Hospital Staff Treat Yale Landscape with New Look

When students at Yale Elementary return to school this fall, they’ll enjoy a new beautiful landscape that also functions as an outdoor classroom. The entire rear face of the school now features new trees, plants, walking paths and even sitting areas. Students will find even more magic in reading their favorite books in a setting like this.

Volunteers with Children’s Hospital Colorado made the landscape transformation possible. Dozens of hospital employees dedicated a day to digging, planting and beautifying the school’s outer appearance. This is the 11th consecutive year Children’s Hospital Colorado staff have dedicated their time and talents to sprucing up our schools. Thanks to this amazing partnership, APS has saved more than $1.4 million in school makeovers!

As the APS 2020: Shaping the Future strategic plan highlights, one of our core beliefs is that community partnerships provide vital resources and opportunities for students and families. We thank each volunteer for their service. We are also grateful to our sponsors who helped make this project a reality.

Together, the sponsors below contributed more than $37,000 in landscaping and other materials to create a beautiful school environment at Yale:

A&B Builders
Ballard Group Inc.
Basalite Concrete Products
Children’s Hospital
DBC
Grainger
Helena Chemical
Munding Design
Pioneer Sand
Rain Bird
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Ron Bath Masonry LLC
Sand Creek Wholesale Nursery
Singing Hills
Southwest Mobile Storage, Inc.
Straightline Sawcutting
Tagawa Gardens
Trion Promotions
Wold Architects and Engineers
Wagner

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Aurora Welcome Center Hosts First Annual Cultural Celebration

                                                                                                                                       
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 4, 2015

WHAT: Aurora Welcome Center Cultural Celebration
WHEN: Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: APS Educational Services Center 4
                  1085 Peoria St., Aurora, CO 80011

Aurora Welcome Center Hosts First Annual Cultural Celebration

Please join Aurora Welcome Center, Aurora Public Schools, the City of Aurora and many community partners in celebrating the First Annual Cultural Celebration.

We will start with a friendly co-ed soccer game between immigrants, refugees and service providers at 9 a.m. We have players from: the Colorado African Organization (including the CAO’s Executive Director), Aurora Public Schools, the City of Aurora, Families Forward and the Global Bhutanese Community of Colorado. Participating immigrants and refugees are from Mexico, Bhutan, Eritrea, Iraq, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.

We will also have food and entertainment available for families including a jumpy castle, face painting, and a Zumba class.

About the Aurora Welcome Center: The Aurora Welcome Center is a newly-emerging center located in Original Aurora. The center serves as a shared multi-tenant facility offering a variety of services focused on the international/immigrant community in Aurora. Partner organizations include: Aurora Public Schools, the City of Aurora, El Centro Humanitario, Focus Points, Rights For All People, Families Forward Resource Center, Colorado African Organization, Global Bhutanese Community Colorado, the Strengthening Neighborhoods Program of the Denver Foundation and African Women Empowerment Group.

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 or pamoon@aps.k12.co.us for more information

Aurora Welcome Center Provides Array of Services to Refugee and Immigrant Families

                                                                                                                               

NEWS RELEASE #38
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2015

WHAT: Aurora Welcome Center Open House
WHEN: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from 4:30-6 p.m.
WHERE: APS Educational Services Center 4
                 1085 Peoria St. Conference Room C, Aurora, CO 80011

Aurora Welcome Center Provides Array of Services to Refugee and Immigrant Families

Please join Aurora Welcome Center, Aurora Public Schools, the City of Aurora and many community partners in celebrating the opening of the Aurora Welcome Center.

The celebration will include a ribbon cutting, entertainment, international food and tours of the welcome center. Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan and Superintendent Rico Munn will take part in the program.

About the Aurora Welcome Center
The Aurora Welcome Center is a newly-emerging center located in Original Aurora. The center serves as a shared multi-tenant facility offering a variety of services focused on the international/immigrant community in Aurora. Partner organizations include Aurora Public Schools, the City of Aurora, El Centro Humanitario, Focus Points, Rights For All People, Families Forward Resource Center, Colorado African Organization, Global Bhutanese Community Colorado and the Strengthening Neighborhoods Program of the Denver Foundation. The center is conveniently located in Aurora Public Schools Educational Services Center 4 and serves APS students and families as well as the community at large.  

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 for more information

Aurora Central's Dena Joslyn-Custer Earns Prestigious Service Award

Aurora Central High School staff member Dena Joslyn-Custer is a dedicated professional who values helping those who may not know how to help themselves. Her work with exceptional students has made her a go-to resource in the field, and she recently earned the 2014 Joe Todd Annual Service Award from the Colorado Council for Exceptional Children. The award recognizes an education professional or paraprofessional who has contributed outstanding service for exceptional children in Colorado.

Congratulations, Dena on your outstanding award! Thank you for your service to APS students.

 

 

 

I love seeing how students can thrive and grow into productive young adults through the work I do with them. Social work practice in the schools is an essential component to ensuring student success.  My job is to address the social and psychological barriers that can block academic progress.  Through collaboration with families, community systems and crisis intervention ... our students can overcome the barriers to their academic success, and as a result, give themselves a better chance to succeed in school and in life.

- Dena Joslyn-Custer

 

Nephew of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. To Deliver "Season for Nonviolence" Keynote Address

                                                                                                                    

NEWS RELEASE #32
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 11, 2015

WHAT: 18th Annual Season for Nonviolence Program
WHEN: February 13, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Hinkley High School, 1250 Chambers Road Aurora, CO 80011

Nephew of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. To Deliver "Season for Nonviolence" Keynote Address

Rev. Dr. Derek King (nephew of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) will deliver the keynote address at Hinkley High School on Friday, February 13. The school is participating in the 18^th annual Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence, a global campaign. The event is in partnership with New Dawn Center for Spiritual Living and the Aurora Police Department.

Rev. Dr. King will be delivering an inspiring message on “Alternatives to Violence”. Students will also participate in breakout sessions which will be facilitated by Aurora Public Schools staff and the Aurora Police Department.

The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence is an annual 64-day campaign. It was co-founded in 1998 by Dr. Arun Gandhi and The Association for Global New Thought, an educational, media and grassroots awareness campaign.

The purpose of Season for Nonviolence is to focus educational and media attention on the philosophy of attaining peace through nonviolent action as demonstrated by legendary leaders Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar E. Chavez, and President Nelson Mandela and others.

Community leaders from 900 cities in 67 countries have participated in the campaign since it began in 1998.

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 for more information

Children’s Hospital Colorado Staff Gives APS School Extreme Makeover

NEWS RELEASE #59
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 4, 2014

WHAT: Children’s Hospital Colorado Transforms an APS School
WHEN: June 6, 8 a.m.
WHERE: Jewell Elementary School, 14601 E. Jewell Ave. 80012

Children’s Hospital Colorado Staff Gives
APS School Extreme Makeover

On Friday, June 6, Children’s Hospital Colorado employees won’t just be saving lives – they will be enriching APS students’ lives. Nearly 100 Children’s Colorado staff volunteers will join dozens of other volunteers at Jewell Elementary School at 8 a.m. to give the school a landscape makeover.\

This is the eighth year APS has partnered with Children’s Hospital Colorado on this school improvement community project:

Montview Math & Health Sciences Elementary – 2007
North Middle School Health Sciences & Technology Campus – 2008
Park Lane Elementary – 2009
Sable Elementary – 2010
South Middle – 2011
Laredo Elementary – 2012
Vaughn Elementary – 2013
Jewell Elementary – 2014

Dozens of organizations have donated nearly $70,000 from across the metro area. This project would not be possible without these generous sponsors:

A&B Builders
AJI Fence
All City Floor Company
Aquacita
Arvada Pump
Ballard Group
Bath Masonry
Belfor Restoration
Blind Solutions
Borgert
CenterPoint Energy
CRP Architects
Colorado Best Block
Colorado Doorways, Inc.
Colorado Hazard Control
CPS
DBC Irrigation
Diversified Underground
EAP Glass Service
ETG Systems
Elite Balancing
Energy Management
Ferguson Enterprises
Hayward Baker Inc.
Helena Chemical
Himmelman Constructions
Huddleston Brothers Plumbing
Hunter Industries
Intermountain Lock &Security Supply
James Nursery
Kelly Electric
KWAL Paint
Long Bldg Technologies
M.A. Meyer Construction
Munding Design
Nick’s Garden Center
Peak Environmental
Pickens Technical College
Pioneer Sand Company
RB&B Architecture
Recreation Plus
Recreation Systems
Risk Management
Sand Creek Wholesale Nursery
Singing Hills Landscape
Staples
Straight Line
Swire Coca-Cola
TPM Staffing Services
Trion Promotions
Terminix
Wagner
Ward Construction Co.
Watts Up LED
Waxie Sanitary Supply
Welby Gardens
Wilderness Construction 

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 for more information