LAPS News:
Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) will be on a 2-hour delay on Friday, Dec. 1.
Ice formed from freezing temperatures overnight will need to be cleared from campus grounds. Read More
Education
De-stress December Programs At County Libraries
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos Public Library System will be hosting two workshops in December to help the community face the busy season and year-end festivities with calm and focus.
Gwen Kalavaza will lead a workshop on “Being Present” 6:30-7:30 p.m., Dec. 7 at the White Rock Branch Library. Kristine Coblentz will host an evening of “Less Stress, More Ease” ” 6:30-7:30 p.m., Dec. 14 at Mesa Public Library.
Kalavaza’s workshop, “Being Present”, will explore ways to find peace amongst the chaos and to appreciate the season. Through visualization and energy awareness, participants will become Read More
Teach Plus New Mexico: Data is Key to Student Growth
By DAWN BILBREY
Teach Plus New Mexico
One of the best administrators I have ever worked with grounded every decision in the essential question: “Is this what’s best for kids?” To get to the answers, she skillfully used data as a tool for school, teacher, and student growth.
Whether it was tracking student behaviors, attendance rates, or having teachers track classroom growth and proficiency on short cycle assessments and classroom assignments, she helped me to understand that the answers to almost any question or assumption I might make about a student could be discerned by analyzing the data Read More
Los Alamos Public Schools Is 2023 AP® District Of The Year!
LAPS has been named 2023 AP® District of the Year and students, teachers, district and school administrators, state officials and College Board leadership gathered Wednesday morning in Griffith Gymnasium for a special award presentation ceremony. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
State Sen. Leo Jaramillo celebrates LAPS being named 2023 AP® District of the Year during a special award presentation ceremony Wednesday morning in Griffith Gymnasium. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com
“This is a bright spot not only Read More
Los Alamos Public Schools On Regular Start Time Today
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) has announced that classes are starting on regular time today.
Buses will be on time.
Any weather related absences will be excused. Read More
LAPS: Ride The Bus On Friday!
Los Alamos Public Schools bus fleet. Courtesy photo
LAPS News:
Friday, Dec. 1 is the 80th day of school and Ride the Bus Day!
Los Alamos Public Schools is encouraging all eligible students to ride the school bus to or from school on Friday. This initiative not only helps the environment, but also funds the LAPS Transportation Department.
Two days a year, the New Mexico Public Education
Department has each school district tally student ridership for transportation funding: once in December and again in February. The second Ride the Bus day during the 2023-2024 school year will be Wednesday, Feb. Read More
ECECD Hires Lela Wendell As New Director Of Policy, Research, And Quality Initiatives Division
Lela Wendell
ECECD News:
SANTA FE — Wednesday, the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) announced that it has hired Lela Wendell to serve as Director of the Policy, Research, and Quality Initiatives Division.
In this role, Wendell will lead the department’s policy and research efforts, continue to improve the collection and analysis of early childhood data in New Mexico, administer the quality improvement and rating system for child care providers, and continue to expand degree, credential, and professional development supports for early childhood professionals. Read More
The Santa Fe Opera Energizes Education In New Mexico With Its Active Learning Through Opera (ALTO) Program
Students with art educator and workshop presenter Roni Rohr during the ‘Win-Win Workshop: The Intersection of Contemplative Practice and Visual Art’ in September 2023. Courtesy/Charles Gamble for the Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe Opera News:
SANTA FE — Over the last 13 years, the Santa Fe Opera’s Active Learning Through Opera (ALTO) program – which supports elementary and middle-school students in making meaningful connections between an academic topic and an element of opera, and demonstrating that understanding through original performances – has expanded from its initial partnership Read More
LAPS: Planned Oversized Load Transport Wednesday Evening From Chamisa Elementary School
This oversized portable classroom will be transported at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, from Chamisa Elementary School in White Rock to Albuquerque. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Desert Wind Transport is working with Los Alamos Public Schools to transport an oversized portable classroom at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, from Chamisa Elementary School in White Rock to Albuquerque.
The planned route is from Chamisa Elementary School on Meadow Lane to Rover Boulevard to N.M. 4 and continuing to Albuquerque.
Commuters are asked to avoid this route during this time.
The Los Alamos Police Department Read More
Family YMCA To Host Postpartum Recovery Workshop
YMCA News:
The postpartum period, or fourth trimester, is such a whirlwind of excitement, overwhelm, hormones, fatigue and getting to know your new little bundle of joy.
However, too often in our culture the mother is written off and expected to just “bounce back” after just having grown a human inside her body and then birthed that human, only to be told “take it easy for six weeks”. Then to come to the six week postpartum “clearance” to be told “return to activity as usual” many times without even a pelvic exam.
The Postpartum Recovery workshop is an in depth masterclass of all the things Dr. Read More