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Roadmap to return Colorado students to school calls for more testing, contact tracing

Roadmap to return Colorado students to school calls for more testing, contact tracing

Report is short on details about how the state will help schools overcome logistical challenges.
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Colorado schools missing 29,900 students as pandemic disrupts education

Colorado schools missing 29,900 students as pandemic disrupts education

Reflecting a trend seen nationally during the pandemic, the biggest drops came in the early grades, with kindergarten enrollment declining more than 9%.
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SVVSD enrollment down 1,105, with large number of those students falling off of preschool, kindergarten rolls

SVVSD enrollment down 1,105, with large number of those students falling off of preschool, kindergarten rolls

“We know … a lot of parents are probably keeping kindergartners out and will bring them back when they can have a more traditional school setting.”
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Free webinars this week aim to help high school athtletes cope with impacts of pandemic

Free webinars this week aim to help high school athtletes cope with impacts of pandemic

“We, as educational leaders, need to provide our students with coping strategies and resilience in navigating their current world that has been turned upside down by decisions out of their control as a result of the negative impacts of COVID-19,” Colorado High School Activities Association Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green stated in a news release.
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Evidence of learning loss is piling up. Here’s how the U.S. could design a tutoring program to help

Evidence of learning loss is piling up. Here’s how the U.S. could design a tutoring program to help

A blueprint, released Wednesday by Brown Univeristy researchers, lays out how millions of students could get access to small-group tutoring, a concept with a strong research backing.
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Feeding connection: School resource officers start delivering SVVSD meals

Feeding connection: School resource officers start delivering SVVSD meals

SROs this week began delivering meals to locations around town to make sure students who can’t get to one of the district’s 17 distribution sites can still receive the sack breakfasts and lunches. 
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SVVSD plans to decide on spring semester in-person learning by Dec. 21

SVVSD plans to decide on spring semester in-person learning by Dec. 21

During Wednesday’s school board meeting, Superintendent Don Haddad outlined a series of upcoming meetings in which he plans to gather information and data to help decide if it will be safe for students to return to schools in January.  He said he hopes to be able to send information about the district’s reopening plans to parents around Dec. 21, and to teachers and staff in January.
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To test or not to test? Colorado educators and advocates divided on CMAS in a pandemic

To test or not to test? Colorado educators and advocates divided on CMAS in a pandemic

Outgoing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had indicated the U.S. Department of Education was unlikely to grant testing waivers this school year. Whether to stick with that policy or give states more flexibility will be one of the first questions confronting incoming President Joe Biden and his education secretary.
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Most of Colorado’s largest districts are now only offering remote instruction

Most of Colorado’s largest districts are now only offering remote instruction

A Chalkbeat analysis of the 30 largest districts in the state shows 22 are now fully remote. Of the remaining eight that still provide some in-person instruction, only three offer it to students of all grade levels.
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Longmont Local: Founder of Modern Icon Media returns to his roots

Longmont Local: Founder of Modern Icon Media returns to his roots

Trent Hoshiko is producing tonight’s Silver Creek Leadership Academy Capstone Project Virtual Expo.
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