August
*5-6 Teacher Day - NO SCHOOL
*6 Open House
*7 First Student Day
September
*2 Labor Day - NO SCHOOL
October
*7-11 Fall Break - NO SCHOOL
*17 Virtual Day - NO SCHOOL (Parent teacher conferences)
November
*27-29 Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL
December
*23-31 Winter Break - NO SCHOOL (End of semester 1)
January
*1-2 Winter Break - NO SCHOOL
*3 Teacher Day - NO SCHOOL
*20 Snow Make-up Day
February
*10 Snow Make-up Day
March
*24-28 Spring Break - NO SCHOOL
April
*N/A
May
*22 Teacher Day - NO SCHOOL
*23 Tentative Graduation Day (End of semester 2)
*26 Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL
Students MUST attend school 180 school days. This calendar is subject to change due to school
cancellations.
Jill Mires, superintendent of Salem Community Schools, introduces Luke Dean as the principal of Salem High School.
Salem High School has a new high school principal, Luke Dean.
Dean lives in Pekin with his wife Amy and their two boys, ages 10 and 13.
He comes from Eastern High School, where he was Assist Principal for four years.
He has been in the education field for over seventeen years. This resume includes teaching at Eastern Green School in Bloomington. His educational background includes four years at Indiana University where he was a walk-on for the IU football team. That led him into coaching varsity football at Eastern High School.
Let’s welcome Principal Luke Dean into the Salem Community School system.
Prepping your child with basic skills before entering Kindergarten will most likely help ensure the child graduates high school and experiences financial independence later in life.
Align Southern Indiana has created a checklist of skills that should be acquired before the first day of Kindergarten:
Successful School Skills:
Communicates needs and thoughts
Follows rules and routines
Follows directions (sits quietly, knows the meaning of “no”)
Appropriately talks and communicates with others
Controls feelings and behaviors (emotions)
Holds pencil correctly
Math:
Recognizes numbers 0 to 9
Can touch and count up to 9 objects
Can count 0 to 9
Recognizes basic shapes: circle, triangle, rectangle, square
Self Help Skills:
Can dress and undress self independently
Is toilet trained
Zipping and buttoning
Appropriate use of toilet paper
Washes hands
Flushes
Literacy:
Book reading
Left to right, top to bottom
Understands how to hold a book correctly and turn the pages
Recognition of letters by name (a-b-c)
Knows how to respond using at least three words
Recognizes their name
Can write their first name
Listens to a complete story
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