Platform Summary

The concepts and policies outlined in my platform comes both from my experience teaching in the classroom and desires expressed by the students themselves from Englewood.

A poll was given to the students at the Englewood Dwight Morrow High School and the results were presented to the Board of Education at the March meeting (3/28/2025).

I have developed my platform by attempting to merge my own personal views and goals as a teacher with the expressed concerns of the students outlined in the study. Some ways in which student input was used.

  • Students directly cited the need for improved Wifi.

  • Students directly stated a desire for improved mental health services and a need to improve safety and security. Improvements in Social Emotional Learning address student mental health and can also help with issues of school safety and security by preventing student behavioral issues before they become larger behavioral issues.

  • Student cited a desire for more engaging learning. Project based instruction seeks to create more interactive means of learning to improve classroom teaching and instruction.

Job Training/Preparation

I would like to help foster connections between students and local Englewood companies to promote job training opportunities for students. I also think that Englewood should emphasize vocational job training for their students along with promote collage preparation.

Project Based Learning

Project-based learning (PBL) or project-based instruction is an instructional approach designed to give students the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills through engaging projects set around challenges and problems they may face in the real world. In my teaching I have found this style of instruction to both engage my students and foster creative thinking. While on the Board, I would like to find ways to incorporate this style of teaching in Englewood curriculum.

Wifi

In the technology-driven age internet access is a requirement for student success. Englewood schools internet is good, but recent students polling suggests it could be better. Providing high speed Wifi for a students, teachers, and administration is key to high quality education.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

With the increased use of phones and the negative social impacts on our students of the COVID crisis it is critical that we work on helping students improve their social and emotional health. As a board member I will make sure that SEL programs are held as a major priority for the district.

Improving Special Education

As a special education teacher I will make sure that Englewood provides high quality special education to all its IEP students.

5 Core Goals

Students First

A poll was recently given to the students at the Englewood Dwight Morrow High School. The results were presented to the Board of Education at the March meeting (3/28/2025)*. As a candidate, I believe that feedback from our students is vital to making sure we make informed and appropriate decisions. Therefore I have compiled images of the survey and posted it below.

*03/28/2025 - Part 1 - https://www.epsd.org/page/boe-public-meeting-videos-copy