When students can bring loaded weapons into the building, and nothing is done, it’s time to leave.
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Opinion: Letter grades aren’t always the best way to assess student achievement
A teacher’s discovery: When students aren’t anxious about As, Bs and Cs, they rise to a more challenging curriculum
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State Treasurer Young: Teaching financial literacy in schools can unlock better academic measurement
Growing up in a working-class family, we never received cash stuck in a birthday or holiday card, which is why I remember the time I got a $25 U.S. Savings Bond from my grandmother. It came in a birthday card, when I was 7 or 8 years old. Twenty-five dollars was a fortune to me. […]
Posted inEducation, News, Politics and Government
Despite pushback, Colorado will enforce K-3 teacher training on reading as planned
Colorado will stick to an August deadline for early elementary teachers to complete mandatory training on how to teach reading, despite pushback from some school district leaders about burdensome reporting requirements. Most State Board of Education members on Wednesday agreed that districts should be able to handle the job by the deadline. Districts that don’t […]
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Community rallies as roughly 1,500 Douglas County teachers call out sick following school board controversies
Protesters gather after allegations of open meeting law violations, equity debates
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Down 12 teachers, an Alamosa school drafted everyone they could to teach — including the principal
With 12 Ortega Middle School teachers scheduled to be out Friday, administrators of the Alamosa School District suddenly had to weigh their last-resort option: closing school. Assistant Superintendent Luis Murillo and his team “briefly” considered the idea, but instead scrambled to find staff to help cover classrooms, drafting Alamosa Online School employees — including the […]
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Opinion: Lessons from the pandemic — for teachers
Students and teachers face a steep uphill climb now after a year of interrupted learning. To me, the challenge seems daunting. But then I think about my students. I think about the boy who fled violence in Central America with only his father, leaving his mother behind; he was always eager to solve the most […]
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Opinion: It’s time for Colorado’s teachers to “know better” about the science of reading
Early in my teaching career, like many other educators, I used a balanced-literacy approach and believed that using the “three-cueing” theory of reading instruction was sufficient for teaching my primary grade students how to read. (As the journal EducationWeek recently defined it, three-cueing is a strategy that “involves prompting students to draw on context and […]
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Colorado may shift to a more in-depth reading exam for some new teachers
Some prospective Colorado teachers soon could be required to take a new, more rigorous test on reading instruction to earn their state teaching licenses. The State Board of Education will decide Wednesday whether to adopt the new exam, called the Praxis 5205, for elementary, early childhood, and special education candidates seeking teaching licenses. If approved, […]
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Opinion: The election, the Capitol attack and Black Lives Matter come to a kindergarten classroom in rural Colorado
If you had driven 17 miles from Colorado Springs to my hometown of Woodland Park during the 2020 presidential election, the first thing you’d see would be a large Confederate flag. During the election, our county, Teller, was pronounced “Trump County” on a banner prominently displayed on private land and a truck would drive up […]