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Lakota will provide each student in grades K-6 with a supply kit at the start of the 2025-2026 school year. Supply lists for grades K-8 are now available and indicate, by school and grade level, the specific supplies that each student will need to provide. Use TeacherLists, a free resource, to easily find your list and even shop online for the best prices on all your back-to-school supplies, if desired. High school students will continue to receive supply lists from their teachers when school starts.

Read More about 2025-2026 School Supply Lists Now Available
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To ease the transition to a new school year and honor families’ requests for alternative pick-up and drop-off locations for transportation, Lakota is asking that families submit transportation forms via FinalForms by July 31 to receive transportation on the first day of the 2025-2026 school year. All K-2 students, regardless of the need for busing, are asked to complete a form to communicate their student's transportation plans. 

Read More about Submit 2025-2026 Transportation Requests by July 31
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Five years ago, some curious students noticed Instructional Aide Karen Bates pulling a few weeds around the school’s playground. After asking what she was doing, and finding out that she loved gardening, they asked if they could help. From there, the Endeavor Garden Club has blossomed into a vibrant space for both plants and friendships.

Read More about Growing Together: How Endeavor Elementary Students Are Cultivating a Greener Future
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Lakota Local Schools is proud to present its final group of "Lakota Gem Award" winners for the 2024-2025 school year - the teachers, administrators and support staff who bring a sparkle to our schools. Selected from a pool of over 400 nominations submitted since October, Lakota’s most precious gems for May include: Creekside ECS teacher Amanda Benjamin, Endeavor Elementary nurse Brianne Kopecky, Hopewell Junior teacher Robyn Parrish, Lakota East High School principal Matthew MacFarlane and Lakota Superintendent Ashley Whitely. 

Read all about the facets that make these Lakota staff members shine. Plan to nominate someone whose brilliance makes a difference in our schools when the nomination form reopens at the start of the 2025-2026 school year.

Read More about Meet Our Final 2024-2025 Lakota Gems
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Stop by Savannah Hawley’s corner of Heritage Early Childhood School on any given day and your visit will double as a trip to the bakery, laundromat, an ice cream shop, the doctor’s office or the police station. Beneath the surface of the speech language pathologist’s regular rotation of themed play stations is a very intentional strategy to help each of her students achieve their own personal speech goals. 

Read More about ‘Play’ Plays Big Part in Speech Class Success
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The Northern Cincinnati Foundation, in partnership with Lakota Local Schools and Phelan Insurance Agency, is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 “Lakota Diamond Educator Awards": K-6 Teacher Winner Beth Bonin (Freedom Elementary); 7-12 Teacher Winner Stacey Lane (Lakota East High School); Support Staff Winner Jennifer Russell (Counselor, Creekside Early Childhood School); and Administrator Winner Traci Stubenrauch (Assistant Principal, Wyandot Early Childhood School). 

Formerly known as the “Lakota Educator of Excellence Award,” the new name establishes a connection to the District’s new Lakota Gem Award, which celebrates outstanding staff all year long. Honorees of the top award exemplify all six facets, or categories, of the Lakota gems that the District awards on a monthly basis. 

Read More about Celebrating Our 2025 Diamond Educator Award Winners

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