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Saturday, August 10, 2013 – Daily News Local Calendar Submit calendar items to P Box 220, Red Bluff, 96080 .O. or clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 Red Bluff Airplane Display Days, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Red Bluff Airport, 1760 Airport Blvd., 527-6547 Decorative Brushes of No. California, 10 a.m., Community, 1500 S. Jackson St., 527-7449 Frontier Village Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 645 Antelope Blvd. EBT accepted Farmers Market By the River, 7:30 a.m. to noon, River Park, EBT accepted Hot August Mikes comedy show, 8 p.m., State Theatre, $15, 18 and older only Tehama County Young Marine Drills, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 1005 Vista Way, Ste. C. 366-0813 Weight Watchers meeting, 8 a.m, 485 Antelope Blvd., #N, 1-800-651-6000 Los Molinos Senior Dance, 7 p.m., Senior Center, Josephine Street, 384-2100 Tehama Tehama County Museum, 1-4 p.m., 275 C St., group tours, call 384-2595 SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 Red Bluff AA Live and Let Live, noon and 8 p.m., 785 Musick St., meets seven days a week Airplane Display Days, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Red Bluff Airport, 1760 Airport Blvd., 527-6547 Funny Girl, 4 p.m., State Theatre, $5 Tehama Tehama County Museum, 1-4 p.m., 275 C St., group tours, call 384-2595 MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Red Bluff Al-Anon New Comers At Heart, 7-8 p.m., North Valley Baptist Church, 345 David Ave., 690-2034 Antelope 4-H, 6:30 p.m., Antelope School, 5273101 Computer class, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Northern Valley Catholic Social Service, 220 Sycamore #101, 5287947 English as a Second Language class, 5:30-8:30 p.m., 1295 Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Thursdays, free childcare, classes in Richlieu Hall, 900 Johnson St. Head Injury Recreational Entity, 10 a.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Rusty, 5292059 Key to Life, 6 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-8066 Masterworks Chorale rehearsal, 6:45-8 p.m., Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 527-4203 Nutrition Classes, 10:30 to noon, Northern Valley Catholic Social Service, 220 Sycamore #101, 5287947 Old fashion band concert, 8-9 p.m., River Park, 527-3486 PAL Martial Arts, 3-5 p.m., ages 5-18, 530-5297950, www.tehamaso.org Red Bluff Senior Writing Class, 10: a.m.noon,,Executive Room at Sycamore Center, 220 Sycamore St., 527-5762 Salvation Army Writing Class, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 940 Walnut St., 527-8530 Spartan Athletic Booster Club, 6:30 p.m. Red Bluff Union High School Library Sun Country Quilters Community Service Group, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-1126 TeenScreen Mental Health Appointments, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., free, by appointment only, 1900 Walnut St., 527-8491, Ext. 3012 Tehama County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, 7 p.m., Stillwell Training Center, Park Avenue near Baker Road, 527-7546 US citizenship preparation class, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Red Bluff High School Adult Ed building, 1295 Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednesday Venture Crew 1914 meeting, 6:30-8 p.m., Moose Lodge on 99W, co-ed ages 14-20 welcome From director of Special Ed As I approach my 25th year in education, I am excited to be back in Tehama County and a member of the Red Bluff Joint Union High School District administrative team. I joined the district on July 1 as the director of Special Education and Categorical Programs. For the majority of the past decade, I worked at the California Department of Education as an Education Programs Consultant. While there, I had the opportunity to serve California's school districts in several different divisions: Special Education; School Improvement and Accountability; English Learner Support; and Career and College Transition. In my first years at the Department, I supported Special Education Local Plan Areas in the large and urban areas in Los Angeles County. It was quite the transition from having grown up in and then teaching in small and rural communities. It wasn't a culture shock, per se, but when "one" monitors in the southern part of the state, along the 405 corridor, "one" usually found herself in a district that had, at a minimum, a student population of at least 15,000, more likely in the neighborhood of 30,000 plus. Given the sheer numbers of students, and thus student programs, it meant that I was down there at least once a week. As a result, I became quite familiar with every inch of the Southwest Airlines corner at LAX. I later moved to Title III Federal Program Monitoring in the Central Valley region, and then spent the past three years on the policy creation side of the business working with researchers, districts, and grant based programs in exploring options for increasing high school graduation rates in the State of California. As I move into this position at the Red Bluff Joint Union High School District, I am so fortunate to have had that broad base of experience, at the 30,000-foot level. During my years with the Department, I was able to observe and examine a multitude of districts, programs, and schools, and as a result, expanded my professional repertoire exponentially. That said, I will be on a steep learning curve in this position, as the State of California has recently changed the way it will allocate state dollars to the local districts. Referred to as the Local Control Funding Formula or LCFF, this newly enacted legislation is still being vetted, and we are all anxiously awaiting how the State is going to roll it out. But, that is an entirely different article just waiting to be written, and hopefully by someone other than me. Most importantly, it is really great to be in my own home every night. No more commuting and no more paying rent. Most rewarding for me, is the return to the field and the real business of public education; I am super-excited about working, once-again, with students and their families. I would like to take this opportunity to explain, a bit, about the structure of federal categorical programs and how they enhance educational opportunities for the achievement of all students, as well as the role that a director would have in helping to shape those educational outcomes. In the broadest sense of the term, it is my job to see that students get the services they need in order to graduate from high school, are prepared for both career and college, and are able to transition, as smoothly as possible into life Police reports The following information is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff 's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Arrests • Rojelio Samuel McDarment aka Pollo Loco, 32, Red Bluff was Alcoholics Anonymous, noon Monday through arrested at Jackson and Friday, 5 p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Ash as part of Post Release Community Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, 783 Solano St. Bingo, 5:15 p.m. early bird, 6:30 p.m. regular Supervision. • Matthew Lee Powers games, Maywood Grange, Highway 99W, 833-5343 Corning 4-H, 7 p.m., Woodson Elementary School, 527-3101 Corning Neighborhood Watch, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 794 Third St. Exchange Club membership meeting, 7 p.m., Iron Skillet Vacation Bible School, 9-11:30 a.m., Neighborhood Full Gospel Church, First and South streets, ages 3 through eighth grad, 824-2323 Corning as an adult. Additionally, the position Special Education. Let's say that there requires an attention to detail to ensure are some students, who do not qualify that the District remains in compliance for Special Education, who are struggling to obtain the skills with the vast collections and necessary to be proficient assortment of laws and reguin Algebra. At the same lations at both the federal and time, there is a group of stustate levels. It is a job that dents who do qualify for really requires two different Special Education who are hats and two different sets of struggling in the same acaskills. One is monitoring how demic area. A possible the programs are implementintervention would be to set ed; the other is shaping and up an after school tutoring then implementing the session, with the Algebra instructional pieces on the teachers, paid for with Spelearning side – for both stucial Education dollars. But, dents and instructional staff. any student who needs this While I will play a miniTerrie assistance can be provided mal role in the creation of the that extra instructional budget and actual cost time, even if the student accounting, I will be the perdoesn't have a disability. son who approves the expenditures for specific instructional pro- Although just one example, there are grams and assures that the monies are many ways that these additional dollars spent on appropriate materials and ser- can be utilized to ensure that students vices to meet the needs of the students obtain academic proficiency. A primary duty of a district special who need specific instructional supports. You will quite often read about education director, besides maintaining supplemental education and materials. adherence to federal and state manIn essence, that is what categorical dol- dates, is to provide support to both lars are for – to add to the base funding administrative and instructional staff in to ensure that adequate supports are in building capacity to ensure that stuplace for all students to achieve – the dents with disabilities have as many access points as possible to the general business of education. Districts get their money from a curriculum with their same-aged peers, combination of federal, state, and local by providing additional supports and contributions. The money is then services. Special Education has evolved in appropriated, based on student need to programs that go above and beyond the this state to be very compliance driven. general curriculum. Categoricals are We are fortunate, in Tehama County, to extra "dollars" provided to school dis- have ample county Department of tricts, by the federal government since Education and Special Education the mid-1960s, to enhance the educa- Local Plan Area support to ensure that tion of students who need extra assis- we stay abreast of changing complitance in obtaining educational out- ance requirements in a timely manner, comes. The major federal instructional and to assist us with Professional categorical monies are: Special Educa- Development opportunities so that our tion, Title I and Title III. There is also instructional staff can be kept up-toTitle II funding; its general purpose is date with best practices and implemento ensure that the instructional staff is tation of instruction in the classroom. This year, the district will be proqualified and provided with opportunividing instructional workshops to all ties for professional development. Because Red Bluff High School has of our Educational Assistants on a what is known as a "school wide" weekly basis. We will be delving into rather than "targeted assistance" pro- the depths of the Common Core, and gram, any federal categorical dollar can exploring how the role of the Educabe utilized to enhance all students' edu- tional Assistant will be changing as cational needs. What this means in the our schools evolve into Professional day-to-day operations of running a Learning Communities. I am most school wide program is that additional grateful that the district Superintenmaterials to support the core curricu- dent, Lisa Escobar, has given her suplum, the addition of instructional edu- port to this endeavor. A highly trained cational assistants to assist students force of Educational Assistants plays with obtaining skills, and extra-instruc- a crucial role in school wide protional time devoted to students who grams - in building the capacity for need before and after school tutoring high levels of achievement for all stucan be paid for out of categorical dents in their academic endeavors. monies – each "pot" of money comes This takes time, dedication, and with restrictions, but when a school is ongoing skills' development, at the designated school wide, the dollars can adult level. Since I am the administrabe flexed to support all students, not tor assigned to this particular area of just the students that were identified as capacity building, it will be a great needing the supports. So, for instance, way for me to get to see our teachers Title I dollars can be routed to any stu- and EAs in action. As I stated earlier, I am really fortudent who demonstrates need of additional support in the basics of reading nate to have had the multiple expericomprehension and math skills. Title I ences that I did in the K-12 arena; I feel dollars also support students who are invigorated and am ready to jump in homeless or in foster care, as well as with both feet. The students return to Migrant students. Title III dollars are campus on Aug. 14. It is truly my targeted to students who need support favorite time of year. Today, I went in building their English Language over to campus to observe the happenskills, or immigrant students who come ings at both Arena Registration and to the United States proficient in their Jump Start - seeing the energy and English speaking skills, but need assis- excitement of kids on campus is still tance in acclimating to the curriculum one of the best sights in the whole wide as delivered in the state in which they world. I am home. reside. Terrie Poulos, Ed.D. is the director of Special Education dollars are targetSpecial Education and Categorical ed, specifically, to students who have disabilities; however, any student can Programs for Red Bluff Joint Union benefit from the additional supports of High School District. Sr., 45, Red Bluff was arrested on Ash Street for felony possession of a controlled substance. Bail was $15,000. Burglary •A 62-year-old woman on the 18000 block of Bowman Road reported she came home to find her front door damaged and the back door wide open. • A safe was reported stolen from a Santa Maria Avenue residence. Poulos Have a news tip? was reported on Butte Street. • A man on the 19000 block of Reed Avenue reported a snub nose .38special model 53826 was missing. Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 BACK TO SCHOOL PROJECT PRESENTS Theft • A theft from a vehicle Look Who's Turning 21 Johnna Soulliere Los Molinos Los Molinos 4-H, 7 p.m., Los Molinos Elementary School, 527-3101 Richfield Richfield Neighborhood Watch Program, 6 p.m., Richfield School, 23875 River Road, 824-6260 3A Love Your Family DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF This ad co-sponsored by TEHAMA COUNTY