by Bluum Admin | Apr 3, 2019 | Fellowship, Innovative Ideas, School Choice, School Models
by Kristen McCarver Libraries are generally known to be quiet places, but on Early Childhood STEAM Day, when you step through the doors at Caldwell Public Library, an enthusiastic murmur can be heard somewhere to the left. Idaho New School Fellow Anthony Haskett...
by Bluum Admin | Nov 14, 2018 | Events, Partner School News
by Kristen McCarver Cars lined both sides of Chicago Avenue in Caldwell on a clear, warm, autumn day, and a growing crowd gathered near an excavator in the dirt lot that is the new home of Elevate Academy. Parents, future students, business partners, and even...
by Bluum Admin | May 29, 2018 | Innovative Ideas, School Models
by Kristen McCarver Nestled within a quiet Nampa neighborhood is one of Idaho’s first innovation high schools, Treasure Valley Leadership Academy. Launched at the start of the 2017-18 school year with a class of around 30 9th graders, it’s no doubt been a...
by Bluum Admin | Oct 5, 2017 | Innovative Ideas, School Models
by Kristen McCarver It was a scene one would expect to witness at any summer program in America; students sat cross-legged on the floor of a classroom in a circle, anxiously waiting to be informed of the day’s agenda. But this was no ordinary day, and no summer...
by Bluum Admin | Aug 3, 2017 | In The News, Partner School News, School Choice, School Models
by Kristen McCarver & Terry Ryan Years of hard work, research, planning, and fundraising all culminated in one moment on a clear, hot July afternoon when parishioners streamed out of the Holy Apostles Catholic Church and worked their way across the parking lot to...
