Brittany Krasutsky special to The Black Mountain News

Last fall, Warren Wilson College faculty reached out to Owen District principals to talk about how the schools be more effective partners.

“There is a lot of service happening in the local public schools and after-school programs,” Annie Jonas, the college’s education department chair, wrote in an email to school administrators. “However, I think our impact could be so much greater if we concentrated our efforts and attempted to address some targeted goals that schools care about.”