Stand for Children - Colorado

10/09/2026

A quick guide on two ballot measures on the November ballot 🗳️
✅Yes on Prop NN: More funding for public schools
✅ Yes on Amendment 87: Invests in schools, healthcare & childcare
✅ Both focus on supporting Colorado kids & families
Learn more → Link in bio

10/07/2026

Students are off their phones. Now what?
As more schools implement phone-free policies and others explore them, educators are focused on helping students adjust, build healthy habits, and thrive in a less distracted learning environment.
Educators, principals, and district leaders are invited to join us for a practical conversation featuring a Colorado superintendent, school psychologist, and mental health expert on what schools are learning and what's working.

You'll leave with:
✅ Strategies to help students adjust and thrive
✅ Insights on student well-being and mental health
✅ Lessons from Colorado schools
✅ Practical implementation strategies you can use right away

Whether your school is already implementing a phone-free policy or considering one for the future, we'd love to have you join us. October 21 | 11:00 a.m. MT

Register: https://act.stand.org/a/phone-free-schools-implementation-webinar-2?sourceid=1134161

10/07/2026

Colorado families are getting squeezed by child care costs while providers can barely pay their staff. Amendment 87 invests directly in help affording child care, better pay for the workforce, and stronger early childhood education programs.

10/06/2026

The 2026-27 Stand Fellowship application is open! Apply by October 16 if you would like to join a group of passionate leaders and learners as we tap into policy, community organizing, and more! Link is in bio or visit: bit.ly/fellows27

10/05/2026

Colorado's teachers are among the lowest paid in the nation, and it's costing us good educators. Amendment 87 raises teacher pay while giving 97% of taxpayers a tax cut.

09/25/2026

We’re proud to collaborate with Imagination Library and Imagination Library of Oregon for 9-to-5 Day, honoring Dolly Parton’s legacy, and deep commitment to ensuring all children have the resources and support they need to grow into life-long readers. Dolly Parton established the Imagination Library in 1995 in her hometown in honor of her father, who could not read or write. Today, this international program has gifted over 330 million books to children in five countries.

None of this work, at Stand for Children nor at the Imagination Library, would be possible without the local organizations, volunteers, parents, educators, and students like you, who work 9-5 (and nights and weekends too) to improve our education system and provide critical support to children and families in our communities. 

 

Those looking to support the local communities bringing the Imagination Library to life can learn more and find ways to give here: https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com/

Looking to enroll the littles in your life? Check out the Imagination Library’s book gifting program with the link in our bio.

09/21/2026

When Westminster High School experienced a swatting incident earlier this month, Westminster parent and school board member Audrey Yanos received an alert from the district and immediately had the same reaction many parents would have: she wanted to reach her son.
But because Westminster Public Schools has a bell-to-bell phone-free policy, she couldn't text him.

As she reflected on the situation, Yanos reached the same conclusion school safety experts emphasize: in an emergency, students should focus on the adults trained to keep them safe, not the phones in their pockets. For her, the experience became a real-world test of Westminster's phone-free policy and reinforced an important lesson: attention matters.

The experience became a real-world test of the district's phone-free policy and reinforced an important lesson: in an emergency, attention matters.

Read the full story from Westminster Window: https://www.westminsterwindow.com/news/article_6ba46c41-f024-4bd8-90d9-b5bbf005b150.html

09/17/2026

We are focused on helping educators navigate implementation for ‘away all day’ phone-free policies in ways that support student learning, well-being, and school culture. 

This is a quick recap of what we covered in the first webinar of the series: From Phone-Free Policy to Practice | Launching Your Phone-Free Journey! 

If you are an educator or know an educator that would benefit in joining this community- join our network! Link is in bio or visit: bit.ly/implement-phone-free

09/16/2026

Swipe through to see who and what we are endorsing this upcoming election 👀

09/15/2026