Welcome!  We are very excited about the 2012-13 school year. We have positive changes taking place! We are now offering World Languages at Lakeview Middle School. The alternative learning center (ALC) has moved across town, and we are utilizing the additional space as a World Language Center. We are offering French, Spanish, Latin and Mandarin Chinese. Mrs. Vastbinder and Alison Schemmer will be teaching our Spanish courses while Mrs. Slaughter and Dr. Tseng will be instructing French and Chinese respectively. Another exciting addition to our curriculum is the development of our Stringed Orchestra. Our new strings’ teacher  Mrs. Stalcup will provide dynamic instruction for 6^th through 12^th grade students.  We also welcome additional new teachers to our staff:  Mrs. Downs will be taking over for Mrs. Linky who moved to the central office Special Ed department, and Mr. Truman will be coming on board to fill the void in 7th grade Language Arts left by the move of Mr. Deeds to Assistant Principal. Another exciting addition will be Miss Herald who will be replacing Mrs. Engelberth who took over the Media center position left by the retirement of Mrs. Western.  Finally Mrs. Alberts takes over the moderate-profound special education position left by the retirement of Jill Sampsel.

The Science, FACS, Health/PE and Business departments are now exclusively using technology in the form of lap-tops and IPADs respectively in place of traditional textbooks for the first time in our history. Each student will have access to a computer/IPAD for multiple classes this year. We believe that this pioneering initiative will provide new opportunities for reaching the full potential of each student. The corporation continues to embrace the employment of the Professional Learning Community (PLC) model to keep the focus on student learning. Our teaching staff will continue training and research of the PLC framework throughout the coming years into the specifics of collaboration and data analysis to drive student learning.

This is always an exciting time of the year. We welcome our new 7th grades students as well as our returning 8th graders for what should be one of the most exhilarating times of their lives. We have a dedicated and caring staff who are interested in getting to know how each one of our students learn. It is important that our students and parents know that if they have any questions to feel free to let us know, so we can more aptly help our students have a great experience at Lakeview Middle School.


Yours in Education,
Dr. Lippe
Principal