Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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and Resource Center Aides Help 'Q f J ix V 4 i K an Mr. Alfred Walker, para-professional, and Mr. teacher aide, talk to students in the school Student ., Tk-it Mrs. Joan Reynolds, office clerk, and Mrs. Manra Jewett, aide, do mimeographing. I 'WN ri.. James Parram ore, Cen ter. Mrs. Karen King works in the clinic. Besides nursing, her fob is to keep the clinic in order. Mrs. Willie Fisher, English Resource center aide, and Mrs. E velynn Luttrell and Mrs. Nan Outlaw, reading aides, examine books available in the English center. 21

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Office Staff, Para-Professionals, Teacher In addition to other in-service work- shops, another important session teachers attended was Jack Gibbs' TORI Communication Experience at FSU. TORI was essentially a sensitivity session. To help around the school in various situations, the school employed addi- tional aides this year. Seventeen aides and two para-professionals were employed on the staff. The para-professionals, lVlr. Alfred Walker and lVlr. Kenneth lVlcFarland, held special jobs. Their responsibil- ity was to communicate with stu- dents' families about school prob- lems, to ride the school buses in an effort to keep racial balance and to help resolve other problems. , 1' ,.n-ww 'l . T! I Mrs. Glenda Rhymes is employed as secretary for the school. She works directly with Mr. Weaver, principal. 20 A total of 98 teachers and adminis- trators made up the faculty. Of the total, 88 were classroom teachers, three were in guidance, and two in the library, plus the principal, two assistant principals, a dean of stu- dents and a project director. Of the 88 classroom teachers, 24 were new to Rickards. Coach Hector Hernandez was transferred from physical education to become the new dean of students replacing lVlr. Norman Ingram who went to Cobb. Enrollment reached an all-time high of 1816. The Senior Class was the smallest, numbering 331. Juniors totaled 426 and the Sophomore Class had a total of 513. The Freshman Class was largest at 546. af a.-..- as--L. 1 l u mr --...s S 'X Mrs. Evelyn Maher serves the school as bookkeeper. This was her first year. Mrs. Phyllis Clark lStandingl and Mrs. Sara Wright, attendance clerks, check over a homeroom register.

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Flexible Staffing Program Implemented This was the year for the first steps in implementation of Flickards' flexi- ble staffing program. Last year, Rickards underwent a feasibility study after having been chosen to participate in a pilot program. lVlrs. Jo Glick was appointed project director with Mrs. Dot Polcyn as her secretary. After a year of writing behavioral objectives and job descrip tions and submitting requests for equipment for resource centers, fac- ulty and students were ready to plunge into the program. Flexible staffing was intended to let a teacher give more individual help and to allow teachers to instruct large groups or small groups as they might prefer. Last year's planning sessions also resulted in the decision that modular scheduling was a necessary thing to flexible staffing. Such scheduling was intended to give the student more self direction. lTop Rightl Mrs. Jo Glick, project direc- tor, talks over flexible staffing with a member of the teaching staff lBot'tom Rightl Mrs. Dat Polcyn, secretary to Mrs. Glick, instructs a student how to put toge ther pamphlets on flexible staffing, 22 'N PZIIIKARDS ' g' k , tstmms fy '