Noah Hotchkiss and Annie Wyrick, AHS class of 2017, celebrate graduation with faculty members Jessica McCallum and Roxy McKnight

Greetings Ospreys,

Transitional Presentations of Learning are complete, and the 2016-17 school year has officially drawn to a close.  We are grateful to all our families for entrusting us with the honor of working with your children and we are proud of our students and staff for all of the dedication to learning and growth we've seen this year.  The class of 2017 has joined the elite ranks of AHS Alumni and we have faith in their ability to head out into the world to create positive change.  As Lori Fisher put it in her tribute to them at graduation last week,  "These students KNEW what they wanted to do, and went after those goals with vigor and energy.  We hope, as we launch them into the world, that they can keep their strong sense of idiosyncrasy and singularity.  We need individuals in this world who set their own course, and this class is full of those." Remember to order graduation photos from Karen Skelly, our photographer. She has extended early bird pricing to June 10. To order, go to her website here, enter password "ahs" and click "send."  On the next page, click on "AHS Graduation" to view the photos.  All of the information about and instructions for ordering photos are listed on the first page. We wish the class of 2017 the very best and look forward to hearing about their successes in college, career and post-secondary life!

Calvin Chase, class of 2020, completes his first TPOL

This spring we hit a new milestone, with many of our first graduates graduating from college.  Congratulations to all those graduates, too!  Isabelle Tonso reached out to us recently to share her perspective, as a member of the class of 2013 who has recently returned to college after time raising her daughter while working in a nursing home and a preschool.  Isabelle reports, " What Animas high school taught me, stuck with me. I recently had to do a group project for my history class and I was really proud of the outcome. I remembered working with students at Animas and how upset I would get, how I couldn't handle my anger or express myself. I know I'm older now too but I really think I was remembering how to be an Osprey. I found myself offering different ideas and solutions, problem solving. Hearing out the ideas of others. All of this seems so obvious, it's what decent people do, but the teachers at Animas High School taught me this." Teaching students to be "decent people," as well as effective collaborators, critical thinkers and engaged citizens is our work, and we're proud to be part of the journey to adulthood for our students.

	Sadie Vance, Ricky Morris and Cody Starr by the sophomore Anatomy of an Osprey mural, just before their successful TPOL seminar

For our most recent alumni, the class of 2017, final transcripts will be sent automatically to their college of choice, provided students have entered that information in their Naviance accounts.  Final grades for the semester for all students have been posted in Infinite Campus.  We do not send out report cards; to view grades, login to IC, go to the Reports tab and then click on "Animas High School Report Card" to view.