On Jan. 18, 17 high school students from Lycée Nelson Mandela — a school in Nantes, France — arrived in Carbondale. However, these French students were not here for purely a personal vacation. Rather, they came here as part of Roaring Fork High School’s (RFHS) Carbondale-Nantes 2025 Exchange, a program put on by English Language […]
Eric Lamb
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VOICES Radio Hour: ‘Where I’m from’
By Henri Oziel Andrade Machado Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE) students share personal narratives based on the prompt, “Where I’m From.” Their stories take place in lush gardens in Mexico, volcanic lakes of Guatemala, quaint parks in Honduras and olive orchards in El Salvador, as well as right here […]
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Record number of RFHS graduates earn Seal of Biliteracy
Bilingual education is becoming a bigger focus for Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) students, as evidenced by the largest number ever of graduating seniors to have earned the coveted Seal of Biliteracy. Among the 28 seniors at the Carbondale school who have proven themselves literate in at least two languages — representing 31% of this […]