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2A ܂ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2019 ܂ APPEAL TRIBUNE IN BRIEF Alzheimer support group meets Feb. 19 Those supporting peo ple who have Alzheimer’s disease often need sup port themselves. Silver ton Senior Center offers a support group for anyone who is a spouse of loved one of someone with Alz heimer’s. The group meets on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. The senior center is located at 115 Westfield St., in Silverton and can be reached by phone at 5038733093. Lunaria Gallery showing paintings, jewelry Through Feb. 24, Lu naria Gallery is exhibiting the paintings of Judith Frohreich and the jewelry of Helen Nute Wiens. In the Loft, a collection of drawings by Deborah R. Denno, titled, ”The Sounds of the Earth Are Like Music,” is on display. Both shows are open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at 113 N Water Street. – Christena Brooks Address: P.O. 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ANNA REED/STATESMAN JOURNAL “We also have to realize today ... we have many students with unmet needs. Housing insecurity, food insecurity, unmet mental-health needs. They have needs in- and outside of school that many of our members are not equipped to deal to with.” John Larson President of the Oregon Education Association Teachers Continued from Page 1A They have needs in and outside of school that many of our members are not equipped to deal to with.” The report was re leased just two weeks into Oregon’s 2019 legislative session. Lawmakers are expect ed to have a large focus on education, especially since the Joint Committee on Student Success is set to develop a comprehen sive budget and policy road map to improve K12 schools. Larson said the associ ation will make sure every legislator has a copy of this report. While the association estimates another $4 bil lion over the current ser vice level is needed to get schools where they need to be, Larson recognized it has to be a longterm, sus tainable investment and it won’t happen immediate ly. “Oregon is filled with quality educators, quality support professionals who care about every stu dent,” he said. “But the conditions in our school make it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs successful. “We need to make sure we aren’t selling our fu ture short.” Disruptive behaviors in the classroom PUBLIC NOTICE SILVERTON FIRE DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID Contractors are invited to bid on the Site Work for Silverton Fire Station (Project), located at the Silverton Fire District, 819 Rail Way NE, Silverton, OR 97381. The Project consists of drainage improvements, wash pad installation and pavement repairs located at the same ad- dress, per District specifications. Sealed bids will be received by Bill Miles, Fire Chief at 819 Rail Way NE, Silverton, OR 97381 at or before 3:00 p.m., March 14, 2019. Bids will be publically opened immediately following this closing. This contract is for a public work subject to ORS 279C.800 to 279C.870 [or Davis-Bacon Act 40 U.S.C. 276(a)], relating to the payment of pre- vailing wages. No prequalification will be required for this Project. A non-mandatory pre-bid walk thru will be held at 10:00AM February 27, 2019. The terms, conditions and specifications for this Project (Project Documents) may be examined at Silverton Fire District (District) office locat- ed at 819 Rail Way NE, Silverton, OR 97381, be- tween the hours of 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday until March 14, 2019. The Proj- ect Documents will be available at this location and are downloadable from the District website at www.silvertonfire.com from the date of this Notice until March 14, 2019. Paper copies may be obtained from the architect for a non-- refundable fee of $35. Electronic copies are free by email, please inquire per below. Please direct all inquiries to Gene Bolante, Studio 3 Architecture 503-390-6500 gene@studio3a rchitecture.com . Bill Miles, Fire Chief Silverton Fire District 819 Rail Way NE Silverton, OR 97381 Silverton Appeal February 13, 2019 PUBLIC POLICY NOTICES Public Notices are published by the Statesman Journal and available online at w w w .S ta te s m a n J o u r n a l.c o m . The Statesman Journal lobby is open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can reach them by phone at 503-399-6789. In order to receive a quote for a public notice you must e-mail your copy to SJLegals@StatesmanJournal.com , and our Legal Clerk will return a proposal with cost, publication date(s), and a preview of the ad. LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICE DEADLINES All Legals Deadline @ 1:00 p.m. on all days listed below: ***All Deadlines are subject to change when there is a Holiday. The Silverton Appeal Tribune is a one day a week (Wednesday) only publication • Wednesday publication deadlines the Wednesday prior LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICE RATES Silverton Appeal Tribune: • Wednesdays only - $12.15/per inch/per time • Online Fee - $21.00 per time • Affidavit Fee - $10.00 per Affidavit requested According to the re port, a disruptive learning environment is defined when student behavior significantly interferes with instruction and/or school staff members’ ability to maintain a sta ble classroom or ensure student safety. At times, these behav iors can become danger ous to the student exhib iting them, or the class room as a whole. The report lists myriad negative behaviors edu cators see regularly — ver bal abuse, persontoper son abuse, weaponizing the classroom and de struction of property. At listening sessions across the state, educa tors told the association about the “atmosphere of violence that was palpa ble,” of attacks that came regularly and of trauma students experience in that environment. And while these be haviors may not all be new, educators have re ported an increase in the severity and frequency in recent years. School districts are not required to keep formal data on incidents like room clears. A room clear is when students temporarily leave a classroom to re duce the likelihood of in jury or trauma as a result of extreme behavior. This typically happens when one student is exhibiting behavior that puts the rest of the class at risk. The association sur veyed educators and stu dents across Oregon on these issues. Of the respondents, 32 percent said they were scared for students’ safety at school, 25 percent said they were concerned for their own safety and 56 percent said their class room or their child’s class room had experienced at least one room clear this year. Anecdotally though, many families, adminis trators and staff have re ported to the association that weekly or daily room clears have become com monplace, according to the report. And according to the biannual poll called the Oregon Teaching, Em powering, Leading and Learning survey, educa tors feel less safe now than they did in 2014, with the percentage of staff who agreed the environ ment they work in is safe dropping from 92 percent in 2014 to 82 percent in 2018. “There is not a reliable, timely or effective system in place to intervene when there are consistent dis ruptions,” one respondent told the association. “It feels like a BandAid ap proach.” Photo gallery goes here: gallery 2769698002 unpub lished Affecting students, staff These behaviors can affect everyone in the classroom. The student exhibiting the behaviors often lose instructional time and needed supports, and educators said they can experience social isola tion and emotional trau ma as a result of how peers treat them in the af termath of the events. The students witness ing or being harmed by the behaviors also lose out on instructional time, when Oregon already has one of the shortest school years in the country. Some of these peers have been physically in jured. According to the re port, others have a hard time learning even when an event isn’t occurring due to the stress or fear that something will. Educators told the as sociation they feel dis couraged “that often the only intervention avail able is for students to be removed from class and ‘babysat’ in an office, rather than addressing their unmet needs or re ceive tools to manage their behavior.” “Quite honestly, this is a community problem,” Larson said. “This is something that we really need to solve together. “Our students are at risk,” he said. “We need to make sure they are safe and able to learn.” Evaluating root causes When asked “Why do disrupted learning envi ronments occur?”, one participant wrote, “More problems and less sup port.” The association said decades of “chronic and systemic disinvestment in Oregon schools” is per haps the most influential reason for this, pointing to the fact that, over the last two decades, the Legisla ture has consistently fi nanced schools at about 21 to 38 percent below what its own research suggested districts need ed to be successful. However, the report also lists a number of oth er contributing factors, in cluding increased class sizes; decreased student support specialists; stu dents with high needs but no resources to support them; a marked decreased in “wellrounded educa tion opportunities” and time for physical activity; a lack of appropriate training for educators and an “unclear implementa tion of policies regarding restraint and seclusion, k5 expulsion and sus pension” and protocols for disruptions. Not every district is af fected by all of these fac tors, though. For example, large class sizes are a signifi cant issue in districts like SalemKeizer Public Schools, which recently passed a capitalcon struction bond and is planning to change boundaries to address overcrowding. However, smaller, rural districts aren’t usually battling large classes. In stead, they may be facing increased percentages of students who are living in poverty and experiencing homelessness or food in security. And even within one school and one class room, every student will have their own back ground and experiences. “It’s different for every, single child,” Larson said, adding that’s why the state needs more profes sional development to help better prepare staff. He said additional adults in the classroom and, in some cases, improved curriculum are also need ed. Larson said the goal is to get the resources so each school can look at its population and ask what students need to get the best education possible. Teachers’ recommendations The Oregon Education Association includes a number of recommenda tions in the report that are meant to address the short and longterm needs in classrooms statewide. Three key ideas were prioritized — increasing onsite student supports with a focus on mental health, reducing class size and caseloads, and fully funding targeted profes sional development and ongoing supports for im plementation. Each recommendation includes steps for schools, districts and the state to take. For onsite supports, the association recom mends more mental health counselors, school psychologists, social workers, school nurses, speech language patholo gists, occupational and physical therapists and other mental health and trauma experts. Concerning class size, the state’s most recent class size report by the Oregon Department of Education documented 579 classes with 56 or more students. Additionally, almost half of classes are 35 to 51 percent larger than re search recommends, ac cording to the depart ment’s report. Oregon Governor Kate Brown has recommended paying for additional staff in order to reduce class sizes, especially in K3 classes, where students are not only learning aca demic basics, but social norms and appropriate behaviors as well. The association is also recommending smaller case load ratios, as recom mended by the National Association of School Psychologists and the Na tional Association of School Nurses: ܂ 250:1 for school counselors ܂ 500700:1 for school psychologists ܂ 400:1 for social work ers ܂ 750:1 for school nurses (in healthy student populations; higher for more complex needs) And for professional development, the associ ation recommends ongo ing training and support for staff to “fully transfer new knowledge into prac tice.” “We have inadequate training for new curricu lum,” one teacher told the association. “Teachers in my school are expected to be doing restorative prac tices/circles regularly in our classrooms; however, not one hour of training has been given so that teachers do this in a truly inclusive and helpful way.” The association rec ommends staff getting thorough and consistent training on models of traumainformed prac tices, social and emotion al learning programs and positive behavior pro grams, to name a few. Though the report focuses on those three key recom mendations, it also in cludes a number of other ideas that would report edly help improve safety in schools. Family wraparound services, increased physi cal movement and clari fied protocols for physical intervention and restraint of students are just a few. To read the full report, go to . For more information, go to https://www.oregon ed.org/ or contact the Oregon Education Associ ation at 5036843300. Contact reporter Nat- alie Pate at npate@StatesmanJour- nal.com, 503-399-6745 or follow her on Twitter @Nataliempate or Face- book at www.Face- book.com/ nataliepatejournalist.
