Mark your calendars for these important district-wide events:

January:

• 5th- PD Day for Rawlins, Baggs students are back to School

• 6th- Rawlins students are back to school

• 12th- Monthly Monday Mentor/Mentee Meeting

• 13th- Winter WY-TOPP Window Opens

• 14th- Connecting with the Colts- RMS

• 19th- No School for Rawlins

• 20th- ACCESS and Alt Access Testing Window Opens

• 23rd- PD Day for Baggs

February:

• 6th- PD Day for Baggs

• 6th- Winter WY-TOPP

• 9th- Monthly Monday Mentor/Mentee Meeting

• 11th- Connecting with the Colts- RMS

• 11th & 12th- P/T Conferences- RES

• 12th & 13th- P/T Conferences- Baggs

• 16th- No School for Rawlins & CO is Closed

• 17th- PD Day for Rawlins

What is the Science of Reading?

Click the above to access a Science of Reading Blog post from lexialearning.com that provides a full breakdown of the Science of Reading.

Cox Campus is an online learning portal that has partner with the state of Wyoming to provide training on the Science of Reading. All access to this site is completely free. Click the link below to start learning about how the Cox Campus portal can support you.

Safe and Civil Schools CHAMPS Survey

Please click the link below to access a quick survey providing the PD team with feedback regarding the District Wide Safe and Civil Schools CHAMPS training

Text Book Adoption Cycle

The following resources are up for evaluation to determine if a textbook adoption is needed for the 26-27 school year.

• K-3 ELA- Currently using CKLA 2nd Edition

• 6-8 Science- Currently using Interactive Science

• 9-12 ELA- Currently using Study Sync

Supplemental Resources

If you are using a free online resource for supplemental purposes, please check with your building admin to ensure we have a use agreement for that company.

Standards Update

10-6-2025- Standards Document Update- Click the link to access information from the WDE regarding news about Wyoming Standards.

Our District Focus

1. Essential Standards (student by student, skill by skill- Grave level or above)

2. High Expectations of ALL for ALL

3. Instructional Best Practices

4. Explicit Instruction

5. Science of Learning/Literacy

Staff PD Dates

Baggs- LSRV

• October 17th

• November 14th

• January 23rd

• February 6th

• March 13th

• May 22nd

Rawlins- RES, RMS, RHS, VHS

• January 5th

• February 17th

• June 4th

The professional development team is committed to provide relevant and effective professional development opportunities to all staff in Carbon #1. To help us make informed decisions about furfure training, we are collecting information on the training staff members have already received through the district.

Professional Development and Training Survey

Carbon County School District #1 Mentor - Mentee Program

• 2 year program

• Mentors- Properly trained through he UW Mentor Corp Program or the Carbon #1 Mentor Program

• Support throughout the year from district mentors, district administration and district central office staff.

• Monthly Mentor - Mentee Meetings- Built in Professional Development