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  • How Bayfield is “growing its own” teachers inside local classrooms

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  • Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 49 and low of 29 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Sunshine and some clouds, temps: high: 50, low: 24.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 50 and low of 25 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Bayfield School District trains next cohort of teachers through mentorship program (durangoherald.com) — Bayfield School District is growing its own future teachers through Colorado’s new Teacher Degree Apprenticeship, with apprentices already working in Bayfield High and Intermediate schools while earning their degrees online. The program aims to ease rural teacher shortages, gives participants a paycheck and classroom experience, and relies on local mentors like third grade teacher Wendy Benne to train the next generation.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • Durango lawyer dies while backcountry skiing on Red Mountain Pass (durangoherald.com)
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Cortez

  • Cortez Youth Athletic Performance program expands to prepare athletes for college (the-journal.com)

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