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Professional Development System at the Watson College of Education
PDS History & Timeline
Background Chronology 1989-2005
Proposals were submitted to establish the Consortium for the Advancement of Public Education (CAPE) and the Model Clinical Teacher Program (MCTP). CAPE's initial effort emphasized school reform while MCTP focused on the reform of teacher preparation.
Model Clinical Teacher Programs were begun as pilots in New Hanover, Brunswick and Duplin counties. The CAPE School Reform Initiative was funded through a BellSouth Foundation grant and matching contributions from seven school districts. The School issued a position paper entitled "The School of Education in a Decade of Reform" which called for a multi-faceted effort to redesign teacher preparation. This report listed eight issues which would be addressed over the next five years. These were as follows:
- being unresponsive to the demand to aid in the reinvention of public schools;
- failing to reinvent the roles of university faculty to address current and future preparation needs and school reform;
- failing to establish meaningful relationships between theory and practice;
- lacking rigor in reappointment, promotion and tenure processes or failing to realign the reward system;
- being immune to the needs of society while maintaining static curricula in an isolated professional community;
- requiring an artificial set of field experiences which are not clearly tied to program goals;
- being the academically weak sister on campus with wide-spread inflation of assessment scores; and
- perpetuating a dysfunctional organizational structure inconsistent with educator preparation needs for the 21st century.
CAPE was endorsed as a model by the North Carolina State Legislature and a portion of the appropriations was committed to the School Reform Initiative to work with twenty-three schools. MCTP was redesigned to focus on a broader agenda combining teacher preparation and induction with school improvement projects in Brunswick and Duplin counties.
A number of related initiatives such as the establishment of the Office of Service to Public Schools, the redesign of the Educational Leadership Program, initiation of the Technology Outreach program, creation of the Instructional Technology Center and the redesign of all field components and numerous programs were undertaken. These initiatives stemmed from the 1990s study entitled "The School of Education in the Decade of Reform."
Transition to Professional Development System
The first district level formal partnership agreements focusing on both teacher preparation and school reform were signed with Brunswick and Duplin County School Systems. A planning team was charged by the Dean with examining ways to integrate the emerging parallel initiatives into a focused system.
A study was commissioned by the Watson College of Education to evaluate the Model Clinical Teaching Program in Duplin and Brunswick School Systems. This study revealed that the program had a significant impact on the improved development of teacher interns and was widely supported by public school and university participants. The study also revealed, however, that the program was labor-intensive, needed to be more focused in its goals and objectives, and that university structures were changing more slowly than those in the schools. In response, a faculty committee was charged with addressing these concerns and with identifying the most salient features of the pilots for transfer to the total preparation program. The Master of School Administration degree program was redesigned to reflect many of the conceptual frameworks represented in the MCTP and CAPE pilots.
The Professional Development System
In its review of the MCTP/PDS pilot, the faculty review committee recommended that seven critical aspects of the program be transferred to the general student teaching program. Further, the faculty endorsed six overarching goals to guide this transition and committed to complete program reviews consistent with the new goals. PDS district level agreements were signed with eight additional districts in the immediate service region. The North Carolina Legislature appropriated funds to support the UNCW model and the program at ECU as pilots for a potential state-wide effort. UNCW partnered with Pembroke State University and school districts in Brunswick, Onslow/Camp Lejeune, New Hanover, Columbus/Whiteville, Pender, Duplin, Robeson and Bladen counties. A Professional Development System Advisory Council was formed along with faculty and public school teams from UNCW and Pembroke to give general guidance to the expansion of the partnership network, the redesign of curricula, and the development of orientation and training materials.
The Professional Development System partnership received top national honors from the Association of Teacher Education. The project was awarded second place for the "1996 Distinguished Program in Teacher Education."
Phase I implementation of the newly developed and expanded PDS model was begun in the ten school systems and the 47 Partnership Schools identified at the elementary, middle and secondary levels.
Formalized roles and responsibilities were developed for the UNCW PDS Program Coordinator, school-based Site Coordinators, University Supervisors, Partnership Teachers, and Interns.
Training for 361 Partnership Teachers, 47 Site Coordinators, and 12 University Faculty was designed and delivered during the summer of 1996.
An administrator training component was designed and delivered during the summer of 1996 to integrate 27 administrators into the PDS effort.
Additional university faculty were engaged in professional development activities throughout the year with a target of 100% of all faculty completing training by the summer of 1998.
PDS Seminars were initiated at all PDS Partnership Schools that had interns.
A PDS research and evaluation team was established to collect baseline and continuing data.
One hundred and twenty (120) Elementary, Middle Grades, Physical
Education and Special Education teacher interns worked as cohorts in PDS schools with Partnership teachers during the fall semester.
One thousand, one hundred and two (1102) undergraduate education students were provided field experiences in PDS schools during that fall.
PDS Administrators in ten Leadership Development Sites served as intern mentors for Master of School Administration students.
The University Council on Teacher Education of the University of North Carolina began development of a state-wide plan to establish university-school teacher education partnerships. The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and East Carolina University presented their partnership network models to the Deans of Education at the Aqueduct Conference Center in Chapel Hill.
Two hundred and thirty (230) teacher interns worked with PDS Partnership Teachers during the spring semester. These interns represented all subject area specialties and all grade levels. One hundred and four (104) interns were placed in these PDS schools for fall 1997 semester.
All university faculty who worked with interns in 1997 participated in the PDS model.
Nine hundred and forty-six (946) undergraduate education students were provided field experiences in PDS schools during the spring semester. During the first semester, sixty (60) undergraduate students were being provided field experiences in PDS schools.
An additional ten Leadership Development Sites and PDS Administrators served as internship sites for Master of School Administration (MSA) students.
The School-University Applied Research and Development Initiative was established as a means of linking university partners and public school partners in ways other than the placement of interns at PDS sites. It created a mechanism for responding to requests from K-12 schools for assistance in writing grants, designing ways to study and use test results, accessing current research, designing programs, and a host of other education-related issues. It also provided Watson School of Education students with authentic opportunities to conduct literature reviews, develop tentative program plans, and collect/ analyze data. This initiative was viewed as a way to foster the professional development of school/university faculty, administrators, and education students.
The WCE Field Experience Coordinator and PDS Director established Collaborative Internship Placement Meetings held on site in each district to ensure that the best possible decisions were being made concerning the placement of Curricular Studies interns. During this academic year, 310 teacher interns and ten administrative interns were placed in partnership sites using this process.
The Technology Outreach Coordinator and the PDS Director established Collaborative District Technology Meetings held on site in each district to assure better communication of the common issues related to technology-rich classroom environments and to establish a closer alignment of technology training efforts provided by the district and the PDS-sponsored outreach efforts.
Secondary education teacher interns in science, social studies, and English were required to engage in an inquiry project that identified and investigated a question pertaining directly to their teaching. The objective was to ensure that pre-service teachers began making informed assessments of different approaches to instruction by evaluating the effects of the strategies on student learning.
PDS technology outreach efforts resulted in 23 technology workshops on technology skills and applications delivered for over 400 teachers/ administrators.
The Watson College of Education and PDS organized and hosted the second annual Coastal Educational Technology Conference and Vendor Fair attended by over 500 persons.
The PDS Implementation Team was formed to help guide the development of the Professional Development System and to respond to the issues that impact the university-school partnership. The team consisted of partners from both public schools and the university who met monthly to identify issues and facilitate the design and implementation of appropriate solutions.
PDS and the Consortium for the Advancement of Public Education co-sponsored the National Forum on the Future of Teacher Preparation in the 21st Century, attended by over 200 partnership educators in southeastern North Carolina. National speakers in the field of education including Drs. Ron Brandt, Bernard Badiali, Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, James Cowardin, and Paul Houston interacted with conference attendees on important issues that impact teacher education and public school partners. An intended result of this interaction was the publication of findings in national educational journals.
Three conferences were held with partnership teachers, site coordinators, administrators, and university partners to discuss common issues, ideas, and insights for the improvement of all partners.
Evaluation instruments for university supervisors and partnership teachers were created for the purpose of reciprocal evaluation of those partners working directly with teacher interns.
All teacher interns began designing and collecting data for their Technology Portfolio, which could become part of their ILT portfolio during the following years.
Within the School-University Applied Research and Development Initiative, several major projects were undertaken. The study "Partnership Teachers' Perceptions of Key Elements of the Professional Development System's Impact on Student Learning and Teacher Development" attempted to ascertain the level of implementation of several key elements of the UNCW PDS model and the impact the partnership was having on student learning and teacher development. In addition studies were undertaken to assess the effects of PDS site-based seminars at the high school level, to assess the efficacy of a collaborative model that linked School of Education faculty with four PDS high school partnership teachers to design and teach social studies methods courses, to identify descriptive indicators of 12 PDS high schools, and to study the results of collaborative professional development between two high school science partnership teachers, their teacher interns, and the university supervisor. In another major initiative, surveys were disseminated to nearly 2,000 teachers in all partnership schools in an effort to identify schools that embody key aspects of professional work cultures. The results were analyzed and utilized to supplement the school and district profiles developed for partners' use.
A PDS Research Collaboration with other UNC System institutions was initiated. Five universities (Pembroke State, Fayetteville State, NC State, Western Carolina, and UNC-G) agreed to exchange campus visits in order to inform their individual PDS efforts. In addition, an agreement was reached to collaborate on research initiatives in four major areas: Teacher Development, Accountability, Technology, and Diversity. UNCW also visited sites in Kentucky to examine their partnerships.
The second round of three-year PDS contracts was successfully negotiated and signed by each of the 10 school districts and the university, reaffirming the importance of the partnership and the responsibilities inherent in it.
The PDS Implementation Team further refined the roles of its six functional teams (Technology; Training; Research, Development, and Evaluation; Dissemination; Communication; and Placement) to work more specifically in areas critical to the partnership.
The General Administration of the University of North Carolina System conducted an outside evaluation of the Watson College of Education's Professional Development System. Dr. Lynn Cornett, Vice President of Southern Regional Education Board, served as the Site Visitor and compiled a highly favorable review of our PDS.
A new half-time university position, the Site Coordinator Liaison, was established to work in direct contact with site coordinators and appropriate university partners. This position links university and public school educational goals, maintains meaningful ties with all partners, and serves the informational needs of teacher, interns, public school partners, and university faculty.
The annual "PDS: Partnerships in Action" conference was held in August for over 110 partners. Participants analyzed the effectiveness of current partnership efforts and identified future needs related to teacher education. A new component of this conference brought site coordinators, university supervisors, and teacher interns together for collaborative planning. These sessions allowed partners to begin thinking together about the logistics of the practicum semester and to establish common goals.
Three "Ideas, Insights, and Challenges" conferences were held for partnership teachers with interns, attended by 300 partnership teachers and university faculty. These conferences focused on the evolving roles of PDS partners, the importance of assessment in instructional planning, and the challenges of meeting state and national standards in education.
Training sessions were held in 6 districts for 110 new partnership teachers, focusing on an introduction to the concepts, theories and practices specific to the partnership and to the learning-centered model of supervision adopted for use in the teacher and administrator internships.
Technology outreach occurred in all ten PDS school systems, involving 149 partnership teachers in direct training and an additional 339 in site seminars focused on technology in the classroom.
Within the School-University Applied Research and Development Initiative, teacher interns in the Curricular Studies program began collecting and analyzing data to be used in the creation of an Assessment Data Collection, a pre- and post-assessment project designed to guide novice teachers in making informed decisions about student learning and the assessment of that learning. Secondary teacher interns continued to engage in and to refine their inquiry projects, focusing on informed decision making. University faculty engaged in a wide variety of studies pertaining to professional growth, the development of instructional leadership in public school teachers, and experimental programs. Plans were made to publish the findings on the PDS Web Page by August 2000.
Based on recommendations from the 1998 PDS Advisory Council, the membership of that body was reconfigured to represent a broader, more experiential base of partners. While superintendents were encouraged to remain in membership, key contacts from each district, several site coordinators, all six functional team leaders from the Implementation Team, and others more actively engaged in the daily functions of PDS were added to the Council as Phase II of PDS continues.
The Watson College of Education PDS began sponsoring a semi-annual Placement Fair in King Hall to orient prospective interns to the 10 PDS school systems. Public school partners set up informational display booths and gave students an opportunity to make more informed choices for their placement for field experiences and their internship.
The Watson College of Education received a grant from the state of North Carolina to develop and deliver an Advanced Mentor Teacher Development Program. The first advanced mentors were trained in the summer of 1999. The program was based on the well-developed and validated graduate level courses on Learning-Centered Supervision, EDN 567 and EDN 578, which have been used by many PDS partners for the past several years as the foundation of their mentor training.
PDS partners developed and delivered presentations on aspects of our PDS at major national conferences in Montreal, Canada and Seattle, Washington.
Academic Year 2000-2001
PDS hosted nationally-known educator and author Dr. Jane Bluestein as the keynote speaker for the annual " PDS: Partnerships in Action" conference and a continuing two-day professional growth experience for all PDS partners. Focusing on interactions between adults and children, especially children at risk, and ways to create and maintain emotionally safe schools, her sessions impacted over 400 partnership teachers, administrators, university faculty and parents.
The WCE Coastal Educational Technology Conference was held in the fall, attracting over 500 public school partners and educators from the regional community. Administrators from the partnership participated in the '"Administrator Technolympics," consisting of a series of technology activities designed around the NC Advanced Technology Competences expected of all NC students by 8 th grade.
Three "Ideas, Insights, and Challenges" conferences were held for partnership teachers with interns, attended by over 275 partnership teachers and university faculty. These conferences focused on a close scrutiny of current curriculum/instructional issues and areas of shared concern. Participants exchanged information regarding currently used academic programs and methods of delivery for those programs.
Training sessions were held in three districts for 115 new partnership teachers, focusing on an introduction to the concepts, theories and practices specific to the partnership and to the learning-centered model of supervision adopted for use in the teacher and administrator internships. Twenty Brunswick County teachers completed EDN 567 and/or 578 as their training requirement.
Technology outreach continued in all ten PDS school systems, involving over 200 partnership teachers in direct training or technology-focused seminars.
Two special forums were held for PDS Partnership personnel directors and administrators on the topics related to teacher recruitment and licensure. Thirty-nine participants joined 11 WCE faculty and administrators for two half-day sessions.
The WCE PDS hosted CREATE conference in July 2000, participated in the Mentor Networking Statewide Initiative, July 2000.
The third round of three-year PDS contracts was successfully negotiated and signed by Superintendents, the Dean, the Chancellor, and the Provost following Negotiation Meetings held in each of the 10 partnership districts (February - June, 2002.) The process culminated in a formal signing of contracts on the campus of UNCW on June 10, 2002.
The PDS Implementation Team expanded its scope to include all seven WCE Program Area Coordinators and both WCE Department Chairs. This expansion served to bring program needs and issues to the implementation table and inform decision making by the team.
A new PDS School Application process was initiated for this three-year round of negotiated relationships, with Application/Orientation Meetings held in Onslow, Brunswick, and New Hanover counties for over 60 principals and other CO administrators. This process allows individual schools to select the level of partnership engagement with which they are comfortable and to articulate areas for concentrated work with WCE faculty, wherever possible.
Two technology liaison positions were created to support emerging technology needs for both public school and university partners. The Technology Liaisons hold technology focused site seminars in all schools with interns and offer in depth technology trainings for university faculty. Annually meetings are held with System Technology Directors to ensure alignment between district technology initiatives and those originating in the WCE.
The 2002 "Partnerships in Action" conference held in December 2002 took the structure of an educational forum involving 13 superintendents, other central office administrators and district school board members; 20 UNCW faculty; and 34 principals. The purpose of this forum was to address common educational issues and generate ideas/concerns to be shared with legislators before the January legislative session.
A second forum was held January 2003 for the purpose of sharing the collective thinking from the first forum with local legislatures. Seven CO partners, 21 principals, 4 University faculty and 3 legislatures attended this forum.
The "Ideas, Insights, and Challenges" conferences are held annually for all partnership teachers with interns, university supervisors and faculty. Well over 150 participants each year receive professional development opportunities through these working conferences, each year focusing on current topics in education or stated professional growth needs.
Extended Training sessions were implemented in the spring of 2003 to give all partnership teachers who have been assigned curricular studies interns for the next semester, their site coordinators and principals an opportunity to refresh their skills and become informed of changes in WCE programs and intern requirements. Emphasis is placed on reflection, assessment, and accountability. New training materials have been created to assist in these areas.
PDS Partners benefited from participation in many WCE collaborative grants and initiatives. Included among them are the Eisenhower Middle Grades Mathematics grant, the NC Catalyst grant featuring technology author and specialist Dr. Annette Lamb, the NC Quest grant for middle grades math/science/mentor teachers, the PT3 technology grant, the CT3 coalition grant for mid-career professionals and the Watson College of Education K-8 Reading Institute initiative.
Orientation for new partners joining PDS are held regularly throughout the year as our partnership changes and grows.
PDS partners presented at the NC Coach2Coach Mentoring Conference, 2001( Wilmington , NC ); AACTE, 2002( New York ); the 2002 Professional Development Schools National Conference, 2002 ( Florida ); COPIS, 2002 ( Portland , Maine ); AACTE 2003 ( New Orleans ); 2003 Professional Development Schools National Conference, 2003( Florida ); ATE, 2003 ( Florida ); COPIS, 2003 ( Wilmington , NC ); AACTE, 2004 ( Chicago ).
2010 - Present
In the summer of 2010, Ms. Diane Calhoun, PDS Director retired after 13 years of service to PDS. She provided outstanding leadership to the Office and strengthened our partnerships with local schools during her tenure. Dr. Susan Catapano assumed the role of PDS Director for one academic year. During her tenure, she developed online training for new partnership teachers. This training focuses on our cognitive coaching model. She also received a drop-out prevention grant which was used to provide targeted professional development to local schools.
In the fall of 2011 the PDS Office hosted a regional education summit with a keynote presentation by Congressman Mike McIntyre. At the summit entitled Innovation Inspires Collaboration: Exploring the Landscape of Southeastern North Carolina in Challenging Economic Times, approximately 125 district partners, students, and faculty shared their innovative initiatives and discussed ways to enhance these through partnerships. From this summit, the PDS Office invited applications from teachers interested in forming cross-district collaborative teams to work on implementing an innovative idea. Three teams were selected. For more information on the teams, please see the following link. Each team worked on their projects for about four months. They presented results at the spring 2012 Research Speaks conference at the Watson College of Education. In 2011 we added six schools to the partnership.
In the spring of 2012 we re-negotiated our partnership agreements. Drs. Scott Imig (interim Associate Dean of Outreach Alliances), Donyell Roseboro (new PDS Director), and Ann Potts (incoming Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Outreach) visited each district to discuss the partnership. Each district re-signed for another three years and sent representatives to the Partnership re-signing ceremony in June of 2012.
In the fall of 2012 the PDS Office initiated the Parnership in Actions Schools Program. A team of nine faculty and staff including Jeanne Swafford, Kathy Fox, Eleni Pappamihiel, Jale Aldemir, Rajni Shankar-Brown, Barbara Honchell, Bill Sterrett, Cindy Wiseman, Lisa Buchanan, worked with the PDS Director Donyell Roseboro to review applications, develop an interview rubric, interview finalists, and select schools for the program. Three schools were selected - Carolina Forest International Elementary School (Onslow County), Cedar Grove Middle School (Brunswick County), and Heide Trask High School (Pender County). Faculty Member-in Residence and Faculty Facilitators were chosen for each school. They are: Carolina Forest - Jeanne Swafford and Scott Imig, Cedar Grove - Marsha Carr & Denise Ousley, and Heide Trask - Amy Garrett Dikkers & Eddie Caropreso.
In 2012-13 we added 14 new schools to the partnership.
- Brunswick County Academy - Brunswick County
- Atlantic Academy - Carteret County Schools
- Beaufort Elementary
- Beaufort Middle
- Bogue Sound Elementary
- Broad Creek Middle
- Harkers Island Elementary
- Morehead City Middle
- Morehead City Primary
- Morehead Elementary
- Newport Elementary
- Newport Middle
- Smyrna Elementary
- Heroes Elementary - Camp Lejeune
Professional Learning Days
In each semester, we also continued to host professional learning days. Attendance at these were as follows:
- Fall 2011 - 105
- Spring 2012 - 231
- Fall 2012 -109
- Spring 2013 - 237
- Fall 2013 - 96
- Spring 2014 - 235
- Fall 2014 - 51
- Spring 2015 - 153


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New Spy DVDs Out This Week: The Unknown Saint of Monte Carlo
I was going to lead this week's new DVD roundup with Warner Bros.' Unknown, but then the studio trumped themselves at the last minute by announcing a new collection of long-awaited Saint movies via The Warner Archive! The George Sanders Saint Movies Collection includes all five of the RKO Saint films Sanders starred in between 1939 and '41: The Saint Strikes Back, The Saint in London, The Saint's Double Trouble, The Saint Takes Over and The Saint in Palm Springs. The trouble with collecting Sanders' Saint outings is that it means omitting the four films starring Luis Hayward (my favorite of the RKO Saints) and Hugh Sinclair. And Hayward starred in the first of the Leslie Charteris adaptations, The Saint in New York. But hopefully those films will see release in a future collection. There's plenty of good news here to focus on! Warner representatives promised way back in 2007 that all of the RKO Saint films would see release in 2008. That didn't happen, and it was about that time that the bottom fell out of the catalog DVD market entirely, so it seemed as if it would never happen. Then the studio began its Warner Archive MOD program, producing DVD-Rs of classic films on demand, which started a trend and salvaged the catalog business. It seemed inevitable that the Saint movies would pop up eventually as MODs, but even then the studio dragged its feet. And now that these five have arrived, it seems like fans are actually better off for the delay. Instead of releasing each title individually for twenty bucks apiece, as they did with the Tarzan series, Warner are bundling five movies together for just $29.95. That's a much better bargain! (Very reasonable, actually.) I really hope that we see the remaining Saint titles (including the elusive final film in the RKO cycle, The Saint's Girl Friday, which was co-produced by Britain's Hammer Studios and saw Hayward return to the role he originated more than a decade later) soon in another such collection. But for now, I'm very content to have these ones at long last! So far The George Sanders Saint Movies Collection is available only directly through The Warner Archive, but it will assuredly pop up on Amazon and Deep Discount in a couple of months.
on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD combo, is this year's Liam Neeson neo-Eurospy romp, Unknown. I never got around to reviewing Unknown when it was in theaters, but I really enjoyed it. It's not just Taken in Berlin, as the advertising campaign tried so hard to make us believe. That shorthand actually did the movie a disservice, because Unknown is a bit more cerebral than Taken. (A bit!) It's not an out-and-out action movie, so those expecting Neeson to kick as much ass as he did in Taken were in for a bit of a letdown. It is a pretty cool thriller in its own right, though! The wintery Berlin locations are shown to maximum advantage, as is Diane Kruger, who ably makes the case that she deserves further consideration as a future Bond Girl. There are also some cool car chases and crashes. The script, co-written by John Le Carré's son, Stephen Cornwell, plays fair with the audience, and I was surprised by a twist that was actually earned and managed quite well to explain a pretty preposterous set-up in a satisfying manner. (I have no idea how faithful it is to the novel by Didier van Cauwelaert upon which it's based.) Extras, unfortunately, are pretty scarce on both releases. The BD includes the featurettes "Unknown: What is Known?" and "Liam Neeson: Known Action Hero" as well as a digital copy of the film; to the undoubted ire of those without Blu-ray players, the DVD includes only the first featurette. DVD buyers shouldn't worry, though. They're really not missing out on anything. Both EPK featurettes are extremely brief, and despite that brevity still manage to cover some of the same ground. Still, this movie is worthwhile even without good bonus material. If you missed Unknown in theaters, definitely give it a try on disc. I'll be posting a full review shortly. Own it on Blu-ray for $35.99 (or just $22.99 currently from Amazon) or DVD for $28.99 (or just $14.99 from Amazon right now).
Monte Carlo on DVD today. Based on the novel by Stephen Sheppard, Monte Carlo follows the rich and famous as they mingle with international spies in the glamorous titular city during the months leading up to the second World War. Joan Collins stars as a cabaret singer who moonlights for British Intelligence; Peter Vaughn plays her German rival (rival spy, that is; not rival cabaret performer), Malcolm McDowell is no doubt someone shady, and George Hamilton is the American playboy novelist mixed up in the middle of it all. I have a secret soft spot for Eighties miniseries and an even more secret (and guilty) soft spot for the ageless Joan Collins, so I'm intrigued by this one. Retail for the 2-disc set is $39.99, but of course it can be had for slightly less on Amazon.
In addition to Monte Carlo, Olive has one more Joan Collins miniseries out today that might interest spy fans, though it's not itself a spy story. Sins, based on a Judith Gould novel, is notable here because it co-stars Timothy Dalton (immediately prior to becoming Bond) as Collins' unstable brother who's spent half his life in mental institutions. Lauren Hutton (who's also in Monte Carlo) and Gene Kelly (yes, Gene Kelly) also appear. Sins is also a 2-disc set with the same SRP of $39.99.
Jun 21, 2011
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- Christopher said...
Great to see the George Saunders "Saint" movies on DVD (and would love to see more RKO mysterys from the 30's and 40's) but you're right- the exclusion of "The Saint In New York" is disappointing. I, too, am partial to Louis Hayward's somewhat crazed take on Simon Templar and the first entry is clearly the best.
So what's coming down the pike? The "Other Saint Movie" collection with Hayward and Sinclair? Clearly, a complete box set with all 9 movies would be less problematic. But hey, I'm just a movie buff, not a corporate exec.
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With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, I thought it would be an excellent idea to bring back this really fun and totally appropriately themed post that's perfect for kids and for those who aren't kids anymore but wish they were (aka me). Aren't these Pots of Gold and Rainbows cake pops super adorable? I love them! It's been a while since I've looked at them closely, but I really think that these are one of my favorite treats that I've made to date. They're so cute!
Normally, I don't do too many "decorated" desserts or treats, simply because I don't have the patience for it. I'll typically start out a project feeling really enthusiastic about the sugar cookies I'm going to decorate or that gingerbread house I'm going to construct, but then after about an hour's work when I realize that I'm nowhere close to being finished, I get restless and just have to stop. I'm surprised I was able to make these cake pops from start to finish without any major moments of desperation! I think I was able to stick to them because they're really not that involved, and they're just too cute. One pot of gold with a rainbow coming out of it was not enough...I needed lots of them!
Since these pops are definitely geared for kids and their St. Patrick's Day celebrations, make sure to stay tuned for tomorrow when I share a brand new St. Patrick's Day recipe that is definitely not for the kids, but is perfect for adults! It's a pretty awesome recipe, so don't miss out!
Pots of Gold and Rainbows Cake Pops
inspired by Bubble and Sweet
Things You'll Need
cupcakes (I used a box of yellow cake mix)
frosting (I used store-bought cans of frosting)
chocolate colored candy melts
lollipop sticks
edible food markers
yellow Nerds candies
cookie sheet
waxed paper
How to Make Pots of Gold and Rainbows Cake Pops
To begin, bake and cool your cake according to your recipe or box instructions. Once the cake has cooled completely, break apart the cake into crumbs (your hands work best, although I've also used a food processor before to ensure uniform crumbs). When all the cake has been broken up, add enough frosting so that once the crumbs and frosting are mixed together, you end up with a paste-like consistency that you can shape with your fingers (I find that just under a whole can of frosting is enough for one box of cake mix).
Begin to shape the cake-frosting mixture into even sized balls. I used a tablespoon of the cake-frosting mixture to make sure that they were all even in size. Line up the cake balls on a sheet pan, and chill for at least two hours.
Remove the cake balls from the fridge, and dip one end of a lollipop stick in melted chocolate. Insert the chocolate covered end into the cake ball, going in about halfway. Lay all the cake pops on a baking sheet, and once again, chill in the fridge, at least overnight (you want the cake pops to be as chilled and firm as possible, because this will make it much easier to dip them in chocolate later).
While the cake pops are chilling in the fridge, make the fondant rainbows. Roll out a small amount of fondant on a flat surface with a rolling pin. An important tip to keep in mind when working with fondant is that it will dry out and become hard to work with very quickly if it's not properly covered. Therefore, keep whatever fondant you are not using at the moment sealed in a plastic bag to ensure that it stays at a consistency that can be worked with. Roll the fondant so it is about 1/8 " to 1/4" in thickness, and begin to create an arc shape. To do this, I used two circle cutters (ok, one was the other end of a frosting tip, but it got the job done!) to create a ring. With a knife, cut the ring in half, and then cut each half in two, to create the arcs for the rainbows. Let the rainbows dry overnight on a flat surface to harden. Once they are hard, use the edible food markers to color the rainbows in.
When the cake pops are completely firm, it is time to cover them in chocolate. Add some candy melts (I used Wilton candy melts) to a tall glass and microwave in short increments, stirring in between, until the candy melts are completely melted and smooth. I used a tall glass because it's deep, which makes submerging the cake pops completely much easier than if you were to use a bowl. Gently dip each cake pop into the melted chocolate, cover completely, and carefully tap off the excess chocolate. Place the cake pops upside down on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet, so that some of the excess chocolate begins to pool out onto the wax paper. This forms the "lip" of the pot. Place the cookie sheet with the cake pops back into the fridge for the chocolate to set and harden completely.
When the pops have set, it is time to assemble them. Turn the pops right side up (so the stick is on the bottom), and using a little melted chocolate as glue, attach some yellow Nerds candy (to simulate gold), and the rainbow to the tops of the cake pops. Place the finished cake pops in a styrofoam block, and then into the fridge for a half hour to fully harden. Done!
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great Job Nina.. these are cuteReplyDelete
absolutely adorable !...and i think i'll have to check out that Apple Dapple CakeReplyDeleteReplies
thanks! and definitely check out the apple dapple cake, it was so good!Delete
This is the cutest thing I have seen all day! thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you! im glad you like them! :)Delete
Thanks for linking, i like your idea for drawing the rainbows :)ReplyDelete
Wow... these are so cool! I definitely have to include these in my St. Patrick's Day Sweets roundup on Monday!ReplyDeleteReplies
thanks! the round up looks great!Delete
I found your tutorial very simple. Thanks for sharing! Making them for children from our church, i'm sure they will love them!ReplyDelete
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What makes a great iPhone App?
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
It's a famous phrase that's commonly used now days. I've been accused by someone on my staff of saying it too much myself. Yes, I love my iPhone and I love finding great new apps to enhance my live/experience. However, I'm going to challenge this famous phrase. Just becasue there's an app for that doesn't mean there should be. Right?
I've downloaded many apps that I've deleted immediately after opening it. Either it was broken, didn't do what I thought it would do or I thought to myself, why do I really need this one? Seriously, there are some apps that people invested way too much time and resources on.
So what makes a great app?
This is purely my opinion, but since this is my blog, I guess I'm free to share it.
Here's two things that I believe make for a good app.
1. It brings content that would normally be found on the web and puts it in a more device friendly environment, maximizing the features of the device.
Let's take a look at some of the apps out there that do this really well. The Facebook App for the iPhone is amazing. It didn't start out that way, but it is there now. It's super easy to navigate between updates, photos and my inbox. You get around facebook differently on the iPhone than you would on your computer, but it's easy to figure out. Also, you can't do everything you could do on the computer, but what you can do works really well, possibly even better than on the web. Take a look at IMDB for the iPhone. You have the entire movie database at your fingertips in a very easy to navigate way.
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Pace of innovation
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
Last month I flew out to Nashville for a week. While at the airport, I noticed three distinct things.
First of all, I noticed the advertising in the security check-point trays. Since 9-11, going through security has changed everything about air travel. We wait in line and just about literally undress to go through the check-point. It's been nine years since all of this changed for us, but it wasn't until this trip that I found advertising in my little security tray. Good job Haynes. Thousands upon thousands of people see this advertisement every day at the Nashville airport, why didn't someone do this earlier?
Only 3-5 minutes after coming out of security I passed by a Redbox. Duh! Redbox has just about taken over DVD rentals here in the United States, why is this the first one I've seen in an Airport. This is about the smartest thing I've every seen in an airport. I remember thinking it was pretty cool when those DVD and DVD Player rental companies set up shop in airports, but there was always that uncertainty of whether they'd have a kiosk in the airport you were flying to. Redbox is everywhere. Rent at the airport in Nashville, return at the McDonalds in Tampa. Watch a good flick while you wait for your flight to board. It's a beautiful time we live in.
Last but not least, my return flight was the first wi-fi enabled flight I've taken. I know it's been around here and there for a last year or two, but in flight wi-fi seems to be pretty widespread now. How amazing is it that you can check your facebook, blog and return email all at 30,000 feet. These are amazing times!
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Kidmin dismissal
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
I'm just trying to gather a little bit of information. Tell me about how you dismiss kids and why you do the things you do, specifically with elementary. I know that what you do depends on how you check-in your kids, but I just want to know more about what everyone does.
Do parents come into the classroom to pick up their kids? Do they wait at the door and you bring their kids to them? How do you verify that the parent is authorized to pick up a child? Do you keep their name tag? Do they keep their name tag? Why?
What have you found to be most efficient? What have you found to be most secure?
I'm hoping to learn some things that you're doing that can make my check-out/dismissal even better than it is right now. Don't be shy, right out a long and detailed comment about what you're doing. Everyone can learn something from anyone. Don't make me call you a lurker!… Read the rest
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Googe Docs tips and tricks: Forms
Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
I wrote about this two years ago. A lot of you weren't reading this blog that long ago and those of you who were might want to take a second look at this. It's just way too cool of a feature.
Let me throw out the situation you might have found yourself in.
- You're putting together a volunteer meeting and you want people to sign up to come. You want to ask them if they're coming, what they're bringing and if they have kids who will need childcare. You don't want to use Evite because quite frankly, too many people avoid Evite due to it's add plastered pages and you don't want your invite to get lost among the other evites you're volunteers tend to ignore. Your check in software offers registration, but you don't want people to have to sign in, register or anything like that. You want easy.
- Or what about when you want to gauge interest about a possible curriculum, and event or retreat? You could send an email out to everyone, but then you'd have to sort through all the emails that come back. You'd like a quick way to sort your answers and see the results live as they happen in an easy to manage system.
- What about when you've got 50 kids coming to camp and you realize you forgot to ask what T-shirt size the kids need. Again, you could email, but then it would be a hassle to sort through all the emails.
Have you ever found yourself needing a tool that will do all those things? Yeah, I know there are tools out there that do this, but not a lot that can do all of these pretty well, and for free. It's called Google Docs.
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A different blog you might enjoy
Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
Do you ever get tired of reading ministry blog after ministry blog after ministry blog? Do you need a "blog vacation?" I thought you might.
Let me introduce to you my favorite, non-ministry blog. It's called Dixie Gypsy and it's written by my beautiful wife. When I was 18 I made a list of the things I wanted in a wife (yeah, I was that kind of guy). I'll share a secret with you. One of the items on the list was that she would be a Southern girl. Hey, what can I say? If you're from the South, you know what I'm talking about.
So, my little Southern Belle is writing her own blog. Actually, she started the blog almost two years ago but got busy with other stuff. She's back at it again, writing about food, trips we've taken and raising a little giant. She's such a gifted writer and has such an amazing way with words. I think you'll really enjoy reading her blog, but I'm partial.
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Jim Wideman's Good Friday sale
Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
Last week I got this email from Jim Wideman. I thought I'd pass it along to you. Yesterday I shared how everyone needs a coach. Jim's my coach and he could be your coach as well.
On Friday, April 2nd JWM is going to put on a sale like you have never seen before. I know that budgets have been cut and many of you have been hurt by the economic crisis in our country so I want to help. Back last year I cut the price of theClub in half for people over 30 and started giving it away free for those under 30.
For 1 day I'm going to cut the price of most of my resources including my 1 day Coaching/Seminars called "Day Trips". I'm also going to give away a free 6 months of infuse to someone who registers for a "Day Trip" on Good Friday! There are 4 different topics so if you register for all 4 you'll have 4 chances to win a free 6 months of infuse. It's the desire of my heart to make a difference in the next generation of Children's Ministry leaders. I hope you will take advantage of these savings on opportunities to grow as I attempt to make Good Friday a really good Friday for Children's Pastors everywhere!
Thanks for all that you do for kids!
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Book review: Revolutionary Parenting
Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
Buy this book. Read it. Buy a copy for everyone on your team and discuss it together. Get as many parents to read this book as possible. Help them do what this book says. Period.
How's that for a review?
I honestly think that this is one of the most important books I've read in the last 3-5 years. Several years before that Barna released Spiritual Champions which was essentially hailed the holy grail of Children's Ministry resources. Children's Pastors from around the world heralded this book as the stamp of validation for what they do as being really important. It was a great book, but I think this one is even more important. This book speaks to results.
In case you don't know what it's about, George Barna researched, polled and questioned kids (now young adults) who possess a biblical world view that they developed as they grew up in Christian homes. Barna questioned everything. What happened? What did your parents do? What did they say? In the same way, Barna asked the parents of these children about what they did intentionally to lead their kids spiritually. This book is the combined results of this research.
We live in a day and time where most kids walk away from their faith. Most parents really don't know what they're doing. They hope their kids will turn out okay, but most lack the confidence that what they're doing will work. Plain and simple, this book is a guide. Here's what hundreds of parents did… and it worked.
This book is shaping the way we equip and train our parents. Unfortunately, many of our parents aren't ready for this book. It's a little intimidating for the barely Christ follower who's still trying to get past certain things in their own walk, yet at some point this needs to be a part of every parents journey toward Christ.… Read the rest
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Huge Giveaway: What do you think?
Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
A local church (when I say local, I mean another church in Texas) is doing a creative outreach this Easter Sunday. Bay Area Fellowship of Corpus Christi is giving away millions this Easter Sunday. That's right, millions. Bikes, guitars, TV's, gift bags and cars. Yeah, I said cars. It's part of their message this Sunday called the Ultimate Giveaway. Read more about it here.
God did give us a free gift in his son, Jesus. The gift of grace through this amazing sacrifice is the most valuable and priceless gift ever given and it's worth getting excited about. Bay Area feels that giving away millions of dollars in gifts not only illustrates the example (obviously not to the same degree) of God's divine giveaway, but also is a high profile lure to get people to come in and check out what's going on at Bay Area Fellowship this Easter weekend.
I have no doubt that the house will be packed this weekend (expecting between 15,000 to 20,000). I have no doubt that Bay Area Fellowship will grow as a result. I have no doubt that there will be an energy and excitement that will be hard to describe.
What do you think? I know that opinions on something like this vary from one extreme to the other. I ask this becasue Bay Area's "stunt" has been highly criticized, but this same strategy is followed (not to the same dollar amounts) in children's ministries everywhere. Prizes are given away on a regular basis to first time visitors, regular attendees or for earning Bible Bucks for bringing friends, bringing Bibles or memorizing scriptures. I hear very little criticism about these techniques as a method to reward kids or lure kids to come to church, but when the same thing is done on an epic scale, people are up in arms.… Read the rest
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Move over David and Goliath
Posted on 29. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
So my friend Sam Luce wrote a very interesting blog post today about his situation in the Blog Madness final four. He posted a beautiful illustration of David and Goliath and compared himself to David and Rob, Amy and I to big ugly giants. Seriously, is that really fair? I mean, Sam has been blogging now for almost three years, he's and editor for K Magazine and a recently published author with Michael Chanley's new book, Collaborate. So, I'm not entirely sure it's fair to compare himself to little 'ol David. Sam's totally big stuff.
Secondly, is it really right to equate our blogging battle to the biblical account of David versus Goliath. Our situation seems a little subjective and I'm not sure I want to play the role of the giant. Yes, I have been described as giant-like, huge and humongous, but that's besides the point (I tend to hang around small, short or skinny people). So, I figured if we're going the biblical route, I'm choosing 2 Kings 2:23-24 as my situational illustration.
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
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Googe Docs tips and tricks: Embedded docs
Posted on 29. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
Yesterday I featured Google Docs as my app of the week. Let me show you another reason why, a prime example of why you might want to start using Google Docs in your ministry today.
Do you ever have to manage any kind of volunteer schedule? In the past I remember having created the schedule and then sending it out to all my volunteers. Now that we live in the digital age, one mass email and I'm done. Not too shabby. However, how long until that schedule is obsolete? Hours? Minutes? Volunteers call and email with their changes making the schedule you just emailed to everyone outdated. It would be pointless to email everyone with a new schedule every time it changed. Luckily several options exist.
- Create the schedule in a Google Doc and simply share the document. I've done this before. It's really not a bad idea. You can manage everyone's rights and it allows everyone to see what the most current schedule looks like. There are some downsides though. Not everyone has used Google Docs. Some will be confused. Some will never look at it. In addition, you have to paste in everyone's email to share the document with them which can be time consuming. In addition, you have to keep track of who you've shared the document with. If they're no longer a volunteer, you may want to remove them from viewing rights. It's good solution, but there's still a hassle.
- Here's my favorite and the simplest option. Click on the "share" button and choose to "publish as a web page." Essentially you can create a live page on the internet where people can always come and see the most up to date schedule. When sending out the schedule, rather than attach it like you've done in the past, sent them a link.


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The Elmbrook School District's potential solutions to a looming budget crisis have sparked an interesting question for district residents.
Do you open your doors to a significant number of students from outside the boundaries of the district, boosting average class size but at the same time reaping financial benefits?
Or do you keep your focus on the "Elmbrook" part of the Elmbrook School District, catering only to students from Brookfield and Elm Grove?
It's a tough balancing act, and taking in more out-of-district students is one option the School Board is considering to help ease a projected $15 million budget gap over the next five years.
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To get a better grasp of the issue, let's look at the numbers.
Resident enrollment was at 6,500 in 2008-09 and is expected to dip by a couple hundred in the next few years. Long-term projections put resident enrollment anywhere between 5,900 and 6,300 students through 2035.
In 2008-09, 443 nonresident students attended Elmbrook via Open Enrollment, the state's district-to-district transfer program. Elmbrook receives about $6,500 per student through Open Enrollment, but the net benefit works out to about $2,000 per pupil.
During that same school year, another 297 students came to Elmbrook through the Chapter 220 program, which allows Milwaukee Public Schools students to attend suburban districts. Chapter 220 money comes in as additional state aid, so it serves as property tax relief rather than direct revenue.
If the School Board decides to follow a study team's multifaceted approach to the budget crunch - a recommendation that also includes reinstituting 4-year-old kindergarten and possibly closing an elementary school - Elmbrook could add hundreds more Open Enrollment seats starting in 2011-12 and transition Chapter 220 seats into Open Enrollment seats over several years, bringing in millions of dollars of additional revenue.
But doing so could drive nonresident enrollment up to more than 18 percent of the district's total enrollment by 2014-15 and past 30 percent by 2022-23, which begs the question: Should the district devote its resources to educating students from outside Brookfield or Elm Grove?
Costs just aren't known
To Jerry Theder, a member of the study team that made the recommendations, the answer depends on how much actual capacity is needed inside the district's buildings - information he says the School Board doesn't have.
As an analogy, he compares the district's nonresident enrollment to a couple buying a car big enough to transport them and their two children. But they discover that they can transport two extra people in the car, and on every trip, they pile two more people in the car, adding to their expenses.
"It's costing you more money to drive it in all kinds of ways," he said.
In the school district's case, that money takes the form of extra buildings, staff, programming costs and more, Theder said. He said the district is using three or four buildings - at least two elementary schools and the district's administrative offices - that are unnecessary, in his opinion.
Some parents have said they want Elmbrook residents to be the district's "first consideration," and that programs for resident students shouldn't suffer to accommodate students from outside the district.
"Please care about Brookfield first," parent Kris Shibilske told the board.
On the table
Options being eyed to help close the district's budget gap:
• closing an elementary school
• starting a 4-year-old kindergarten program
• increasing class sizes
• taking more Open Enrollment students
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And it all started with an unexpected find.
This journey is honestly, a very scary thing.
Putting my thoughts, feelings, opinions and discoveries on paper for someone else to read!! Are you kidding?? Why in the world would a sane rational person want to put themselves out there like that? Is there a more vulnerable place to be? Wow!!
These of course are my human insecurities talking.
Then on the other side of this is God. His gentle voice telling me that He has given me this desire. Given me these ideas and thoughts. He tells me these words are for sharing, not just to keep to myself.
As I think about this it does make logical sense after all. I mean, what good are boxes of journals and notebooks except to collect dust. What good are all the clippings, quotes, prayers and promises and bits of stories He's given me over all these years; if not to put them down on virtual paper and share with the world.
The only other option I see is we load them up, take them to some nice deserted spot, shape them into a sort of circle, light them on fire, pull up some folding chairs and roast s'mores!
As I listened longer to Him I heard Him laughing along side me as we visualize this scene. Then He says "all laughing aside, I am serious about this. I have given you these words, these thoughts and I need you to share them." Ohhhkkaaa I think.
Now it honestly wasn't until I found a book. No, the book found me.
I say it that way because I wasn't at the bookstore on a mission to "find what I was looking for." It was just one of those killing time kind of moments. You know those thirty minutes or so before the next appointment or something like that.
There I was with my vanilla/caramel/soy/no foam latte wandering somewhere between the discount history books and the magazine section. I had no plan, just going casually from one genre to the next. I was in the bargain books. The place where any self respecting woman my age, with as many shopping years under her belt as I had would be.
It was after picking a few and even reading some of their dust jackets it made itself known! There was no glow or fluorescent pink discount sticker, just a nice blue book for $6.97.
The title caught my eye and I couldn't resist. "Finding your Own North Star" by Martha Beck. Well surely It had found me, that Holy Grail of a book. The one that would surely change my life kind of book. I was actually very excited about "this book". No seriously it was only $6.97. For a two inch thick blue book!
Not to mention hadn't I been asking God about what was next in life for me?
The back of the book said "If your days offer little satisfaction and less joy—you're in the wrong life." What? really? hum? I kept on reading for awhile.
Ok I'm sold, and for only $6.97. If it was a bust I didn't waste too much of the money I really didn't have to spend. Especially after that grande $5 coffee, right? I was sold.
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SILVER CITY >> John Mahl, the father of Michael Mahl, one of the teenage victims in Friday's plane crash in Arenas Valley that took the lives of all four people on the plane, had to pull over to talk. He said he was out driving around Silver City Tuesday morning, trying to attend to funeral arrangements for his son. But mostly, John said, he was trying to stay busy in the aftermath of the tragic loss.
Michael Mahl, 16, had just completed his sophomore year at Aldo Leopold Charter School when he and two other Silver City teens, along with the pilot of the single-engine plane, died in the crash.
"It's so weird driving by seeing these flags flying half mast," John said. "This town is a small, tight-knit community, we're pretty prominent in the community. I hope people don't feel uncomfortable when they see me. I hope they know they can just go up and give me a hug."
John runs a small family business, J & J Signs. His grandmother works in the office as the secretary.
John choked up as he recounted some of his memories of Michael. "He will be missed," John said as he struggled with his grief. He added that his family is devastated by the tragedy but that being able to talk about it is helping him deal with the pain.
Despite how difficult the death of his son is, John says that if he had to do it over, he would still allow Michael to go up in the plane.
"We believe in living your life," John said. "He squeezed in more life in 16 years than I did, I can tell you that."
One of the last things John did for his son on Friday, before the tragic accident, was to help Michael fill out the permission slip so that he could get on that plane.
"That was our last conversation, him talking about going up in this plane," John said.
John, the father of two additional boys, said Michael was really focused. Michael was set to take college courses this summer at Western New Mexico University.
"He would rattle off stuff and I'd be like, 'I don't know,'" John said. "He was so self aware."
According to the press release provided by Aldo Leopold, Michael was an honor roll student every semester since his freshman year. Michael was also involved in a variety of school activities, including putting Aldo Leopold's 2013-2014 yearbook together and working on the ALCS newsletter.
Michael was also a part of the Aldo Leopold science team, called the Polecats, which won the state championship Environthon the weekend of April 12. Two of the other teenage victims in Friday's crash, Ella Kirk and Ella Myers, were also members of that team.
Michael's older brother Alexander just graduated from Aldo Leopold Charter School a week-and-a-half-ago. Michael's younger brother is 11 and about to start at Aldo Leopold in the fall.
John said Michael got his love of ecology from his grandfather, Paul Bocher. The three teens were eco-monitors at the school and they took the plane flight in order to view the devastation from the Signal Fire, which started May 11.
"(Michael) was kind of (his grandfather's) clone," John said, explaining that Bocher was a wildlife biologist. "(Michael) always liked bugs."
But lately, Michael's interest had begun to shift more toward music. According to John, Michael performed in his first open mic night at Diane's Parlor in downtown Silver City about a month ago.
"He was quite the technical guitar player, but he was trying to step up and be a singer-songwriter," John recalled. "He was looking forward to doing more, obviously."
John said he and his wife, Jennifer, followed Michael at the open mic at Diane's Parlor that night, but they found Michael to be a tough act to follow.
"He was a pretty boy, a very handsome kid. The waitresses just stopped what they were doing to watch," John said. He added that Michael performed the "Shrek Hallelujah" song and Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" that night.
John cited his family's interest in music as spurring Michael's interest. John said Michael played drums, guitar, ukulele, and mandolin. John and Jennifer sing at New Life Family Church, where Michael's grandfather is the pastor.
John added that Michael had maintained his faith.
"He had so much integrity," John said.
John also recounted a family trip that he and his wife and their three sons took the week of March 12. That week was John and Jennifer's 20th wedding anniversary and the boys' spring break. They went to Puerto Penasco, Mexico, often called Rocky Point by Americans. After the Mahl family came back, John said that Michael posted photos of the trip on Facebook and thanked his family for the trip.
"He was just that type of kid, such a sweet, sweet spirit," John said.


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If Colorado was the healthiest state in the nation:
2,100 more babies would have been born at a healthy weight
123,400 more children would have access to a medical home
32,600 fewer high school students would smoke cigarettes
376,800 fewer adults would binge drink
16,200 more adults would have all of their recommended immunizations
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Healthy Beginnings: C
Healthy Children: D+
Healthy Adolescents: B
Healthy Adults: B+
Healthy Aging: B+
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Colorado may be one of the skinniest states in the nation, but a health evaluation released Thursday shows a state struggling to be healthy.
The 2012 Colorado Health Report Card shows little improvement from when the evaluation first began in 2006. The state earned a D+ for childrens health, down from a C- rating in previous years the lowest grade on the report card.
Among states, Colorado ranked 42nd for the number of children covered by private or public health insurance, with 8.6 percent not covered. Colorado ranked 19th in the number of children living below the federal poverty level, with 23.1 percent of children living in poverty. In child obesity, Colorado ranked 23rd, with 14.2 percent of children being obese. The states average ranking for health indicators among children was 31st.
Few Colorado children got enough exercise and 14 percent were obese, the report states. Unlike Colorados adults who had the lowest obesity rate in the nation, Colorados children ranked in the middle of the pack in terms of obesity.
Colorado earned a C and a ranking of about 25th for Healthy Beginnings, with 20.7 percent of women receiving prenatal care later than the first trimester or not at all. At least 8.8 percent of babies were born with a low birth weight and 6.2 infants on average died per 1,000 live births.
Colorado earned no As on the report, but did earn a B and an average ranking of about 15th for healthy adolescents and a B+ for the Healthy Adults and Healthy Aging categories. Colorado ranked around 13th in Healthy Adults and 11th in Healthy Aging.
Even in the areas where we are doing well compared to the rest of the country, some troubling trends loom on the horizon, the report states. Putting (adult obesity) figures in perspective, Colorado currently may be the leanest state, but if we reported those numbers in 1995, wed be the heaviest. ... Appearances can be deceiving.
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