Oral history interview with Rona Wilensky, [electronic resource] / interviewed and filmed by Joyce Gordon, 2009. 2009.

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Oral history interview with Rona Wilensky, [electronic resource] / interviewed and filmed by Joyce Gordon, 2009. 2009.

Rona Wilensky took New Vista High School from being a gleam of an idea to becoming a 300+ student nontraditional high school that recently finished its seventeenth year in Boulder under her stewardship as principal. Shortly after Rona Wilensky "graduated" from the principalship of New Vista by retiring, she talked about the planning and creation of the school, its underlying principles, its nontraditional elements, its approach to serving English as a Second Language students, the community support it has engendered, and its successes. She also discusses some of the controversial and contentious political struggles that the Boulder Valley School Board experienced during the 1990s and the general social-cultural climate for students in Boulder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7964568

Boulder Public Library

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