Our mission
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STEAD empowers students to design and lead their own college and career pathways within a hands-on science, technology, environment, agriculture, and design learning environment. Heads, hearts, and hands are all engaged in project-based learning as students grow into lifelong learners, thinkers, creators, and changemakers. Every student graduates with a professional portfolio, a post-secondary plan, real work and service experience, and the chance to earn college credit.
Our vision
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STEAD is an educational and career pipeline for the next generation of Colorado leaders across business, civic, science, health, energy, and natural-resource fields, and across rural, urban, and suburban communities. Deeply connected to their communities, STEAD students are stewards of their environment who take on the growing food, health, environmental, and energy challenges facing our state, our nation, and our planet.
What we believe
High school should look different for today’s students. We think Colorado is the right place to build the first fully integrated, next-generation agriculture high school, where young people learn to take on real problems in food, health, energy, and the environment.
Your student can build things that don’t exist yet. The students in our classrooms are the next leaders in agriculture, science, policy, and business.
How we teach
- 1We teach through project-based learning. Students learn with hands-on materials, interdependent projects, cooperative work, individual lessons, internships, and community service.
- 2We help every student design and lead their own college and career path.
- 3We build pathways into Colorado’s business, civic, science, health, energy, and natural-resource industries, connecting rural, urban, and suburban communities.
- 4We keep our community curious and relevant, and we care about both academic growth and social-emotional health.
Who we are
- 1A science, technology, environment, agriculture, and design high school focused on real global challenges in food, health, energy, and the environment.
- 2A place where students graduate future-ready, with a professional portfolio, a post-secondary plan, college credit, and real work and service experience.
- 3Explorers, collaborators, and stewards of our environment.
- 4A pipeline of Colorado innovators, entrepreneurs, civic leaders, and scientists tackling the world’s hardest problems, from biomedicine to food and water security to renewable energy.
