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Like most celebrations this year, Teacher Appreciation Week looked a bit different at Summit County schools, and many students felt a new level of appreciation for their teachers’ work to educate them amid a pandemic.
Cameron Kalaf, a senior at Summit High School, said he doesn’t think students understood what teachers were up against at the beginning of the pandemic.
“The way that they’ve learned and the way they’ve been technically taught to teach, it’s always been face to face,” Kalaf said. “And so I think … we didn’t really understand the situation that COVID and online schooling put them through.”
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At Monday’s meeting, the board voted 4-2 to work with a search firm to hire an interim superintendent for the 2021-22 school year. Board members Chris Alleman, Tracey Carisch, Kate Hudnut and Gloria Quintero voted in favor of the motion while Consuelo Redhorse and Isabel Rodriguez voted against. At an April 15 school board meeting, Alleman, Carisch and Hudnut voted not to enter negotiations with Smith to extend his contract following the conclusion of his one-year term at the end of June. Quintero, Rodriguez and Redhorse voted in support of keeping the superintendent.
At its March 25 meeting, the Summit School District Board of Education unanimously approved on first reading the addition of an at-will clause to district administrator contracts.
Prior to the decision, the board, superintendent and school administrators engaged in a thorough conversation about the change, which aligns with Colorado employment law.
The approved clause stipulates an administrator is an at-will employee of the district unless the administrator falls within the statutory definition of a teacher under state law. The change to at-will employment contracts for administrators means either party to a contract the district or the employee can terminate the contract at any time without cause or notice.
Three cases at Summit Middle School
Four cases at a teenage social gathering in Breckenridge
Four cases at an adult social gathering in Breckenridge
Two cases at DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Breckenridge
Two cases at Breckenridge Mountain Information at Breckenridge Ski Resort
Three cases at an adult social gathering in Silverthorne
Two cases on a youth lacrosse team in Silverthorne
Two cases on ski patrol at Keystone Resort
Five cases at an adult social gathering in Copper Mountain
Two cases at Summit Middle School
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Two quarantines were issued on Sunday, April 4, at Frisco Elementary because of positive cases.