Black Student Success
In 2016, this Denver School Board member authored a groundbreaking report that elevated the voices of Black families, students, and educators within DPS.
Who is Dr. Sharon Bailey?
This FACE program provides a central phone line for assistance with navigating Denver Public Schools
What is the Family and Community Helpline
In 1969 students walked out of this DPS high school with a list of 14 demands which included the inclusion of "our people's history, our culture, language, etc..." and Chicano Literature be provided in their library.
What is West High School
This is the office within the US Department of Education that provides funding to implement programs and services for American Indian and Alaska Native students, as established by the US Indian Education Act of 1972.
What is the Office of Indian Education
Student Board of Education (SBOE), Superintendent Student Cabinet, Student Voices Podcast Network (SVPN), Black Voices in Color (BVIC) Podcast, Queer Community Care Workshops, Restorative Practice, Students for Health, Innovation, Facts, & Truth (SHIFT)
What are SVL programs and opportunities?
These five elementary schools makeup the current Black Student Success Cohort
Columbine, Green Valley, Lowry, Oakland, Joe Shoemaker
This program collaborates with school social workers and psychologists to deliver direct support to families through case management and connection to other resources
What is FACE Family Connect
The Raza Report addresses various levels of recommendations that include parents, students, central office, school leaders, and district level.
Who are the various stakeholders of the La Raza Report
Colorado has over 200K people who identify as American Indian Alaska Native alone or in combination with other races, over 100K in Metro Denver from over 200 tribes. This is the number of tribes who ceded land to the U.S. government in Colorado
What is seven
Name the four main drivers of the SVL Framework
Identity Development Leadership Development Critical Consciousness Civic Engagement
According to Dr. Gholdy Muhammad Name the five key goals of culturally and historically responsive teaching
What are Identity, Skills, Intellect, Criticality, Joy, and Family & Home Connection
District resource centers that connect families with basic needs and other resources such as education, workforce, food and clothing.
What are Community Hubs?
In Plyler v. Doe the Supreme Court ruled that this Amendment applies to both all persons as well as U.S citizens and guarantees undocumented Latino children the right to an education.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
According to the Wearing Of Native American Traditional Regalia Act in Colorado, a student can wear and display (not under robes) traditional Native American regalia at these events
What are graduation ceremonies
Students’ voices influence district, team, school strategy and priorities.
Adults are equipped and willing to engage in collaborative discourse and partnership with students.
Systems exist for student voice, that are representative of marginalized folks, to be incorporated into strategic decision-making.
What are the SVL Priorities?
This tool helps individuals and groups assess and reflect on how they experience cultural difference and commonality, guiding growth from denial to adaptation.
What is the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
This FACE initiative brings educators directly into a family’s home to strengthen connection and student support.
What are Parent-Teacher Home Visits (PTHV)?
This practice in housing or renting continues to segregate and racially discriminate against our Latine families today. Impacting where they go to school.
What is redlining
Colorado law 19-1192 requires public schools to include the history, culture, and social contributions of American Indians and other minority groups in these curricula
What is History and Civics
Students for Health, Innovation, Facts, & Truth
To allow students to examine, question, and transform how sexual health is taught, talked about, and supported in their schools.
What is the purpose of SHIFT and each letter of the acronym
She was the first elected African American Woman to the DPS School board member in 1965
Who is Rachel B. Noel
This team organizes district-wide initiatives and events to support families and community engagement throughout DPS.
What is the Community Engagement Team (CET)?
The report uses this term to describe the underrepresentation and misunderstanding of Latinos in district and school leadership, teaching, and support positions?
What is the "brown ceiling"?
In addition to curriculum from the Colorado Department of Education, the People of the Sacred Land nonprofit has developed curriculum on Native American history and culture for these three levels
What are 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school?
Connecting students to resources including - name change support, access to advocacy education resources, the LGBTQ+ advocacy toolkit, connection to legal support and resources, community building care workshops, etc.
What are the central supports offered to LGBTQ+ students