August 2024Welcome Back & Accessing Curricular Resources Welcome back to the 2024-25 school year! As we prepare to take another school year by #StVrainStorm, here’s a reminder of the robust instructional support resources available to ensure high-quality instructional planning for propelling student success. One of the key descriptors in the St. Vrain Instructional Framework under
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Practice Makes Progress Just this week, a student saw this graphic and said, “Are you serious? If I want to go up 100 points, I have to practice for 20 hours?!” And yes, at first that numbers seems jarring, considering how much students have going on these days. But when I pointed out that we
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Report Cards Welcome to the St. Vrain Valley School District’s elementary report card website. Our elementary schools have been using a standards-based report card since 2003. The standards-based report card is designed to inform parents about their student’s progress towards mastering the Colorado Academic Standards. In school year 2020-2021, we adopted newly worded report cards
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September 2023Striving Toward Thinking Classrooms By and large students spend most of their class time not thinking, at least not in ways we know they need to think in order to be successful … If they’re not thinking, they’re not learning. — Peter Liljedahl Mimicking is not thinking. Thinking requires students to engage in listening,
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Science is a hands-on laboratory class. You will be doing many laboratory activities that require the use of hazardous chemicals. Safety in the science classroom is the #1 priority for students, teachers, and parents. To ensure a safe science classroom, a list of rules has been developed and provided to you in this student safety
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Information from NAGC: Provides a characteristics checklist for teachers and parents looking for signs of giftedness in young children OFTEN THE EARLIEST identification of gifted children takes place by simple observation of the child’s behaviour by an educational professional, a parent or friend. Far from undermined by being subjective, identification by characteristic traits is generally
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By Don Haddad, Ed.D., Superintendent As I reflect on the past three years in St. Vrain Valley Schools, and all that we have achieved during a time of great global disruption, I am reminded of the strong investments we’ve made over a decade ago that have propelled our acceleration and success in a time of
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Crayons to Calculators continues to distribute thousands of backpacks filled with school supplies to students across the St. Vrain Valley. With the ongoing partnership between the St. Vrain Valley Schools Education Foundation and Impact on Education, the program will once again ease the financial burden on families in both districts throughout Boulder County and the
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On March 13, when the coronavirus pandemic forced St. Vrain’s buildings to close, learning moved online and, under unprecedented circumstances, teachers were challenged to access those traits that make them great. As they packed up their classrooms and reassembled them on their kitchen tables, teachers rose to the challenge, working tirelessly to maintain a prominent role in their students’ lives. Though classroom spaces were fundamentally changed, what makes a teacher great stayed the same.
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Front Range Range Community College (FRCC) and St. Vrain Valley Schools have been awarded a $494,175 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the opening of a Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program in cybersecurity. The grant was awarded as part of NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, which focuses on education for high-technology fields that drive the nation’s economy.
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