Superior school board tours new program's POWER room

Shortly after the regular monthly meeting of the Superior Board of Education opened, members of the board toured the district’s elementary “POWER” room. Courtney Utecht, a special education instructor and MacKenzie Trumble, a speech language pathologist, talked about the room, its design and shared their excitement.

POWER is an acronym for “Preparing Our Wildcats with Education and Responsibility.” Most would refer to the POWER room as an area designed to teach students severely challenged in some way: mentally, physically, emotionally, socially or a combination.

For example, this year among t...