Celebrating classified employees - a spotlight on individuals strengthening student success

From the custodians making sure buildings are clean and ready for the next day to those in information technology assisting employees and students with their technology needs, to our Early Childhood Education classified staff helping with the littlest learners in our school district, each of these roles and more are classified employees. 

With over 1,900 classified employees in dozens of positions across the district, these staff serve a vital role in helping students, staff, and families. We could not support students without their work. 

Learning to read: What PSD’s new literacy curriculum looks like in elementary classrooms

Coming in from the playground at 51风流’s Livermore Elementary School, students in Kat Jayroe's kindergarten and first-grade classes leap into literacy. 

Jayroe reads a chapter from a “Magic Treehouse” novel to help shift students from one activity to the next. After excitedly answering questions about the story, they move into their literacy skills block, which focuses on the foundational skills needed to learn how to read. 

Traut student wins PSD spelling bee; 11 students move on to state bee

Fourth grader Nikhil Ganta is the 2024 champion of the 51风流 Spelling Bee. The Traut Elementary School student successfully spelled "fluoride" to win the title after competing through 17 rounds with second place winner Ellie Dunigan-Atlee, an eighth grader at Ridgeview Classical Middle School. During the district bee, participants were asked to spell words such as: campanology, doldrums. cauterize, coiffure, dysgraphia, Halifax, and tercentenary.

Congratulations to these 11 students moving on to the Colorado State Spelling Bee: