During my time in Eagle County Schools, I have experienced the incredible commitment of the faculty, staff, Board of Education, administration, and community to the success of our students. I continue to be impressed by the support and involvement of so many local non-profit and service organizations that supplement and complement our work by providing extremely high quality experiences for our students in leadership, service, athletics, science, dance and many other areas.
As we continue to move forward, we are developing our curriculum and our learning environments to provide world class experiences for our students. We are committed to refining our instruction to more effectively close the achievement gap between our students. At the same time, we will not close that gap by allowing our highest achieving students’ needs to be unmet. Our instructional improvement plans are designed to create an individual student focus that will push every child to higher achievement.
While we work on the basics of reading, writing, and math, we also recognize that other skills are required to be a successful global citizen. We take seriously the call from our local, state, national, and world communities to prepare students to be creative thinkers, problem solvers, collaborators, and managers of unlimited quantities of information. We are working to develop methods of ensuring that every student graduates from our schools prepared to compete in and contribute to a continually changing work environment.
We should be extremely proud of our schools here in Eagle County. At the same time, our work is not done. We will push forward to propel each individual student to higher levels of achievement. We are each personally committed to preparing every student to become a successful global citizen.
Sandra B. Smyser, Ph.D.,
Superintendent of Eagle County Schools