Mancos School District - District Welcome

Welcome to Mancos School District RE-6

District Office
395 Grand Avenue
Mancos CO 81328
Phone: 533-7748 Fax: 533-7954

Mission Statement
In partnership with our community, we will foster safe, positive and rigorous learning experiences.

Vision Statement

Every student will graduate with a broad academic foundation which enables each to demonstrate the skills of critical
thinking, problem solving, team work and independent judgment. All students will understand democratic principles and recognize their civic responsibilities, and will be capable of ambitiously and appropriately participating in an age
of dynamic technological change within a global context.

REPORT TO THE PUBLIC 2007-2008 SCHOOL YEAR
To download a copy of the report, please click here.

Board of Education

The Board of Education of the Mancos School District RE-6 consists of five members elected for a period of four years. All members are elected at large within the school district.

Regular Board of Education meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. in Room 106 of the Middle School. Meetings are open to the public.

Mr. Timothy Hunter, President
(Term ending Nov. 2009)

Mr. Tom Whalen, Vice President

(Term ending Nov. 2011)

Mr. Chris Kloster, Secretary
(Term ending Nov. 2011)

Mr. Randy Boyer,Treasurer
(Term ending Nov. 2011)
Ms. Missy Miller, Director
(Term ending Nov. 2009)

Welcome to the 2008/2009 school year AND

Welcome to your Professional Learning Community

Professional Learning Communities or PLC’s, are schools that are united in their commitment to student learning. Rick DuFour states “A PLC is when educators are committed to working collaboratively in the ongoing process of collective inquiry and action research in order to achieve better results for the students they serve. PLC’s operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job embedded learning for educators.” A PLC shifts the focus from teaching to learning, which means we are constantly assessing the learning of our students by using MAPS, CSAP, DIBELS and teacher constructed internal assessments, to ensure that each and every student is as successful as possible. The mission of the Mancos School District is for “In partnership with our community, we will foster safe, positive and rigorous learning experiences.” Through a Professional Learning Community, we can successfully accomplish our mission.

The essential key to building and maintaining a successful PLC is collaboration. Collaboration, as defined by Richard DuFour, is a systematic process in which we work together interdependently to analyze and impact professional practice in order to improve our individual and collective results. Teachers must be given the time and opportunity to meet, together as professionals, to make the changes needed to improve your child’s education. If student achievement is to improve, teachers cannot work in isolation anymore.

During collaboration, teachers are focusing their discussion efforts around the four essential questions of a Professional Learning Community. These questions are, in order: 1). Does every teacher in our school understand what each student should know and be able to do after completing the unit of instruction, course and grade level? 2). What systems do we have in place to monitor each student’s learning on a timely basis? 3). What is our systematic response when a student is not learning? 4). What is our response when a student already knows the material before it is taught? Each time grade level teams meet to collaborate they are in some way addressing and discussing one or more of the above questions. Teachers are discussing curriculum, making adjustments in both curriculum and instructional strategies, analyzing data to determine the needs of individual students and most importantly making action plans when a student has failed to learn a particular skill.

Throughout the year, you will hear the term PLC many more times. We are passionate about where our professional learning community journey will take us and invite you to join us. Again, welcome to your Professional Learning Community.

Brian Hanson
Superintendent

Cancellation/Delay Information

ON THE RADIO AT:
   KISZ - 97.9 FM
   KOA - 850 AM
   KSJD - 104.1 FM / 91.5 FM
   KSUT - 89.5 FM Ignacio
   KVFC/KRTZ - 740 AM/98.7 FM

ON THE TV AT:
   CW2 Denver
   KOAT-TV 7
   KOB-TV 4
   KRQE-TV 13

ON LINE AT:

Denver Post www.denverpost.com/closings

All schools are closed and all practices and other events are cancelled, when a school cancellation is reported.

If school is delayed:

1 Hour
    Bus Routes: 1 hour later
    than regular pick up time
    Elem Morning Library: 8:40 a.m.
    Staff Reports: 8:40 a.m.
    School Starts: 9:20 a.m.
    School Ends: Regular time
         3:35 p.m. Elementary /
            3:40 p.m. Secondary

2 Hours
Bus Routes: 2 hours later

  than regular pick up time.
    Elem Morning Library: 9:40 a.m.
    Staff Reports: 9:40 a.m.
    School Starts: 10:20 a.m.
    School Ends: Regular time
         3:35 p.m. Elementary /
            3:40 p.m. Secondary

The Mancos School District's Administration Staff
Susan Doudy,
Business Manager (left), and
Theresa Titone,
Administrative Assistant

The Mancos School District's
Maintenance Department
Ben Yazzie, Director (right),
and Javier Jamie,
Maintenance and Grounds

The Mancos School District's
Custodial Department
Top: Teresa Guiterrez (left), and Alma Jamie;
Bottom: Maria Moreno (left). and
Susie Small, Lead Custodian