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Welcome to Horizons K-8!

Our vision is to share a commitment to educational excellence that supports teachers, parents, staff, and community members in creating a stimulating and supportive learning environment at Horizons. Students and adults work together at Horizons to strengthen their skills and maximize their individual potentials.


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Horizons believes:


Authenticity

We strive to provide authentic learning experiences through a curriculum that is personally significant, and relates to the real world.

Respect
We believe in creating a community of life-long learners by including and accepting all individuals (parents, students, staff, and community members). Respect is modeled, practiced, and expected throughout our community. We value open, caring relationships among community members.


Diversity

We value and embrace diversity; therefore, we believe that unique ideas, experiences, and learning styles within and outside our community cultivate and inspire our relationships.


Flexibility
We believe that a community of learners must evolve by periodically re-evaluating its structure and learning experiences. We support and encourage all community members to innovate, grow, and strive for quality.


Responsibility

We believe that a community of learners promotes an individual sense of purpose and contribution, creating a sense of commitment to self, school, the environment and the larger world.


Quality

We intend to uphold the mission and goals of the school by establishing criteria of excellence and eliciting from each student a desire to achieve their own highest standard and quality of academic work and community contribution.


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Can you believe school is almost over? Doesn’t it seem too early?
Variations on this theme have been heard in the office, in the halls, in classrooms, and on the playground over the past week at Horizons. It is difficult to believe that school is almost over and it does seem too early; somehow the notion of getting out of school in May and starting the next year in the middle of August isn’t easy to adjust to. However, it’s the speed at which the year flew by that I find myself shaking my head over; how does time slide by with such velocity? As is true with every school year, there are moments that stand out with clarity (and, admittedly, at times with tears). Among them are:

• Opening the doors for the first time of the year to eager CHILDREN, many familiar faces and some new ones (that are now familiar – there is a pattern to this…!)
• Watching students play chess in the new, and nearly completed, Outdoor Classroom (and surely at some point the wood chip stories will be funny!)
• Hearing from more than one child that their outdoor ed trip was, “The best time EVER” – and having the pleasure of accompanying several middle school students on their first mountain bike ride in Moab
• Riding on an RTD bus to the Boulder Theater with the 8th graders to watch the historic inauguration of Barack Obama
• Being moved to tears at the Making A Difference evening (just this past weekend I was rereading some of the notes written to me about how deeply impacted so many of you were by the work the students did to positively change our world)
• Delighting in the Middle School Festival of the Arts – I can still see those glorious costumes moving past my office – and having the honor of participating in 8th grade retreat (our 8th graders are going to rock this world!)
• Seeing Eli come bravely back to school following the skiing accident that shattered his leg
• Watching the K/1 students bring Dr. Seuss stories to life – and having them wave at me every day as they went past my office
• Listening to “Barack Obama” and so many other vivid personalities the 2/3 students led us on a journey through American History (and, come to think of it, speaking Italian with the 2/3 immigrants to Ellis Island!)
• Rocking out with the 4/5 students and Ernie on the Freedom Train – my hands were sore for days from all the clapping!
• Working with our faculty and Jeff and Traci on Compassionate Communication (and seeing so many parents at the parent workshop with J/T), learning more about the importance of PLAY! from Stuart Brown, and spending a morning with our faculty and Jes and Kate from PeaceJam

To all of you I offer my gratitude for sharing your children with us – I deeply understand the trust implicit in your choice of Horizons as your child’s school for nine years. Have a restful and rejuvenating summer – already I look forward to opening the door on the first day next year (middle of August and all!).

Peace,

Sonny

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