This week’s Roaring Fork School District board meeting starts off a little differently: Students from high schools and middle schools in the district will be taking the spotlight.
Instead of inviting folks to the standard Zoom link from which meetings can be accessed, Angie Davlyn, senior project manager for RFSD, said things will be kicked off on a Google Meet link so members of the board can see the students whose accomplishments they’ll be celebrating.
“It fills a role for the board members to be able to have the ability to honor and celebrate students who have achieved these very significant awards,” Davlyn said.
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“So what’s our next project?”
That was the best feedback Glenwood Springs Middle School teacher Lucia Campbell could have received after working with her class on the project Bilingual Voices: Life Changing Stories for six weeks.
“As a teacher I was like, ‘oh my gosh aren’t you exhausted from the last project?’ They were in their heads thinking ‘OK now I know how this works and I’m ready to do the next project, it’ll be better.’ I mean that’s just the greatest feedback you can get as a teacher,” Campbell said.
Expeditionary Learning (EL), a national education organization recognized the same students’ work with a certificate of excellence. The students have been invited to share their stories via Zoom for EL’s annual conference. In a news release from Voices, it said the categories EL considered when presenting the awards were authenticity, craftsmanship and complexity.