By: Melinda Bochner, Steering Committee Chair
With the upcoming departure of Principal Griffin at the end of this school year, the principal hiring process is underway. Following our school’s Principal Hiring policy and regulation, SF-02 and SF-02-R, we have composed our 14-member Principal Hiring Committee (PHC). Thank you to the participants from the D’Evelyn Accountability Committee, the Dennison Accountability Committee, our D’Evelyn staff, and the school’s Founders for volunteering your time and energy to this important project. On February 28th, we met to approve the members of the PHC, all of whom stated their commitment to upholding the school’s Founding Document, dedicated at least 20 hours to the process, agreed to reread the Founding Document and other important materials, and vowed to conduct a fair, non-discriminatory and confidential search for an exceptional person to lead our fine school. On March 7th, we gathered for a training session where we discussed in-depth the attributes we are seeking in our next principal, as gleaned from the Founding Document. The first and foremost requirement is that the individual we hire hold a deep and sincere understanding and belief in our school’s educational philosophy. Our principal must believe in the team approach to solving issues, able to work with parents, students, staff, and the Steering Committee. Our principal must serve as a leader, a role model, and an inspiration to all. It is his or her responsibility to maintain our curriculum, the training of our staff, and our excellence in every regard. The list goes on, and the bar is exceptionally high. The job description is currently posted nation-wide; on March 27th we will close the application window and will meet the following day to review the applications. Qualified individuals who appear to meet our requirements will be invited to interview with the PHC on April 1st. That evening, based on the results of the interviews, applications, and essays, the PHC will determine which candidates to invite to interview again. The final candidates will participate in a second round of interviews with the PHC on April 4th, where they will also meet with our three Focus Groups. The Focus Groups include volunteer parents from both D’Evelyn and Dennison, students selected by the Social Studies department staff, and volunteer D’Evelyn staff members. Every participant will provide written feedback, pros and cons, about each candidate, as well as their vote. At the end of the day, the PHC will review all the information we have gathered: Focus Group input, 2nd round interview performance, 1st round interview performance, essays, and applications. The 14 members of the PHC, representing the different constituencies in our community, will discuss and deliberate to reach a consensus. We are committed to selecting an extraordinary individual who will continue D’Evelyn’s academic excellence and provide a renewed excitement and passion for our outstanding school while maintaining an unwavering commitment to our school’s founding principles. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me or any member of the Steering Committee with your questions, suggestions, and concerns. We will listen and, within the constraints of our confidentiality agreement, answer your questions with candor and transparency. Thank you to every member of the D’Evelyn community for your interest and support of this critical process and for your commitment to our wonderful school. Melinda Bochner 319-338-4414 [email protected] By: Melinda Bochner, Steering Committee Chair
After receiving the sad news that Principal Griffin will not be with us next year, the Steering Committee (SC) has jumped into the process of hiring a new principal to lead D’Evelyn. We are in the process of forming our Principal Hiring Committee (PHC), which will consist of all SC members, one D’Evelyn Accountability member, one Dennison Accountability member, two teachers, one administrator, one Founder, and one (non-voting) district representative. After in-depth training, the members of the PHC will screens applicants and conduct two rounds of interviews. During the first round of interviews, three Focus Groups, consisting of parents, students, and teachers, will meet with the principal candidates and have the opportunity to ask questions. The PHC will use the feedback provided by every Focus Group member in their deliberations. With the loss of our wonderful principal, we enter a time of transition; but we should also view this as an exciting time of new opportunity. The D’Evelyn Steering Committee is committed to conducting a thoughtful, thorough, transparent search, and to finding a superb new principal who will maintain D’Evelyn’s adherence to the Founding Document and its tradition of excellence. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to me or to any member of the Steering Committee. Proposed timeline: 2/22/22 – nationwide posting of principal job description 2/28/22 – finalize PHC membership and calendar 3/7/22 – PHC training 3/28/22 – PHC reviews applications 4/1, 4/4, and 4/6/22 – possible dates for interviews By: Lynne Hobbs, Steering Committee Member and English Teacher
The D’Evelyn Founders state in the school's original philosophy statement that they “believe[d] the purpose of education is to convey an essential body of cultural knowledge to the next generation” (Program Document 1). The same document states that “Our English program stresses the foundational aspects of language and its application as represented in recognized great literature for the ages” (5). In 1997, founding English department member Jack Moninger set out with the early department to establish a prescribed list of literature to ensure both year to year continuity and that each student would encounter the same list of classics, creating horizontal and vertical alignment unparalleled in Jefferson County. Instead of yearly debates over what to teach and when to teach it, a list of required readings, studied at the same time each year, would provide all students with the same exposure to the same great works of literature. Over the past 25 years, the English department has tweaked a few pieces of our curriculum, rearranging when a few books are studied and dropping a few (four?) because of: a text going out of print (The Yearling, which was a replacement when Death Comes for the Archbishop was dropped and To Kill a Mockingbird was changed from a summer read to a school year study), repetition of works from a given period (Far From the Madding Crowd provided two Victorian summer reading books going into British Literature), repetition of an author studied in depth in a later year (Death Comes for the Archbishop), or challenging content beyond students’ life experiences (Dandelion Wine), but the list otherwise remains largely the same. Written justifications not only explain why we chose the additional works not found in our selected textbooks, but also present connections, both up and down the scope and sequence. When we have made changes (adding The Yearling, The Outsiders, 1984 and all the novels studied in 6th grade), the process has included writing justifications, just as we did at the school’s inception, in order to maintain our alignment. Our novels and plays were not chosen lightly, and they were not chosen at random. They were chosen for thematic and stylistic connections; they were chosen to augment the literature studied in our carefully selected textbooks; and they were chosen to complement other pieces of the D’Evelyn puzzle, in both earlier grades and later grades as well as in other academic subjects. We are proud of our rich curriculum, and we are confident that it continues to provide D’Evelyn students with the cultural knowledge of great literature as promised in the Program Document. We welcome you to learn more about the reasoning behind each of our carefully selected novels and plays; please visit the school website, under the academic section: Book Justifications By: Brock Gustafson
D’Evelyn will be rolling out a new student technology policy after winter break. The Accountability Committee started studying this issue more than a year ago in the hopes of coming up with a uniform policy to eliminate distractions in the classroom. The Steering Committee would like to first recognize and thank those on the Accountability Committee for their thoughtful efforts in researching and crafting the genesis of this policy. Throughout the process, both the Accountability and Steering Committees solicited, received and considered feedback from students, parents, teachers and administrators. We especially appreciate those students and parents who got involved and came to provide their feedback to the Steering Committee directly during our public meetings in the past six months. Based on feedback from the D’Evelyn community, the Steering Committee has adopted a policy that requires student personal electronic devices to be stored out of sight with all notifications turned off/silent during classroom instructional time. In light of parent feedback regarding potential emergency situations, students will not be required to keep their phone in their lockers during the school day; students can stow their silenced devices in their backpacks. We hope that this new policy will reduce distractions in class while still allowing parents and students the opportunity to stay connected during passing and lunch periods. You will find the new policy on the D’Evelyn Steering Committee website under Student policies (ST-06-R4). Steering Committee Election The D’Evelyn program is unique, and the Steering Committee is tasked with ensuring the school’s liberal arts curriculum, policies, performance, and hiring follow the principles found in the D’Evelyn Founding Document. Thanks to all who have shown interest and attended the first Steering Committee Candidate Training in November! The next candidate training is scheduled for February 7th, 2021, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., in the library immediately following the Steering Committee meeting. We are looking for one parent and one teacher to join the Steering Committee for the next term starting summer of 2022. If you are considering becoming a candidate and missed the first training, it is important that you contact Brock Gustafson ([email protected]) to get the details on how to complete your application. As a reminder, the application for the 2022 openings is posted here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16x8M4DPf7yYahCx-XZ81jZhYLTFX48hZ0gMp6QCIk_I/ By: Dana Miller, D’Evelyn Steering Committee parent member
The holidays are right around the corner and it’s always a good time to reflect on what we are thankful for. Attending D’Evelyn sure isn’t a cake walk but my children (one graduate, a junior and 8th grader) are all learning (or have learned) valuable skill sets and they have the foundation of a liberal arts education that they will take with them for the rest of their lives. D’Evelyn was founded by a group of parents who had a vision to provide a textbook-based, teacher-directed, and whole group instruction of a liberal arts education to our students. Put aside all of the high test scores, awards and top rankings that D’Evelyn has achieved year after year and what you get is a “back to the basics,” solid foundational liberal arts education where any child can achieve if they are willing to do the work and put in the time. Why am I thankful? Because my children had the choice to attend this school which I do believe will better prepare them for life and the future. I’m thankful for the curriculum they are learning, the literature they have the opportunity to read, and the rigor which holds them accountable and teaches them discipline, structure and responsibility. I am also thankful for the faculty and staff. I would be lying if I said there weren’t times when I wish the staff would lighten up and be more flexible but I know that they care. I know that the reason they have their structure and toughness is because they believe in their curriculum and their students and they are pushing them to be their best. I am also thankful for the community of D’Evelyn parents who are invested in their childrens’ education; parents who volunteer time and energy to give back to this school that we are so fortunate to have our kids attend. Next school year (2022-2023) there will be one parent and one teacher position open on the Steering Committee. Terms for the Steering Committee are three years and it is a great way to be involved in your school and also to give back to a school that has given our kids so much. I encourage you to consider stepping up and volunteering in any way possible. If you are interested in serving on the Steering Committee, please plan to attend the Candidate Training on November 9th at 6:30 pm (immediately following the Accountability Committee meeting) in the library. In addition, please review the application as it contains valuable information about requirements and eligibility for serving. If the Steering Committee isn’t for you, there are monthly Accountability Committee meetings, the D’Evelyn Education Foundation which is the non-profit fundraising arm for D’Evelyn, and other opportunities such as signing up to sell D’Evelyn merchandise in the school store or helping out with social events. Whatever you do, get involved in some way. You will be thankful you did. By: Lynne Hobbs, Teacher Member of the Steering Committee I have been asked this question numerous times over my 25 years as a teacher at D'Evelyn. For many years, the question came from other teachers at other schools, wondering why I would choose to work here over all the other possibilities in the Denver area. Most recently, I was asked this question on an application to become a member of the Steering Committee. But most often over the past eleven years, I have been asked that question as a parent. As some of you know, but I assume many of you do not, I am not just a D’Evelyn teacher, I am a D’Evelyn parent. My older son graduated with the class of 2017 (and then from college this past spring), and my younger son is currently a senior (class of 2022!). The decision to place my children here was actually an easy one to make. I firmly believe in the D’Evelyn curriculum. The path has not always been easy. We have had our share of late nights with tests to study for, essays and research papers to write, and English novels to read. I have resurrected my long forgotten Spanish to help study the imperfect and the preterite, I tracked due dates for long-term assignments, and I even helped build a plant cell out of a cantaloupe by making labels for the mitochondria and cell wall. I do not know if all they have studied will be applied in their daily lives, but I know the skills and the experience gained from D’Evelyn will pay dividends. I had heard before from graduates how much the rigors of D’Evelyn helped them in college, but I have now seen it first hand from my own child. From content, to study skills, to time management, my older son has repeatedly told me of the ways that D’Evelyn prepared him for college. And as I prepare to send my younger son off as well, the one thing of which I am absolutely certain, is that he has the foundation to succeed in college. Finally, my kids have had great teachers who taught and inspired them. When my older son needed to write a paper for his literature class freshman year in college, he went to Mr. Haller’s website to check out his exemplars before beginning to write. He chose his degree because Mr. Ryckman and Ms. Weber made math interesting and appealing. A semester in Mr. Baker’s economics class provided the foundation that allowed him to be the point person for his friends and teammates when school went remote his junior year and everyone struggled with the economics class they were trying to take online. My younger one thinks he might want to be a social studies teacher, inspired by Ms. Holland, Mr. Carson, Mr. Murphy and Mr. Beams. Thanks to Sra. Bender, Sra. Schott and Sr. Beams (again), he has discovered a love and talent for Spanish that I hope to see him pursue in the future as well. I could go on ad nauseum about what D’Evelyn has done for my kids, but I will settle for telling you that if I had the decision to make over, I would do it all again. By: Brock Gustafson, Steering Committee Vice Chair The D’Evelyn program is unique, and the Steering Committee is committed to ensuring the school’s liberal arts curriculum, policies, performance, and hiring follow the principles found in the D’Evelyn Founding Document. We have openings for one parent and one teacher to serve three-year terms starting next summer. If you are a teacher or have a student in grades six through nine, please consider applying to be a Steering Committee member. Being a Steering Committee member does not require a huge time commitment, and the work is very interesting and rewarding! If you think you might be interested, please get involved now! The application for the 2022 openings is posted here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16x8M4DPf7yYahCx-XZ81jZhYLTFX48hZ0gMp6QCIk_I/ This fall and winter, we ask that you complete some readings to familiarize yourself with the D’Evelyn Founding Document and some Liberal Arts philosophy texts), attend some Accountability and Steering Committee meetings, or get involved in a curricular or hiring committee. Curricular committees are forming now and the first training for potential candidates is November 9th , so now is a great time to get involved!!! By: Dr. Jeff London (Professor and Parent of a D’Evelyn Student)
Ever since my daughter began attending D’Evelyn Jr./Sr. High, I have tried to better understand the school, faculty, staff, students, and parents. To understand the people and the institution itself, I have read and reread the D’Evelyn Founding Document, as well as interacted with the very curriculum that my child is experiencing every day of the school year. Over time, I have also tried to better understand how the outside world views D’Evelyn and the students who attend this institution. I often hear D’Evelyn described as an “option school” and I like that status. For me the word “option” implies choice. If I am forced to live without individual choices, I am forced to live without individual freedom. Living without individual freedom sounds absolutely unamerican. The very notion that parents have the “power of choice” implies that they have the authority to make their own decisions about what is best for their own children. In summation, parents have the choice to send their children to D’Evelyn or not to send their children to D’Evelyn. From the beginning of the “school choice” process, parents recognize that adult individuals (i.e., parents) can make their own well-informed decisions. If a parent chooses to not become well informed before making an important choice, the parent can always change their mind and make a different choice. Adults are empowered by information. Regrettably, adults who do not become well informed sometimes become strangers to their own agency. A lack of information may result in adults failing to exercise their own freedom responsibly. Adults exercising their freedoms (without first doing their homework and reading the D’Evelyn Founding Document) may make regrettable choices. Adults who make uninformed choices sometimes suffer the consequences of their own uninformed designs. By making responsible and well-informed choices, adults can leverage institutional support and technical know-how to assure that their children receive a rigorous and traditional liberal arts education. D’Evelyn is an extremely challenging environment for students and a high GPA is hard-earned. Today, the stakes are as high as they ever were, as parents seek to support their students. Students, understandably, desire to attend more prestigious colleges and universities. Parents and students often believe that the college or university that the student attends has far-reaching and profound implications for their future career trajectories. Because the stakes are so high, it is important that parents make well informed decisions about what school their child will attend. Understanding the rigorous and demanding curriculum of D’Evelyn and reading the D’Evelyn Founding Document must be the primary undertaking of any parent considering sending their child here. To attend or not attend D’Evelyn is a choice. Before deciding, parents should be encouraged to read the D’Evelyn Founding Document. Consequently, all members of our rigorous educational community will understand who they are: social actors exercising their freedom of choice, responsibly or not. By: Melinda Bochner, Steering Committee Chair
Welcome back, D’Evelyn families, teachers, and staff! The members of the D’Evelyn Steering Committee hope that you enjoyed a wonderful summer vacation and are looking forward to the start of a new and improved school year. As the governing board of the school, our primary role is to uphold the Founding Document of the school. This year, our main goal is to assist in the return to normalcy at D’Evelyn. Additionally, we plan to continue our work on an updated technology policy that will best promote our students’ learning as well as their safety, and to review the recently updated policy manual for consistency, clarity, and efficacy. As a reminder to everyone in the community, Steering Committee meetings are open to the public and we welcome your attendance. Currently we are planning to meet in person in the D’Evelyn library. Our meeting details are included on the D’Evelyn website calendar, and our meeting agendas are posted both online and physically near the entry of the school. Minutes, too, are posted online after they are approved at the subsequent meeting. We also invite teachers and parents to consider serving a term on the Steering Committee. Both a teacher and a parent position will be open beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Serving on the Steering Committee is a meaningful way to participate at D’Evelyn and to ensure its ongoing success for current and future students. Additionally, we encourage all parents to attend Accountability meetings and those who are dedicated to the school’s philosophy to serve on Steering subcommittees for hiring, textbook selection, and curriculum reviews. If at any time you have questions or suggestions, or if you are interested in serving on the Steering Committee or a subcommittee, please feel free to reach out to any SC member. We look forward to hearing from you, and we look forward to a successful 2021-22 school year at D’Evelyn. Go Jags! Written by: Melinda Bochner
Thank you to the many members of the community who have shared their thoughts about the proposed cell phone policy. We have read your emails as well as your posts on this blog and Facebook, and we have reviewed your responses to the Accountability survey. While, as always, your opinions vary, the majority of the input we received indicates support for a more restrictive cell phone policy. The most common concern that we heard surrounds students’ access to their cell phones in the case of an emergency. The technology subcommittee presented the policy proposal along with the community feedback to the Steering Committee this spring. The Steering Committee, expressing interest and support for this initiative, plans to move forward with a more restrictive cell phone policy in the fall, though the details of the policy have not been determined. To that end, the Steering Committee welcomes additional community input, intends to seek more feedback from teachers, and will review research to refine the final policy. Steering’s expectation is to finish this review process in the fall semester for implementation in January of 2022. Please feel free to reach out to any SC member if you have questions or further comments. At the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, watch for additional information, and to warm-up for the roll-out of the new policy, please encourage your students to keep their cell phones out of sight during the school day. Have a fun-filled, low-tech, mask-free summer! Written by: Gina Coco
D’Evelyn’s Founding Document sets us apart from neighborhood district high schools in many ways, including graduation requirements. As new Jeffco rules come out, it is the Steering Committee’s role to evaluate them and see if they align with our Founding Document and governance policies and determine if they should be implemented at D’Evelyn. Recently, Jeffco changed their graduation requirements to allow the following high school graduation credits to be earned during junior high school:
D’Evelyn allows the following junior high credits to apply to high school graduation requirements:
While these may look like somewhat similar policies, the latter lines up with the requirements in the Founding Document, the former does not. For this reason, The Steering Committee unanimously voted to continue with our current graduation policy rather than adopt the District’s changes. D’Evelyn graduation requirements can be found in Policy CU-08 and CU-08-R . All D’Evelyn policies, as well as meeting minutes, can be found on the D’Evelyn policy website. If you have any graduation credit concerns, please contact your student’s counselor. Written by: Greg Holland, Steering Committee member
As April approaches, I am coming to the end of my first year on the Steering Committee. This has been a year of many firsts, and as we have just marked the anniversary of a global shutdown due to the pandemic, we look back at the many changes we have made due to COVID. One of the fall-outs has been the loss of face-to-face conversations around the world, and closer to home this means in the classroom, on the sporting fields, at school events, and in school committees. While Zoom and Google meets have allowed us to continue our work, the “new normal” means I have not had any in person conversations or meetings with other Steering Committee members, nor with any parents or students at D’Evelyn. This has become the norm for most of the D’Evelyn community, and I for one look forward to coming to an end of this ”new normal” as COVID numbers drop and vaccines roll out. Thankfully, the end seems to be in sight, and students will eventually return to the classroom. Like the rest of society, even though Steering Committee meetings moved to Zoom this year, we have been continuing important work for our school. One significant item on which SC has been working is filling two upcoming vacancies as the terms of Gina Coco and Melinda Bochner are ending this spring. Both seats are being filled without the need of an election. Melinda Bochner is running unopposed and will return for a second term. Brock Gustafson, also running unopposed, will be a new member of the Steering Committee. During recent interviews, Mr. Gustafson asked a question which reminded me of my own interview process. He asked about the amount of communication he could expect from the D’Evelyn community as a SC member. Unfortunately, one casualty of the pandemic has been an indirect loss of communication with our community. Even though Steering Committee meetings are open to the public, and we are open to questions and concerns from D’Evelyn parents and the community at large, public interest in committee work has waned as pandemic concerns have increased. Hopefully this will change as the pandemic abates. April Candidate Forum - You’re Invited! This brings me to an important upcoming event and we encourage parent involvement. It is time to meet and bring questions to Brock and Melinda as we continue vital work of the Steering Committee, including the continued transition of the 6th grade to the building as well as bringing D’Evelyn out of pandemic restrictions. The Steering Committee would like to invite you to participate in a public forum on April 13 after the Accountability Committee meeting to greet the new Steering Committee members. Both meetings are via Zoom and all participants are invited to ask questions: you can submit your questions early to SC vice-chair Jeff London or by asking questions via chat during the forum itself. Mr. London’s email is [email protected] and he asks that you submit your questions by April 12th. Otherwise you can join the meeting and enter questions by chat. This public forum will begin at 6:45pm. Here are short bios for Melinda and Brock: “It has been an honor to serve as a member of the D’Evelyn Steering Committee for the past three years, through our school’s many accomplishments, some struggles, and now a pandemic. As the mother of three daughters who are currently in the 6th, 9th, and 11th grades at D’Evelyn, I am profoundly grateful that this school exists and continues to provide students with the rich education envisioned by its founders. I was born in Denver, a fourth-generation Coloradan, yet spent much of my childhood living abroad. I completed my high school education at Cherry Creek HS and subsequently attended and graduated from Duke University, the UCLA School of Law, and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After working and training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, I am currently working at home, enjoying raising my beloved daughters. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to D’Evelyn’s future – I love this school, the meaningful education that it provides to my children and yours, its dedicated and talented staff, and the brilliant Founding Document which established D’Evelyn and continues to shepherd it to success.” --Melinda Bochner “I grew up in Ohio and moved to Virginia to attend the University of Richmond. After graduating with a B.A. in International Studies and French, I spent 15 years working for telecommunications firms in Virginia before my family moved to Colorado in 2008. I am currently a management consultant for a large technology firm where I help clients gather and examine data to help them design their future strategy and help better organize their operations. My wife and I are foodies and we love to travel, so we hope to be able to get back into that soon. I am a father to four sons; my oldest, Phillip, graduated from Chatfield and will graduate this year from the U.S. Naval Academy. He studies Quantitative Economics and plays on the soccer team and will commission as a Marine officer in May. Taylor graduated from D’Evelyn in 2019 and is in his second year at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy where he studies Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and plays lacrosse. Mason is currently a senior at D’Evelyn and has been accepted to VMI for next year where he will study Business and Spanish and play D1 lacrosse. Clayton is currently a Freshman at D’Evelyn and plays tennis and soccer. I look forward to working with the D’Evelyn community to help maintain our spot as the top high school in the state and continue our commitment to the Liberal Arts and to academic excellence.” --Brock Gustafson Written by: Greg Holland, Steering Committee member
Public Forum to be held on April 13th at 6:45pm, right after the Accountability Meeting. All D'Evelyn community welcome to take part! Written by: Lynne Hobbs, English Teacher Please note that the annual Principal survey will be open from Monday, March 1 through Friday, March 12. The link to the online survey will be sent to the D'Evelyn community soon via School Messenger. Per agreement with the district, the Steering Committee collaborates with the District's Achievement Director on the principal evaluation. Your input on this survey is one valuable component of the multi-faceted evaluation process. The survey questions have been assembled based on D'Evelyn's Founding Documents and School Philosophy. All survey responses are anonymous. On behalf of the D'Evelyn 2020-2021 Steering Committee, thank you in advance for your time and feedback and please be on the look-out for the coming link via School Messenger. Written by: Dan Wille, Assistant Principal In every year where there are more applicants than available positions on the Steering Committee, the D’Evelyn Steering Committee holds an election to determine who will serve as members for the following school year. This year, there are two open parent positions on the Steering Committee, beginning the term in July 2021. In the event that there are three or more parent candidates, the Steering Committee will hold elections remotely this year, with each D’Evelyn family casting one ballot. We strongly value each family’s ability to participate in this important process as established in the D’Evelyn Founding Document. Thus, each family must ensure their contact information is properly entered into Jeffco Connect in order to have the ability to successfully cast their ballot. Each family must login to Jeffco Connect and confirm an accurate email address as the correct primary contact for the family. This will be the email address that will be used to electronically distribute ballots. Families will not receive a ballot in this year’s election if their contact information is not properly entered in Jeffco Connect. Additionally, it is important to note that families with more than one student at D’Evelyn will only cast one ballot. Please follow the below instructions to ensure you have a correct email address entered for the primary contact for your family: 1. Log into Jeffco Connect: https://jeffcoconnect.jeffco.k12.co.us/ 2. Once logged in, click on your student/s name. 3. You will see the below screen. Click on “Contacts” on the left side of the screen: 4. Then, click “Edit” for the Parent/Guardian Contact Priority 1: 5. You will see the below screen. Make sure it says “Contact Priority 1.” Then click “Notification Preferences” 6. Scroll to the bottom of this screen so you can see the box to enter an email address. 7. Enter the email address you would like to receive your Steering Committee ballot and click “Save.”
8. NOTE: If you have more than one student at D’Evelyn, Jeffco Connect will update the rest of your student’s notification preferences to match this contact information. However, to ensure you receive the ballot with the appropriate email address we recommend following the above steps to verify the email address is accurate. Please confirm contact information and therefore registration for this year’s election will by February 19th. After 2/19, you will receive a confirmation email sent to the email address provided verifying you have successfully updated your contact information, and providing further election information. Please ensure you complete the above instructions for updating your contact information before February 19th. Please contact Assistant Principal Dan Wille with questions regarding this process: [email protected]. |
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