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TUESDAYS QUESTION: Do

you agree that NSA phone

record collection is unconstitutional?

(274 RESPONSES)

72% YES

Yes, its warrantless seizure

... Yes, its an outrageous invasion of citizens rights ...
Yes, everything that Obama
and his boys do is unconstitutional; theyre trampling
our constitution ... Yes, I not
only agree that it is unconstitutional, I know it is.

28% NO

No, what if such information could have prevented

9/11 ... No, Id rather have
them listen in to my phone
calls than to have another
9/11.

TODAYS QUESTION: Do you

think state action could
lower homeowner insurance premiums?

STORY | A1

Call 291-4444 or 802-7920 by

5 p.m. When prompted, press 2
for a Yes response, press 3 for
a No response.
[ Polk Pulse gives readers a
chance to express opinions. It
is not a scientific poll. ]

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Program Helping School Be More Successful

Leader in Me has
changed culture,
climate at Polk
Avenue Elementary.
By ANYA ZENTMEYER
LEDGER MEDIA GROUP

LAKE WALES | A fourthgrader at Polk Avenue Elementary School, Tyler Joyce said
people used to pick on him.
But now they dont, Tyler
said, because we have the
Seven Habits.
The seven habits hes referring to include such mantras
as think win-win, seek rst
to understand, then to be understood and synergize.
They are the product of an
academic adaptation of selfhelp writer Steven Coveys
best-selling book The Seven
Habits of Highly Effective
People.
Polk Avenue Elementary
became one of nearly 1,500
elementary schools in the
United States using the program, called The Leader in
Me four years ago when Principal Gail Quam received the
book about Coveys educational reboot as a Christmas
gift.
Our school is 93 percent
free or reduced lunch, Quam
said. We have a lot of great
families here, but a lot of times
they dont have the time to talk
about setting goals.
The program has students
at Polk Avenue Elementary in
150 different leadership roles,
including ag leaders, chorus
leaders or class greeters, to
name a few.
A core group of 10 students

RICK RUNION | THE LEDGER

LEADERSHIP POLK class VII members Gene Conrad, left, and Tim Rice talk with Polk Avenue
Elementary student Devin Zenteno as the third-grader shows them his notebook for the schools
Leader in Me program in Lake Wales.

A LOOK

INSIDE

POLK COUNTYS

SCHOOLS

called the Lighthouse Team

includes two students from
each grade from kindergarten
through fth who help with
new student orientation and
outreach efforts.
Recently, Lighthouse Team
students gave a presentation
to the 26-member Leadership

Polk class, part of the larger

Polk Vision effort in the county. The visit was part of the
groups Quality of Life class,
Leadership Polk Chair Tony
Delgado said.
Quam told the Leadership
Polk class that four years ago
Polk Avenue Elementary was
having problems with the culture and climate of the
school.
Students werent behaving,
they werent getting along and
academics were suffering as
a result.
The rst year is mostly training for staff and teachers, but
now in the schools third full

Lake Wales Charter OKs Pay Raises

By JOHN CEBALLOS
LEDGER MEDIA GROUP

LAKE WALES | The Lake

Wales Charter Schools board
of trustees approved a salary
increase for more than 400
instructional and noninstructional personnel during its
monthly meeting Monday
night.
Earlier this year, Gov. Rick
Scott OKd a $1 billion increase in the Florida Education Finance Program for the
2013-14 school year, which included $480 million increase
salaries for teachers.
Instructional personnel for
Lake Wales Charter Schools
include 279 full-time or fulltime equivalent classroom
teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, psychologists, librarians, assistant
principals and principals.

Their base salary increase

was calculated using an estimated blended student/fulltime employee count of 4,016,
which generated a total salary
allocation of $683,768 out of
the $480 million.
Meanwhile, noninstructional employees custodial, ofce support, transportation
and administrative staff
will receive their salary increases based on a computed
reduction in health premiums,
as well as state and local revenue sources. The increase for
noninstructional personnel
c over s 13 5 f u l l- t i me
employees.
Chief Financial Ofcer Brian Fisher said the salary increases for the 2013-14 budget
year should be distributed to
all employees in time for
Christmas. The raises are ret-

roactive to June 1.
The plan is to have a single
payment disbursed by the
holiday break, Fisher said.
At the start of the next scal
year in July, the salary adjustment will be part of the base
salary.
The salary adjustment results in a $1,000 bump for new
or step 1 instructional
positions, and a $2,000 hike
for step 2 and higher.
Noninstructional step 1 personnel will receive a $500 increase, while step 2 or higher
get a $1,000 raise.
In other business, the board
recognized more than a dozen
standout students and teachers, as well as Lake Wales
High School football coach
Rod Shafer for leading the
Highlanders to a 9-5 record,
including 4-0 in district play.

they sat in a golf cart on the

nursery when three men approached armed with guns.
Hinson stepped away to
gather up his sons toys and
allow Chancey to talk with
them when he hea rd a
gunshot.
Hinson returned to find
Chancey holding his arm, apparently wounded either on
the arm or hand, he couldnt
tell, he testied. Hinson froze,
and the men warned him not
to intervene. They ordered
Chancey into the golf cart.
Ill go, Ill go, he testied
hearing Chancey tell the
men.
Chancey never returned and
Hinson testied that he went
into deer mode, walking
slowly and listening for sounds
as if he were hunting. He eventually found the golf cart empty in an area near a lake and
swamp.
Prosecutor Cass Castillo aggressively questioned Hinsons
account, in particular why he
refused to tell anyone about
what hed seen. Hinson testied to various reasons: Besides the fear that coming
forward would put him in danger, he didnt know Chancey
was dead and he simply didnt
want to involve himself.
Thats how you treat a best
friend? Castillo asked.
Hinson a nswered that
whatever (Chancey) was involved with, he wouldnt want
me to share with anybody
else.
At some point during the

disappearance, he testied, he
cried in front of Yancey about
what had occurred and told
her about the three men. Castillo called Yancey back to the
stand Tuesday afternoon, and
she denied it.
Castillo repeatedly asked
Hinson, who testied he was
a great marksman, why he
didnt arm himself before he
searched for Chancey given
the apparent threat the men
posed.
Im guilty of being stupid,
Hinson said. Im guilty of being ignorant.
You also havent told the
truth, Castillo said.

Hinson

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where Hinson worked and
lived with his former girlfriend, Catharine Yancey, a
key prosecution witness. She
testified Monday that she
heard a barrage of gunshots
outside their home and,
through a window, saw Hinson armed and Chancey on
the ground.
Chanceys body was found
oating in a phosphate pit Feb.
16, 2011, with 25 gunshot
wounds and 13 stab wounds.
Lawyers are expected to
give their closing arguments
this morning in Circuit Judge
Donald
Jacobsens
courtroom.
Hinsons three hours on the
stand began with him describing Chancey when they met at
Mulberry High School: The
biggest man on campus, in his
opinion, and the kind of person you wanted on your side
in a ght.
They went separate ways
after high school but reunited
at some point after Hinson
moved onto the Bulger Nursery property in 2009. Yancey,
Hinsons girlfriend, eventually
joined him in a home on the
property.
Chancey would drive the
property at night, likely under
the inuence of drugs, Hinson
testified. About the time
Chancey went missing, he
banged on Hinsons door one
day and asked for help because he said someone was
chasing him.
Hinson testified the final
time he saw Chancey alive,

year of implementing the program, Quam said, theyve

been able to pull their C rating up to a B.
Its made an enormous
change in the culture and climate of our school, Quam
said. The amount of discipline referrals has gone down.
The students work together in
a way that shows win-win.
Theyre teammates.
The rst thing the students
learn, she said, is to be accountable for themselves, set
goals and prioritize them.
Then they learn skills that
work toward empathy and
perspective.

When you have that as a

culture and climate, and as a
foundation, and then building
the academics on top of that,
you can go very far, Quam
said.
Its really due to the children. One of the highest held
expectations for children in
our school is being accountable for themselves, being accountable for their learning
and their growth.
They track their progress in
data notebooks, such as the
time they spend reading or
working on math homework.
Quam said this gives them
a direction they know how
to get to the next step and what
it takes to achieve their own
goals.
Members of the Lighthouse
Team said theyve noticed
their academics getting better, and a few even said they
felt less nervous at school
and more encouraged to do
well.
It really has given some
children a purpose and a responsive behavior to keep
them accountable, Quam
said.
She said Polk Avenue Elementary has spent somewhere
in the ballpark of $15,000 for
start-up costs for the program,
and the school pays $1,000 a
year for the rights to call itself
a Leader in Me school.
Weve implemented this in a
very slow, methodical way,
Quam said. I feel like in order
for anything to really make a
change or make a difference,
it has to be real and authentic,
and it has to become a part of
you. So this has taken us four
years to get to where we are
today, and weve still got a
long way to go.

ALBERT ESKENAZI | 1927 2013

Prominent Polk County

Psychologist Dies at 86
By MILES PARKS

He loved the
harmonica
and he loved
footba l l; he
would attend
local high
school games,
a nd watch
fo o tb a l l on
Saturdays and

THE LEDGER

LAKELAND | Dr. Albert

Eskenazi, a former director
of the Peace River Center
who ran a private psychology
practice in Lakeland for more
than 25 years, died Saturday.
He was 86.
After receiving his doctorate from the University of
Houston, he made his way to
Polk County in 1957. He made
his presence felt professionally at the Polk County Mental Health Center, now the
Peace River Center, but also
in other ways. He wrote a
weekly psychology column
for The Ledger for 13 years.
He was open in supporting
liberal causes in Lakeland,
even as his health declined.
At Occupy Wall Street in
Lakeland, theres a picture of
him in his wheel chair, Jane
Eskenazi said. Hes marched
in a walker and in a wheelchair for causes.
Never a big man, maybe 5
feet 6 inches at his tallest
height, Al made a name for
himself by his compassion for
families and his ability to
treat children.
He could relate to kids,
his wife said. He wasnt intimidating, he had small stature and kids were just drawn
to him.
Eskenazi became more
passionate about his Sephardic Jewish roots in his
later age.

ESKENAZI

Sundays too.
He loved the Wizard of
Oz, and kept a Chihuahua
companion named Toto.
His wife quoted what a
26-year-old man wrote to her
on Facebook.
Al showed more compassion in one hour, the man
said, than I could show in a
lifetime.
Eskenazi, born July 3, 1927,
in Miami, graduated high
school in South Florida before joining the Navy at 17
years old and serving during
World War II,
He died at Lakeland Regional Medical Center of a
dementia-related disorder.
He is survived by his wife,
Jane, and sons, Steven and
Daniel. He was preceded in
death by his first wife,
Patricia.
A memorial service will be
held 10 a.m. Dec. 28 at the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lakeland. Instead of owers, the family is
asking that contributions be
made to the Florida Gulf
Coast Chapter of the Alzheimers Association.

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