Lee's Summit R-7 School District

📣 Check out this sponsorship opportunity to get involved with LSR7 Special Services ⤵ LSR7 is partnering with the Kansas City Chiefs and Special Olympics Missouri for the 3rd annual Choose to Include event October 9 at the Lee's Summit North football stadium. ⚽ 🏈 🏃♂️ Choose to Include is a field day for students to increase involvement and inclusion for those who utilize our specialized programs and generate interest for more athletes to the LSR7 Special Olympics teams. Does this sound like an event you can get behind? Our special services team needs some help as they continue to plan. Here are a few ways you can help: 🥗 Lunch Sponsor: Help provide lunch for 500 staff and volunteers 👕 T-Shirt Sponsor: Underwrite the cost of shirts for LSR7's special services staff and volunteers. Bonus: your logo will be included on the back of each shirt and on the jumbotron during the event. If you're interested in helping out or want to learn more, reach out to Staci Mathes at staci.mathes@lsr7.net or fill out the form in the comments.

Before the school year started we got to bring a little ✨extra ✨ celebration to Summit Pointe Elementary. Tara Hogan, a Focus Facilitator/Interventionist was our August Learning for Life Award winner! Ms. Hogan was nominated by her colleagues for her outstanding qualities: ⭐ Students recognize that she is on their team and regularly work with her to meet goals. 🧠 Ms. Hogan has a wealth of knowledge and experience with mental and behavioral health. 📚 She is a key part of re-engaging students in their learning environment. 🤝 She collaborates with children, staff and admin to make SPE the best place to learn and grow! #R7proud

Happy first day of school! The 2024-25 school year is off to a great start! We're so grateful to everyone who has a hand in making our district great. #R7Proud

🎒 🖍 With the new school year less than a week away, we stopped by Hazel Grove Elementary to meet Ms. Madelyn Sare, one of our awesome new kindergarten teachers! 🌟 Check out how she’s feeling about starting her first year of teaching, plus her message for her students starting their first year at LSR7! #R7Proud

🎉 We welcomed all LSR7 staff to the 2024-25 school year at our annual Convocation yesterday! A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this event: 🗣Teacher of the Year Jennifer Jones, Board President Jennifer Foley and Mitch Holthus, the Voice of the Chiefs, all delivered outstanding speeches. 🎶 The fantastic LSR5 band and high school drumlines provided world-class entertainment 🐾 Our mascot volunteers brought their enthusiasm and energy 🤝 Community vendors who came out to greet staff 🏢 Cable Dahmer Arena for being excellent hosts Last but not least, we need to shoutout our 2,900+ incredible employees preparing to champion students this year. Here's to a fantastic school year ahead! 🎉 🏫 #R7Proud

🔭 Want a glimpse at what you'd experience as a new teacher in Lee's Summit? 📰 Check out the new article from Janice Phelan on The Kansas City Star website. LSR7's Director of Professional Development Kristen Merrell does an incredible job welcoming our new teachers - veteran and first year - to the district with the four-day New Teacher Academy. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gvUewUYg

🚌 LSR7's transportation crew knows how to have fun!🚌 Director Tony Bragulla hosted team building fun at Longview Lake where coworkers 🍔 cooked for each other, 🏸 played games and 🎉got excited for the new school year. Want to join the team? There are still bus driver and bus aide positions available for the 2024-25 school year! 🔗 Link in the comments ⬇

Our amazing team of Dignity Facilitators help build up a culture of dignity and belonging for all students in LSR7. 💜 The 2024-25 school year is already looking bright! 💫

👨🏫 👩🏫 New teacher academy is one of our favorite weeks of the year. 140 new educators come in to learn about the district, meet each other and get to know the community they've chosen to join. 🍎 Their week began with the New Teacher Breakfast hosted by the Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce where many received baskets filled with new school supplies donated by members of the community. 🤝 They've had introductions to administrators, different departments at central office and each teacher received a New Teacher Grant worth $100 courtesy of the Lee's Summit Educational Foundation and its supporters. Welcome to LSR7 we are so excited you're here! #R7Proud

🐅 The LSHS tiger head is back on the school 🐅 This enormous statue will now overlook the football stadium thanks in part to two important groups. 🐯 LSR7's facilities team who prioritized getting the statue off the building in one piece because they knew how much it meant to alumni 🐯 LSHS honors art students led by Mrs. Angela Hays. They revitalized and refreshed the tiger so it looks as good as when it arrived to the high school as a class gift in the 70s! Amazing work by all and thank you to the crews who hung the tiger back up - it looks incredible and ready for a new school year! #R7Proud