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COCC tuition increased
MLYAY TYMOO
March 27, 1987 I'ae 7
The proposed 1987-88 fiscal bud
get for the Central Oregon Com
munity College district stays within
the allowed six-percent iax base
increase and requests a jump in tui
tion for full-time students of $15
per term.
In the President's message to the
College budget board March II,
Dr. Fred Boyle noted that the
COCC mission remains the same.
The quest to have Central Oregon
Community College be the best
absolutely and have the College
make a significant difference m
Central Oregon community life
continues.
During his address, the Presi
dent outlined four priorities for the
College in the next year.
1 . A request to conduct a quality
of life study to assess both the intcl
lectural and cultural quality of ser
vice on the COCC campus.
2. To increase COCC services
and activities in the outlying areas
of the 10,000 square mile college
district.
3. To continue the development
of upper division and graduate
courses for the citizens of Central
Oregon.
4. To work with the legislature in
order to provide a portion of the
cost to construct a 30,000 square
foot building through state funds.
The new building would alleviate
some of the overcrowding on cam
pus by moving the College's pro
fessional services under one roof.
The total expenditures proposed
for the College this ye, r are
$9,451,606. The budget board will
make its recommendatoins on
budget items in April, budget hear
ings will be held in May and the
budget is scheduled for adoption in
early June.
The regular board of directors
meeting followed the budget meet
ing. Ihe board discussed and
adopted a tuition increase for the
next school year of 7.5, setting1
the tuition for full-time students at
$215 per term.
Tuition charges have not changed
for two ycarsat COCC. Ihe charges
for part-time students ($21.50 per
credit), out-of-district tuition ($330
per quarter), and out-of-state tui
tion ($1,082 j - lartcr) will not '
change. With the tuition increase,
COCC charges arc still be the fifth
lowest in Oregon's 13 community
college system.
In other board matters, two
people have filed forclection to the
open Zone 6 position on the board.
Gale Corsun and Laurie Pcrrctt
arc hoping to fill the scat vacated
by Patricia Moss. The board elec
tion will be held March 31.
Parent advisory mtg. April 7
The Title IV. Part A. Parent
Advisory Committee will hold its
next meeting on Tuesday. April 7
at 7 p.m. in the library at Warm
Springs Elementary. Please note
the change in date for this meeting.
The agenda will include a guest
speaker from Center III in Seattle.
She will be explaining about some
of the resources and evaluation
services this group provides to
Indian education groups in Wash
ington. Oregon. Idaho and Alaska.
Any questions can be directed to
Bobbie Roberts at 475-6192.
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Madras high student Mollie Madden skillfully decorates faces during the 509V district art fair held March 14
at Madras Jr. High.
Warm Springs Elementary News
Teacher evaluation critical ele
ment in our school improvement process
Each year during the month of March,
teachers who are in their first, second,
or third year in the Jefferson County
School District receive a written eva
luation of their performance. This for
mal evaluation is a summary of obser
vations made by the principal by periodi
cally observing classroom instruction,
reviewing the teacher's progress on the
yearly goals that shehe set for her
himself. many formal and informal
discussions about instruction and stu
dent progress, and the teacher's own
ev aluation of her his progress. Teachers
who have achieved permanent status
(3 years) go through the same process,
but on a two-year cycle. Administra
tors, also, have the benefit of going
through a similar process with their
supervisor. Superintendent Darrell
Wright.
In Jefferson County School District,
we believe that the most important in
being able to provide a quality instruc
tional program tor our students is to
have a highly qualified teaching staff.
Therefore, the evaluation process des
cribed above is followed diligently and
given the highest priority. Our goal is
that through this process, communica
tion between teacher and supervisor
will become open and constructive,
thus leading to opportunities for further
refinement of teaching skills.
As principal of Warm Springs Ele
mentary, I am most fortunate to be
able to supervise a highly talented
group of instructors. These teachers
hold high expectations for themscvlcs
and are continually seeking ways to
strengthen their teaching styles to further
increase student motivation and suc
cess. They view the evaluation process
as an opportunity to discuss and assess
their goals and instructional strategics.
It is exciting for me to be able to assist
them in both their informal self-evaluation
process, and the formal adminis
trator evaluation process. With such
effort by a staff, it is certain we will
continue to maintain a quality educa-
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tional program for your children.
Annual achievement testing soon
During the week of April 6-10. stu
dents in all of this district's schools will
be taking their annual achievement
tests, called the California Achieve
ment Tests of "CAT" tests. Students
will be doing some practice tests on
Monday, April 6, then begin the series
of three days of tests on April 7. Test
ing begins the first thing in Ihe morning
so it is very important that students
arrive on time to school. You can help
your child to perform at their best by
making sure they get a good breakfast
each day and extra sleep at night.
The teachers will be working to pre
pare the students for this test by review-'
ing with the students what they have
learned throughout this year. This review
will be a little different from their regu
lar daily assignments, as they will be
giving them problems where they have
to be able to choose the correct answer
from a short list of possible answers.
These types of multiple choice ques-
tions will give the students a chance to
correctly. These points would go towards
the total team score. Teams could also
be awarded bonus points for their team
work and cooperation. I was impressed
by the number of points they earned.
No wonder this class was selected for
this award. They did an excellent job of
working together as a team. Fach
member had a chance to do hisher
part and was eager to consider all ideas
lor solving the problem. These skills
are not limited to just math, they use
them throughout the day in a variety of
situations. 1 hey have learned that work
ing together is by far more rewarding
than working against each other. 7 his
fourth grade class has really worked
hard to get where they are. We con
gratulate them and hope they continue
to do the wonderful job they arc doing.
Article submitted by Mary Soli,
second grade teacher.
venting a student Irom attending school HrM prizes Michael WainanuitdiiNt
regularly. Each week he reviews all of grade); Fsmeralda I a v. son (second
the students attendance records and grade); Iravis Miller (third grade):
assists the teachers in contacting the Jaclyn Tulee (fourth grade); I redd
parents guardians of students who are Colao (fifth grade),
having problems. Many thanks go to Second prizes Jeremiah Johnson
those families who have worked hard (first grade); Reggie Heath (second
to help their child to get to school on grade); Scott Riddle (second grade);
time every day. AericGibson(third grade); I.acev I rank
4.0 Develop programs for improv- (fourth grade); Angeline Wolle (lillh
ing students' writing. grade);
You will be quite pleased with the Third prizes Kevin Williams (first
improvement many students are mak- grade); (iabe Jack (second grade);
ing in their writing. We are especially Cameron Jack and Cecil Conncrdhird
Participation powwow
The Warm Springs School-Family
Participation powwow was held on
February 19 and 20. It was a contest
for students and their families which
practice thinking in the way the achieve-, j involved doing reading and writing
, iiiciia, icais win icijuiic mem iu trunk. i-j
They will also be giving the students
several opportunities to practice mark
ing answer sheetsanother activity the
students rarely do in their regular
classrooms work.
We are proud of achievements of
your children this year. Please help us
to fairly and accurately check the stu
dents ability by encouraging your
children to do their best on these tests.
Your vote of confidence in the children ;
will go a long ways towards building
their confidence in themselves,
February outstanding citizens of the
month
Kindergarten Rosalina Arte, Eric
Williams, Crystal Scott, Evaristo Antu-
nez; First grade Glendon Smith, Jere
miah Johnson, Canku Smith; Second
grade Jessie Esquiro, Tama Langnese,
Nicole Garcia; Third grade Wanblee
Smith, Aldo Antunez; Fourth grade
Josephine Johnson, GeraldineSwitzler,
Brian Suppah; Fifth grade Chet Van
Pelt, Sunmiet Minnick; Math Terri
Philpott.
February class of the month
activities at home. Students earned
points for the activities they did at
school and those they did at home with
their families.
Each family that wished to partici
pate received a packet of information
about this opportunity to have fun
while helpingyourchild with their school
work. In this packet there was a list of
the activities they could do with their
child. Two sampleactivities were: read
ing comics out loud and writing down
all the ways an empty soup can could
be used. At our February Awards
Assembly, Carol Bailey, creator and
coordinator of this activity, presented
36 children certificates for their fami
ly's participation. A big thank you to
all of those families that helped their
children with these activities.
Warm Springs Elementary goals for
1986-87 progress report
Ms. Linda Davidson's fourth grade
was awarded the February Outstand
ing class of the month. In order to find
out more about this class and the quali
ties which make them outstanding, I
dropped in to visit their math class.
In math, they were working in teams
of four students. Each team was respon
sible for working through a variety of
activities dealing with their problem
solving skills. Points could be earned
for each activity that was completed
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Harm Springs tribal archaeologist Dan Matt son instructs student Genei't Charley in the method used to draw
a family tree during Cultural Anthropology class held in Harm Springs through Central Oregon Community
College. Mattson will be teaching an A rchaeology class spring term.
The staff and students are continu
ing to work towards achieving our
goals. As I told you in a previous new
sletter, the teachers and I continue to
meet twice each month to discuss our
progress and develop new strategies
for meeting each goal. The following is
a summary of our progress:
1.0 increase family involvement in
school activities
Most classes have already achieved
their goal of having 100 percent of the
families of the children in a class
involved in at least one school activity.
All of the classes will continue to invite
family members to participate in their
class and all-school activities. Some of
the eventsactivities that families have
participated in recently are:
1.1 Participation powwow
1.2 Math fair. Families came and
watched their children doing a variety
of problem solving activities in the
gym.
1.3 Women in History Week. Cur
rently second and third graders are
talking to their families about their
women they admire. Then they arc
writing information about this women
on a large star and putting the star on
the bulletin board in the hall. Come
and take a look you'll be proud to see
who it is that the children admire.
1.4 Many parentsguardians are stop
ping by to talk with their child's pro
gress. Parentsguardians are always
welcome at school, and should not hes
itate to stop by to talk to a teacher.
2.0 Improve student academic per
formance in a targeted area.
Each grade level has chosen one area
to really emphasize this year. Below
you will find a list of those areas that
are getting extra attention at each
grade level. First grade vocabulary
and speaking in complete sentences;
second grade writing sentences: third
grade language; fourth grade voca
bulary and punctuation; fifth grade vo
cabulary. Every two weeks, the teachers in
each grade level sit dow n together and
plan w hat they w ill do for the next two
weeks to give students extra practice in
these areas.
3.0 Establish a Wirm Springs Prev
ention team which meets weekly to
monitor student attendance and develop
way to solve attendance problems.
Fd Roley. counselor, continues to
work closely with the teacher and fami
lies to solve problems which are pre-
excited about the progress our first
graders arc making in learning to write
stories. When you are at school, go by
the first grade classrooms and you will
see many examples of their writing up
in the hall. Several of our older child
ren have joined Carol Bailey's journal
ism club and have been learning how to
interview people and write news arti
cles based on the interview. These arti
cles appeared in both the Spilyay and
the Pioneer.
S.O Increase supportive interactions
among students
The students demonstrated their
increased ability to do things nice for
each other lust month when they'had a
"Send a Positive Message" day. On
this day, they wrote supportive notes
toeach ol her and mailed them through
the school mail. Last week, the stu
dents had the opportunity to watch the
'friends puppet company" do a play
called. "The New Boy in School." In
this play the students learned the fol
lowing rules for being friendly: 5.1 be
honest; 5.2 be careful; 5.3 don't hog the
show; 5.4 put other's first.
Next month we will be planning
activities for a "put others first" day.
6.0 Establish monthly communica
tions between the school and the Warm
Springs Senior Building.
Caroline Cruz, the first and second
grade teachers, and me are making
progress on the Elder's project. This
project is going to bring a group of
elders into the primary classrooms to
help teach lessons in drug and alcohol
abuse prevention. At the end of this
month the elders will be receiving their
training. They will be starting work in
the classrooms in April.
7.0 Develop classroom activities for
teaching Indian culture throughout the
curriculum grades K-5. '
The Indian Cultural Awareness Com
mittee continues to work on develop
ing lessons for all grades. Last month
the students and teachers completed
their study of legends. As a part of this
study the students read many legends.
Then each class chose their favorite
legend and made a mural about it to
put outside their classroom door. Jim
and Luana Macy sponsored a contest
where three gift certificates were given
to the classes with the best murals. All
the children who participated in the
contest received a certificate or a free
ice cream at Macy's. Three hundred
and fifty children participated.
Fifth graders put on math fair at
Buff Elementary.
Denver Sensibaugh, math specialist,
and Harry Phillips, fifth grade teacher
took Harry's class to Buff Elementary
at the beginning of this month to put
on a Math Fair. At the fair, the fifth
graders guided groups of fifth and
sixth graue students at Buff through a
variety of activities designed to chal
lenge the children's problem solving
skills. The variety of activities included
solving gocmctrical puzzles, estimat
ing how many scoops of beans it would
take to fill a jar. duplicating geometri
cal patterns, reading graphs and charts,
and measuringdistances. Both teachers
reported that we would have been
proud to watch our fifth graders skill
fully taking many children through
these activities.
Mt. View Hospital sponsors color
ing contest
grade); Mandy Switler(fourth grade):
and Sunmiet Minnick (fifth grade).
Classroom Newsbits
Laurie Scnsinaugh's third graders
are anxiously waiting lor a response to
the letters they wrote recently to their
penpals at Madras Elementary. I he
following letters are examples of letter
writing talents:
Dear Mary.
I am sorry very sorry that Teara
moved away. Now you have two pen
pals, me and Lynn. Lynn you see is my
friend. I have seen you before when we
went to your school. Our teachers savs
that you guys will visit us in April. And
on thing, please don't write in cursive!
Your penpal. Aerie Gibson
Dear Jeremy.
Thank you for the Valentine. When
are you coming to our school. May
favorite is fall. What do you do in read
ing? I'm reading a book about the best
in Mr. Roone's Room. Write good in
cursive.
Your penpal, Patrick Wyena
Dear Magarita.
Thank you for the valentine. When
are you coming to our school? Do you
like math and reading or language or
music or library or P.E. or spelling?
The valentine was neat. It was pretty
and nice. Do you like reading a book
that has 367 pages?
Your penpal, Jamie Winsor
This week was the end of contest
sponsored by Mt. View Hospital to
promote Poison Prevention. The stu
dents submitted pictures they had
colored which reminded students not
to take any medicine that is not pres
cribed forthem. Thegrand prizewinners
received a "Week of Sundaes" from
Dairy Queen. First, second, and third
place winners received winners. The
winners were as follows:
Grand prizes Tina Calica (first
grade). Tama I angnese (second grade:
Michael Smith (third grade): vonne
Farlifoudh grade): Madeline Jim(fifth
grade).
Three of ourstudents. Sunmiet Min
nick, Lizzie Smith, and Yvonne Earl
participated in the "Olympics of the
Mind" competition on March 14th.
The students had prepared for weeks
for this day. At the event they had to
demonstrate their ability to think crea
tively and critically in solving prob
lems. All students did a wonderful job
and we are very proud of them. Sun
miet Minnick's team made the finals of
the competition. As a result, she and
her three teammates will be going to
the state competition on April 4. Good
luck!
During last month's awards assem
bly Ed Roley, counselor, presented
Freddy Coloza. grade 5. with the
"Greater than a Dinosaur Is Big"award.
This award will be presented each
month to a student w ho has been espe
cially generous or big-hearted with
other people. Freddy has been working
regularly with the kindergarten child
ren to help them with their lessons. He
has a special talent with small children.
Children love to work for Freddy. He
motivates the children to work hard
and creatively. Congratulations Freddy. ;
We are all proud of you.
All of our classes have been doing
special activities to commenrate
"Women in History" week. The child
ren are studying a variety of women
who have made important contribu- ;
tions to all of our lives. The library is
sponsoring a contest for the students ;
where they submit pictures they have
colored of famous women in history. '
Ask your children to tell you about
some of the women they are learning ,
about. ;
Ms. Sensibaugh's third grade class
spends ten to fifteen minutes every
afternoon quietly reading library books.
For awhile the children tried to keep
track of all the books they have read,
but have found that they have read so
many that they have lost track. It's ;
wonderful to find them so excited
about reading.
openings
There are presently openings in
the kindergarten class and after
school class for children, according
to Charlene White. People who arc
interested in enrolling their child
ren in cither of the two classes
should contact her at 553-1161.
ext. 316.
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