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Wednesday, June 15 • 12:00pm - 3:00pm
How can stories from the grave bring life to the classroom? ARRIVE EARLY

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Bone up on the exciting lives of those who lay at rest in Red Butte Cemetery, the century-old graveyard in Aspen, Colorado, that is home to many former pillars of the community whose influence helped create this mountain town. See first-hand how the Aspen Historical Society preserves and presents Aspen's local history in inspiring and provocative ways. Collaborate with other educators to unearth innovative ways to use these stories as well as stories from your own community to bring local history to life in your classroom.
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Sarah Forbes

Manager, Research & Impact, The Colorado Education Initiative
Sarah joined CEI in 2014 as a manager on the Research and Impact team. She is currently helping to lead a small non-academic metrics pilot with 9 schools and two districts in Colorado through CEI's Next Generation Learning work. At CEI she also helps schools and districts use the Student Perception Survey and Teacher Perception Survey, manages data reporting for the Colorado MLI, and has led the analysis efforts for the Accelerator Project... Read More →
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Greg Hessee

Director, The Colorado Education Initiative
Rigor and Equity, Equity and Rigor. I run a program that dramatically increases the number and diversity of students graduating college-ready in the state of Colorado by increasing access to and success in Advanced Placement (AP) coursework. These students succeed NOT because AP is some magical curriculum, but because their teachers use AP as a vehicle to transform students' beliefs about who they are and can be.


Wednesday June 15, 2016 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Cathedral Peak
  Pre-Registration Required, All Audiences, K-12 |   SpaceLab: Seeing is Believing Expedition, All Audiences, K-12

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