Fostering Intergroup Contact in Diverse Schools
Decades of research show that students are best served in diverse and equitable schools. Diversity...
04/25/19
Fostering Intergroup Contact in Diverse Schools
Decades of research show that students are best served in diverse and equitable schools. Diversity enhances learning environments, inspiring reduced racial bias, increased student creativity, better developed problem-solving skills, and higher average test scores for students in integrated schools. 1 These well documented benefits, however, are often stymied when schools achieve only numerical diversity without truly taking steps to maximize relationship building across racial and economic difference.
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04/24/19
Democrats, support charter schools
Recent teacher strikes across American opened people’s eyes to the chronic underfunding of public schools and spurred several states to increase investments in education. For that, we should be grateful. But the rhetoric accompanying the strikes in West Virginia, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., and elsewhere has made charter schools sound like an enemy of public education. They are not, and my fellow Democrats shouldn’t fall for it.
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04/24/19
Important Benefits Update
To view more information about DSST benefits update go to https://tinyurl.com/DSST-Benefits
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04/23/19
Cross-Generational Partnership
High Schoolers at DSST: Stapleton have been visiting the Balfour Senior Living Center in Stapleton as part of both the Critical Skills Development (life skills taught in 11th grade) course and the Service Club, the trips are led by staff Lara Thomas, Cory Hofschild, and Marla Lee.
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04/22/19
Helping Families Choose
School choice is based on one simple but powerful principle: parents should have the ability to send their kids to any school that will help their children thrive.
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04/19/19
Journalists must keep their spotlight on the trajectory of students
The last time I had this queasy feeling about where education is headed, it was 2010 and I was midway through a book about Michelle Rhee’s turn as superintendent of D.C. Public Schools. When I started the book, she was flying high in the press; before I was done, her media stock had plummeted.
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04/18/19
At Our Core: Exemplary College Essays
Every one of our graduating seniors has a fascinating story to tell - and there are some we have been fortunate enough to learn about through a short but powerful 500 word college essay. One of those is DSST: Cole senior Reem , who opened up about shattering beauty norms that were unconsciously enforced by both family members and society at large.
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04/16/19
Three Columbine survivors open up about their lives after the tragedy
The first time Heather Martin experienced a lockdown drill, the traumatic memories from her past resurfaced.
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04/15/19
Alumni Stories: Flor
Flor is an alumni of DSST: Cole High School and currently a Freshman at Claremont McKenna College in California. Even though she's busy wrapping up her first year of school, we we're lucky enough to be able to talk to her about the challenges and successes that she has encountered so far!
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04/11/19
At Our Core: Graduation Gratitude Video Series Kick-Off
The road to graduation and college is not an easy one. From tackling challenging AP classes to creating meaningful senior projects, sometimes while juggling side jobs, our students have worked hard for their moment to announce on the Denver Coliseum stage where they will be attending college next year. As our #DSSTSEN19RS get closer and closer to Senior Signing Day and graduation, they’ve taken time to reflect back and thank the people who have been there for them along the way.
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