{"id":72898,"date":"2017-01-10T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/state-relaxes-standards-for-mancos-teachers\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T00:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:35:24","slug":"state-relaxes-standards-for-mancos-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/state-relaxes-standards-for-mancos-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"State relaxes standards for Mancos teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd1e4a2c-8b91-4816-af31-5fa5ca4ce38b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3008\" alt=\"Hanson\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Hanson<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Colorado State Board of Education has awarded Mancos School District Re-6 \u201cinnovative status,\u201d which allows the district to hire unlicensed teachers and give less frequent evaluations, Superintendent Brian Hanson said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can find someone with a bachelor\u2019s degree who wants to teach, let\u2019s get them in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes at a time when the district is having a hard time hiring highly qualified, licensed teachers, Hanson said. The new designation allows him to hire a nonlicensed teacher who then has three years to obtain a Colorado license.<\/p>\n<p>The designation also allows the district to hire nonlicensed instructors who are experienced in a field or trade. For example, the district could hire a woodworker to teach a shop class several hours a week, Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives us flexibility to get nontraditional teachers in our classrooms,\u201d he said, adding that it will be easier to recruit and retain teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the designation, new teachers will face a probationary period for three years and be evaluated each year, he said. Teachers who don\u2019t face probation will be evaluated once every three years.<\/p>\n<p>Annual reviews were \u201coverwhelming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>District officials started working on an application for the designation about a year ago, Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>The district also asked to be exempt from certain CDE data reporting requirements and state assessments, such as the Partnership for Academic Readiness for College and Careers test, Hanson said. The state board rejected those requests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy it was awarded, but disappointed we didn\u2019t get the other two (privileges) we wanted,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jacobk@the-journal.com\">jacobk@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>designation allows district to hire unlicensed teachers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,83,392,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-school-district-re-6","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72898","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=72898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72898"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}