Education

UNM-LA SBDC Offers Business Skills Workshops

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UNM-LA SBDC News:

The Los Alamos Branch of the Small Business Development Center is conducting three seminars in October to help small business owners and entrepreneurs improve their business skills.

Effective Techniques for Working with People
Oct. 22, 3-5 p.m., room 214, UNM-LA campus.

Topics to be covered will include:

  • How to work with those younger/older people that you don’t understand/don’t understand you.
  • What workers are really looking for in a job.
  • Three secrets to leadership that will make everyone’s life easier, whether or not they’re a leader.
  • More effective
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Pinon and Chamisa Join Forces for Fall Fun

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Pumpkin Patch fun. Photo by Kelly Benner

LAPS News:

The Eighth Annual Pinon Elementary Pumpkin Patch and the Annual Chamisa Elementary Arts and Craft Fair is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 at Pinon Elementary, 90 Grand Canyon Dr. in White Rock. It has become a huge White Rock fall festival.

The Pumpkin Patch has lots of new and exciting events this year, organizers said. In addition to all the pumpkins for sale, there will be a rock wall for the kids to climb, a Hay Maze three bales high, rubber duck races, a cardboard “alpine slide,” angry birds catapult, hair painting, face painting, Read More

UNM-LA to Show Gandhi in Composition Cinema Lecture Series Oct. 24

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UNM-LA News:

The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) will feature Gandhi, Oct. 24, as the fourth installment in the Composition Cinema I: A Film and Lecture Series, which will run through Nov. 14.

The host for Gandhi will be UNM-LA Adjunct Faculty member, Dora Akleksandrova, and the discussion will center around her course theme “free will.”

Gandhi is a biography about Mohandas Gandhi, the spiritual and political leader of the non-violent resistance movement (Satyagraha) in India against the United Kingdom’s rule during the 20th century.

The film is free and open to the public and Read More

UNM-LA Faculty to Attend National Science Foundation Conference

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By VINT MILLER
UNM-LA

Three faculty members from the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos, will be attending a National Science Foundation (NSF) conference Oct. 23-25 in Washington, DC.

Dr. Irina Alvestad, Dr. Kate Massengale and Professor Don Davis will be attending ATE@20: Sustaining Success and Advancing Innovation. ATE stands for Advanced Technological Education and is a special grant opportunity offered to two-year schools by the NSF.

Attendees represent two-year colleges, business and industry, secondary school systems, four-year colleges and research and development centers Read More

Teacher Book Groups Get Food For Thought

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Piñon Elementary School teachers show off the books they’ll be reading thanks to the LAPS Foundation. Courtesy photo

LAPS FOUNDATION News:

Professional Book Groups for Los Alamos Public Schools teachers and instructional assistants are a rewarding and low-cost way for the LAPS Foundation to provide professional development. Two types of professional book groups were considered for funding:

  • Educators will examine instructional techniques with the goal of implementing new or refined practices in the classroom or broadening their pedagogical knowledge.
  • Educators will select
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Judges Needed for Speech and Debate Tournament

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HILLTALKERS News:

The Los Alamos Hilltalkers Speech and Debate Team’s annual invitational tournament is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2 at Los Alamos High School.

This local event has built a strong reputation drawing teams from around the state eager for rigorous competition and high-quality feedback from engaged, trained judges.

The tournament serves as the team’s largest fundraiser and educational event and offers an opportunity for Los Alamos community members to participate and support the team by serving as judges.

There are numerous speech and debate sessions Read More

School Board Moves to Ease Teacher Burdens

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Dist. 43 Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, center, and others listen to Assistant Superintendent Gerry Washburn as he gives an overview of the history of the New Mexico Teacher Evaluation System. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Mountain Principal James Ivanovich explains how the new Teacher Evaluation System affects principals. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The mood was cautiously optimistic at the close of Tuesday’s special meeting of the Los Alamos School Board.

The purpose of the meeting was to draft Read More

Checkout Special School Board Meeting Videos

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Superintendent Gene Schmidt. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

The Los Alamos School Board held a special meeting Tuesday evening in the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater to discuss reducing the work load involved with teacher evaluation procedures being developed by the New Mexico Public Education Department.

The board voted 5-0 to find ways to reduce the work load on principals and teachers in regard to the new procedures. A full story of the special meeting will follow shortly in the Los Alamos Daily Post.

Also, the Los Alamos Daily Post streamed Tuesday’s Read More

Watch Tuesday’s School Board Meeting Live on ladailypost.com

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LA DAILY POST News:

Anyone unable to attend Tuesday’s Special Board Meeting at 5 p.m. at the Speech Theater at Los Alamos High School can watch it streamed live on the Los Alamos Daily Post.

There is much interest in the meeting called by Board President Jim Hall to formalize the guidance given to administration at the Oct. 8 Board Meeting. At that meeting, 29 teachers expressed to the board their concern with the new state-mandated teacher evaluation program.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Hall is expected to present the following motion for discussion and possible action. “I move that the Read More