NEOSHO, Mo. — Some Neosho students are experiencing something new this week at a new school.
“I’ve moved classrooms and I’ve moved schools. So, this is just an amazing opportunity,” said McKinzie Cooper-Kunard, Rise Teacher.
Kunard is glad to be back in the school routine — but this year a very different kind of routine.
“It’s more hands-on. We have more project-based learning that will eventually adventure to a and there’s just more hands-on with science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics,” she said.
She’s one of the teachers at the new Rise Academy…a longtime Neosho building now remade for education.
“Monday was the first day of school. We spent all last week 12 to 15-hour days getting the building ready and moved in. And the kids came Monday and it’s been great the whole week,” said Satotha Burr, Rise Elementary…
