From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
From the VOICES visual journaling project at Basalt Middle School. Photo by Beth White
Chelsea Self / Post Independent
Sign language has become a bit of a competitive strategy on the court for the Glenwood Springs High School girls basketball team in recent years.
One of Lady Demons’ key players, senior co-captain Graci Dietrich, has severe hearing loss and relies on hand signs and lip-reading, rather than verbal communication, between her teammates and coaches.
Since her days attending and playing basketball at Glenwood Springs Middle School, Dietrich has also had her personal interpreter, Kyle Larson, in the classroom and on the sidelines with her making sure she understands those she interacts with on a daily basis.
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“So what’s our next project?”
That was the best feedback Glenwood Springs Middle School teacher Lucia Campbell could have received after working with her class on the project Bilingual Voices: Life Changing Stories for six weeks.
“As a teacher I was like, ‘oh my gosh aren’t you exhausted from the last project?’ They were in their heads thinking ‘OK now I know how this works and I’m ready to do the next project, it’ll be better.’ I mean that’s just the greatest feedback you can get as a teacher,” Campbell said.
Expeditionary Learning (EL), a national education organization recognized the same students’ work with a certificate of excellence. The students have been invited to share their stories via Zoom for EL’s annual conference. In a news release from Voices, it said the categories EL considered when presenting the awards were authenticity, craftsmanship and complexity.
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