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Charter principal eyes retirement After 12 years as principal, Sandy Davis will retire from Turquoise Trail at the end of the semester. educATIOn, A-9
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andy Davis is smiling with pride as she walks through impact on the the halls of Turquoise teachers and the Trail Charter kids.” Davis stops to about 515 students School, which serves said she and others point out some fourth-grade students images of often write grants as 50 preschoole in grades K-6, as well garner money to costumed as famous rs. for various programs. historical figures are covered with The walls — Abraham Davis says she artistic photos, Langston Hughes, Lincoln, drawings and other and the only one is one of eight siblings Muhammad who became an Ali and Martin tied to the school’s media that are Her parents educator. Luther curriculum. instance — hanging King Jr., for school but did not graduate from high “This school has impressed on one wall such a crein the hallway. ative spirit and obtaining an educationthe importance of These portraits a are accompani upon their kids staff,” she says. wonderful the same. She ed by handwritte all “I have mixed earned essays written feelings about at Emory University her bachelor’s degree by the students n leaving. But it’s about these figures. time. I need a master’s at Georgia in Atlanta and her break.” State University. this Project MINDS Davis said also earned her Davis, 64, is retiring display is “specialist’s” degree She at the end way in which of the semester riculum and the in curarts can be used a after 12 years of learning environment at Robert Nott personalize a history lesson. to Harvard University. serving as the principal of the Charter schools school. The school Learning Curve The state assigned are public was founded schools run by in 1994, making in its new school-gradTurquoise Trail a C a it the district’s ing system this with considerab governance body District-wi oldest charter year. le se, the school. Davis, from the district autonomy who started in 2001, is its fifth Acceleration Zone,school was placed in the that approves principal. them. The state meaning that it right track but can also authorize Davis has worked is on the school. Davis says needs some direction a charter as both as a teacher support to do and principal and better. for is that “families the advantage of a charter and teachers have ally OK with such Davis said she is actuin Charlottesv about 40 years: two years to be there, and ille, Va., 26 years ratings and determinations being assigned there is greater a choice and 12 years in in Atlanta to be involved Santa in the decision-mopportunity that it takes more to schools, but noted she has witnessed Fe. Over the decades, believe the decisions aking. I than a year or both good and a real sense of changes in the two to get bad regarding the school whether should be made way “Educators today public schools operate. by “I actually believe they are valid. learning process someone closest to the are better trained more focused as opposed to are more accountabl charter schools and way up in the bureaucrati on someone tion; there’s more differentiated instrucschools. We could e than other public c chain.” The challenge student,” she said. engagement with the are not proving get shut down if we says, is accessing for many charters, she we she bemoans the But, like many others, adding that many are working,” she says, federal funds that nel into the district, emphasis on test chan“We love to maintain rankings remain public schools with low scores. but don’t always their open high achieveme way to the charter make and need to be Turquoise Trail’s for years. nt school. Turquoise held accountabl Trail Charter School charter is up for has come in a renewal in 2015. operates on a way that often e, but that budget has a negative of about $4.5 million, with through August Davis says she may stay on state viding almost to ensure a smooth all the funding, money pro- tion to her successor, transithough Davis which the school hopes to name by the end of May.
Question: Is it play independe OK to start teaching our 1-year-old ntly? He screams how to in any type of and cries when enclosure if he I put him can’t get “free” arrange the furniture (even when I in a way that area). Is there a method to teach he has a very ample play for at least a little him how to play by himself lowing him aroundbit? It seems I am folthe house all he can’t get into trouble or hurt day so or damage furniture, himself house “baby-proo etc. We have our fed,” but he is ative with the very crethings he likes to get into. Answer: First, you don’t “teach” 1-year-old to play independently. a begin playing They independently, on their own, as soon as they begin moving around. Second, you’ve told me realizing that you’ve (without John told me) that son is already Rosemond playing independen your write, “He is very tly. Living With creative with the You he likes to get things into.” Children You’ve described the way a 1-year-old plays. They get into things. They feel, taste, throw rummage, crumple, and the like. That’s why store-boug tear, are a waste of money for a child ht toys that a team of child developme this age. It doesn’t matter toy “developm nt experts deemed entally appropriate a certain purchase it from ” and that you a catalog or online can Ordinary household — it’s a waste only of money. “stuff” is what seem to intuitively 1-year-olds to distract them realize that store-bought toys want. They from the truly on shelves and interesting stuff are an attempt hidden in drawers that’s sitting part creed seems and cabinets. with,” and “the to be, “If I don’t find it, it’s not Their twoworth worth playing effort the big people of a toy is inversely proportion make to get me al If you feel compelled to play with it.” to the to follow so he doesn’t get into forbidden your son around all day baby-proofed adequately. First, stuff, then you haven’t proofed without gate off rooms gate him into a major rearranging. In other that can’t be words, don’t room; rather, gate Then, go into every room that’s him out of certain rooms. thing that poses not gated and with a common risk to him. Replace every itemremove everyyou remove empty product household item that is safe. Examples boxes (put a surprise containers, pots, in each one) and are kitchen utensils other screaming because and you’re gating him so on. Your son is ing him out and in rather than because gatthe stuff you’re doesn’t interest gating him in him with Every store that in the least. child-proof cabinetsells child-proofing parapherna latches. If there’s lia carries tive to keeping no reasonable certain “bad” alternastuff in a certain by all means use cabinet, then that some kids a child-proof latch (although — future safecracker I have heard them out). I generally s, no prefer, however, doubt — figure places and let to make cabinets toddlers safe The more effective explore and hide in them. you are at independently and longer your child-proofing, the more he will become son will play, and as the smarter mother you will he does so. And the more relaxed a be.
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Rate at which veterans are more likely to be involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident than civilians.
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Deadly car crashes on rise among veterans Experts link increase in fatal vehicle accidents to war driving habits By David Brown
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For men and women who have fought in the country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, death behind the wheel is becoming another lethal aftereffect of combat. After they leave military service, veterans of the two wars have a 75 percent higher rate of fatal motor vehicle accidents than do civilians. Troops still in uniform have a higher risk of crashing their cars in the months immediately after returning from deployment than in the months immediately before. People who have had multiple tours to combat zones are at highest risk for traffic accidents. The phenomenon has been revealed by multiple pieces of evidence — research as well as observations of soldiers, veterans and counselors. The most common explanation is that soldiers bring back driving
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People walk their dogs along the Santa Fe River on Sunday. The Santa Fe River has received a steady stream of water since the city’s water staff began a slow-water ‘pulse’ on Friday afternoon. The pulse will continue until Monday, when staff will re-evaluate water inflow to the city’s upper McClure Reservoir, said Santa Fe River coordinator Brian Drypolcher. PHOTOS BY LUIS SANCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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he Santa Fe River will receive a steady trickle over the next few days as the city allows some water to flow through municipal reservoirs and downstream. City water staff planned to start the slow-water “pulse” of 2 cubic feet per second on Friday afternoon. The pulse will continue until Monday, when staff will re-evaluate water inflow to the city’s upper McClure Reservoir, said Santa Fe River coordinator Brian Drypolcher. If the inflow is high enough, water staff will
allow up to 4 cfs down the river for a few days. “We can’t let out flow from the Nichols Reservoir in an amount greater than the inflow to the McClure Reservoir,” Drypolcher said. With luck, the water will flow long enough to reach the river reach between Camino Alire and Frenchy’s Field Park, where hundreds of year-old willows and cottonwoods planted by city contractors and volunteers are awaiting a much needed drink. A city living river ordinance allows for up to 1,000 acre-feet of water a year to bypass the two municipal reservoirs and flow down the river. An acre-foot equals about 325,850 gallons of water. The
ordinance is part of a multiphased effort to revive the river corridor and possibly shore up water levels in the city’s underlying aquifer. This year, due to lower snowpack and little spring precipitation, the city won’t be able to allow more than 320 acre-feet of water to bypass the reservoirs into the river. Drypolcher said water managers decided to wait until after last week’s cold spell to try a water pulse down the river. The cold temperatures kept the snow from melting in the mountain peaks that feed
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We wouldn’t be human without grandparents Research suggests older generations play vital roles in success, survival of offspring
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woman who worked here is an old tirelessly to open Spanish saying, young people’s eyes “Quién sabe de to the wonders ofthe abuelo, sabe de bueno,” natural world. It meaning, “To know was her early lesa grandparent is to sons in biology that know good.” If you laid the foundation visited the reptile room for my later career at the New Mexico Paul Hooper as an evolutionary Museum of Natural Science in a anthropologist — a History and Science Complex World scientist who studies in Albuquerque in the human origins and ’70s or ’80s, you probbehavior within the ably would have met context of the full diversity of life. my own grandmother, Barbara Meyer, a sprightly and spirited Please see hOOPeR, Page A-10
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