Team members from the Hilltop/Service Building celebrated Winter Spirit Week. It's not too late to share photos of your team's celebration. Learn more!
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Coming Soon: CollaboRATE Opens Jan. 2 |
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Mark your calendars, CollaboRATE is making its return on Jan. 2! Make your voice heard and strengthen your team by participating in CollaboRATE. This survey is one of the most important tools that you can use to provide your leader, team and DPS as a whole with confidential feedback that will be used to help Team DPS grow and improve.
Please take time to complete it as soon as possible. All team members who complete the survey on Jan. 2 will be entered into a prize giveaway! There will also be prizes for the schools and departments with the highest completion rate when the survey closes on Jan. 12.
As a reminder, the staff survey for ‘Your Voice/Tu Voz’ has merged into the winter CollaboRATE survey. With your feedback, our leaders and teams can challenge existing processes in support of positive changes that strengthen our efforts to ensure Every Learner Thrives!
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DPS School Nurse Awarded Colorado School Nurse of the Year |
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According to the association's website, this award publicly recognizes “the importance and work of school nurses by annually honoring one School Nurse of the Year from Colorado who has demonstrated excellence in school nursing practice and leadership in school health.”
“This achievement meant the world to me. I was nominated by my peers and voted by the leadership of my state's school nurse organization,” said Ana. “This is the result of working with a team of amazing, smart, knowledgeable and trusting individuals [who] inspire me every day and push me to do nothing but my best.”
Congratulations on your incredible achievement, Ana!
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New Canva Team Structure Coming After Winter Break |
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DPS is migrating to a new Canva structure over break. Please note: Content will not be lost during the migration and there is no action to take at this time. As part of the migration, school-based team members will be added to one or more new Canva teams corresponding to the school(s) they support. Team members who are not school-based will be added to the “Default District Office” team.
What to expect:
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We will re-label our existing district team to “Archive: Denver Public Schools.” You can always access this content by toggling between the existing team and your new school team(s).
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After the break, copy your content from the Archive team to your new school team(s).
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Google Security Changes Reminder |
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To protect student and staff information, DoTS will begin blocking access to certain Google Marketplace Add-ons and additional Google OAuth applications/sites starting Tuesday, Dec. 19. Please refer to this updated Google Add-Ons and OAuth document for more details.
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Keeping Your Information Safe in the New Year and Tax Season |
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Going into a new year and tax season brings threats from attackers and scammers. DPS Information Security wants you prepared to protect your information!
Practice these tips to keep your information safe now and through the new year:
For more information about keeping your information protected, refer to the resources listed above and on the Cybersecurity page on The Commons.
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Now Hiring: AEA Teachers, Affinity Community Partners, and Other Support Roles |
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The Achieving Excellence Academy (AEA) is a cultural summer program that highlights the experiences of Black/African-American, Latinx, Asian-American/Pacific Islander and Native American/Indigenous families, students and educators. The program serves as a district initiative to support and encourage the development of students of marginalized identities. All incoming ninth- through 11th-graders are welcome to apply.
Are you a knowledgeable, passionate and culturally responsive educator? Are you skilled at safely supporting young adult learners through racial, ethnic and/or culture-based conversations? Are you intentionally collaborative and a lifelong learner? If you answered yes to any of these questions, learn more about an AEA teaching, community partner or support role here and apply by Friday, Jan. 12.
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DPS Discount Alert: Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena |
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Join us in supporting the Colorado Avalanche as they take on the San Jose Sharks this Sunday, Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. at Ball Arena! Tickets start at $43, with a portion of each ticket sold being donated back to the DPS Foundation! Buy your tickets today.
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Colorado Gives Day Winners |
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Thank you to our Team DPS members and donors who supported the DPS Foundation on Colorado Gives Day! We're happy to announce the winners of the Colorado Gives Day prizes! Cory Ehler, Joanna Barker and Vanessa Ferrel won the Team DPS prize drawings for Nuggets tickets, ski lift tickets, gift cards and more!
Thank you for giving and encouraging a culture of philanthropy at DPS. In addition, the donor who won the Colorado Gives Day Grantmaker prize selected North High School as their beneficiary school! We know this prize will have a big impact on students and teachers at North.
Are you a part of Team DPS and want to get involved? Click here!
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Nadia Madan Morrow
Principal, Place Bridge Academy
Students First
"The week before Thanksgiving break, The Denver Post visited our school to highlight the influx of migrants we welcomed. Principal Nadia was able to highlight all of the hard work our teachers, paraprofessionals, kitchen staff and maintenance team have done to welcome these students not only to our school but to our country. Reporters spent half the day talking to students and learning their stories for a front-page spread. In a separate story, Colorado Public Radio (CPR) interviewed Principal Nadia and she was able to share more about how our students always come first.
In addition to media visits, officials from Aurora Public Schools — including the Superintendent and Chief of Academics — came to learn about our Newcomer Center. Principal Nadia gave them a tour of our Newcomer classrooms and again shared stories of students' journeys to the United States.
Principal Nadia never forgot the whole point of having these visitors at our school: students. Way to go, Principal Nadia! We are all proud to have you here at Place Bridge Academy and can't wait to see what you do in the years to come!"
-- Heather Wedewer, Place Bridge Academy
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