A list of child care centers and schools that El Paso County Public Health and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment have identified with having outbreaks of coronavirus.
Three Denver teachers shared challenges the pandemic brought to this school year. Author: Victoria De Leon Updated: 9:08 PM MDT May 20, 2021
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EVYENIA PAPPAS, 1ST GRADE AND LITERACY CONTENT LEAD, BROWN INTERNATIONAL
Evyenia Pappas didn t know she wanted to be a teacher until college. It even took other people pointing out her strengths and instant connection with kids that persuaded her to become an educator. Teaching 6-year-old s completely through a computer screen wasn t one of her skills before 2020. I absolutely think it’s something I can add to my resume; I’ve got a great grasp on it now, she said. When school districts first announced they d be switching to remote learning, Ms. Pappas, like other teachers and students, was excited to experience working from home. That reality really set in after about a day. Three weeks in, I was like, I’ve gotta get back into the building.
Top 10: Denver’s most in-demand elementary, middle and high schools
Courtesy of Denver Public Schools)
Parents of Denver’s roughly 93,000 public school students have choices to make.
Kids in the city are automatically eligible to attend their local public school. Some live in “enrollment zones,” which means students choose one of a handful of schools in an area.
But not all students, and their parents, stop there. Thousands apply to enroll their children in a school despite not living in the boundaries of that school.
So which schools are the most sought after?
In the first quarter of the year, parents of about 22,000 students submitted ranked preferences for the school they wanted for their children. Of those, the majority 13,884, to be exact were submitting to enroll their student in one of three grades: kindergarten, sixth grade and ninth grade.
Student s project on screen time s impact on blinking wins at Denver science fair
Elsa Vossler, an eighth grader at Skinner Middle School, won first place at Denver Metro Science and Engineering Fair, and some of her classmates also placed. Author: Victoria De Leon Updated: 7:41 PM MDT April 28, 2021
DENVER With so many people working from home over the last year, many have spent more time staring at computer screens. That s especially true for students who are remote learning. Even as students begin to return to in person learning, the computer screens don t go away.
Elsa Vossler, an eighth grader at Skinner Middle School who is still mostly doing remote learning, studied the blinking rate on a projected light source (a computer screen) and a reflected light source (a piece of paper). She titled her project Blink-183; The Effect of Projected versus Reflected Light on Blinking Rate.