Denver Public Schools strives to recognize cultures and identities year-round. With equity as our core identity, we aim to celebrate the significant cultural moments of our students and staff, especially those that have not been historically and consistently recognized.

In preparation for Transgender Week of Awareness November 13-19, the Collection Development team has curated these resources of recommended books, events and resources. Please share widely with your schools!

New DPS MyTech Podcast episode drops in November! Folks, we had so much content and so many people with things to say about Devious Licks and Social Media that we are putting out a Part 2 of our first episode in November! In the new episode, you’ll hear from a high school principal, a student council, a middle school assistant principal, and a 7th grade student who are navigating this strange and challenging school year. On and offline, social media, school culture, and digital citizenship complicate what it means to be a student during this pandemic, which we’re still experiencing. I hope you’ll check out what they have to say. In the meantime, you can find Episode 1 on Anchor, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. And wherever you’re listening, please give us a rating and share this with your friends and colleagues. Stay tuned!

Click HERE or on the logo at right to listen!

The Latinx Kidlit Book Festival is December 9th-10th! Wondering how to incorporate festival programming into your library or classroom? Below are three ways to bring the excitement of the festival into your school:

Attend the Wednesday Educator’s Night:
In #DISRUPTTEXTS: FINDING LATINX TEXTS THAT FIT YOUR CURRICULUM we’ll discuss questions of voices—authors or characters—that are marginalized or missing in our classrooms, how our biases affect the way we teach and engage with students, how a text perpetuates or subverts dominant power dynamics and ideologies, and how we ask students to wrestle with these tensions. Together, we’ll gain insights and discuss actionable strategies for bringing Latinx texts into your classroom.

Get You Students Involved--Send Us Students' Questions:
Want to give your students a chance to have an author or illustrator answer their questions during a festival panel? Want to win a classroom set of books? Then send us student questions for our authors and illustrators! Ask your students to submit questions for our festival participants. If selected they will be entered into a drawing to win books for their classroom. Video questions will receive priority--and what student wouldn’t want to see their recording in a panel with their favorite author or illustrator? What to know more about our authors before sending in a question? Check out their FlipGrid introductions!

Use A Lesson from Our Festival Educator Guides!
Help guide your students through this virtual field trip by using our Common Core Educator Guides! Bring the festival into the classroom with guided questions, writing prompts, and more, which are suitable for all ages K-12 and tailored to connect with festival programming.
Want to work with your students on elements of writing? These mini-lessons from our award-winning festival authors use their own work as mentor texts and connect with a common core teaching standard, so you will be able to incorporate them seamlessly into your lesson plan--in English and in Spanish!

For more information about the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, click HERE.

Due to supply chain delays, staffing challenges in the Follett service center, and the high influx of orders with schools starting, there are significant delays in shipping Follett orders. (Similar to other supply chains, many of Follett's vendor partners are also experiencing material and sourcing delays, which Follett relies on to fulfill our orders.) We anticipate shipping delays will continue for at least the next several months.

As soon as orders arrive to Acoma, our Library Services team will process and deliver books to your school as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding.