Sweetwater County School District Number One is in it’s second year of securing over a half million dollars from the Wyoming Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant for afterschool and summer programs.
Lisa Plant, Program Director, was awarded $135,088 for afterschool and summer programs per year for five years. The highly competitive grant award was secured to expand afterschool and summer projects at the Rock Springs Junior High, the Rock Springs High School, Farson/Eden, and Wamsutter schools. The grant was written to include all home school and private school students who fall into the age group of 12 to 18.
“We develop resiliency through positive relationships by brainstorming and troubleshooting ideas with mental health, probation, and other community members. We include the business community, the Department of Family Services, the County Attorney’s Office, the Rock Springs Police Department, the Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Education, and other mentors involved in the physical, mental, and emotional support of youth and families.” Lisa Plant
“We provide career exploration and college planning. We help students meet community service hours and academic scores for scholarships. We teach the students to be successful in our community and to develop and maintain healthy lifestyles.” Lisa Plant.
Programs include LEGO Robotics, a traveling reading program, school newspaper, and a volunteer service-learning afterschool and summer program.
“We offer students and families a broad variety of additional services and activities such as citizenship, responsibility, self-esteem, higher school attendance, drug and violence prevention, and counseling referrals designed to reinforce and compliment strategies for achieving the 21st Century Community Learning Center goals. Our expected program outcomes include scientific knowledge and skills to understand the natural world and make logical decisions, use of technology to research, evaluate, and present findings. Students will use real world data with mathematical skills to reason and solve challenges in our community, state, nation, and world. Indicators of our program’s success are assessment data and attendance data that provide evidence that our enrolled students meet state and local academic achievement standards. Through goal setting, safety, health and nutrition, effective partnerships, strong family involvement, enriched learning opportunities, linkage between school day and afterschool, and regular evaluations, we will prove our program’s effectiveness.” Lisa Plant
For more information on these exciting afterschool and summer activities please contact:
Lisa Plant
Rock Springs Junior High School
307-352-3474
Teachers:
Andrea Carroll – Newsletter
Jere Bottgenbach – Robotics
Lori Moses – Community Connections
Alyssa Senstock – Community Connections
Thomas McMakin – Farson/Eden
Shelley Bailey – Desert School Wamsutter
