Effective March 1, 2023, all DSST team members who are enrolled in medical will move to the Aetna Open Access network (the larger, expanded, network of care providers) as we are moving away from the Aetna APCN Network.
Topics: Inside the Classroom
Throughout the month of February, our campuses held various events celebrating Black History Month with the help of Black student leaders and special community guests.
Topics: Community Stories
Written by the DSST: Montview High School journalism team:
Journalism is the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast, but by MTVnews’ definition, it is being creative and using that as a stepping stool for an intellectual, scholarly community. The journalism class at DSST: Montview High School has informed the community of school events and national holidays and acted as a beacon of positivity in today’s world.
Topics: Inside the Classroom
On any given Wednesday afternoon, you can find Tara Peña, junior at DSST: College View High School, muddying up her Converse shoes walking the Bluff Lake property completing her internship assignments. And she loves every second of it.
Topics: College Success
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Welcome to the FYI on DEI - winter edition. This will provide snapshots and updates of the DEI work at DSST Public Schools. The FYI includes an update on our overall DEI department goal, identified success and opportunities for improvement, our commitment to becoming an anti-racist organization and a look ahead to the remainder of the school year and toward 2023-2024.
Topics: News, Updates, & Events
The 2023-24 calendar is now live! The calendar includes several adjustments, which are a direct response to your feedback.
Topics: News, Updates, & Events
As you may have seen from Monday's email from Bill Kurtz, DSST will be introducing a new leadership role.
Topics: News, Updates, & Events
We asked Lori Barr, a parent from DSST: Byers, to share why she chose DSST for her son and why she thinks others should too. Here is what she said.
Topics: Inside the Classroom
For a young mind, there is no greater gift than that of literacy. It is a gift that allows one to explore places, things, or ideas anywhere without even leaving your chair. It allows travel to another continent or to a distant spot in a boundless universe.
Literacy is a ticket whose expiration date is a lifetime and one that can be passed on endlessly. But COVID-19, a microscopic bug that created a new normal in every time zone, also affixed a form of intellectual handcuffs on many young minds.
In Colorado and every state, the pandemic created chaos. The virus closed schools and forced educators to scramble and create whole new approaches to teaching. Now, nearly three years since the first cases of coronavirus, we are seeing the intellectual impact it had on learning.
Topics: News, Updates, & Events
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As we all came back from the winter holiday, feeling a bit sluggish, tired from all of the holiday events and entertainment, we looked towards the next long break in our schedule to help us level-set the feelings of exhaustion that we were experiencing and that just so happened to be Martin Luther King Jr Day. As we gathered our thoughts about what we were going to do over that three-day weekend, did they include images, ideas and ruminations of: Fellowship, Community Service, Brotherhood/Sisterhood or were they solely based on resting and catching up on sleep?
