Lutomski is really enjoying her "Weaving on the Web" workshop with notable Native teachers, Lorraine and Peggy Black from Crow Canyon. These instructors respectfully harvested and prepared the traditional sumac for the class. Lutomski says "I have a greater respect for the history, culture and art of the Dinè people! Each class is filled with guest speakers, virtual visits to museum collections, as well as conversations with scholars and researchers to enlighten us!" Thank you Mrs. Lutomski for following up on your National Endowment for Humanities study grant and diving into this summer professional development to enrich your classes for our PFS students.
Lutomski is learning this valuable craft during her summer professional development in order to bring this skill back to our Pagosa Family School students--PFS students are going to love doing this project!!

Mrs. Rose's class was given the opportunity to submit their work to two different art shows. One was hosted through MSU (Metropolitan State University) that wanted to give youth the opportunity to let students express themselves through art. Students were encouraged to submit artwork that answered the prompt about growth or overcoming challenges in the past year. Keep your eyes out for a link in which students can see their work displayed and recognized in a virtual gallery. The students' work was also showcased at the Open School art show and some even won prizes! Congratulations, Addie Hittle, for winning first place for 6th-12 grade! Mrs. Rose hopes that all students will feel encouraged to participate in next year's MSU art invitational coming in the fall. Whether you participated or not, please know that your teacher is so proud of all your hard work and creativity.

District bus drivers train on software and devices that will help the school district enable student safety and will improve changing transportation needs. Thank you Transportation Department for your hard work to improve parent communication, and student safety and security in our community. We appreciate all you do for our students and our schools.

If you would like to join our Bus Driving Team, please click on the link below.

Join Archuleta School District in our exciting JumpStart to School Year in August.

The Jumpstart to School Year Program will be a dynamic, hands-on, relevant learning experience for all students. Students will build on collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking skills through real world learning. This 2-week Jumpstart to the School Year will also allow students to build meaningful relationships with each other and with staff.
JumpStart to the School Year will run August 16th - August 27th., is open for all Archuleta students grades K-12, and will be taught by ASD's phenomenal teachers.
Transportation and meals will be provided-no cost to families.
For more information on this exciting JumpStart program or to reserve your child's space today--call the schools-numbers listed below.
We are excited to have your child(ren) JumpStart to School with us TOGETHER!

United States Senator John Hickenlooper visited SW Colorado yesterday to meet with area leaders. ASD superintendent, Dr. Kym LeBlanc-Esparza was invited to represent education leaders. We are thankful for the invite and the opportunity to advocate for our district and to share our successes through this pandemic. Thank you Senator Hickenlooper for taking the time to invest in our SW corner of Colorado.

Please join Archuleta School District superintendent, Dr. Kym LeBlanc-Esparza, for one of ASD's upcoming community-wide listening tours, and share your vision around what a successful education looks like for students in Archuleta School District. The Listening Tour is open to the public - but with our limited spacing - please RSVP to Jane Parker jparker@pagosa.k12.co.us to reserve your space.

Thank you FACE for the grant. Mrs. Rose's Pagosa Family School art class had fun with their grant-funded 'STEAM' project

These boom whackers have brought the joy of music to our Family School Students this year and its a joy to hear them play.

Pagosa Family School P.E. classes are loving these sunny and warm spring days to get outside and have fun in the sun during P.E.

The clay dinosaurs were made after the class used their imaginations to pretend dinos came to live with them. Real dinosaur studies and drawings from models helped the students with their 3D project. The students had fun reenacting cave drawings as they used color pastels and crawled under the table "caves" to draw a story to share with the class.