Education Briefs

Update Earth! at CRES

Students at Crystal River Elementary School invite you to attend a performance of “Update Earth!” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24.

The third grade has been learning different ways to sustain the earth such as recycling, reducing and reusing. Students will take the audience through a musical journey, learning about vehicles that run on french fry oil, going green, and how to “funkify not junkify” the earth.

For more information, contact Amber Henke at 384-5637.

Bullying expert to speak

The Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers will host Ron Glodoski, author, speaker and entrepreneur from 6:30-8 p.m. April 24 at Roaring Fork High School. Glodoski is a national expert on bullying, resiliency and drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse.
Glodoski challenges students to believe in the value of their own lives, and the importance of respect. He gives new hope and direction to those who are on the brink of making life-altering decisions, and shows them how to take back their personal power and choose a better life.

This free event requires no reservation.

Child care will be offered by donation.

The RFFRC will host a teacher training led by Ron Glodoski that will be open to the education community. This free training will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. April 24 at Roaring Fork High School. Please RSVP to Betsy McMichael at 384-5694 or bmcm@rfsd.k12.co.us.

Seventh-, eighth-, ninth- and tenth-graders in the Roaring Fork School District will also hear Ron Glodoski speak during student assemblies in each community.

CRMS concert

Colorado Rocky Mountain School will host a free Spring Band Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, at the CRMS Barn.

The concert features ensembles drawn from the college-preparatory school’s music classes, and represents the cumulative efforts of CRMS music students throughout the school year. They will perform in myriad genres including rock, jazz, blues and bluegrass. The school’s bands, under the guidance of CRMS music program head George Weber, are perennial honorees at the annual youth Battle of the Bands competition, to take place next month.

CRMS is located at 1493 County Road 106 in Carbondale, one mile west of the Highway 133 traffic light.

For more information, contact CRMS Director of Communications Jeremy Simon at 963-2562.

GSMS parent orientation night

Glenwood Springs Middle School will host a parent orientation night for students entering the sixth grade for the 2008-09 school year at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in the Glenwood Springs Middle School cafetorium.

Student performances at Sopris Elementary

Fifth-graders will present “Tall Tales and Heroes,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1.

Third-graders will present “Bones,” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15.

School performances will be held at 1:30 p.m. the same Thursday afternoons.

CMC graduation to be held May 3

Colorado Mountain College’s Roaring Fork Campus will hold graduation at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Spring Valley Center gymnasium. A reception in the campus café will follow.

John Adams will provide music — a fresh fusion of folk, rock and country. In an honored campus tradition, each graduate is invited to say a few words as diplomas are received, and outstanding graduates will be recognized.

Parents, friends and community members are invited to attend. For further information, please contact Lisa Doak at 947-8212.

New ‘green’ class schedule

Colorado Mountain College is making a move toward sustainability by introducing a newly formatted “green” class schedule for the summer semester.

In the past, CMC has distributed a 60- to 70-page course schedule to the 11 locations the college serves. The new class schedule is a simple, small tabloid of all the comprehensive community college’s classes offered at any particular campus. One thing the new schedule won’t include is class descriptions. A full listing of class descriptions and information is available online at www.coloradomtn.edu/classes.

Summer classes start the week of May 12, and registration begins April 14. To pick up a copy of the new schedule for CMC’s summer semester, check your mail.