News from
Sheridan School District No. 2
Contact: Mark
Stevens
[email protected]
303-495-8699
(mobile) • 720-328-5488 (office)
News
Release
April 26, 2018
Board of Education Meeting Tuesday, May 1 to Consider
Superintendent Appointment
The Board of
Education will meet Tuesday, May 1 to consider its next steps in the search for
a new superintendent. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. at SOAR Academy,
4107 S. Federal Blvd.
Board of
Education president Bernadette Saleh made the announcement regarding the
special meeting during the board meeting on Tuesday, April 24. To date, the
board has not reached a consensus on selecting one of the three finalists who
were announced in early April. Those three are Antonio Esquibel, Kirk Henwood,
and Pat Sandos. Esquibel is a Denver Public Schools administrator; Henwood and
Sandos are current Sheridan School District 2 administrators. The three were
identified after a national search process that began in January and attracted
over 70 applications.
Superintendent
Michael Clough is leaving the district in June after a decade of leadership.
At its meeting on
April 10, board president announced the appointment of Juanita Camacho to
represent a seat that had been vacant for more than a decade.
Schools
Closed
Also at the
meeting this week, Superintendent Clough told the board that schools would be
closed on Friday, April 27 due to the fact that there would not be enough
teachers on hand to operate schools in a safe manner. Many Sheridan teachers
are joining larger teacher demonstrations at the state capitol regarding the
level of funding for Colorado schools.
Graduation
Dates
Sheridan High
School will hold graduation on Friday, May 18 at 6 p.m. at the West Bowles
Community Church, 1235 W. Bowles Ave. in Littleton. SOAR Academy will
hold its graduation on Wednesday, March 23 at SOAR Academy, also beginning at 6
p.m.
9 Health
Fair
Sheridan Health
Services will host a 9 Health Fair, offering a host of health screenings to the
community, on Saturday, April 28 from 8 a.m. to noon. Sheridan
Health Services is located at 3525 W. Oxford Ave. The phone number is
303-315-6150.
Student
Survey Results
Pat Sandos,
Executive Director of School Services and Student Behavioral and Emotional
Supports, provided an upbeat review of data from student surveys. Under the
Sheridan Way project plan, parent and student perception surveys establish a baseline
to determine areas for improvement for district work.
Given the
statement, “Teachers at my school care about me,” three out of four schools
surveyed showed progress from the 2016-2017 school year to the 2017-2018 school
year. Ninety-seven percent of students at Alice Terry Elementary School agreed
with that statement in 2016-2017 and 100 percent agreed with that statement
this year. That number climbed from 88 percent to 90 percent at Fort
Logan Northgate School and 95 percent to 97 percent at SOAR Academy.
Data indicating
the percentage of students reported being bullied dropped in all three schools
where that question was asked, from 30 percent to 27 percent at Fort Logan
Northgate School, from 24 percent to 19 percent at Sheridan High School, and
from 24 percent to 20 percent at SOAR Academy.
Consent
Agenda
All consent
agenda items were approved.
About
Sheridan School District 2
Located southwest
of Denver, Sheridan School District 2 seeks high-level post-secondary options
for all students through continuous improvement of quality instruction. More: www.ssd2.org
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