Waching daily Feb 2 2017

Hi, I'm Dr. Dee Ann Schnautz. I'll be your professor for the next eight weeks for Education 565, "Intrustional Methods and Program Evaluation".

I'd like to tell you just a little bit about myself.

This is my thirtieth year in education. I don't know how that's possible, but it is.

I've been teaching second, third, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade through the years. Then I was an assistant principal at a middle school, a principal of a primary center, and now the Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessments for a southern Illinois school district.

Each position has had it's unique challenges and unique joys.

Throughout the course of the eight weeks, I would love to learn more about you. About the unique challenges that you face in education.

And of course, the unique joys you bring and you've found in your position.

Now we're going to be doing action research.

Don't let that frighten you if you have never done anything like this before.

We're going to be looking at a specific problem, relevent to you, to your classroom or your position in education.

You're going to be collecting pre-data, post-data on that issue.

And then we're going to look at possible solutions or kinds of things that we could do that would make an improvement in that area of challenge that you have.

So we'll have lots of discussion. I look forward hearing from you and learning from you. And I hope I can be a great support to you as well.

Now I do work a full time job, 8-4 PM, more likely 7:30-5 PM.

During lunch time call me, text me, send an e-mail and I will respond to you when I can. Usually after work will be the best time to get in touch with me.

If we need to have a face to face (online) conference we can do that. I'm happy to do that for you.

Let's work together. I look forward to meeting you online. I wish you all the best. Please reach out to me with any questions. Let's have a great eight weeks. Thank you!

For more infomation >> Welcome Video EDUC 565 - Duration: 2:10.

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VIdeo: Have you seen Michelle Simmons? - Duration: 2:09.

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LOWELL?

>> SHE HASN'T REACHED OUT TO

ANYONE.

I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN

THIS LONG WE HAVEN'T HEARD

ANYTHING.

LOWELL: A DESPERATE MOTHER,

HOPING AND PRAYING FOR THE SAFE

RETURN OF HER 15-YEAR-OLD

DAUGHTER.

CHERYL SIMMONS TELLS 11-NEWS THE

LAST TIME SHE SAW HER DAUGHTER

MICHELLE WAS THIS PAST FRIDAY

NIGHT AT AROUND 6:30 BEFORE SHE

WENT OUT WITH A FRIEND.

THE NEXT MORNING, SIMMONS WENT

TO CHECK ON HER, ONLY TO FIND

HER GONE AND A STRANGE NOTE ON

THE FLOOR.

>> IT SAID, "I FOUND OUT

SOMETHING AND I'M LEAVING, AND

IF YOU CALL THE POLICE OR TRY TO

FIND ME, I WILL HANG MYSELF."

LOWELL: SHE ALSO FOUND IT ODD

THAT HER DAUGHTER'S ROOM SMELLED

LIKE SMOKE AND A CIGARETTE BUTT

WAS FOUND ON THEIR FRONT PORCH.

NO ONE IN THE HOME SMOKES.

THE PAST JUNE SIMMONS SAYS HER

DAUGHTER MET AN OLDER MAN ON

SOCIAL MEDIA AND DISAPPEARED FOR

3 DAYS

IN THIS LATEST CASE, SHE FEARS

THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED AGAIN.

>> SHE IS A CHILD, NO MATTER

WHAT

-- NO MATTER WHO OR HOW SHE

CONTACTED ANYBODY, SHE JUST

TURNED 15.

SHE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH PRESENCE

OF MIND OR SENSE TO BE SO

AFRAID.

LOWELL: POLICE SAY THEY HAVE

VIRTUALLY NO INFORMATION TO GO

ON AS SIMMONS DOESN'T EVEN HAVE

HER CELL PHONE.

>> AT THIS POINT, WE CONSIDER IT

SUSPICIOUS, BECAUSE WE HAVE NO

LEADS WHATSOEVER.

WE HAVE A GIRL WHO WAS LEFT HOME

IN HER BEDROOM, AND AT NEXT

CHECK, SHE WAS JUST GONE.

LOWELL: IN THE MEANTIME, ALL HER

FAMILY CAN DO IS WAIT.

>> NOBODY LOVES YOU MORE THAN WE

DO, NOBODY.

I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY TELL YOU,

WHAT THEY PROMISE YOU.

THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE.

LOWELL: SIMMONS IS 5'4", 130

POUNDS, OLIVE-SKINNED FEMA

WITH A BROWN HAIR AND BROWN

EYES.

YOU CAN FIND A PICTURE OF HER ON

WEBSITE AND MOBILE APP.