Cory Elementary School

Cory Caregivers,

What an incredible day we had at Cory Elementary! I wanted to share some highlights with you.

This morning, we celebrated First Friday with a focus on our value of the month: Responsibility. We discussed what it means to be responsible students, friends, and community members.

Ways to Reinforce Responsibility at Home:

• Encourage your child to complete homework and chores without reminders

• Have them pack their backpack and lay out clothes the night before school

• Assign age-appropriate tasks like setting the table, feeding pets, or putting away laundry

• Praise them when they follow through on commitments and take ownership of their actions

• Model responsibility by keeping your own promises and admitting mistakes

Students showcasing Cory Values. 

• Golden Trashcan: Mr. Egland/Ms. Laventure’s 5th grade class 

• Golden Basketball: Mr. Doyle’s class 

Today's Field Day was a huge success! Thank you to all the caregivers who attended and helped make it such a special day for our Cougars. Our students showed incredible sportsmanship and kindness towards one another throughout all the activities. It was wonderful to see them cheering each other on and working together! Thank you to Mr. C for hosting a great event!! 

We also want to extend a huge THANK YOU to our PTA and Fine Arts Committee for funding a special ballet performance experience for our 4th and 5th graders this week. Students were engaged and truly enjoyed this beautiful art form. Thank you for providing these enriching opportunities for our students—they make such a difference in broadening their horizons and exposing them to new experiences!

What a fantastic day to be a Cougar! 🐾

Transportation -Share My Ride k-12 Video

DPS Transportation is committed to providing essential technology for parents. The My Ride K-12 app is exactly that. With this app, parents can see when their students scan on and off the bus, view route details and receive late bus notifications. To better serve our community and help parents set up the app, please see this instructional video for the My Ride K-12 app 

Safety and Security For Parent Volunteers - Raptor Sign in 

ID Requirement: When visiting the school, it is required that all families bring a government-issued ID. This is to help us verify identity and maintain a secure environment for our students.  You will be required to enter your information into the DPS system in the main office when you are visiting the building. This process takes a few minutes so give yourself plenty of time. 

• The Raptor system has an App and Passport that you can download to make the process more streamlined once your ID is verified. Here are the instructions on how to set up the Raptor application and the passport: . 

  • Raptor Safe App and Passport (English)

  • Raptor Safe App and Passport (Spanish)

PTA NEWS 

As a reminder, if you haven't already, please join the PTA! Membership is only $15 for an individual and $30 for a couple, and helps support our students, staff, and families. No volunteering is required, and joining the PTA is a great way to stay informed about what's happening around the school. Sign up here.

If you are unable to join at this time, but would still like to receive our newsletter, please subscribe here.

VOLUNTEERING 

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Denver Public Schools! Background-checks  are required to volunteer. Please log into the link and fill out the form for the Background check to Volunteer at Cory.    Background Check 

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Social-Emotional Success at Cory: 

The Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS) Social Emotional FALL 2026 screener is now OPEN! Parents and guardians, please complete this for your student, we conduct this screener 3x per school year and these results inform decisions regarding behavioral and social emotional supports for students at school. *** 1st-2nd grader parents are REQUIRED to complete the BESS parent screener for their child. 3rd-5th grade parents are highly encouraged but not required to complete the BESS parent screener.

Questions about the BESS? Click here: https://ess.dpsk12.org/o/studentequity/page/dpsscreening

Link here to complete your child's screener: https://review360connect.com/Prod/DenverPublicSchools/Parent/

Thank you for your participation in supporting our students’ social and emotional well-being!

What is TSEAL? Transformative Social Emotional Academic Learning

“Transformative SEAL” is a process whereby young people and adults build strong, respectful, and lasting, relationships that facilitate co-learning to critically examine root causes of inequity, and to develop collaborative solutions that lead to personal, community, and societal well-being. This form of TSEAL is aimed at redistributing power to promote social justice through increased engagement in school and civic life. It emphasizes the development of identity, agency, belonging, curiosity, and collaborative problem solving

It's critically important that school wide TSEAL implementation intentionally nurtures an environment in which educators gain social and emotional competence by learning, collaborating, and modeling their social and emotional skills. Along with these social and emotional skills, schools must also fold in conversations about race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, language and ability so that the conversation about TSEAL takes into account the student’s fullest identities. It is recommended that schools do a deep dive into understanding how educators, students, and community can navigate conversations about race, sex, gender, ableism and other social identities in order to establish systems and supports that strengthen both adult and student Social Emotional Academic Learning.

Come along on our Cory TSEAL journey! 

• Unit 1: Positive School Culture and Classroom Community  

• Unit 2: Self-Awareness

• Unit 3: Self Regulation and Management - Value of the month is Responsibility 

Student Equity Experience

We are looking for parent volunteers to come and read diverse and inclusive books to represent a variety of cultures and backgrounds as a part of our Student Equity Experience! If you are interested in being a volunteer reader for your child’s class or another class, please Dojo or email Ms. Wilberg at rachel_wilberg@dpsk12.net. Thank you!