DJEC is a community education journal focused on topics of education in the greater Denver area. By engaging in community discourse, and connecting this content to scholarship and policy, DJEC hopes to contribute to local education thinking by offering a balanced and well-informed perspective.
Housing and Education Personal perspective By | Jonathan Cappelli The complex interplay of law, politics, and business guiding our communities can make our values as a society seem opaque. But every society has a character “tell” that’s easy to spot once you know Read more…
Housing and Education Editorial perspective By | James Roy, II Gunshots rang out just outside my home, startling a group of boys that had gathered for my 12-year-old birthday party. Without panic or a second thought, I quickly moved further away from the windows, ducking down to assume the position taught Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Antwan Jefferson, PhD It’s difficult these days to remember why we pursue, invest in, and rally around public education. An election is just a few weeks away: that’s important, right? In fact, in a representative government, the role of the school board is to govern Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Let Students Lead By | Allan Tellis, Chief Writer, Denver After a year of rapid adjustments to schooling triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, educational systems hope to establish a sense of normalcy in the coming school year. Traditionally, school days require students and teachers to Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Educator perspective By | Michael Atkins As I reflect on how COVID-19 has shaken the education system to its core, I stand reminded that being an educator and educational advocate is about service to students, families, and communities. In serving students, educators have to provide Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Scholar perspective By | Dane Stickney In reading the piece by Allan Tellis, DJEC’s Chier Writer, the following line stuck with me: “Students have a particularly good vantage point to assess what is going well within the educational system as well as what is not.” Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Student perspective By | Rosine Niyoyishura The whole world stopped, and also most importantly, the controversial teaching mechanisms that have been in tact within the educational system in America— also stopped or should I say woefully reigned in? As a student within this educational system Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Personal perspective By | Vanessa Quintana Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled us to make countless adjustments to our lives as we yearn for normalcy. The pandemic related protocols and the grave educational injustices illuminated by this crisis has elicited opinions from educators, parents, students, and Read more…
Working Together To Make Change Editorial perspective By | Ali Larson There is no question that nearly every facet of society has been impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. People across the globe have had to not only adapt to new ways of operating, Read more…
Learning about “American” Ideologies, Values, and Identities in Public Schools Antwan Jefferson, PhD I was a first grader at Wythe Elementary School in Hampton, Virginia in 1983. Each morning, following the school announcements, we stood up, turned our bodies in the direction of the US flag hanging in the front Read more…
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