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Education officials post records of all students with appeals online
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Read emails state Board of Education members sent to education officials and Superintendent Janet Barresis response.
Parents and guardians of several affected students were shocked to learn of the disclosure of documents they thought were only for the eyes of the state Board of Education.
"No, I was not aware of that!" said Ebenezer Duko, father of Broken Arrow High School senior Dallas Dickens-Duko, whose appeal was denied. "I thought everything had to be confidential. I am very concerned and very disappointed. ... I didn't know there was a waiver in the appeal."
Under the Oklahoma Achieving Classroom Excellence Act, which applies to the class of 2012 and beyond, students must pass at least four of seven subject matter tests in order to earn a high school diploma.
Amid outcry from lawmakers and concerns from state board members, state officials took down the names of the 25 students on Friday and redacted their personal information before reposting their ACE appeal applications on the Internet.
The spokesman for State Superintendent Janet Barresi initially defended the action, but later told the Tulsa World that personal information would be redacted because of state board members' concerns.
"There were conversations. They understand the department was striking a difficult balance between being transparent and dealing with student information. Going forward, we are going to take a look at what other states are doing and whether we could have a system that could assign a case number to students seeking appeals," said Damon Gardenhire.
Through a request under the Oklahoma Open Records Act, the Tulsa World obtained copies of state board members' emails. Gardenhire also included Barresi's response, which was sent to the entire board.
Joy Hoffmeister, a state board member from Tulsa, wrote to Barresi that she was disheartened.
"Based on my recollection, the Board had recently been advised that documents distributed during Executive Session are not subject to the same disclosures as those items distributed outside of Executive Session. I am not an expert in the Open Meeting Act or the Open Records Act, but why were these students' records and privacy not shielded in this same way?" she wrote. "I would suggest that in the future, anyone who exercises their right to an appeal should be given greater care to protect their privacy. When a situation of competing rights exist, I believe it is incumbent upon us, as a public board and government agency, to exercise the highest level of care and protection in favor of children and young students."
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Loss of Job Creates Opportunity for Executive to Create Flint Strategic Partners and Write New Book About Life Lessons …
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GOSHEN, Ind., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --When circumstances deliver an unforeseen life event, it's easy to become immobilized between wondering, "Why did that happen?" and "What am I going to do about it?" Like many victims of downsizing in the business world, Bill Flint found himself suddenly unemployed at age 61. He refers to it as a time when Faith and Fear collided: his, "Now what, God?" moment. Unlike many people, though, who see unemployment as an opportunity for early retirement or gradual withdrawal from activity, Bill saw this as an opportunity to follow his longtime dream of creating his own consulting firm, to help companies maximize the potential of their most important asset: the people who come to work every day wanting to accomplish something bigger than themselves. Bill says, "what is needed are servant leaders who care, motivate and encourage their people to discover and reach their potential."
Bill started Flint Strategic Partners, located in Goshen, Indiana, to provide strategic consulting, coaching and servant leadership training to companies of any size. He also found time to write his first book called "The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership," which is currently among the top 10 best-selling books out of 4,700 titles on Amazon in the servant leadership category in the U.S., France, Italy, Canada, UK, Spain, China and Germany. It is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and other retailers.
"The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership" was published by Westbow Press, a Division of Thomas Nelson. The intent of the book is to clearly illustrate his business philosophy of sincere motivation of and interest in people, drawing on his experiences to create a step-by-step guide for leaders. He states, "...it is truly possible to create an environment of caring, trust and respect between leaders and those they lead."
His book has also been nominated for Book of the Year by Forward Review in the career category. The winners will be announced at the American Library Association annual convention June 23, 2012, in Anaheim, California.
Over a 40-year period, Bill has lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin and Indiana as he navigated a successful business career that included 28 years in senior management positions and 12 years as president of two separate companies. One of those companies recorded annual sales of $125 million with ten manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico and Europe.
To contact Bill, e-mail him at bflint@flintpartners.com or call 888-395-9054. You can also visit http://www.servantleaders.org to sign up for Free Webinars, Newsletters and watch a video of Bill speaking at the Young Professionals Leaderfest Conference in Wisconsin in April 2012. Bill is available for speaking engagements, seminars, leadership retreats, and conventions.
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Wimberly's exit from coaching not what she envisioned
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By Keith Peters Palo Alto Online Sports
It could have been an ending to any other school year for Pam Wimberly, who handed out some diplomas at Menlo-Atherton's graduation ceremony on Thursday and looked ahead to teaching summer school.
When Wimberly returns to school in the fall to resume her PE teaching duties, however, things will be very different.
For one, the 65-year-old Wimberly will not be standing on the basketball court for the first day of practice on November 1. After 42 years of coaching the girls' hoop team at M-A (she started in 1968-69 but missed two seasons), Wimberly will be a spectator for the first time.
That decision was made on June 1 when M-A Principal Matthew Zito informed Wimberly that her coaching career at the school was over.
"I will go on and teach my classes, and enjoy more things in life," she said. "I'm coming to grips with what happened."
What happened was, after two losing seasons, co-Athletic Directors Paul Snow and Steven Kryger, along with Zito, decided that Wimberly evidently had seen better days. Forget the fact she had compiled a won-loss record of 663-340 in her 42 years while becoming the third-winningest girls' hoop coach in California. Forget the fact she had won four Central Coast Section titles (1984, 1991, 1992 and 1993) or been runner-up six times. And forget that she missed the CCS playoffs only 10 times in 36 years since the section postseason began in 1977.
In 2001, Wimberly was named Girls' Basketball Coach of the Year by the California Coaches Association and was selected as one of 13 coaches honored with the Model Coach Award by the California Interscholastic Federation.
While no one wanted to state the obvious, going 10-16 this past season and 7-18 in 2010-11 while missing the CCS playoffs both times reportedly did not enamor Wimberly with a group of M-A parents who evidently wanted more. It was a clash of style over substance and the supposed weight of parental pressure apparently won out.
A statement released by Kryger said: "Pam accomplished many great feats over the course of her career and the M-A community is grateful for all that she did for hundreds of student-athletes. We feel this is the time to make the transition to a new head varsity coach for our girls' basketball program."
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Outsourcing your life
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Once, only the wealthy paid other people to perform their most personal tasks: finding mates, raising (or even having) children, making meals.
Now those professionals have become available to the upper-middle and middle classes. We hire people to name our children and love our parents, shop for the gifts we give and walk our dogs. We even hire people to help us figure out what it is that we want. (That's right, you can grow up to be a wantologist.)
But these are complicated transactions, and we all need to pay attention, according to UC Berkeley sociology professor Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of the new book "The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times."
Hochschild, who interviewed more than 100 people for her book, is careful not to judge these services "that reach into the heart of our emotional lives" or the people who employ these strangers. And she acknowledges, "We are not going back. We don't want to."
The stories of the ordinary people she talked to reveal much about how we live today: what it means that, in large measure, "village life" has become so commercialized.
"These services are only likely to proliferate in a world that undermines community, disparages government, marginalizes nonprofits and believes in the superiority of what's for sale," Hochschild writes.
So how, she asks, do we go forward? We each must figure out what is too personal to outsource; we have to understand what we cherish and hold on to it.
Consider: The woman who hires a love coach but insists it's for her alone to sort through the Match.com replies. The dad who decides that he alone will put on his 5-year-old's birthday party, even when the parents of her friends hire professionals. The bride who hands almost every detail over to a planner but insists on choosing her dress with her mom because that, to her, is too personal.
"In the face of the market's de-personalization of our bonds with others, we do what we can, consciously or not, to re-personalize them, to make the market feel less like a market," Hochschild concludes.
The author of such books as "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home" is not just an observer. She came to "The Outsourced Self" in part through her experience seeking care for an elderly aunt who lived 3,000 miles away. She sees her research as a bit of the canary in the coal mine an early warning of just how much we're giving over to strangers.
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Docs aren't coaching overweight kids on how to slim down
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By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- While U.S. doctors often urge obese teens to eat better and exercise more, overweight kids headed for obesity seldom get the same medical advice, a new study shows.
That's important, experts say, because preventing obesity is much easier than dealing with it once it's there.
In the study, fewer than half of all adolescents were advised to eat a healthful diet by their doctor, and only about a third were also told to get more exercise.
This type of advice was more commonly doled out to obese boys and girls than their normal-weight counterparts, but overweight adolescents -- those at highest risk of becoming obese -- were counseled much less often.
The bottom line is that "there is still significant room for improvement in terms of the diagnosis, prevention and management of weight issues in children," said one expert, Dr. Yolandra Hancock, a primary care pediatrician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She was not involved with the study.
If doctors aren't helping overweight kids slim down, it's up to parents to step in, she said.
"If your provider has not brought up weight or body-mass index (BMI), ask how much your child weighs, what their [BMI] is and how it compares to other same-aged kids," she said. "Once this conversation is initiated, the provider will take the lead."
BMI is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight. A BMI of 30 is typically considered the threshold for obesity.
The study, led by Dr. Lan Liang of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Md., appears online in advance of print publication in the July issue of Pediatrics.
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Dave Tenney talks about Sounders FC's "Sports Science and Mentorship Weekend"
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Top fitness coaches from around the world have come to town for the second annual Sounders FC's "Sports Science and Mentorship Weekend."
Fitness coach Dave Tenney will be the man in change of the three-day event and has brought in a number of highly qualified featured speakers: Steve Tashjian (Everton FC fitness coach), Nick Winkelman (head of education and methodology for Athletes Performance), Jan Willem Teunissen (head fitness/strength/conditioning coach for the Ajax Amsterdam youth academy) and others.
The goal, according the details posted on SoundersFC.com, are to "share the latest methodologies in soccer training, human performance, and recovery." Tenney spoke with a few of us about the event a couple days ago:
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(Can you tell us a little bit about what's going on this weekend?) "We call it the 'Sports Science and Mentorship Weekend.' Last year, we had 35 coaches. This year, we'll have 50 coaches attending; we have eight presenters. I think in terms of sports science in this country there's no real driving force and there's a big disconnect in the soccer world between what happens with sports science and strength conditioning and all that, and the soccer side and soccer coaches. This is the only real event that I know of in the U.S. where you have college strength conditioning coaches together with college head coaches, where they can really talk about sports science and fitness and training and fatigue and all those things that we kind of overlook in the country."
(What was the motivation to get this started?) "Every year, as you guys know, I always go in the offseason and visit England or Holland, and my idea first was, 'OK, that's great, but I can only go and see so much.' So if I have this type of weekend, then I can bring these coaches to me, and then we can benefit by educating other coaches. ... I was just up in the gym talking with a guy who's been a fitness coach in Champions League in Belgium along with the best strength conditioning coach in college in the U.S., and we're all just talking about methodology and the Sounders' training complex. Bringing that type of soccer fitness IQ here I think benefits us and it also fills the need of education for coaches in the country."
(Do you feel the Sounders are on the leading edge of sports science?) "I hope so. That's the goal and we hope these types of things benefit us and kind of keep us ahead. So my goal, personally, is how can we use technology to keep us ahead of what everyone else is doing? There are more teams that are investing more time and money in that, but I think with things like this it keeps us kind of ahead."
(Do you feel there's still a lot of skepticism from coaches or players regarding sports science?) "Yeah and my personal talk on the weekend is about that, too. It's about how you have that disconnect. You have the sports scientists and you have coaches. And at the end of the day the coaches have a feel for things, which is very valid. Sports scientists are looking at data. Now we want the head coaches to make better, more informed decisions, but that only happens in the sports scientists know the right questions to ask. I feel like in the past, sports scientists haven't really connected with the game; they haven't always asked the right questions of the data to give the feedback to the coaches. So there's this disconnect and the coaches didn't really believe (the data), but I think at the end of the day sports science is a very new thing. Even what we're doing in soccer, they're still not doing on a daily basis in the NBA, or the NHL or especially the NFL. So it's still in its infancy here and as we can give the coaches better answers to better questions, then they'll be more receptive of it."
(How's the technology different now than when you first started with the Sounders?) "We're always trying to quantify the load on the players every day. We're using GPS now, as well, so GPS this year for the first time gives us a better mechanical load. So as we use better technology, every year I think we kind of refine the process of measuring the load on the players a little bit better."
(You ever talk to old-school guys like Alan Hinton about this stuff?) "You're always going to have that kind of give-and-take and dialogue. The traditional coaches claim you can do everything on feel and intuition. And there's always intuition and data. What we want to do, which maybe sometimes Alan isn't used to that whole thing, is we want to use data to help inform them on their intuitions, and that's it. What I always say is intuition is probably right about 80 percent of the time, because you can have a feel for things, but there are some things that go on in athletes' bodies that you just can't see. And players are really good at hiding things, too. Now if you have that data to fill in the 20 percent that coaches just can't see and can't feel, then we make better decisions long term."
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I'll Have Another's retirement hurts NYRA, NBC
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The retirement of I'll Have Another on the eve of the Belmont Stakes is a big hit for the New York Racing Association and NBC.
Both had been hoping for a Triple Crown bonanza.
NYRA, the association that runs Belmont Park, Saratoga and Aqueduct, has been under political pressure. Last month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo replaced the NYRA management following years of scandal and mismanagement.
Earlier in the week, NYRA spokesman Dan Silver estimated the Triple Crown try would draw "100,000, weather permitting."
It's hard to predict the impact of I'll Have Another's defection on the turnout. While all reserved and box seats are sold out, a good chunk of any Belmont crowd are walk-up general admission customers.
NBC, expecting a substantial ratings bump for the Belmont coverage, was scrambling to digest the news.
"While we are obviously disappointed that our show won't feature I'll Have Another going for the elusive Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes is still an iconic event on the sports schedule, and the NBC Sports Group broadcasts will treat it as such. We're working now to adjust the game plan accordingly," said Adam Freifeld, VP Communications, NBC Sports Group.
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TAGG RECALLS: The buildup to I'll Have Another's Triple Crown try that was derailed Friday brought back memories of 2003 and Funny Cide's bid for trainer Barclay Tagg.
Not all of them were pleasant.
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