A Sweet School Year

LSEM > Articles by: Rebecca Lichtenberg
Jun
27
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

Posted in: Change for the Classroom,
Jun
20
The Lutheran Education Podcast, Ep 46
Episode 46: featuring Rebecca Friedrichs Rebecca Friedrichs, author of "Standing up to Goliath", has spent her career fighting within the school system to protect her students and parents from the darkness and grief that the teachers' unions have caused. Friedrichs wrote an editorial that was featured in her local newspaper. That piece started the wheels [...]
Posted in: Podcast,
Jun
19
God Made It Grow

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 […]

Posted in: Wow Story,
Jun
14
Happy Retirement!

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. […]

Posted in: Change for the Classroom, LSEM News,
Jun
12
Individualized Learning

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 […]

Posted in: Wow Story,
Jun
07
Your Change Creates Change

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 […]

Posted in: Change for the Classroom,
Jun
06
The Lutheran Education Podcast, Ep 45

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 […]

Posted in: Podcast,
May
31
The Lutheran Education Podcast, Ep 44

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 […]

Posted in: Podcast,
May
29
Power of Intervention

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 […]

Posted in: Wow Story,
May
22
A Different Approach

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 […]

Posted in: Wow Story,