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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1979)
Spilyay Tymoo actober 22,197SÍ Page 9 Trend School starts up second session Trend Systems. Inc... a “traveling college” operating out of Vancouver, Washing ton, started their second session October 8 with four advanced and nine new students and will continue until June I3. The school offers courses to improve skills in typing, shorthand, math, book keeping. and accounting and is located by Rehab in the old Tektronix plant. The classes were offered to those unemployable due to lack of skills, and those interested in the business field. Students are now receiving $2.90 per hour plus $1.00 per day for every dependent up to four. Starting January 1. $3.10 per hour will be paid. A high absenteeism rate the first session prompted CETA personnel to change the rules. Students will be counseled after every day absent and on the third counseling session the student will be dropped. The students have been working on their typing skills twice daily. Their first class is tvoing and the last half hour of school is spent speed building. Human relations is also stressed at the school. Only one student graduated from the last class and Trend instructor Carla Knapp said they're hoping for them all to graduate. Knapp is assisted by Kita Humphrey. “1 can see there was a need for well qualified, confident clerical workers at Warm Springs,” said Knapp,” and that’s what our program is.” A student of the month is selected by the teacher and teacher aid. Taken under consideration when selecting the student is attendance, performance, and how well they get along with others. ACCUR AC YnJeannie Devault, practices her typing drills during class earlier this week at the Trend Business School while Gladys McDonald (right) studies from the book. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Stwyer Federal Programs: A Parent’s Primer Three federal programs designed for Indian students and students deficient in reading exist in the school district and many parents are unaware of them. The three programs are Title IV Part A of the Indian Education Act; Johnson O’Malley (JOM); and Title L They each have active Parent Advisory ‘Committees that meets on a monthly basis to implement and oversee programs ana to help prepare the budget. More parental involvement is encouraged because at recent committee meetings, "it hasn t been good,” said John Trujillo, Federal Programs Coordi nator. “Meetings are announced,” he said, “usually the same people attend all the meetings. We’re not maintain parental support of programs.” Joint education meetings are held off and on throughout the school year with the Tribal Education Committee to keep everyone abreast of activities and to keep a straightline of communication open. Quart erly education meetings are also held after each nine-week sesion is over for parents. The first one is shceduled for November 8 at the Agency Longhouse at 7:00 p.m. Title IV-A and JOM funds are to work with the special needs of Indian students and to improve the communication in schools and homes between teachers and parents pertaining to school activities. There are currently 742 Indian students in the district. Title IV Part A The budget for the school year 1979-80 for Title IV-A is $104,000. Title IV-A funds counselors at the high school and junior high and community liaisons at Warm Springs Elementary, high school, and junior high. The 20-member parent committee meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30 at the Community Center Social Hall. Program goals and objectives for Title IV-A are: 1 .0 Provide positive role models for Indian students students GPA falls below 2.0, needs or student needs. within the school setting. or when attendance will cause Objectives Johnson O’Malley 1.1 Work with leaders of the disciplinary procedures. 3.5 Develop an individual Johnson O’Malley provides Warm Springs community to become involved in the school educational plan for students funds for the Skills Center, when they become deficient in math resource teacher, six process. 1.1.1 Bring in at least two credit and will not graduate teacher aides, math tutor at the members from the community with a diploma with their junior high, and enrichment activities. JOM has a budget of as resource people (each graduating class. quarter) into the school to 4 .0 Involve parents, students, $126,216 and they have their and teachers in meeting the meetings the first Wednesday speak to classes. of every month at the 1.1.2 Involve students in the needs of students. Administration Building at selection of resource people Objectives 4.1 Conduct at least two 9:30 a.m. from the community. Program goals and objec 1.1.3 Involve students in parent/ teacher coferences a leadership and work roles in week regarding student tives for JOM are: 1 .0 To increase the general performance. the community. 1.1.4 Arrange at lease one field 4.1.1 Record of weekly success of eligible students in trip for junior and senior high conferences will be filed and academic achievement in the area of mathematics. School students per quarter to included in quarterly reports. 4.2 Arrange at least two 1.1 By the conclusion of the study Warm Springs. 1.1.5 To develop at least one parent/teacher conferences a year, the Skills Center will enrichment experience that month at the home or in the serve at least fifty students in woul<( involve all students community, regarding student remedial mathematics. 1.2 At least 90% of the students performance. during the year. 1.2 Organize and maintain an 4.2.1 Record of monthly served will gain .5 grade level active and involved school conferences will be filed and during the instructional period. 1.3 At least 25% of the students included in quarterly reports. Indian Club. 1.2.1 Organize and involve a 4.3 To meet with every senior served will achieve grade level parent advisory committee to and their parents to discuss standing in mathematics skills. work with the club, to be graduation, career objectives, 2 .0 Reduce student/adult completed by October 17,1979. and post-high school activities. ratio in the classroom through 1.3 Encourage and provide 4.3.1 Senior/parent confer the addition of aides as Native opportunities for Indian ences will be completed by American role-models for the elementary students. students to be involved in all January 1980. 4.3.2 Reuslts of the senior/pa 2.1 Each teacher will receive school activities. 2 .0 Provide student and parent rent conferences will be assistance from an aide druing advocacy. compiled and sent to Charles the year. Calica, Director, Tribal 2.2 As a result of the added Objectives assistance, teachers will 2.1 Provide assistance and in Education Department. intervention for students when 5 .0 Enhance students’ basic perceive a greater opportunity to plan and individualize their attendance or perfor skills and coping skills. instruction. Teachers will also mance causes disciplinary Objectives procedures, or when their 5.1 Provide school group indicate that time is devoted to health or social well-being is in counseling designed to allow instruction/ record keeping, students to grow productively rather than clerical duties. need of assistance. 3 .0 Provide mid-morning and 2.2 Communicate with and as social beings. utilize community resources 5.2 Coordinate and work with mid-afternoon snacks to the local social agencies, faculties, morning and afternoon when appropriate. 3 .0 Provide counseling and school support staff, and kindergarten session children community leaders in at Warm Springs Elementary guidance activities. Objectives developing primary prevention School. 3.1 Maintain an individual and group counseling 3.1 Develop a nutritional menu to provide snacks druing a student file on every Indian activities. student, consisting of grades, 6 .0 Promote teacher awareness break period. credits, and other relevant and understanding of the needs 4 .0 To enhance Indian students’ leadership, career information necessary to assist of Indian children. Objectives awareness, cultural pride, the student. 3.2 Provide prevention 6.1 Communicate directly with awareness of other life styles, activities for every student teachers when a student and settings, and to support becomes academically rapport between Indian and whose GPA falls below a 2.0 3.3 Provide prevention deficient, or a behavior non-Indian students. 4.1 Develop enrichment activities when a student’t referral. attendance results in step one 6.2 Attend all faculty meetings, calendar of activities by of the attendance policy. making appropriate contribu October 15. 1979. 3.4 Inform parents when a tions concerning program goal 4.2 develop enrichment activities through input from building stff and administra tion. 4.3 95% of the Indian students will participate in at least one I enrichment activity. 4.4 Students will indicate that the enrichment activities were at value. 5 .0 Develop and maintain High School Summer tutoring Program. c.l The program will enroll and provide services to at least thirty-five high school students. 5.2 Given individual assistance from tutors, 80% of the participating Indian students will attain a majority of the objectives set forth in his/her pre-scribed course of study. 6 .0 Provide a Junior High School Math Tutoring Program that will work to increase basic math skills. 6.1 The program will enroll and provide services to at least twenty junior high students. 6.2 Given individual assistance from a tutor, 80% of the participating students will attain a majority of the objectives set forth in his/her prescribed course of study. Title I Title 1 is for all students in the district that are identified as being remedial. The $205,000 funds five teachers which are in every school but Metolius and fifteen aides. Students deficient in reading are pulled from the regular classroom and put into a special reading class to help them catch up. This year funds have been added to Title I for migrants and is called Title 1-M. To be eligible for these funds students must be of migrant status, meaning, they moved into the district within the last 12 months seeking agricultural employment, forestry occupa tions, or fishing related jobs. There are two resource teachers, one teacher aide, and one community liaison under Title 1-M. ;Title I meets the third Thursday of every month at Madras Junior High. Their (Continued on page 10)
