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2022 EDUCATION GUIDE ACADEMY DISTRICT 20 719-234-1200, asd20.org • Academy Endeavour • Academy International Elementary • Air Academy High School • Antelope Trails Elementary School • Aspen Valley Campus (Middle and High School) • Briargate Preschool • Challenger Middle School • Chinook Trail Elementary School • Chinook Trail Middle School • Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School • Discover Canyon Campus Middle School • Discovery Canyon Campus High School • Douglass Valley Elementary School • Eagleview Middle School • Edith Wolford Elementary School • Encompass Heights Elementary School • Explorer Elementary School • Foothills Elementary School • Frontier Elementary School • High Plains Elementary School • Home School Academy (K-12) • Journey K8 (K-8) • Legacy Peak Elementary School • Liberty High School • Mountain Ridge Middle School • Mountain View Elementary School • New Opportunity Programs (Grades 9-12) • New Summit Charter Academy

Elementary School • Pine Creek High School • Pioneer Elementary School • Prairie Hills Elementary School • Rampart High School • Ranch Creek Elementary • Rockrimmon Elementary School • School in the Woods Elementary School • The Classical Academy (Elementary, Middle and High Schools) • The Da Vinci Academy Elementary School • Timberview Middle School • Village High School • Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School

CALHAN SCHOOL DISTRICT RJ-1 719-347-2766 calhanschool.org • Calhan Preschool • Calhan Elementary School • Calhan Middle School • Calhan High School

CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 719-475-6100, cmsd12.org • Broadmoor Elementary School • Cañon Preschool • Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School

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THE GAZETTE SPOTLIGHT // LOCAL SCHOOLS • Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School • Cheyenne Mountain High School • Gold Camp Elementary School • Piñon Valley Elementary School • Skyway Park Elementary School

COLORADO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND 719-578-2100 csdb.colorado.gov COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11 719-520-2000, d11.org • Academy for Advanced and Creative Learning • Achieve Online School • Adams Elementary School • Adult and Family Education • Audubon Elementary School • Bijou School • Bristol Elementary School • Buena Vista Elementary School • Carver Elementary School • Chipeta Elementary School • CIVA Charter High School • Columbia Elementary School • Community Prep Charter School • Coronado High School • Digital High School • Doherty High School • Eastlake High School • Edison Elementary School • Freedom Elementary School • Fremont Elementary School • Galileo School of Math and Science • Globe Charter School • Grant Elementary School • Henry Elementary School • Holmes Middle School • Howbert Elementary School • Jackson Elementary School • Jenkins Middle School • Keller Elementary School • King Elementary School • Madison Elementary School • Mann Middle School • Martinez Elementary School • McAuliffe Elementary School • Midland Elementary School • Mitchell High School • Monroe Elementary School • North Middle School • Odyssey Early College and Career Options • Palmer High School • Penrose Elementary School • Queen Palmer Elementary School • Rogers Elementary School • Roosevelt Charter Academy • Roy J Wasson Academic Campus • Rudy Elementary School • Russell Middle School • Sabin Middle School • Scott Elementary School • Spark Online Academy • Steele Elementary School • Stratton Elementary School • Swigert Aerospace Academy

• Taylor Elementary School • Tesla Educational Opportunity School • Trailblazer Elementary School • Twain Elementary School • West Campus • Wilson Elementary School

CRIPPLE CREEKVICTOR SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-1 719-698-2685 ccvschools.com • Cresson Elementary • Cripple Creek-Victor Junior High School • Cripple Creek-Victor High School • Early Childhood Education/Head Start

SCHOOL DISTRICT 49 719-495-1100, d49.org • Academy for Literary, Learning & Innovation Excellence • Banning Lewis Ranch Academy • Bennett Ranch Elementary School • Evans Elementary School • Falcon Elementary School of Technology • Falcon Middle School • Falcon High School • Falcon Homeschool Program • GOAL Academy • Grand Peak Academy • Horizon Middle School • Inspiration View Elementary School • Liberty Tree Academy • Meridian Ranch Elementary School • Mountain View Academy • Odyssey Elementary School • Patriot High School • Pikes Peak Early College • Pikes Peak School of Expeditionary Learning • Power Technical • Remington Elementary School • Ridgeview Elementary School • Rocky Mountain Classical Academy • Sand Creek High School • Skyview Middle School • Spacious Skies Charter School • Springs Ranch Elementary School • Springs Studio for Academic Excellence • Stetson Elementary School • Vista Ridge High School • Woodmen Hills Elementary School

EDISON SCHOOL DISTRICT 54JT 719-478-2125, edison54jt.org • Eagle Nest Preschool • Edison Elementary School • Edison Middle High School • Edison High School • Edison Prep

ELLICOTT SCHOOL DISTRICT 22 719-683-2700 ellicottschools.org • Ellicott Preschool • Ellicott Elementary School

THE GAZETTE SPOTLIGHT // LOCAL SCHOOLS • Ellicott Middle School • Ellicott Senior High School • Home School Program

FOUNTAIN-FORT CARSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 8 719-382-1300, ffc8.org • Abrams Elementary School • Aragon Elementary School • Carson Middle School • Conrad Early Learning Center • Eagleside Elementary School • Fountain-Fort Carson High School • Fountain Middle School • Jordahl Elementary School • Mesa Elementary School • Mountainside Elementary School • Patriot Elementary School • Weikel Elementary School • Welte Education Center

HANOVER SCHOOL DISTRICT 28 719-683-2247 hanoverhornets.org • Hanover Junior-Senior High School • Hanover 6-12 Online Academy • Prairie Heights Elementary School

HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2 719-579-2000 hsd2.org • Atlas Preparatory Elementary School • Atlas Preparatory Middle School • Atlas Preparatory High School • Aspire Online Academy • Bricker Elementary School • Career Readiness Academy • Carmel Community School • Centennial Elementary School • Fox Meadow Middle School • Giberson Elementary School • Harrison High School • James Irwin Elementary School • James Irwin High School • James Irwin Middle School • Monterey Elementary School • Mountain Vista Community School • Oak Creek Elementary School • Otero Elementary School • Panorama Middle School • Sand Creek International School • Sierra High School • Soaring Eagles Elementary School • Stratton Meadows Elementary School • The Vanguard School (Lower and Upper) • Thrive Home School Academy • Turman Elementary School • Wildflower Elementary School

LEWIS-PALMER SCHOOL DISTRICT 38 719-488-4700, lewispalmer.org • Bear Creek Elementary School • Home School Enrichment Academy

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• Lewis-Palmer Elementary School • Lewis-Palmer Middle School • Lewis-Palmer High School • Monument Academy • Online Middle and High School Programs • Palmer Lake Elementary School • Palmer Ridge High School • Prairie Winds Elementary School • Preschool and Early Childhood Programs • Ray E. Kilmer Elementary School

MANITOU SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 14 719-685-2024 mssd14.org • Manitou Springs Elementary School • Manitou Springs Middle School • Manitou Springs High School • Ute Pass Elementary School

MIAMI-YODER SCHOOL DISTRICT JT-60 719-478-2186 miamiyoder.com • Miami-Yoder Elementary School • Miami-Yoder Middle-High School

PEYTON SCHOOL DISTRICT 23 JT 719-749-2330, peyton.k12.co.us • Peyton College Academy • Peyton Elementary School • Peyton Junior-Senior High School • Peyton Online Academy • Peyton’s Career Technical Education Facility

WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3 719-391-3000 wsd3.org • D3 My Way • Discovery High School • French Elementary School • Grand Mountain School K-8 • James Madison Charter Academy School • Janitell Junior High School • King Elementary School • Mesa Ridge High School • The MILL (Manufacturing Industry Learning Lab) Training Center • Pinello Elementary School • Sproul Junior High School • Sunrise Elementary School • Talbott STEAM Innovation School • Venetucci Elementary School • Watson Junior High School • Webster Elementary School • Widefield Elementary School of the Arts • Widefield High School • WSD3 Preschool

WOODLAND PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-2 719-686-2000, wpsdk12.org • Columbine Elementary School • Gateway Elementary School • Summit Elementary School • Woodland Park Middle School • Woodland Park High School • Merit Academy

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES • Air Force Academy • CCU Online – Colorado Springs Center • Colorado College • Colorado Technical University Colorado Springs • IntelliTec College Colorado Springs • Nazarene Bible College, online • Pikes Peak Community College • Pima Medical Institute • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs • Webster University

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Local school boards move forward after disappointing Nov. ’21 election results

By O’Dell Isaac, odell.isaac@gazette.com

THE GAZETTE SPOTLIGHT // BOND ISSUES DEFEATED

The November 2021 election was largely a disappointing one for Pikes Peak-area school districts asking voters to approve funding measures to refurbish schools, improve teacher pay or update facilities.

Harrison School District 2 and Peyton School District 23-JT were successful in their respective bids to pass Ballot Issues 4D and 5A, respectively, allowing

them to keep revenues in excess of the limits imposed by the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, or TABOR. But voters said no to proposed bond packages from Colorado Springs School District 11 and Manitou Springs School District 14, as well as a proposed tax hike to fund a pay raise for District 49 teachers and staff. These districts are now left to address their issues without a much-needed infusion of capital, according to Manitou Springs school board president Tina Vidovich.

“We will go back to the drawing board,” Vidovich said. “Our facility issues aren’t going away, and they won’t get any cheaper as construction costs escalate.”

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funds to be generated through a successful bond,” Domangue said.

Although the bond proposal was voted down, Domangue is encouraged by the fact that 42% of voters favored the measure. She and other district leaders are reaching out to the community as they plan their next steps.

“We’ve been able to speak with different stakeholders — residents, parents, staff, and business holders in the community — listening to them to figure out why people voted yes, and why others voted no,” she said.

District 49 overwhelmingly voted against Ballot Issue 4A, a proposed $8.6 million tax increase to fund pay raises for teachers and other staff members. More than 11,000 people voted against the issue.

District leaders were hoping to use the funds to retain the best teachers and make it an attractive location for prospective employees. Residents struck down the proposal despite the fact that D-49 staff members make roughly 14% less than their colleagues

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money” needed in order to receive nearly $9 million in state funding under the Building Excellent Schools Today, or BEST, program.

The district proposed the bond with an eye toward updating several of its facilities, but its elementary and middle schools are a top priority, according to Superintendent Elizabeth Domangue.

The elementary school, which houses the district’s sole auditorium, was built in 1922. Manitou Springs Middle School, built in 1978, has a foundation that has shifted in some areas, Domangue said. Neither building has air conditioning.

“One of the things we’ve learned from COVID is the importance of having high-quality air in our school buildings,” the superintendent said.

Another priority is making sure all the facilities comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Domangue said.

The district tentatively is planning to apply for BEST funding in 2022 or 2023, but “any funding awarded at that time would require matching

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in District 11 and 20, according to Chief Business Officer Brett Ridgway.

Newly elected school board member Jamilynn D’Avola was the sole board candidate who went on record against the tax increase, calling it “a huge burden on taxpayers who are already overburdened and overtaxed.”

D’Avola, who is a schoolteacher herself, acknowledged the need to compensate and retain the district’s best teachers, but said a pay raise can be funded by rearranging the existing budget.

“It’s very important that we look at our budget at a deeper level,” D’Avola said. “We can always find other avenues for funding our teachers with money we already have.”

Colorado Springs District 11 was hoping voters would approve a $350 million tax-free bond that would be a crucial asset in its $1 billion Facilities Master Plan, a long-range measure aimed at enhancing and modernizing learning spaces in the city’s oldest school district.

The measure, which would have helped the district begin to chip away at an estimated $700 million in necessary repairs, was defeated by just 11 votes.

Many of D-11’s structures are suffering from infrastructure problems, according to Terry Seaman, the district’s executive director of facilities.

“Our average facility age is 60 years,” Seaman said. “It’s very hard, without a bond, to fix old infrastructure in a timely manner.”

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In 2017, District 11 voters approved a mill levy override that provides about $15 million per year for repairs and maintenance. That, plus $5 million from the district’s general fund, gives Seaman’s department roughly $20 million each year.

That sounds like a lot of money.

However, Seaman said, “if I was to replace all the facilities in the district (that need replacing), it would cost about $1.3 billion.”

Interim deputy superintendent Sherry Kalbach said some features of the district’s Academic Master Plan are dependent upon facility upgrades.

“But the good news for us is that, at the elementary level, a lot of our programs aren’t as dependent on facility improvement,” Kalbach said. “For instance, we can integrate art into a

curriculum in an older building.”

Seaman said the district will be able to remain open, but repairs will be limited to high-priority items such as HVAC systems, many of which are about 30 years old. Secondary repairs, like replacing floor tiles, will have to wait.

“The fact is, right now, we’re in a holding pattern,” Seaman said. “We’ll keep the doors open in the district, but we’re not going to be able to effect regular and consistent change in our facilities.”

Kalbach said the district plans to move forward with its Academic Master Plan.

“We won’t be able to do it as quickly, or maybe to the same scale, as we initially intended,” she said. “But we’re not gong to walk away from those plans.”

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THE GAZETTE SPOTLIGHT // TECHNICAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

The Pikes Peak Workforce Center in Colorado Springs. The Gazette file.

Technical education:

Pikes Peak Workforce Center program helps students rise toward tech careers

By Hugh Johnson, hugh.johnson@gazette.com The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is offering those affected by the COVID -19 pandemic a second chance at an education and potentially a new career.

The Center’s Ready to Rise Program will pay for a short-term, 12-months-orless certification for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The credentials span a variety of industries including information technology, healthcare, skilled trades, STEM and visual arts.

The program is available for anyone in El Paso and Teller counties, with the only stipulation being that someone in the applicant’s household had to have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020.

That includes job loss, furlough, pay cuts, needing to pay for high-speed internet to accommodate working from home, and being forced resign due to lack of childcare or due to children needing to learn from home. The impact and effect don’t have to be ongoing; the benefit is applicable to anyone who was impacted for any period of time during the

pandemic. People are eligible regardless if they are employed or unemployed.

Ready to Rise was introduced in October and is funded through the Colorado Recovery Plan.

Communications manager Becca Tonn said the center has two years to spend $1.8 million on the program.

According to Tonn, some 400 people have filled out the interest form on the site but only 40 of those have actually applied for the program so far. The center has until the end of 2023 to spend the money, but Tonn said that the center wants people to apply this year because the program pays for certifications that can take up to a year.

“We don’t have a lot of people through yet. It takes time to get people in the pipeline, but we are certainly trying to promote (IT) because those lead to fabulous jobs for people,” she said. “People can get an IT certification and start out making more than somebody else who has a four-year degree. It is a shorter and more direct route to an immediate career and that is

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one of the reasons we like to promote it.”

Tonn said the Ready to Rise program offers around 100 short-term certifications in information technology fields. That number is key because in a 2020 community report the center released, residents in the Pikes Peak region filed 80,000 unemployment claims, the vast majority of which came from El Paso County. While food service and retail industries were hit the hardest — alongside leisure and hospitality services and even some trades, utilities and transportation industries — those with jobs in information made up just 856 of the claims. That’s roughly 1%.

Job security is not the only appealing aspect of the information sector. It’s projected to grow, with nearly 5,000 news jobs in the industry expected to come to the region from 2020-2030, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Applicants need to fill out an interest page on the center’s website, which will get them in touch with a navigator who

will determine if the person qualifies for the program, Tonn said. From there, Tonn said, there is a more in-depth application process.

The center’s website also provides a list of providers that can train applicants. People do need to be aware however, that the Ready to Rise program only funds certifications that will be completed in 12 months or less and that some jobs will require more than one certification. The Ready to Rise program will only pay for one certification per applicant.

As a whole, the Pikes Peak Workforce Center assisted more than 13,000 people and nearly 2,500 businesses in 2020. It assisted more than 29,700 people and nearly 3,000 businesses in 2021.

The Pikes Peak Workforce Center helps employed, unemployed and underemployed residents of El Paso and Teller Counties find work by putting their career profiles in a database that vetted businesses around the region can peruse and pursue. The center also hosts recruitment events.

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THE GAZETTE SPOTLIGHT // EQUITY IN EDUCATION

Equity:

Area districts work to make schools more welcoming for all students

By O’Dell Isaac, odell.isaac@gazette.com

The events of 2020 have sparked a national conversation about equity and inclusion, as well as institutional bias that sometimes limits them. That conversation has made its way into school districts across the country, including Colorado.

In recent years, many of the state’s school districts have adopted equity policies and, in some cases, have added an equity department to ensure those policies are enacted. Most Pikes Peakarea districts have folded some form of equity work into their policies, practices and training.

Alexis Knox-Miller, District 11’s director of equity and inclusion, said her department’s purpose is not to ensure

an equality of academic outcomes, but to make sure the underserved sectors of the district’s population have the same opportunities for success as everyone else.

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“We keep coming back to the word ‘belonging.’ We want to make sure all voices are heard regardless of race, background or lifestyle.”

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to the mixed success of district schools, according to Knox-Miller.

“There are achievement gaps between schools and within schools, and there are predictabilities amongst those gaps,” she said. “We can look at a school with a lot of IEPs, or a school with a lot of people who don’t speak English as a first language, and we can predict how that school is doing. We shouldn’t be able to do that.”

The equity audit has come under recent criticism — much of it voiced at school board meetings — for a perceived focus on race.

There was a focus on racialized subgroups,” Knox-Miller said. “But that was something we had to look at, to see how healthy our system is.”

District 11’s board of education has not disclosed its immediate plans for the department, but former leadership team members said they believe it faces an uncertain future.

“I don’t see much of a concern for equity work in the district in the future,” said former team member Alexis Claycomb. “I feel bad for the

students, because they’re the ones who will suffer.”

Colorado Springs School District 20, the region’s largest district, assembled a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force in 2020 as a response to “increasing concern about equity and inclusion in our classrooms and schools,” according to the district’s website.

District leadership received a letter, signed by roughly 150 former students, that implied students of color often felt less than welcome in its schools. The letter cited expressions of racism and hatred and the lack of a diverse staff as two reasons for their discomfort and concern, according to assistant superintendent Jim Smith.

“The letter said that their experiences as District 20 students of color had not been ideal, and that they had experienced some pretty negative things,” Smith said. “We realized that if we were really committed to making sure every student feels like they belong, we were going to have to take a look at issues of equity.”

Last spring, D-20 hired the Colorado Education Initiative, an education nonprofit, to conduct an exhaustive equity audit.

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“They asked us for just about every kind of data that you can think of,” Smith said. Attendance data, disciplinary data, expulsion data and assessment data — to see if there are access barriers or achievement gaps between certain groups in our district.”

The resulting report, available on the district’s website, suggested a need to make D-20 a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all students.

Comprised of about 50 parents, staff members, students and other community members, the DEI task force is focused on fostering a “culture of belonging” and is working with the Colorado Education Initiative to formulate strategies to make that culture translate into actual classroom practices.

Some of the conversations with the nonprofit, and among the group itself, have been heated but productive, said D-20 spokeswoman Allison Cortez.

“It was a group where not everyone agreed,” said Cortez, a task force member. “The meetings were rich, and intense, and people were open and vulnerable. It is one of the coolest committees I’ve ever been on.”

The district is currently working on ways to integrate its equity work into its first-ever Strategic Plan, Cortez said.

“We keep coming back to the word ‘belonging’,” she said. “We want to make sure all voices are heard regardless of race or background or lifestyle.”

One way of increasing the comfort levels of students may be the hiring of a more diverse staff, Smith said.

“There’s no denying the fact that our staff is not very diverse in District 20,” Smith said. “We would like to have a staff that more closely represents the population of our students.”

The hope, Cortez said, is that all students feel safe, welcome, and able to succeed, regardless of background.

Ultimately, that’s what most parents and community members want, regardless of their politics or ideology, she said.

“What we’ve often found, after we’ve stripped away all the buzzwords, is that we mostly agree on what we want for our students,” Cortez said. “We want all students to be their very best, and we want to support each of them in a way that makes the most sense.”

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THE GAZETTE SPOTLIGHT // STEM PROGRAMS

School districts around El Paso County continued to invest resources into science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM learning, during the 2021 — 2022 school year with plans to create STEM-focused elementary schools in District 11, realign STEM career pathways for high school students in District 8, and roll out robotics competitions in District 2.

Martinez Elementary students engage in a STEM lab. Photo courtesy of Colorado Springs School District 11.

El Paso County school districts nurture STEM

By Jessica Snouwaert, jessica.snouwaert@gazette.com

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STEM programs’ role in school curriculums continue to grow as the digital world becomes increasingly embedded into everyday life.

That is why districts around the region are trying to prepare their students for careers in growing fields such as computer science.

In District 11 preparing students for STEM careers begins with embedding a STEM lens of problem-solving and critical thinking throughout a student’s day in every subject.

The district plans to transform two of its elementary schools to follow this method.

One elementary school on the east side of town and one on the west side will be identified to implement a STEM curriculum. That means a day full of STEM learning where classes beyond math and science would integrate STEM topics and materials.

“STEM starts to help us answer that question about, here’s when you might use this as an engineer or a scientist,” said Sherry Kalbach, Interim Deputy Superintendent of Achievement, Learning and Leadership in District 11. “And I think that’s pretty engaging for kids when they see they’re learning something that has meaning beyond the four walls of a school.”

Kalbach said students also get excited about STEM because it offers the opportunity for hands-on, collaborative learning labs.

For military communities like Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, STEM learning can translate directly into a career since information technology, computer science and cyber security are some of Colorado’s most in-demand industries.

“What we’re working to do is just give kids a significant taste of what inquiry-based learning is really about and help them to begin to develop a kind of STEM identity,” said Clint Allison, executive director of student achievement in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, “and see themselves as a potential for a career path down the road in the future.”

During high school, students get to choose between eight different course

pathways including biomedical science, computer science, business marketing, education and graphic design, among others.

While those pathways are not new for District 8, Assistant Superintendent of Student Achievement Lori Cooper said they are consistently realigning the pathways to serve the best college prep possible.

Cooper said District 8 funded their STEM offerings with a nearly $5 million grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity over the past eight or so years.

“We have to make sure we have sustainability,” Cooper said. “In those grants, you can’t just have (them) for five years, and then they go away.”

District 8 focused on making programs sustainable by partnering with Pikes Peak Community College to teach college prep courses within STEM. Other districts, such as Harrison School District Two, expanded STEM offerings to include a broader scope of disciplines including art, also known as STEAM. “Some of these technical fields do have an art component because communication is so important,” said David Jarboe, Director of Instructional Technology at Harrison School District Two. Jarboe explained that art and creativity play an important role in STEM fields because visualization and communication are essential components of computer science.

Beyond the arts component of STEAM offerings in District 2, Jarboe said robotics has become a core piece of STEAM offerings within District 2.

This year students participated in the First Lego League, a robotics competition where students use Lego kits to build programmable robots.

“We certainly want to build the enthusiasm to feed into our middle and high school programs,” Jarboe said. “And that’s where we’re doing with the STEM challenges where kids come together, they collaborate, they get to be somewhat competitive and gain interest.”

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College is more affordable with many financial assistance programs, officials say. Debbie Kelley, The Gazette.

Financial assistance plentiful for college-bound students

By Debbie Kelley, debbie.kelley@gazette.com

The main thing students who want to attend college or are already doing highereducation coursework need to know coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic is this: apply for financial aid or other assistance to defray costs, and you’ll likely be rewarded.

“Right now is a really affordable time for people to seek college,” says Karen Kovaly, spokeswoman for Pikes Peak Community College.

The school offers two- and four-year degrees and certificate programs at three main campuses in El Paso County, and also runs the Center for Healthcare Education & Simulation, the Technical Education Campus, Studio West Art Gallery and education centers at Peterson Space Force Base and Fort Carson.

PPCC has infused its foundation-based and external scholarship funds with federal pandemic relief aid, Kovaly said, allowing the school to provide more assistance than before.

And everyone is receiving free required textbooks this year for all courses, Kovaly said.

“That can save some students almost

$1,000 on books a semester,” she said.

PPCC’s tuition rates are as low as $153 per credit hour for many programs, Kovaly said, although some, such as nursing and online education, are priced higher.

That’s “almost half the tuition cost of some state schools,” she said. “So, students are starting off with less debt and get into a job without having to take four-year classes.”

For example, an aspiring welder can complete a program in three semesters and find an entry job that pays $60,000 to $80,000 a year, she said.

Part of the reason for tuition being lower than expected statewide is the Colorado Opportunity Fund, a stipend to incentivize homegrown students to attend school in-state.

The fund reduces tuition at public colleges and universities for students who can prove they are Colorado residents.

State lawmakers set the reduction annually; this academic year it’s $94 per credit hour, said Jevita Rogers, senior executive director for financial aid, student employment and scholarships at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

“It’s not based on any kind of financial need or grades — just that you are an instate student,” she said.

Depending on the number of credit hours taken, the savings can be substantial, Rogers said. For example, a tuition bill of $5,000 for 12 credits in a semester would qualify for a $1,128 deduction, she said.

“Applying is really easy, and it’s a great opportunity to help make college affordable for Colorado residents,” Rogers said.

Students at UCCS, one of four

campuses in the University of Colorado system, are getting an additional tuition break this year.

Although the CU Board of Regents approved a 3% tuition hike for the 202122 school year, the increase is being evenly offset by federal pandemic relief funds earmarked for higher education.

“So, students did not see a tuition increase for the fall of 2021, and spring and summer 2022,” Rogers said.

Whether the Biden administration will authorize additional COVID-relief money is unknown, she said, although she’s not expecting any.

“At this point, we do not know anything about the fall,” Rogers said.

The regents will debate and vote on tuition increase requests from campus leaders in April, and Gov. Jared Polis also must approve tuition proposals for the coming year.

With a wide range of financial help, from traditional scholarships based on academic performance or household financial need to specific program funding and broad-based stipends, affordability should not be a concern, Rogers said.

“Students shouldn’t discount a school because they think they won’t get any assistance or it’s too expensive,” she said.

“There are lots of different options.”

Her advice is to apply early to public and private schools for not only admission but also financial assistance.

March 1 is the deadline for UCCS-specific scholarships, and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is due Feb. 1 for priority consideration and

by April 1 for all applicants.

“For in-state students, I get an allocation of state grant money, but it’s not an

endless supply, so it’s first-come, firstserved,” Rogers said.

Colorado College, a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, in 2019 began a financial aid initiative targeted at low- and middle-income instate students.

Tuition is $61,596 this school year but is waived for accepted students whose families earn adjusted gross income of less than $125,000. Students from households earning under $60,000 also receive free room and board — worth $13,668 this year — and those with adjusted gross income between $60,000 and $125,000 pay room and board.

For in-state students from families earning $125,000 and $250,000, the parental contribution is the same or less than the cost of attendance at CU Boulder, the state’s flagship public university. Undergraduate tuition there varies, from around $29,400 for arts and sciences to $34,700 for business degrees for students in the “tuition guarantee” group that started in the fall of 2021.

Colorado College increased the cap on family earnings from $200,000 to $250,000 for this academic year to qualify for the Colorado Pledge.

Coloradans represent 19.8% of the student body this academic year, compared with 16.2% in 2019-20, said Matt Bonser, director of admission.

“We have seen a substantial increase in interest from Coloradans, as students and families realize that CC can be an affordable and high-quality option,” he said.

The college raised $7.3 million to fund the program and is seeking an additional $20 million to endow it.

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Coronavirus Colorado:

Colorado schools bend but don’t break under omicron surge

By Melanie Asmar and Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado

At Evelyn Gonzalez’s Denver high school, the Italian teacher, who luckily speaks Spanish, filled in recently for the Spanish teacher, who was out sick for two days.

So many students were absent from Haven Coleman’s history class at another high school that the teacher held off on teaching the day’s lesson rather than have to repeat it later for the missing kids.

Coleman’s class had a study hall instead.

In Carbondale, an entire grade level at Crystal River Elementary switched to remote learning, not because teachers were sick, but because several of them were also parents of preschool-aged children quarantined at home.

If this past fall felt “mostly normal,” Assistant Principal Kendall Reiley said, then after winter break, “it felt like we were coming back into a different world.”

January’s massive COVID-19 surge has tested pandemic-weary teachers, students, and families in new ways, with half-empty classrooms, missing teachers and abrupt temporary switches to remote learning, often for just a number of days.

The lack of substitute teachers is a major problem. In District 11 in Colorado Springs, almost half of teacher absences went unfilled earlier this month.

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provide more stability and question whether the disruption involved in keeping schools open is worth it. Amber Elias, Denver’s lead operational superintendent, believes it is.

“As much as our primary purpose is instruction, we provide so many more benefits,” Elias said. “I keep going back to the research that shows students are physically, mentally, and emotionally safer in school. We would rather keep kids in school when we can. We know we are not able to provide that quality of instruction that we would at full staffing, but there are a lot of other benefits to school.”

District leaders statewide have mostly kept buildings open amid case rates that would have shuttered them a year ago.

They cite the availability of vaccines, plus widespread concern about the toll virtual learning took on children’s mental health.

Relaxed safety protocols are also giving schools new tools to stay open, like combining classes and shortening quarantine.

That doesn’t mean this month has been easy. Some students say they’re worried about catching the virus but also dread a

Cara Godbe teaches a combined secreturn to virtual schooling. ond and third-grade class in Montrose.

“Going remote learning is like going Vaccination means some students who a step back to the past,” said Andrew would have had to quarantine in the Caballero, a sophomore at Denver’s fall can now stay in the classroom, but Abraham Lincoln High School. “Stuthat presents its own challenges. dents should be able to go to school and “I might have eight kids who are elinteract with other students and not be igible to stay in the classroom, and 16 home 24/7.” that are not,” she said. “And that puts For Shane Knight, principal at teachers in a bind. How do you teach Denver’s Knapp Elementary School, the text messages start at 5 a.m. and go both groups of kids?”

When the third-grade teacher at until late. At first, he and his assistant Kate Tynan-Ridgeway’s school, Palmprincipal were keeping track of sick or absent teachers on a whiteboard, mark- er Elementary in Denver, was out with ing those who were out with COVID -19 COVID -19 right after winter break, with a red “C+.” she and the other second-grade teacher They later moved that accounting to a split his class, adding 10 more kids to spreadsheet, but the logistics of who was each of their rooms. absent and who was covering their classes Instead of teaching the regular secbecame so unsustainable that Knapp ond-grade curriculum, Tynan-Ridgetemporarily switched to remote learning, way said, “I was inventing my whole one of more than 45 Denver schools to day. It was like, ‘Let me adapt this. do so by the third week of January.

Let M SmeS adapt D 1 4that.’” Though the “As soon as I informed my staff, the students were still getting academIt’s Where You Belong… tension in the building dropped dramatiic instruction, it wasn’t what they’d cally,” Knight said. “It was palpable. They normally learn. were on edge like, ‘Who is leaving next?’”

The next week, Tynan-Ridgeway It’s a feeling teachers from across had to miss school because of her own COVID -19 exposure.

Colorado said they know well.

It’s hard to get a clear picture of school closures because Colorado doesn’t track them. Some districts reported that student and staff absences were similar to those in the fall when Colorado endured a prolonged delta wave. Other districts reported a dramatic increase in cases, lower attendance and teachers out sick.

The Adams 14 district in Commerce City went remote the second week of January but opened most of its schools later in the month. Bayfield in southwestern Colorado canceled all classes and activities in mid-January after a fifth of the entire teaching staff either tested positive or entered quarantine.

Jason Hoang, a senior in Aurora, decided to quarantine after finding out that a friend tested positive for COVID-19. The quarantine wasn’t required, but Hoang felt it was the right thing to do. Some teachers offered him a way to participate in classes remotely, but others just gave him assignments to do on his own at home.

“I’m surprised we’re actually still in person considering how COVID -19 numbers have skyrocketed,” Hoang said.

“I prioritize safety. I wish the school did that as well.”

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Rampart High School students, from left, Mridul Govind (ninth grade), Marissa Stephens (11th grade), Sydnei Sundseth (ninth grade) and Nick Doerer (11th grade) show off their personal brands of fashion.

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Fashion focus:

What are kids wearing these days to school, and where are they finding inspiration?

By Breeanna Jent, breeanna.jent@gazette.com

Looking down a high

school hallway in 2022, one can spot students sporting fashions reminiscent of and heavily influenced by staples of decades past — elements of style from the 1970s through the early aughts (2000s) are easily spotted, with bell-bottomed jeans, cropped T-shirts and strappy sandals among trending favorites.

Four Rampart High School students who offered to show off their brands of personal style with The Gazette said

their clothes and accessories project an unspoken message about who they are and how they want to be seen.

“I’m presenting myself in a way so everyone can judge me correctly,” said Rampart High School freshman Mridul Govind.

At the same time, fashion is an artform that fosters creativity and individualism.

“It’s the No. 1 form of selfexpression,” added Nick Doerer, a junior.

Social media and clothing sported by celebrities are the two largest sources of style inspiration — and accessories can make or break an outfit, they said.

“I hate backpacks,” Doerer said.

“I feel like they really take away or distract from my clothes.”

Good news for anyone who didn’t make the switch: Wired headphones are still “cool,” not having been completely eclipsed by the seemingly short-lived craze for wireless earbuds.

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Sydnei Sundseth, a ninth-grader at Rampart High School in Colorado Springs, described her style as “bold,” characterized by pieces like leather jackets, wide bellbottomed pants, heels and chunky tennis shoes.

said freshman Sydnei Sundseth. “You don’t even have to be listening to music. You want others to see that you have your headphones. You can’t see that with wireless headphones.”

Putting thought and effort into an everyday outfit is also good for mental health and a person’s self-perception, the students said.

“During the pandemic when we were doing online learning, I still had to get up and wear the whole (outfit),” junior Marissa Stephens said. “I just like it.”

And those sporting face masks, a new pandemic-era accessory, can’t go wrong if it’s plain black, they said.

Here’s a closer look at the diverse fashions students are wearing, and their favorite trends:

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“Like with 2000s style, I like to take something that wasn’t necessarily trendy at the time and incorporate it into my clothing. I like to make it trendy. It’s experimental,” he said.

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look,” she said, sporting a white button-up shirt tucked into widelegged cutoff jeans, black Mary Jane strappy heels and topped off with a black leather jacket and several silver rings on her fingers.

Sundseth takes her style cues from her mom, who owned and operated a women’s clothing boutique in Minnesota before relocating to Colorado, and looks to celebrities like Lily-Rose Depp for inspiration.

Her favorite places to buy clothes are from retailers like Zara and Free People, she said.

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FAFSA report:

How Colorado could get more students to complete FAFSA

By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado

Colorado should make it easier for high school seniors to seek financial aid that could open the door to college, a report released this month recommends.

The report says the state should aim to be one of the best in the country in getting students to complete the Free

Application for Federal Student Aid, commonly called the FAFSA — a lofty goal that seeks to get the state out of the bottom in the percentage of seniors completing applications.

FAFSA opens up the possibility for students to gain scholarships and grants to pay for the cost of college, and every year Colorado students leave about $30 million in federal financial aid unclaimed.

The report by 20 experts calls for nearly doubling the FAFSA completion rate to 80%, from 45% — or to at least move into the top 10% of all states in the measure.

The state’s rate is low partly because it has not mapped out how to improve it, said Prateek Dutta, who co-chaired the Financial Aid Application Working

Group that authored the report. The state also doesn’t spend enough to improve its rate. Colorado only has one half-time employee working on FAFSA completion and support, he said.

“Colorado has no strategy on FAFSA completion,” Dutta said. “This report provides a strategy.”

The FAFSA working group recommended that the state begin to build a foundation that would lead to making FAFSA completion a statewide graduation requirement starting in 2025.

The report recommends the state offer grants for student aid counselors, beef up marketing to spread the message about the benefits of FAFSA, partner

with organizations to help students complete the FAFSA, incorporate FAFSA into student academic plans, and eventually add FAFSA completion as a graduation requirement.

The group also calls on state leaders to leverage what’s already in place, such as a Colorado Department of Higher Education grant program that’s boosted completion in some districts and an online tool that helps districts support completion.

The plan would need funding and legislative action.

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and a member of the working group, said they hope a phased-in approach to a graduation requirement will allow the state and districts to ramp up support.

The Denver Scholarship Foundation helps students navigate a path to college and provides scholarships. The foundation requires FAFSA completion and has proven that counselors who work closely with families can provide results.

Bellew said she wants the report to raise statewide expectations and to ensure educators have adequate resources before the state imposes FAFSA completion as a graduation requirement.

“Unfunded or unsupported mandates are something that folks spoke out against,” Bellew said. “It’s just not the best way to build buy-in. Our approach is to build up the support on the front end, so people feel invested and are able to support students through this process.”

The report borrows from what’s worked in Colorado, but also what works in other states.

Louisiana, for example, was the first to require students to complete

the FAFSA to graduate. It leads the nation in the percentage of students who finish the application.

Tennessee, another leader, also requires the application to be eligible for the state’s free two-year college program and provides counselors and volunteers to aid in filling out financial aid and other collegerelated forms.

Nationally, a little more than half of high school seniors fill out the FAFSA. States like Tennessee and Louisiana exceed that portion by about 20 percentage points.

Dutta said the investment would mean more opportunity for families who often believe they can’t afford college. And the state will bring back millions in federal tax dollars for schools and students.

“For every dollar we spend, we’re not only going to get that money back, but we’re going to create a more educated workforce,” Dutta said.

“There’s no investment Colorado can make that will yield a higher rate of return on investment than in increasing FAFSA completion rates.”

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