Valdez Elementary School

School Description

Valdez School is a Denver Public School with “Innovation” status. Valdez serves students in ECE (age 3 and 4) through 5th grade. Our Spanish-English dual-language program operates in ECE-4th and will grow into 5th grade in 2012-2013. In addition to the dual-language model, the ECE/Kindergarten classes also operate a Montessori model.

Learning Landscapes Goals

• Create levels of ownership through interaction with natural process.
• Deliver usable yet flexible spaces that accommodate multiple program and future needs.
• Foster relationships between adjacencies, in situ characteristics and the interior and exterior of the schools infrastructure.
• Create a landscape disposed to adapt to certain conditions and changes over time.
• Create pluralistic educational elements that foster imagination, movement and remembrance