Amy Oliver Show: Successful Windsor Charter to Open High School
- February 13, 2015
Chris Wright, vice president of the Falcon 49 school board, talks about the Digital BOCES proposal, his district’s latest innovative initiative to increase support for online and blended learning programs that are working to meet the needs of students across Colorado.
READ MORECharcie Russell from Great Choice Douglas County discusses last week’s good news from the Colorado Court of Appeals that gives hope for more educational options to students and families through the school district’s innovative Choice Scholarship Program.
READ MORETom Kaesemeyer, executive director of the Denver-based Fox Family Foundation, talks about the latest round of monetary awards given by Foundations for Great Schools to recognize local schools that beat the odds in achieving successful results with challenging student populations.
READ MORELoveland’s Nancy Rumfelt discusses an upcoming Thompson school board meeting at which local education leaders will consider a Liberty Watch citizen petition calling for greater transparency and an end to taxpayer funding of union activities.
READ MORESandi Jacobs from the National Council on Teacher Quality discusses how Colorado can improve its D letter grade in preparing effective teachers and providing accountability to colleges of education.
READ MOREJames Cryan, founder of Denver’s Rocky Mountain Prep charter school, talks about the innovative formula his school is using to serve a diverse and challenging population of young learners. Rocky Mountain Prep employs a blended learning model that rotates students between educational skills software and more personalized small group instruction of high-quality teachers.
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