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C Spilyay Tymoo WAKM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761 March 19, 1986 Vape Natural resources conference planned V..,V j i Warm Springs superintendent Bernard Topash administers oath of office to OlneyPatt, Sr. and Liz Tewee as they become Local Housing Authority Commissioners. Duties of the position include guidance and direction regarding HUD programs on the reservation and review of HUD budgets. Other commissioners are Elizabeth Rhoan, Katherine Jackson, Vernon Henry, Daisy Ike and Charlotte Herkshan. News from the school Achievement Testing Our yearly achievement testing Df all students will be done during the week of April 14. Testing usually begins first thing in the morning so it is very, important that the students arrive at school on time. It is quite difficult to arrange for make-up examinations so we would appre ciate your help in minimizing student absences during this week. If you would schedule dentist appointments, trips out of town, and other appointments at another time it would assist us in planning and having a well-organized and relaxed exa mination week. Bussing procedures We are currently discussing and researching ways to increase the safety and efficiency1 6f-our transportation system. The tea chers have reviewed the bus rules and procedures with their students. Specifically, we have reminded them that if they ride the bus to and from school, they must catch the bus at their home bus stop in the morning and at the school in the after noon. They must not walk to the Community Center to catch the bus. Due to safety and insu rance reasons we cannot permit students to catch the bus home after they have walked to the store or gone some other place. Bus drivers are directed to not allow students to make changes in which bus they ride, where they get on or off the bus, and whether or not they ride the bus unless the student has a note from home or the office has notified the bus driver or teacher of a change. If a student walks from the school to the Community Center to catch a bus, the bus driver will not allow the student to board the bus at that point. Thank you parents and guard ians for the help you have given us by calling or sending notes when you would like your child to change his or her regular transportation routine. It saves much confusion and we are most appreciative. If we should decide to make any changes in your child's transportation rou- tine, I will send a note home and ask that it be announced on KWSI. E arm Springs Elementary calendar March 26 Birthday lunch March 27 Awards Assembly-I:20 p.m. March 28 Third quarter March 31-ApriI 4 Spring Vacation April 7 School resumes April 11 Report cards sent home with students. April 14-18 Yearly achievement tests will be given to all students during this week. (April 16 Birthday lunch birthdays April 29 Awards Assembly-10:35 a.m. April 30 Birthday Lunch for students with July birthdays May 7 Spring Music May 26 Memorial Holiday A V f - yX:- New Commissioners Outstanding Citizens in February Bob Jackson was our guest presenter of awards during our February awards assembly. We appreciated having him with us to present the following awards for "Citizens of the Month:" Kindergarten Jonathan Jef ferson, Lei Calica, Charlie Hellon and Pi-Ta Pitt; First Walter Waheneka, Adam Rubio and Jessie Esquiro; Second Adriana Frank, Vanessa Langley, Vanessa Knight; Third Rachelle Bette ga, Debra Mitchell, Maria Cola zo; Fourth Jennifer Tufti, Romelle Speakthunder; Fifth Jolene Boise, Jimmy Wyena, Joy Soto; Special Pro grams Rueben Henry; Read ing Tiffiney Andrews, Tony Manion, Louie Smith, Jimmy Wyena; Math James Samv Outstanding Class of the Month Mrs. Sensibaugh's third grade class received the Outstanding Class of the Month award. They have demonstrated great improve ment in the behavior over the school year and have become a cooperative learning team. We are proud of their efforts to help each other to become even better students and supportive friends. Goal: Reduce amount of incom plete assignments by 50 per cent. The staff is currently working to achieve the above goal. To do this, we are working with Joe Coburn and Robin Butter field of the Northwest Regional Laboratory in a program called, "Effective Practices in Indian Education." This program asks a staff to meet together to use their combined efforts to work together towards a common goal. In addition to our own back grounds of experience and know ledge, Joe and Robin have given us an excellent teacher's guide which describes practices which other teachers in Indian educa tion have found useful in encou raging and directing students to become successful. Robin meets with us once a month to discuss our progress and make sugges- tions for the next month. At this time, teachers are expe rimenting with different strategies for students with March birth days (Parentsguardians welcome to join your child at the birthday table. Please purchase your lunch ticket in the office-$1.50). ends Two hour early dismissal. No AM Kindergaretn. PM Kindergarten attends from 8:30-11:30 a.m. for students with April Program yp . . 1 if ,N ' ' ? ' life Xj lljffr"MIII in hi ' i ! I M ' 'l ,l Spllyy Tymoo photo hy Shtwctrk to encourage and motivate stu dents to complete all their assign ments. It is our hope that by the end of the year, we will have helped students to significantly increase the number of assign-. ments they complete successfully. Some examples of strategies being tried are: charting the number of assignments each stu dent completes, students work ings in learning teams to help and encourage each other to complete assignments, and after school study hall (described be low). After school student assistant study hall Warm Springs Elementary will be experimenting with an after school study hall for students , who need extra help with their school, work or for those, who, are not completing their assign ments. This study hall will be available to students on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Teachers are volunteering their time and will be available to supervise and help students with their school work. This is not a detention or . punishment but an attempt to assist students with their stu dies, therefore good behavior will be expected. Classroom tea chers will refer students to the study hall by sending a note home to the parents asking per mission for the students to stay. Parents will be responsible for arranging transportation home tor tneir cnna. students may stay until 5:00 p. m. or may leave earlier as they complete their work. Behavior improvement seen at school by Ed (Duso) Roley The major contributor to the marked improvement in the beha vior of the kids here at Warm Springs Elementary School is our principal, Jane Wester-gaard-Nimocks. She may not have written the book on catch ing people in the act of doing things right, but she would have made a great co-author. She has established excellent order through effectively using com mon sense accompanied by rea sonable and fair consequences, backed up with an in-school suspension policy. She has also impressed on the staff that the best motivational tool at hand is to catch people in the act of doing things right. Several tangi ble examples of this are the self managers program, hall moni tors, outstanding citizenship awards, attendance awards, as well as the positive change empha sis of recent weeks. You can't argue with success, so if there are any "Doubting Thomases" out there, please come into the school for a visit and see for yourself how these programs have improved discip line and behavior. While this is true and explains in part w hy so many of the staff and students enjoy coming to school, the most important factor in making the school a great Can government land mana gers and Indian tribes work together to preserve Native American Cultural integrity and still develop tribal resources? What is the federal govern ment's trust responsibility for natural resource development, on and off the reservation? Some of North American's leading Native American and government authorities are being invited to answer these questions at a major National conference set June 30 to July 2, 1986, at Humboldt State University in Areata, California. The confe rence is entitled, "Native American Natural Resources Conflicts and Concerns." .-" . I i ' V. ' j , Vyr'' JA I v" ' ' .... .. V-V . ' ? . ' For many years two display cases have hung in the corridor at the Old A dministration Building. In recent years pictures and other items have be taken out of the cases. It was unclear who the rightful owners were since Tribal andBIA personnel were not sure if the artifacts have been purchased for the displays or if they had been donated or loaned. A telephone call to Ruby Leno, former BIA employee,for further information revealed that the items had only been loaned for display. The Indian ladies who had originally loaned the items had died years ago. A t the time of the deaths the items should have been part of their estates. Pierson Mitchell, Probate clerk trainee, labeled the items and put them in the Probate safe until such time as the ownership is determined by Probate laws. place to be is the kids. I'd like to pass on an incident which happened recently. An older boy came to my office after hearing that his little brother had been hurt. I could see that he was holding back tears. I called the hurt one in so his protector could check it out. It was very touching to see the older brother struggling to hear what happened and at the same time holding back tears so the little one wouldn't know he was crying for him. It's very rare and beautiful to see that kind of love. I can't remember ever seeing a brother show so much concern and love for a younger family member. The sympathetic tears were a tremendously beautiful and touching sight. If you've seen the picture from Boys Town, Nebraska where a ten year old brother is carrying his little brother in his arms and saying, "He ain't heavy father, he's my brother!" Then you understand the love this incident brought to mind. What a fantastic gift, to have love like that! Is it any wonder w hy we w ho work at the Warm Springs Ele mentary School enjoy coming to work! Purpose of the conference is "to bring together some of the nation's experts to search for common ground on natural resource issues on which they often find themselves at odds," according to Russell V. Boham, Director, Native American Career Education in Natural Resources (NACENR) at Humboldt State University. Boham is principal organizer of the conference. "Instead of squaring off unpro ductively," Boham said, "we plan to use invited authorities and a panel of Humboldt State natural resource experts to move us toward resolution of issues that have been culturally, socially Spilyay Tymoo photo by Ltmt-Baker I t 4 .. f V-;, I - . y.fh ' 1 y, f . Bernyce Courtney recently took first place in the state competition of the 1986 Gertrude Fogelson Arts Awards sponsored by the Oregon Association of American Mothers. Courtney's entry "Luna, " a quilted wall hanging, silk with cut glass beading know on display in the Administration building lobby. Using a combina tion of machine and hand stitching in her work, Courtney integrates her own color combinations, materials, textures and design. and religiously divisive for gene rations." Topics to be addressed include, Indian Hunting Rights; Forest Development vs. Cultural Resource Protection; and Cultu ral Implications of Mineral Development. The topics repre sent diverse places and case histories across Indian country. Among the invited authorities who will participate are Suzanne Shown-Harjo, Executive Direc tor of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI); John Mohawk, Chairman of the Board of the Seventh Generation Fund and former Chief Editor of "Akwesasne Notes"; Rick St. Germaine, Chairman of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Joseph Wilson, former Chairman of the Board of the Sealaska Corp.; John Echohawk, Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund(NARF); and William Babby, Sacramento Area Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The panel of Natural Resources experts will include Dr. Rocky Guiterrez, Wildlife department Chairman, Humboldt State University; Dr. Jerry Allen, Professor of Forestry, Humboldt State University; Dr. Andre Lehre, Assistant Professor of Geology, Humboldt State University and Dr. David Hankin, Associate Professor of Fisheries, Humboldt State University. Further information about the conference is available by writing or calling Boham at the NACENR Program. Humboldt State University, Areata, CA 95521; (707) 826-4994. Regi stration, he said, will be limited to 300 persons to assure a produc tive forum. The Native American Career Education in Natural Resource program at Humboldt State is a support program for Indian stu dents pursuing degrees in the Natural Resource disciplines. Easter Program Carol Allison, director of the 2nd annual Easter Program, invites community members to get involved in the Easter pageant this year. Allison needs special people to supervise breadmaking, Easter egg hunt, music for the program and costume making. These preparations will conti nue through the month of March, until the program on the 29th. If you are interested in taking part in the play or any part of this special program, contact Carol Allison at the community center. Smytf Tymptototj Skrwnrt