Pagosa Peak Open School has a new focus this year. Along with their place-based, project-based model, they have taken on food security as a priority. This lens has given staff a chance to look at our programs at school, our resources in the county, and the needs of...

He leaned his face down toward a corn plant standing before him, gently holding the leaves with both hands. "You are so beautiful, you know that?" he said. "You keep growing and growing, you beautiful thing." Other children gathered around him, some of them singing...

Gardens, spiralizers, hikes, bugs, games, art and music filled our summer afternoons this June. Our typically mixed-age groups became even more mixed-age as children abandoned their homerooms and sorted themselves into four groups: Columbine, Pagosa Skyrocket,...

During the past two weeks, students have worked with Mrs. Bruno on building garden boxes, shoveling dirt and planting…

After noticing the disappearance of the kindergarten Roxaboxen area, Ms. Polly made a plan. "How do you feel about my group working to fix this space up?" she suggested. She had a group of first and second-graders looking for a project. The kindergarten space had been...