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Activity Guide 65 Years of Excellence Focused on our Future Winter/Spring www.cherrycreekschools.org 2015 2 • CCSD Activity Guide • Winter/Spring 2015 Register for MSU Denver South Campus Summer/Fall 2015! Metro South: Denver Tech Center Complete your General Studies courses Additional core course offerings in: • Accounting • Business Management • Psychology • Sociology • Education • Anthropology • Marketing • History • Human Services CONVENIENCE! • Women’s Studies • Criminal Justice • Finance • Hospitality • Political Science • Communications • Computer Information Systems For a printed class schedule, call 303-721-1313 EXT. 99 or visit SUCCESS AT YOUR AT SUCCESS www.msudenver.edu/extendedcampus South Campus Denver Tech Center MSU DENVER SOUTH CAMPUS 5660 GREENWOOD PLAZA BLVD, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111 South Campus Denver Tech Center CCSD Activity Guide • Winter/Spring 2015 • 3 Cherry Creek School District 2015 Winter/Spring Activity Guide Cherry Creek Schools recognized for programs that introduce students to world of work Students can explore different career fields, get hands-on experience, learn networking skills and develop real world contacts by participating in innovative programs offered by the Cherry Creek School District’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) department. The district’s SWAP (School to Work Alliance Program), Transitions and BETA (Business & Education Transition Alliance Pro- gram) have partnered with business and govern- ment organizations to offer educational academies in four career areas: health care, hospitality, con- Homestead Elementary struction and information technology. The SWAP named 2014 National and BETA programs received a Best Practices Award in Septem- Blue Ribbon School ber 2014 at the Think Big Con- Homestead Elementary School was named a ference in Vail, 2014 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. which was spon- Department of Education. It is one of only four sored by the Col- schools in the state and 337 in the nation to receive orado Workforce the prestigious honor in 2014, which recognizes Development outstanding academic achievement. Council and the Colorado State Youth Council. 2015 Parent Information Restructuring of district bond Network Presentations debt saves taxpayers another Join us from 9:15-11:15 a.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Student $6 million Achievement Resource Center (SARC), 14188 Briarwood Ave., Centennial, 80112. In October 2014, the Cherry Creek School Dis- trict successfully sold $37,585,000 of District February 3 General Obligation debt for a savings to taxpayers What’s a Kid to Do? of $6 million. The bonds were sold competitively Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents with bids received electronically via the internet. Lauren Kerstein, LCSW, P.C. The winning bid was submitted by J.P. Morgan Securities with a True Interest Cost of 1.69%. The Psychotherapist, author, professor cover, or second best bid, was submitted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. March 3 Deb Carnevale was named the Colorado BioScience Why Do Kids Act That Way? Association’s 2014 Teacher of the Year. Dr. Nancy Buck, Founder, IMPORTANT DATES Peaceful Parenting, Inc. Overland High School science February 16-17 – Presidents’ Day and non- teacher named Bioscience contact day, no school April 7 March 5-6 – K-8 non-contact day/conferences, Deal with it! Teacher of the Year no school Coping and Caring for your Child with Mental March 30-April 3 – Spring break, common Health Issues Congratulations to Overland High School science calendar, no school Gina Moore, President Arapahoe & Douglas teacher Deb Carnevale, named the Colorado BioSci- March 30-April 10 – Spring break, ence Association’s 2014 Teacher of the Year. Carnevale transitional calendar, no school counties, National Assoc. of Mental Illness was honored for her work building Overland’s rigorous May 8 - K-8 non-contact day/conferences, no (NAMI) bioscience curriculum, a program that launched 12 years school ago and incorporates the latest lessons in science and May 25 - Memorial Day, no school May 5 Annual Brunch technology. A lifelong learner, Carnevale is committed to June 2 – Last day of school, common calendar Kids are Worth It! keeping up with a complicated and ever-changing field. June 9 – Last day of school, transitional Barbara Coloroso, Author/Founder, calendar June 19 – Last day of school, four-track Kids are Worth It! Inc. calendar We are where you are! Find us on: Visit www.PINccsd.org for podcasts, meeting highlights and additional information. 4 • CCSD Activity Guide • Winter/Spring 2015 Spring Craft Fair Saturday • March 7 9am-3pm Over 150 vendors! Free Admission and Parking Smoky Hill High School 16100 East Smoky Hill Road Aurora, Colorado 80015 WANT TO ROCK ENROLL NOW for the SPRING SEMESTER or SUMMER CAMPS We teach guitar, bass, keys, drums, and vocals and offer programs for Celebrating 65 years kids ages 4-18 and adults Take a tour of the school and sign up for a of excellence one-room schoolhouse, an intact black- rickety buildings spread across the county, CCSD FREE TRIAL LESSON board and enough wooden desks to ac- now comprises 42 elementary schools, 10 middle A commodate less than a dozen grade-school schools and six high schools, in addition to an al- 13750 E. RICE PL., SUITE 100 • AURORA, CO 80015 students. ternative high school and middle school, a magnet Open Tue – Fri 2 - 8 PM & Saturday 10 AM - 3 PM The definition of a top-notch public education school and a charter school. District enrollment on the Colorado plains in the late 1800s was very now exceeds 54,200, and the first class of school [email protected] • www.schoolofrock.com different than the standards of 2015. When the room instructors has grown to about 3,700 teach- CALL first Cherry Creek school house opened its doors in ers. Classrooms across the district’s 108 square 1874 to serve the isolated families living in the iso- miles feature the latest in cutting-edge technology, TODAY 720.789.8866 lated community of Melvin on the rugged eastern and students of all backgrounds and grade levels plains of Arapahoe County, its students made do have the latest tools at their disposal. INSPIRING KIDS TO ROCK ON STAGE AND IN LIFE with seemingly scant resources. A lot has changed since the scattered group Elementary school students came to class with of schools incorporated in 1950, but the Cherry chalkboards, chalk and little else. 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That lone school- foundational values of 65 education, curriculum devel- house and its first years ago are any different opment, responsible school groups of teachers and finance and looking ahead HAPPY students would serve than our current values. early priorities. HOUR as the roots of what What we care about is kids,” That year, Clark Stutler, the Mon-Fri would formally be- first CCSD superintendent, 2-5pm come the Cherry Creek — Dr. Harry Bull also made the following mis- School District in 1950. Cherry Creek Superintendent sion statement for the young Following the passage district: “The only reason for Aurora Evergreen 2790 S. 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In lieu of a handful of ... continued on page 6 OPEN: Sun-Thurs 11-10; Fri & Sat 11-11 CCSD Activity Guide • Winter/Spring 2015 • 5 Education was her best investment ince 1985, the Community Over the course of their working S College of Aurora Foundation career, the lifetime earnings of the If it wasn’t for has been investing in education average CCA student will increase too, providing the City’s first by almost four times for every dollar and only public institution of invested in their community college the Community higher learning with enhanced education. programming, facility improvements College of Aurora and – with the support of our And with the Foundation’s new Fast community partners – more than Forward Scholarship, thousands Foundation… $2 million in scholarship assistance of Aurora high school students to area residents.

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