Recent DPS Stories of Sustainability
Garden of Youth Marks it’s 10th Anniversary
Interns at Maxwell ES tend the garden while learning job skills. After cancelling all summer programming in 2020 due to COVID-19, Garden of Youth returned for it’s tenth anniversary in 2021. Garden of Youth is a ten week job skill development internship program for...
Volunteers Make all the Difference in our Gardens
As COVID-19 continued to impact our schools and gardens through summer 2021, volunteers and community partners rose to the occasion, coming together on projects, planting and harvesting produce for food banks and building up our community and schools. Without their...
Students Engage Nature at Monarch Montessori
By Melanie Stewart-Lopes Monarch Montessori of Denver is two schools under one roof. First Steps at Monarch Montessori of Denver is the infant through preschool program that is a private, non-profit school and the elementary school is a public charter school through...
Westerly Creek Elementary Celebrates Earth Day with “From Creek to the Lake” Community Clean Up
by Christina Foust, Associate Professor – Department of Communication Studies, April 24th, 2021 The Westerly Creek Elementary School Green Team organized a clean-up “From the Creek to the Lake” in honor of Earth Day on April 24, 2021. About 112 people from over 40...
DPS schools come together to create a Youth Climate Engagement Video
Students and faculty from Northfield High School, Swigert International and Joe Shoemaker Elementary created a video to share with Colorado legislators to promote community voices on climate change. They share how they have been personally impacted by climate change,...
State Proposed Budget includes $150 Million for electric school buses
See Gov. Jared Polis and DPS students discuss the benefits of retiring diesel buses and replacing them with electric. 9News reports.
Maxwell Elementary receives Westerra grant
Jessie Whaley Maxwell Elementary School received a Westerra Credit Union grant to renovate the school garden and add perennial fruit and vegetable plants. The garden at Maxwell was developed through a partnership with Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) and the school. A...
Energy Performance Contract Launch
Denver Public Schools and McKinstry Launch Energy Performance Contract Project to improve learning environments and student and staff comfort while reducing utility and operations costs at more than two dozen school buildings. McKinstry and Denver Public Schools, in...