On May 19, Horizons students ran, walked, jogged and a couple biked the .71 mile course we call the Mini Marathon. This is a tradition at Horizons and we were not going to let the Corona Virus get us down. Students completed the course in their own neighborhoods. Congrats to these kids for participating:
Aperture Night 20 5/20 and time 6:00 PM
A Showcase of 8th Grade Self-Directed Learning
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In spite of all that has happened the past few months, our 7th graders have persisted and persevered and seen their Learning Challenge projects through to completion! Please join us in celebrating their journeys of self-directed learning by viewing their presentations at this link and leaving celebratory comments here. Bravo 7th Graders!
The Horizons Board of Directors is comprised of teachers, administrators, and parents. There are three open seats for parents on next year’s Board. Lucas sent out an invitation to all parents interested in being on the board. We have four candidates.
Board elections will take place at our next and last council meeting of the year. It is an important one and we hope you will join us via zoom on Thursday, March 21 at 6 PM. The entire agenda will be sent out at a later date. If you are able to join us, please email lucas.ketzer@bvsd.org for the zoom link.
Here are our candidates:
Karla Scornavacco
Karla Scornavacco is a parent and research faculty at the School of Education at CU Boulder. For the past ten years, she has led multiple district partnerships with CU for project-based learning and reading instruction and recently branched into mathematics with a study promoting effective classroom discourse strategies in elementary and secondary math classrooms.
A continuous learner, Karla began her teaching in a Montessori school, helped found a program for students who dropped out or were expelled from school and taught at a boarding school. She earned her Masters at Harvard and her doctorate at CU Boulder. She has a deep appreciation for Horizons and would love to support the school as a Board member.
For the past two years, she served as the school’s District Accountability Committee (DAC) rep. Her youngest is a 4th grader at HK8.
Michael Ashmore
Mike is a British National who moved to Colorado 6 years ago for work. He is a father of two children in Horizons (1st grade and kindergarten).
Professionally, Mike is a Director of Product Management for the SyncSort (formerly Pitney Bowes Software). He is responsible for an $80 million-dollar product line of products that operationalize physical addresses, clean and validate them, locate them, and add information to them. In this capacity, he directs product strategy for a 50-man global development team, manages contracts with over 30 data suppliers and outsourced development organizations, has oversight of major customers that includes 45 of the largest 50 insurance companies, 3 of the 5 largest telco’s, Visa & Mastercard, FreddieMac & FannieMae together with a large number of software companies such as Salesforce and Amazon.
The relevance of his professional life to the school board is his discipline in balancing competing investment choices, making pragmatic choices to achieve desired outcomes and he is practiced in working in partnership with accountants, lawyers, and myriad stakeholders.
Academically, Mike is a graduate of The University of Essex in England with a BSc majoring in Technology with double minors in Accountancy and Law.
As a father of bi-racial children, Mike is keen to promote equal treatment and opportunities for all. He believes in creating a school environment focused on happiness, personal progress, and excellence.
Rachel Buckley
Like all of you, in the course of a day, I play many roles–mom, wife, employee, boss, volunteer, friend, aunt, daughter, sister and athlete. The common thread for me in all these roles is that I am always the camp counselor, bringing people together via a zest for fun and adventure, preserving traditions of where we’ve been, and continuously seeking improvement as a leader. I’m running for a position on the Horizons Board because I see this opportunity as so fitting for me: offering my leadership skills, building a sense of community, and honoring the path of how our amazing school came to be. I’m confident that this balanced perspective can help ensure Horizons’ future success.
At my core, I’m a fun-loving camp counselor. I grew up in Connecticut playing team sports, spent my summers as a camper and counselor on a lake in New Hampshire, worked hard and played hard to suit the motto at Colgate University, moved to Vail to be a kids’ ski instructor and camp counselor, then ended up in Boulder 20 years ago to try to save the world through energy efficiency in my work at E Source and at CU for grad school. All of that has stayed with me in my current daily roles, and somehow I still skied 40 days this season.
I bring my camp counselor and team sports spirit to work, overseeing 25 product managers and analysts that function well as a cohesive team. As a member of our leadership team, I make sure we celebrate our wins internally and help position our company as thought-leaders and as extremely engaging for our customers. Even after working at E Source for nearly 20 years, I thrive on new challenges and on developing solutions to meet stakeholder’s needs.
When it comes to Horizons, ever since Jacob (4th grade) and Hanna (1st grade) enrolled for Fall 2019, I’ve jumped head-first into getting involved. You’ve likely seen me trying to build community as a classroom liaison, understanding the curriculum and supporting the teachers as a classroom volunteer, mentoring incoming families, learning more about Horizons social-emotional methodologies and even going back to my camp counselor roots by sleeping in cabins with kids on outdoor ed trips and as a field trip chaperone. I’ve been a dedicated Council meeting attendee and social event participant. I’ve offered my time, organizational skills, ideas, and smile wherever I can to Horizons.
Our family is so grateful to have been part of the Horizons community for the past two years. Even after two years, we still literally feel like we won the lottery due to the style of learning and community that suits our children so well. I’m ready to take my contributions to the next level by joining the Board and I hope you’ll consider me–the camp counselor–for the position.
Paul Ramer
These beautiful little beings are our 8th-grade graduates.
Can you name that baby? See below photos for the answer key.
- Amelia Fey
- Ethan Hunt
- June Hartman
- Briac Le Huerou
- Stanley Chen
- Drew Washburn
- Emerson Bell
- Caitlyn Grindell
- Cole Ramer
- Emily Clemson
- Adelaide Obert
- Sydney Clayton
- Iain Dow
- Adam Medeiros
- Kyle Demmon
- Nichols Gore
- Piper Handley
- Anson Elliott
- Oscar Cohen
- Chloe Wozniak
- Amedeo Claudia
- Josh Richford
- Laurel Brown
- Lauren McKenzie
- Liam Findley
- Luca Svolos
- Lydia Fey
- Mackenzie Olson
- Maddy Lavelle
- Max Logan
- Sara Garber
- Mila Hagan
- Monty Snow
- Quinn Merrill
- Reba Hoaster
- Riley Waite
- Anya Hoth
- Clara Gerlitz
- Willa Balgooyen
- Avery Dion
- Cate Sarinopoulos
Sustainable Summer for Green Star Schools! is attached.
Eco-Cycle’s Green Star Schools Sustainable Summer companion video is available to watch in the newsletter and at this shareable link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HWC7_ln8KKbTclinpeejZlDG0qhAFc61
Finally, to support waste reduction and reuse as students and families recover belonging and supplies, the Classroom and Locker Cleanout video is available to watch in the newsletter and at this shareable link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u9g7nhVkADinj4zooWic0drxXEkHZyx9
Please contact me any time with questions or for Green Star Schools support at kim@ecocycle.org or call 303-444-6634 ext. 118. I am grateful for your partnership and innovative, inspiring ideas!
Wishing the Green Star Schools community a restful summer full of sunshine and smiles!
Kim
Green Star Schools Program Manager
Eco-Cycle
Every year, in May, Horizons students take to the streets and run a course totaling 1150 (.71 miles) meters. They run around Pawnee, all the way around the park, back up Mohawk, and across the finish line in the schoolyard.
This year we ask all students to participate from their homes. On Tuesday, May 19, at a convenient time – run, walk, jog, skip or hop for 1150 meters (parents will need to help) and then record your participation on this form.
Enjoy your run, and remember to observe social distancing and mask-wearing. Go Team Horizons!
Board Agenda
May 14. 2020
6 PM
Welcome & Invitation for Public Comment
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes 4/30/20
620 PM
End of School Year Report
Beginning of 20-21 School Year Report
Finance Review/Budgets
730 PM
Process Observer – reflect & next steps
Board meetings are open meetings; all interested parties are invited to attend. If you would like to attend the Board Meeting, please email lucas.ketzer@bvsd.org.
In addition, if you would like to make a public comment, let Lucas know so that he can create adequate time.
Staff Appreciation Week is this week, May 4-8th. Our teachers, paras, administrators, office staff and custodians always give our students so much, but never more than this year. Watch for a message from your Classroom Liaison about plans for showing our gratitude to everyone that shows up for our kids and makes Horizons so special. Check out Help At School (https://bvsd.helpatschools.