Carbondale Middle School

  • Locations: Opinion Published

    Food…?

    Guest Opinion by Miley Stuart
    Carbondale Middle School

    Oxford Languages defines “food” as: “any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.” 

    Humans rely on food, butread more →

  • Locations: Columns, Opinion Published

    Critical Race Theory must be taught

    Opinion by Antoinette Brasier
    Carbondale Middle School 

    As of 2022, seven U.S. states have banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) from being taught in schools. CRT is an intellectual and social movement by civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine the intersection of race, society and

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  • Locations: News Published

    The Valley is alive with ‘The Sound of Music’

    The student production of “The Sound of Music,” directed by Sonya Meyer, premiered Friday, April 8. A collaboration between Basalt High, Basalt Middle, Basalt Elementary, Carbondale Middle and Roaring Fork High schools made the show possible. 

    This wildly popular musical set at the beginning of World War II, follows… read more →

  • Locations: Columns, Español Published

    Poesía bilingüe por estudiantes recién llegados

    Newcomer emerging bilingual students in Mary Hernandez’s class at Carbondale Middle School studied poetic techniques and used sensory imagery to write biographical poems. They wrote and revised bilingual poems in Spanish and English, and strategically chose which language to use to create their ideas. They then practiced reading expressively beforeread more →

  • Locations: Español Published

    Tres maestras del RFSD promovidas

    Traducción por Dolores Duarte

    Tres maestras del Distrito Escolar de Roaring Fork (RFSD) pasan a ocupar puestos de subdirección este otoño.

    Cora Carballeira, conocida cariñosamente como Ms. Carb, es maestra de ciencias de octavo grado en Carbondale Middle School (CMS) y se convertirá enread more →

  • Locations: News Published

    A look inside: local schools one year into pandemic

    Few will forget the tumultuous week of March 9, 2020. Americans had witnessed cases of COVID-19 rapidly proliferate across the country and around the world. On March 10, Governor Polis declared a state of emergency after the presence of COVID was confirmed in Colorado. The outbreak was designated a global… read more →

  • Locations: Español Published

    Una mirada íntima: escuelas locales en año de pandemia

    Traducción por Jacquelinne Castro

    Poca gente se olvidará de la impactante semana del 9 de marzo del 2020. Americanos presenciaron los casos de COVID-19 proliferando rápidamente a través del país y alrededor del mundo. El 10 de marzo, el gobernador Polis declaró un estado de emergencia después de que la… read more →

  • Locations: News Published

    Local schools struggle with tough pandemic-era semester

    The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a level of disruption, uncertainty and hardship unprecedented in our country and the world. This has been especially true for our education system at all levels, which has faced enormous challenges in how to conduct cohesive, sustained and effective instruction at a… read more →