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Special education teacher Joann a Yazda enjoys plannin g out her
&!y of workin g with her students. ( L Custer)
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Sudents Welfare in Mind

More Than Just Teachers

by Marci Levine
The librarians, guidance counselors, and selors . The counselors work with families, staff,
the special education department are constantly and students mostly about school related affairs.
trying to better our school by looking toward the "We don 't tell people what to do. We listen and
future. offer options and solutions to their conflicts ." said
In the library , Betty Sample, a librarian, Elaine Hoover, an eight year counselor. She en-
and Kim Vawter, a media specialist, are consid- joys working with people and feels that having
ered more than librarians. "We are teachers ftrst, information is the key to success.
then librarians," said Vawter. Both Vawter and A counterpart of the librarians and the
Sample are professionals, and feel that they serve counselor's are the special education teachers.
to help the students and teachers get to information These teachers deal with grades, attendance, stu-
in many forms. dents records, and the resource room, a room for
"Our library is easier then others to use one on one help. The educators also deal with the
because we allow the students the use of comput- education of students needing more attention.
ers," said Sample. The computers provide the stu- "We back up teacher's," said Pam Car-
dents the use of modem technology. ter, "by doing much of the paper work for the
Sample and Vawter hope to see the li- teachers . I saves them a lot of time."
brary grow in the future by creating a writing lab In the future, the special education teach-
and giving the students more time to take advan- ers would like to have each teacher have one edu-
tage of the library. cator. By looking to the future, these educators
Equally important are the guidance coun- worked to better our school.
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Throughout the quarter, special education teacher Joanne
Graham helps teachers by working on students records.
( L. Custer)
Preparing for the day, counselor Linda Shirk makes
several TO DO lists in case she forgets. ( L. Custer)

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