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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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Kindergarten Teacher - NAIS Career Center
Columbus Academy
Position Description
Kindergarten Teacher
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The School:?? Founded in 1911, Columbus Academy is a PreK-12 coeducational college preparatory day school of 1,078 students located on a 231-acre campus ten miles from downtown Columbus, Ohio. Student programs are organized into three divisions: Lower School (Pre-Kindergarten ? Grade 4), Middle School (Grades 5-8), and Upper School (Grades 9-12).? The school offers a rigorous academic program as part of its mission to educate the whole child ? mind, body, and character.? Columbus Academy faculty and staff members are expected to be continuous learners in their fields, to engage in caring and cooperative partnerships with colleagues and parents, to have a demonstrated commitment to the values of equity and inclusion, and to help each student reach his or her full potential.
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The Position:? Columbus Academy seeks a full-time Kindergarten teacher with responsibilities to begin in August 2013.
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Qualifications: Preferred candidates will possess the following qualifications:
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- A bachelor?s degree or higher in early-elementary education or a related field
- 3+ years experience as a lead teacher at the early elementary level
- Knowledge of varied pedagogy and trends in instruction and curriculum design at the elementary level
- Ability to teach a full range of elementary school subjects and differentiate instruction.
- Professional orientation towards collaboration and innovation
- A reflective practitioner, committed to a continuous process of self-improvement and life-long learning
- Enthusiasm for teaching young children
- A positive sense of humor, self-confidence, and effective oral and written communication skills
- Ability to engage, motivate, and develop student learning
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Position Expectations:? The individual selected to this position will be expected to carry out the following responsibilities:
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- Manage the essential classroom activities of approximately 18 students, including primary instructional responsibilities for Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies
- Collaborate with colleagues, particularly team members, on curriculum design and development
- Provide periodic updates to parents related to student progress, via both written reports and in-person conferences
- Make use of technological resources necessary for curriculum integration and institutional communication
- Hold students accountable for the Academy?s standards of behavior
- Work with others in the school community to support each student?s emotional well-being
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Physical Conditions: Candidates must be able to manage the following conditions:
- Classroom environment
- Mobility around school buildings and on different floors (handicap accessible)
- Repetitive motion (use of a computer keyboard)
- Periodic need to move light furniture, hang visuals in classroom, carry objects (no more than 40 pounds), etc.
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Legal Requirements:? All Columbus Academy employees must pass required criminal records checks.? Where appropriate, individuals will also be required to provide proof of academic credentials.
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To Apply:? Interested candidates should send cover letter, resume, and supporting materials to: John Mackenzie, Headmaster, Columbus Academy, 4300 Cherry Bottom Road, Gahanna, OH 43230 or John_Mackenzie@columbusacademy.org
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Columbus Academy believes strongly in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.? We seek to identify and hire a greater number of faculty of color to serve as role models for all students.? We strive to foster a diverse campus community, which recognizes the value of all persons regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or socio-economic background.
Source: http://careers.nais.org/jobs/5253534/kindergarten-teacher
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Coroner identifies 4 Ill. teens killed in crash
CHICAGO (AP) ? A coroner has identified the four high school students killed when their car skidded off a bridge into an icy creek in rural northern Illinois.
Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil says 14-year-old Matthew Bailey, 15-year-old Cody Carter, 17-year-old Cheyenne Fender and 15-year-old Micalah Sembach died in the accident. O'Neil says all four teenagers were from Wilmington, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago.
The coroner says the students were in a car registered to Fender. Authorities are still investigating who was driving.
The Will County Sheriff's Department says the bodies were recovered Tuesday from Forked Creek near Wilmington. Officials say the teens had been missing since Monday evening. Authorities don't know exactly when the accident occurred.
Authorities say the driver likely lost control after hitting a patch of water or ice.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/coroner-identifies-4-ill-teens-killed-crash-211343895.html
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Nick Offerman ? AKA Ron F'n Swanson ? Improves The Golden Popcorn
By Joel Hanek Much like Clark Kent and Superman, there's not much of a difference between Nick Offerman and his internet demi-god alter-ego Ron Swanson — in fact, the "Parks and Rec" star owns and operates his very own successful woodworking shop. With the 2013 MTV Movie Awards only a month away, we'd be remiss [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/03/12/nick-offerman-golden-popcorn/
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Syria used local militias for mass killings
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian government is reportedly using local militias known as Popular Committees to commit mass killings which are at times sectarian in nature, U.N. human rights investigators said on Monday.
The uprising in Syria erupted two years ago with largely peaceful protests but escalated into a civil war pitting mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite faith is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.
"In a disturbing and dangerous trend, mass killings allegedly perpetrated by Popular Committees have at times taken on sectarian overtones," the U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria, led by Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, said in its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
"Some appear to have been trained and armed by the government," they said.
The independent investigators, who cited accounts from witnesses and victims, said people were being harassed or arrested by government-allied militia because they came from regions perceived as being supportive of the revolt.
Popular Committees have been documented as operating across Syria, "where at times they are alleged to be participating in house-to-house searches, identity checks, mass arrests, looting and acting as informants," they said in a 10-page report.
The conflict is mired in a "destructive stalemate" amid heavy shelling and air raids by government forces, they said.
Both sides have committed violations against civilians, the U.N. investigators said. They were pursuing probes into about 20 cases of massacres, including three in Homs at the start of the year, despite their lack of access to the country.
The bodies of some of those killed in massacres have been burned or dumped in rivers, they said.
"TIDAL WAVE" OF DISPLACEMENT
"Indiscriminate and widespread shelling, the regular bombardment of cities, mass killing and the deliberate firing on civilian targets have come to characterize the daily lives of civilians in Syria," Pinheiro said.
Hospitals have been targeted and medical staff arrested, he said, denouncing the use of medical care "as a tactic of war".
Pinheiro called for a political solution to the crisis which he said had set off a "tidal wave" of displacement.
More than 1 million Syrian refugees have fled abroad and 2.5 million are uprooted within the country, while more than 70,000 people have been killed, according to the United Nations.
Rebel forces often execute captured Syrian soldiers and militiamen, and have established detention centers in Homs and Aleppo, the report said.
Rebels have also taken up positions in or near densely populated areas, in violation of international law, it said.
Syrian warplanes bombed the shattered Baba Amr district in the central city of Homs on Monday, a day after rebels made a surprise push into their former bastion, which had been in army hands for a year.
Syria's ambassador Faysal Khabbaz dismissed the U.N. report as based on "partial information from untrustworthy sources" and accused Qatar and Turkey of "supporting terrorism" in Syria.
"There is a conspiracy against Syria. Qatar has financed and armed tens of thousands of mercenaries from 30 countries. Turkey has provided the military bases and sent them into Syria on their jihad," Khabbaz Hamoui said.
Russia called the report "unbalanced" and said there was much evidence to show that the armed opposition was using sexual violence as a weapon and training child soldiers in camps.
The European Union and United States denounced continuing crimes and said that those responsible must be held accountable.
"If concerns about war crimes and crimes against humanity are not adequately addressed on a national level, the International Criminal Court should deal with the situation," said EU ambassador Maria Angela Zappia.
U.S. ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe condemned the "regime's brutality" and said: "We are also deeply concerned by reports of abuses by opposition-affiliated forces and the presence of foreign forces and violent extremists who are attempting to hijack the legitimate struggle of the Syrian people."
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; additional reporting by Robert Evans; Editing by Pravin Char)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-government-uses-militias-mass-killings-u-n-122744276.html
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Security risks, frayed relations dog US, Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's first trip here as Pentagon chief, including the Afghan president's accusations that the U.S. and the Taliban are working in concert to show that violence in the country will worsen if most coalition troops leave.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, quickly rejected the charges President Hamid Karzai made Sunday as "categorically false." But the accusations were just the latest in a series of disputes that have frayed relations between the two nations as the U.S. works to wind down the war and turn the country's security over to the Afghans.
Speaking to reporters shortly after Karzai made the comments, Dunford said the Afghan leader has never expressed such views to him but said it was understandable that tensions would arise as the coalition balances the need to complete its mission with the Afghans' move to exercise more sovereignty.
"We have fought too hard over the past 12 years, we have shed too much blood over the past 12 years, we have done too much to help the Afghan security forces grow over the last 12 years to ever think that violence or instability would be to our advantage," said Dunford.
Dunford's comments came, however, soon after U.S. officials cancelled a news conference with Hagel and Karzai because of a security threat ? just a day after a suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry, killing nine Afghan civilians and wounding 14 others. Hagel heard the explosion from the safe location where he was meeting with Afghan officials but was never in danger.
The security problems compounded a series of flare-ups in recent weeks, including a dispute that has stalled the transfer of a U.S. prison to Afghan authority as well as Karzai's order to expel U.S. special operations forces out of Wardak province, which lies just outside the capital, because of allegations that Afghans working with the commandos were involved in abusive behavior.
Hagel met with Karzai Sunday night and said that he discussed all the key issues with the president. He also rejected any suggestions that the U.S. is in collusion with the Taliban. Speaking to reporters traveling with him, Hagel declined to detail his conversation with Karzai but said, " I think he understands where we are and where we've been, and hopefully where we're going together"
Hagel said he's known Karzai since shortly after the invasion in late 2001, adding that such extended relationships can often be beneficial, especially when dealing with complicated issues.
The U.S. and Afghan leaders are in the midst of negotiations over the long-term presence of American forces in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, when all combat troops are scheduled to leave.
U.S. officials would not provide details on the security concerns that led to cancelling the news conference. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. But Pentagon press secretary George Little said the cancellation was not due to Karzai's earlier comments about the U.S. and the Taliban.
During a nationally televised speech, Karzai said two suicide bombings that killed 19 people on Saturday ? the one outside the Afghan Defense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in eastern Khost province ? show the insurgent group is conducting attacks to help show that international forces will still be needed to keep the peace after their current combat mission ends in 2014.
"The explosions in Kabul and Khost yesterday showed that they are at the service of America and at the service of this phrase: 2014. They are trying to frighten us into thinking that if the foreigners are not in Afghanistan, we would be facing these sorts of incidents," he said during the speech about the state of Afghan women.
Karzai is known for making incendiary comments in his public speeches. And Dunford on Sunday said that some of the recent disputes between the U.S.-led coalition and Afghan leaders "strike at the heart of sovereignty" and could be more political in nature. He said Karzai may be doing what he needs to do to communicate with the Afghan people and their political leaders outside the government.
That argument also resonated with Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska. "I was once a politician so I can understand the kind of pressures that especially leaders of countries are always under," Hagel said. "I would hope that, again, we can move forward, and I have confidence we will and deal with these issues."
Dunford also rejected the suggestion that the recent friction reflects erosion in the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan.
"We do not have a broken relationship, we do not have a lack of trust," said Dunford, adding that none of the political dust-ups have bled over into his dealings with his Afghan security force counterparts. He said efforts to train and advise the Afghan security forces have continued and that plans for them to be in the lead for security across the country later this summer are on track.
Dunford would not detail why the scheduled transfer of the Parwan Detention Center was delayed again and called it a difference in perspective. But he made clear that the U.S. believes it must retain the power to insure that detainees who are deemed to be security threats remain in custody.
Currently, there is an Afghan administrator of the prison, which is located about an hour outside the capital, but the Americans have veto power over the release of detainees. The prisoners held under American authority do not have the right to a trial because the U.S. considers them detainees held as part of an ongoing conflict.
Regarding the move to expel the special operations forces, Dunford said he spoke to Karzai about the issue on Saturday and told him the U.S. is working on a plan to transition security in the Wardak region to Afghan forces. He would not directly say whether the commandos will stay in Wardak when the deadline to leave comes on Monday. But he said Karzai knows they are working on the plan and has not yet issued a directive to the force.
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Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/security-risks-frayed-relations-dog-us-afghans-184208187--politics.html
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