![Excitement is growing among teachers and staff of ETUSD schools. The focus is no longer on survival, it is on creating a dynamic learning community. Above: On Monday, April 18 the staff shared a brainstorm about goals for ETUSD students.
Here, Teachers Corey Hansen, Paula Harvey, Emily Lee and Technology coordinator Thomas HungerHurst share ideas and student-centered goals. [Patric Hedlund photo]](https://mountainenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_2064w-324x243.jpg)
Excitement is growing among teachers and staff of ETUSD schools. The focus is no longer on survival, it is on creating a dynamic learning community. Above: On Monday, April 18 the staff shared a brainstorm about goals for ETUSD students. Here, Teachers Corey Hansen, Paula Harvey, Emily Lee and Technology coordinator Thomas HungerHurst share ideas and student-centered goals. [Patric Hedlund photo]
By Patric Hedlund, TME
For over nine years it has been a cruel irony of spring in the Mountain Communities that just as the world is joyfully shaking off winter and colorful wildflowers begin to bloom across the hillsides, many school teachers without tenure at El Tejon Unified School District were receiving “pinks.” That was the nice way to refer to the lay-off notices that would pop up like noxious weeds in teachers’ school mailboxes every March.
These were always preceded by painful ETUSD board meetings in February. Trustees lamented about the fiscal pickle the region’s largest school district had…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)
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Excitement is growing among teachers and staff of ETUSD schools. The focus is no longer on survival, it is on creating a dynamic learning community.
Top: El Tejon School principal Rosalie Jimenez spoke with the board on Thursday, April 14 about a recent conference on technology and education. Above: On Monday, April 18 the staff shared a brainstorm about goals for ETUSD students.
Teachers Corey Hansen, Paula Harvey, Emily Lee and Tech coordinator Thomas HungerHurst share ideas and student-centered goals
El Tejon Unified School District support staff, teachers, administrators and school board members came together in work groups to define goals and vision for the district and its students April 18.
ETUSD Board President Barbara Newbold and Trustees Lisa Duncan, Misty Johnston and John Fleming threw themselves into the exercise, exchanging ideas with the staff and the teachers about where they want to sail this ship now that it is solidly afloat again. There was a sense of relief and mutual respect in the air.
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This is part of the April 22, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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