The theme for the 2024/25 SCC Fall Orientation is This Is How We Learn Together.

Join us for an engaging, interactive day of learning. We are excited to welcome Dr. Darcy Hutchins from the University of Colorado as our keynote speaker for this event. 

Dr. Hutchins Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Maryland—College Park, is the Director of Family, School, Community Partnerships for the Colorado Department of Education (CDE). She provides support to districts to implement family partnership programs for student success, particularly through parent participation on school and district accountability committees. In her role at CDE, Dr. Hutchins staffs the State Advisory Council for Parent Involvement in Education (SACPIE). She also teaches in the School of Education at University of Denver and serves on various advisory boards. Before joining CDE, Dr. Hutchins worked eight years as a Senior Program Facilitator in the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University. In this role, she provided technical assistance to districts across the country to implement school, family, and community partnership programs. She began her career as a first grade teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools. Dr. Hutchins has conducted several research studies about the impact of school-and district-level leadership on school, family, and community collaboration, as well as evaluation projects. She has multiple book and article publications, including School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action (Corwin, 2018), Family Reading Nights (Eye on Education, 2014) and Multicultural Partnerships Involve all Families (Eye on Education, 2012). Outside of work, Darcy loves being an aunt, an overprotective cat mom, a Mini Cooper driver, a New York Yankees fan, and the proud holder of a Canadian birth certificate!