{"id":22874,"date":"2025-03-24T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-to-host-strategic-planning-meetings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:18:57","slug":"montezuma-cortez-school-district-to-host-strategic-planning-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-to-host-strategic-planning-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez school district to host strategic planning meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 administration building.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school district has announced that it will host strategic planning meetings with \u201cfour or more members\u201d of its Board of Education and interested parents and community members.<\/p>\n

They plan to create a strategic plan for the district with a focus on transparency.<\/p>\n

The first meeting is Friday, April 11; and the second, on Saturday, April 12 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the district boardroom, 400 N. Elm St.<\/p>\n

Seats are limited. To join, email Deb Ramsey at deb.ramsey@cortez.k12.co.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The strategic plan would determine the direction of district for the next three to five years. The previous strategic plan was worked on was when Tom Burris became superintendent in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big rocks to move, if you will, were to improve student achievement in the school district, to consolidate and streamline the system,\u201d Burris told The<\/em> Journal<\/em>. \u201cThat\u2019s what led to the closing of Manaugh, and there were other items about attendance and discipline in the schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Manaugh Elementary\u2019s closure, the district has worked on student achievement and attendance. This year, district attendance is higher than 90% \u201cacross the board,\u201d partly credited to attendance meetings every two weeks.<\/p>\n

Burris added that the No. 1 goal is still student outcomes and student achievement. At the start of this strategic plan, three schools in the district were on the state\u2019s academic clock, but now, there are none on the clock.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis (new) strategic plan \u2026 where do we want to go? We would like to be in the top 25% of the state as far as student achievement,\u201d Burris said. \u201cHow do we get there? That\u2019s going to be done through three to five SMART goals that are specific.\u201d<\/p>\n

SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking for three SMART goals,\u201d Burris said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for ideas on how to get there, what the other goals might be. \u2026 We want our kids reading at grade level, we want our kids doing math at grade level. We want our kids at school, attendance wise, we want our kids to be challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to data from the Colorado Department of Education\u2019s CMAS testing results, the district finds itself below the state average of students meeting or exceeding expectations in English and mathematics.<\/p>\n

This article was updated March 28 to add data from the Colorado Department of Education.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Average percentage of students who met or exceeded expectations: state and districtGrade2022 State Average ELA2022 District Average ELA2022 State Average Math2022 District Average Math2024 State Average ELA2024 District Average ELA2024 State Average Math2024 District Average MathThird40.7%29.0%39.4%25.3%42.1%30.3%41.7%31.8%Fourth44.1%27.0%30.7%13.4%42.0%25.9%34.1%20.2%Fifth45.4%28.8%34.9%11.8%47.3%32.8%37.3%24.3%Sixth43.0%18.6%26.3%8.8%44.0%29.3%29.2%15.8%Source: Colorado Department of Education<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

District wants to receive feedback and ideas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77886,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions\/77886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22874"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}