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Reunion charter school focusing on agriculture STEAD School looks beyond farming to build its curriculum BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Part of the inspiration for a new agriculture-themed high school in Commerce City came from the ground where it’s being built. “The Fulenwider family has owned that land forever and it used to a be a part of a 40,000-acre farm called Boxelder Farms,” school co-founder Kelly Leid said. “They farmed this land. It was a dry land wheat farm that grew winter wheat, sunflowers, and other kinds of farming and ranching.” But another part of the inspiration for the new school came from home builders themselves. The school is an outgrowth of Oakwood Homes development in Commerce City’s Reunion neighborhood and owner Pat Hamill’s philosophy. “For the last 20 to 25 years, one of the things Pat was confronted with was the challenge of the quality of schools,” Leid said. “What came out of that was the Foundation for Educational Excellence.” Leid ran that group for its first eight years. It’s now called BuildStrong Education. “At the root of our homebuilding business has been a real focus on assuring or helping to facilitate great schools in the communities in which we build,” Leid said. “When we became the master builder for Reunion back in 2017, we started a dialogue with 27J.” BuildStrong Education, an Oakwood Homes Foundation, championed the STEAD School. The school will offer students experiential learning through the use of hands-on materials, interdependent projects, cooperative learning, individualized lessons, internships and community service.
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Crews place the top beam in Reunion’s new STEAD School May 4. Plans call for the new agriculture-focused school to open for its first group of students in August. COURTESY PHOTO
The site plan for Reunion’s new agriculture-focused STEAD School. COURTESY ILLUSTRATION
The school is set to open its doors to its first class of students in August in Reunion, near the intersection of Tower Road and 104th
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Avenue. The school hit a milestone on May 4 when crews completed work on the building’s frame. “The school sits at the nexus of urban, rural and suburban interests,” Leid said. “Brighton is just to the north and Bennett and farmland are to the east and old Commerce City is just to the south. Part of the goal is finding a way to bring these kids together from these different experiences to solve really big problems regarding food, energy and the environment.” Leid said the school plans to accept 175 students for the graduating class of 2025. They’ll add 175 firstyear students each year until the school reaches its full enrollment of 700 students across grades 9-12, all drawn from District 27J’s student population via a lottery. “It’s a weighted lottery and the
over-arching goal is to be as diverse as possible and to meet the district’s targets,” Leid said. “We need to balance the school’s demographics, boy-to-girl as well as kids of color and etcetera.” The public charter high school, part of the School District 27J, broke ground in January 2021 and is expected to be complete just in time for the inaugural freshman class in fall 2021. Plans call for developing a ten-acre site that will expand in phases with multiple pre-engineered buildings designed to look and feel like barns. Auxiliary specialty workshops and labs will support real-world learning experiences. Roots in Agriculture STEM schools are a standard across the country, focusing students on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEAM Schools, a more recent subset, adds Arts to the mix. Leid thinks the new Commerce City school is Colorado’s only STEAD school, focusing on Science, Technology, Environment, Agriculture and Design. “This is a culmination of our work over the last 20 years,” Leid said. “We are going to focus on agriculture, so animal, plant, environmental and food science,” Leid said. “Across those four pathways are upwards of 3,000 different career possibilities, some of them in Ag, some not. Agriculture is the platform to learn and to engage. We’d obviously love to see kids stay in agriculture because we need to eat and drink and hope we can keep the planet healthy. Our kids will learn to do that in real-time.” The goal is less to promote farming as a career but to use agriculture itself as a teaching method, he said. “It’s taking all of the classic focus areas — math, science, literature, social studies, geography — and SEE STEAD, P4
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