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Davis County School District highlights community-building, Unified Sports for inclusive participation
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Fidel Montero told a district meeting the district is prioritizing community-building through teacher focus groups, engagement with state legislators and a Unified Sports program that drew hundreds of students, including those with special learning needs.
Fidel Montero, assistant superintendent of the Davis County School District, told attendees at a district meeting that the district has been focusing on community-building initiatives, including teacher focus groups, outreach to state legislators and a Unified Sports event that drew hundreds of students.
Montero said community interaction is part of the district’s mission alongside academics. “Public schools are one of the last institutions where children from every walk of life come together to learn, to engage, and to be part of this thing we call community,” Montero said.
Montero described three levels of work the district is pursuing. At the micro level, he said the district has convened teacher focus groups over the past several months to gather feedback on classroom experience and implementation of district initiatives and to use that feedback to improve school environments. At an institutional level he said district staff have been meeting with “representatives at the state legislature from all throughout our community” to discuss legislation intended to make operations more efficient and to allocate resources effectively; Montero did not specify particular bills or legislators.
At the school level, Montero highlighted a recent Unified Sports program in which he said hundreds of students from across the district participated. He described the program as bringing together students with special learning needs and their peers to form teams and compete, and credited community sponsors for providing resources to make the event available. Montero said the Unified Sports event showed “children supporting each other” and exemplified the district’s community-building goals.
He also noted a recent student presentation in which “one of those students was a little girl barely in kindergarten” who recited material from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail; Montero said that moment reinforced the value of community work in schools.
Montero closed by thanking the community and asking for continued partnership with the district as it pursues these initiatives. No formal board action or vote was recorded in the transcript excerpt.
