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Riverside STEM Academy: board reviews UCR site, on-campus upgrades and expansion options
Summary
District staff presented survey-based 'success factors' for Riverside STEM Academy and several facility scenarios — including a UCR STEM Center (estimated $134M), upgrades to the existing campus (~$83M) and other district-site concepts — and asked the board for direction.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Riverside Unified School District received a staff report Dec. 18 outlining how Riverside STEM Academy (RSA) achieves results and what facility options could preserve or expand that success.
Principal Mark Colwell described RSA’s top success factors as staff–student relationships, cohort-based teaching with three core teachers per middle-school cohort, high expectations (an accelerated, single pathway model), daily collaborative planning time for teachers and sustained capstone research projects. “Our teachers have the freedom to be innovative and provide powerful teaching,” Colwell said,…
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