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Charter school proposal outlined TriCity Academy applicants explain details in meeting By Tom Munds
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Frenecy Rogers, Clayton Elementary School fifth-grader, reads what she wrote about her feelings to Englewood High school soccer player John Gutierrez. Gutierrez was among 104 EHS athletes who visited with students at Englewood’s four elementary schools. Photos by Tom Munds
Pirates players visit grade schools About 100 athletes take part in helping younger kids By Tom Munds
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Elementary school classrooms received visitors Sept. 17 when 104 Englewood High School athletes split into groups to visit the four district elementary schools. “This is the first year for this program that we put together to work to have more student connections among all of our district schools by having the high school athletes visit, talk with and work with the elementary school students,” said Paul Evans, Englewood High School athletic director. “We also wanted to provide our student athletes with leadership opportunities. We work to try to teach them how to be leaders, and this program provides the chance for these young men and women to
put what they learned into practice.” The student athletes were divided into four groups, with each bus going to a different elementary school. John Gutierrez, Pirates soccer player, was among the athletes who visited Clayton Elementary School. He fielded questions from fifth-graders that included how much homework he got each night and what lunches were like at the high school. In another classroom, Chad Glover was working with the sixth-graders in Cynthye Woody’s class. “This is a great opportunity for us to talk to kids about academics and athletics and hopefully inspire these boys and girls to work harder in class and to get involved in athletics while they are still in elementary school,” the cross country runner said. “These sixth-graders are eager to learn and I have had fun working with them.” Mentors continues on Page 10
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Pirates cross country runner Chad Glover, left, looks on as Mosiah Cisneros-Walters takes a picture with his iPad. The Pirate athlete said he learned about using the iPad from the Clayton Elementary School sixth-grader. Glover was among the Englewood High School athletes who spent the morning visiting district elementary schools.
TriCity Academy representatives explained details of their plans for a charter school that they want to establish for Englewood students at a Sept. 16 informational meeting. Patty Hanarahan, assistant superintendent of Englewood Public Schools, moderated the meeting. Eight academy representatives attended, and the presentation was done by Denise and Luke Mund Denise Mund, a member of the charter school board, also is president of Delta Schools, a newly formed nonprofit “incubation” organization that helps charter school get established. She gave a brief introduction and turned the presentation over to fellow board member Luke Mund. He said the desire to establish a charter school to offer area students a school of choice. He also said the goal is to serve the area so Englewood students stay in the community and go to school in Englewood. He cited census data showing there were 3,750 school-age children in Englewood but Englewood school enrollment was only 2,835 which meant 915 Englewood children are going to school in other districts or they are being home-schooled. “We proposed to open our school with 405 students, but we don’t want to take students out of Englewood classrooms,” he said. “We want to attract students who are now going to school in other districts and we want to provide a charter school where students on charter school waiting lists can go.” Denise Mund said the school will use a core knowledge curriculum and plans to use technology to address a wide variety of learning styles. “We will expect high achievements from our students and from our staff,” she said. “We also will encourage voluntary parent involvement in our school and its programs.” She said literacy and math will be the focus, with students spending 100 minutes a day on literacy and 100 minutes a day on math. She added that the program will be blended learning, which will teach literacy and math as elements of other subjects such as social studies, art and music. “We have been talking to a lot of families in northeast Englewood, the area called the hill,” she said. “We also have been looking at a building in that area we feel would provide the space our school will need.” Later in the presentation, in answering frequently asked questions, she said that students would have to wear uniforms and the school would not be able to provide bus service. The meeting included time for questions and comments from the audience, but no one presented a question or made a comment about the presentation. The Sept. 16 meeting was held prior Charter continues on Page 10