Our district's progress

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How are we doing?

Durango School District 9-R continually monitors our student and system results to ensure that we are on track to realize our mission. Each year our district compiles Results Reports in four major categories to measure our progress. The four categories are: Mission, Academic Achievement, Social and Emotional Learning, and Portrait of a Graduate. Click the arrow on the right to learn more about each category and view specific reports. They are organized by the month they were presented to the Durango School District 9-R Board of Education.

1. Mission

(RP-01) Each student will graduate career and/or college ready, equipped to attain their goals, and serve their communities.

2. Academic Achievement 

This includes including annual state and district assessments based on the following disciplines:
  • Reading, Writing, and Communicating
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Physical Education
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Computer Science and Information & Communication Technology ​
  • Career and Technical skills

3. Social & Emotional Learning

This includes the following domains:
  • 3.1 Self-Awareness: The ability to accurately recognize one's emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior.  This includes accurately assessing one's strengths and limitations, and processing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism. 
  • 3.2 Self-Management: The ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations.  This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward goals. 
  • 3.3 Social Awareness: The ability to take the perspective of, and emphasize with, others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports. 
  • 3.4 Relationship Skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with individuals and groups.  This includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help. 
  • 3.5 Responsible Decision Making: The ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions, and the well-being of self and others. 

4. Portrait of a Graduate

Students will exhibit Portrait of a Graduate Skills as follows:
    • 4.1 Courageous Leader: Responsible, productive community member who take initiative.
    • 4.2 Creative Problem-Solver: Entrepreneurial, innovative, solution-focused design thinker. 
    • 4.3 Confident Communicator: Successful writer, speaker, listener, and digital content producer. 
    • 4.4 Agile Thinker: Curious, flexible, critical thinker exhibiting a growth mindset. 
    • 4.5 Empathetic Collaborator:  Compassionate, inclusive connector focused on interdependence. 
    • 4.6 Resilient Risk-Taker: Self-aware, persistent, and hopeful future-planner