SUIMA School Board 

The School Board has begun advertising for new school board members.  If you are interested, please submit a letter of intent to the school and a Board Member will get in touch with you. Their next meeting will be at 12 p.m. on May 8.  

Family Night Group 

Our next Family Night will be Wednesday, May 15 with the time to be announced.  Come join us for our last event of the year.   

Parent Advisory Group  

The next PAG meeting will be Tuesday, May 21, from 6 – 7 p.m. via Zoom.   

Upcoming Events 

• Early Release at 2 p.m. every Friday! 
• May 1&2 – Science mobile at SUIMA. 

• May 9 – Star Party at ISD Middle School. 
• May 16 – Elementary Bear Dance workshop. 
• May 23 – Students from the Kwiyagat Community Academy will join us for the afternoon. 
• May 24 – End of the year ceremony; Bear Dance opens. 

Student Spotlight 

The upper elementary students enjoyed their time up in Denver where they enjoyed time at Meow Wolf, History Colorado, and tours of the Tribal holdings.  

Last week, we introduced the SUIMA staff members through their pictures, this week we’d like to introduce them through this article: 

• Reading Specialist, Debbie Lamoreaux, has been with SUIMA since it opened in 2000.  First as a lower elementary teacher and now as a reading specialist.  Lori Smith is the other Reading Specialist who has been with SUIMA for the past four years. Both reading specialists provide classroom reading support to teachers through training and classroom consultations. They also give whole group, small group, and individual reading skills lessons to students every day to build their reading and comprehension skills. They also get the students interested in reading by providing a lot of STEM opportunities. The reading specialists also organize and run the Scholastic Book Fair each year.  
• The SUIMA Education Counselor is Meg Dunn, who has been with the school for four years. She provides individual counseling for students as well as holding Social/Emotional Learning classes weekly for all students. She also oversees our Character Counts program.  
• Jessie Olguin-Sanchez, who has been with us for four years, is a Southern Ute tribal member and is the Special Education Specialist. Before coming to SUIMA she taught in the public school for 14 years as a first –fourth grade teacher, special education teacher K-5, and high school special education teacher.  Olguin-Sanchez oversees the specialist program. 
• SUIMA’s Special Education Aide is Andrea Hudspeth, who provides 1:1 student service for students in the primary and elementary level. She helps the students with self-regulation, moves between classrooms during the day helping students in need, and also supports students and teachers by helping to make accommodations and modifications for their classrooms.   
• Our Occupation Therapist is Mallory Pilcher who has been at SUIMA for two years. She works with students to participate in meaningful activities or “occupations” to be happy and successful children. She also collaborates with teachers, parents, and other staff members to address a child’s fine motor, gross motor, sensory processing, self-care, and social emotional needs.  
• Cherayah Sutton is SUIMA’s Speech and Language Pathologist who joined the school this year.  She works with the students, helping them grow their communication skills to a functional level to help them experience success across all areas of life.  She provides weekly speech-language therapy and works with the occupational therapist to create monthly take-home packets for many of the students at SUIMA.