The Stash Lacrosse Club, a girls-only middle and high school program spearheaded by Battle Mountain assistant coach Katie Clinnin during the pandemic, is competing in the Vail Lacrosse Shootout U19 tournament for the second straight.
At the beginning of the Durango High School girls’ lacrosse game against Eagle Valley on Friday, a snow flurry blew in and made it so you couldn’t see the lines on the DHS field. After the sun peaked .
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After three years in operation, the region’s first micro school, Zealous Schools
, is growing one campus larger with the launch of an all girl’s school in Avon. The school set to open Aug. 16, 2021 will admit a group of 24 female-identifying and/or non-binary middle school-aged students to its inaugural class.
Keeping with the tradition of the school’s highly individualized and passion-based curriculum, the campus will feature a 6-to-1 student-teacher ratio, with 24 students in grades six through eight and four female-identifying academic coaches or teachers.
“[Teaching] middle school is about building a whole person, not just academic intensity,” said Kelsey Head, who will serve as the director of the Avon Zealous Campus and has been with the school since its inception. “The micro school model allows for that to be really intentional and executed well.”