Overview
County School District’s celebration of outstanding achievement in improving student performance. In less than a decade, the District has become one of the highest achieving school districts in the state – earning a #1 spot in language arts; #3 in math; and #7 in science proficiency in 2023.We achieved our goals by creating a top-tier learning environment with the use of research-proven strategies and collaborative teaching techniques. The result is that we have changed the lives of thousands of students in our district.
And we didn’t do it alone. Our success is a result of partnerships with students, teachers, parents, District staff and our supportive community members. Wasatch County is a community that values education and our residents and businesses have supported us enthusiastically. Education Elevated is our opportunity to share our success and thank our community partners. It takes a winning attitude to achieve this kind of success and Wasatch County School District has what it takes!
The Science of Reading Supports “Education Elevated” in Wasatch County School DistrictOf all the skills needed for academic, social, and economic success in the United States today, none is more important than the ability to read and read well. Over the last several decades, an increasing body of research describes how reading is accomplished in the human brain, and this has been labeled the Science of Reading. WCSD is proud to be featured in this video, which emphasizes the importance of aligning instructional practices to this growing body of knowledge on how reading develops.
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WASATCH LEADS UTAH AS THE ONLY DISTRICT WITH LEARNING GAINS DURING COVID
Program at Wasatch High School gives students opportunity to build homes for a good cause
HEBER CITY, Utah — The Career and Technical Education program at Wasatch High School is helping students gain hands-on experience.
Matthew Nichols is an 18-year-old senior at the school, who’s going to Brigham Young University in the fall to study construction management.
He’s getting to learn the tricks of his trade now.
“We just started from the foundation and worked our way up,” said Nichols.
On Tuesday, Nichols was standing inside of a 4,300-square-foot home in Heber City alongside his teacher, Doug Kinsman.
“I’ve helped build this house,” said Nichols.
Kinsman teaches Foundation of Construction and Homebuilding classes at the school.
He says 11 students, including Nichols, helped build the home with the assistance of subcontractors.
The two-story home has three bedrooms, two full bathrooms and a 1,000-square-foot unfinished basement.
“They actually come here every other day and work a three hour block in the morning, go to lunch, then go to school and take their core curriculum classes, and then I have another class that comes in in the afternoon and they’ll do another three hours here,” said Kinsman.
Kinsman says students learn a multitude of things.
“First of all, they take their blueprint reading and different use of saws that they learn in foundations and actually put it into use to framing walls and learning about different structures within the house,” he said.
The home was not only built by Wasatch High School students, but designed by them as well.
FOX 13 News asked Kinsman how this is all funded.
“Whatever we have into it for the land and the price of material and the subs that we have to hire on to help us build the house. We’re not making any money or any profit. We’re just trying to get our money that we have back into the build,” said Kinsman. “The district gets all that back with the sale of the house.”
This is the second home they’ve built since the program started five years ago.
View the story on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y8q6yCigC3Y?si=tJIyeHQfjlyk4M1E
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