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Thursday, April 6, 2000
Schools Combat Teacher Shortage
Instructors must commute
between local schools to fill
positions in areas like music
and physical education.
By Walter Herz
Staff Writer
As recruiting new teachers becomes
more difficult, Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools have developed a way to
efficiently use the teachers the system
already employs.
Instead of hiring one teacher to fill
each half-time position, the school sys
tem has allowed some teachers to take
on two half-time jobs and be considered
full-time employees.
Hazel Gibbs, director of human
resources for the school system, said that
though the matching of positions and
teachers was not very prevalent, it w'as
helpful in combating the shortage of
N.C. Group Honors Discipline-Driven Administrator
By Tricia Barrios
Staff Writer
The N.C. Association of Educators
has honored a local administrator with
the Assistant Principal of the Year
award, marking the first local winner of
this award in six years.
Valeria Daniels-Paddock, the assis
tant principal at Grey Culbreth Middle
School, received the honor for her out-
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teachers in the towns.
“Sometimes the two schedules match
the teacher,” she said. “It is simply an
option, not so much something we set out
to do. If it is the best solution, we do it”
Schools spokeswoman Kim Hoke
said the instructors who filled these trav
eling positions were usually not main-
stream traditional
teachers.
“Homeroom
core teachers are
not itinerant” she
said. “The (travel
ing) positions are
usually pretty spe
cialized.”
These special
ized positions
include instructors
“If you’ve had a bad day at one
school, you can get in your car
and go to anew situation ...
It’s like a whole new day.”
Janine Zenge
Orchestra Instructor
for English as a Second Language class
es, physical education and exceptional
children’s programs.
“They are mostly professional posi
tions that we do not have a full-time slot
standing service to students.
The NCAE recognized her at an
awards banquet last week in Asheville.
Daniels-Paddock said she was still
elated about receiving the statewide
honor.
“I don’t think my feet have touched
the ground yet,” she said. “It’s an honor
to be nominated by peers, but to be
nominated by the state is great.”
She was honored Wednesday mom
University & City
for,” Hoke said. “They are either posi
tions for which we do not have enough
students to justify a full-time position or
enough funding to do it.”
Janine Zenge, an instructor who leads
the orchestra programs at both Grey
Culbreth Middle School and Chapel
Hill High School, said the itinerant con-
cept was beneficial
to her and other
music instructors.
“We don’t have
that many classes,”
she said. “It’s not
really a matter of
number of stu
dents for us. It is
better for us to
have large
groups.”
Zenge said she had no major com
plaints about the way her schedule was
structured.
“I’ve always liked it,” she said. “If
you’ve had a bad day at one school, you
ing at Culbreth Middle during a break
fast for faculty members and adminis
trators.
NCAE public relations coordinator
Karen Archia said the organization
chose administrators who communicat
ed well with both students and other
administrators.
“We’re looking for outstanding edu
cators - assistant principals who are into
site-based management, including
teachers in decisions, student-focused,”
she said.
Archia said the winner was chosen
from a list of several thousand possible
applicants.
Culbreth Middle School Principal
David Christenbury said he valued
Daniels-Paddock for her strong human
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Spring Senior Week
April 10-15
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MONDAY, APRIL 10
A True Class Act: Evening on the Hill, 7-9 pm, The Carolina Club
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by the UNC Clef Hangers and the UNC Gospel Choir. All seniors and their guests are invited to
attend. Cost: $lO per person. Tickets are on sale at the Alumni Center or online at alumni.unc.edu.
Registration deadline April 6.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
Senior Class Last Blast, 11 am-3pm, At the Bell Tower
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or hang out all day! We ll have a BBQ lunch with all the trimmings, music, give aways, great door
prizes, a giant slide and sumo wrestling. First 200 seniors receive a free Class of 2000 Last Blast T
shirt! Rain Date April 15.
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
Senior Play Day II! 11 am-2pm. Union Circle
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games, senior stickers, food and more. Wear your Senior Class T-shirt and win great prizes! Bring an
item for the Class of 2000 time capsule.
Senior Parly at He's Not Here, 9pm-2am
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FRIDAY, APRIL 14
Swim Test Day, 9am-4pm, Bowman Gray Pool
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Senior Day at the Ball Park, 7pm, Boshamer Stadium
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which includes on-field games and prizes. Bring your UNC One Card. No outside food or
beverages inside the stadium.
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can get in your car and go to anew sit
uation at the other school. It’s like a
whole new day.”
Zenge did admit, however, that dri
ving between her two jobs could some
times be a problem.
“When the weather is bad, I can’t
really wait 20 minutes for the rain to die
down,” she said. “I have to drive.”
Hoke said the number of itinerant
employees was small when compared to
the more traditional instructors.
“It’s certainly a minority,” she said.
“We have about 760 teachers in the sys
tem, and no school would have more
than two or three itinerant teachers. It
comes out to about 5 percent.”
Zenge said she would continue in her
itinerant schedule, no matter how hectic.
“I’ve been (teaching) for 24 years,”
she said. “And sometimes it’s nice to get
out and drive.”
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relations skills.
“She does a good job relating to stu
dents,” he said. “She served as a coun
selor before her work with students. I
think that has a lot to do with it.”
Daniels-Paddock said she considered
her part in the disciplinary program at
the school to be her most successful
accomplishment.
“That’s what makes Culbreth a safer
school,” she said. “Our look at discipline
has changed.”
Daniels-Paddock said the old disci
plinary methods operated by the belief
that discipline equaled punishment.
She wanted to break away from that
attitude.
Now the school follows a plan called
“Teaching Responsible Behavior in the
Campus Calendar
Today
6 p.m. - SET for the Future, anew
Campus Y organization, will hold an
interest meeting for new volunteer
teachers and staff in Union 226.
Students interested in teaching com
puter skills to underprivileged middle
school students are encouraged to
attend.
7 p.m. - Inter Varsity Christian
Fellowship will hold its weekly meeting
in Union 224. The featured speaker is
Skip Long.
7 p.m. - UNC alumnus Charles
Secrett, executive director of Friends of
the Earth United Kingdom, will present
“Planet in Crisis: Sustainable
Development Solutions” in the
Commons Room of the James M.
Johnston Center for Undergraduate
Excellence, located in Graham
Memorial Building.
Friday
5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. - A reception at
the Ackland Art Museum will honor
artist Siah Armajani, best known for
his large-scale public works of art made
of steel and mixed media. Armajani will
Schools.”
“Teachers can give them a verbal
plan to settle down or talk with them
later, or they can come up with one
themselves,” she said.
She said the decrease in disciplinary
problems had been tremendous.
“It used to be before this plan, I’d
always stay a week behind in discipli
nary referrals,” she said.
“Now, there are some days I don’t
have a singe disciplinary problem.”
Aside from her work at Culbreth
Middle School, Daniels-Paddock has
also served other roles with local
schools.
She served as a counselor for Seawell
Elementary, Ephesus Road Elementary,
and Chapel Hill High schools.
The state award is not the first honor
for Daniels-Paddock.
She was recognized as Assistant
Principal of the Year for Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City Schools in 1998.
She said she had thought about
becoming a principal but decided she
would rather focus on working with stu
dents.
“I’ll probably still be right here,” she
said.
“This is my place to be.”
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lecture at 7 p.m. in the Hanes Art
Center auditorium as part of a week
long symposium on public art.
Saturday
8 p.m. - Soprano Kathleen Battle will
perform in Memorial Hall as part of the
Carolina Union’s Virtuoso Concert
Series. The series is an annual fund-rais
er for the Union’s Performing Arts
Series.
Donor opportunities begin at SIOO.
Student tickets are S2O and others are
S4O, $34 and $25.
For more information, call 962-1449.
Sunday
8 p.m. - The Carolina Wind
Quintet will perform works by Villa
Lobos, Harbinson and Danzi at in
Person Recital Hall.
Items of Interest
■ International Student
Orientation Counselor applications
are now available at the International
Center, located in Union 116, for those
interested in helping welcome newly
arrived international students and schol
ars before classes begin Aug. 16 to Aug.
21. For more information, call 962-5661.
Low Funds
Won't Stop
Barbeque
In its second year, the
annual TA Appreciation
Barbeque is scheduled for
4 p.m. Frida/in Polk Place.
By Jamila Vernon
Staff Writer
Despite a huge slice in funding for
this year’s teaching assistant barbecue,
extensive fund-raising efforts are mak
ing the event possible Friday.
After a University-wide budget short
fall this summer prompted UNC offi
cials to cut $12,000 from the barbecue’s
budget, Graduate and Professional
Federation President Lee Conner said
he sought outside funding sources.
“Twenty-thousand dollars is usually
given by the provost and chancellor’s
office (for the barbecue), but this year it
was about $8,000,” Cbriner skid.
To make up for the Ibis', Conner said
he received some money from Student
Congress, but a large part came from
donations. “One trustee gave $1,000,”
he said. He said other members of the
Board of Trustees along with interim
Chancellor Bill McCoy also donated
between SSOO and SI,OOO.
Newly inducted GPSF President
Thad Woody said he felt the barbecue
rewarded TAs in a variety of ways.
The barbecue, scheduled for 4 p.tti.
at Polk Place, is important because it
shows the University’s appreciation of
TAs beyond their financial commitment
Woody said. “It’s one step to spotlight
ing TAs’ work,” he said.
During the past year, other issues
concerning TAs have also been brought
to the forefront.
The Teaching Resources Task Force
was formed last year to resolve the inad
equacies of teaching resources among
UNC departments.
TAs are having to pay for their own
copies along with having to pay out-of
pocket for other supplies, Conner said.
Conner said he felt the administra
tion was receptive to the TAs’ concerns,
but Woody would have to continue lob
bying efforts to keep the issue in the
spotlight. There is a unanimous agree
ment that die money needs to be found
to fund TA programs, Conner said.
Robert Kerr, a teaching assistant at
the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, said some TAs had to
dish out funding from their own pockets
for their supplies. “There’s a lot of
research, and you have to do a lot of
copying,” he said. “It’s somewhat of a
problem for me, but probably more for
others,” Kerr said. “Copies are seven
and a half cents; it adds up.”
Another issue that Conner addressed
while in office was tuition remission.
This program reduces tuition for TAs,
resident assistants and fellow/trainees.
Conner said the tuition remission
was only valid for 10 semesters and that
the organization was pushing for more
secure funding for students to benefit.
Many graduate programs continue
for more than 10 semesters, he said.
Joshua Steele, a teaching assistant for
the Department of Physics, said com
plete elimination of tuition for TAs was
reasonable. “To have a tuition waiver. is
something that needs to be at the top of
the list,” Steele said. “The cost of living
is high. A lot of other schools offer it
normally. It would also attract graduate
students."
But Conner said the tuition remission
would still come under st ate scrutiny
this summer. “The money comes from
the state and the legislature hasn’t been
back in session.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.