Thursday, December 7, 2000 The University Daily Kansan Section A·Page 5 Program sends graduates to teach at public schools By Jennifer Valadez writer@kanson.com Kansas staff writer Laura Krebs said teaching for two years in a public New Orleans elementary school changed her life. Krebs graduated from the University of Kansas in 1988 and began working with Teach For America the following summer. The program offers recent college graduates from all academic backgrounds the opportunity to teach at under-resourced public schools. Krebs taught a fourth-through-sixth-grade special education class. "It was very challenging at first and very rewarding toward the end," she said, "the Challenge was in the lack of resources, but the reward was in developing relationships with the students, being able to get to know them on individual levels and also seeing them achieve." Kyle Waide, director of public relations, said Teach For America was a successful program in which more than 6,000 college graduates reached more than 1 million students. "It offers recent college graduates a chance to make a difference in schools and carry leadership skills into whatever they do." Waide said. He said the teachers had not only been successful in providing leadership but also in starting and securing incentive programs in the schools where they had worked. "They are also evaluated very favorably by the principals who supervise them," he said. Waide said 91 percent of principals rated the teachers positively, 92 percent said they would hire the teachers permanently and 96 percent said the teachers were very advantageous to schools. education After two years of teaching, Krebs is a program director for Teach For America offices in New Orleans. oer were very important. "Beyond the success that members have had, they go on to be lifelong advocates for expanding opportunities for students who grow up in low-income communities," Waide said. "They continue to be successful teachers and administrators. The common thread that unites them is leading our country to a day when all children in the country can obtain an excellent education." "Participating in a program like this shows you the way things really are and gives you an inside perspective," she said. "Most participants say it changes their lives, and I say that it has mine. I would encourage anyone that's even thinking about it to do it because you find out more about the world and yourself." Krebs will come to the University to recruit students Thursday, Jan. 25, through Sunday, Jan. 28. For more information about Teach For America, call (600) 832-1230 or log onto www.teachforamerica.org. — Edited by Warisa Chulindra Engineering runs in family Continued from page 1A "They're very talkative," Herrington said. "They really love talking about math, physics and anything that has to do with engineering." Mario Medina, assistant professor, teaches strength of materials, one of the two classes the Lietzens are in together. He said the two were competitive with each other. "They're both excellent students," Medina said. "They don't sit together in class, but after class, they talk to each other. They're very close." Tim attended the University of Kansas in the 1970s along with his father, Walter. Although Tim and his father both were in the School of Journalism, they never shared classes. Therefore, Tim said he was a little surprised his daughter had no problems sharing classes with him. "The normal reaction of a kid would be. I'm going to kill myself," he said. "She was really supportive though." But Emily has enjoyed it, for the most part. "I was pretty excited," she said of her father's decision to go back to college. "That's not to say I haven't gotten annoyed with him a couple of times this year, but overall it's been pretty good." Tim decided to go back to school after receiving an undergraduate degree in advertising from the University in 1975 and a second undergraduate degree in education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1990. Tim also received a master's degree in education from UMKC in 1995. But even with all that previous education, Tim said his daughter showed him the ropes. But it took Emily an extra effort to be fair while teaching her father, making sure her love didn't sway her professional judgments. "I would spend equal or less time with his lab group because I didn't want the other students to think I had this bias," she said. In fact, some students did think she had a bias. Once, when Emily was substituting, she gave a quiz that most students flunked. Tim, on the other hand, got all the answers plus the extra-credit questions correct. "The others thought I tipped him off," Emily said. "He just studied really hard — probably too hard." However, Emily insists she didn't tell her dad anything about the quiz, and Tim agreed. He said he knew she would give a quiz, and knowing his daughter, he had a feeling it would be hard. Resolution could make the Towers smoke-free one's mean," Tim joked. — Edited by Shawn Hutchinson Continued from page 1A lived together in their chosen communities. Roommates in the Towers are matched according to their smoking preferences, but judging from the complaints received at the Department of Student Housing and the Tower's front desk, conflict still arises about secondhand smoke. Seven percent of KU students reported in their housing applications last year that they were smokers. Seventy-two percent said they wanted a smoke-free environment, citing secondhand smoke and safety as reasons. Susan Coleman, Lenexa sophomore, a smoker and Jayhawker Towers resident, said she was not opposed to a ban on smoking. burn on smoking. "I generally smoke outside of the Towers because I prefer not to have my apartment smell like smoke, and my roommates don't want me to smoke there either," she said. Coleman lives in Tower B, the alfemale building at Jayhawker Towers. She said she thought fewer people might live in the Towers if the resolution passed. Brad Brown, a maintenance worker at the Towers, said the Towers' ventilation system was closed, and each Towers apartment had separate ductwork. The only way smoke could travel is on the same floor, through neighboring apartments, Brown said. "Only neighboring apartments can affect each other," Brown said. "For instance, apartment 312 wouldn't affect 303. But, 304 could affect 303." Kara Smith, Overland Park junior and JTTA secretary, said JTTA originally looked into possibly reserving the upper floors of each Towers building for residents who smoked. In theory, she said, that would reduce the likelihood that smoke would bother the non-smoking residents. 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