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
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Columbine has two additional staff professional development days that differ from the DPS calendar.
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:
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