21st Century Learning! What’s it All About?

Rio School District students and staff are working towards new learning goals. Like many Districts across the country we call them 21st century skills or practices. This acknowledges that we live in times that are rapidly changing and in many ways very different than just a few decades ago. Success…

Caring is a 21st century skill and practice and has always mattered and will always matter in any century. Rio’s students, staff, and community care. This is why we have made the point of having 5Cs for our 21st Century Learning Aims: Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Creativity, and Caring. Caring…

In the last three year at Rio, we have gone all in for reading. We have added many high interest books to our libraries and made sure our libraries are full time places to learn and explore books. We have encouraged students and teachers to engage in our Accelerated Reader…

This month, October 2015, the Rio School District will achieve its goal of having one connected computer device for each child enrolled. This is sometimes called one to one computing or even one to the world which is, perhaps, a better term. We’re calling it One to One to the…