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After 38 years as a teacher 35 of them at Aspen School District Tana Rinaldi is preparing to bid farewell to the classroom when she retires at the end of the school year with plans to travel and spend time on the beach.
THANKS, TEACHERS
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a month-long series on Aspen School District’s retiring teachers. New features will run every Friday in The Aspen Times through the month of June.
Aspen Elementary School’s “Miss Kim” encourages her students to think about what they want to do when they grow up, rather than what they want to be.
“When people say what do you want to be when you grow up, it puts you in such a box,” she said. “Think about, what is it they want to do, what do they want to do to make a difference in this world?”
Aspen Elementary School.
Approving later start times for older students and the elimination of early-release Wednesdays, the Aspen School District Board of Education gave a unanimous thumbs up to changes to the 2021-22 academic calendar at Tuesday night’s meeting.
The calendar vote was postponed several times to give district administrators planning the calendar more time to seek community feedback on the proposed changes, which come with an extensive list of pros and cons for students, families, teachers and other stakeholders.
“We think we’ve addressed that through really hard listening over the past six weeks,” Superintendent David Baugh said during a calendar update Tuesday evening.