Day Without Hate NATIONAL RECOGNITION AWARD

It all started back in 2007 after the Virgina Tech shootings.  A small group of  students and one teacher were sitting in a classroom and decided to take a stance.  From that day to now, more than 100,000 students across the country have bonded and taken a stance against school violence.  A Day Without Hate began right here behind the wall of SLHS and this week, their work, dedication, fortitude and perseverance for the cause was recognized by the Peace Jam foundation.  SLHS and DWOH were awarded the prestigious National Call To Action award and with that had the opportunity to both hear from and visit with Betty Williams, a noted Nobel Peace prize recipient who has worked all across this world to help bring hope and peace to all nations.  She along with her daughter spoke with our student body for nearly an hour on Monday and provided a glimpse of not only her work, but challenged the DWOH program to continue their work not only right here, but to take this message across this great nation.  The award was given as a formal luncheon downtown at the Denver Center for the Performing arts on Tuesday where students both past and present were recognized on stage by hundreds of Peace Jam supports for their tremendous work. 

Thank you Peace Jam for both the recognition of our DWOH work and for the work you do everyday to help promote a better place for our children to live-

Congratulations to PEACE JAM/ Day Without Hate EVENT

Standley Lake HS is extremely proud to announce that our Day Without Hate Event received a NATIONAL award yesterday from the Peace Jam Foundation- 

- DWOH won the coveted Global Call To Action award that is a nationally recognized award.  Members of the national Peace Jam organization along with CBS Channel 4 news were on hand yesterday at the school to present the award- 

In 2007 Mr. Ben Reed and English teacher at SLHS along with a small group of students were discussing school violence and the Virginia Tech shootings.  At that very moment they had a vision..  A vision to do something.  From that vision and the fortitude of these young men and women begun the Day Without Hate.  Since 2007 the event has grown immensely.  Last years event had over 120,000 students participating not only in JEFFCO, but across the state, onto college campuses and even into other neighboring states.  The culture and awareness that DWOH promotes and enables has been nothing short of amazing.  This award is not only very appreciated, but well deserved. 

Below is the news clip from CBS Channel 4 and a picture of this years Peace Jam/DWOH students participants- 

 http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/10/17/standley-lake-high-wins-peacejam-award/

Homecoming Week

This week has been full of tradition, fun, and plenty of enthusiasm!  Please join us tonight at the NAAC stadium for the all important and exciting POWDER PUFF football game.  The juniors are poised to make tonight' s game very competitive, but the Seniors will have something to say about that.  6pm start time-  $1 entry- 

Congratulations to the boys soccer team as they continue their run toward a league title beating Dakota Ridge 3-0 on Tuesday night.  They will battle with Bear Creek on Thursday at 4pm at Lakewood Memorial Stadium-  You can see the soccer team and then head over to the NAAC for football-----

Thursday night the 6th ranked football team will play 5th ranked in a battle for the top spot in the league.  7pm start time at the NAAC-  We are hoping to have a record crowd for the game as it will be very exciting! 

Class 4A
RK	TEAM	W-L	PTS	PVS	LW
1	Montrose (21)	6-0	210	2	W
2	Falcon	5-0	153	3	W
3	Monarch	3-1	149	1	L
4	Loveland	4-0	134	4	W
5	Montbello	5-0	132	6	W
6	Standley Lake	5-0	102	7	W
7	Pueblo West	4-1	88	9	W
8	Pine Creek	3-2	48	10	W
9	Pueblo Centennial	5-0	35	-	W
10	Longmont	3-1	27	-	W

Academic Assembly

SLHS Community,

I am extremely proud to once again inform our student body and the community of the tremendous accomplishments from our students.  We are once again recognizing a large group of SLHS students for their accomplishments.  This will be the third year in a row that our recognition numbers have increased in size.  We are up another 36 students overall and recognized all of our students with a GPA of 3.5 (principal honors roll) as well for the first time.  As we continue encouraging students to take rigorous and college level courses the standard expected from our student body continues to soar.  We are excited about our future and appreciate the support and communication from our school community. 

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
― Sigmund Freud

Coffee With the Superintendent

FYI Community-

Superintendent Stevenson and Standley Lake area principals invite parents/guardians and key communicators

for coffee and an opportunity to discuss important school and district issues 

 

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
STANDLEY LAKE HIGH SCHOOL

Library

9300 W 104^th Avenue • Westminster • 80021

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Please RSVP to 303-982-6808 by Friday, October 4

Welcome SLHS Class of 2017!

We welcomed the class of 2017 to the building today as school kicked off with freshman orientation.  We have over 320 of our incoming freshman here all day getting acclimated to their new building.  The LINK program is one of  the best and most important traditions as SLHS as upper classmen have a chance to mentor and track a group of freshmen on the ins and outs of high school life. 

TCAP results have record GROWTH

SLHS Community,

I've been waiting to release these results to you for two weeks now.  I am extremely proud to say that our TCAP and ACT results are in and we performed amazingly!  Our students showed growth in all 7 areas with specific results below-  As you will see from our data, we not only showed growth in all areas, but our status scores are better than they've been in four years!  That says a lot about the staff, student dedication, and the support this community provided us last year. 

Many of you were involved and informed of our "portfolio" approach to education this past year and the staff really pushed the importance of students taking responsibility for all aspects of their education to include any an all standardized testing and our new approach to challenge students to take the "right" classes based on this portfolio of educational information. 

Percentage of student Proficient/Advanced
TCAP	2009-2010		2010-2011		2011-2012		2012-13
	9th	10th	9th	10th	9th	10th	9th	10th
Reading	73	78	73	65	72	69	77	81
Writing	53	59	57	51	56	51	65	66
Math	51	42	47	35	47	40	52	45
Science	-	55	-	52	-	49	-	66