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Superintendent highlights STEM Launch video and rising student growth on MAP assessments

Adams 12 Five Star Schools Board of Education · December 18, 2025
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Superintendent Chris Godowsky opened the meeting by showing a video featuring STEM Launch principal Kate Claver and students’ project-based learning. Godowsky said district MAP data show median growth at or above the 60th percentile in most grades and noted high free-and-reduced-lunch rates at STEM Launch and across the district.

Superintendent Chris Godowsky opened the board meeting by showing a video produced for the Public Education and Business Coalition that features STEM Launch principal Kate Claver and students describing hands-on, project-based learning.

Godowsky said STEM Launch is the district’s strongest-performing Title I school and highlighted classroom projects shown in the video, including an engineering partnership between third and seventh graders that rerouted water to preserve a beaver family’s habitat. "They helped engineer some culverts that would divert the water… and it…

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