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Students throughout Carbon County School District No. 2 competed in the Southwest Regional Science Fair on February 23. The fair was hosted by Western Wyoming Community College. Saratoga Middle/High School students brought home two first-place wins in the Junior Division, along with one second-place and one third-place finish. Two students from Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow Jr./Sr. High School (HEM) won second and third place. One Encampment student won first place. Saratoga winners include: Kaylyn Hunter, 1st place, “The Effect of L...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Trustees agreed to discontinue the district’s golf program at the Feb. 17 meeting. As described by CCSD#2 Superintendent Jim Copeland, Saratoga Resort and Spa was funding the program almost fully, which is the only reason it was adopted in the first place. While the golfers were fairly successful in the fall, only two students have so far expressed interest in returning and the board did not feel that they could justify the cost. In order...
The Saratoga Speech and Debate team's winning streak was interrupted in Rawlins this weekend when they took second place to Greybull. "We had a number of our strongest underclassmen home sick this last weekend, which really drives home to me that our success is not just contingent upon the performance of our upperclassmen," said head coach Jake Mickelsen. Still, the seniors did not let the team down with Jacob Dickinson taking first place in Drama, Mariah Scharosh taking sixth place in Poetry...
In a meeting that lasted a little over 15 minutes, the Town of Riverside took care of the month’s business. In recognition of a local business, the council announced that The BearTrap will be celebrating its eighth anniversary on April 8. The council also signed a letter in support of the Wyoming Association of Municipalities plea to the state legislature to continue current funding of municipalities. WAM notes that the budget proposed by Governor Mead this year would mean a 50.8 percent t...
The Saratoga Speech and Debate team is currently undefeated in the 1A/2A category, according to assistant coach Kate Sherrod. The Panthers had a big meet in Casper last weekend, where they took first place among 1A/2A schools. Jacob Dickinson, Encampment K-12 School senior, took first place in a very large field for his original oratory on the importance of human touch. According to head coach Jacob Mickelsen, the first place win could be attributed to Dickinson, as the Carbon County School...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Trustees congratulated the principals and staff in their district for developing campus improvement plans that were accepted and highly regarded by the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE). Not only were the required plans accepted, but according to superintendent Jim Copeland, Bill Pannell, of WDE, said he would have ranked CCSD#2’s improvement plans as one of the top two in the state. Presentations of the improvement plans, d...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Trustees appointments remain the same for the upcoming terms, as determined at the Dec. 16 meeting. The meeting was the last before the school holiday, and Mike Erickson, Encampment K-12 principal, gave his school improvement report, which is required of all the principals. Encampment had high test scores, with only two students from kindergarten through ninth grade performing at basic or below basic on the spring Measures of Academic Pro...
Following a public hearing on the matter, the town of Encampment is moving forward with Ordinance 17.36.020(h), a zoning change in the business district. Specifically, it will take a conditional use permit for existing trailer homes in the district to be replaced with trailer homes in the future. Public concern voiced at the meeting is that the zoning change may disallow the historical use of a property. Mayor Greg Salisbury stated that the town is trying to reserve space for future business...
With Saratoga Middle-High School (SMHS) in their second year of failing to make adequate yearly progress (AYP), SMHS Principal Linda Butler had to come up with an improvement plan based on the scores students earned. The current seventh, eighth and ninth graders showed significant room for improvement especially in English Language Arts (ELA), and Butler believes that reading and writing is a vital area for improvement. Butler presented the intervention plan at Monday’s Carbon County School D...
Monday night children from the Platte Valley gathered to audition for “The Jungle Book.” Friday and Saturday, they will perform for audiences after only four days of play practice, thanks to the Missoula Children’s Theatre. The first performance is 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC). The second performance is at 2 p.m. Saturday at the PVCC. The Missoula Children’s Theatre staff invites the Platte Valley to join them as they direct a 50 local students as a bunch of Jungle Book characters trying to catch a tiger b...
An audition will be held for the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) production of The Jungle Book Monday at the Platte Valley Community Center Theater from 4 - 6 p.m. Those auditioning should arrive by 4 p.m. and plan to stay for the full two hours. Some of the cast members will be asked to stay for a rehearsal immediately following the audition. Among the roles to be cast are Mowgli (the man-cub), Bagheera (the panther) and Akela (the leader of the pack), the entire wolf pack, Shere Khan (the tiger) with his side-kick Tabaqui (the jackal), N...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) is getting to know their new elementary math curriculum, and according to curriculum director and facilities manager Larry Uhling, the teachers still have some concern. Uhling said that in order to help educators, a trainer from Math In Focus, the curriculum adopted this year, will visit in November. Uhling has put together a committee to work on a new English Language curriculum, looking at the top two scoring districts in Wyoming, Sheridan County...
It will now be easier for the public to access agendas and governing body related information, thanks to the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) transitioning to a paperless public meeting technology called BoardDocs developed by eGovernance Solution. BoardDocs is a web-based service that will allow CCSD#2 to make meeting agendas and supporting documents available on the district website www.crb2.k12.wy.us. The information is available through a link on the district website. “It will save the district time and money that has been requi...
Preschoolers will have the opportunity to attend kindergarten readiness workshops, which began on Sept. 28. These workshops allow Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) to work with early childhood agencies so that preschoolers may be on track for kindergarten in three areas of learning: social and emotional, cognitive and physical. According to Melissa Donough, Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) coordinator, some of the kindergarteners were not doing as well as they might...
By Madeline Weiss According to a fact sheet from the 2014 Prevention Needs Assessment, sophomores in Carbon County are exceeding state averages in substance abuse. Talking early and talking often is of the utmost importance in preventing drug, alcohol and tobacco use in teens, according to Sally Patton, Community Prevention Professional with Prevention Management Organization. Carol Mead, wife of Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, has made the "Talk Early and Often" campaign part of her first ladyship....
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) is overall average with regards to Wyoming’s state accountability system. According to superintendent Jim Copeland, this means the schools are performing at above or at expectations in about half the cases, which is approximately the state average. Encampment School met or exceeded expectations in all areas including grades, subjects and divisions. The cases of performing below expectations, Copeland said, will be mediated by looking at the s...
The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon the following Platte Valley area students, or graduates of Carbon County School District No. 2, at the completion of the 2015 spring semester. Abbey Davidson, BS; Sara A. Rangitsch, BA; Kyle Warren, BA; Joshua Simmons, BS; Steven Priest, CERT; David Capozzoli, BS; Lindsay Wessel, BSAR; Kenzie Besso, BA; Ben Collamer, BSCE; Linda Smith, BSN; Paul Young, BSME....
“I’m pretty sure we’re not going to make AYP (adequate yearly progress),” Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Jim Copeland said of the district’s general failure to make AYP. This is less of a problem with the actual schools, according to test scores that are mostly above the state averages, but rather with inconsistencies between the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) and the U.S.Department of Education. Dicky Shanor, WDE Chief of Staff, explained that the waivers that free most...
It is possible that schools in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) will not achieve Safe Harbor status. Superintendent Jim Copeland warned the CCSD#2 Board of Trustees that letters may need to be sent out regarding CCSD#2’s federal status. In this case, schools will not be considered as making adequate yearly progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind regulations. Copeland explained that Wyoming did not get the waiver that other states received from the government, resulting in most W...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) has a series of new initiatives including a learning management system, curriculum changes, a re-adoption of financial assistance for students competing in national competitions and several new technological advances. Schoology Schoology, the learning management system, will be used district-wide once implemented fully. According to former Saratoga Middle/High School Principal Larry Uhling, now District Curriculum Director and Facility Manager, when...
On page 9 of the Aug. 5 edition of the Saratoga Sun, the Carbon County School District No. 2 calendar had some errors in it. You can find the corrected calendar on page 15. The staff at the Saratoga Sun apologizes for the error....
Linda Butler, new principal at Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS) says of her teaching philosophy, "I believe absolutely in high expectations for children, but you can't have high expectations and not support them to get there. And so, I feel that we always provide high expectations for our students, but as teachers it's our job-and administrators-to provide the support that they need ... Technology, academics, we're there together as a team to support students." Butler, originally from Rawlins...
“I’ve never woke up any day and not wanted to go to work. This just provides me with another arena and it was open and available,” Larry Uhling said of his new position as District Curriculum Director and Facility Manager for Carbon County School District #2 (CCSD#2). He began the position on July 1. “I was the principal for 14 years at Saratoga High School and I loved, loved being the principal,” Uhling said. “It was an opportunity for me to kind of be in a position that interested me. Facilit...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Trustees is financially in a place that they can consider re-adopting the Policy KAB-Special Recognition and Financial Assistance. This policy provides financial awards to high performing students that place first at a state competition qualify for this financial assistance and may fill out the KAB application. The most financial assistance delivered in one year by this policy is $34,000 due to a large number of teams that qualified. The...