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Living with two post-college roommates who both work from home, 24-year-old Joey Anderson’s daily routine as a second-year middle school teacher at Manhattan Middle School looks a lot different from those of his peers. His first exposure to BVSD was as a CU education major completing his practicum at New Vista, while working as the school's night custodian during COVID. Now he's joined the Manhattan staff as a language arts teacher with a bright future ahead.
Earlier this year, the New Vista school community and BVSD celebrated a much-anticipated milestone as students and staff started the second semester of the school year in their brand new building. The new school is remarkable not only because it was designed specifically to support New Vista’s innovative program but also because it joins the ranks of BVSD’s most sustainable schools.
Earlier this month, BVSD’s sustainability team provided the annual update to the Board on the district’s work toward goals detailed in the Sustainability Action Plan and the Green New Deal resolution. BVSD made some big sustainability gains this year across all action areas.
Students in BVSD are concerned but energized about the climate crisis and have made BVSD’s new Green Youth Council a space to take collective action and focus on hope. The Green Youth Council is a student-led group of passionate middle and high school students in the district. Their goal is to incorporate youth voices into the climate initiatives of BVSD and tackle climate issues with hope and action rather than fear.
BVSD's partnership and program with Eco-Cycle to support Zero Waste through the Green Star Schools Program is expanding to all BVSD schools by the end of 2026.
In honor of Earth Day, Boulder Valley School District students and families are invited to join Bike & Roll to School Day on Wednesday, April 23rd, for a fun, active, and eco-friendly way to start the school day!
This spring, BVSD’s Office of Sustainability is introducing “A Day in the Life of greenBVSD” to help show how sustainability is built into day to day life at BVSD. This project aligns with the greenBVSD Action Plan and the new tool is an idea that arose from discussions with the district’s Sustainability Advisory Committee to highlight and share the features and programs that exist in our schools that support our sustainability goals.
Carrie Lee RN, ND, NCSN, and BVSD's Health Services Coordinator and Diabetes Resource Nurse, is leading a project developing a nationally utilized pediatric diabetes curriculum, for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). Many places across the nation and even other districts within Colorado do not have a dedicated Diabetes Resource Nurse to support schools and students, especially in rural areas.
Lee aims to change that as she is working on a three year project for NASN to implement her knowledge and experience from BVSD and the DRNCO into a nationally-available online curriculum resource for school nurses who care for T1D students.
A lot has changed in student assessment since Dr. Jonathan Dings first came to the Boulder Valley School District, 27 years ago. He says the constant has been technology, even if it has morphed multiple times over the past three decades.