I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Project Dream Catchers, a Jacob K. Javits Gifted Education Grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of Project Dream Catchers is to:

 Identify students having gifts and talents in grades 2-8 at Arapahoe School
 Nurture, support, and improve achievement of these students by providing them with enrichment activities designed to increase interest in school, expand intellectual abilities, and to develop critical thinking, creativity, communication, and artistic skills
 Develop and evaluate an intervention with youth that raises self-efficacy, facilitates the construction of goals, teaches youth successful self-regulation strategies, and provides opportunities that will allow students to draw relationships between education and serving one’s tribal group.

These interventions come alive through an after-school program, Project Dream Catchers, which will continue throughout the school year with bus service Monday-Thursday. Project Dream Catchers will allow your child to experience learning in a whole new way. Learning will largely be driven by student interests and facilitated in a way that is fun, culturally relevant, and in a fashion that best meets individual student needs. Project Dream Catchers will foster creativity, teamwork, inventive thinking and will be a hands-on, inquiry-based program.

If you have any questions, you can reach me at Arapahoe School: 307.856.9333 ext. 627

Your Partner in Education,

Andrea Gilbertson
Director - Project Dream Catchers