Tag Archives: schools
What’s the Recipe for a Successful School?
Posted on 05. Oct, 2011 by KB.
What’s the recipe for a successful school? “What makes a school successful?” is a question we’ve been asked again and again over the past few years. After visiting a wide variety of schools in the Denver area, we decided to put together a list of criteria that we feel makes a good school great! The [...]
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Superintendent Boasberg Mentions ScoopToo in Letter to DPS Community
Posted on 30. Nov, 2010 by KB.
Letter from Superintendent Tom Boasberg: Breaking Ground…and Setting the Foundation for a Great Education Dear DPS Community: One of our critical priorities in the Denver Public Schools is increasing our kids’ access to high quality preschool and full-day kindergarten. Research is clear that preschool and full-day kindergarten are critical for a child’s academic and social development [...]
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Education Reform in D.C.
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by KB.
Just last month, Michelle Rhee resigned from her position as schools chancellor for Washington D.C. and Mayor Adrian Fenty lost the democratic primary in September. Michelle and Mayor Fenty have been in the spotlight these past few years because of their unconventional education reform efforts and the drastic measures they have imposed in the D. [...]
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Evolution to a Revolution: Rumble to a Roar
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by JM.
Wake up Denver! Actually, wake up America! It’s no secret our education system ranks amongst the lowest in the world in math and science. It’s also no secret that Denver only graduates just over half of its high school seniors and the dropout rate is abysmal. And, there are 1.2 million students dropping out per [...]
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An Introduction To The New Principal of Stapleton 3
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by KB.
Our friend Liz Easterly, who writes a cool blog about life in Stapleton, is featuring a new series on her blog regarding schools/education in Stapleton. She has a guest blogger, Marissa Ferrari, the Marketing Coordinator for DPS and also a good friend of ours who will contribute to the series. Marissa’s first interview is with [...]
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Getting Started
Posted on 26. Apr, 2009 by KB.
We wanted to provide you with something we wish we had when we were getting started in our school search. This isn’t exactly a step by step process, as there are so many paths each family could go down together, rather we are sharing our loose guideline for this process. Depending on whether you [...]
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Kerri's Scoop to Denver
Posted on 23. Apr, 2009 by KB.
As a stay-at-home mom for the past five years and a former educator, choosing a school for my children became a full-time job! I am joking but at times, it felt that way. Who knew choosing an elementary school for my twin boys was going to be such a process, and a stressful one at [...]
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Jenn's Scoop to Denver
Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by JM.
Hello world. Or better yet, hello Denver for now! We are bringing you the scoop today because, well, there is a need for it! Here is the premise: This is the scoop about getting your head wrapped around the school “situation” in Denver that can be maddening, confusing, and downright frustrating. So we [...]
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