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Department Seeks Applications for Mentor Teachers - Back to Top
The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development is seeking applications from experienced teachers who want to mentor beginning teachers.
The deadline for applications is 4:30 p.m. June 2, 2006.
Mentor positions, which are full time, are available for the 2006-2007 school year.
The Alaska Statewide Mentor Project is operated by EED and the University of Alaska Statewide. The purpose is to provide intensive individual support to beginning teachers. The goals are to retain teachers and increase student achievement.
Mentors on loan from their district will receive their contracted salary with any step and column increases. Mentors who are not district employees will receive a contract for their services.
For more information, see: http://www.eed.state.ak.us/mt.
Latest Federal Statistics on Education are Now Online - Back to Top
Newly released tables from the federal Digest of Education Statistics for 2005 provide a wide array of data covering pre-kindergarten through graduate school.
Topics include the numbers of institutions, teachers, enrollments, graduates, educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, employment and income of graduates, libraries, and international comparisons.
See: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/.
Hundreds of Students Rally for Peaceful Schools - Back to Top
Five hundred and seventy-five peer mediators -- students from all across the Anchorage School District who are trained to help their fellow students resolve conflicts peacefully -- gathered Wednesday at the Park Strip to be honored by Mayor Mark Begich and others.
During the rally, students role-played mediation scenarios and tried to set an unofficial, informal world record for holding the most number of mediations in one place at one time.
To become peer mediators, students learn 17 steps of mediation and conflict resolution. They then use these skills independently to help their peers resolve their conflicts while an adult stands by.
"These students are generous with their time and have a strong desire to help their peers solve their conflicts," said Wendy Constantine, a coordinator with the ASD Safe and Drug Free Schools program. "Mediators are an inspiring group of proactive youth."
Businesses Win Awards for Work with Schools or Families - Back to Top
Anchorage-area businesses were honored this week for their partnerships with local schools and for supporting their employees' families.
During the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce's Monday luncheon, the Anchorage School Business Partnership program recognized its outstanding school-business partnerships of the year, and Success By Six honored its Work-Family Award winners.
The 2006 School Business Partnership Star award winners are: Student Recognition, Shauna Moore, Chugiak High School; Educator Recognition, Dan Rufner, Wendler Middle School.
The Star Awards are: Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau and Central Middle School; UAA Tech-Prep and Martin Luther King Career Center;
Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union and Wendler Middle School; Tastee Freez and Kincaid Elementary School (and other schools); and Elmendorf 381st Air Force Division and Clark Middle School.
Executive Director's Award: Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. Superintendent's Award: Fritz Kraus, Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Anchorage School Business Partnerships began in 1991 as a joint venture between the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce and the Anchorage School District. From 28 original partnerships, the program has grown to involve hundreds of businesses throughout the city. Partners provide schools with guest speakers, classroom volunteers, on-the-job work experience for students, material and monetary resources, and other special activities.
Every year the Success By Six Initiative, a United Way of Anchorage community partnership with Child Care Connection, honors local businesses that have family friendly policies by awarding Work Family Awards. Winning businesses demonstrate a strong commitment to employees by offering benefits and policies that support and strengthen working families.
The 2006 Work Family Award winners are: Small Business, Northwest Technical Services; Medium Business, Capital Office Systems; Large Business, USKH, Inc.; Small Non-Profit, Stone Soup Group; Medium Non-Profit, Koahnic Broadcast Corp.; Large Non-Profit, Providence Alaska Medical Center; and Government, University of Alaska Anchorage Community and Technical College.
Kathy Bell Named Alaska School Nurse of the Year - Back to Top
Kathy Bell from Lake Hood Elementary School is the 2006 Alaska School Nurse of the Year, as awarded by the Alaska School Nurses Association.
Bell, a registered nurse, has been with the Anchorage School District for 12 years, working at Lake Hood for the last 10 years and at Orion Elementary before then.
Bell also works in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Providence Hospital. She is active in volunteer organizations such as the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America - Alaska Chapter, the NEA Health Trust, and the immunization clinic at the Children's Hospital at Providence. She is an instructor of the American Heart Association's Basic Life Support, First Aid, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support courses and programs.
Federal Panel on Math Education is Formed - Back to Top
The U.S. Department of Education has announced the members of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. The panel will examine and summarize the scientific evidence related to the teaching and learning of math, with a focus on algebra.
Among the panel's tasks are to examine the critical skills and skill progressions needed to learn algebra and prepare for more advanced courses; the proper role and design of standards and assessment in promoting student competence in math; the processes by which students of various abilities or backgrounds learn math; institutional practices, programs and materials that have proven effective in improving math learning; how the training, selection, placement and professional development of math teachers affect student achievement; and research needs in support of math education.
A report is due no later than February 28, 2007.
See: http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/mathpanel/.
Native Artists Demonstrate Skills at Sheldon Jackson Museum - Back to Top
Each summer, The Friends of the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka hosts Alaska Native artists to demonstrate and interpret their artwork and culture.
Sisters Cass Pook and Pamela Eby will demonstrate Tlingit beading May 23 from noon-3 p.m.; May 24 from 9 a.m.-noon and from 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.; and May 25 from 9 a.m.-noon.
Aleut/Alutiiq artist Roy Levine will demonstrate wood carving on May 30 from noon-3 p.m. and May 31 from 9 a.m.-noon and 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
A $20,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts awarded to The Friends of the Sheldon Jackson Museum will support the museum's summer Native Artist Demonstrators Program and an artist guest speaker during Native American Heritage Awareness Month in November 2006.
The museum's summer hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
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