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2A ܂ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 ܂ APPEAL TRIBUNE Pay Tech Continued from Page 1A Continued from Page 1A district in the “large district” category, with an enrollment of 3,883. The larg- est reporting district in the category was Hillsboro, with 20,683 students. Eighty-three smaller districts – some of them with fewer than 500 students – were included elsewhere in the study. Five Willamette Valley districts are Silver Falls’ administrators’ go-to list when they’re seeking socio-economic similarity, Stevens said. These are Hood River, Lebanon, Canby, Oregon Trail (Sandy) and Newberg. Others they consider, though not so closely, include Woodburn, Jackson County, St. Helens, Albany and Salem-Keizer. Among those five most similar dis- tricts, in base salary, the lowest-paid teacher on the traditional pay scale at Silver Falls made $36,619 last year. The highest-paid earned $70,118. Only Leb- anon’s starting wage was lower, at $34,587, and all five comparable dis- tricts paid their top earners more. The PEER pay scale changes the pic- ture for new teachers but not much for long-term teachers with advanced de- grees. Last year, with PEER pay, Silver Falls’ lowest-paid teacher earned $39,734, higher than everyone but Canby, which recently discontinued its 6 percent PERS pickup and raised sala- ries to compensate, Stevens said. But, at $73,477 Silverton’s highest- paid PEER teachers still fall behind ev- eryone but Lebanon. Similarly quali- fied teachers in Hood River and Newb- erg make more than $77,000. “I think we need to do a wage com- parison at the top end of the scale,” Stevens told the school board on July 9, adding later, “I want to make sure we are remaining competitive for those master teachers who have been here a long time. I want to recognize and hon- or those people.” Teachers’ contract with the district expires in 2019, classified staff ’s ends in 2020. Draper didn’t actually leave high school this summer. They spent June, July and August working nearly fulltime in the district’s tech department at Silverton High School. They were five of 12 interns – each making $10.75 per hour – that worked alongside six paid staff to get hardware and software ready for fall. Their jobs ranged from “mining,” recycling com- puters for parts to troubleshooting tech problems at an assigned campus. Maddy Traver, a 2018 grad, was Mark Twain Elementary School’s point of contact this summer. One day the week before school, she could be found trying to coax a non-responsive printer to talk to the network in teacher Tina Howell’s classroom. “I was Maddy’s third-grade teacher,” Howell said. “It’s awesome to have her back here helping us. I’m not surprised, though. She was always a good stu- dent.” In high school, Maddy was involved in theater, band, photography and SCAN-TV, Silverton’s cable access sta- tion. This month, she’ll begin classes at Chemeketa Community College, where she plans to study graphic design and web development. If she hadn’t landed the tech intern- ship, she said she’d probably be doing an unpaid internship in graphic design. Mitchell Draper, also a 2018 graduate with plans to attend Chemeketa, said candidly, “If I didn’t have this intern- ship, I probably wouldn’t have a sum- mer job.” The soft-spoken 18-year-old once had an elementary school teacher who gave him an Xbox console to take apart; he’s loved mining parts ever since. After trying computer programming in class – “I am not a coder,” he noted – he’s set- tled into repair work. Humility notwithstanding, Mitchell is consistently a high-performer when it comes to the tech department’s “gam- ified” Help Desk ticketing system. Like Court Continued from Page 1A His April criminal trial was post- poned a day before it was scheduled to start in Marion County after his attor- neys requested a change of venue, citing the "damning" and "pervasive news coverage" of Day's suspension and up- coming trial that was bound to contam- inate the jury pool. The trial was moved to Multnomah County and is scheduled to begin Oct. 22. Day has long maintained that his le- gal and professional woes stemmed from persecution for his Christian be- liefs. "It's about, I believe, my personal de- cision to quietly recuse myself from same-sex marriages," he told former Ar- kansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's on his talk show in the weeks leading up to his criminal trial. Day's suspension violated the First Amendment, argue attorneys in the amicus brief. "As the Supreme Court has made clear, the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against religious beliefs," said Charles LiMandri, FCDF’s chief counsel. "By punishing Judge Day for his Christian faith, the Oregon government violated his constitutionally protected right to live and work according to his religious convictions." In his brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, Day' attorneys argued that he had been denied due process because he was unable to depose Shehan, the key witness against him. They also contend that the Oregon Supreme Court, and certain Oregon eth- ical rules, violated the First Amendment by punishing Day when he declined, "on the basis of his sincerely-held religious beliefs, to perform the non-mandatory judicial function of solemnizing same- sex marriages." Day's attorneys also added that cer- tain Oregon ethical rules are unconsti- tutional because they prohibited pro- tected speech and discourage protected speech due their vagueness. "Throughout the Commission’s pros- ecution of Judge Day is an open disdain and hostility towards the religious be- liefs of those whose faith honors mar- riage between one man and one wom- an," Day attorneys said. In a response filed with the U.S. Su- preme Court Friday, attorneys with the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability disputed Day's claims, calling them all "misimpressions." "(Day) was disciplined by the court below for serious misconduct having nothing to do with same-sex marriage," they said, adding that there were ample grounds for sanctioning Day. Day lied to the commission about the dispute at the soccer game and about al- lowing a then-felon to handle a gun, commission attorneys said. Additionally, they argued that nei- ther the commission nor the court dis- respected Day's personal religious be- liefs. "(He) cannot provide a single, legiti- mate example of disrespect of his reli- gious views by the commission or the court," attorneys said. Commission attorney's concluded a video game, interns score points based on their work – speed, quality and quantity – earning badges and prizes along the way. Daniel Marshall, who oversees the Help Desk and was the first intern un- der his dad, former technology director Gary Marshall, created the incentivized system over the last two decades. Al- though interns function much like reg- ular adult workers, a major difference is the amount and frequency of feedback they get. “We are focused on giving them real- world experience, with more iterative feedback,” Hines said. “A standard staff member would get an evaluation once a year. High school students have to have constant feedback – daily standup meetings, weekly checkups and monthly evaluations.” With his experience at the Oregon Department of Education and as a vir- tual academy administrator, Hines strives to fold students’ work into the district’s educational mission. Most re- cently, he landed a grant to fund Infor- mation and Communication Technol- ogies (ICT) as an official program at Sil- verton High. “The thinking is, “Let’s go ahead and expose kids to a couple of areas of study and let them figure what they do and don’t like to do,” he said. Thus, classes like Intro to Computer Programming, Digital Media 2 and Computer Aided Drafting, combine with internship hours to round out a new kind of Career and Technical Edu- cation (CTE) program that once went along with classes such as welding, ag- riculture and mechanics. “Silverton has been used as a model of how other schools can offer opportu- nity extensions to students outside of the CTE classroom,” said Denise Brock, education program specialist with the ODE. For his part, intern Jonathan Hansen took as many high school computer sci- ence classes as he could before gradu- ating in 2017. He plans to transfer from Chemeketa to Oregon Institute of Tech- nology in 2019. His dream job is working for a company like Google in artificial that Day was not denied due process and was not prevented from calling or cross examining any witnesses. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to accept Day's appeal in the upcoming terms, which begins in Octo- “Silverton has been used as a model of how other schools can offer opportunity extensions to students outside of the CTE classroom.” Denise Brock education program specialist with the ODE intelligence. On-the-job training in Sil- verton has helped focus his future, he said. “Here you’re consistently interacting with staff,” he said. “You’re working closely with networking and network- ing techs … you’re learning all the time.” “The staff know you personally here, and you’re treated more like an equal,” said Levi Worley. Enrolled in a high school completion program at Cheme- keta, he’ll graduate this winter and he aims to fast track his career into a job “that will pay for a house within five years,” he said. Intern Angel Lopez, 17, is a Silverton High School senior. He’s always liked music – playing guitar and a little key- board – but he’s recently picked up a passion for computer technology. “I’ve always been fascinated by video games and computers, but now I want to know how they work,” he said. Like his peers, his path to this sum- mer’s paid internship started partway through high school, where he was first tasked with recycling computer parts. He and other students typically accu- mulate enough knowledge by doing this and job-shadowing older interns to start working on their own. One of this summer’s big jobs for in- terns was setting up a whole new class- room for computer science teacher Craig Rankin. Thirty brand-new computers, each with dual monitors, can now accommo- date regular classes, as well as distance learning taught by offsite professionals. Rankin expressed gratitude for the many hours the district’s young interns spent helping get his classroom ready his first day of teaching. “I wouldn’t be able to function with- out these guys,” he said. “I would have to live here 24-7.” ber and continues until June or July. For questions, comments and news tips, email reporter Whitney Wood- worth at wmwoodwort@statesman- journal.com, call 503-399-6884 or fol- low on Twitter @wmwoodworth Address: P.O. 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