School News
Simmons Family Charitable Foundation Generously Donates to PPOS
Pagosa Peak Open School (PPOS) is happy to announce that the school has received a generous and unrestricted donation from the Simmons Family Charitable Foundation. The funds from this grant will be used towards the principal of the school’s capital campaign to...
Food Matters
Spring at PPOS is an exciting time. Snowy banks melt into muddy puddles, indoor planting turns to plans for outdoor planting, and memories of ski days become anticipation for farm days. Last Monday Mrs. Bruno's first and second-graders headed to the downtown grow dome...
PPOS Announces New School Director
Pagosa Peak Open School is proud to announce that Angela Reali Crossland has been offered and accepted our new School Director Position. Angela comes to PPOS from Durango, and education reform and charter schools of choice have been at the heart of her educational...
Pagosa Peak Open School Announces Finalists for School Director Position
Pagosa Peak Open School, the community’s only district-authorized charter school, has announced three finalists for its School Director position. The finalists are Angela Reali Crossland, Emily Murphy and Sarah Luna. The candidates are anticipated to be attending the...
Snow Science: Connecting Students to Their Environment and Community
At the beginning of February, Pagosa Peak Open School ventured to Sonlight Camp for an educational exploration of snow science hosted by Audubon Rockies to learn how snow affects our mountain community. In addition to snowshoeing and animal tracking, our students used...
A Home and School Connection
Our food theme continues at PPOS, as students in the second/third-grade class bring this theme beyond their classroom walls and into their homes. Reviews of recipes, extensive draft writing of such recipes, collaborative cooking projects, and food documentaries have...
Feeding our Families and Community
Thirty pounds of carrots and forty pounds of potatoes sat in our fridge. Baskets of onions lined the shelves. These were the rewards of hard planting and harvesting work. And now what? Discussions about our intentions began. This is a school that shares nutritious...
Food Security in Pagosa: A Call to Action
They were excited to be chosen to participate in a new Project, despite not knowing what their role would be, or what the project entailed. This was not how the process typically began. We prefer a more organic and emergent way of starting Projects and involving...
‘Blues Box’ Dance Raises $20K for Pagosa Peak Open School
Music producers Blue Haas and DC Duncan, in cooperation with Pagosa Peak Open School, rolled out a fabulous community event last weekend…