• Leadership Update - May 2020

    At the end of most school years, we celebrate, take a well-deserved breather, and then slowly shift our thinking toward August and the preparation to do it all again. This year, summer break is like everything else—unknown and unpredictable.

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  • Leadership Update - April 2020

    E-learning is well underway thanks to the amazing commitment of our students, families and staff! The learning services team has proudly supported educators and leaders in numerous ways across D49 with our quick transition to E49.

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  • Leadership Update - March 2020

    I’d like to use this opportunity for two primary purposes. One, the POWER Zone would like to acknowledge the multi-faceted effects COVID-19 is having on our entire community, educationally and otherwise. We understand that now more than ever, we must work together as an educational community.

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  • Leadership Update - Feb. 2020

    We are excited to celebrate student success, and our innovation and growth in the Sand Creek Zone! Most recently with athletics, the Sand Creek girls and boys basketball teams won their district championships, and both will be entering the playoffs this week with our girls team ranked #1 in the state and Pikes Peak Athletic Conference Champions.

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  • Leadership Update - Jan. 2020

    Congratulations are well deserved by two Falcon Zone educators! Firebird Nation Campus Executive Principal Brian Smith and Aaron Lentner, Meridian Ranch Elementary School third-grade teacher, are both finalists for top recognition by the National Council on Digital Convergence.

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  • Leadership Update - Dec. 2019

    It’s an exciting time in the iConnect Zone! We commemorated breaking ground on a facility expansion project at the Springs Studio for Academic Excellence campus Dec. 12. In Fall 2020, students who attend SSAE, PPEC and the FHAP will enjoy additional space at the innovative campus.

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  • Leadership Update - Nov. 2019

    We continue to grow! A few numbers will help me tell that story. How many students we have is a simple question with a complicated answer. This is due to the complexity in our portfolio of schools. In total, reports for D49 will indicate we have approximately 26,700 students this year.

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  • Leadership Update - Oct. 2019

    In the not too distant past when you read these updates, you read them where they lived, nestled in with a few pages of relevant info and other news-you-can-use contained in the "Peak Inside" bulletin. You’d click the link in your email announcement and get redirected to d49.org.

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  • Leadership Update - Sept. 2019

    This may come as a surprise to each of you (or not)... but District 49 is growing! And we are growing fast. This was a main theme in the community briefings that Brett, Peter and I delivered at Inspiration View Elementary, Bennett Ranch Elementary and Sand Creek High School between September 10 and 16.

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  • Leadership Update - Aug. 2019

    Great news! Our district is getting better every year. More students are reading, more schools are performing, more graduates are launching to success, and we are steadily attracting students and staff who deliver peak performance.

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