Most Recent News at RTA

The Fowler School District Fowler Jr./Sr. High School topped out! This week members of the RTA team joined Nunn Construction, students, parents, and staff to celebrate this construction milestone. We loved seeing the crowd’s excitement as the last structural beam was placed. This new 66,000 sf addition includes a new gymnasium, a cafeteria with space for community use, improved playgrounds, and improved parent drop-off and pick-up.

Read more about this exciting project here.

RTA Principal Brian Calhoun and Associate Ericka Everett will present at the upcoming Colorado League of Charter Schools Conference tomorrow. Brian, Ericka, and Christine Harms, Director of the Colorado School Safety Resource Center, will present “School Safety: Regulations and Best Practices”. The session will explore strategies to enhance safety and security while maintaining 21^st Century educational environments, using Newton Middle School as a case study. Stop by if you’ll be attending the conference.

Date: Wednesday, March 1^st
Time: 11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Location: Meadowbrook 1

Learn more about their session here.

RTA is pleased to announce that we have welcomed three new staff members to our Administrative, Interior Design, and Marketing teams! Administrative Assistant Vivian Ceballos, Interior Designer Elissa Koehler, and Marketing Coordinator Heather Belveal joined RTA over the last several months. Welcome!

RTA Principal Paul Reu and KU alumnus Architect Mitchell Starrs enjoyed the opportunity to meet with students in person at  the KU Career Fair! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth. We look forward to continuing our conversations with each of you.

RTA was thrilled to gather with members of the Strasburg community for an Open House in celebration of the completion of the Strasburg School District Elementary School renovation and addition. The addition includes eight classrooms and a gymnasium. Interior renovations consist of preschool and kindergarten rooms, special education spaces, a STEM space, and breakout spaces for collaboration and group learning. These spaces are filled with shapes and patterns found in nature as part of the magnifying nature design concept.

Read more about this great project here.

RTA is pleased to announce the promotion of Interior Designer Ann Marie Jackson, NCIDQ, LEED AP to the level of Associate! Ann Marie joined RTA in 2017 and is a leader in our interior design studio. She has received numerous design awards for her work on such projects as Littleton Public Schools’ new Newton Middle School, Hinsdale County School District’s Lake City Community School, and Academy District 20’s Chinook Trail Middle School. Congratulations Ann Marie!

Pueblo Community College recently hosted the ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the Nursing and Allied Health Teaching and Learning Center at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo. Unused spaces were converted to create simulation labs, student lounge areas, classrooms, patient rooms, and support spaces utilizing many of the hospital’s previous patient care areas in the older east tower. This cooperative partnership between PCC and St. Mary-Corwin expands PCC’s healthcare training program and will increase the number of career-ready healthcare professionals in the healthcare industry.

Photos courtesy of Pueblo Community College

Modern classroom designs in schools like the new Cherry Creek Schools Woodland Elementary School create comforting, student-centered spaces. By utilizing noise-absorbing elements for focused learning, using color to support classroom productivity and creativity, and configuring classroom layouts to allow for collaboration, the design supports diverse learning styles. Read more about these design elements in this recent eSchool News article co-authored by RTA’s Ann Marie Jackson.

Learn more about the innovative approach to safety and security at Newton Middle School in the Ed Market Essentials Winter issue. For this new school, the design team worked closely with Littleton Public Schools to create a security approach that balances best practices in safety and security with open and flexible 21^st Century educational environments. The carefully designed layers of security start at the building entry and continue layer by layer into the interior spaces, creating a warm and inviting space that supports collaboration and creativity while keeping students and staff safe.

Check out the article here.

Cherry Creek School District's Woodland Elementary School was featured in Education Snapshots! This new elementary school offers flexible learning environments that support a variety of learning styles and enable students to learn beyond the classroom. The new Woodland Elementary School also furthers the District’s mission, “To inspire every student to think, to learn, to achieve, to care,” and reinforces the school’s tagline, “Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be a Bear!” Take a photo tour of this exciting RTA project:  https://educationsnapshots.com/projects/25671/woodland-elementary-school/.