From tabletop gaming to miniature painting, Denver is offering plenty for local board game enthusiasts like me
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Colorado middle and high schoolers could begin receiving annual mental health checks
If a student needs additional resources, they would be referred to state-run program offering free therapy sessions
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Nicolais: Yes, Dennis Prager, school children do make the world better
In just a few days guest teaching, I saw what the conservative radio host seems to have missed in his decades alive
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These entities want to run Colorado’s universal preschool program at the local level
Early childhood councils, school districts, and nonprofit organizations are among the three dozen groups that have applied to run Colorado’s universal preschool program in local communities when the initiative launches next year. There’s a single application for the job in 31 of the state’s 32 zones, which generally cover one to six counties. Douglas County, where both […]
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Colorado is lowering teacher qualifications amid staff shortage a year before expanding preschool access
Tens of thousands of Colorado children will be eligible to enroll in the state’s expanded preschool program come fall of 2023, but as an educator shortage has swelled to “crisis” levels, pressure is mounting to find enough teachers to staff classrooms. One solution the state implemented in December: lowering the bar on credentials to become […]
Posted inColoradans, COVID, Education, News
COVID outbreaks have shut down some Colorado schools. Will holidays and cold weather make things worse?
When COVID-19 swept through an elementary, middle and high school in Pagosa Springs in November, many kids in Archuleta School District #50 JT once again had to abandon the classroom to learn at home. Along with shutting down the high school for five school days amid a string of staff absences, the rural southwest Colorado […]
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In bid to boost Colorado reading scores, small program shows promise where larger efforts failed
Nearly a decade ago, Colorado lawmakers passed a splashy new reading law that sent tens of millions of dollars a year to school districts statewide to help struggling readers. The money paid for summer school, full-day kindergarten, and tutoring programs for students in kindergarten through third grade, but those efforts barely made a dent in […]
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A late surge in demand overwhelms Colorado’s state-sponsored online school
Colorado’s state-sponsored online school has been overwhelmed by demand as a diverse collection of districts turn to the nonprofit provider to serve students whose parents don’t want them in a classroom during the pandemic. Colorado Digital Learning Solutions had to suspend registration just a few days after it opened last week to work through a backlog […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
Our family found routine during coronavirus. But we still needed to rediscover joy.
Parenting and working from home during the COVID-19 shutdown has felt just like Bill Murray’s classic movie “Groundhog Day.” We are living the same day, every day, with a few new choices peppered in for variety sans Murray’s zany antics. Each morning I attempt to tackle work and Zoom meetings while my four kids do […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
I’m staying at my co-parent’s house during the quarantine. It’s not as bad as you think.
“I wish you weren’t here.” This is what I hear at least once a day from my 16-year-old daughter. Out of my five children, she’s the one who has the most issues with me staying at my co-parent’s house until the quarantine is over. Especially since I spent an inordinate amount of time there prior […]