Newspapers / The Brunswick beacon. / Aug. 12, 1993, edition 1 / Page 6
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Leland Middle School To Use Socratic Approach This Fall Upper grade students at Lcland Middle School will get plenty of practice this coming year in learning how to express their own opinions while respecting view points different from theirs. Principal Diana Mint/, briefed school board mem bers Monday night on the Paideia (pronounced pi -day - uh) program that begins this fall for all sixth, seventh and eighth grade students at the schopl. The Paideia approach incorporates lecture, coaching and Socratic-type small group discussions. Lcland Middle will focus this year on Socratic discussion groups as ungraded clcctivcs, with the expectation that teachers will gradually being incorporating the approach in their own classroom work. Small, heterogenous groups of students will meet with trained faculty members for an hour every other Wednesday for a Socratic-type seminar, or small group discussion, on materials the students have read in ad vance of class. Subject matter will range from classical readings to an, music and current events ? topics that lend themselves to wide-ranging discussion. "There arc no right or wrong answers," Mint/ said. "It is to encourage rich discussion among the students." To be allowed to particiaptc, students arc expected to be prepared, to be polite, to ask questions and to show re spect for one another. Based on experiences at other schools, the program is expected to help students develop critical thinking and verbal expression skills, anil to develop understandings of cultural divc: sity and diversity of opinion, said Mint/. Schools using the approach have also reported im proved student behavior. "Students leam how to ar gue without fight ing," she said. Thirty-four teachers, including all sixth- through eighth-grade and resource teachers, completed three days of intensive training in the approach this summer. In other business the board: ?l-ro/.c salaries at their July 1 level for clerical classified employees whose jobs were reclassified this past spring. Those employees received pay raises ranging up to 25 percent in some cases. The group will not receive the 2 pcrcent pay raise approved by the state legislature last month for other classified personnel. ?Approved South Brunswick High School's attendance policy and code of conduct, which is similar in most respects to that to be used at North and West Bruns wick high schools this year. Infrac tions and conse quences arc ad dressed at five levels of severity. ?Approved, on first reading, a bloodbomc pathogens policy that pro vides for protection of workers from exposure, as well as education and training; ?Approval, on first reading, a revision of the axle of student conduct to reflect new state legislation relating to weapons at school; 44 There are no right or wrong answers. . . it is to encourage rich discussion among the students ? Diana Mintz. Leland Principal on Paidcia program ?Heard a request from Jesse Bryant, a black community leader representing a "group of concerned citizens," for the board to reconsider its "past decisions" and suggest ing the possibility of legal action otherwise. Bryant is part of a group that has lobbied the board to reconsider the transfer of Lincoln Primary School Principal Joseph BuUcr to the central office and to increase the number of minorities holding high-visibility leadership positions in the school system. ?Adopted a resolution supporting the efforts of the Brunswick County Educational Foundation Inc. and en couraging others to do so, and declaring plans for a joint countywsdc campaign with the goal of making Brunswick County "No. 1 in education in eastern North Carolina." Joe Giamalva, executive director of the foundation, told the board the foundation doesn't intend to tell the school system how to do its job, but intends to help provide die resources, such as money, personnel and equipment, needed to carry out specific projects identified by the school system and approved in advance by the board. To do that, he said, the foundation needs the formal en dorsement of the board. MIMS TRANSFERRED Brunswick County Board Of Education Continues Filling Vacancies With teachers scheduled to begin reporting to school Aug. 18, the Brunswick County Board of Edu cation continues to fill stall vacan cies. Monday night the board approved a lengthy list of routine personnel actions, including the hiring of two teachcrs for West Brunswick High School. John Bryncr of Durham will be teaching Spanish and Wesley Shoemaker of Hope Mills will be teaching biology. Shoemaker is the son of Waccamaw Elementary School Principal William Shoe maker. West Brunswick High School physical education teacher Billy Mims of Shallotte was transferred to a JobTraining Partnership Act School-to- Work Job Specialist posi tion shared by North Brunswick and South Brunswick high schools. School board member Thurman Gausc voted against approval of the personnel lists, citing his objection to the transfer, which he said the for mer coach felt forced to accept against his will. Among other transfers, Wendy Milligan of Ash, formerly dropout prevention specialist with the ccntral office, will join the staff at West Brunswick High School as a guid ance counselor. Counselor Judy Har ris of Yaupon Beach will become the guidance counselor at South Brunswick Middle School. Also hired Monday were these certified employees: Lynne Baldwin, Long Beach, Kristen Edmunds and Victoria O'Brien, Wilmington and Timothy Stephens, Madison, middle grades teachers. South Brunswick Middle; Patti File of Wilmington, school psychologist; Martha Long of Tabor City, pre-K handicapped teacher. Union Elementary; Diane Smyrc of Fayeuevillc, special education. Sup ply Elementary; Quaintana Griffin of Longwood. special education, Shallottc Middle; Ronald Skow ronck of Wilmington, special educa tion, Lcland Middle; Kelli Furry of Leland, special education, Lincoln Primary; Deborah Jones of Ocean Isle Bcach, elementary, Shallottc Middle; Raymond Wilson of Sunset Bcach, physical education, Wac camaw Elementary; Alfred Wells of Greenville and Kim McCuiston of Bolivia, special education. South Brunswick Middle; Nathalie Dear man of Ocean Isle Bcach, clcmcn tary (interim), Bolivia Elementary; Donald Millwood of Long Beach, Choices, South Brunswick High; Ronda Denton of Long Beach, sci cncc. South Brunswick High; Dianne Lock of Durham and Sharon Pruitt of Shallottc, middle grades, Shallotte Middle; Lynda Alley of Shallottc, band director (interim), Shallottc Middle; and Diana Ald ridgc of Caswell Bcach, elementary, Soulhport Elementary. Hired in non-certified positions arc Kitty Skipper of Leland, school secretary, Leland Middle; Elouise Jacobs of Leland, Choices assistant, Leland Middle; John Hcwctt of Sup ply, six-hour custodian. West Bruns wick; Fay Layman of Boiling Spring Lakes, Anne Stewart of Ocean Isle Bcach and Mary F. Hcwctt of Shal lottc, teacher assistants. Supply Ele mentary, and Rcnce Stevens of Shal lottc, interim leather assistant at Supply Elementary. Military leave of abscncc for South Brunswick Middle Principal Lcs Tubb of Wilmington was ex tended from July 30, 1993, to Sept. 30, 1994, not 1993 as voted at an earlier meeting. He is working with the N.C. National Guard. Educational leave was granted to Winnie Norris of Longwood, a teacher assistant at Waccamaw Ele mentary. Other transfers approved were as follows: Karen Cayot of Shallotte, from special education teacher. Supply Elementary, to diagnostician, central office; Ophelia Keaton of Ricgclwood, from academically gifted teacher to diagnostician, cen tral office; Willistine McMillian of Leland, social studies, South Bruns wick High, to middle grades. South Brunswick Middle. Retirements wen: approved for Jean Parker of Caswell Beach, test ing coordinator, and William Cheers of Shallottc, warehouseman for the child nutrition warehouse. Resignations were accepted from Cauilina Jones of Boone, speech specialist, Bolivia/Supply schools; Claudia Laugisch of Lawton, Okla., special education teacher. Union Elementary; and Barbara Holcombc of Shallotte, elementary teacher. Union Elementary; Brcnda Fulford of Supply, teacher assistant, Supply Elementary; and Ola Johnson of Ocean Isle Beach, teacher assistant, Union Elementary. James Cobbs of Wilmington, head custodian at Supply Elemen tary, was fired. The board also approved two sub stitute teachers. Adult Lunch Price Raised; Student Prices Unchanged Adults will pay more for school lunchcs in Brunswick County Public Schools this fall, but student meals will cost the same as last year. Monday night, the board of edu cation raised the price of an adult lunch from SI. 75 to SI. 90 to better reflect the actual cost of the meal. In a food service audit earlier this year, the schools' child nutrition di vision was commended for its per formance in some areas, but auditors found two instances of non-compli ance. Child Nutrition Director Rebecca Brandon said Monday. In one instance, the division had more cash on hand than it should have as a non-profit operation ? AY. 1993-94 Meal Prices Brunswick County Public Schools Breakfast Lunch Child (all) 60 ccnts Grades K-X SI. 05 9-12 1.15 Reduced 30 cents .40 Adult 75 cents 1.90 to 5 months' operating funds. That has sincc been reduced to 3 months' funds, by purchasing needed equip mcni for school cafctcrias. The sccond item was the adult lunch price. At SI. 75 it did not re flect the actual cost of the meal, which varied last year from SI. 72 to as much as S2.09 from one school to the other. The average cost of just over SI. 89, and that became the ba sis for the increase. While prices for adult meals served in the schools do not vary, through the federal School Lunch and School Breakfast programs stu dents may qualify for free or re duced price meals, depending on their household's income. Appli cations arc available from all 12 county schools. At Jones Ford... 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