Dolores County School District Superintendent Bruce Hankins and Trailblazer Elementary teacher Ann Yenne shape their project questions with moderator Alex Fiorillo during a design thinking workshop called SpaceLab, a project of the Colorado Education Initiative.
Dolores County School District Superintendent Bruce Hankins and Trailblazer Elementary teacher Ann Yenne shape their project questions with moderator Alex Fiorillo during a design thinking workshop called SpaceLab, a project of the Colorado Education Initiative.Jenny Brundin/Colorado Public Radio

“The kids would say, ‘dissect something!’” Sharpe recalls. So they’d dissect. The next day they wanted to learn about physics, so the teacher says, “OK, let’s learn about fulcrums.”

One morning he and his classmates asked if, for gym class, they could climb a Fourteener. The response? They said, “yeah, sure, no problem,” Sharpe laughs.

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