 Dos Rios Elementary School students in this Web Exclusive video are learning about science, sustainability and citizenship as they build a Sensory Garden at the Poudre Learning Center. On this field trip, the students built a retaining wall, planted bulbs, and collected animal adaptation data. The Sensory Garden, when in full bloom have plants, flowers and vegetables that will be for young preschool children to explore, touch, feel and enjoy. It is being designed both for small children and those who are blind, deaf and or wheelchairs.
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 Fridays begin with the taste of success at Brentwood Middle School.
During his morning announcements to the Bengal student body, principal John Diebold announces the names of students and teachers whose well-earned "CLAW"mpliments also won them a Bengal Float ice cream and orange soda. Students who earned the award get to slip out of class long enough to go to the hallway just inside the main entrance and receive congratulations from the schools administration along with their Bengal Float.
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 Miles, the Denver Broncos mascot, super-charged Cameron Elementary School on Wednesday, Oct. 14, with a message of eating right and getting plenty of exercise.
Because Miles does not speak, he was aided by a videophone set up in the schools gym, through which one of the Denver Broncos cheerleaders and several players interacted with Miles and the Cameron students. Using music, dancing, rap and some clever props while Miles worked the room, they gave students tips on the right kinds of foods to eat and how much exercise they need to build into their everyday routine.
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 Thanks to OfficeMax's "A Day Made Better" program, several days and months will be a little better for Kim Foster's class at East Memorial Elementary School.
Foster received a surprise delivery of $1,000 worth of classroom supplies on Oct. 6 when representatives from the local OfficeMax store, along with her principal, Dr. Mark Thompson, and assistant principal, Justin Ungeheuer, arrived with a giant orange box, a leather office chair, flowers and a congratulatory certificate.
"I was in shock," Foster said later. "I don't really remember what Mr. Ungeheuer even said!" While she was still reeling in shock, Ungeheuer announced that Foster was one of 1,000 teachers being honored across the nation that day.
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Ideas can be viral, and one outstanding Greeley West High School student and one of her favorite teachers spent a week in the hot zone of Aspen last summer. West senior Lanna Giauque and history teacher Edie Reynolds were one of 12 pairs of public-school scholars invited to the Bezos Foundations Aspen Ideas Festival from June 30 through July 6.
In the rarified air, they received even more rare access to some of the worlds foremost thought leaders. Scholars met privately and in small groups with retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Pulitzer-prize winning writer Thomas Friedman, humanitarian architect Cameron Sinclair, longtime newsman Bob Schieffer, as well as numerous Harvard professors, CEOs, entrepreneurs, artists, and technology innovators.
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District 6 Opens Books on Budget, Spending, and Stimulus Funds
 With conversations taking place across Greeley and Evans regarding its financial standing, District 6 is providing easier-to-understand explanations of the money it receives and how that money is used to educate students.
One example is a detailed explanation how additional state revenue is being spent this year. For that report, click here.
Another example is ARRA federal stimulus funding, which is helping to create jobs and extend services to students. To view a list and explanation of where and how these funds are allocated in District 6, click here.
For answers to other questions, the Money Matters page and the MLO Frequently Asked Questions page were created earlier this year to provide information for those with questions about district finances. District 6 is looking ahead and taking proactive steps to provide transparency to the public by posting its 2009-10 budget online. Such open access to documents has been and will be the subject of debate in the state legislature, and District 6 is working to provide early access in response to anticipated legislation regarding financial transparency.
People are talking, and District 6 wants to make sure the facts are easily accessible for those conversations.
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