Carlos Chavez/Special to the Star Kyra Salata and Campbell Davidson wait to ask Miss Teen California Dedria Brunett of Camarillo a question at the meeting of Brownie Troop 60082 at Lang Ranch School in Thousand Oaks on Friday. Brunett told the Brownies of her growing up at Casa Pacifica as a child and the responsibility of being Miss Teen.
For Brownie Troop 60082, getting a patch became a life-changing moment.
The Brownies — Lang Ranch Elementary School second-graders — listened Friday to Dedria Brunett, Miss Teen California 2010, tell her story in the cafeteria of the Thousand Oaks school.
“By the age of 5, I was placed at Casa Pacifica, a shelter for children, and I went on several foster home visits only to be returned within a couple of hours,” said Brunett, of Camarillo. “A counselor from Casa Pacifica adopted me but when I was taken from the shelter I didn’t have anything to put my things in, so all of my personal effects were put into trash bags.”
Brunett said this is what impacted her the most of her childhood, because she understood then that trash goes into trash bags. She
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Tags: California, Miss Teen, Miss Teen California, Teen California
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Santa Susana High School Principal Pamela Carter addresses a crowd of administrators and supporters at the grand opening of the school’s new Performing Arts Center.
Santa Susana High School rolled out the red carpet Friday, complete with faux paparazzi, to welcome local politicians, members of the Simi Valley school board and other dignitaries to a special ceremony “raising the curtain” on the school’s new and long-awaited Performing Arts Center.
Simi Valley Mayor Bob Huber, U.S. Congressman Elton Gallegly’s district chief of staff Brian Miller, Simi Valley School Board President Debbie Sandland and Simi Valley Unified School District Superintendent Kathryn Scroggin were among the dignitaries on hand to celebrate the new facility.
Acknowledging the importance of arts in education, Santa Susana High School Principal Pamela Carter also thanked the Performing Arts Center Team and the Santa Susana Performing Arts Boosters for their fundraising efforts.
“The new auditorium has been long-awaited and much desired by our entire school community,” said Carter.
First approved by voters in 2004 as part of the Simi Valley Unified School District’s C4 Bond measure, HMC Architects initially delivered plans for a multipurpose room for which $8.6 million was allocated.
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I’ve added a substantial section about scenarios to the Elearning Blueprint. The section is open and free for everyone until March 31 to support my March 24th presentation at the Learning Solutions conference.
The six parts cover:
- What are scenarios? (includes examples of different approaches)
- Why use them?
- Scenario ingredients: characters, decisions, and feedback
- What type of scenario?
- How to design a branching scenario
- Media and tools
So if you’re interested in creating decision-making scenarios, visit the new section soon. And let me know: What did I miss? What would you add to the section?
Registered blueprint users can leave comments in the blueprint, and everyone can leave comments, ideas, and questions in the comments section of this blog.
Tags: Scenarios
The Oxnard School District got a warning from the District Attorney’s Office this week that its board recently violated the state open-meeting law.
Special Assistant District Attorney Michael Schwartz sent the district a letter Thursday, advising officials that trustees did not comply with the Brown Act regarding a recent board decision to not renew its chief business officer’s contract.
On Feb. 16, board President Ernie Morrison announced that trustees had voted 3-2 in a closed session two weeks earlier to provide notice of non-renewal of an employment contract to an administrator.
Morrison said it was appropriate to report the item at the Feb. 16 meeting because it had not become final until then. Trustees said they had been told by their attorney that they had complied with the law.
Schwartz, however, said he found a number of errors with the board’s announcement. His office received several complaints and inquiries about it, he said in the letter.
State law allows the board to discuss some items in closed session.
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Decision-making scenarios work best when they require realistic decisions and avoid preaching. Let’s look at some examples.
Not a real on-the-job decision
Carla, a sales person, is meeting with Amit, a new customer. She shows him a megawidget.
“You’ll love this megawidget,” Carla says.
“I don’t want a megawidget,” Amit says. “I came in here for a microwidget.”
What is this an example of?
- Product Boundary Issues
- Customer Misvetting
- Courageous Upselling
What’s wrong with this scenario?
We’re not asking the learner to make a challenging decision like the ones they make on the job. We’re checking the learner’s short-term memory: Can they still recognize “Customer Misvetting,” which we defined three screens ago?
We’ve disguised a quiz question as a scenario. It’s better than a generic quiz question, but it doesn’t require the kind of thinking that learners need to do on the job.
Also, the question tests only whether the learner can apply the right label to a problem. It doesn’t test whether the learner
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Tags: Scenarios, Scenarios Good