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It Takes A Team
August 18, 2008
The bell rings and Jillian
is not quite certain where her book bag should go. She turns to the little
girl standing next to her and pats her shoulder and points, but the little
girl is uncertain of why she was tapped and walks away only after a few
seconds of asking Jillian, “What?” “Do you want something?”
Jillian doesn’t speak, she signs the word “help” but no
one around her, including Ms. Allan, the second grade teacher understands
or recognizes the gesture. In frustration, Jillian drops her book bag and
sits in the first chair closest to the cubbies and screams loudly in a
humming tone. All eyes turn to her, silence envelopes the room…
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Budget Cuts Force
Teachers to Act as Nurses
The Associated Press
July 16, 2008
During the past two school
years, teacher Julia Keyse had to enforce an
unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-grade classroom: No interrupting
while she pricked Caylee's finger to check her
blood sugar and adjusted her insulin pump.
"They were so good.
They would just sit and wait," Keyse said of
her class at Etowah Elementary School in Henderson County, N.C.
It's a task Keyse never imagined when she became a teacher, but
medical duties have become a part of the job for educators across the
country as schools cut nursing staff or require nurses to work at multiple
locations. The change comes at a time when more students are dealing with
serious medical conditions, such as severe allergies, asthma and diabetes.
It's a change that's
unsettling for teachers, school nurses and parents.
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New Microphones Are Bringing Crystal-Clear
Changes
By Jay Mathews
WashingtonPost Staff Writer
Monday, March 31, 2008; B02
The little black devices,
the shape and size of small cellphones, have begunto appear in hundreds of Washington area classrooms. Hanging from
the necks ofelementary school teachers in Alexandria and kindergarten and first-grade teachersin Prince
George's County, they might herald the most
significant change in classroomtechnology since
the computer, some predict.
They are infrared
microphones, designed to raise the volume and clarity of teachers'voices above the distracting buzz of competing
noises -- the hum of fluorescentlights, the
rattle of air conditioning, the whispers of children and the reverberationsof those sounds bouncing off concrete
walls and uncarpeted floors.
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Eureka Elementary School District
Eureka, California
Eureka, California
is a mid-sized community outside of the state capitol, Sacramento. Assistant Superintendent,
Rick Schrichfield, of the Eureka Elementary
School District was concerned about the shortage and turnover among the
district special education professionals, including speech-language
pathologists, occupational therapists, school psychologists, and special
education teachers.
He proposed to the
district superintendent and board of education that the district offer a
stipend to attract and retain special education personnel.
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