Alice Terry Elementary School first-grader Julieta Galaviz-Montoya works with her highlighter in Shannon Hemming's class. The Sheridan School District is improving, pulling itself up from the bottom rung of state rankings. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post) You can't actually hear a giant clock ticking as you walk through Sheridan's Alice Terry Elementary School, but there is a palpable urgency coursing through the halls. There have been big changes lately at the little school, which looks like it could have been built at about the time its namesake retired from the district, in 1961. There is a new principal. There are new instructional processes. And there is a new laser focus on...
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