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Mar
16
Excitement is in the air at LSEM!

A message from Stacy Hoeft, President/CEO of LSEM 2017 has brought us many inspiring opportunities as staff and teachers continue to look for ways to serve the children in our programs.  Programs continue to grow, we’re serving in more schools, offering more professional development opportunities, visiting with more potential partners and exploring some new, yet sorely […]

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Mar
16
Wilkommen to Frankenmuth!: LSEM to Host Teacher Conference

On June 14-16 LSEM will say “Willkommen” to our resource room teachers from across the nation as we host our biannual LSEM Teachers Conference at the Bavarian Inn Motor Lodge in Frankenmuth. Teachers will have a chance during the three-day conference to meet and connect with their colleagues, receive training on LSEM policies and procedures, […]

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Mar
16
LSEM Teachers Share Mid-Year Student Success!

Indiana Teacher Reports on Student Success Carmen Cleaveland, an LSEM educator located at Suburban Lutheran School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, shares the following student success story: My student is in the 3rd grade and after her case conference last spring, she was given an IEP with an exceptionality of a specific learning disability. This past […]

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Mar
16
LSEM Expanding Services to Early Childhood Programs in 2017

It’s been proven that the earlier a child is diagnosed with a learning need the better! Too often children don’t get the attention they need before it’s too late. LSEM wants to change that. Over the past year, LSEM directors have received multiple inquiries about how to better serve the early childhood population.  Families that […]

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Feb
17
Former LSEM Student Uses Her Experience to Help Others

Katie Bowden has found her niche.  Describing herself as “calm on the outside but a storm on the inside,” she was diagnosed with inattentive-type ADHD when she was in third grade at St. Peter, Macomb (Michigan). Throughout her time at St. Peter, her family struggled to find what worked best for her learning. In eighth […]

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Feb
17
LSEM Teachers Report Fantastic Results from Lexia Program

LSEM teacher, Donna Stole, recently shared a story about the progress one of her students made thanks to the Lexia program — a research-proven, technology-based approach that accelerates reading skills development, predicts students’ year-end performance and provides teachers data-driven action plans to help differentiate instruction. The use of Lexia in LSEM classrooms is funded through […]

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Feb
17
A Perfect Storm

LSEM is a blessing in many ways. Specifically, it allowed a perfect storm to take place at Mayer Lutheran High School. When thinking of a perfect storm, pictures of destruction and damage might come to mind, this is a different kind of perfect storm. There was a freshman who came to Mayer Lutheran in 2013 […]

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Feb
17
LSEM Teacher Hosts Literacy Night in Fort Wayne, IN

Fort Wayne’s Tiffany Herman added the LSEM touch to Ascension Lutheran Church and School’s celebration of this year’s National Lutheran School Week.  With the help of a Thrivent Action Team grant, Tiffany hosted a Literacy Night during the last week of January. Celebrated local author, Helen Frost, was on hand to speak and sign autographs. […]

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Feb
17
Remembering Former Board Member, Al Helland

LSEM regretfully reports the passing of one of its former board members, Al Helland. Mr. Helland passed away on October 16, 2015, in Livonia, Michigan. An affable, loving man, Al led a life of service to God and his community. As an executive with National Bank of Detroit, where he worked for many years, he […]

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Feb
17
So Much Change!

Change. What feelings does that word invoke in you? Fear? Anxiety? Discomfort? Excitement? Anticipation? Interest? I find it interesting that a simple, one-syllable word can cause such an array of emotions in the hearts of even the most stable people. Lutherans are especially notorious for their feelings about change. Remember the old joke? “How many […]

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