping fight heart disease and stroke (the No. 1 and No. 2 killers worldwide), but participants can earn thank-you gifts. We appreciate all your help and please scan the QR code for more information and to join our school. Please submit donations to the American Heart Association by February 21st.

Notes from the PTA

BOOK FAIR GRATITUDE

We hope students, teachers and families enjoyed their Book Fair experience this year. Thank you GREATLY to our Book Fair co-chairs, Marissa Kaser and Liz Roe, as well as the MANY volunteers who made this experience possible.

BOOK FAIR SURVEY (CLICK HERE) - 3 MIN OR LESS TO GIVE FEEDBACK

Our goal is to find a model that considers our LL community as a whole and considers equity and access to reading materials as well as fundraising objectives. Thank you in advance for sharing your perspectives, thoughts, questions and suggestions.

TUES FEB 11

Weather permitting:

Next Young Entrepreneur Activity, 4:05-5:30 pm for students, families arrive at 3:45 pm please

We had a tremendous turnout of 31 students last week! Next week we'll be taking next steps on the LL Team Table and helping students with individual tables refine their plans for the March 23rd fair. Students who did not attend last time can still come this time. Please send interested students with a change of dismissal note. The student will need to be picked up at the front of school promptly at 5:30 pm. Volunteers can sign up here.

TUES FEB 11

Family Engagement & Support Session: A Conversation About Technology, Social Media & Mental Health, Hybrid, 7 pm

Hybrid (in person at library, Google Meet for virtual) if school is open, All virtual if school or afternoon and evening activities are cancelled

Google Meet, code: llfamily

Please RSVP here. Childcare available through Caliday if RSVP received by Monday, please.

*Note: this session will not be recorded due to its conversational nature, however, please use the RSVP link to receive resources discussed.