For Gaby, putting students first is very close to her heart. Gaby Ruiz, a math fellow coordinator at MLK Jr. Early College, is running the Colfax Marathon for the second year in a row. Both years she has chosen to run for the DPS Foundation to raise awareness and to...
“I’ve never run. I am not a runner.” –This was the first thing I heard from the Elementary Education Department’s team captain for Colfax Marathon 2016, Tammy Giessinger, who is now leading her team into a second year of running for the DPS Foundation on May 14 and...
Senator Bennet recently said, “All of us have different policy issues we focus on, but in my mind if you want to cure this problem of poverty in our country, the way to do that is by making sure that people can read when they’re in the first grade. That’s the most...
At the beginning of her middle school experience, Janette was one of the most struggling students at Hamilton Middle School, both academically and behaviorally. She is the first to say, that before the “Hamilton Renaissance”(the term used to describe the improvement...
Written by Elicia Dennis, 2013 DPS Graduate I am the person I am today because of my education in Denver Public Schools. I look back and can see so clearly the commitment of my DPS teachers, who sparked my love for learning. I was constantly told by my teachers,...
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Achieve Gala 2020 Co-Chairs Sarah and Andrew Feinstein
