Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 10:19 am
New research has revealed that many New Zealand
businesses are left in the dark around how to make their
workplaces earthquake safe.
“Our larger businesses
are doing very well, but our smaller and medium-sized
businesses could do with more support,” says lead
researcher Dr Tracy Hatton.
Dr Hatton and
co-researchers, Sophie Horsfall from Resilient Organisations
and Toni Collins from the University of Canterbury were
funded by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) to evaluate what
safety measures different organisations were using to reduce
risks and find out whether seismic safety is a priority for
New Zealand businesses.
“It is clear that seismic
Salina USD 305 announces virtual school principal
The Salina Journal
Salina Public Schools has selected Tracy Hutton as the Virtual School Principal effective July 1, 2021.
An educator with 21 years of experience, of which the past 14 were at USD 305, Hutton most recently served for five years as career and life planning teacher at Lakewood Middle School. While at Lakewood she was a member of the Restorative Discipline Leadership Team. Prior to that she worked for nine years as a district curriculum technologist, focusing on K-12 technology leadership, staff development, and instructional strategies.
The new virtual school is being created to address the interest in online learning which surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some students found success in a flexible, virtual classroom and wish to continue this style of learning. Some families prefer virtual learning in light of the global pandemic.
True West Magazine
In 1965, historian Robert M. Utley was in his second year as the National Park Service’s Chief Historian in Washington, D.C. Two years later he would publish Frontiersmen in Blue; the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Macmillan) the follow-up to his first book, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (Yale University, 1963).
I first met Robert M. Utley in May 1977. He came to Bloomington to receive a Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University. I was a graduate student in history at IU at that time, and as soon as I learned that Utley was coming to campus, I sought out my mentor, Martin Ridge, to beg for the opportunity to pick up our guest at the Indianapolis airport and deliver him back. I assured Ridge that I would positively die for the opportunity to meet Utley. He thought this but a slight ambition (and never tired of reminding me of it in later years), but agreed to allow me to play chauffer. This eventful meeting was as Bogart s