Denver Public Schools - Every Learner Thrives

Chalkbeat Colorado: When Terita Walker was a middle schooler at Beasley Academic Center in Chicago, she remembers watching in awe as her principal, Ollie McLemore, hosted Bill Clinton at the school during his first presidential campaign in 1992...Today, Walker is principal of Denver’s East High School, which serves about 2,300 students in one of the district’s grandest old buildings. She looks back on McLemore and the other educators who molded her as exemplars of educational leadership. Read the story.