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The Lake-Lehman ECIA Chapter
I Parent Advisory Council recently
sent representativs to the Eleventh
Annual Parent Awareness Trianing
Conference at the Pocono Hershey
Resort. This is sponsored by Region
IT and III of the Pennsylvania Asso-
ciation of Federal Program Coordi-
nators.
The speaker for the first general
session was State Senator Michael
O’Pake, who gave an update on
child abuse in the state of Pennsyl-
vania. He discussed the laws which
have been passed and those which
have been introduced and hopefully
to be passed in the near future. He
stressed it is everyone’s responsibil-
ity to report suspected child abuse
cases and you are protected from
any ensuing law suits.
After the first session, the parents
had a choice of attending one of four
small group sessions--Motivational
Techniques Parents Can Use for
Language Arts and Mathematics;
Newspapers: A Way to Help Your
Child Learn; Awareness and
Involvement: The Best Preserva-
tives; and TELLS: Year One
Results, Year Two Plans. These
sessions gave parents ideas for
helping their children and informa-
tion on what is happening .in the
schools on a state wide basis.
The second general session was
on Problem Solving in the Family
Network. The speaker was Mr.
Charles W. Laudermilch, an instruc-
tor at Bloomsburg University. His
theory was if a child is having a
problem, you must look at the whole
family not just the child. The behav-
ior of the child has a specific
purpose and you must find it before
the problem can be corrected.
The day concluded with four more
small group sessions. Again, the
sessions dealt with activities for the
parents to help their children and
also how important it is for parents
to be involved with their Chapter I
program.
Dr. Ross S. Blust, Educational
Research Associate with the Penn-
sylvania Department of Education,
will be hosted by the Luzerne
County Reading Council, Wednes-
day, Nov. 6, for his presentation,
which is open to the public, “A
Review of the TELLS Program -
The Second Year.”
TELLS (Testing For Essential
Learning and Literacy Skills), con-
ceived in 1983 and implemented in
1984 as a result of Governor Thorn-
burgh’s comprehensive educational
reform package titled “Turning the
Tide: An Agenda for Excellence in
Pennsylvania Public Schools,” is a
testing and follow up instructional
program designed to be an ‘‘early
~ warning system’ which identifies
problems early in a student’s school
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career and makes extra help availa-
ble to students who need it. TELLS
measures the achievement in read-
ing and mathematics of students in
grades 3, 5 and 8 in public schools
and nonpublic schools that choose to
participate. Students who score
below what the state has deter-
mined is acceptable for their grade
level are eligible for state-funded
“extra help.”
TELLS is now in its second year.
The Luzerne County Reading Coun-
cil considers it a privilege to host
Dr. Blust for his presentation. Dr.
Blust, who received his doctorate
from The Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity, has been with the Depart-
ment of Education since 1979 and
prior to this worked as an elemen-
tary school principal and classroom
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teacher. Dr. Blust has also been the
Director of Special Projects and an
assistant professor at Penn State.
Over the years he has made numer-
ous presentations on Pennsylvania
curriculum, interpretation of test
results and test utilization, and
school improvement. He als ohas
authored many publications on simi-
lar topics.
The Council encourages all par-
ents and itnerested persons to
attend. It should prove to be an
educational and informative eve-
ning. Dr. Blust’s presentation will
be made at the Wallace F. Stettler
Learning Resources Center, Wyo-
ming Seminary Upper School,
Sprague Avenue in Kingston, at 7:30
p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 6. Reserva-
tions are not required. ~~
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Dallas Senior High School, and Mr.
Frank Galicki, Assistant Principal
announce the names of Dawn Roth-
rock and Peter Morcos, seniors at
Dallas Senior High School, as being
National Merit Semi-Finalists.
semi-finalists on the basis of their
outstanding performance on the 1984
dents from some 19,000 secondary
fall by taking the PSAT test in their
junior year. They will now fulfill
requirements established by the
National Merit Scholarship Pro-
gram in order to advance to finalist
standing before receiving considera-
tion for Merit Scholarship.
Dawn is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn H. Rothrock, 95 Mt. Airy
Road, Shavertown. She is an excel-
lent student at Dallas Senior High
ranking in the top fifth of the senior
class and is a member of the
National Honor Society. She has
received numerous academic
awards, is active in drama, Flag
Squad and sports. Dawn plans to
attend college majoring in Mathe-
matics with a probably career as an
Actuary.
Peter is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
George A. Morcos, of 54 Grandview
Avenue, Dallas. He is also an excel-
lent student at Dallas Senior High
Students honored
ranking in thetop fifth of the senior
class. He has received numerous
awards in math and science. Peter
plans to major in Physics in college
and a probably career as a Physi-
cist.
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Discussion led
‘Responsib
“In Lust or in Love - Come and
Find Out” said the sign on the
student activity bulletin board...and
then the clincher...“free pizza and
soda.”
Actually the title of the workshop
was “Responsible Loving,” accord-
ing to Patricia Crahall, nurse-direc-
tor of the student health center at
Penn State Wilkes-Barre, and the
program was the second in a series
of health-related workshops which
she is coordinating.
She noted that she was startled
when she saw the student interpre-
tation of her more formal invitation
to the free workshop but pleased
when she saw the number of stu-
dents who turned out for the pro-
gram.
The workshop was conducted by
Deborah Wiliams, an alumna of
Penn State who began her academic
Py;
Under her leadership, the group
explored the differences between
infatuation and love.
Williams, now an educator-coun-
selor on the staff of Planned Parent-
hood of Northeast Pennsylvania,
made use of activities to bring out
individual and group opionions on
mature and immature love relation-
ships. She used pretend ‘‘help
wanted” ads to bring on a discus-
sion of the conflict that can arise
from lack of agreement on life
styles, values and goals.
“This is the first time this work-
shop has been presented in this
area,” said Williams who added
that she was pleased to find as
many men as women among the
participants. “It was encouraging to
me as an educator to see that both
sexes are more aware of the need to
treat each individual as an individ-
ual, to communicate, to be sensi-
tive.”
According to Crahall, the partici-
pants included several members of
the faculty and staff as well as
students and their friends. She
noted that everybody is welcome to
attend the health-related workshops
and that there is no fee.
She said that she expects a partic-
ularly large turnout from the com-
munity for the next workshop series
Thursday, Nov. 7, 12 to 1 p.m. when
Dr. Jeffrey Sternleib, a psycholo-
gist, will discuss a disturbing trend,
the increase of suicide among young
adults.
Dr. Sternleib’s talk, ‘‘Suicide--A
Growing Concern for Young
Adults,” will provide guidelines for
examining this phenomenon from a
personal perspective and for
responding to others facing the
problem.
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