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Show a Sun Advocate Price. Utah thursday March 30. gOOO S( A -- I r Carbon education board office highlighted t 7 V vpJl 7 Math program explored Mrs. Robin Hussey distributed copies of the math test she developed for the Superintendent's Math Contest to each of the secondary schools. The oontest originated with Superintendent Robert Hanson in 1992 to encourage math achievement in the districL Secondary math teachers recommend students to take the test Students receive cash prizes for first second, and third places, at each school and grade, as well as overall. Mont Harmon administered the test on March 23, and other schools will complete the test before the end of March. The contest focuses on the math objectives found on the ACT, the American College Test which students take as juniors for college admission. Ms. Hussey is the district's secondary math curriculum specialist ' . : - iS? X ? JS X P'; v . x M ; t4 4 I ft ft I ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft Harmon. She works closely with all secondary math teachers on curriculum, assessment textbooks, and Instruction. A math textbook adoption committee has been organized with representatives from each secondary school to recommend new texts for the coming school year. Current math texts in the district are five years old. New texts more closely reflect the core. Ms. Hussey will be presenting in- Writing assessment, English portfolio raise language standards in district Mrs. Madeline NyfTeier and other English teach- - three from two scorers Is required in each area for a ers are preparlngstudcnts for the administration of passing grade. the seventh and eighth grade core wrltingassessment Under Nyffelers leadership, writing portfolios have to be given during the last week of March. NyfTeier Is been added to the graduation requirement All senior the district's English curriculum specialist and En- - high studenta must maintain awritlngportfolio which glish teacher at Mont Harmon Junior High. She has provides their efforts for five kinds of required writing made a significant contribution to the establishment informative, expository descriptive, narrative, and per-o- f an outstanding English program in the district. suasive. The portfolios are officially started in ninth Twice during the school year, writlngassessmcnts grade, but many students include junior are administered to secondary students. Third quar-- high writingassignments. ter, ninth and eleventh graders are assessed. Juniors English teachers throughout the district have met must pass the assessment or face not graduating: If regularly to establish guidelines and requirements for they fail, they may retake the assessment as a senior, writing; literature selections, and skill building: Teach-Th- e seniors at ECHS and CHS have all successfully ers have planned and collaborated to create an thewri ting requirement for graduation. All tive, challenging; and creative secondary English cur- the Juniors at ECHS passed the 1999-0-0 writing as-- ricuium. Mrs. NyfTeier has chaired the district English aessment; a great achievement! committee since It was organized in 1902 as part of A direct wrltingassessment was made mandatory strategic planning Ms. NyfTeier and Mrs. Rebecca Donaldson of the by this year's legislature, so Carbon is ahead of the state with the assessment program already 10 place. Southeastern Education Service Center have trained The writing assessment Is scored by teachers teachers throughout the state in the use of the Six Trait trained In the Six Tr< Scoring process. Each paper i Sooring process. receives a one to five score on six writing areas: ideas ; Other curriculum specialists in the district are Mr. " and content, sentence fluency word choice, organize- - 'Jeff Jorgensen, soda studies, Mr. Dan Taylor, science, tion, voice, and conventiontfnechanlcs. A score of and Mr. Gary Berensen, library media. formation on math competency testing to the board on April 12. This' years legislature made Iff grade ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft During April Ms. Hussey will or- . ft ft ft ft ganize administrators, teachers, and parents to consider the issues related to an accelerated math curriculum. Many districts teach pre algebra in sbeth grade which allows students to take calculus andor physics as juniors and seniors. Student readiness for prealgebra and teacher preparation will be topics to be discussed. Interested individuals may contact Ms. Hussey ft ft 'ft ft $ J I c jn i effeo-complct- cd ' ft math competency testing mandatory Ms. Hussey will be presenting Information oh the district's level of readiness for this requirement as well as the advantages and disadvantages of required testing: and a math teacher at Mont ' .V j - ''. I;....-- ; I -- ; V r J. H I:-.::- " ' -- r - . : i - . I i; J I '3 k .... ' KZL. ''i . : vI b I ' : j 3 ,j 1 0 . .'i .tT 5 uu I H ; i Grant provides improved district elementary reading instruction . 7 Kh- The district was recently - . '0 ''H il cue on teacher training and com-- awarded a large grant for improv- Ing reading instruction In the pri-grades from the state office of education. Mr. Joe Bonacd, as-sistant superintendent, was told that the grant will be dose to a mil- lion dollars, but the amount is still undernegotiation. Carbonwasone of three districts that received fund-- munlty support programs. The Price Library's adult and ESL eracy program. Headstart, and day care providers areafew of the com- munlty programs to be Included In the scope of the grant, The grant process started last year when the district was notified that it could qualify for the funding. Tteachere from each school contrib-Mr. Bonacd Indicated that the u ted data on their school's achieve-grawould affect Rriersen El- - ment, teachers' concerns, and many ementary Sally Mauro, and read-- other Issues. Mn Brady Donaldson ing Creekview reading programs, from Creekview headed upthegranl The three schocds qualified for the ' wriUngteam. grant because of high numbers of Wch for more specifics on this A students in low grantandhowparentsandcommu- circumstances, The grant will fo-- ' nity members can be Involved. S ' lf ft lit-mar- y V . ' o J .51 t t nt 4- t , Special education role in district x. " . Special education speech-langua- 1?? ge " ?,ghIjLtpained and skilled individuals,'' said TbmRoush, di-rector of special education. To be at : pathologist now re- quires a bachelors degree in communi- disorders and a masters degree in either speech pathology or audiology Three of our four speech and language pathologists are certified as clinically through the American Speech and Hearing Association." Tbrnmy Price joined the team last school year and will h5rMmMter8 degree uwl Peech-iangua-go compictingthe full accreditation process, services for students begin as youngas three years of age or enlors L high schooi. Ail M.0,d1 schools In the district, as weli-a- s Headstart, have access to speech and lan- guaff sendees. Qualifying elementary Speech-langua- ge and seconduy students receive small group and Individual therapy. The pathologists also do speech-langua- ge narrative tanguags development in class-- 'Pnmwygwdestudents. The of services . variety covcrabrood spectrum of communicative disorders In- dudlngthose of articulation, language, stuttering voice, and delays caused by hea impairments. JudyOlson land DaVette Butcher are responsible for specialized Ihput as members of the UAAACT and TBI teams, ! I J . non-verb- al 'v:j ' . j ' My - ; ; . gram, and our local UAAACT team serves both Carbon and Emery stu-- personnel, to monitor student progress, parental ' concerns, and teacher feedback. " Rasmusson,- - also an Itinerant school counselor. Her position Is some- .what mew in the district and will be explored in the next feature on district responsibilities. . a S AT a access, and devices which allow children to speak. UAAACT Is part of a statewide pro- - 'i s,a 4 t recoe-compete- I , t I i tl-- i ) ' if ' ' , if''. j... .0 . ' r M r ' i j ' a "i- . k';V' Nourishment provided. . If you In school helps ready students to learn went bito a cafeteria you would probably see WraelfflMtaand pasta bars. On Sfi!? 5 carts are filled with Colossalhambufgers and Taco Beil burritosj 1 ft i Llt,tleaesare pizza, hogieyogi sandwiches, Arty's, i I -- socio-econom- Olson along with other members of the Utah Augmentative, Alternative, Assistive Communication and Tbch- noiogy team evaluate students for al-tentative forms of communication . when verbal antVor written communi-cativ- e cat Ion are severely limited. They ex- piore the latest technology applica-- ' tkms available and hare fitted students . with such technology as voice nt niUon software, hands-fre- e computer dents. Butcher Is part of the Traumatic . Brain Irtfury team. The team is respon- slble for providing special assistance to students returning to school who have experiwxsed severe head injuries.' They evaluate and modify curriculum and instruction to. support students achievement and success in school. The team toects regularly with school' 1 , Elementary students love their Little Caesars pizza once a week. Munchables filled with Smuckers peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches. By making these changes In the lunch program stu- dents are not wasting the food and are getting nourished and ready-t- o learn. |