Goodwill Industries of Denver Hires New Chief Financial Officer
Goodwill Industries of Denver welcomed Rick Hettlinger as the nonprofit organization’s new Chief Financial Officer. Hettlinger has an impressive executive leadership background in both finance and...
View ArticleHiwan Homestead Museum brings the past alive for students
By Jack Maher, Multimedia Journalist, and Devan Crean, Marketing & Communications Specialist, Jeffco Public Schools The Hiwan Homestead Museum in Evergreen has been a popular field trip destination...
View ArticleA Matter of Diversity
By Jack Maher, Multimedia Journalist, and Devan Crean, Marketing & Communications Specialist, Jeffco Public Schools Students and staff from high schools all over Colorado, including many from...
View ArticleJeffco Public Schools’ 2nd Annual Thank a Teacher Video Contest
Jeffco Public Schools is again celebrating the hard work and dedication of the great teachers in the district with “Thank a Teacher Video Contest”. The purpose of the contest is to recognize the...
View ArticleA Bit of Reality
A production crew member checks a camera during a location shoot for the HGTV series “Log Cabin Living” in Conifer. Two Conifer High School students got the chance to shadow the crew as part of their...
View ArticleIvy League & Ice
By Jack Maher, Multimedia Journalist, and Devan Crean, Marketing & Communications Specialist, Jeffco Public Schools Arvada West High School senior Alexandra Peper is headed to Harvard. Peper, a...
View ArticleAt Lakewood High School, a little off the top
Lakewood High School counselor Jill Mark (left) poses with her friend Maya Sanchez (center) and daughter Catherine (right) moments after having their heads shaved as part of the school’s St. Baldrick’s...
View ArticlePrincipal Shadows Student, Gets Schooled
A Day in the Life of an 8th Grader I had just finished my morning coffee. Looking out of my office window, I saw AC entering the building with his sister. I popped up from my desk, met him at the door...
View ArticleMore than 600 honored at Jeffco Values Awards
Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education members Amanda Stevens and Ali Lasell helped welcome over 600 district employees to the Jeffco Fairgrounds at the western-themed 2016 Values Awards. By Jack...
View ArticleExpress Employment Professionals matches funds raised by Alameda...
By Tanya Wheeler-Berliner, digital media specialist for Jeffco Public Schools. Students in the Alameda International articulation area joined together over the past year to raise more than $3,000 for...
View ArticleOASIS Tutors Celebrate 25 Year Partnership with Jeffco Schools
Kim Ballantyne, left, READ Act Administrator with Jeffco Schools, receives a certificate commemorating 25 years of partnering with OASIS Tutors from Jan Clover, OASIS Coordinator On Monday, May 2nd,...
View ArticleWarren Tech: Metal man
By Jack Maher, Multimedia Journalist, and Devan Crean, Marketing & Communications Specialist, Jeffco Public Schools Jeffco student Tanner Newson practices a welding technique at Warren Tech. Newson...
View ArticleDeer Creek Middle School: The Shoe Project
By Jack Maher, Multimedia Journalist, and Devan Crean, Marketing & Communications Specialist, Jeffco Public Schools Donated shoes start to fill a metal cage near the Deer Creek Middle School...
View ArticleThank You for Making a Difference at Jeffco Public Schools
Mary Palomino, retiring Facilities Manager at Parr Elementary, reacts while being honored during the 2016 Jeffco Public Schools Retirement Dinner at the Arvada Center. Jeffco Public Schools paid...
View ArticleA Scholar & A Gentleman
Daniels Fund Scholarship recipient Eroj Tuladhar helps paint t-shirts as part of pep rally preparations at Alameda International High School. Seniors at Alameda International Jr./Sr. High School...
View ArticleThe Courtyard at Witt Elementary
Witt Elementary students, parents, and community partners applaud as a new courtyard is dedicated at their school. Witt Elementary had a big problem – a run-down courtyard full of bees. “It was a place...
View ArticleThank a Teacher: Our 2016 winner
Juliana Felten huddles with some of her first grade students in her Rooney Ranch Elementary classroom. The school year was winding down at Rooney Ranch Elementary, but that didn’t mean the pace was any...
View ArticleEverybody dance! End-of-school-year video
Employees at the Jeffco Public Schools Ed Center are among those featured in the new JPS-TV music video “Everybody Dance!” Jeffco Public Schools continuedan end-of-school-year tradition with a music...
View ArticleGovernor’s Ranch Elementary: Time to try Tinikling
Third-graders at Governor’s Ranch Elementary try out their newly learned Tinikling skills in P.E. class. They were warming up, third-grade style, in Gary Anderson’s P.E. class at Governor’s Ranch...
View ArticleYour Voice: Sherlock Holmes: The curious case of the Jeffco facilities plan
As humans, we naturally look for evidence to help us understand what is going on. However, as Sherlock Holmes noted in “Silver Blaze”, it is sometimes the absence of evidence that provides the most...
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