Tour a local school and engage in an idea exchange about how equity, diversity, and multicultural education are manifested in school life and culture.
The visits are scheduled for Wednesday, December 4, from 8:30 AM–1:00 PM (all times listed are Mountain Time). Pre-registration is required for all school visits, but there is no additional cost. Transportation and lunch are included.
Colorado Academy
Colorado Academy is a PK-12 institution whose mission is to educate curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders. We are a community that cultivates student voice, respects individualism, and fosters learning. Our work around diversity, equity, and inclusion reinforces the philosophy, mission, and heart of Colorado Academy. We value the complexity of our society—including the richness of each individual’s ideas, identities, backgrounds, orientations, expressions, abilities, and aspirations. Our goal as an institution is to help teachers create inclusive classrooms that are engaging and which encourage the ability to have brave and difficult conversations. By improving students’ abilities to collaborate and become stronger independent thinkers, we push them to communicate effectively across differences, thus enabling all students to feel valued, respected, and supported.
Denver Academy (FULL)
Denver Academy is a place where neurodiverse students are valued and empowered to learn. In 2024, Denver Academy became a designated No Place for Hate school, reflecting our commitment to anti-bias work and lifelong learning. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are foundations of our educational community. Participants of this tour will gain knowledge of: creating belonging in a diverse community of students with learning differences including those with dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; empowering youth through respect and dignity regardless of learning profiles; and sustaining an educational model designed to foster teacher creativity and autonomy.
Graland Country Day School
Cultivating a culture of belonging is a strategic priority at Graland Country Day School. At the center of our strategic plan is the word thrive, and belonging is a prerequisite for thriving. To make this happen, we conduct empathy interviews with communities of focus, create pilots, and then measure the impact. Knowing that all students, families, and educators are assets to the community, we lean on the collective genius of everyone involved to co-create actionable, bite-sized pilots. With the communities of focus in mind, we design pilots to increase belonging for all community members.
International School of Denver (FULL)
The International School of Denver is an International Bilingual School offering Chinese, French, and Spanish immersion. With international faculty and families representing over 30 countries, our school is one of a kind. As an IB World School, authorized for both PYP and MYP, we serve students ages 3-14 years old, or ECE-8th grade. ISDenver fosters compassionate, lifelong learners by combining multilingual, multicultural IB education, a forward-thinking curriculum, and a diverse, inclusive, globally minded community.
Kent Denver School
Kent Denver School serves more than 750 students in grades 6-12 and pursues the mission of transforming lives of students and community through extraordinary educational experiences. Our dedication to creating a diverse community of responsible citizens is exemplified by our strategic vision and plan, and a standout commitment to cultural competency and perspective-building in classroom spaces, hallways, on stage, on the field, and beyond our beautiful campus. Kent Denver's 30-year partnership with Breakthrough at Kent Denver is a powerful feature of our focus on equity, and the school is thrilled to share this and so much more with tour attendees.
St. Elizabeth's School (FULL)
St. Elizabeth's School fosters belonging for a diverse community, emphasizing equity, access, and inclusion. Rooted in Episcopal values of social justice and compassion, we welcome all sexual orientations, gender identities, and faith traditions. Our commitment to social justice shapes well-rounded students—academically, socially, and emotionally. With small class sizes and expert teachers, we provide culturally responsive education. Our graduates emerge as compassionate leaders and global citizens, ready to positively impact the world.
Stanley British Primary School
Stanley British Primary School is a progressive TK-8 school with multi-age classrooms in K-12 and 3-4-5. We are a uniquely joyful community with a deep commitment to DEI throughout the school in curriculum, affinity and alliance spaces, and representation in students, faculty/staff, and leadership. Student-centered classrooms, cultivation of wonder and curiosity, and an emphasis on social-emotional learning are foundational to our philosophy. Our campus is on the Officer's Club of the old Air Force Base in Denver.
The Logan School for Creative Learning
At The Logan School for Creative Learning, students think as individuals who learn in a collaborative and compassionate community. It means students create spaces that encourage exploration and emphasize experiential learning. Logan students are critical thinkers and problem-solvers. They lean into curiosity through research, reasoning, and recording. The Logan School is more than just a school—it’s a dynamic community. Giftedness is not part-time for Logan students. Rather than providing short-term enrichment opportunities, Logan creates a space where gifted students’ needs can be identified and met by expert teachers and where they can find a community of peers that understands and supports them. A student’s individual interests are the driver of their learning and through self-directed units of study, our students are the heroes of their own education stories.