IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
- PSP NEWS
- SAC MEETING
- FREE CSO CONCERT
- SUMMER READING PROGRAM
- CLASS OF 2022 CLAPOUT
- EPICER @ CTE THIS WEEK
- COUNSELOR'S CORNER
- CALENDAR
- FROM THE PRINCIPAL
- NEW FLYERS
PSP NEWS
Upcoming events:
4/21 Games Night 5-7pm (flyer)
4/26 PSP Meeting 5:30pm
5/2-5/6 Teacher Appreciation week
5/6 Morning with Moms 8am
5/13 All School Dance 5-7pm
SAC MEETING
Tuesday, 26Apr22 @ 6:15pm - see the agenda
FROM MUSIC - BOBBY ANDERSON
FREE Colorado Symphony Orchestra Concert!
LIFT EVERY VOICE!
A celebration of our common human spirit
Join family and friends for this concert at Boettcher Concert Hall in the
Denver Center for the Performing Arts. This is the concert that our 3rd grade students
have attended 'virtually' for the past two years. Now is your chance to see it performed live....for free!
Sunday, April 24th at 2:30pm
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE
FROM THE LMC - KAREN NOTTINGHAM
Unlock the Magic of Summer Reading! For more information and to register, visit DCL.org/summer-reading. Preregister online beginning May 1.
GRADUATING CLASS OF 2022 CLAP-OUT
Please join us to celebrate your class of 2022. You will be able to walk through the halls of CTE one last time before your graduation. On Monday, May 16th at 2:30, please meet in front of CTE for a photo before we have our current CTE students do a Clap Out. We are so excited to have you come back to visit. Please spread the word to former CTE students who are graduating and may not know about this!
[complete this form to participate]
EPICER @ CTE THIS WEEK
We have explored each EPCER trait in detail throughout the school year - and for the last 2 months we will bring them all together and see how they work together in our world!!
For the EPICER lesson in April/May, each classroom will brainstorm an activity which exemplifies being EPICER - they will carry out their activity and for our last EPICER assembly of the year (on 20May22) we will show a slideshow of all the classes efforts!
APRIL COUNSELOR'S CORNER - JANE STEINER
Is your child or someone you know struggling with anxiety? The District has partnered with Dr. Scott Cypers to release a series of videos for parents with a ton of information and how to help someone. The latest segment has just been released - all the videos can be found here.
Parent Articles
Finding a healthy balance with electronic devices
Screen time conversations with older kids and teens about their habits
Mental Health Resources
Masks may be coming off, but kids are still struggling from the pandemic. Here is a 3 part series from UC Health (7 min each) with tips from a doctor on managing the stress.
I Matter – Parents and youth (ages 12 and older) can take a brief mental health screening and schedule 3 free counseling appointments.
STEM Center for Strength – mental health and well-being resources
Safe 2 Tell Colorado
Do you know how to report a concern that threatens you, your friends, your family or your community? Safe 2 Tell Colorado is an anonymous reporting tool for parents and students. There are 3 ways to make an anonymous report – via website, app, or phone call.
Family Resources
Weekly snack/food bags provided by Parker Task Force – If your family is interested in having a bag of snacks/food sent home in their student’s backpack weekly, please fill out this brief form.
Families with housing instability
Universal Free Meal Benefits
UPCOMING CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS
FROM THE PRINCIPAL - JOSH MILLER
The Principal Chronicles continue ...
As I write this, I am in the middle of what has consumed my life for the past month, CMAS. For the last month, I have been planning, organizing, printing, scheduling, and preparing for this test. Now that it is here, I am basically running around all over the building stopping tests, starting tests and trying to get all of our make up tests figured out. All of this while I have been trying to balance my other responsibilities. I guess this is the reason why I am the only principal in all of DCSD who is responsible for CMAS. Every other building leader has someone else take the lead, we just don't have the person-power to do that here.
So the other day, I had my personal performance review with my boss. I had to drive over to his office and while I was driving I had to be a part of an IEP meeting on my phone as well as keep my computer open so I could manage CMAS. There is truly nothing like being triple booked for something.
Besides that, our students are doing such a good job with their testing. It was also really cool to see our primary students support the intermediate students with cards and signs cheering them on this year. I love the fact that our students get behind each other.
I'd love to share more fun and witty stories but I need to run and put out another CMAS fire. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time when the Principal Chronicles continue ...
NEW FLYERS
ARCHIVED FLYERS (ALL)
* Stone Canyon Summer Camps (flyer)
* TGA Tennis & Golf (flyer)
* Pop Warner Football (flyer)
* Science Matters STEM club (flyer)
* Chaparral Wrestling Club (flyer)
* join CUB SCOUTS (flyer)
* SARAH'S SPANISH SCHOOL (flyer)
* STEM CLUBS (flyer)
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