1999 Report to the Community
After School
Report Card
San Juan School District
Vision
The after school program revolves around a 4-H framework for
hands-on, active learning opportunities in small, supervised, club-like
settings. Students participate in a wide variety of club activities ranging from
livestock enterprise clubs, to applied literacy and theater clubs, to multimedia
developers’ clubs. Each club stress activities that transcend and unite these
individual fields, teach leadership, character and cultural values. This after
school program additionally involves extended hours for our libraries and
computer labs, focusing on distance learning opportunities, family literacy
classes, adult education courses, and advanced multimedia programming and
computer graphics.
| Monument Valley High School students working in the new library as a part of the after school program. Libraries are open in each 21st Century Community Learning Center every evening 3:30-6:00 p.m. |
Collaborative Efforts
Utah State University (USU) Extension agents , Heidi LeBlanc,
Anna Adair and Janet Yanito are working with San Juan School District's 21st
Century Community Learning Center (21CCLC) projects to help strengthen the 4-H
programs in San Juan County. Janet is working for both Utah State University and
San Juan School District. She works half time as the 21CCLC site coordinator at
Bluff Elementary School and half as the 4-H coordinator in the southern part of
San Juan County for USU.
Accomplishments and Success Stories
Site Coordinator, Howard
Dee, shows a Navajo rug made during an evening class at Monument Valley High
School after school program. We also teach classes in basket making,
woodworking, quilt making, tole painting, crocheting and many other cultural
handycraft activities for students, parents and community members.
Participation in the program has been growing steadily since it began last fall. In fact , actual participation has far exceeded our projected figure of 1,200 participants. So far, the San Juan 21CCLC programs have served 1,702 students, 262 parents, and 211 other community members for a total of 2,175 individuals served.
Community Outreach
The 21 CCLC program has been instrumental in creating a
framework organization for collaboration between the school district,
governmental services agencies, higher education, vocational and adult education
programs, recreational, cultural and other community and human services
entities. This framework organization, The "San Juan Area Resource
Council," or ARC, has significantly improved the level of collaboration
between these agencies through monthly meetings.
For More Information
Contact:
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Jan Johnson |