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Education

Turnberry Elementary students wax poetic during lyrical 'slam' event

HENDERSON — Fifth-graders in Pam Whitlock’s Turnberry Elementary School class participated in a poetry slam on Dec. 10. The poetry slam was the (culmination) of the poetry unit the students had been doing in class and students prepared a mix of poems to recite to recite to parents.

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Turnberry Elementary hailed by state for academic improvement

COMMERCE CITY — School District 27J’s Turnberry Elementary School was honored by the state as an academically high performing school.

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Hat, scarf and glove drive at Adams City High School

COMMEREC CITY — Adams City High School’s history club is accepting donations of hats, scarves and gloves for those in need in the community.

Drop off items at the school, 7200 Quebec Parkway, before Dec. 11.

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School district reaches out to get parents, guardians involved in assessments

BRIGHTON — School District 27J officials and the Brighton Education Association are encouraging parents and citizens concerned with the state’s new academic assessment program to provide feedback to the Colorado Standards and Assessment Task Force.

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Rush is on for District 27J to finalize new schedules

BRIGHTON — Officials with School District 27J updated parents and community members on the next steps following the failed bond measure in the Nov. 4 election at a Nov. 19 post-election debriefing meeting.

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Students walk out in protest over police shootings across country

COMMERCE CITY -- Students from both Adams City middle and high schools and Kearney Middle School walked out of class Dec. 5 to protest police shootings across the country and the lack of an indictment against a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager this summer.

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Adams City student heads east for ADL youth leadership conference

COMMERCE CITY — She wasn’t in class for a few days during October. But Adams City High School student Alexis Sorenson got an education just the same.

She was one of 10 delegates from Colorado and 120 from the United States who attended the Anti-Defamation League’s Grosfeld Family National Youth Leadership Mission in Washington, D.C.

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Limitations inspire ingenuity in Prairie View welding class

HENDERSON — Participating in welding class wouldn’t have been possible for Kolten Larson without the help of his teacher Jim Cade.

Larson has limited mobility, as one side of his body is stronger than the other, and spent a lot of time his junior year helping Cade as a teachers assistant.

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District 27J board unanimously approves extension for Fiedler

BRIGHTON — In a unanimous 5-0 vote, the School District 27J Board of Education voted to extend Superintendent Chris Fiedler’s contract for another two years.

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Prairie View students head to Barr Lake park for ecological field trip

BRIGHTON — Prairie View High School biology students were invited to attend and participate in a local biology learning experience and clean-up project last month.

The students gained first-hand knowledge of their classroom biology themes that they will study in class and also earned community service hours while helping out a local biological area.

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