Marissa Don Juan, student board representative for Sierra High School, briefed the Harrison School District 2 Board of Education on Sept. 25 about academic priorities, new partnerships and extracurricular activity at Sierra.

Her report matters because student voice described classroom and schoolwide changes intended to improve learning access and daily attendance for a diverse student body.

Don Juan said Sierra’s academic focus this year includes scaffolding instruction, chunking or intentional pacing, collaborative learning structures and continued implementation of Pre-AP programming. She said the school also launched the Educating Children of Color (ECOC) Leadership Academy on Sept. 23 and plans a field trip to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in October. ‘‘It’s our third year of pre AP as a pre AP school,’’ Don Juan said.

Don Juan described a new partnership with Adelante Youth Services to support a Hispanic Heritage Club and said the school operates a peer-mediation class that is working with Panorama to develop restorative-justice practices, meeting monthly. She added that administrators now use rolling desks and work in hallways to reduce tardies and skipping, which she said has increased student engagement.

Don Juan reported that district implementation of a cell-phone policy has had measurable classroom effects at Sierra: ‘‘Every teacher in our school has lock boxes. And as soon as a phone gets pulled out, they take the phone and they put it in the lock box. And I have noticed that there’s been so much more engagement in class,’’ she said.

She listed upcoming events and activities: a mock SAT on Oct. 7, parent-teacher conferences in October, homecoming and athletics schedules (football, volleyball, softball, soccer and cross-country) and Treat Street on Oct. 24, a community-accessible event in which classrooms distribute treats along school hallways. Don Juan said eSports and chess teams are active, and student council worked with administrators after a last-minute homecoming-theme cancellation to design a new approval process for future spirit-week themes.

Board members praised the report, with one saying it was the best student report they had heard in years. Superintendent and board staff indicated they will follow up on issues Don Juan raised; no formal board action was taken on the report.

The student’s account provides first-hand detail about implementation of district policy at one high school and about student-led responses to school events and disciplinary processes.