Technology Teacher 04/07/2016

• English as a second language program expected to increase in Nashua | New Hampshire

  • School officials are expecting more students to participate in the district’s English Language Learners program next year, prompting a request to hire an additional teacher.
  • “The reality is, this is the fastest-growing segment of the population within American schools today,”
  • There are about 745 students in the district learning English as a second language, with most of them speaking Spanish as their primary language
  • there are 22 ELL teachers in the program, in addition to several paraeducators

• Adults in New Hampshire - Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics | Pew Research Center

  • Non-Christian Faiths  5% 
  • Christian  59% 
  • Unaffiliated (religious "nones")   36% 

• NH 2009 - 2010

  American Indian or Alaskan Native Asian or Pacific Islander Hispanic Black, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Multi-Race Total District Name Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number State Total* 44 0.4 886 7.3 2,089 17.2 445 3.7 8,572 70.5 127 1.0 12,163 -Manchester 77 0.5 674 4.3 2,113 13.4 1,277 8.1 10,861 69.0 730 4.6 15,732 -Nashua 44 0.4 886 7.3 2,089 17.2 445 3.7 8,572 70.5 127 1.0 12,163

• NH 2001 - 2002

  - Manchester American Indian 75 %0.4 Asian 413 %2.4 Hispanic 1,330 %7.6 Black Non Hispanic 667 %3.8 White Non Hispanic 14,953 %85.7 Total 17,438-Nashua American Indian 44 %0.3 Asian 525 %3.9 Hispanic 1,448 %10.8 Black Non Hispanic 378 %2.8 White Non Hispanic 11,024 %82.2 Total 13,419- Sanborn Regional 2 0.1 4 0.2 13 0.7 11 0.6 1,787 98.3 1,817

• Module 5 Overview

  Types of DiversityCharacteristic DefinitionFamily structure Refers to the configuration of a student'sfamily (e.g., blended family, nuclear family)Economic diversity Refers to the economic status (i.e. incomelevel) of a student's familyEducationaldiversityRefers to the level of education of thestudent's family and the support andencouragement the family provides foreducational attainment by their child(ren)Social diversity Refers to students from different socialclasses (e.g., working class/"blue collar",professional/"white collar")Political diversity Refers to the political ideology of a studentand the student's family (e.g.,conservative/Republican, liberal/Democrat, ora political background that is somewherebetween those two perspectives)Intellectual diversity Refers to the degree to which a student andthe student's family value learning andintellectual curiosity; can also refer to thefunctional intellectual level of a student and/orthe student's parentsDiversity of sexualorientationRefers to a student's sexual orientation aswell as the sexual orientation of the student'sparents; can also refer to the attitude and acceptance that a student and the student'sparents have towards people with sexualorientations different from their own.Diversity of physicalabilityRefers to the physical abilities and/ordisabilities of a student and the student'sparents-Multiculturalism can refer to people who have diverse backgrounds based on differentnational or regional heritages- New Hampshire between 2001 and 2010,- Look for the changes that have taken place in theschool enrollments of Manchester and Nashua, New Hampshire-specifically the changes in the percentage of students listed as White, Native American,Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and Black in both school years. - This data shows how the number of students from all the listed groups increased (except for the White and the Native American students) over the nine-year period.-The increasing diversity of students' religious affiliations requires thateducators be more aware of and sympathetic to the unique traditions of each of thesereligions- If a school allowed a chess club for its students, it could not prohibit areligiously oriented club.- The courts have ruled that if the local school is available forthe use of non-school, community-based organizations, then it must also be madeavailable to religious organizations.- In the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines, the U.S. SupremeCourt stated, "students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speechand expression at the schoolhouse gate."- FERPA is a federal law that went intoeffect in 1974. This law allows the following:o Right for students and parents to inspect educational recordso Requires schools (in most cases) to obtain written permission before releasinga student's educational recordso Identifies who has the right to a review a student's educational recordso Allows schools to release certain "directory information" (e.g., name, address,telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance with prior notification but not prior permission), as long as studentsand parents have been given the opportunity to "opt out" of such release ofinformation

• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

  • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
  • The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.
  • FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children's education records
  • Parents or eligible students have the right to inspect and review the student's education records maintained by the school.
  • Schools are not required to provide copies of records unless, for reasons such as great distance, it is impossible for parents or eligible students to review the records.
  • Parents or eligible students have the right to request that a school correct records which they believe to be inaccurate or misleading.
  • If the school decides not to amend the record, the parent or eligible student then has the right to a formal hearing.
  • Generally, schools must have written permission from the parent or eligible student in order to release any information from a student's education record

  • FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31):

     
    • School officials with legitimate educational interest;
       
    • Other schools to which a student is transferring;
       
    • Specified officials for audit or evaluation purposes;
       
    • Appropriate parties in connection with financial aid to a student;
       
    • Organizations conducting certain studies for or on behalf of the school;
       
    • Accrediting organizations;
       
    • To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena;
       
    • Appropriate officials in cases of health and safety emergencies; and
       
    • State and local authorities, within a juvenile justice system, pursuant to specific State law.
  • Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance.
  • Schools must notify parents and eligible students annually of their rights under FERPA

• Gwinnett teacher asks Muslim student if she has a bomb | www.ajc.com

  • Muslim student upset after Gwinnett teacher asks if she has a bomb
  • who wears the hijab, was in class when a teacher stopped her and asked what she had in her bookbag.
  • The unidentified teacher responded by asking her if she had a bomb in her bag.
  • The teacher said she knew her joke went too far, especially because of “the things happening in the world right now,” said the daughter.
  • “It was very disrespectful,” the teen said. ” I came there to learn… At the end of the day I will still get my A or B and leave her class.”
  • “We are from Africa, we are Muslims, we live in America,” he said. “I didn’t teach my children to hate people or to think they are better than other people. I don’t want nobody to treat them like that.”
  • “The remark was not appropriate, but based on their conversation and investigation,” school officials don’t believe it was made with “ill intent,” Roach said.
  • The teacher was trying to get the students to put away their backpacks quickly and made the remark to the student that was basically, what do you have in there, a bomb?
  • Donald Trump, who is seeking the GOP nomination for president, has also talked about a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
  • “Obviously a teacher and a student should have a unique kind of relationship…It’s very disturbing to see.”

• Teacher asks 13-year-old Muslim student if she has a bomb | New York Post

  • Teacher asks 13-year-old Muslim student if she has a bomb
  • The father of a Muslim middle school student says a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack.
  • Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Gwinnett County, Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb.
  • said the teacher’s comment was inappropriate and the school’s principal has apologized to the family.
  • comment came as the teacher was telling students to put away their backpacks and school officials don’t believe it was made with ill intent.

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