Colette Bordelon is a reporter with Denver7.
DENVER — Every child should get to have fun on a playground. That's the idea behind the first-ever ADA-accessible and inclusive playground within Denver Public Schools. The idea for the inclusive playground came from students at the Denver Center for International Studies at Fairmont. Two of the students who were the catalyst for the change are fifth graders Vivian Palmeri and Araya Gonzalez .
Fairmont Assistant Principal Meg Zimmerman said the students participate in Design for Change Week, which serves as a problem-solving experience for students. “Students research a topic, and they think of a problem within that topic and create a solution surrounding that,' Zimmerman explained. “They decided that it was a problem that our students didn't have an inclusive place to play.
Fairmont. The butterfly drawings were then taken to older students in a welding class at the Fred N. Thomas Career Education Center Early College of Denver .'We just got drawings from the actual kids, and we just try to trace them down as accurately to a piece of aluminum,' said Gerardo Gracia, one of the students who helped bring the butterfly drawings to life. “Pretty cool to be part of a project that's so inclusive, trying to make sure it's equal for everyone.
Fairmont. 'It's everything that aligns with our mission and what we want our students to do, which is advocating for their worlds, making sure we live in a place where everyone's included, and everyone, specifically in this incident, can play and have fun,' said Zimmerman. For Palmeri, watching students with disabilities smile on the playground is all she ever wanted. “This taught us that everybody can play, no matter their differences,' Palmeri said.
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