Team DPS Weekly
Jan. 4, 2024
CollaboRATE is Open Now Through Friday, Jan. 12
CollaboRATE is open now through Friday, Jan. 12. You still have time to make your voice heard in the annual CollaboRATE Survey! Your feedback is essential to improving the Adult Experience for Team DPS so please take 20-30 minutes to complete the survey now. 

You should have received an email from K12 Insights with your unique link to the survey on Tuesday, Jan. 2. If you did not receive the survey link from K12, please email surveys@dpsk12.net. For more information, visit the CollaboRATE page on The Commons.  

There will be prizes for the schools and departments with the highest completion rate when the survey closes on Jan. 12.
Introducing the New Google Docs Target Audience Feature
Over the Winter Break, DoTS implemented a new Google Docs feature: Target Audience. The Target Audience feature allows you to select District sharing options on a Google Doc. You can choose to share with DPS Team members only while excluding DPS student's access. For more information, please see the Target Audiences instructions. 

As a reminder, never share any documents containing sensitive data with the following: 
  • ‘Denver Public Schools’ group – this shares your content with all DPS Team members and students. 
  • ‘DPS Staff’ group – this shares your content with all DPS Team members.
Celebrate National School Counseling Week Feb. 5-9
The Career and College Success team will be celebrating school counselors for National School Counseling Week Feb. 5-9. If you work with school counselors and would like to participate in this celebration, please email a 5-15 second video to Joanna Wood on why school counselors are important in your building. We will compile a celebratory video to be shared at our School Counselor Professional Learning in February. The deadline for video submissions is Friday, Jan. 19.
Top 5 Callout: New Year's Resolutions 🎉
Welcome back, Team DPS! We’ve said “so long” to 2023 and are all ready for a fresh start in 2024. Did you make any New Year's resolutions? Share your plans and goals for the year ahead through this form, and you may be featured in next week’s Team DPS Weekly!
Second Annual DPS Black Student Alliance District Banquet and Awards
Join the DPS Activities Team on Thursday, Feb. 22 for the Second Annual Black Student Banquet and Awards. This year’s theme is African Americans and the Arts. The event is free to all attendees and will take place from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Tivoli at the Auraria Campus. 

All DPS Middle and High Schools with Black Student Alliance’s (BSA’s) and/or emerging BSA programs are invited to our celebration of Black students and team members. Busses are available upon request in the Google form below. 

If you are interested in attending, please follow the steps below:
  • Step 1: Please complete the DPS Black Student Alliance District Banquet Google form to show us your interest (if you haven't already).  
  • Step 2:  Begin talking to your admin teams and BSA kids about this event and start identifying students to attend.
  • Step 3: Select your students who will receive awards using this form.
Now Hiring: AEA Teachers, Affinity Community Partners and Other Support Roles
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, check out the Achieving Excellence Academy. Apply by Friday, Jan. 12!

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.
DPS Discount Alert: National Western Stock Show
Join us in supporting the annual National Western Stock event from Saturday, Jan. 6 to Sunday, Jan. 21. For each ticket purchased, $2 will be donated to the DPS Foundation to support our students! Buy your tickets here and be sure to use the promotional code DPSF at check out.
Virtual Q.P.R. Gatekeeper Training
Question. Persuade. and Refer. (QPR) is a gatekeeper training program for suicide prevention. The training program is designed to teach DPS team members the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond. Our next training will be held virtually on Wednesday, Jan. 17 from 2-3:30 p.m. and can be accessed via this link. If you have questions, please email Meghan Kimball for assistance. 
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