Imagine families, schools, businesses, and higher education coming together to support high school students in finding their passions, engaging with their community in deep ways, and developing new skills and competencies while attaining the certifications necessary to achieve a full range of post-secondary pathways. From the Eastern Plains to the …
Lori Haukeness: The Design Team Ignites
By Lori Haukeness What aspirations and skills would the community like to see in the students who graduate from Montezuma-Cortez High School? This will be the focus of a design team made up of community businesses, school staff, students and higher education. This team will work together to create a …
Elevating Student Voices to Increase Cultural Awareness
When students in Mesa County, Colorado identified potential for increasing cultural awareness in their school and community, they acted, creating a vision for a Student Led Equity Council (SLEC). Now that vision is becoming a reality, thanks to leadership from Mesa County Valley School District’s IB Coordinator Laura Meinzen and Dual Language …
Creating a Connected Community
By Dr. Dana T. Bedden, Getting Smart | March 5, 2016 Districts around the country are taking a variety of approaches to community engagement. In Colorado, for example, District 51 and Archuleta #50 JT school district use the Community Collaboration for School Innovation toolkit developed by The Colorado Department of …