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Spilyay Tymoo Warm Springs, Oregon September 1988 PAGE 7 r"'" 1 " r 1 ""' -in- i i i ;. t . 1 . t v , ... . t j V , I ' j . : if i l- .:. , ' ' - , , I I N I ; 5 ., . ! j ' J k- -T : WSE becoming exemplary program fifyf TfWt00 p000 SbtWtMjrfl Teacher 's A ide Reona Trimble gets Head Start classroom In shape before classes start on September 12. by Jane Wester jaard-Nlmocki After many yean of dedication to the achievement of an effective school program for children of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Warm Springs Elementary is well on its way to becoming an exem plary program. In 1984, Warm Springs Elemen tary began to experience some sig nificant advances in its school pro gram. The selection of the Distar reading program in, the primary grades resulted in impressive im provement in the students'abilities to decode words and principles. Teachers were determined to dis cover strategies to produce similar results in other curriculum areas. They went to work and by 198S, through informal discussions, ex perience and training, they began to implement programs to increase student involvement in each lesson. School-wide improvement plans As students participated more directly in instructional activities, their motivation and performance improved. However, school improve ment and professional development activities were limited to individual or grade level efforts a focused. What's for lunch at W.S. Elementary . . . . , . TL....J... c - i . it i i t l r v Monday, September 12: Chick- enwich, hashbrown patties, vege table stix and fruit Tuesday, September 13: Chef salad, peanut butter sandwich, pear slices and August birthday cake. Wednesday, September 14: French bread pizza, carrot stix, seasoned peas, golden banana and chocolate milk. Thursday, September 15: Tacos, Spanish rice, wheat rolls and but ter and canteloupe wedges. ' Friday, September 16: Tuna noodle casserole, fresh vegetable medley, green beans and sweet rolls. Monday, September 19: Weiner wraps, french fries, celery stix and sliced peaches. Tuesday, September 20: Italian spaghetti, tossed salad, French bread and butter and whipped Jello. Wednesday, September 21: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, popeye salad, rolls and butter and fruit. Thursday, September 21: Ham and cheese sandwich, later gems, "each slices and cookies. Friday, September 22: Beef en chiladas in cheese sauce, seasoned corn, cornmeal rolls and melon wedges. Monday, September 26: Cana dian bacon pan pizza, herbed rice, green beans and peach and pear Tuesday, September 27: Beef burritos, vegetable salad, rolls and butter and fresh fruit. Wednesday, September 28: Cheesy lasagna. crisp garden salad, french rolls and butter and Sep tember birthday cake. Thursday, September 29: Taco salad bowls, cheesy bun and fru ited Jello. Friday, September 30: Cook's Choice! All meals, unless otherwise noted, are served with milk. exonerative clfort to improve school performance was Mill missing from the involvement formula. effective Practices In Indian Ed ucation, a school improvement pro cess developed by the Indian tdu cation Department of the Northwest Regional laboratory, brought favor able results in this area. I he pro gram established a process for school improvement that facilitated communication between staff and created a common focus for im provement efforts. After six months of training, common instructional goals and accompanying objectives, instruc tional activities and evaluation pro ccdures were developed. The school's initial goal was "reducing incomplete assignments by SO per cent." By May 1986 the combined efforts of staff and students resulted in a 61 percent reduction! Effective Practices is successful Effective Practices in Indian Edu cation is now in its third year at Warm Springs Elementary and con tinues to be effective. School-wide improvement efforts and successes include: Between 1985-87, teachers learned new instructional techniques Math their way. A wide array of strate gics for applying math operations in problem solving situations, and school-wide "math fairs" were introduced. Focusing science instruction on the scientific method led to indi vidual class efforts to develop science projects which were then shared with parents and the com munity at a school science fair. The Indian Cultural Curriculum Development Committee was estab lished to develop instructional ac tivities to integrate Indian culture, history, government and trad ition into the existing curriculum. A new Media Center Advisory Committee has assisted in rede signing the media program to in clude more upper grade in-depth study of research techniques, in creased student use of the Media Center and a school-wide reading incentive program. Classroom teachers, specialists, counselors, teaching assistants and the principal have developed a number of proactive measures. This included the Warm Springs Ele mentary Self-Managers Program. a school-wide program to encour age responsible behavior and to teach children additional social skills to help them achieve their goal or "working in harmony with others and nature." Students work in cooperative learning teams to solve a variety of problems. As an example, cross grade tutoring increased the prim ary children's opportunity to read and listen to stories. Test scores keep moving up Warm Springs students are show ing upward progress in their per formance. The 1986-87 Final Eva luation and Project Performance Report for the Title I V-A program showed that, on the average, stu dent test scores at Warm Springs are placing in the middle third of students in the nation. Test scores have continued to maintain an upward trend in achievement tests over the nast nine vears. moving from 23 percent i. 1976 to 45 per cent in 1987. In addition, an informal com parison of elementary Indian stu dents at Warm Springs Elementary with Indian children at other ele mentary schools in the district and at three other public reservation schools in the region was conducted in the spring of 1985. Survey results Warm Springs Elementary Calendar September 13 September 19 September 20 September 23 September 28 August birthday lunch Book fair Open house, 7:30 p.m. Powwow Sept. birthday lunch student scores in reading, math and language exceed those of the other reservation schools and math scores exceed those of other ele mentary schools in the region. Although students from schools outside the district are not a repre sentative sample, they are gener ally comparable schools which can provide a basis for guaging the achievements of Warm springs students. New challenges for school Warm Springs Elementary has clearly used effective schools re search to create a school commun ity where staff, students and com munity view the development of (heir school with pride and confi dence. Next year's focus will be on expanding staff expertise in teach ing higher-order thinking skills in all areas of the curriculum. The same Effective Practices in Indian Education process will be applied in this effort. However, supplement al funding from a $20,000 111) 2020 School Improvement and Profes sional Development Program grant will allow the staff to plan for addi tional training and curriculum development activities to further enhance the school improvement process. In addition. Warm Springs Elem entary has been selected as the site for the Oregon Department of Education's science education pro ject to implement the Science Common Curriculum, a concept process-based method of science in struction. This will be a new chal lenge for the Warm Springs staff but, as in all their other school improvement efforts, they are sure to meet it with enthusiasm. Article is taken from Focus, the Oregon School Boards Association Quarterly Journal, Summer 1988. 3 Welcome to the new school year ' hv Jane VVMtpltti-ft-lMlm ' "jy-jrutrr TJniiiJi . . i ' '. It is again my pleasure to wel come the community to the begin ning of another-Warm Springs Elementary school year and to extend an invitation for each of you to come and visit the school. I hope that you can share my joy in watching the children of Warm Springs learn new and exciting skills that will enable us all to : THINK SMART, BE CREATIVE, AND WORK IN HARMONY WITH OTHERS AND NATURE. Ms. Nancy Wright, Ms. Sharon Perkins and Ms. Marilyn McBride are additions to the teaching staff this year. Ms. Wright will be teach ing the fourth graders and sharing her 21 years of experience in ele mentary education. Besides her background as a classroom teacher, including one year as a sixth grade teacher at Buff Elementary, she has taught for several years in the Redmond Talented and Gifted (TAG) program. Currently she is an evaluator of mathematics text books for the Oregon State Text book Commission and is providing a series of workshops on elemen tary mathematics for a school dis trict in the State of Washington. For the past two years, Ms. Per kins has been a fourth grade teacher at Metolius Elementary. Her dy namic approach to classroom in struction led her to seek additional training in the teaching of elemen tary science. Towards this end, she became a member of a team of instructors, including Warm Springs Elementary's Harry Phil lips, who received advanced train ing in the concept process based method of science instruction. Her interest and expertise in this area will be very valuable as WSE has been selected as the model elemen tary site for the State of Oregon in developing elementary science cur riculum. We feel fortunate to have her as a fourth grade classroom teacher here at Warm Springs. The third very skilled and expert addition to our teaching staff is Ms. Marilvn McBride, an Educa tional Resource Center instructor. Her career in special education began with training in teaching hearing impaired children that led to her mastery of sign language. Her professional interest in better serving a greater number of child ren led her to developing skills in teaching children with a wide var iety of handicapped conditions. The advanced training that Ms. McBride received combined with a natural empathy for children with prob lems will allow us to continue to provide an exemplary special edu cation program for handicapped children. Returning to the staff, after a year of educational leave, are Jeff and Linda Henry. They will be teaching kindergarten this year with fresh, new ideas and the same dedi cation and love they have always had for the Warm Springs students. I ! "Tprej, 1 ii ii i i i - i i i iipwWiiwMWWinnwtui up i m " t. ':." r - - ... . . v . vrf ,. if - . . 4 l : w ' -; y; f r-r-ii i n nii-i 1i f ii nil ni -i i.i.i. , ir ii i in, htm ' -r . , . . ipifyuy Tymoo photo by Shtwctyk Madras Jr. High Title IV counselor Phyllis Griffith speaks to students during back to school workshop sponsored by the Warm Springs Community Center. Griffith encouraged students to be themselves and to be proud of who they are. From Jefferson County School District 509-J... Meal benefits guidelines announced On behalf of the entire staff of Warm springs Elementary, welcome to the 1988-89 school year. 1 III 1 5X I .. .ii : . I hi I . " f H t J I t I ;. r - ' I 1 "V'AX- ' ' , ..er. r t h ,w I ,: ! i, . v, k i " ,i I ; V p.-. , j 1 1 "; J J y,? o I . . I- . pfoc0 Marilyn McBride J V...-.- 'S;fy,' t ? Qc , n "fa''9' W;s0' o o -J1 -A 5 $ o , vQ) a 0 . Sharon Perkins Nancy Wright Jefferson County School District 509-J recently announced its policy for free and reduced-price meals for children whose parents are unable to pay the full price of meals served uner the National School Lunch Program. Each school and the office of Jefferson County School District 509-J has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party. The accompanying household size and income criteria will be used for determining eligibility. Children from households whose income is at or below the levels shown are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Application forms are being sent to all homes with a letter to parents or guardians. To apply for free or reduced-price meals, households should fill out the application and return it to the school. Additional copies are available at the princi pal's office in each school. The information provided on the appli cation will be used for the purpose of determining eligibility and may be verified at any time during the school year by school or other pro gram officials. For school officials to determine eligibility, households receiving food stamps or AFDC must list the child's name, their food stamp or AFDC case number and the signa ture and name of an adult house hold member. Households not receiving food stamps or AFDC must list: names of all household members, social security numbers of all adult household members or a statement that the household member does not possess one, total household income and the amount and source of the income received ' by each household member, and the signature of an adult household member certifying that the infor mation prov ided is correct. Applications may be submitted at any time during the year. Under the provision of the free and reduced-price policy, school officials will review applications and determine eligibility. Parents or guardians dissatisfied with the ruling of the official may wish to discuss the decision with the de termining official on an informal basis. Parents wishing to make a formal appeal may make a request either orally or in writing to the hearing official identified for a hearing on the decision: Stan Dmytryk, 1355 Buff Street, Mad ras, Oreogn, 9774 1 or call 475-6 1 92. Households that list a food stamp or AFDC case number must report when the hosuehold no longer re ceives these benefits. Other house holds approved for benefits are required to report increases in household income of over $50 per month or $600 per year and de creases in hosuehold size. Also, if a household member becomes unem ployed or if the household size increases, the household should con tact the school. Such changes may make the children eligible for bene fits if the household's income falls at or below the levels shown. In certain cases, foster children are also eligible for school meal benefits. If a household wishes to apply for benefits for foster child ren living with them, the household should contact the school for more information. The information provided by the household is confidential and will be used only for purposes of de termining eligibility and verifying data. Free Family Size Yearly Monthly Weekly 1 $7.501 $ 626 $145 2 10.049 838 194 3 12.597 1,050 243 4 15.145 1,263 292 5 17,693 1.475 341 6 20.241 1.687 390 7 22.789 .. 1.900 439 8 25.337 2,112 488 For each additional family member add2,548 213 49 Reduced Family Size Yearly Monthly 1 $10,675 $ 890 .. 2 14.301 1.192. .. 3 17.927 1.494... 4 21.553 1.797... 5..... 25.179 2.099... 6 28.805 2.401 ... 7 32.431 2.703... g 36.057 3.005... For each additional family member add 3.626 303 . . Weekly $ 206 276 345 415 485 554 624 694 70