 Ever
since his student teaching days in Austin, Dr.
Ridge Hammons has been drawn to helping students who need extra attention. His father, USMC
Capt. Arnold Hammons, who had won several national
humianitarian awards, including the National Observer
Man of the Year, had always taught him to help
those that could not help themselves. Coupled
with this early training was the deep personal
conviction that it was only through the assistance
of others that he himself had succeeded. It is
a moral imperative of Hammons Education Leadership
Programs to focus on "the lamb that was lost."
As you can see in the picture (left), everyone
needs someone to look up to and to teach them
how to fish.
Major Projects
& Research
2008 Instituted on-site career mentoring forming
a corporate partnership between Valero, Citgo, The
Port of CC, Air Liquide and other
petrochemical entities to serve at-risk Workforce
Initiative students
2008 Developed successful community youth development
project in conjunction with Workforce Solutions
of the Coastal Bend and Serco of Texas
1998 - 07 Summer Connections: Telementoring. Designed
and helped implement technology-based mentoring program.
1996 - 02 Northside Scouting Initiative: Successful
public relations efforts to help business cooperate
with schools to raise numbers of Scouts.
1992 - 96 Summer Training and Education Program,
Workforce Development Practical Education in Citizenship,
Student-to-Student presentation group.
1991 - 93 Pilot of block scheduling at South Park
Middle School
1987 - 89 On-sight evaluation of integrated curriculum
in the Denver Schools.
1988 Developed Student Transfer Office pilot for
Colorado Dept. of Education. Authentic Schools Model:
The Lake Project in Denver, CO.
1987 “Relationships Between Interschool Transfer
and Dropout Rates,” Doctoral Dissertation,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
1986 Developed school-university collaborations
for the Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal;
directed at-risk study group of CPER.
Colorado “2 + 2” Study of Administrator
Applicant writing ability.
Development of computerized Pupil Screening Measures
for student retention and promotion program in the
Boulder Valley Public Schools.
1985 Experimental study of the Effectiveness of
Bartholome/Petrovsky Instructional Procedures for
the University of Colorado Learning Center.
1984 “Measures of Musical Aptitude and Standardized
Testing” Master’s Thesis at University
of Corpus Christi, TX.
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