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The company did not return telephone calls
but did
issue a statement from its chief operating officer,
Lee Ramage.
"With regard to recent reports of developments
in
Ecuador," Mr. Ramage said, "Erickson Air-Crane
will
neither confirm nor deny these, or any
other, reports
until all hostages are safely home with
their
families."
Christina Slover, a waitress at El Rogue
Café, a local
restaurant, said most people in town were
trying to
protect the families' privacy by not speaking
out
today. "Nobody wants to say too much, especially
with
things getting so close to freedom," she
explained.
"We're all just praying, really, really
hard."
After Mr. Sander's death, relatives of
another
hostage, David Bradley, of Casper, Wyo.,
spoke out.
Mr. Bradley, 41, is an oilfield platform
technician
for Helmerich & Payne, the same Tulsa-based
company
for which Mr. Sander worked.
His sister, Julie Bradley, an assistant principal
at
an elementary school in Denver, said she had
been
silent for months on the company's advice,
but was now
urging some sort of deal. She said she
knew the United
States government generally had a "no-negotiation
policy with terrorists," but, she said,
"Somebody's
got to do something. People are dying now."
And Mr. Bradley's uncle, Gregory Bradley
of Phoenix,
said he was abandoning his reticence.
"They're saying: `Keep a low profile. Don't
make any
noise,' " Mr. Bradley told reporters in
early
February, just after Mr. Sander's body
was found. "And
I think now that one person is dead, that's
not the
way to go. I think we need to get everybody
in the
world involved in this and get those young
men and
take them home, because it's only money."
X. SEATTLE TIMES ARTICLE: SPANISH
NOW A BRIDGE, NOT
A BARRIER, FOR BELLEVUE OFFICER
Saturday, February 17, 2001, 12:00 a.m.
Pacific
Spanish now a bridge, not a barrier, for
Bellevue
officer
by Renata Birkenbuel
Special to The Seattle Times
Andrea J. Wright / The Seattle Times
Eusebio Hernandez, 21, left, talks in Spanish
with
Bellevue police Officer Lisa Piculell,
center, and his
classmate Claudia Saavedra, 21, right,
at Proyecto
PODER, a GED program for non-English-speaking
Latino
youth at Bellevue's Robinswood High.
When Bellevue
police Officer Lisa Piculell arrested a
Latino youth
at his home, her newly acquired Spanish
skills served
her well in a culturally sensitive situation.
The
mother of the juvenile runaway didn't speak
English, but Piculell's diplomacy, compassion
and
upgraded Spanish helped her communicate with
the
distraught woman.
"The mother was very emotional," said Piculell,
a
school-resource officer at Highland and
Tillicum
middle schools. "She was having some real
issues with
(her son), and it was disrupting their
whole family
life. "I believe ... I understood her and
that I
helped her. She was so grateful."
So grateful that she grabbed Piculell and
kissed her
on the cheek.
A 10-year veteran on the Bellevue force,
Piculell
traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico, last year
for the
express purpose of learning Spanish to
help her work
with youth for the Bellevue Police Department's
community-services unit.
She paid her own airfare and tuition and
stayed with a
host family; the Police Department paid
her salary
during the five-week training.
"Lisa came to me with the idea," said Lt.
Tom
Falkenborg, Piculell's supervisor and head
of the
community-services unit. While the department
offers
similar training for officers who want
to upgrade
their conversational skills in foreign
languages,
Piculell's trip was a first, he said.
The rewards were more than she expected.
When she
arrived in Mexico, her Spanish vocabulary
consisted of
colors and numbers. Now she has a better
understanding
of both the language and the culture.
"It really gave me a newfound appreciation
for their
culture," she said. "I really didn't understand
a lot
of things."
For example, she said, the pomp and circumstance
of
crowning queens during school dances is
an important
part of Hispanic culture. Piculell volunteers
at
Proyecto PODER, a GED program for non-English-speaking
Latino youth at Bellevue's Robinswood High
School,
where students routinely throw community-centered
dances and vote for their favorite dance
queen.
Because of her popularity with students,
Piculell
polices the dances. "She has learned
quite a bit of
Spanish," said PODER director Herminia
DeDamm, who's
worked with Piculell for three years. "That's
something the kids really appreciate -
someone who's
trying to learn their language. And she'll
be tough.
If anything happens, she'll respond."
Piculell interned at Echo Glen Children's
Center, a
state juvenile-detention center near Preston,
after
earning a degree in social work from the
University of
Washington in 1986. She was the first woman
assigned
to motorcycle duty in the Bellevue Police
Department,
in 1995.
"I really got interested in working with
juveniles and
at-risk youth," she said. "But I wanted
to make a
bigger difference." Now, as a student-resource
officer, she meets with parents, is involved
in
student mediations and interventions and
does grief
counseling.
"She helps break down the barriers between
home and
the school," said Michelle Carroll, the
principal of
Highland Middle School, who has known Piculell
for
four years. "She's real with students.
She's friendly,
but she also holds some high expectations
and the
students know they can count on her."
Latinos make up 14 percent of the student
population
in the Bellevue district.
At PODER, Piculell helps students with
their English
and they, in turn, guide her Spanish. When
teachers
are in meetings on Wednesdays, she chats
with students
who elect to stay in class. She offers
to guide
students through job applications.
"It's very unusual, it's very surprising
that a police
person would be so friendly to students,"
said PODER
student Claudia Saavedra, 20.
"She brings cakes, she brings cookies,
she always
comes with a big, huge smile," DeDamm says.
"Now you
have all the implications of police targeting
Latinos.
So it's a wonderful approach because students
learn
that the police officer is a friend."
Piculell is also involved in Bellevue's
Cops and Docs
program, a firearms-education program for
eighth-graders, and is a hostage-crisis
negotiator.
"If I could clone her, it would be great,"
said
Falkenborg.
Copyright © 2001 The Seattle Times
Company
XI. REFRESHER COURSE FOR TEACHERS
OF SPANISH, July
2nd to 13th. at the
University of Cantabria - Santander, Spain.
Tuition,
room and board with a family and regional
field trips
$995. Optional 4 graduate credits (Span508)$160.
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign
Languages and
Distance and Continuing Education at Oregon
State
University. Contact Anuncia Escala Aescala@orst.edu
Tel 541-737-3949 and 800-235-6559.
XII. TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN
GRADES K-8
UW Education Outreach will offer:
TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN GRADES K-8
EDC&I 495 TA 5 credits
Mondays and Wednesdays, Mar. 28-May 21
5-7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 12 & 19, 9 a.m.-4:30
p.m.
No class April 9 & ll.
This course is designed to prepare foreign
language
teachers to work at the elementary and
middle school
levels. In this course, you will learn
about:
-Developing content-based classroom materials
-Creating reading and writing activities
for all grade
levels
-Using games and songs to further language
learning
-Aligning curriculum with national and
state standards
-Basing your teaching on second language
learning
theory
-Assessing student learning
-Writing lesson and unit plans to use in
your
classroom
The course will focus on combining the
needed
theoretical knowledge with hands-on activities.
For
example, you will learn what theories of
child
development, brain research and the theory
of multiple
intelligences contribute to teaching and
learning a
foreign language. You will learn how to
do
content-based instruction in science and
math, and art
and music. You will learn how to do peer-
and
self-assessment and how to connect your
teaching to
the Standards for Foreign Language Learning
and the WA
State EALR's.
Your instructor is Renate Brendler Grant
of the
Evergreen School in Seattle. She received
her academic
training in Germany and the US and has
worked with
Helena Curtain. She has taught at the Evergreen
School
since 1993 and has made presentations at
national and
regional conferences on teaching foreign
languages in
the elementary and middle school.
This course is of value to pre-service
teachers
wanting, those currently trained to teach
languages to
adolescents and adults, elementary teachers
who would
like to include language instruction in
their classes,
and those trained in other countries who
would like to
teach in the American system. A working
knowledge of
spoken and written English, some knowledge
of another
language, and some teaching experience
are
prerequisites.
Reg # 57974 EDC&I 495 TA 5 credits
13 sessions Mondays and Wednesdays Mar.
28-May 21;
5-7:30 p.m. No class April 9 & 11.
Two Saturday
sessions, May 12 & 19, 9 a.m.-4:30
p.m. Fee is $625,
undergraduate tuition, not including registration
and
technology fee or materials. Register at
UWEO 5001
25th Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98105 or, using
VISA or
MasterCard at 206-543-2310 or 1-800-543-2320,
or
online at www.extension.washington.edu.
For questions,
please e-mail lhk@u.washington.edu
XIII.
WAFLT 2000-01 ANNUAL POSTER CONTEST
THEME:
Languages Link the World
Categories
Primary
K-3 grade
Intermediate
4-6 grade
Junior High
7-9 grade
High School
10-12 grade
Awards
1st, 2nd, 3rd in each category
Prim./Inter. - $20, $15, $10; -- Jr. High/High
- $50,
$35, $15
Size
11" by 17"
Limit
Three posters per category per school.
If there are
more than three teachers at any one school
submitting
entries, each may submit no more than two
posters in
any one category. Submitting teachers
must have been
WAFLT members during the entire 2000-2001
school year.
Due Date
April 7, 2001
Posters will be judged at the April board
meeting.
Winners will be notified in May.
Please send posters to the Poster Chairperson
or give
them to a board member before April 7,
2001. They
will remain the property of WAFLT and be
displayed or
used on WAFLT publications during the year.
Karen Nolan
Bellarmine Preparatory School
2300 S. Washington St.
Tacoma, WA 98405
253-752-7701, Ext. 568 (school)
THE PURPOSE
-To encourage the study of world languages
and
international education
-To recognize the outstanding artistic
and creative
abilities of students
-To promote National World Language Week
at both the
local and state levels
-To increase student awareness of the many
ethnic
cultures in our state
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1. Posters must be 11" x 17."
2. Posters must be displayable.
3. Entries should speak to the contest
them.
4. Judging criteria for entries:
Creativity
Artistry
Applicability to theme
Clarity and readability
Please include this information on the back
of each
poster. If the information is incomplete,
the entry
will not be judged.
Name of student
School of student
Age of student
Grade of student
Teacher of the student
Complete school address
School phone number
Posters will be displayed at the WAFLT
Fall
Conference. They will become the
property of WAFLT
possibly to be used during the year in
publications or
be displayed throughout the state.
They may be
reclaimed after the year has ended.
Contact Karen
Nolan, if you wish the posters returned.
ENJOY!
CREATE! HAVE FUN!
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Steven Green, President, sslgrn@aol.com
Kerry Chama, Prov. Eastern V.P., cheetah101@earthlink.net
Paloma Borreguero, NW V.P., paloma@u.washington.edu
Oriana Cadman, SW V.P., ocadman@kalama.com
Jay Adams-Feuer, Secretary, jay@alumni.middlebury.edu
Alexandra Porter, Treasurer, dporter@universityprep.org
WATSP web page: http://www.users.uswest.net/~eledu/aatsp