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Kate Heitmann
Three SMSD school board positions were up for election yesterday.
Mary Sinclair was re-elected to Position 2 on the school board, receiving 64.23 percent of the votes against her opponent Zach Roberts.
April Boyd-Norona was elected to Position 4 with 55.29 percent of the votes, winning against her opponent Sean Claycamp.
Finally, Heather M.F. Ousley was elected to Position 6, receiving 59.26 percent of votes against her opponent Brian Neilson.
![Every day during lunch, Hau-In Lau sits in her room, working on her laptop while snacking on fruits.
For Lau, the 25 minutes of lunch time are both a planning period and a second seminar to help her English Language Learner students. Teaching seven different courses across SM East and Indian Hills Middle School, it’s critical for Lau to be in her classroom during lunch, working while helping students.
Lau’s planning class and eating a banana when ELL 3 student and junior Hanifa Gul Mohammad walks in.
“I have crepes. It’s from France,” Gul Mohammad said.
“From what class?”
“International foods class.”
“See, that’s my lunch, you know, so I don’t worry,” Lau said. “Sometimes I get lunch from my students. So I say, ‘Go sign up for food’s class’ [laughs].”
Lau is the only Chinese and ELL teacher — having founded both programs in her 16 years at East. After two decades of providing critical opportunities to students in SMSD, she’ll retire in the spring.
“I love teaching,” Lau said. “My ELL students and Chinese students have been wonderful, but I’m only one small person. I feel my health is failing, my vision is getting worse… I just feel like maybe I don’t want to wait until I’m blind or get any health problems.”
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Such great news for SME & SMSD!