School District 49

10/22/2026

Congratulations Wolves! Go Pack!
Vista Ridge High School

10/21/2026

🩸New Blood Donors Needed 🩸

SCHS is hosting a blood drive on Tuesday, November 3rd from 9am-12:30pm! Please use the link below to sign up for a time. Thank you for your support!

Sign Up Here: https://donors.vitalant.org/dwp/portal/dwa/appointment/guest/phl/timeSlotsExtr?token=NVK305WbQ02mGoptmNshgoLWfuWjXt4oOYg42OoYHuM%3D

Sand Creek Zone
School District 49

10/21/2026

A little Scorpion pride in your mailbox!

You may have spotted this “I Voted” sticker with your ballot. The design was created by Kendall Lee, a junior at Sand Creek High School.

Sand Creek Zone

10/19/2026

D49 students may be enjoying fall break, but during , let’s remember:

Stop. Look. Listen. Stay safe.

Thank you to our incredible transportation team for getting students where they need to go safely, every day. We appreciate you!

10/16/2026

October is Learning Disabilities Awareness Month. This week, we celebrate our fantastic staff of special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff who help all learners launch to success. Thank you to our Early Childhood Education staff who help our youngest students across all our zones and programs.
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10/16/2026

Every student deserves the tools to succeed.

Academy for Literacy, Learning, and Innovation Excellence (ALLIES) is a tuition-free, public school of choice in Colorado Springs serving students in grades 2-5 with dyslexia and other reading disorders.

See how the Take Flight program helps students build reading skills and confidence. Watch the story:

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10/16/2026

This week, D49 is celebrating our special education teachers and support staff who help students build confidence, discover their strengths, and grow every day. Thank you for believing in every student and helping them see what they’re capable of.

Meet Katie Scott, the special education teacher at Academy for Literacy, Learning, and Innovation Excellence.

Q: Why did you choose special education?
I chose special education because I believe every child has gifts, strengths, and a story worth knowing. My journey into special education began as a 4th grader who sat clueless in a classroom that was learning about multiplication, and no one was there to help me. In 2018, my own 4th grader was screened through ALLIES and identified with dyslexic tendencies. Watching her experiences then, and now, reminds me daily there's really no other place I'd rather be.

Q: What do you want your students to know about themselves?
I'm reminded daily to look beyond what a child cannot do YET and focus on everything they can do and everything they have the potential to become. I want to be the person who sees the possibilities, celebrates the small victories, and helps children recognize their own strengths and ultimately see how amazing they are and who they are created to be.

Read her full interview on our website: https://bit.ly/3TMMR2i
D49 POWER Zone

10/15/2026

October is Learning Disabilities Awareness Month. This week, we celebrate our fantastic staff of special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff who help all learners launch to success. Thank you, D49 POWER Zone!

10/15/2026

This week, D49 is celebrating our special education teachers and support staff who help students build confidence, discover their strengths, and grow every day. Thank you for believing in every student and helping them see what they’re capable of.

Meet Rebecca Lozano, a special education teacher at Vista Ridge High School.

Q: How did you get your start in special education?
I think the first time I thought about teaching, I was a lifeguard in high school. So I taught some swimming lessons. And, you know, somehow I ended up being seen as the patient one or the like, ‘Oh, you're really good with the scared kids,’ or whatever. So I enjoyed that. In college, I actually majored in psychology. I was not planning to be a teacher at that time. I did psychology because people are fascinating to me.

And then after I graduated, I worked at Pikes Peak Mental Health for a little bit, and that was not exactly where I wanted to be. So I had a friend who was a teacher, and she got me to come over and be a paraprofessional for her, to see what I thought. And I fell in love. I loved helping people to be their best self. Whether that meant, like, a little extra tutoring in math or, you know, trying to calm down, chill out, get through the day, whatever that was. So, that's kind of how I got started in that I got my master's and the rest is history.

Q: What do you wish people knew about special education?
I think the most important thing that I would want people to know, that I feel is misunderstood, is that, special education is not just hanging out and keeping kids quiet. But it really is helping them develop the tools to be in, wherever they are…in the classroom, in society, in a job…it doesn't mean they're not valuable. Right? And there's so much that you can learn from any human being on this planet. They can do something and they can teach you something. And, you know, even in schools, it's the same, you know? Our classroom…we might not be at the same level of math, right? Or language arts or anything. But I get surprised, I get shocked sometimes. The depth of knowledge that someone might have. And it's the great community that we've built in here.

Q: How do you feel your work helps these students with their futures?
I think once you become engaged, just with the world around you, feeling like you have something to contribute, that stays with you. And you find other ways to contribute in your life. My hope is they graduate and they are contributing in other ways in society. I'm a curious person. I'm an interested person. I am a contributor. I am a helpful person. And so you can take that with you into anywhere, right? In a job or a volunteer situation or, with your family and just all, all life is that, right? Like being engaged in the world around you.

Read her full interview on our website: https://bit.ly/3TMMR2i
D49 POWER Zone

10/14/2026

October is Learning Disabilities Awareness Month. This week, we celebrate our fantastic staff of special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff who help all learners launch to success. Thank you, PEAK!