A Sweet School Year
Natalie Keck and the students we serve at Redeemer Lutheran School in Kokomo, IN celebrated our birthday and how “sweet” the school year has been. We’re so glad to see how they’ve grown and found success! Praying for a SWEET summer for them too! #LSEMChangefortheClassroom
Every student God sends my way is precious in His sight and working with them is a joy. Yet, this year one student stands out. A has been at Trinity for several years. From the beginning, he has struggled in both Reading and Math. However, he comes in every morning with a smile on his […]
We are honoring Arlene Lapsansky as she retires from LSEM. Arlene has worked at LSEM, lovingly teaching and supporting students for nearly 24 years. We are wishing her the best in this next chapter of her life, and praying that God will bless her as she has blessed the lives of so many children. […]
WOW what a year so far! I feel so blessed to work with my school and the children that I am teaching. My Vision Statement this year was to create a faith filled, comfortable and fun environment for learning. I also made it a mission to get to know all my students early in the […]
Get ready for LSEM’s Day of Giving on July 5th by seeing all the ways that you can donate your “spare change” in order to change the life of a child who has a learning need. There is so much you can do! Donate your spare change Make an automatic recurring gift Designate your Thrivent […]
Episode 45: featuring Rev. Joel Kaiser Rev. Joel Kaiser, Associate Pastor at St. Lorenz Lutheran Church in Frankenmuth, MI, talks with Richard Schumacher on the role he plays in welcoming new students and families to their Lutheran school. With enrollment increasing during the pandemic, a wonderful opportunity presented itself to evangelize to those new students […]
Episode 44: featuring Dr. Danisha Keating Dr. Danisha Keating joins the podcast and shares her story about growing up in an environment of abuse within a foster care environment. From homelessness and taking care of her siblings, to earning her Ph.D. Dr. Keating tells her story to help other children who are in foster care […]
I am excited by the growth of all my amazing students. I believe this year has shown me the amazing power of intervention and working together with the general education teachers. At the beginning of the year, we had ten third graders who were reading well below grade level. The general education teacher and I […]
It often takes trial and error on the teacher’s part to engage a student in learning. I have an eighth-grade math student who has been struggling with negative numbers. This makes it difficult to accurately solve for an unknown variable. He lost interest in math, started turning in incomplete homework, had a negative attitude, and […]
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