Can you sign onto the five agreements?
If we can first agree that multiple, valuable truths exist simultaneously in education: congratulations! We made it to our first agreement.
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Unlocking opportunity: The power of charter schools for Colorado parents
During this open enrollment season, we encourage parents to explore charter school options, and we’ve highlighted resources to help inform that decision below.
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Innovation zone director on DPS banning her from schools
Educators should come together to solve issues for students. Currently, DPS leans on investigation rather than collaboration. This is not good for our students.
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Parents and teachers at McAuliffe protest DPS threat to dismantle innovation status
More than 200 parents, teachers and students staged a loud protest outside of McAuliffe International School early Tuesday amid fears that the district and outgoing school board will revoke McAuliffe’s reform-minded innovation status and fire several educators at Thursday’s board meeting.
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Journalist-to-teacher late career switch left me worried, hopeful about education’s future
I frankly am more worried about the state of public education than I was when I made the leap 15 years ago. But I still have hope for public education. Much of that hope lives through resilient students and committed teachers.
The egregious error of destroying Denver’s reforms: A national perspective
More reversals are sure to come unless school leaders defend and perhaps even expand the policies that have given the city’s most vulnerable students an educational lifeline.
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DPS board orders NE Denver Innovation Zone to revise plans that include policy waivers abolished in 2022
Denver Public Schools officials said that the renewal plan was confusing. They said the schools did not specify well enough which waivers from the original 2018 innovation plan that they want to keep in the updated plan.
Why is DPS undermining our innovation zone?
The DPS board and leadership seem more interested in imposing their will and reining in innovative practices than in focusing on what we at Beacon Network Schools are doing to serve our students.
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Denver’s innovation schools await their fate
With Denver Public Schools innovation plan renewals coming up for votes over the next few months, we’ll be able to see in real time just how badly the school board has, with its meddling, damaged the concept of innovation.
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Downtown Denver Expeditionary School fosters a nurturing environment
We love and support our students, and we encourage their interests and needs.
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