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Colorado Teacher of the Year, Janet Damon.
District: Educator Bio: Janet Damon teaches history at DELTA High School and has taught in Denver Public Schools for more than twenty-five years as a history teacher, literacy interventionist, library specialist and trainer, and a K-12 school librarian. Her lessons focus on inquiry, research, digital storytelling, and culturally sustaining learning. Using an inquiry model she designs learning to help students think critically about challenges in their own lives. Her students imagine new solutions to problems in our state and create podcasts to advocate for issues like homelessness, gun violence, incarceration, inflation, immigration, racism, health disparities, and drug addiction in Colorado.
New student applications and interviews will be accepted and conducted all summer long. Apply now!
Registration for the 2024-2025 school year will take place at DELTA High School on August 8th and 9th from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
The first day of school for the 2024-2025 school year will be on Monday, August 19th.
Any questions please call the Main Office at 720-423-8740
Denver Public Schools classrooms are enriched by more than 36,600 Multilingual learner students who speak 194 different world languages. Multilingual Learners make up 42% of the total DPS student population. Our Multilingual Education Department (MED) programs support nearly 25,000 culturally and linguistically diverse students so that they can participate equally and meaningfully in the classroom. The MED department and school staff are available to help parents understand these services, and recommend a program best suited to the unique needs of their child. Parents then choose which, if any, the multilingual education department program their child joins. For more information please visit or click http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/689
