Siuslaw schools take a unique approach to professional development
Two new coaches are on the job in Siuslaw Schools, but they’re not on the athletic field. They’re math coaches who will work with teachers.
210 – “They’ll help the staff in terms of providing feedback; demonstrating certain lessons for our staff members; giving them research on what are effective instructional strategies.”
Siuslaw Superintendent Jeff Davis said it may seem odd with budgets tight to divert resources away from the classroom and into something like a math coach. But, he says, there was really no choice.
211 – “I received a phone call from the Department of Education informing me that we could no longer use our Title II funds for class size reduction. And that’s what we had been doing.”
That amounted to approximately $140-thousand in federal funding.
212 – “So either we use it for professional development, or we lose it.”
Dianne Conlee will move from the classroom and into the coaching position for teachers in grades six through 12. A new staff member, Susan Buckley, will work with teachers in the lower grades. Despite possibly increasing class sizes, Davis says it should help improve test scores in the long run as teachers ultimately become better and more efficient at what they do.
Voters will decide two tax measures valued at more than $720-million in next week’s special election. 2.1-million ballots containing measures 66 and 67 were mailed out two weeks ago and already 30-percent have been returned. As of yesterday in Lane County, the response has been slightly higher with a 35-percent return. Overall it’s expected that at least six out of ten voters will weigh in on the tax measures by eight pm next Tuesday. Officials say if you’re going to mail your ballot you had best do so by tomorrow in order to ensure that it makes it by the deadline. 11 ballot drop boxes are placed around the county to receive ballots as well, including one in front of the Florence Justice Center on Ninth Street.
One of the features of the Winter Folk Festival is the Kids Koncerts where festival headliners play for local elementary students in a free show. Misty River will perform two shows tomorrow and while the ten am show is nearly filled, there is space in the one o’clock show. Each show is about 45 minutes and features sets designed and built by art students. Sing-a-longs with the students are also a large part of the programs. Home-school students are being encouraged to attend. They don’t need to pre-register, but they do need to check in with the volunteer coordinator in the lobby of the Florence Events Center when they arrive.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Department of Transportation
has reopened Interstate 5 south of Ashland and over the Siskiyou
Mountains. The interstate was closed briefly yesterday because of
blizzard conditions in California.
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) - The Clackamas County sheriff's office
has warned boaters that large trees are blocking part of the
Clackamas River after a landslide. The sheriff's marine patrol
discovered the slide yesterday about a mile downstream from Barton
Park. Officers urged boaters to be cautious and to watch for debris
and dislodged trees that may block portions of the river downstream
from the slide. Officials will investigate today.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A Woodburn man sent to prison in 1984 for
trying to hire a hit man to kill two detectives has been granted
parole. Yesterday's unanimous decision by the three-member Oregon
parole board clears the way for Antonio Palacios to be freed July
25 from the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. The supposed "hit
man" that Palacios tried to hire was really an undercover agent
with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Former "Survivor" contestant Jennifer
Lyon has died at age 37. Lyon was diagnosed with breast cancer in
2005, the same year she finished fourth on the CBS reality show. A
network representative confirmed her death yesterday. Lyon was
raised in the Columbia River city of The Dalles. Her biography on
CBS.com says she attended Portland State and Western Oregon
universities before graduating from Oregon State.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Oregon's unemployment rate remained around
11 percent for the last four months of 2009. But state economist
David Cooke says the 2,900 jobs gained in December is perhaps a
sign of recovery in the labor market. The state Employment
Department says there were nearly 210,000 Oregonians looking for
jobs last month.
(Register Guard)
WOODBURN, Ore. (AP) - An investigation of car break-ins led
police to a Woodburn home where they arrested 12 people. Eleven
children found in the home yesterday were taken into protective
custody with the Department of Human Services. Police say they
found stolen property, including GPS devices, iPods and radar
detectors.
(The Oregonian)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A TriMet bus driver accused of strangling
a passenger is on leave for an investigation by the agency. KGW
reports Brian Christeson was off-duty but in uniform Dec. 30 when
he scuffled with Ludwig Lipscomb. The dispute arose after an Asian
couple boarded without fare and had trouble communicating with the
driver. Police arrested Christeson but city prosecutors dismissed
charges.
(KGW)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Eugene police have charged a 30-year-old man
with a dozen commercial burglaries in Eugene and Springfield.
Joshua Sharp was arrested Jan. 4 on a fugitive warrant out of
Seattle along with another man, Shane Lee Carlson. The
Register-Guard reports Carlson remains under investigation for a
possible role in the Eugene crimes as well as nearly three-dozen
burglaries of medical and dental offices in the Seattle area.
(Register Guard)
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) - A Klamath Falls man pleaded not
guilty to a charge of manslaughter in the death of a 26-year-old
found floating under the Link River Bridge in September.
Authorities believe 52-year-old Donald Farnsworth pushed Raife
Hartman into the river during an argument and did not come to his
aid.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service has released its
travel management plan for the Rogue River-Siskiyou National
Forest. The plan would make 3,176 miles of roads available for the
mixed use of highway-legal and off-highway motorized vehicles. It
also includes 230 miles of trails that can be used by off-highway
vehicle riders.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Medford courts are proposing a temporary
amnesty to help drivers who have had their license suspended
because of unpaid traffic tickets. Suspended drivers to save 25
percent on their outstanding tickets if they pay the entire
balance. The Medford program would start Feb. 1 and continue
through the end of April.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - The Klamath Tribes are the first to
approve a $1 billion agreement for restoring Klamath River salmon
and bringing peace to long-standing water battles in the basin. The
tribes voted to approve the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement,
which is part of a broader settlement designed to remove aging
hydroelectric dams that block salmon. the overall settlement is
expected to be signed by the dozens of parties next month.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
On The Schedule Tonight:
Prep Wrestling will hit the mat in Florence for the final time this season when the Douglas Trojans visit the Siuslaw Vikings for a Far West League Dual at six.
College Basketball:
The Oregon men are looking to reverse a three game losing streak when they take on the Cal Bears at 7:30 in Berkley. That game will air on KCST beginning at seven. Oregon State is in Palo Alto where they’ll face the Stanford Cardinal… that game at seven with a 6:30 airtime on KCFM.
The women are in-state tonight… Oregon hosting the Cal Bears and Oregon State hosting Stanford.
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