Professional Recognition and Service

Sam Todd: Board Treasurer, Colorado League of Charter Schools

Hillary Miller:  Consultant, Colorado League of Charter Schools' initiative to provide school nurse services and support

Kristianna Vedvik: Presenter, Advanced HR Practices parts I and II, Colorado League of Charter Schools' Business Managers Network Meeting

Kristianna Vedvik and Sam Todd: Presenters, Total Rewards: Maximizing Employee Engagement and Retention, Colorado League of Charter Schools' 2015 State Conference

Megan Freeman and Kelly Reeser: Presenters, Improve Your Hiring Acumen Through the Art and Science of Behavioral Interviewing, Colorado League of Charter Schools' 2015 State Conference

Jen Dauzvardis: Presenter, When Good Boards Go Bad: Preventing the Rogue Board Effect, Colorado League of Charter Schools' 2015 State Conference

Kyle Mathews: Panelist, It Begins with the Adults: Supporting an Emotionally Healthy Staff, Colorado League of Charter Schools' 2015 State Conference

Jen Dauzvardis: Team Lead, Charter School Support Initiative, Colorado Department of Education

Megan Freeman, Kelly Reeser, Sam Todd, and Melissa Christensen: Team Member, Charter School Support Initiative, Colorado Department of Education 

Sam Todd: Moderator, CSSI Standard 10:Assessing the Financial Health of Your School, annual state Charter School Finance Seminar

Kyle Mathews: Lead presenter for second year charter school principals, Administrator Mentor Cohort, Colorado Department of Education

Hillary Miller: Consultant, Colorado Education Initiative school health and wellness data project

Megan Freeman: Committee member, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2015 Charter School Conference Planning Committee

Megan Freeman: Presenter, Revision Strategies to Improve Student Writing and Increase Engagement, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2015 Charter School Conference

Megan Freeman: Facilitator, Evaluating Staff - Problem Solving Session, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2015 Charter School Conference

Jen Dauzvardis: Presenter, Beyond the Revolving Door: Institutionalizing Board Mindset, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2015 Charter School Conference

Alison Griffin and Kyle Mathews: Panelists, Creating Real Connections between Employers and Educators: What Works for Students?, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2015 Charter School Conference

Megan Freeman: Author, Thoughtful, Committed Citizens, May 12, 2015; National Alliance for Public Charter Schools' The Charter Blog: National Charter School Conference

Jewel Wolfe: Board Treasurer, ROCKE (Regional Organization of Colorado Kodaly Educators) the Colorado chapter of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators

John Wilcox: Facilities Director at Peak to Peak, recognized by Energy Smart in the Boulder Weekly "Best of Boulder East County" edition

Bob Hettmansperger: Participating Instructor, Scalable Game Design research project at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Bob Hettmansperger: Finalist - Technology Teacher, Colorado Technology Association 2014 APEX Awards, (Click HEREto read the Denver Business Journal article. Click HERE to see a video of the finalists.)

Karen Amidon and Joshua Benson: Grant Recipients - 2014 Boulder Valley School District Impact on Education, Classroom Innovation Grant 

Karen Amidon and Sheena Thomas: Grant Recipients - 2015 Century Link grant for instructional technology

Michelle Eckstein: Grant Recipients - 2015 Century Link grant for instructional technology

Andrea Smith: Research Program Participant, Developing and Evaluating Measures of Formative Assessment Practice (DEMFAP), a research project sponsored by the Institute for Education Sciences.

Megan Freeman Team Lead, AdvancED Evaluation.

Kelly Reeser: Team Member, AdvancED Evaluation.

Hillary Miller: Team Member, Colorado Healthy Schools Collective Impact

Megan Freeman: Presenter, Revision Tools for Teens, Colorado Teen Literature 2015 Conference.

Megan Freeman: Consultant, District of Columbia Public Schools

Mary Campbell: Board Member, Second Wind Foundation of Boulder Valley

Carla Flanhofer: Award Recipient, 2015 Jared Polis Foundation Teacher Recognition Award

 Professional Conference Presentations

Anita Chakraborty-Spotts and Carla Flanhofer: Presenters, Encouraging 100% Student Engagement and Participation: Systems and structures to enhance active participation and motivation in the classroom, 2014Professional Association of Colorado Educators (PACE) Members Conference.

Anita Chakrabory-Spotts: Presenter, Climate Towards Problem Solving, 2014 Colorado Convention of Teachers of Mathematics

Jeri Chandler: Presenter, Empowering PE Professionals to Present Movement in the Classroom Back in Schools, 2014Colorado Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and DanceState Convention, Shine Where You Are.

Nate Paul: Presenter, Formative and Summative Assessment Strategies with Google Apps for Education and Management Strategies for the Technology-Rich Classroom, EdTechTeam Colorado Summit (a global conference series on Google Apps for education)

Brian Rozinsky: Presenter, Known unknowns: composition & collaboration in the cloud, Colorado Council International Reading Association (CCIRA)

Jewel Wolfe: Workshop Co-Presenter, Colorado Kodaly Institue at CSU in Fort Collins.

Jewel Wolfe: Workshop Co-Presenter, Colorado Music Educators Association state conference in Colorado Springs.

Kimberly Gannett and Andrea Salvo: Presenters, Making Time for Meaningful Counseling, 2014 Colorado School Counselor Association annual conference

Kimberly Gannett, Andrea Salvo, and Clara Quinlan: Presenters, Creating a healthy and dynamic college counseling program for everyone, 2015 Colorado Statewide Pre-Collegiate Conference

Michelle Eckstein: Presenter, Making Thinking Visible with Student Created Explanatory Videos, Boulder Valley School District's annual Digital Learning Day

Michelle Eckstein: Presenter, Supporting Geometry and Measurement Curriculum Through Coding , Boulder Valley School District's annual Digital Learning Day

Michelle Eckstein: Curriculum creator, Number Line Moves with Dash, 1st Grade Math Lesson, Wonder Workshop

Michelle Eckstein: Curriculum creator, Geometry with Dash, 3rd Grade Math Lesson, Wonder Workshop

Kimberly Gannett and Linda Bostic: Presenter, Meaningful School Counseling / Indigo Strengths Assessment, 2015 Super Conference, Western Association for College Admission Counseling

Nate Paul: Presenter, Forms, Flubaroo, and Formatting: GAFE Assessment Strategies and Paperless Projects: Google Slides as Project Templates, Google Apps for Eduction (GAFE) 2015 annual confreence

Publications

Allen Hankla: Co-Author, GDD Measurements Boost UItrafast Laser Performance, Photonics Spectra: Optics, Lasers, Imaging & Fiber Information Resource (Click HERE to read the article.)

Amelia Hankla (Alumni): Co-Author, Bright High Order Harmonic Generation in a Multiply Ionized Plasma up to the Water Window, Optical Society of America (Click HERE to read the conference paper.)

Melissa Christensen and Megan Freeman: Interviewed by reporter, Implementing Common Core Standards: A Charter Perspective, National Charter School Resource Center (Click HERE to read the article.) 

Andrea Salvo: Author, Finding a Common Voice, Association for Middle Level Education Magazine.

Linda Bostic: Author, Transitioning: Prepare as a parent to provide support, Thrive Newsletter, April 2015, Boulder Valley School District (Click HERE to read the article.)

Christine Botvinick: Author, Embracing the Common Core, Association for Middle Level Education magazine, September 2015 edition

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