RE-1 VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT

Attention: Alumni, Community Members, Staff and Students

 Seeking Nominations for

THE ANNUAL FRANCES GILLESPIE EXCELLENCE AWARD

The Frances Gillespie Excellence Award recognizes outstanding service of RE-1 Valley employees to the District, students, co-workers and the community.  If you feel an employee who has worked in the District for a minimum of five consecutive years, is currently employed in the District, and has not previously received the award deserves to be a recipient, please consider completing a nomination form.

The District annually recognizes up to four employees.  The recipients are announced at the annual retirement event in April and a presentation to recipients is made at the general staff meeting at the beginning of the next school year. 

A staff member is formally nominated by two District employees.  The nominated licensed or classified staff member may be initially recommended for nomination by any person within the school or community, including parents, students, patrons, colleagues or administrators to a District employee to start the process. 

Nomination forms may be obtained at the Hagen Administration Center, 301 Hagen Street, Sterling, and should be returned with any supporting materials to the Superintendent’s office no later than 4:00 p.m., on Wednesday, April 10, 2019.

*You may request the nomination form via email from harlowk@re1valleyschools.org but only original documents will be considered for selection.

 About the Award 

 Caliche win's the seatbelt war!

Caliche and Merino Schools were challenged by the Colorado State Patrol to raise awareness for seat belt safety. Caliche, the school with the most shares, will receive a school pizza party and a $500 donation to the program that made the video.

Special thanks to the Colorado State Patrol. 

Watch the video

During the 2017-2018 school year RE-1 Valley School District participated in the Data Burden Survey from the Education Data Advisory Committee (EDAC). Within the data burden survey report, EDAC made suggestions for a collaborative path forward to address the reporting burden to local education agencies. 

Recommendations were made to:

• eliminate or adjust  four low-benefit/duplicative collections and the associated legislation or rule
• conduct regular reviews of reporting requirements
• continue only with thoughtful deliberation on any new data requirement and
• consider ways to ease data burden, including a voluntary statewide student information system. 

Two major findings were made:

• A larger proportion of rural districts’ overall budgets are utilized for reporting than nonrural districts. For every $1,000 in earned revenue, rural districts devote $5.67 towards data submissions where non-rural districts spend $2.85.
• Costs to submit the major collections has increase 53% in the 20-year period from 1998 to 2018  (The number of major collections has increased from five to 15 (200%) in that time frame).

Read the Report