Video: Colorado teacher classroom innovations —“Movin’ through Multiplication”
While tutoring one of her special education students who struggled with multiplication facts, Peiffer Elementary School teacher Karen Allen saw a way to use kids’ affinity for sequences to put them on...
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Community College of Aurora students resolve innovative ‘murder mystery’
Kathryn OslerInstructor Elizabeth Hirsh, left, helps students process the fake "grave" where remains of a fictional murder victim were found. It started with the disappearance of a young woman and her...
View ArticleVideo: Civil War battle comes to life for Thornton students
To the beat of drums, more than 300 eighth-graders marched into Thornton’s Lake Village Park Thursday morning clad in full Civil War battle regalia — while joggers, strollers and passers-by marveled...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush keynotes ACE Scholarships luncheon in Denver
AP Photo/Sue OgrockiFormer Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush in August 2010. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told an audience of 1,700 Denver business and civic leaders on Tuesday that a failing educational system puts...
View ArticleVIDEO: Zombie invasion at Fairview High promotes students’ self-awareness
With the hallways mostly empty earlier this week, several students from Boulder’s Fairview High School livened up the atmosphere by channeling the undead in a video shoot that will become one element...
View ArticleDPS hiring to expand Denver Math Fellows tutoring program citywide
Denver Public Schools announced today it will expand its Denver Math Fellows Program to reach thousands more students with focused math tutoring in 2013-14. The city-wide expansion of the program was...
View ArticleCSU to host Student Career Days for students in landscape industry
Colorado State University will host this year’s PLANET Student Career Days, an event geared toward recruiting students into critical positions in the growing landscaping industry.
View ArticleTake Note: a look back at the week in education news (Vol. 17)
Testing cut scores, a split ruling on Jefferson County Public School's new compensation system, a new national analysis on teacher turnover, a meeting of the Colorado Board of Education this week, and...
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