DATES TO REMEMBER

September 24th: Picture Retake Day

September 26th: First Fall Choir Concert - 6:30pm HS Auditorium

September 30th - October 4th - School Spirit Week

October 1: Official Student Count Day

October 1: Refer-A-Friend Form Closes

October 10-11: Student Parent/Teacher Conferences - Half Day

October 24: Keith King Day

Refer a family and you could receive $100 gift certificate for every new student who enrolls! For details check out our Refer-A-Friend Program.

If you are unhappy with the photos, please return the package for retakes. We will print the same package with the retake photo. Thank you!

What is SAC? School Accountability Committee

Role and Purpose

The School Accountability Committee (commonly referred to as the SAC) is a representative advisory committee that serves as a grassroots organization for a school’s accountability change process. The primary role of a SAC is to understand all operating procedures within the school, and if needed, make recommendations concerning school improvement, including but not limited to such topics as: spending priorities, academic achievement, facilities, and culture and climate (CRS22-11-402(1)(b)).

Please join us for the following SAC meetings!

Sept. 5th 4:30 - 5:30

Nov. 14th 4:30 - 5:30

Feb. 20th 4:30-5:30

April 24th 4:30 - 5:30

Thank you to all the families that came to celebrate our Back-to-School Bash. It was a pleasure meeting each and every one of you. We hope you had a fantastic time and enjoyed the festivities.

Thank you for sharing about Colorado Early Colleges! When we ask families how they heard about CEC, 9 times out of 10 it is because a friend, relative, or neighbor shared this with them. Our schools continue to grow, and we continue to impact more and more Colorado families because of YOU! 

The Refer-A-Friend Form for the 2024-2025 school year closes on Tuesday, October 1. For more information about the Refer-A-Friend program and to submit your referral before it closes, visit https://coloradoearlycolleges.org/families-students/refer-a-friend.

Please remind your students to stop by the lost & found cart to see if they have lost any belongings. Items will be donated weekly.

Please join us for the first fall Choir concert Thursday, September 26th at 6:30pm in the High School Auditorium. 

Link to Lunch Menus - Food Services - Colorado Early Colleges

CEFC Families, we are excited to share that all students will receive one free breakfast and lunch daily through the Healthy School Meals for All program! This statewide program, approved by Colorado voters, is helping Colorado children and teens have access to nutritious food at our school. 

Even though breakfast and lunch will be provided for free, we need families to continue sharing household income information through the Free and Reduced Meal Benefits form in so that we can receive full access to federal funding. These additional funds will go directly back to CECFC Middle School to help cover the cost of meals and other nutritional programs. Plus, families who qualify may receive discounted school activity fees, community activity fees, utilities support and more! As always, all household income information will be kept confidential, and protected by law. Immigration, migrant, citizenship or refugee status is not required when completing the form.

This information also allows us to apply for more GRANTS, which allows us to provide additional programming and services for your child. So PLEASE complete the APPLICATION today! 



Please fill out ALL required information in the application.  Incomplete applications cannot be processed. Only one application per household is required. Applications may also be picked up in the Front Office.

The NEW CEC Spirit Store is up and taking orders! Students, staff, and families can shop online at https://4980prints.com/ceccommunity/shop/home. In the future, we look to offer even more custom items for each specific campus. Enjoy!

The Nutrition department is actively seeking temporary volunteers and permanent kitchen staff for the upcoming school year. They urgently need consistent assistance with dishwashing, serving, and cleanup. Additionally, they need a volunteer to transport food from the High School to the Middle School and manage the Point-of-Sale system. Our Food Service Team is collaborating closely with HR to expedite the hiring process, but in the meantime, we need YOUR HELP! If you are interetested, please contact Pam Cailteux at (970) 377-0044 x 10126. We greatly appreciate your support in advance!

Happy Halfway through August to all of you. We hope the transition to school is not too bumpy. But if it is, please reach out to one of us!    

Our Northern Colorado Mental Health Team (Melissa Faye at Windsor CEC Windsor Middle/High School, Erica Koehler at CEC Fort Collins High School, and Stephanie Lerner at CEC Fort Collins Middle School) have teamed up to provide weekly newsletter pieces this year. Please see the flyer below for more information about what we provide and who we are. Our goal this year is to provide ample opportunities and skills for ALL OF US in our community to Build Relationships with each other. Please see the following flyer about our Family Connect gatherings coming up – hope to see you there! 

• We shared information last week about understanding the changes your teenager or tween’s brain is experiencing and how it manifests in behaviors you might see.   

This week, we want to share strategies for keeping your teen safe and supporting your relationship with them at the same time. One strategy to keep in mind during this phase of development is to help them learn EMOTION REGULATION: support and help them develop ways to regulate emotions in a way that offers relief and does no harm.   

Here are some key techniques: 

• Talking about feelings works! AKA “venting” – The “talking it out” phenomenon works as it offers adolescents insight as they process and relief as they move through emotions. Help them get specific about what feelings they are having by asking them name the feelings. Open up conversations somewhere not necessarily face-to-face like driving or walking or even texting.

• Listening, REALLY listening, matters. Imagine you are interviewing your teen for an article. To show that you are attentive, offer a summary of what they said and how they are feeling (but don’t try to solve or fix the issue).  

• Empathy goes further than we think. Deliver empathetic words with the full confidence that your compassion alone may deliver sufficient psychological relief. “No wonder you are feeling so down.” “What you are describing sounds terrible.”, “I’m sorry to hear that”. Here’s a great video describing Empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HznVuCVQd10

• Recognize healthy and unhealthy emotional expression. Recognize that teens sometimes use quirky but adaptive techniques to get their feelings out. Also, know that sometimes teens discharge their emotions in ways that are real grounds for concern – this definitely warrants help from therapeutic professionals. There is a lot more information on this from the book “Emotional Lives of Teenagers” by Lisa Damour or see this website: https://positivepsychology.com/unhealthy-coping-mechanisms/

If you are looking for any documents for the upcoming school year (such as bell schedule and calendar), please access those under the Student Resources section of our Families & Students page.

You can access that at https://coloradoearlycolleges.org/families-students/. 

Please contact Mrs. King at lori.king@coloradoearlycolleges.org if you are interested in volunteer opportunities. We need classroom volunteers, school dance volunteers, events volunteers, cafeteria volunteers, kitchen volunteers, volunteers for field trips and off campus events, and more! Research shows that parents have a major influence on their child's achievement, and volunteering at school is a great way for parents to positively impact student achievement. 

Ms. Lerner is the McKinney Vento Liaison. Please see below for more information about that program.

Help us raise funds for CECFC! Bring in your Bottle Caps from your Morning Fresh Dairy milk bottles. The collection box will be near the front desk. Visit www.morningfreshdairy.com/giving-back/caps4cash.html for more information.

Key Explorers offers a 10% discount for CEC families!

REFER-A-FRIEND TO CEC!

Refer a friend to one of our Colorado Early Colleges campuses and you may be eligible to receive up to $100 or more! 

1. Tell a NEW family about Colorado Early Colleges. 

2. Your friend completes the CEC enrollment process. 

3. Your friend stays enrolled throughout the first semester. 

4. You fill out this form and submit it by October 1. 

5. You get a $100 eGift card for each Full-Time student or a $50 eGift card for each Part-Time student

SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL WITH KING SOOPERS

1. Log into your account at www.KingSoopers.com 
2. Go to Community Rewards 
3. Search Colorado Early Colleges (EG422) 
4. Click Blue Enroll Button 

Thank you for your continued support!!

INFINITE CAMPUS (IC) MOBILE APP

Parents, Guardians and Students, did you know IC is not only on the web but there is a mobile app as well? You can check attendance, grades, assignments, set notifications, and so much more!

Download the Infinite Campus Parent and/or Student App today to stay connected!



For more information, click the button below.

If at any time you are having problems with Infinite Campus and/or Teams, please contact our support team at: support@coloradoearlycolleges.org or click the link for support information: https://coloradoearlycolleges.org/support/

2024-2025 STUDENT & FAMILY HANDBOOK

Welcome new and returning CEC Families! Please take a moment to read our MS Student and Family Handbook to familiarize yourself with our school policies.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at (970) 893-4549 and we will be happy to assist you.

SCHOOL INFORMATION

CECFC MS Main Line: (970)893-4549

Attendance: (970) 682-2007

Attendance Email: fcmsattendance@coloradoearlycolleges.org

Address: 4512 McMurry Avenue

Fort Collins, CO 80525