Education

Jeffco schools Superintendent Cindy Stevenson summoned security at last Thursday’s board meeting when school board member Laura Boggs tried to prevent a district employee from recording video of a speaker.

Broomfield resident Kelly Scott was addressing the board about his desire for schools to get back to Judeo-Christian roots and teachings when Boggs stood and blocked the iPad camera of communications manager Marlene Desmond.

Joelle Broberg wants to be in the middle of education in Evergreen.

She will be this fall when she takes over as principal at Evergreen Middle School.

Broberg, who has spent the past four years as an assistant principal at Evergreen High School, says the new position is her dream job.

“I miss being at a middle school,” said Broberg, who had been a counselor at Deer Creek Middle School and a social studies teacher at Manning Option School before coming to EHS. She also taught at Green Mountain, Alameda and Wheat Ridge high schools.

Over the past 50 years, Wilmot Elementary School has been many things: among them a place for students to get a good education and a school surrounded by parent and community support.

However, at the school’s golden anniversary celebration on April 30, about 300 attendees learned that Wilmot also is a place where love sometimes gets its spark.

It’s no secret that Evergreen and Conifer high schools are sporting rivals. And the academic rivalry is just as strong, but maybe a bit friendlier.

That’s why both principals are applauding their national rankings among the top 500 high schools in the country by U.S. News and World Report, and their rankings as two of the most challenging high schools in the country by the Washington Post.