District-Wide Planning Day Friday, January 11
(Except For Schools On Continuous Year Calendar)

Denver Public Schools' Early Education Department will hold its second annual winter conference entitled, "Early Footprints on Learning," Thursday, January 10, 2002 at the University of Colorado at Denver. The event will run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the North Classroom on the UCD campus.

The conference means there will be no classes for kindergarten or early childhood education students Thursday, January 10.

Friday, January 11, is also a district-wide planning day for teachers. All schools will be closed for students except those that use the continuous year calendar (Bryant-Webster, Cheltenham, Colfax, Columbian, Del Pueblo, Eagleton, Ford, Harrington, Maxwell, McGlone, Smedley, Valdez, and Wyman elementary schools) and Mitchell Elementary School (which uses a unique extended year calendar).

The keynote speaker Thursday at the "Early Footprints" conference will be Superintendent Jerry Wartgow. Presentations will include information on literacy in the early years, bilingual storytelling, identification of abuse and neglect, science instruction, mathematics for early years and multicultural activities for the classroom.

The event is designed to support kindergarten and early childhood education teachers and paraprofessionals, including community site personnel, who provide care and education to three-, four-, and five-year-olds. In addition, UCD students studying early education are invited to participate in this worthwhile conference.

For more information, please call DPS Early Education Department at (303) 405-8213.