Category: Schools

The St. Vrainnovation Future-Ready Innovation Lab Rolls into St. Vrain Valley Schools

As a large custom coach turned a corner and rolled into the St. Vrain Valley Schools Transportation Center in July, cheers and applause could be heard as members of the St. Vrain Valley Schools team got their first in-person look at our community’s new Future-Ready Innovation Lab. The ST. VRAINNOVATION Future-Ready Innovation Lab is a cutting-edge
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Xilinx turns the Innovation Center PYNQ

From band camps to robotics classes, students across St. Vrain Valley Schools were deeply engaged in learning new skills over the summer that would advance their personal growth and interests. One opportunity at the Innovation Center was a PYNQ bootcamp for secondary students to get hands-on with engineering and invention using the PYNQ board technology
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St. Vrain Valley district hosts summer classes on cybersecurity

By Amy Bounds, Times-Call About 70 middle- and high-school students and 30 teachers are spending the week immersed in cybersecurity through camps and a professional development class at the St. Vrain Valley School District’s Innovation Center. “We want to get teachers excited and students excited,” said Jennifer Peyrot, instructional cybersecurity and technology manager at the
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Advancing Public Education Together: Parent Leadership, Powerful Messaging, and the Strength of the Community

By Don Haddad, Ed.D., the superintendent, and Kerri McDermid, the chief communications and global-impact officer, both of St. Vrain Valley Schools “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” The famous line from John F. Kennedy resonates with many who understand the impact our communities can have
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Leadership St. Vrain Accepting Applications for 2019-20 Cohort

Leadership St. Vrain, a nationally and internationally recognized program of excellence in community engagement and public participation, is now accepting applicaitons for its 2019-2020 cohort. Designed to give parents and community members the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of district operations and exchange ideas, the program is especially appropriate for those who want to obtain
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Community Strong: district website platform builds, represents collaborative community

We all know the adage, it takes a village. But what exactly is that proverbial ‘village’? The long answer may be complex, but the short answer is simple: it’s all about community. When it comes to St. Vrain Valley School District, community is and always has been of the utmost importance. Now we have one
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Join Us: Superintendent Community Meetings

St. Vrain Valley Schools is one of the fastest growing and most innovative school districts in the nation. This is a result of strong leadership and a commitment to strengthening infrastructure, technology, high-quality instruction and overall student achievement. This success is also built upon interconnected partnerships with our teachers, staff, students, families, business and corporate partners,
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On-the-job education: Flourishing partnership with Anark Corporation provides Innovation Center students with skills, real-world opportunities

Imagine: you are invited into an opportunity to pilot cutting-edge product for a leading provider of manufacturing and engineering software. Simply write up a thoughtful test plan to get started. Stumped? Reach out to any of the following students: Davita Bird (senior, Niwot HS); James Tran (senior, Niwot HS); Erik Sorenson (senior, Niwot HS); Matthew
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Invisible Learning: SVVSD Community Schools extend school days with purposeful play, leadership, and collaboration

Learning is always happening. Whether within the walls of classrooms and auditoriums, out in the world, we are continuously registering and processing new and repeated information and determining what to do with it. For SVVSD Community Schools’ students and families, there is a strong focus on ensuring the experience is engaging, inspiring, playful, and purposeful…
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STEM camp encourages SVVSD students to tackle big problems

By Amy Bounds, Times-Call Victoria Hoppis’ vision for a more sustainable city includes a park with treadmills, yoga mats, dog leashes for rent and a pond that makes bubbles that find and clean air pollution. “We have trees because we need more trees,” the incoming sixth-grader at Erie Middle School said Wednesday as she explained
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