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Oil boom creates job openings for teachers

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:27pm

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- The West Texas oil boom is boosting school enrollment and luring experienced teachers out of the classrooms, making room for others seeking teaching work.

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Anita Archer, author of "Explicit Instruction" (Guilford Press, 2011), talks to Ogden School District teachers about how to help students learn.

Author's tip for Ogden district teachers: Make students accountable

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 8:35pm

OGDEN — More than 300 Ogden School District teachers who attended a Friday seminar on getting students actively involved with learning got more than a talk from expert Anita Archer.

Archer, author of “Explicit Instruction” (2011, Guilford Press, New York), practiced what she preached. She had teachers and administrators standing up and sitting down, divided into two groups representing opposing states in the Civil War, waving their arms and partnering with table mates to answer questions.

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Carol Arline Clark Dunford

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 4:37pm

Carol Arline Clark Dunford, born Oct. 20, 1926, in Park City, died Saturday, March 10, 2012. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 16, at the Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center St. Friends may visit from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 N. Main, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday at the church. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Ex-porn star can be teacher

Christina Veiga The Miami Herald

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 4:00pm

MIAMI -- A former porn actor who was fired from his job as a Miami-Dade Public Schools substitute teacher can pursue teaching certification, a state commission has ruled.

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Weber State University President F. Ann Millner poses for a portrait at her office in Ogden on Friday. She has announced that she will be resigning her position as president of the university, but that she will teach in the university’s Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Millner resigning as WSU president but staying to teach

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 12:03am

OGDEN — Weber State University President F. Ann Millner may be stepping down, but she won’t be leaving campus.

Millner, who has worked at Weber State for 30 years, including a decade as president, plans to teach in the university’s Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions.

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Students in Marjorie Castle's third grad class read to Lars the iguana at Lincoln Elementary School in Ogden Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. Lars is the classroom pet and gets to run around outside of his cage on Fridays. (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Classroom Pets in Top of Utah Schools

Erin Hooley, Matt Hatfield, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 10:51am

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Teacher Shelly Moss guides a “blind” Naftali Sanchez,16, through the Ben Lomond High School cafeteria on Thursday. Sanchez is wearing blacked-out goggles that block her sight so she can learn the challenges blind people face daily. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Ben Lomond High peer counselors 'disabled' for a day

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 12:08am

OGDEN -- Neftali Sanchez waited in silence on a bench inside Ben Lomond High School, helpless to see the way to the school cafeteria.

"I'll be back for you," teacher Shelly Moss called to the 16-year-old, hurrying toward the lunch line to help Neftali's classmate, Jasmine Ayala, 15, who was struggling to move forward in her wheelchair.

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Xuemei Li, 31, teaches her Chinese II class to students at North Layton Junior High School recently. She spends half of her day at this school and half at North Davis Junior High School. Also known as May, she has applied to continue teaching in the Davis School District for the 2012-13 school year. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Teacher of Mandarin Chinese honored to share treasures with Davis students

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 12:34am

LAYTON -- Walking into Xuemei Li's classroom is like stepping into another culture.

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William Noble Hunsaker

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 7:50pm

William Noble Hunsaker, 69, died Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. A funeral will begin at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 20. A viewing will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. before the funeral at the Clearfield 11th Ward building, 1245 S. 1175 East. Interment will be at the West Point Cemetery. Post condolences at www.premierfuneral.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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John Walton Waite

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 7:46pm

Layton resident John Walton Waite, born Dec. 20, 1921, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A funeral will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Layton Stake Center, 60 W. Gordon. Friends may visit with family from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Lindquist's Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Road, and from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the church. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery. Condolences and memories may be posted at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Talia Miller (left) and Amanda George laugh as students play a game during Kitty College at Weber State University in Ogden on Wednesday. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Wildcats majoring in education learn by teaching at Kitty College

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 12:49am

OGDEN -- Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve celebrations and resolutions are all things to think about the week after Christmas, but now younger minds are thinking about those things, too, thanks to Weber State University's College of Education Kitty College for elementary school-aged kids this week.

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Discovering the magic in teaching at WSU conference

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 11:47pm

OGDEN -- Future teachers from many surrounding school districts learned how to discover the magic in teaching at Weber State University's Future Educators conference Tuesday.

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Fern L. Boyer

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 6:36pm

Fern L. Boyer, 83, of Ogden, died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 12, at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit family from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Monday at the mortuary. Interment, Coalville Cemetery. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Sybil Mary Doxey Olsen

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:22am

Sybil Mary Doxey Olsen, 92, died Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at her son’s home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit family from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the mortuary. Interment, Ogden City Cemetery. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Ellen Tolman Wallace

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 1:37am

Honeyville resident Ellen Tolman Wallace, born April 2, 1941, in Harper Ward, died Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, in the Honeyville LDS Chapel, 7630 N. 3600 West, where friends and family may call before the service from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a. m. A viewing will also be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the Gillies Funeral Chapel, 634 E. 200 South, Brigham City. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Temple Endowment Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment, Honeyville City Cemetery. Post condolences at www.gilliesfuneralchapel.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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