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 …
Inside One of Three Denver Schools Serving as a National Model for How to do Discipline Differently
By Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat | March 13, 2018 What struck Erika Strauss Chavarria the most was the mutual respect she saw between adults and teenagers at Denver’s North High School. Having watched her own students in Maryland get handcuffed by armed police officers in the hallways, the Spanish teacher said …
How one tiny high school hacked Advanced Placement classes
By Kate Schimel and Leah Todd, The Taos News | November 9, 2016 If you ask Colby Simpson, one of 35 seniors at Paonia High School, how many advanced placement (AP) classes he’s taken, he has to shuffle through a long mental list. He definitely took AP biology, and is …