Sue Rahr, the sheriff of King County (which includes Seattle) from 2005 to 2012, says efforts to transform the culture of police training in Washington state began in earnest not in the academy's classrooms, but its hallways.
AS the summer unfolded, students settled quickly into their routines and the academy's classroom scenes came to resemble those at a more typical school.
In addition to 85 single-occupancy cells, the academy has three classrooms.
Yet in a day spent behind the great stone walls of the United States Military Academy -- in classrooms, faculty lounges and the cavernous cadet mess -- it becomes evident that General MacArthur's invocation has become a distant and elusive ideal in a post-Communist world of ethnic flare-ups, alliance politics and fuzzy missions.
Under the leadership of its first principal, Rev. Thomas J. Havlik, the academy added new classrooms and St. Martin Hall to its facilities.
The academy, and its 15 classrooms, is located in the Rippowam Center, Stamford's magnet middle school.
Many school officials do not realize they can make simple accommodations to ease the student's transition back to the classroom, the academy said.
It took a year to transform an old gallery space into two dance studios, which double as classrooms for an academy curriculum that includes music, art history, anatomy and drama.
If an individual demonstrates application and a willingness to progress, they are invited to a 10-week academy including work in the classroom and on the pitch.
Whilst there are doubtless many alternative ways of categorising the papers by theme, and any such categorisation overlooks areas of overlap and linkage, we will summarise the papers in three broad groupings: the practices of assuring quality in healthcare; giving 'space to the story'; and addressing moral complexity in the clinic, the classroom and the academy.
