>> Coming up on Arizona.

BS, a look at efforts to address teacher shortages in indigenous communities and transit use in the spike in gas prices.

That's ahead on Arizona PBS.

Welcome to Arizona horizon.

I'm Ted Simons.

A new poll shows the republican primary for governor continues to tighten with frontrunner Kari lake with a four-point lead over Karrin Taylor-robson and lake at 39% and robson at 35% and there is a sizeable number of un-sided rerespondents at 39% and they're favoring robson and the race is far from over and un- affiliated voters could decide.

The CDC show people who have Covid could struggle with symptoms for months after being infected the agency reports 14% of those who had respiratory disease suffered four months later including headache, runny nose and loss of taste or smell and more than 8% had symptoms six months later and 2% a year later.

CDC says the results were in people who were severely sick and those who had mild cases or were A symptomatic.

The pulse oximeters, they don't work as well for people of color according to a recent study adding to growing research that the twice which was invented in 1974 and crucial in diagnosing and treating Covid can get flawed results measuring darker skin tone expect tones and the F.D.A.

will trying to figure out why.

Triple A reporting for self-serve regular is at $4.68 a gallon didn't that's 30 cents lower than a month ago and Arizona saw pricing drop ten cents last month alone and lower oil prices for the easing at the pushes.

pump.

Arizona's persistent teacher shortage in the indigenous communities and NAU is helping better prepare students to thrive in higher education and joining us now is the director of NAU's institute for native serving educators and how serious of a situation is this?

>> This is for other various number of reasons and this is really focused on this issue of teacher retention and we're about addressing keeping teachers and good teachers in classrooms and building the capacity of teachers in indigenous communities because this teacher shortage and teacher retention challenges are really acutely felt in rural felt in indigenous communities where when you lose a teacher or a teacher leaves the profession, it can be more challenging to fill their spot.

And so that's the work we're doing.

>> Retaining teachers in these communities, has it gotten worse over the years?

>> You know, it has and in part because of the conditions in which teachers are working, right?

We don't pay teachers well.

Often we are asking teachers to carry incredible burdens in terms of student numbers in their classrooms, lack of records, lack of support and so, as these conditions continue to be more challenges, it's harder to keep teachers in the profession.

One of the ways to make an impact is to treat teachers like professionals and to work with them to grow their capacity, to do the good work they know is needed and that they want to do with their kids and that's what the institute is about, growing professional development.

>> Professional development programs to stay with the grant to enhance the professional development programs and talk to us about the programs and how they benefit teachers.

>> The institute for native servingserving educators, to prolong-term culturally development to teachers, to school counselors and to other educators in preschool through high school.

One, it's teacher driven and this started from the seeds of the program and it started in 2016, when Navajo teachers said will you work with us to develop a professional development program?

And northern Arizona university jumped on that opportunity and we launched the first group of what is now called the institute for Navajo nation educators and we grew that to include others since that time.

The other thank is important thing that is unique is cultural right responsiveness and focusing on indigenous knowledges and histories and languages we know that teachers who are often asked to teach from standardized, one-size-fit-s all and we ask them to draw on their local communities and their students, local languages, the landscapes and the environments their students are in and develop curriculum that is meaningful.

>> Culturally schooling is one and early childhood and one on school counseling and that's an important part of a school, is it not?

>> Absolutely.

Students thrive when schools think about and tend to their entire well-being, right?

So students can't learn if they are not deared cared for, feeling welcomed and school counselors are one part of their equation as are teachers and as our principals, as are every single adult working in the building, which is why programs really try to not focus on teachers and everyone working with students so they understand what it means to engage in culturally responsive practices.

>> And, obviously, these professional development programs, you see this in the legal community and pro and professions how is this being met with the teachers?

>> Teachers asked for this.

This wasn't a program or initiative that northern Arizona university developed on our own and it was teachers who came to us and said, we would like to have your support in this work and have your support in growing our capacity to think about language and culture and to think about how to center language and culture in our work.

And then we hear from teachers in our programs that the professional development the institute offers is different from most professional development they're getting in their schools because of the focus on cultural responsiveness.

We ask to look into the student's communities and who are the November knowledge holders and the elements of the environment and the elements of government to make curricular connections to our students?

>> I have to ask regarding Covid, how that changed the Downtown Coredynamic of all of this.

>> It did change the dynamic and I'm happy to report, we were able to maintain our professional development programs through the pandemic.

We, like many other people, switched to hydrid ways to engage teachers.

And now, in 2022, our programs are back to a mostly in-person, but partially hydrid model.

In part, because we've heard from teachers that while the formats are helpful in terms of access, what they're craving is the personal connection.

So we're building that into our programs this year and into future years, as well.

>> Angelina, thank you for joining us from the serving et serving educators.

>> Thank you.

>> The controversy involving natureopahts involving conservative medicine.

>> Licensed natureopahts perform minor surgeries and they don't define what a minor surgery is and that left a gap and we welcome a member of physicians for patient protection.

Doctor, good to have you and before we get too deeply into this, define cosmetic surgery.

>> This is a branch of surgery improving your looks, but these procedures are not minor, by any mean.

Ameans.

Some of them involving amounts of changes to the body anatomy and some can involve risk profiles that are high and quoting something as simple as what's called a fat transfer or Brazilian butt lust.

lift.

It's fat injected into vessels traveling to the heart and brain.

>> Oh, my goodness.

So who, by law, can provide invasive surgeries, cosmetic surgeries like this?

>> In the state of Arizona, the obvious people performing surgery, would be surgeons.

These are people who have gone through medical school, taken several tests along the way to aof achieve theirtoachieve medical license.

You see this in the ER or other types of medical shows and you see these residents are working around the clock 80 to 100 hours a week learning surgery and deal with per ioperative surgery so if something goes wrong, they help you get better.

I thought natureopahts is non-surgery anyway.

So what's gong?

>> They deserve this as basically using phon noninvasive methods hoping the body heal itself and in that sense, they're allowed to perform a number of different types of minor medical diagnosis and treatment.

Along with that, however, when you start invading the surgical realm, you see that across the United States, this is incredibly rare for any naturepath to perform surgery much more than clouding an abrasion with suture and if you look at the state law in new Mexico, Colorado and California, that's essentially what the state law says.

Now in the state of Arizona, we've had this flub in the law and I'm lawyer, so this is something I specialize in, but the flub in the law allows them to programme provide minor surgeries and this leaves room for minor interpretation.

People who are seeking money and who are kind of in ethical are expanding what that means.

>> Is this something lawmakers are moving towards and ignoring this and what's going on with this?

>> This law is written how it's written and there is something wiggle room in the law, but if you look at other laws across the states, it's very clear.

As an attorney, this is a failure of definition and in should prescribe what is and what isn't minor surgery and most states have laws prescribing minor surgery and they limit it to things like closing wounds with sutures.

>> Liposuction, that doesn't strike me as minor surgery.

>> It's not.

They go into the soft tissues of the body and complications that can arise can involve punctures to your lung and liver and all which a naturepath are not prepared to treat.

>> It sounds like the wild west out there, to be Frank.

Any move to close this loophole?

>> Well, you know, the naturepaths are regulated by their own board and that medical board is supposed to protect the public.

Unfortunately, the naturepath's board has been aware of this issue since 2019 and have done nothing.

In fact, in June of this year, they have an audiorecording online and talk about the plastic surgeons and the Arizona association of plastic surgeons have stated that this should not be happening.

To that replay, they reply, they said they would dispute them.

>> They said further expanding the naturepaths.

>> It's inching the goal post to include things like, evaluating people who have been concussions or other types of injuries and it seems minor in incremental steps.

But the whole picture demonstrates a real push to try to expand their own practice.

>> With that in mind, someone watching right now, they're thinking of some Brazilian thing or cosmetic surgery and how do they find out the pen that will perform the surgery has been to medical school?

>> If you've been to Alopather school and regulated by the same bodies.

You need to go to the American credit of education.

These people should be board certified by the Arizona board of medicine or the Arizona medical board and these are people who are certified as having passed the requirements to safely perform surgery in Arizona.

The naturepaths have not done that and are not qualified to perform surgery other than minor surgeries defined as laceration repair.

>> I was going to say, we still don't know what minor surgery means and any attempt by your group or others, next session to get something done?

>> The legislation has been put on notice and Arizona association of plastic southerns, as well as the national southerns and the Maricopa medical society have all informed the state legislature of this loophole.

I have represented someone who has been disfigure bid disfigured by a Brazilian butt lift and there is to recompence the people are commonly not insured and if you try to bring a legal action, they will not have insurance to pay for own damages.

It's a public health nightmare.

>> Physicians for patient protection, doctor, thank you so much and we appreciate your time.

>> Happy to be here.

>> Chamber of music Sedona celebrating it's 40th 40th anniversary and to learn more, pregnant classical music in red rock country, we welcome the chamber of music's artistic director director.

You look like you're in Sedona.

The back-drop there looks like Sedona.

Tell us more and what is this all about.

>> Chambers of Sedona is an organization that's been around 40 years and the organization is basically right there in the title and the purpose is to present a great chamber of music concert and smaller performances of classical music and we're talking the great music of western culture from Mozart and Beethoven to great living composers of today and five to seven concerts from the late fall through the spring and it's really to enrich the culture of northern Arizona.

>> Started 40 years ago, obviously here.

It started like one or two-week festival, am I wrong?

>> That's correct.

It started, like you said, one or two week, more of a think thing combined and as the years went by, it was restructured to be a year-long series and maybe not a full year and fall to spring to, you know, present concerts about once every month or once every two month for the Sedona community.

>> Were operas every involved and why do I sense an opera was involved in one shape or form.

>> There was for a time, I think, the Met opera broadcast by the organization, but, you know, really the core Mission has been about chamber music.

Chamber music has some of the greatest music every written.

Sometimes think of classical music and think of the symphony orchestra and some of the greatest by these com composers.

>> The musicians in the past, anonymous fours and there's vocal work up there, as well.

And mark O'Connor and that's a big name.

>> We've had all of the great super stars and more recently Wong, who is one of the real tops in the world.

Of course, we are all about presenting up and coming talents and not necessarily just the super star names, but really just the core Mission is to present the greatest, what I think, the greatest musicians out there.

Whether you heard of them or not, they will present the highest artistic standard on our stage.

>> One of your Missions as far as education is concerned and getting out the kids and getting out to nursing homes and these sorts of things.

>> One of the most important things we do, is aside from concerts, we do a lot with education and often when we have visiting artists, we have them go into the schools and do concerts for youth.

Since my tenure, we were doing concerts for as many as 800 kids.

We also do master classer and do local nursing homes and retirement communities to give a sense of community outreach.

>> I'm assuming just a ambitious emergencybig-todo.

big-to-do.

>> This is my fifth year of artistic director and we have big one planned and you'll see old friends clear Alex fitterstein for the past ten years and new faces like B Barnaton who is becoming one of the best of the generation and our gala, which I'm particularly excited about and this is one of the largest scale concerts and this pushes the boundaries and this is epic octetts and nine players on the stage performing one of the great masterpieces of western music.

This is a commission of a new piece by a favorite of the Sedona audiences, Michael brown, who is writing a new works, specifically to commemorate the chamber music Sedona.

>> Commission work is fantastic!

That's going to be exciting.

For folks thinking of participating and seeing something there in Sedona, what do you look for?

Chamberin chambermusic?

>> That's a great question and you look for so many things and I think the core of chamber music is about incident intimacy.

You don't have 100 people on stage like an orchestra, like two or three or four and there's an intimate conversation on stage between musicians and not only that, there's an intimate conversation between you and the audience and it's that friendship between the musicians and the audience is what.

>> That's it for now.

I'm Ted Simons and thank you so much for joining us and you have a great evening.

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