{"id":24763,"date":"2024-11-20T21:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T04:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-board-celebrates-improved-communication-and-student-success\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:01:29","slug":"mancos-school-board-celebrates-improved-communication-and-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-board-celebrates-improved-communication-and-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos school board celebrates improved communication and student success"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mancos Board of Education had their November meeting on Monday. (Screen capture via Zoom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The Mancos RE-6 Board of Education on Monday discussed improved communication in the district, student success and election results.<\/p>\n

Vice President Tim Hunter stood in for the absent President Emily Hutcheson-Brown.<\/p>\n

Superintendent\u2019s report<\/div>\n

After updates about the District Accountability Committee, Colorado Association of School Boards and San Juan BOCES, the board heard from Superintendent Todd Cordrey.<\/p>\n

Cordrey talked about a Department of Education tool that will help educators teach students responsible use of artificial intelligence while emphasizing the detriments of over-reliance on AI resources.<\/p>\n

He also spoke of the district\u2019s partnership with the Southwest Education Collaborative, which has a new executive director, and the opportunities the partnership offers Mancos students.<\/p>\n

Thirteen Mancos students attended a health care workplace learning forum at Southwest Memorial Hospital, and Cordrey shared that out of the $500,000 worth of equipment available to the district because of the partnership, $300,000 of it is on Mancos\u2019 campus.<\/p>\n

He also reported that during a recent visit to Mancos\u2019 he saw all nine welding bays were full of students and one asked to show Cordrey what she was working on.<\/p>\n

Rosalinda Phillips, a student representative on the school board, told the board they were learning a lot in the class, such as how to read reference lines and identify symbols as if they were on a job site.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s teaching what we would want to know in the real world,\u201d Phillips said.<\/p>\n

Cordrey\u2019s self-evaluation will be finished by Dec. 1, and the board will evaluate and have reconciliation of his evaluation in January.<\/p>\n

Election update<\/div>\n

Cordrey provided an election update to the board, noting that Sherri Wright of Cortez had been elected to fill a seat on the Colorado Board of Education.<\/p>\n

Out of 40 districts who had a bond of mill levy on the ballot, 21 passed, including Montezuma-Cortez and Dolores. No schools with 500 or fewer students were able to pass their bond or mill levy, and two out of nine schools with 1,000 or fewer passed, according to Cordrey.<\/p>\n

Strategic plan<\/div>\n

The board also discussed whether item 1B in their strategic plan was at standard.<\/p>\n

Item 1B\u2019s objective states, \u201cThe Mancos school district consistently communicates with all stakeholders in various ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter said he was impressed with the strides the district has taken in its communication and that he was really proud it had happened.<\/p>\n

Victor Figueroa said there has been a \u201ctremendous\u201d amount of improvement in this area, and Craig Benally echoed that the communication has been \u201creally good\u201d from the perspective of a parent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re really on track,\u201d Benally said.<\/p>\n

The board unanimously agreed through a vote that item 1B was at standard.<\/p>\n

Other items<\/div>\n

At the end of the meeting, Hunter said they needed to put a special meeting on the schedule \u201cto approve the mill levy,\u201d and the board approved selling four buses through a closed bidding process.<\/p>\n

The process of selling the buses will be managed by the district\u2019s transportation manager.<\/p>\n

The next Mancos school board meeting is Monday, Dec. 16 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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