For the past several years, students with special needs at Loveland High School have designed hand-made blank greeting cards to gain valuable work experience. We use the money made from the profit of the sales to buy supplies for the room, activities, and often celebrations.
Students design, create, package, and sell these handmade cards to the community and staff members of Loveland. This year we were unable to attend our biggest sales event, The Loveland Craft Fair, due to the pandemic.
The profits from this fair help fund our classrooms and give our students the opportunity to practice social and life skills during outings in our community.
We are looking for new ways to get our craft and our students’ experiences out there.
The community will be able to meet some of our talented students and purchase these amazing cards this Spring at the Loveland Farmers Market. We will have cards available for cash purchase for $2.00 per pack of 4. You can choose from a variety of cards including, happy birthday, thank you, thinking of you, get well soon, tiger paw, and many more.
They are also available for cash purchase through this sign-up Order Form .
We look forward to seeing you again in our community!
Loveland, Ohio – Four simple and straightforward questions is all you are being asked at this first step. Just check the boxes to provide “important” feedback.
A press release from the Loveland City School District:
To: All Loveland Schools Stakeholders:
Welcome to Loveland City Schools’ search for our next Superintendent. We want you to participate in the process and provide important feedback.
This first survey is designed to give us a clear sense of the status of our district from your perspective. It won’t ask about the skills and attributes we should be seeking in our next superintendent. That survey will be coming later.
Please click on the URL below to complete this district status survey. We genuinely want to hear from you on this survey and future opportunities as well.
Loveland, Ohio – In order to accommodate a second vaccine clinic day for staff, Friday, March 5 will be an “asynchronous” learning day for Loveland City School District students and staff.
This means school buildings will be closed; however, students will be given assignments to complete at home on that day and teachers will be available via email to assist them during normal school hours.
David Miller is the Publisher of Loveland Magazine
Loveland, Ohio – On Friday, the Superintendent of the Loveland City School District, Brad Neavin joined me via Zoom for a follow-up discussion about his job so far as the head of the District. ([VIDEO] Interview with Loveland’s new Superintendent of Schools)
On February 8, the day before he officially took the helm, Neavin told Loveland Magazine readers his number one task was to visit or talk to as many people in the community as he could to get check the pulse, a post-autopsy report, of where the community has been and where it hopes it is going. If needed, Neavin hopes a report to the Board will help get the blood pumping again.
We discussed those visits, “coffees” as Neavin describes them, and he has done more than 50.
Neavin said that the schools and all of the Loveland District are alive and well and he is pleased with most of what he has learned so far, very pleased to learn the negative as well as the positive.
We also discussed the status of State testing and why he made a recommendation to the Board to send a letter of support to add the Loveland District to the growing number of districts around the State that mandated testing be suspended for the current school year. (Loveland Board asks for waiver from state testing)
Neavin asked me to be sure to include his Email address in this story because he wants to hear from many more residents of the District: He can be contacted at: neavinbr@lovelandschools.org or (513) 683-5600
Below is the first interview I did with the Superintendent on February 7.
“YOU are cordially invited to the 2021 LECC Kindergarten Round Up!“
Loveland, Ohio – Read below to learn more about the Loveland Early Childhood Center’s registration for the 2021-2022 school year. Here is their announcement:
This year’s Round Up is going virtual! The Round Up will be an asynchronous event in the form of a slide show presentation with videos and information about LECC Kindergarten for the 2021-2022 school year. Within the presentation there will be an opportunity for you to share your thoughts and questions.
You can work your way through the Round Up at your own pace and at your convenience. We are excited to welcome you to LECC and we are looking forward to walking alongside you throughout your child(ren)’s educational journey.
Sit back, relax, grab some popcorn, and click on the link below to join the 2021 LECC Kindergarten Round Up Virtual Presentation!
~If you are planning to be part of the Full Day Kindergarten Lottery,registration must be completed and all documents received by noon on March 12th~ Click here to enroll
Team 4075 Striped Might members Aaron Frazier, Brennan Kosht, Grant Macura, Tucker Freve, Isabel Combs, Ethan Pachmeyer, and Lauren Skinner
Team 4075 Striped Might won the Champion’s Award, which recognizes a team “that embodies the FIRST LEGO League experience, by fully embracing our Core Values while achieving excellence and innovation in both the Robot Game and Project.”
Loveland, Ohio – Five Loveland FLL Challenge teams of students in grades 4-8 competed in January in tournaments across Ohio. The teams began their season in August, and have been working to design, build and program a LEGO robot to complete the missions of this year’s robot game.
As part of Challenge, teams also participate in a research project to identify and solve a relevant real-world problem, helping people in their community be more active.
All FLL Challenge tournaments were held remotely this year, and to compete, teams submitted 3 videos of their robot runs and presented to judges over Zoom about their Innovation Project, their robot design, and the Core Values they practiced throughout the season.
All five Loveland FLL Challenge teams qualified to advance to the Championship based on their performance in their qualifying tournaments. The Ohio FLL Challeng Championship will take place in March.
Team 38182 Masked Mechanics won the Engineering Excellence Award, which celebrates a team with “an efficiently designed robot, an innovative project solution that effectively addresses the season challenge and great Core Values evident in all they do.”
Team 38182 Masked Mechanics John Paul Galles, Elijah Eppley, Jacob Drown, A.J. Drown, Owen Helms, and Luke Varadachari
Team 50712 Exploding Watermelonzz won the Innovation Project Award, which recognizes a team that “utilizes diverse resources for their Innovation Project to help them gain a comprehensive understanding of their problem, have a creative, well-researched solution and effectively communicate their findings to judges and the community.”
Team 50712 Exploding Watermelonzz Owen Ewald, J.T. Brinkman, Izzy Bisogni, Bryce Hemphill, Nolan Hicks, Cameron Dickey, Eloise Young , and Charlotte Kady.
Team 45562 The Growling Gears, which is sponsored by Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, and Team 51294 RobotActiveX each won the Robot Design Award, which celebrates a team that “uses outstanding programming principles and solid engineering practices to develop a robot that is mechanically sound, durable, efficient and highly capable of performing challenge missions.”
Team 45662 Growling Gears Sarah Papsdorf, Caroline Chesar, Abigail Boyle, Mia Ireland, Ellie Livingston , Caitlin Ryan
Team 51294 RobotActiveX also won the Robot Design Award at a separate tournament. The Design Award is given to a team that “uses outstanding programming principles and solid engineering practices to develop a robot that is mechanically sound, durable, efficient and highly capable of performing challenge missions.”
Team 51294 RobotActiveX
Back row from left to right: Anderson Hunt, 4th grade at LES, Logan Pape, 5th grade at LIS, Sam Herber, 4th grade at LES
Front row from left to right: Hunter Hodgson, 4th grade at LES Maddie Dougherty, 4th grade at LES Nicholas Gatsos, 4th grade at LES
Loveland, Ohio – “We see this as a great time for each one of us to make our own impact on these businesses and strengthening our Loveland bond as a whole,” explained Loveland High School 11th grader, Emily Ryan. “This will serve as not only an opportunity for the businesses to rally support, but also give back as a whole to our area while doing so.”
Emily is part of the marketing cohort of Tigers Inc. is a nonprofit run by a selective group of business-orientated student leaders at Loveland High working to gain real-world experience in the local community.
They have organized a “Back Our Businesses” event that will launch on March 1st and run until March 7. They want to get the community to gather and grow during the hardships of COVID, especially in collaboration with small businesses in Loveland such as the Loveland Sweet Shoppe, RP Diamond, and Paxton’s Grill.
Emily said it is important to promote our local businesses during the weekdays, “as this is what has hit our Loveland shops and restaurants the hardest.” Back Our Businesses will be an opportunity to get the community to come out to eat, shop, and support Loveland. So far, the student-led team of six has individually met with thirty Loveland small businesses to involve them with the weeklong event and personally tailor marketing strategies for them. They will promote each business in a specific way and to their needs, in an attempt to boost their attendance and sales.
In addition, Tigers Inc. has also begun partnering with some businesses and various nonprofits in the Cincinnati area. “This will serve as not only an opportunity for the businesses to rally support, but also give back as a whole to our area while doing so, said Emily. This partnership comes with a set donation or a percentage of their earnings from the week to be donated to their partnered nonprofit.
Loveland, Ohio – “These are difficult and unique times that require a flexible response and I feel strongly we should use this precious time for true teaching and learning,” said Superintendent Brad Neavin said.
During their February 16 meeting, members of the Loveland City School District Board of Education voted unanimously for a resolution in support of House Bill 40 and the proposed waiver of mandated state assessments for the 2020-2021 school year.
The resolution makes it clear that the Board would like lawmakers to eliminate the mandate for state assessments during this academic year, in order to regain instructional time.
Loveland School Superintendent Brad Neavin
The Resolution reads in part “the Board believes it is in the best interest of parents and students that its teachers focus their time and resources on the necessary classroom lessons and concepts to ensure the current and future success of students instead of preparing for mandated state assessments.”
Neavin said that he believes that the hours required for testing take away valuable instructional time and could produce data that is flawed and of little use. “Our teachers are gathering data in real-time and adapting accordingly to the needs of our students,” Neavin told the Board.
The Resolution the Board passed in support of House Bill 40, which has been introduced in the 134th General Assembly, can be read in full below.
Loveland, Ohio – Julie Dunn the administrative assistant in the board of education office asked Loveland Magazine to share this information to the broader community.
The Board of Education is seeking input from staff, families and the community on their “commitments for the 2021-2022 school year”.
Dunn asks that you please review the current LCSD Board Commitments (below) and provide feedback through answering the questions. The survey will remain open until Wednesday, January 20 at 9 AM.
The Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education decided at a special public meeting last night to shift to a five-day per week distance-learning model for all students, effective Monday, November 23.
Students will remain in distance-learning through winter break, returning to a blended model Monday, January 4, pending an improvement in community health data according to a press release issued by the District..
The release said that the decision was made primarily due to rising COVID-19 cases throughout Greater Cincinnati, which has resulted in staffing challenges. “Like other essential organizations, the higher level of community spread has a direct impact on staff absenteeism. Teachers and staff must stay home when sick, when in quarantine as a result of a close contact, or as needed to take care of family members.”
Superintendent Laura Mitchell recommended the district move classes back online as COVID-19 cases rise in Hamilton County and across Ohio. “My recommendation is that Nov. 20 would be the last day of in-person instruction for the remainder of this calendar year,” Mitchell said during a special CPS Board of Education meeting Tuesday.
Mitchell said during the transition week Nov. 16-20, students would not have virtual learning at their own school and would access work through Schoology.
What does this mean?
School will look like it did at the beginning of the 2020–21 year with students learning from home. Students who signed up to participate in the distance learning from their current school option will remain in distance learning next week, accessing assignments through Schoology. They will return to the 5-day per week distance learning schedule with their classmates on Monday, November 23.
Here are the CPS and City of Cincinnati Covid 19 Dashboards as reported on November 11.
Right-Click on these images to open in a new tab to see a larger view.
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