Community Newsletter 12/9/24

Posted December 9, 2024

December 9, 2024

Hello Columbine Community, 

Thank you to all of you who have stopped in to say hello and introduce yourself to me. The welcome I have received from the Columbine community has been much appreciated.

The best news of the week…Corey and family welcomed their baby boy, Penn Alexander, on Tuesday December 3rd.  Both Corey and Penn are doing great! 

 

This is a busy time of year and we have a lot going on here also. Please take a close look at the upcoming events and reach out to us with questions. Also, we know that routines are critical for our learners and we will strive to keep our next few weeks as “typical” as possible as we move into break.

Please make sure to always send your students with appropriate winter clothing, coats, hats, gloves as we will always try to be outside.  If you need assistance with any of this please reach out to Annette and Claudia in the office.

If I can be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Enjoy the week,

Dori 

Dori_claunch@dpsk12.net

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

Columbine has two additional staff professional development days that differ from the DPS calendar. 

  • January 7th and May 9th (no school for students these days)

SCHOOL TOURS AT COLUMBINE

As the DPS School Choice Window draws closer, Columbine will be hosting school tours in December, January, and February. If you know of prospective families, please direct them to our website under the ‘School Choice’ section and encourage them to sign up for a school tour. We would like to have current Columbine families sign up to help us host school tours. If you are willing to join and help with a school tour, please email Rachel_shea@dpsk12.net. Below are the dates of our tours: all tours 8:15-9:00

December 19,  January 9,  January 16,  January 23,  February 6 and  February 13. 

Upcoming Events

December 10th – PTA Dine Out Shake Shack 
December 11th – Walk up Wednesday free food
December 16th – Spirit week!                                 
Monday – Columbine Spirit          
Tuesday – Silly Sweater          
Wednesday – Wacky Wednesday          
Thursday – Hat Day           
Friday – Pajama Day
December 18th – Holiday Shop (students pick out a gift to give a loved one)
December 18th – CSC @ 5:00 and PTA @ 6:30 
December 19th – Columbine School Tour
!!Books Books Books!!
December 19th –  Clyde’s Book in Every Paw (All students receive a book)
December 20th – Student of the Month Assembly 
December 20th – Bookmobile (All students receive a book)
December 20th – Book Giveaway afterschool (come pick out more free books)
December 20th  – Winter Read-a-Thon (12/20 thru  1/7)
December 21st thru January 7th – NO SCHOOL
January 8th – School resumes 

Columbine CSC 

In our last Columbine CSC meeting, we reviewed our Progress Monitoring report. 

This report was created to ensure we offered transparency and accountability to our Unified Improvement Plan. This progress monitoring report includes quantitative data in alignment to our goals and process measures to show what we have accomplished so far this year. 

Columbine Progress Monitoring Report 

Spanish Translation for this report will be available after the break!

Please see the CSC Minutes Here:

CSC Minutes 11.20.24

Spanish CSC Minutes 11.20.24

Our next meeting will be on December 18th at 5:00 in the Columbine Library 

All information about our Columbine CSC can be found on the 

CSC page of our Columbine Website!

Community Resource Team If you are looking for resources, book recommendations, and entry points into the essential learning about race, gentrification, cultural competency, and racial history in our country, the CR team has compiled a recommended book list. Book List HereHere is a resource for Holiday Resources this season!

Columbine Cougars PTA Update 11/24

Please see the Columbine Cougars PTA Newsletter here! 

Looking to stay in touch? Follow some of our Columbine Elementary social media accounts.columbine_cougars         dadsofcolumbine          columbinecougarspta