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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.

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.

As a book lover, she, like many other teachers, had subscribed to a way of teaching where students were to learn how to read by being exposed to text. Confronted with an evidence-based alternative that actually worked – she chose to embrace it.

Emerald Murphy is no stranger to challenging the norm, after all, it is something she has done most of her career. For this reason, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the former French teacher, turned groundbreaking high school athletic director, is now taking on a new challenge, leading Community Schools.

BVSD science teacher shares her approach to community-building that any staff member can use.