Category: Message from the Director

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We have fantastic news to share with our CSA community! Last Tuesday, May 21st, the Charter School Institute (CSI) Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve CSA’s charter authorization transfer! Colorado SKIES Academy has a three-year…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, Congratulations to the 2024 graduating 8th grade class! We encourage you to keep on going, even when the going gets tough. Learning is a lifelong enriching journey. You are the founders of our future and collectively,…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, It was so great to celebrate our learners and staff at Boondocks last week and see the excitement from our 6th graders at their hot air balloon flight! We also hosted the Mission2orbit team via Zoom,…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We were so excited to welcome our learners back from the Europe Educational Trip and the Drone Soccer World Cup! It was a pleasure to hear about the amazing experiences in Germany, Amsterdam, Brussels, and London….

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We are pleased to inform our school community that two CSI board members visited CSA last week for school tours and were impressed with the learning they witnessed while being in the building. We were also…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, It was a busy week at CSA with the CSI Board of Directors presentation on Tuesday afternoon, our Star Search hiring event on Wednesday, and the CSI capacity interview with the CSA administration and board on…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, Thank you to each and every family for helping our week of CMAS testing go as smoothly as possible! I would like to publicly recognize our staff, as they have worked incredibly hard and done a…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, Lots to fill you in about upcoming events at CSA over the next few weeks. A reminder that CMAS testing will be completed at CSA this week. Find out the details here including the daily schedule…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We hope you had a restful and joyous Spring Break. It was great to see the learners and hear about their adventures. As you may have heard, all grade levels are in the design phase of…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, As promised, last week was jam-packed with Spring MAP testing, 6th and 7th-grade Presentation of Learning events, and Learner-Led Conferences. The end of the quarter is upon us, so please remind your learner that all missing…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, It’s going to be a great week packed full of learning activities and check-ins. We have our final Spring MAP testing, where learners will complete one test area per day Monday through Thursday starting at 8:10…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, It was a shortened school week, but we sure packed in a lot of learning and adventure in four days! The Makery was the hot topic of the week, and the building was buzzing with excitement…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, It was another fantastic week of learning and growing at CSA! The 6th-grade learners are finishing up their sustainability presentations, and it’s been amazing to see their growth in knowledge and confidence as they’ve worked through…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, What a great week we had! Our 6th-grade learners are deep into their research on sustainability, 7th-graders are learning about birds and flight, and 8th-grade is hard at work on energy conservation and sustainability. The 8th…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We hope that your year is off to a great start and you are enjoying the longer days of sunshine. We want to be sure that our existing CSA families are receiving each grade level’s Week…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We are off and running in Q3, and things seem to be going well for learners and facilitators as they dive into the more complex concepts in their core classes. The feedback on the new schedule…

Colorado SKIES Academy Families, We hope you had a wonderful winter break and could reset and recharge with loved ones. Seeing the learners back at school and hearing about their adventures has been great. As you know, some learners’ schedules…

Dear Colorado SKIES Academy Families, It was great seeing your learners’ knowledge and growth highlighted last week in each grade level’s Presentation of Learning! We appreciate all the positive feedback we received and are committed to improving in the areas…