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The St. Vrain Valley School District is using its K-8 summer school program, Project Launch, as a training opportunity for future teachers. High school students in the district’s P-TEACH program, along with recent graduates, can work as para-educators and tutors in the summer program, giving them extra classroom experience — plus a summer paycheck.

Seniors across the St. Vrain Valley School District tossed their caps to the sky and looked toward the future at commencement ceremonies this weekend. On Saturday, the district celebrated its graduates with ceremonies at Longmont, Silver Creek, Skyline, Niwot, Lyons, Mead, Erie and Frederick high schools.

St. Vrain Valley Schools is working to help teachers harness the power of AI, while keeping student data safe and teaching students how to use the emerging technology ethically. When Open AI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, the district decided not to block the new, generative AI technology that so quickly exploded. “Chat GPT, that […]

Renovations to Vance Brand Civic Auditorium prevented students from taking the stage this fall. Instead of skipping a semester of theater, Lauren Sorey, theater director at Skyline High School decided to take the show on the road. Sorey’s career has allowed her to participate in many types of theater productions but one she loved was […]

Juliana Cruth was intrigued by the cool projects she saw in the welding shop while taking a veterinary science class at St. Vrain Valley’s Career Elevation and Technology Center. Deciding that being a veterinarian wasn’t for her, she signed up for a welding class and, by the end of her first week, had a new […]

Timberline PK-8 teacher Ambera DeLash helped incoming second graders solve word problems last week during her Project Launch summer class, reviewing the math strategies they learned during the school year. With the problem projected on the white board, the 15 students started by reading the problem out loud together and circling key information. Then DeLash […]

High school graduate Dacen Hans Wach gave one major piece of advice for the Class of 2024: live for the journey, not the destination. “Life is not a race to the finish,” Wach, Longmont High School’s salutatorian, told his classmates Saturday. “It’s all about the lives we touch along the way, and the hope and […]

Niwot High senior Sienna Arellano’s first introduction to computer science was a class in middle school at Flagstaff Academy. Intrigued, she signed up for a summer robotics class at St. Vrain Valley’s Innovation Center and was hooked. She took more summer camp classes, including an intro to cybersecurity class. In high school, she joined the […]

Nevaeh Gomez on Thursday led kindergarten students through a literacy lesson at at Longmont’s Timberline PK-8, asking then to use their fingers to draw letters in the air as they made letter sounds before helping them write the letters on individual whiteboards. Gomez, a 2022 Skyline High graduate, is working as a kindergarten teacher apprentice […]

Students in the Skyline High School Visual and Performing Arts Academy hosted an open house at the Longmont Library on Thursday. The exhibit was an unveiling of works that reflect the personal explorations and distinct artistic voices of each student. While there are roughly 60 students enrolled in the program, only the program’s Capstone seniors […]