Who’s NEWS? Business news and special achievements for North San Diego County. Send information via e-mail to community@ coastnewsgroup.com. Above and beyond Nikki Schaper, associate dean of Student Services at MiraCosta College’s San Elijo Campus, was selected by Encuentros Leadership to receive the Sí Se Puede award. The Sí Se Puede Award (“Yes, It Can Be Done”) was established in 2009 by Encuentros Leadership to honor the work of an individual who has gone beyond the call of duty to ensure the annual conference for boys of Latino descent is a success. Schaper took the initiative to secure the first Platinum Sponsor of the Encuentros Conference, McCarthy Building Companies.
Chocolate delights On Nov. 25, Isabella Valencia, owner and Chocolatier of Dallmann Fine Chocolates, will debut Dallmann Artisan Hot Chocolate in lavender, sea salt, ancho chile, Valencia and Madagascar vanilla bean, or a warm chocolate fondue-for-two at Dallmann Chocolate Boutique in the upper level of Flower Hill Promenade at 2720 Via De La Valle Suite, Del Mar.
Scholarships Woman’s Club of Carlsbad scholarship chairwoman Donna Long, presented the club’s $1,000 nursing scholarships to Elina Tkachenko and Julia Woodshank for the Palomar College Nursing Program. The money is raised by the rental of the clubhouse. For further information, contact the rental chairperson at (760) 7299030 or vljahan@gmail.com.
True adventure Carlsbad author Veronika Paul has published “America: Final Destination” the tale of her trip from Paraguay to San Francisco on a 125cc Honda to share the stories and bring awareness of the countries of Central America. For more information, call (760) 201-7947 or email vent18@hotmail.com. The book is available TURN TO WHO’S NEWS ON B25
Teacher earns fellowship to better serve students By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — You will usually find El Camino High School mathematics teacher Gregory Guayante in his classroom. Even if it is lunchtime, the door is open for any of his 200 students who have a question. Guayante is determined to go the extra mile for his students including honing his teaching skills by participating in the five-year MfA SD Noyce Master Teaching Fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation and Math for America. The fellowship requires Guayante to put in three weeks of training each summer, attend conferences and undergo teaching feedback evaluations several times a year. He is one of five teachers to be accepted into the master teaching fellowship. The fellowship program emphasizes teaching students mathematic reasoning and understanding, which is part of the 2014 California Mathematics Standards. This is a shift from teaching students simple computation steps to reach an answer, which is currently presented in most math textbooks. “The goal is to develop habits of mind,” Dr. Guershon Harel, fellowship professor, said. “Textbooks have watered
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El Camino High School mathematics teacher Gregory Guayante is one of five teachers to be accepted into the Noyce Master Teaching Fellowship. Photo by Promise Yee
math down to the point it loses its essence.” To instill the key thinking habits of duality, necessity and repeated reasoning, students must achieve independent understanding, have a need to find an answer, and be provided opportunities to practice math reasoning, Harel said. The benefits are that
math makes sense, students enjoy it, and they perform better on tests, he added. “All humans have the desire to solve puzzles,” Harel said. “We seek to be puzzled. We go to moon. We look into other galaxies. Math is not a collection of fact, it’s reasoning, patterns and phenomena. Teachers can translate that
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Trust Bank reported its 28th consecutive quarterly profit. According to a report from the bank, Net Income for the recently completed quarter totaled $350,000 compared to $218,000 for the same period last year, representing a 60 percent increase in earnings. Net Income for the nine months ending Sept. 30, 2011 totaled $920,000 compared to $626,000 for the same period last year, an increase of more than 47 percent compared to the previous year. Representatives of San Diego Trust Bank said it is the only bank in the county to post a profit each and every quarter for the past seven years. Total Assets reached $212.5 million as of Sept. 30, 2011 compared to $191.8 million as of Sept. 30, 2010, representing an 11-percent increase from the prior year’s figures. Total Deposits increased 11.5 percent from a year ago and stood at $179.7 million as of Sept. 30, 2011, compared to $161.2 million as of Sept. 30, 2010. Core deposits (non-interest bearing DDA and MM accounts) represented 93 percent of all deposits as of Sept. 30, 2011. The bank has never held any
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into the classrooms and students can enjoy learning.” Guayante has been participating in the math fellowship program since July and has already spoken at the California Mathematics Council Conference about his students’ deepened mathematical understanding. At the conference he shared his new approach to teaching and what his students learned when they tackled a word problem that gave the area of one land plot and the proportionate comparisons of three other land plots. After his English language learner students worked on the word problem in small groups and class discussions for three lessons, they learned about proportions, area, infinite answers and nonfinite answers. In the classroom, Guayante takes note of how his teaching affects student learning. “You question everything you do,” Guayante said.“Is this good practice? How does it impact student learning?” His new approach to teaching math has encouraged
“brokered” deposits. Earlier in the year, The Findley Reports,designated San Diego Trust Bank a “Premier Performing Bank.” This rating places San Diego Trust amongst the best in its industry relative to “safety, strength, and performance” according to Findley. Last quarter, San Diego Trust Bank was recognized as one of the 10 “Best Small Company’s” to work for in San Diego County by the San Diego Business Journal. And for the 21st consecutive quarter, San Diego Trust Bank was designated as a “Five-Star” institution by Bauer Financial. Asset quality at the bank remains exceptional with zero past due or non-accrual loans reported as of Sept. 30, 2011. Liquidity, defined as cash, due from banks, and investment securities, was a record $163.3 million as of Sept. 30, 2011. As of Sept. 30, 2011 the bank’s Total Risk Based Capital ratio of 26.06 percent was among the highest in the nation for banks of similar size, and more than twice the amount needed to be considered “well-capitalized” by reg-
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