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Friday, Feb. 15, 2013Section 3

Northeast Hamilton students begin partial-day

sharing program with Webster City High School

By TERESA WOOD

[email protected]

BLAIRBSURG — Mid-way through the first yearof partial day sharing be-tween Northeast Hamiltonand Webster City schools,the partnership is viewed asa success by both school ad-ministrations and the stu-dents.

Each morning, 70 NEHhigh school students arebussed to Webster City toattend elective classes. Inthe late morning, the NEHstudents return to Blairs-burg where they finish outtheir day with CORE class-es.

While in Webster City,the NEH students blend intoclassrooms which offer sub-jects which were not avail-able to them before.

"Considering this is onlythe first year, it is going re-markably – very well," saidNEH SuperintendentPatrick Hocking.

Hocking conceded that asthe school year progressed,a number of unforeseen is-sues arose. But both dis-tricts have worked to solvethose problems.

"This has gone much bet-ter than expected and therehaven't been any major is-sues arise," said Hocking.“The feedback has beenpositive.”

Webster City school ad-ministrators have been veryaccommodating to North-east Hamilton students, saidHocking.

"There have been bumpsin the road, but we are iron-ing them out," he said.

Some of those issues dealwith school policy, testing

schedules, lockers andschool calendars. But bothadministrations have beenproactive indealing withquestions,problems orconcerns."There were

just somethings thatwe couldn'tforesee,"said Hock-ing. But hebelieves thatboth schoolshave a com-mon under-standing ofthe issuesthat need tobe ad-dressed.

“Calen-dars are al-ways a school challenge,"said Webster City CSD Su-perintendent Mike Sher-wood.

One of the biggest chal-lenges facing the two dis-tricts was to coordinateschedules in terms of startdates, mid-term breaks,testing dates, and parent-teacher conferences. Thedistricts are also coordinat-ing curriculum in order toprepare future classes forcourse continuity.

Sherwood credits staffand administrators fromboth schools for developinga workable solution.

"Staff, Mr. Hocking andMr. Elkin (Webster CityHigh School Principal)work together and bothsides are flexible," saidSherwood."There is giveand take but we all realize

we are trying to do the bestfor the students.”

The biggest conflict sofar was the different sched-ule each school used to ad-minister the Iowa Assess-ment Tests, said WebsterCity High School PrincipalJohn Elkin.

NEH had been given thetests last fall while WebsterCity students took theirtests in early February. Bymaking some schedulechanges, the problem wassolved.

While administrators dealwith logistics, the studentshave settled in, said Elkin.

"If you didn't know whothe NEH students were, youwouldn't know the differ-ence," said Elkin of the 70new students on campus."Unless they are wearingNEH dress on game day,they blend in.”

It was in 2010 that declin-ing enrollment figures indi-cated trouble on the horizonfor Northeast Hamilton'shigh school. Because theState of Iowa's school reim-bursement funding is basedon enrollment totals, thedrop in student numbersmeant the school wouldface funding deficits begin-ning in the 2012-13 schoolyear unless action was tak-en.

In October 2011, anotherdrop in enrollment forcedNortheast Hamilton to con-sider the options. First, theschool board had to decidewhat avenue to take: partic-ipate in whole grade shar-ing; partial day sharing; orclose down the high school.Given those options, districtpatrons chose partial day

sharing.Once that decision was

chosen, the district wasfaced with another impor-tant question: Who to part-ner with?

A series of communitymeetings showed publicsupport for sharing withSouth Hamilton because ofproximity to Blairsburg andthe comparable school size.But when negotiationsbroke down, the contractwas rescinded.

In March 2012, WebsterCity agreed to enter into atwo-year provisional con-tract with NEH.

Throughout the entire de-cision-making process,Northeast Hamilton pa-trons, students and staff de-manded that the school re-tain its identity with activi-ties remaining at the Blairs-burg school. With the selec-tion of Webster City as thesharing partner, NortheastHamilton would stay TrojanCountry.

While the adults waded

through implementation is-sues, the students facedtheir own anxieties of enter-ing a new school year, anew school, new classes,new teachers and new class-mates.

But despite the initialanxiety, NEH studentsadapted quickly to theirnew environment.

"At first it took some timeto figure out your teachersand where your classeswere, but once you got toknow everyone, it was OK,"said NEH junior class offi-cer Tyler Smith.

The partnership hasopened up new educationalopportunities for NEH stu-dents, said Smith. He likesthe duel credit courseswhich allow students totake college credit coursesat Iowa Community Col-lege while enrolled in highschool.

"It has gone a lot betterthan I thought it would,"said senior class officerSarah Elm. "I was really

nervous.”Smith, sophomore Hunter

Dilley and freshman AndiAnderson agreed with thatassessment.

Many students had a fearof the unknown, but onceschool began, the NEH highschool students fit right in,said Smith.

That's not to say the stu-dents didn't experience afew of their own speedbumps.

“It was difficult the firstweek," admitted Elm.

"...the first couple ofweeks," added freshmanAnderson.

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'It's just like NEH, only a bigger size'n Northeast Hamilton

students adjust to partial

day sharing at WCHS

- Daily Freeman-Journal photo by Teresa Wood

NEH Class Officers discuss their experiences with partial day sharing. Picturedare sophomore class officer Hunter Dilley, senior class officer Sarah Elm, fresh-man class officer Andi Anderson and junior class officer Tyler Smith

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One of the changes forthe NEH students hadnothing to do with class-rooms. The new dailyschedule called for stu-dents to board the buses asearly at 6:45 a.m. in orderto arrive at Blairsburg by7:50 a.m. Then the highschool students wouldboard another bus for thetrip to Webster City witharrival by 8:15 a.m.

If all went as planned,the buses arrived at NEHon time and then the highschool students subse-quently arrived on time inWebster City.

But sometimes, delayshappened.

“But the (Webster City)teachers expected us to belate while we were figur-ing out our schedule," saidSmith.

With a couple of monthsunder their belts, the stu-dents have adjusted to thechange and are pleasedwith the opportunitiesthey have now.

“There is a variety withmore classes," said Dilleyof the expanded subjectsnow available to NEH stu-dents.

"And in the upper gradelevels, there are multipleclasses and college levelclasses," said Elm.

NEH students now havethe choice between Span-ish or French for a foreignlanguage, noted Anderson.

"There is Project Lead

The Way and basic engi-neering," added Dilley.

The network studio atWCHS allows students anopportunity to participatein broadcast journalismthat wasn't open to thembefore, said Smith.

The larger school alsoallows more choices forthe NEH students who hadbeen limited to only oneschedule.

"(At NEH), your wholefour years were plannedout," said Smith, wholikes the new options. "Ithelps get you ready forcollege and a big schoolhelps in that transition.”

While Elm enjoys theadditional class offerings,she misses the past.

"But we have lost some-thing," she said.

The students fear theywill lose the driving spiritof Northeast Hamiltonwhich cheered athleticteams to state champi-onships and presentedsuccessful school playproductions year afteryear.

While the teens acceptthe financial realities thatlead the school district toseek partial day sharing,they believe if enrollmentcontinues to drop, schoolspirit will suffer.

"Previously, when youwould go to a footballgame, people were shout-ing and going crazy," saidDilley, shaking his head.“Now..."

"People need to knowthat if they are not in-volved, the school won'tkeep going," said Elm."We need more people outfor speech, student coun-cil, everything.”

While there are educa-tional opportunities at alarger school, being anathlete at a smaller schooldoes have its advantages,said Smith.

"People need to knowthat in a smaller school,you can easily play allfour of your high schoolyears," he said.

As for the fears of at-

tending a larger schoolthat students and parentshad before the sharingprocess began, Smith saidmany of those fearsproved to be unfounded.

"It was based on impres-sions people had," saidSmith. "It is big, but itdoesn't feel like it. It's justlike NEH, only a biggersize.”

Sharing Continued from Page 2

- Daily Freeman-Journal photos by

Teresa Wood

A B O V E : N o r t h e a s tHamilton high school stu-dents arrive for partial-day sharing at WebsterCity High School. Thefirst few months of thearrangementhad gonewell, school officials saidand the few bumps in theroad seem to have beensmoothed out.

RIGHT: Math class be-gins with NEH's HannahHennick taking part in thefirst year of partial daysharing with WebsterCity High School.

— Tyler Smith

Junior class officer

Northeast Hamilton

School

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New beginningThis year marked a new beginning for the Webster City

School District as it began a partial day sharing programwith Northeast Hamilton. The Webster City District is notnew to sharing asit has had a longterm agreementwith Stratford.However, themodel being usedwith NortheastHamilton is notyour typicalmodel as fresh-man and sopho-mores spendthree class peri-ods a day andjuniors and sen-iors spend four periods a day in Webster City.

A wide variety of course offerings are available toNortheast Hamilton students. All math classes for North-east Hamilton students are provided by Webster City. Inaddition to math, students have a number of elective class-es available, some of which include: vocal music, instru-mental music, WCTV, vocational classes, dual credit col-lege courses and many more. Sharing of extra‐curricularactivities such as Future Farmers of America, SpanishClub, Cross Country, and Wrestling have provided addi-tional opportunities for students.

Based on a number of conversations and informationgathered, the sharing experience has been a very positiveone. Students have blended together quite well and theirrelationships continue to grow and get stronger. Informalmeetings with representatives from the Stratford, North-east Hamilton and Webster City Boards of Education haveprovided an opportunity to share and discuss commonitems, important to all three sharing partners.

With every new experience comes some adjustments. Attimes those adjustments call for different approaches toitems that come about in order to accommodate each dis-tricts needs and make things work. The ability to commu-nicate and remain flexible makes those adjustments mucheasier to handle. I believe both the Northeast Hamilton andWebster City Districts have made decisions in their firstyear of sharing from that perspective.

As we entered into this agreement, probably the biggestitem we have had to concern ourselves with is what wehave missed. Most of the misses involved scheduling andcalendar. For example, the scheduling of the Iowa Assess-ments and calendar differences with parent/teacher confer-ences. What we have missed has been minor and we havebeen able to quickly adjust and accommodate those con-cerns as needed. Weather related decisions are always achallenge and the importance of communication betweenall partners goes a long way in addressing that challenge.

In looking toward the future we will continue to look atareas where we can grow and improve. We will continueto better align our schedules and calendars. We will worktogether seeking ways to provide for a smooth transitionfor students. It has been a very positive first year.

A big thank you to staff members and students fromStratford, Northeast Hamilton, and Webster City for theirefforts and support in creating the climate that has madethis partnership successful. We look forward to the futureand continuing to build off of the strong foundation thathas been built.

By Mike SherwoodSuperintendent,

Webster City Schools

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- Daily Freeman-Journal photo by Anne Blankenship

Gage Smith counts out change as teacher Gina Monroe looks on. Gage is in a multi-age classroom at Strat-ford School.

Combined gradesStratford’s multi-age classrooms offer benefits

and challenges for teachers and their students

By ANNE [email protected]

STRATFORD — Gage Smith sort-ed through coins on the table andfound seven dimes.

“There, 70 cents,” he told teacherGina Monroe.

“Good,” she said. “Now, find anoth-er way to get to 70 cents.”

He combed through the coins andfound another combination. The testwas all part of an assessment Monroeandco-teacher Andi Berglund weregiving the students in the combinedfirst and second grade class.

Stratford Community School alsohas a shared third and fourth gradeclass as well as a fifth and sixth gradeclassroom.

In addition to the assessments, on

this particular day, the first and secondchildren were working in the mathcenters, others were reading and stillothers were working on their Googletablets doing money-related problems.

“We don't usually divide up the firstand second graders unless there are as-sessments that need to be done, like to-day,” Monroe said.

The teacher said the multi-gradelevel classroom offers many benefitsas well as challenges. She said the stu-dents work well together and theyounger classmates often discoverthey can turn to older students forhelp. The challenge for the teachers ismaking sure each student has an op-portunity to work at their own leveland pace. Monroe said they have manytools to help them do just that.

“We do a CAFE lesson — whichstands for Comprehension, Accuracy,Fluency and Expanding Vocabulary —for reading. And parents always askhow can you do that when you havesuch a vast variety of students in theclass,” she said. “With the CAFE theychoose their own goals under thosefour topics.”

Monroe said in her combined class-room, she works with students whoread anywhere from the kindergartenlevel to fourth grade level.

Just like reading, her students are allworking on different levels forspelling words.

“Every child in the classroom has adifferent spelling list,” she said,adding that it may seem to visitors like

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like organized chaos. “I have like five to seven

kids around the table and Igo to each and say theirspelling word. But the kidsare so used to it by nowand they stay focused, justwaiting for me to get backto them with the nextword,” she said.

Monroe said the methodworks because each childis working at a differentlevel.

“It fits. It's individual-ized for each student be-cause some first gradersare using second gradelists and there are secondgraders using first gradeword lists,” she said. Someof the second graders arealso working on third andfourth grade words. Thework is challenging, Mon-roe admits. The studentsdo sight words, work onpatterns and also challengewords. Parents are some-times skeptical that theirchildren can learn the diffi-cult words, but Monroesaid most are amazed bywhat their child accom-plishes by the end of theschool year.

Monroe said teachers atStratford also focus onCognitively Guided In-struction. She explainedthat with CGI, studentsfind their own way throughmath problems. No textbooks are used and there isno right or wrong way ofdetermining the answer.

“When I went to school,it was a memorized se-quence of steps. First youdo this, then you do that,”she said. “It made nosense, I didn't know why Ihad to do it that way.”

“We're teaching them tounderstand why they're do-ing it and they choose themethod that's easiest forthem,” Monroe added.

She said younger stu-dents may still use theirfingers to count with thismethod, but as theyprogress, the children learnto use place values andeven mental math skills.

BenefitsStratford Superintendent

Sarah Binder said the schooldistrict has realized manybenefits from the multi-ageclassrooms.

“We are a smaller school,so any decline in enrollmentcan have a big impact, justas an increase in enrollmentcan have an impact,” shesaid.

Binder said the districtwas seeing an great imbal-ance in the number of chil-dren per grade. One classmight have only eight stu-dents, while the next levelhad 20.

“Teacherstold us withbigger class-es, there weremore peers tointeract with,more ways togroup thekids, moreideas the kidswere hearing,as well as more role mod-els,” she said.

The district visited severalschools that had implement-ed the multi-age classes.Binder said those other dis-tricts had chosen the thatroute for many of the samereasons Stratford consideredthe change.

“At the beginning of theyear, the older students canbe role models and show thenew children how the class-room structure runs,” shesaid.

“We found that within aweek, it was like the kidshad been in school for a cou-ple of months. Things weresmooth and flowing becausethey have peers who couldhelp them,” she said.

Binder also said theschool uses an inclusionmodel for students with anindividualized educationalprogram or IEP.

“What we’ve seen as atrend is that kids who havehad an IEP, as they becomemiddle school students, theyoften no longer need anIEP,” she said. “That’s thekind of growth that we’reseeing.”

Country school conceptThe concept is a little like

what the students’s ancestorsmay have experienced in theold country schools thatwere sprinkled across thecounty — many grades shar-ing the same classroom andthe same teacher. That dy-namic can help childrenbuild confidence and friend-ships. Binder said that’s of-ten what happens at Strat-ford.

“I had one parent tell meat the end of the year that forthe first time her child —who was an older student inthe multi-age class — sawhimself as a leader academi-cally and socially,” Bindersaid.

Right away, she said, theteachers saw the older chil-dren trying to help theiryounger peers.

“And any help they gavethose younger childrenhelped to reinforce their un-derstanding of the conceptbeing taught,” she said.

Of course, sometimes theyounger children were ableto help older students in thesame manner, according toBinder.

“Everybody needs a littlehelp at some point,” shesaid. “That’s a huge sociallesson to learn.”

“We found that this was amodel that would work withour varying class sizes,” shesaid, addin that the multi-ageclasses also helped improvegender imbalances.

Binder said the Stratford’sclassroom platform has alsohelped to ease the transitionfrom elementary school tomiddle school. Stratford stu-dents attend middle schooland high school in WebsterCity.

“They have life-longfriendships across severalages, and that becomes theirsupport network at the mid-dle school and high school,”she said.

As the students continueto broaden interests andfriendships, they still have anucleus of friends from theirelementary school days,Binder said.

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ABOVE: Riley JeanWelch and MorganPaulson get comfort-able and ready booksin their classroom.

LEFT: Reese Mossdives into a Magic TreeHouse book duringreading time at Strat-ford ElementarySchool. He is part of amulti-age classroom atthe school.

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By BILLIE SHELTON

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JEWELL — The rims ofthe drums are broken.There are four piccolo cas-es, but only two of themhave a piccolo inside. Avalve in the baritone is bent,and the mouthpiece is gone.

And that’s just for startersas Tom Klaver, SouthHamilton high school banddirector, leads an impromp-tu tour of the instrumentalmusic department.

“Many of these instru-ments have worn out overtime,” he said. “Everythingis broken or needs repair-ing.”

So Klaver has set out tochange that by embarkingon an ambitious fundraisingeffort to update the schoolband instrument inventory.The “400 @ $150” initia-tive has the potential to gen-erate $60,000 in donations.The South Hamilton schoolboard has agreed to match,dollar for dollar, the totalamount of the contributionsgenerated by this campaign.

Since the start of the cam-paign on Dec. 1, $46,310has been raised from themailing that went to SHalumni and reached outthrough the school websiteand newsletter. Combinedwith the school boardmatch, that’s almosthalfway to the $120,000goal.

It’s the school-owned in-struments that are the focus,

those that are too expensivefor families to own — suchas the tubas, baritones, bas-soons, piccolos, Frenchhorns, and percussion. Alittle piccolo costs $1,000and a tenor saxophonecomes in at $2,500, while atuba can range in price from$5,000 to $9,000. Andthose are just student-levelinstruments, not profession-

al grade.“It was just time for this

to be done, rather than justgetting by. I wanted us tohave more than just gettingby. ” said Klaver, in his firstschool year on the SH fac-ulty. “Having instrumentsfor families — and qualityinstruments — is important.

“I want to maintain thestandard of excellence

that’s a tradition here atSouth Hamilton. We’ve al-ways had it here,” Klaversaid. Such a standard had alot to do with Klaver apply-ing for the position at SouthHamilton, where he gradu-ated from high school in1989. The late Max Whit-lock, band director at SouthHamilton from 1953-1989,was his high school band

director. “He was a big, big influ-

ence for me,” Klaver said,pointing to a picture on hisoffice wall of Whitlock withKarl King, the Iowa marchbandmaster and composer.“That picture has gone withme to every school whereI’ve taught. I’ve tried tomodel my programs wher-ever I’ve been after the pro-

gram at South Hamilton.”Klaver has taught at threeother Iowa high schools —most recently CAL — andwas also in the Navy play-ing in a Navy band.

Whitlock was so impor-tant to Klaver, in fact, thatfor his first concert at SouthHamilton he directed aKing march with Max’s ba-ton, on loan from his wid-ow, Carolyn Whitlock.For now, Klaver is just gladto be home, as he puts it.

“These are big shoes tofill. It’s not a responsibilityI take lightly,” Klaverstates. “This is a specialplace. There’s lots of en-thusiasm for band, lots oftalent and tradition to tapinto while we are buildingfor the future.” Currentlythere are 57 high school stu-dents in band, about thesame number as in recentyears.

The district is looking tothe future as it gets set tocelebrate the 50th anniver-sary of the school consoli-dation that formed theSouth Hamilton Communi-ty School District. “Withthis anniversary coming up,our superintendent is layingthe cornerstone for the nextfifty years,” Klaver said. Inthose fifty years, Klaver isjust the fifth high schoolband director for SouthHamilton.

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some years since moneywas set aside for instru-ment replacement, theband directorstresses thatthere’s noway he feelslike the de-partment hasbeen neg-lected. “Wehave a greatschool boardthat is sup-portive ofour depart-ment,” notesKlaver.

MattSchutt, mid-dle schoolband direc-tor, has alsobeen work-ing on thefundraisingcampaign.

So far those donationshave come from a widecross-section of the com-munity and beyond, ac-cording to the band direc-

tor. That includes bandand school alumni, faculty,board members, coaches,and administrators. Somedonations have been madeas memorials. Corporatesponsors have stepped up,as well.

But then Klaver isn’t re-ally surprised at the re-sponse once the call wentout about the fundraiser toreplace and update theschool-owned instruments.He knew his hometownand his alma mater wouldcome through. “The folksat South Hamilton have al-ways been super-support-ive,” he said with a smile.Donations have rangedfrom $5 to $5,000, and arestill being accepted.

“We have great kids whoare musical, who lovemaking music, who valuemaking music,” Klaversaid of the teenagers nowin band.“They are as excit-ed as I am about the future.I think the good days areyet to come.”

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MattSchutt

- Daily Freeman-Journal photo by Billie Shelton

South Hamilton Band Director Tom Klaver workingwith Emily Coster, sophomore trombone player.Klaver has spearheaded a drive to raise funds fornew instruments at the school.

Maximizing God-given talentsBy JIM [email protected]

First founded by Fancis-can sisters in 1952, St.Thomas Aquinas Schoolcelebrated its 60th an-niversary in Webster City.

The school, located as awing of St. ThomasAquinas Church in Web-ster City, has 100 studentsin pre-kindergardenthrough sixth grade, eightsteachers and 19 staffmembers.

Principal Duane Siepkersaid the parish school isunique amongst localschools due to their ideol-ogy. Thecatholicschoolteachesgospelvalues,and Siep-ker saidthose val-ues are thefounda-tion ofeverything students andstaff do at the school.

“We do well academi-cally, but there again, ourpeople are told they haveGod-given gifts and tal-ents and God expects themto use them to the maxi-mum. We repeat that tothem,” Siepker said.

Much has changed sincethe school was first estab-lished. At that time, theFranciscan sisters taughtdouble grades, kindergar-den and first grade as wellas second and third gradetogether.

Now, Siepker said stu-dents use laptops duringtheir lessons in the class-room. He said classroomsuse a ladybug projectordevice, which allows eachstudent to connect to theprojector as necessary dur-ing a lesson.

Teachers for grades fourand up use iPads as ateaching tool as well.Those teachers incorpo-rate a software programcalled “reading naturally,”which the school holdsimmediately after lunchfor 45 minutes to enhancestudent reading abilities.

Siepker said that fourthgrade teacher Judy Wagn-er attends technology

leadership training inDubuque. He said that shehas brought back manyideas about how to usenew technology in theclassroom.

“We don’t want to justput the technology in theclassroom without theteachers knowing how toutilize it,” Siepker said.“Things change so quick-ly, and you want to be sureyou can have the best useof that technology.”

Looking forward, Siep-

ker said that next year, hehopes to have iPads in thehands of students ingrades four through six.

“They’re awesomelearning tools,” Siepkersaid. “To be able to gatherinformation immediately,it’s so different than whenI went to card catalogs ofbooks at Iowa State. Now,with technology, you caninstantly find a book oreven download it.”

He said that the speed atwhich information

changes or is outdated in-creases the need for suchinstantaneous informationaccess. That is in contrastto texbooks, which cancontain outdated informa-tion as soon as they print.

The school also madeseveral renovations to theschool in the past year.Four new classrooms arenow air-conditioned andnew carpet was added inseveral classrooms.

St. Thomas School celebrates 60 years

DuaneSiepker

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TOP: Teacher Patty Thompson hands out assessments to her first gradeclass. The school educates 100 students in Pre-K through sixth grade.BOTTOM: The school celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2012.


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This year, the St.Thomas Ball is planned forMay 4. Siepker said that$150,000 was raised lastyear and he hopes that totalincreases. Siepker, whohas worked at the schoolfor two different lengths oftime, said the idea for the

ball came around in 1997.The school needed a thirdsource of income, as theparish invests $250,000 inthe school and studentsthat attend St. ThomasAquinas School pay tu-ition. Still, the schoolneeded a large new source

of revenue, so the inaugu-ral ball was held.

Siepker said the schoolraised $60,000 that yearand that amount has in-creased every year since.This community event, ac-cording to Siepker, has adance, an auction and a sit-

down dinner in one night.“It’s just a fun night that

creates the revenue that ourschool needs,” Siepkersaid. “It’s open to anybody,and people in the commu-nity are very generous. Youcouldn’t raise that amountof money if they weren’t.”

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Kim O’Connell, center, and other members of the St. Thomas Ball Committee announce the totals at the2012 gala. Nearly $150,000 was raised for St. Thomas School during the ball.

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[email protected] Diest Medical Center is expanding

the type of services it offers by opening aspecial care unit sometime in the next fewmonths, according to hospital officials. Thenew unit would mark a return to a special-ized care that was previously offered sev-eral years ago at the old hospital.

“We used to offer services at the otherhospital but in 2007, we stopped,” saidMichelle Stapp, emergency departmentmanager. The primary reason for ceasingspecial care was that cardiac services wereavailable at Trinity Regional Medical Cen-ter, Stapp said.

“The thought was most of those patientswe had would be transferred over to Trini-ty and we wouldn't need those services anymore,” she noted.

Since then, Stapp said local physicianshave seen a need for special care servicesin Webster City, but staffing and trainingconcerns had slowed the progress towardsestablishing a unit at Van Diest MedicalCenter.

A special care unit or intensive care unitas it may be known in other facilities,could offer continuous care for patientswith a variety of medical concerns, includ-

ing certain cardiac condi-tions, according to Stapp.

“Maybe the patient does-n't need to be seen immedi-ately by the cardiologist, orto go to a cardiac cath lab,and they're not going to goto surgery. However, theydo need some intravenouscardiac medications,” shesaid. Admin-istering those medications requires moreextensive nursing knowledge to monitorthe medications and the patient, accordingto Stapp. It would also mean that the nurs-es assigned to the unit would have fewerpatients in their charge to keep the focus onthe monitors and vital signs of special careunit patients.

Stapp said the unit would also be able tocare for patients who don't want to havecardiac surgery or who may no longer be acandidate for heart surgery, but who are notready to give up on treatment. She addedthat certain post-surgical patients would al-so benefit from a stay in the special careunit.

“Those would be patients we know aregoing to do OK, but they may need just alittle more one-on-one attention right

away,” she said.Another category of patients who could

be helped in the special care unit are thosewho have mental health issues.

“In Iowa, we hear about the difficultiesof finding psychiatric beds, and it's evenmore difficult if the patient has takensomething — an overdose. A lot of the psy-chiatric units won't take patients until theyhave been stabilized,” she said. “We couldhelp them in a special care unit until theyare stable enough medically to be admittedto a psychiatric facility.”

The SCU will require the hiring of sixnew staff members — four full-time andtwo part-time nurses.

“It will become an extension of theemergency room. That's because a lot ofthe patients who need intensive care areshipped to other hospitals. Some of thoseprocedures are done far and few between,making it difficult to keep those skillssharp.

The ER nurses use those skills before pa-tients are transferred, so they are able tokeep those skills fine tuned, she said.There's a similar skill set for the SCU. Be-ing able to cross-train the nurses for betterfuntionality within the facility is also aplus, she added. Those nurses will be able

to work not only in the special care unit,but also the emergency room and cardiacrehab.

“So instead of that nurse being so cen-tralized and focused, they could be able tobe more universally used,” she said.

The cross-training will also help allevi-ate those times when employees are sick oron vacation, she said.

“If they are only trained in one area andthat area has a low census, then the nurseis home on call until needed. Another unitis busy and may have to call in someonewhos is then on overtime,” she said.

“That's where cross training would behelpful. They can go to either place and it'sa savings for the hospital,” she said.

She said training would involve ad-vanced cardiac life support, pediatric ad-vanced life support, trauma nurse core cur-riculum and possibly critical care or emer-gency care specialization. The nurseswould need to know about cardiac drips,the side effects and how to change themedicaiton..

The special care unit will likely be locat-ed on the med/surg department and proba-bly would start with one room.

Michelle Stapp

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Stapp said, ideally, shewould like to see tworooms in use for the unit.

“Then one nurse wouldbe able to monitor two pa-tients — provided she hada clear view of bothrooms,” she said. Greatpains were taken to ensureprivacy for patients in thenew hospital, so currently,a nurse would not be ableto observe two rooms atonce.

“But in an SCU situa-tion, you would want to beable to clearly see both pa-tients. If the unit is set upin the med/surg area, itwill likely be one room,but I could foresee tryingto expand to two beds inthe future,” she said.

The timeline for estab-lishing the new unit in-cludes a July 1 deadline,but Stapp said she hopes tosee it running before thattime.

“In my mind, I want togo faster,” she said, butadmitted, “We're going asfast as we can to be sure

we are safe and compe-tent. We want our patientsto be in an absolutely safeenvironment and knowthat we are doing thingscorrectly.”

Van Diest Medical Cen-ter is a Critical Accesshospital and as such, has astrict 25-bed limit. Thespecial care unit will takeone of those beds. Stappsaid hospital officialsweren't concerned aboutrunning short on beds forother patients.

“I think at any giventime, we could have a spe-cial care patient. The re-sponse that I'm hearingfrom the physicians is that

they expect to regularlyhave patients in thatroom,” Stapp said.

The medical staff votedto support the idea of thespecial care unit, in factsome were instrumental inbringing the idea to theforefront.

“We haven’t heard anycomplaints and everyoneseems to be in favor of thismove,” she said. Everyother week, Stapp pro-vides the medical staffwith updates on the proj-ect.

Currently, Stapp is inter-viewing and hiring staff.

“It’s a slow process, butwe want to make sure we

get the right people,” shesaid. “We want to be surewhen we come off of ori-entation that we are readyto roll with the specialcare unit. We don’t want tohave a lag in between.”

“We’re also working oncompetency testing withour nurses to be sure theyprove their competence ata high level and are pro-viding excellent care.”

Policies and proceduresare being developed nowand order sets, admissionsand discharge criteria arebeing examined.

Project costsVDMC Chief Financial

Officer Alice Heinrichssaid costs for the new pro-gram are projected to in-clude about $290,600 forsalaries and benefits forthe new staff. Supplies andancillary services costs areestimated at $49,000.Training is expected to become in around $2,000,which doesn’t include anyin-house training that

takes place, she said. After plugging in the

revenues, Heinrichs cameup with a potential net rev-enue of $496,115 butstressed many variablescould affect that equation.Some of those variables

include the number of ac-tual admissions, the lengthof stay and the servicesprovided during stay. Shealso said how the patient’sinsurance pays out willimpact that that bottomline.

Care Continued from Page 9

— Michelle Stapp

ER director, Van Diest Medical Center

- Daily Freeman-Journal file photo

Van Diest Medical Center opened in September2010. Hospital officials are now working to establisha special care unit at the facility.

By JIM KRAJEWSKI

[email protected]

Webster City HighSchool’s technology cur-rently looks much likewhat you would find atmany other schools. Theyhave about 250 computers,many of them in computerlabs, and have at least onedesktop in each classroom.However, that will soonchange when the WebsterCity Community SchoolDistrict rolls out a newprogram thatwill putiPads in thehands of itsstaff and stu-dent body.

Accordingto the dis-trict’s tech-nology di-rector MarkMurphy, thedistrict began exploringthe possibility of usingtablet computing devicesin classroom in spring of2012. About 36 staff andfaculty members as well asadministrators spent thelarger part of the year com-ing up with a roadmap andrecommendations to pres-ent to the school board.Murphy said their goal wasto find a device that would“best serve Webster Cityschools and the studentsthemselves.”

But, the committee alsohad to work within the dis-trict’s budget. Amongmany options that were re-viewed, technology com-mittee members consid-ered letting students bringin their own devices. Mur-phy said that option wasnot considered viable astechnology becomes moreimportant and useful in theclassroom.

“We felt if we were real-ly headed that direction,

and we wanted to make itequitable and a good qual-ity instruction for every-body, then we really need-ed to be looking at a one-to-one program whereevery kid will have thesame access,” Murphysaid.

The technology commit-tee took the recommenda-tions of the hardware sub-committee and came to therecommendation of usingiPads in the district. Whilethe decision did not gowithout some contention,Murphy said the commit-tee member’s opinions did-n’t get in the way of decid-ing what was best for thedistrict.

“We saw that iPadswould be a device thatwould accomplish much ofwhat we wanted,” Murphysaid. “It may not be theperfect device for every-body, but it’s going to cov-er 90 to 95 percent of whatour students do on a day-to-day basis, and at thatprice point, it’s somethingwe feel that is quite sus-tainable under what ourcurrent budget is.”

The school board agreedwith the committee’s rec-ommendation. Since thathas happened, Murphysaid the first priority is get-ting the devices into thehands of teachers so theywould have time to getused to the device and startintegrating their currentlessons plans with onesthat will incorporate thetablet computers.

The district began givingiPads to staff this week,and will continue to rollout the new devices untilFeb. 18, which is one weekbefore staff, faculty andguests will gather for aprofessional developmenttraining day with the de-

vices. Murphy will be oneof 25 speakers at the train-ing day, which will helpthem become acclimatedwith the device and how touse them effectively in theclassroom.

Murphy said iPads willnot be rolled out to stu-dents until the district feelsthat the staff at each schoolare ready. As such, stu-dents at one school in thedistrict may receive aniPad at different dates. Stu-dents from kindergarden tohigh school seniors willhave iPads to use in theclassroom. But, that does-n’t mean all kids will havethe same expectations fortheir device usage. Murphysaid elementary studentswill have classroom setsthat will not go home withthe students.

What students will bedoing with those devicesonce they get into theclassroom with them issomewhat up in the air atthis time. Murphy said thatteachers will have a betteridea of how they will in-corporate the devices oncethey have more experiencewith them. Still, he said thetransition will be worth it.

“When you look at thework that is coming withcommon core standardsthat we’re moving to, the

next generation assess-ments, a lot of the buzz-words are ‘create,’ and‘publish,’ and ‘make.’ It’sabout creating content, notto just have the students bethe receiver of the old‘sage on a stage’ situation.They’ll be more involvedwith their learning,” Mur-phy said.

That change in how stu-dents will learn in theclassroom is the drivingreason behind the district’sapproach to putting thesedevices in students hands.Murphy said that’s a veryimportant fact to remem-ber as the program rollsout.

“It’s not a device pro-gram. We didn’t set out tojust give our studentsiPads. What we’re reallylooking at is fundamental-ly changing the way we ed-ucate our students andwe’re simply providing atool. This just happens tobe the latest version of thattool and it certainly won’tbe the last,” Murphy said.

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In the past few years, anestimated 540 employeesat Electrolux in WebsterCity found themselves outof a job when the companymoved those jobs to Mexi-co. At community collegesacross Iowa, enrollmentnumbers fell five percentafter seeing record num-bers during the recession.

However,Iowa CentralCommunityCollege’sWebster Citycampusfound a win-win situationin a federaltrade act thatwould helpeducatethose who lost work whenElectrolux moved.

According to KellyWirtz, Webster City CenterDirector at Iowa CentralCommunity College, over300 former Electrolux em-ployees chose to seek a de-gree at the college. Forthose that chose to go backinto schooling, the tradeact allotted each employeeabout $20,000 and gavethem two to three years toearn a two year degree, de-pending on their layoffdate.

“It was a huge benefit.For some of them, theycame right out of highschool to work at Elec-trolux. They never took the

opportunity to go toschool. Some went toschool and didn’t’ like itand could go to Electroluxto make a livable wage andnever came back. Here waseither their first or secondopportunity to get a col-lege degree.

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The trade act had a hugeimpact on enrollment atthe campus. Currently,about 200 students are be-ing educated at WebsterCity’s ICCC campus. Thatnumber has stayed in slight

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Also bolstering theirnumbers are students withconcurrent enrollment at

Webster City High School.Students can take classesfor both college and highschool credits. Those stu-dents also allow ICCC tohost more classes with thatincrease in students. Wirtzsaid the partnership is an-other win-win for the col-lege, the public school dis-

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Crestview Nursing & Rehabilitation2401 Des Moines St. Webster City, IA 50595 2401 Des Moines St. Webster City, IA 50595

Phone: 832-2727 ~ 50 years in businessPhone: 832-2727 ~ 50 years in business

Give us a brief description of your business:Crestview is a care facility offering basic and skilled nursing care, rehabilitation and

restorative therapy in a warm, home-like atmosphere. Crestview accepts residentswho have IVs, Alzheimer and dementia residents, hospice residents, short-term or re-hab residents, long-term residents and residents with other needs. Crestview is fo-cused on achieving the highest level of independence possible and the highest quali-ty of life for as long as possible. We achieve this through rehabilitative and restorativetherapy for our residents, especially after an illness, fall or hospitalization.

Crestview also offers independent apartments with assistance available. What thismeans is that we are able to offer apartment-style living and the same services as anassisted living for a fraction of the cost. Our apartment tenants only pay for the serv-ices they need, such as medicine set-up, on an ala carte basis.

We also utilize one of our apartments as a transition to home therapy apartment. Ourexperienced therapists take residents to the apartment to practice daily activities in areal-life setting so we are sure residents are ready to return to their own homes and wecan better recommend any home care services they may need.

What makes your business unique?Crestview’s staff cares for our residents as they would their own family. Our cur-

rent staff has a combined total of over 580 years of experience at Crestview. They arededicated to the residents and providing the best care possible. Our activities are alsosomething that sets Crestview apart. The activities department strives to fulfill resi-dents’ physical, intellectual, social, spiritual and emotional needs. Crestview offersmany daily activities, various special events and outings, monthly birthday parties,seasonal parties and summer cookouts to name a few.

Any changes made in the past year?Crestview has had a few changes this year, including ownership and the full name

of the business! Crestview Nursing & Rehabilitation has already gotten a facility busfor resident transportation, a more spacious therapy room and a transition to hometherapy apartment. Crestview has also added two new full-time positions to our team:a marketing director and a maintenance supervisor.

Any future expansion plans?Crestview has plans to create an environment that is friendly to Alzheimer and de-

mentia residents as well as hospice residents. There may also be more additions toservices offered at Crestview as the future of senior care progresses.

and physiology course,complete a 75-hour certi-fied nursing assistantcourse, and become statecertified.

The college also offersseveral associate of sci-ence degree programs, in-cluding criminal justice,human services, account-ing and business. TheWebster City campus isthe only one among ICCCcampuses that offers anaviation program. Wirtzsaid that several other IC-CC locations are not trulycampuses. Some are runout of wings of a highschool, and she said thecampus, which is about 12acres with three facilities,is a boon to the communi-

ty that has hosted it.“I can really honestly

say the community is whathas kept this campus here.Most of our student drawis from this county area,”Wirtz said.

She said the small sizeof the college presents itsown challenges. But, it al-so has a huge benefit to

teaching. The student toteacher ratio at the collegeis very low and offers costeffective education at a lo-cation that is close tohome for many.

“I feel the education stu-dents get here is very valu-able. No time spent on ed-ucation is a waste,” Wirtzsaid.

ICCC Continued from Page 12

- Daily Freeman-Journal photo by Jim Krajewski

Students in the science facility attend class on Wednesday at Iowa Central Com-munity College. The college, among many other programs, offers a one-year anda two-year nursing program. The college’s Webster City campus also hosts theprerequisite classes and tests students need to become certified nurses.

— Kelly Wirtz

Webster City center director,

Iowa Central Community College


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