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The PARAgraph, Utah's Newsletter for School Paraprofessionals (Back
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Volume 1 Issue 1 (Winter 2001)
From the Editor
Jill Morgan
Utah State University
Welcome to the first issue of The PARAgraph - Utah’s newsletter for school
paraprofessionals, or paraeducators. I’m so pleased that we’ve been
able to start this newsletter - for two reasons. First, because it establishes
a network of paraeducators across the State. I’m sure that some of you
feel as if you work in isolation with few opportunities for contact with other
paraeducators - even the ones who work in your school, you’re all so busy.
So hopefully this newsletter will give you a sense of belonging and a chance
to be part of what’s happening for paraeducators in Utah. Second, the newsletter
will be a training tool - each issue will contain valuable information that
will help you do your job better. And again, for many of you, there are too
few opportunities to attend training; even if you’re given the opportunity
it may cost time and money - which you may not have.
We plan on three issues a year - in September, January and April. This first
issue is ‘late’ because we wanted to launch the newsletter at the
paraeducator conference in November. If you couldn’t make it to the conference,
don’t worry - we’ll be featuring highlights from conference presentations
in the January issue.
This is your newsletter, so we welcome your suggestions and ideas, and invite
you to make contributions: letters to the Editor, humor, questions you may have
about your role as a paraeducator that we can pass on to experts and print the
answers in future issues. Or if you’d like to tell us about yourself or
one of your fellow paraeducators, we’d love to feature you in an upcoming
issue.
So happy to be part of this new venture!
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