floor Board Room of the School

Street) in Castle Rock. Meeting

This year’s DCSD Colorado

Avalanche Community Night,

sponsored by the Douglas County

on Saturday, November 14. The Avs

will host the Vancouver Canucks

Center, value range from $40 - $119,

DCEF will be donating $4 of each

contact your local DCSD school or

and click on the Colorado Avalanche

recently appeared on the 9News

Up Call” segment. The kids sat in

formation and sang the first couple of

PHS PeaceJam Club wins frst PeaceJam Hero

Award, visit from Nobel Laureate

Pondorosa High School’s PeaceJam club will be

the first recipient of the PeaceJam Hero Award and

and native-rights activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum on

November 17, 2009. The Ponderosa PeaceJam club

PeaceJam: to create positive change in themselves,

Menchú Tum will be visiting Denver for the first

annual PeaceJam Hero Awards Luncheon, to be

outstanding PeaceJam supporters, but will also

include the award given for the first ever PeaceJam

Global Call to Action Challenge.

The annual Global Call to Action award,

this challenge is a daylong visit from Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum and an award

presented by this prestigious hero in front of 800 people at PeaceJam’s Hero Award’s luncheon.

In addition, Ponderosa PeaceJam will receive expert coaching from the Pearson Foundation on

how to create a professional-style video of their project and will work with the students to create a

film documenting their visit with Menchú Tum and their award reception.

Three years ago, Ponderosa High School’s PeaceJam Club started a simple project

students. Staff and students alike quickly embraced the recycling movement and Ponderosa now

fills nine recycling dumpsters weekly with paper, plastics, and metals used throughout the school

When the District’s Energy Manager became aware of the recycling movement, he approached

Ponderosa’s PeaceJammers about launching an energy management program. Working with their

building maintenance director, PeaceJammers completed an energy audit of their school and found

Desiring to involve the community in their green movement, Ponderosa PeaceJammers

unwanted electronics for recycling rather than sending them to the landfill. The club worked with

Waste Management and Sony Corporation to collect over 120,000 pounds of electronics from over

1,200 community members. Because of their incredible work, the Ponderosa PeaceJam group was

invited by Denver Sister Cities International to accompany Mayor Geoffery Majiwa, the mayor

of Nairobi, Kenya on a tour of Denver’s Waste Management recycling facility. Mayor Majiwa

Ponderosa’s PeaceJammers have also been conducting donation drives for over two years

“The students at Ponderosa High School show the power that young people have to improve

their schools, their communities, and the world,” said Dawn Engle, PeaceJam co-founder, in

Prize winners who support PeaceJam’s mission are universal, and that – no matter what the

age – each and every one of us can make an important difference.” The Global Call to Action

Challenge challenges young people to document in digital film and in writing the projects they’ve

implemented to benefit their local communities.

The PeaceJam Hero Awards Luncheon will take place on November 18, 2009 at the Seawell

Ballroom, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, at 11:30 a.m. Details can be found at www.

peacejam.org/luncheon.aspx.

phone 303.387.0033 • fax 303.387.0107 • email communications@dcsdk12.org • www.dcsdk12.org

The L.E.A.N. Programs® are a family of workshops developed by William Sears M.D. and

Exercise Physiologist, Sean Foy, MA. These educational programs utilize Dr. Sears’ simple

techniques for parents and children in making nutrition fun, tasty, and easy to understand and

implement. Additionally, Dr. Sears and Mr. Foy provide creative ways for children to get the

L. E. A. N. Essentials –

•

Instructor:

Joy Dysart

Time:

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (1 night)

Cost:

Session 1:

December 3; Legacy Point Elementary School (Parker)

Session 2:

February 10; Flagstone Elementary School (Castle Rock)

ASIST is a FREE 2-day workshop designed to teach the skills to competently and confidently

Nov. 9-10, 2009; March 22-23, 2010; June 7-8, 2010

Individuals select one, two-day workshop offered for DCSD personnel

and community members. DCSD registrants will receive one hour of relicensure credit or

Workshops will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at: New Hope Presbyterian Church, 2100

W. Meadows Parkway, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Sponsored by the Kiwanis of Castle Pines and Douglas County School District. To register,

community members contact Jill at scootsnoop@aol.com.

Douglas County Educational

Foundation (DCEF)

PTO funded an additional $500 – to

Northeast

Elementary.

grade 4 to 6 students,” says Weickum.

and enjoy sharing it with students.

We will have about 18 to 19

reptiles, a flintknapper, [someone

from] Dinosaur Ridge and Butterfly

themselves as men to fight in the Civil

lives in a tent year-round above

Boulder), a dinosaur puppeteer, [a

Mountain Divison and their part in

enjoy putting together for our kids!

Students choose two workshops in

interest. After presenters finish their

have an all-school assembly in the

afternoon.”

November 13, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

On December 1, a new law will come into

Governor Ritter signed the bill into law on

June 1, 2009, saying “Driving requires our full

phones.” The bill was introduced after the death

of 9-year-old Erica Forney of Fort Collins, who

Colorado’s Teen Motor Vehicle Leadership

agencies focused on issues specific to teen drivers, are holding a Public Service Announcement

(PSA) contest for students that they hope will get the message out to young drivers. Students may

submit one entry per PSA category, which include video, audio and print.

The first 20 entries will receive a gift card. The winner of the video category will receive a

Sony digital video camera recorder and a gift card, the winner of the audio category will receive

$500 and four tickets to the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. For more information on the

contest, go to www.coteendriver.com. Deadline is Monday, November 16, 2009.