Hello Columbine families,

Our Columbine community is continuing to engage in Black History Month through this year’s theme, “A Century of Black History.” Each of our crews is exploring different decades and learning about impactful people, movements, events, and contributions of Black excellence. Students are diving into powerful stories of leadership, creativity, resilience, and change — and we’re excited to see this learning come to life through door decorations across our school in the coming weeks. We can’t wait for families to walk our halls and experience this celebration of learning alongside us.

Reminder there is no school for students this Friday, February 27th. 

📅 Spring Conferences – March 5

A reminder to please sign up for conferences on March 5 if you haven’t already. These conversations are an important opportunity to connect around your child’s growth and learning, we look forward to seeing you!

❄️ Thank You, Families!

A big thank you to all the families who joined us for Clyde’s Frosty Fiesta — we are so grateful for your presence and partnership in making our community events so special.

⏰ After-School Reminder

Please remember that all students who remain on campus after dismissal must be supervised by their adult. Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe and supported.

Please see resources from the Community Resource Team: 

2026 Community Resources booklist - Adult

Children's/Youth book list 2026

In Crew,

Corey 

QUICK HITS

Upcoming Events

Zones of Regulation

Coffee with Corey Recap 

Spring GOTR

March 5th Spring Conferences

Columbine Directory!

CSC

Old News

26-27 Bell Schedule 

Photo right: Congratulations to our Fire Truck Ride Along winners for Semester One!! Thank you to Station 10 for being such wonderful community partners. 

2/23 - Talent Show Auditions 3:40-5:00

2/24 - Talent Show Auditions 3:40-5:00

2/24- Black Excellence Meeting @ 6:00pm-7:30pm

2/25- 3rd & 4th Black History Concert @ 8:30am

2/26- Popcorn Friday

2/27- Professional Development Day (No School)

3/2 - Talent Show Rehearsals 3:40-5:00

3/3 - Talent Show Rehearsals 3:40-5:00

3/5 - Family-Educator Conferences (Non-student contact day) 

3/6 - Talent Show 

3/6 - KTone Foundation Read Aloud w/ 2nd Grade

3/8 - International Women's Day 

3/10 - Family Morning Coffee Chat 7:45-8:45

3/12 - Black Excellence Meeting 6-7:30 

3/17 - St. Patrick's Day 

3/18 - Donuts at DropOff

3/18 - CSC and PTA 

3/20 - Coffee with Corey 8:00-9:00

3/27 - Student of the Month Assembly 

3/30-4/3 SPRING BREAK

This week in our Zones of Regulation Lessons, we learned about: Our Zones Our Signals. See info below!

During Coffee with Corey we recapped some items from our CSC Meeting. 

We shared some highlights, celebrations, and areas of growth and continued focus from our Mid-Year February Progress Report .

We also discussed our Innovation Plan Renewal. You can see our Innovation plan linked below as well as on our school website. 

Innovation Renewal Plan

Hello to all past GOTR families. 

We are SO excited for our first Spring session of Girls on the Run that will take place on Tuesday from 3:30PM-5PM. Starting March 3rd and ending May 12th with the race on May 16th. 

The link to signup is here and the fee is $45 per girl. It's first come, for registration of up to 23 girls!

For anyone wishing for a scholarship, please submit the attached form to scholarships@girlsontherunrockies.org 

Reach out with questions!

Coach Amy, Mandy, Kim and Wallenkamp!

We are SO excited about our Spring Conferences on March 5th. This is a non-student contact day and our teachers will be holding family-educator conferences all day. Please look for sign-ups from your classroom teacher on Rooms. These conferences are an important opportunity to meet with your child's classroom teacher to discuss their mid-year data, celebrate their strengths and genius, and focus on their growth opportunities. 

Please use this link to access our Columbine Directory. This was a voluntary participation directory so please note that this directory does not have all of our families. If you notice your family is not included in the directory and you would like to be added, please use this link to submit your info!

CSC will be on March 18th 5:00-6:15 - virtual link. 

Below are the CSC meeting minutes

Meeting Minutes

CSC info page

CSC Agenda (English and Spanish)

We want to share an important update about our school day schedule for next year. Beginning in the 2026–27 school year, Columbine will move to a consistent bell schedule of 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., five days a week.

Currently, we operate with an early-release schedule on Thursdays. After gathering extensive input from staff and members of our school community, we have made the decision to discontinue the early-release day and transition to a five-day-a-week, 8–3 schedule. This change will allow for greater consistency for students and families across the week and better alignment with our instructional priorities.

Transportation note: Bus schedules will be adjusted to align with the new start and end times. More details will be shared as we get closer to the start of the school year.

Thank you for your feedback, partnership, and flexibility as we continue to make decisions in service of our students and families.

You can view the 2025–2026 DPS District Calendar [linked here]. 🗓️

In addition to district-wide non-student contact days, Columbine students will also not attend school on:

• March 5th – Columbine-specific family conference day

Discovery Link will provide full-day care options for ECE–5th grade on both days.

ECE-only additional closure dates:

• April 17th

• April 24th

Discovery Link will provide full-day care for ECE students on these days if there are enough students signed up!