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August 13
Estes Park Trail Gazette - In the Park: Eagle Rock students complete RMNP internships
Three students had an exciting opportunity to internship with Rocky Mountain National Park this past trimester as part of their course work. Saul Flores, Ana (Gigi) Rivera and Katie Wiseman proved to be motivated, independent, responsible, and hard working students who worked in the Park for several days a week...
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August 13
Marin Independent Journal - New Algegra Policy A Mistake
Mark Phillips
".... I saw it again at Eagle Rock School in Colorado, an educational oasis I visit regularly to be reminded of how things can be..."
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August 6
The Daily Observer - FCS makes new plans to improve foster care services
Tina Peplinskie
Family and Children's Services has taken the initial step towards improving services for youth in foster care. If enthusiasm translated into a building, an education centre for foster children facing challenges learning in traditional settings would already be a reality if the first sessions of a two-day retreat are any indication...
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July 30
The Daily Observer - Innovation in education
Tina Peplinskie
...to a two-day strategic planning session to learn about the Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Centre in Colorado. Two teachers from the school are in Pembroke today and tomorrow to help the agency lay the ground work...
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July 29
The Aspen Times - Basalt Middle School to try out school within a school
Katie Redding
...Carruth and Douglass have created the curriculum themselves, using some of the best practices from other school models, they say. They recently visited Skyland Community High School in Denver, which focuses on learning with real-world applications, and the Eagle Rock School in Estes Park, which graduates students based on demonstrated competency rather than “seat time.”...
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July 1
National Youth Leadership Council's 'The Generator' - Colorado Students Serve as Ethnographers in National Evaluation Project
Maddy Wegner
What assets do out-of-school youths offer the workplace? Students at Eagle Rock School, a residential school in Estes Park, Colo., for those who haven’t thrived in mainstream settings, figured that was a question worth asking their peers....
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June 12
Horace (the journal of the Coalition of Essential Schools) - Infusing Curriculum And School Structure with Mind-Body Wellness
Jennifer Morine
Eagle Rock School’s fundamental philosophy is “eight plus five equals 10,” our school value system that we use to inform all community and school decisions. The equation represents our eight themes, five expectations, and 10 commitments.....
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April 15
Estes Park Trail Gazette & Estes Park News - Three More Eagle Rock Gradutes Take Flight
Katie Miller
On April 11, 2008, three students received their diplomas and achieved their goal of graduating from Eagle Rock School. Delicia Jones, Amanda Hansen and Asha Thompson are ready to put what they’ve learned on campus into practice out on their own...
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April 9
Estes Park Trail Gazette - Eagle Rock Makes Service Trip to New Orleans
Hannah Richardson
It was 6:30 AM on a Tuesday morning and eleven Eagle Rock students groggily rolled out of their sleeping bags, rubbed their stiff shoulder, and slipped into the same dirty clothes that they’d been wearing for the last four days before heading off to breakfast...
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February 26
Horace (the journal of the Coalition of Essential Schools) - From The Inside Out: Eagle Rock School Producing a New Generation of CES Teachers
Dan Condon
Six years ago, I founded Eagle Rock's Teaching Fellowship Program in collaboration with Public Allies, Inc. and under the auspices of Eagle Rock's Professional Development Center. I knew the power of teacher education that Eagle Rock provided, as I had participated in an internship at the school in 1994...
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February 19
Marin Independent Journal - Public and private high schools
Mark Phillips
Eagle Rock School in Colorado is a private school for so-called "at-risk" kids that is a shining example of a private school with a public purpose. There are few public schools that are more racially or culturally diverse or that have a public service and citizenship development program that comes close to Eagle Rock's. If the school existed when my children were adolescents, I probably would have wished they were "at risk" so they could have gone there.
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February 3
Philadelphia Inquirer - School Notes
Lea Sitton Stanley
Inez Korff, a Spanish teacher at Horace Mann and Johnson Elementary Schools in Cherry Hill, has received a Dodge Foundation fellowship to the Dodge Teacher Summer Institute at the Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center in Estes Park...
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February 1
Estes Park Trail Gazette - Eagle Rock Playing Role in National Service
Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center recently joined the team of Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Program Advisors as Tribes/US Territories Advisor....
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January 16
Princeton Summer Internship Profile
Caitlin E. McTague ’08, the Arthur Wellman Butler Jr. Memorial Scholar, came to Princeton with plans to continue on to law school. However, her summer internship at Eagle Rock School in Estes Park, Colorado, may have changed her mind....
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December 1
Fast Company - 2008 Social Capitalist Awards: Top-Performing Nonprofits
Fast Company Magazine and Monitor Group announced winners of their 2008 Social Capitalist Awards, naming Public Allies as one of the top nonprofits who use business tools to solve the world's most pressing social problems, and who have demonstrated a consistent and unusually large impact on society....
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November 15
KGNU November 15 Radio Call In Show
Listen to this November 15, 2007 KGNU radio program. Jeff Liddle, Director of Curriculum along with student Sarah Katz and her parents speak about Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center....
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October 31
Horace (the journal of the Coalition of Essential Schools) - Engaging the Disengaged
Far too many young people sit in classes disengaged; far too many drop out of school
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altogether. The drop-out statistics are frightening enough, but no one really knows how many more students merely endure school, sitting in the back of the room, tuned out. Engaging the Disengaged is addressed to those of... -
October 19
Estes Park Trail Gazette - Director of AmeriCorps Visits Eagle Rock School
On Monday, October 15, Kristin McSwain, director of AmeriCorps, visited with staff and students at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center. McSwain was in Estes Park for the 2007 Governor’s Commission on Community Service Conference held at the YMCA of the Rockies....
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September 21
Eagle Rock featured in EssentialVisions DVD
Dan Condon
The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) EssentialVisions will release the third and final DVD in the series this November at the CES Fall Forum being held in Denver, Colorado. Eagle Rock will be featured in this final edition of the project....
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September 21
Join Eagle Rock's "Ask A Mentor" Panel
Join Eagle Rock School Head Robert Burkhardt, Director of Students Philbert Smith, Director of Professional Development Michael Soguero, Associate Director of the Professional Development Center Dan Condon and two current students of Eagle Rock School to discuss "School Culture," in a "Ask a Mentor" panel.
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