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CHANGES: Teacher evaluation process explained FROM PAGE A1
Windy and warmer today with some sunshine. High of 57 and tonight’s low will be 37. Sunny and cooler Sunday with daytime highs in the upper 40s. Overnight temperatures will be in the low 30s. Monday and Tuesday conditions are expected to be cloudy and rainy.
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teachers in grades 7-12. A group of 20 teachers were trained on the system last summer, and they have trained about 75 percent of East Noble’s teachers for grades 7-12. It is described as a “one-stop shopping place” for lesson planning, test-taking, sharing of multimedia information, online sites and communication between teachers, students and parents. The system prepares the school district for online courses.
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documentation. Building principals conduct at least three observations of their teachers during a school year, rating them on their skills using a standardized list of competencies. Subjectivity virtually has been eliminated, and teachers are apprised of their evaluations throughout the process, according to Lamon. • heard a report on the introduction of a pilot learning management system called Canvas for
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seventh-grade boys basketball coach at East Noble Middle School, and trustees granted East Noble High School functional life skills teacher Kimberly Luke Scherer six weeks of maternity leave beginning Jan. 17. In other business, the board: • heard Assistant Superintendent Becca Lamon explain the teacher evaluation process and
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Obama issues apology to those who’ve lost coverage WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to intense criticism, President Barack Obama apologized to Americans who are losing health insurance plans he had repeatedly said they could keep and pledged to find fixes that might allow people to keep their coverage. “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,” he said in an
interview Thursday with NBC News. He added: “We’ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them, and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this.” Officials said the president was referring to fixes his administration could make on its own, not legislative options proposed
by congressional lawmakers. The HealthCare.gov website that was supposed to be an easy portal for Americans to use to purchase insurance has been hobbled by technical issues. And with at least 3.5 million Americans receiving cancellation notices from their insurance companies, there’s new scrutiny aimed at the way the president tried to sell the law to the public in the first place.
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foundation in Indiana,” said Kathryn Spence, director of the Dow Corning Foundation. “The foundation has primarily funded projects and equipment directly to local organizations. This will enable us to broaden our reach and provide additional support to the communities where our employees live and work.” Past recipients of funding from the Dow Corning Foundation include the Kendallville Fire Department, Junior Achievement,
Drug Free Noble County, Camp Invention, Boomerang Backpacks and Common Grace. “An easy way to think about a donor-advised fund is like a charitable savings account. A donor or corporation contributes to the fund and then has an opportunity to recommend grants to their favorite charity,” said Linda Speakman Yerick, executive director of the Noble County Community Foundation. She added, “For Dow
Corning, whose corporate offices are not in Kendallville, they can participate using local employees to determine and evaluate the needs in their community and have the ability to make grants. We are pleased to have Dow Corning as a partner.” To apply for Dow Corning Donor Advised Funds, contact the Noble County Community Foundation at noblecountycf. org. For information on the Dow Corning Foundation, visit dowcorning.com/foundation.
TYPHOON: Storm causes landslides, destroys homes FROM PAGE A1
Category 4 hurricane in the U.S., knocking on the door of the top category, a 5. Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are the same thing. They are just called different names in different parts of the world. Because of cut-off communications in the Philippines, it was impossible to know the full extent of casualties and damage. At least two people were electrocuted in storm-related accidents, one person was killed by a fallen tree and another was struck by lightning, official reports said. Southern Leyte Gov. Roger Mercado said the
typhoon triggered landslides that blocked roads, uprooted trees and ripped roofs off houses around his residence. The dense clouds and heavy rains made the day seem almost as dark as night, he said. “When you’re faced with such a scenario, you can only pray, and pray and pray,” Mercado told The Associated Press by telephone, adding that mayors in the province had not called in to report any major damage. “I hope that means they were spared and not the other way around,” he said. “My worst fear is there will be massive loss of lives and property.”
Eduardo del Rosario, head of the disaster response agency, said a powerful typhoon that also hit the central Philippines in 1990 killed 508 people and left 246 missing, but this time authorities had ordered pre-emptive evacuation and other measures to minimize casualties. He said the speed at which the typhoon sliced through the central islands — 40 kph (25 mph) — helped prevent its 600-kilometer (375-mile) band of rain clouds from dumping enough of their load to overflow waterways. Flooding from heavy rains is often the main cause of deaths from typhoons.
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