Kindergartners visit new radar system, study weather
This group of five- and six-year-olds are wrapping up their most recent project: a study of weather.
History comes alive for PPOS students through ‘Hamilton”
“Does a person’s perspective influence their opinion?” Fifth- and sixth-graders at Pagosa Peak Open School grapple with this question during their current American Revolution project. How do perspectives on history shape a story? Why is it important to view history through multiple lenses?
PPOS students take learning into the community
Seven weeks. 13 trips. 110 students. 3 community service projects. Not even two months into the school year, every Pagosa Peak Open School student has climbed aboard their bus and left campus in search of answers to questions like “How does my school compare to...
Multi-age collaborations build culture, add depth to projects
Heads hang over hands, voices mingle and cookies break. A fifth-grade boy giggles while listening to Piper, a first-grader instructing him on how to build moon phases out of cookies. Jonah smiles and follows her directions. His class and hers are both covering outer...
PPOS middle-schoolers join community conversations, study Native American boarding houses
Pagosa Peak Open School middle-schoolers joined approximately 70 community members at the Durango Library on April 18, to hear Fabian Martinez with the Southern Ute Cultural Center present the “Unveiling Histories: Boarding Schools and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.”