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    Nickolas Dawkins is resigning from his position in Denver Public Schools after spending most of his life working for the district in various roles. He expresses deep gratitude for the leaders and colleagues who have supported and inspired him over the years. Dawkins is proud of the accomplishments achieved for students across the city and feels fulfilled by the opportunities DPS provided, such as allowing him to return to his alma mater Manual High School as principal to support students in his own community. Though warned it could ruin his career, Dawkins believes in showing love and support to all students, which has been his guiding light. He thanks the district for the meaningful experiences and closes by reiterating his belief that every child can succeed with love.

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    Manual Principal Resignation Letter

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    Nickolas Dawkins is resigning from his position in Denver Public Schools after spending most of his life working for the district in various roles. He expresses deep gratitude for the leaders and colleagues who have supported and inspired him over the years. Dawkins is proud of the accomplishments achieved for students across the city and feels fulfilled by the opportunities DPS provided, such as allowing him to return to his alma mater Manual High School as principal to support students in his own community. Though warned it could ruin his career, Dawkins believes in showing love and support to all students, which has been his guiding light. He thanks the district for the meaningful experiences and closes by reiterating his belief that every child can succeed with love.

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    Principal Nick Hawkins wrote this letter to explain his resignation at Manual High School.

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    Nickolas Dawkins is resigning from his position in Denver Public Schools after spending most of his life working for the district in various roles. He expresses deep gratitude for the leaders and colleagues who have supported and inspired him over the years. Dawkins is proud of the accomplishments achieved for students across the city and feels fulfilled by the opportunities DPS provided, such as allowing him to return to his alma mater Manual High School as principal to support students in his own community. Though warned it could ruin his career, Dawkins believes in showing love and support to all students, which has been his guiding light. He thanks the district for the meaningful experiences and closes by reiterating his belief that every child can succeed with love.

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    Manual Principal Resignation Letter

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    Nickolas Dawkins is resigning from his position in Denver Public Schools after spending most of his life working for the district in various roles. He expresses deep gratitude for the leaders and colleagues who have supported and inspired him over the years. Dawkins is proud of the accomplishments achieved for students across the city and feels fulfilled by the opportunities DPS provided, such as allowing him to return to his alma mater Manual High School as principal to support students in his own community. Though warned it could ruin his career, Dawkins believes in showing love and support to all students, which has been his guiding light. He thanks the district for the meaningful experiences and closes by reiterating his belief that every child can succeed with love.

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    From: "Dawkins, Nickolas" <Nickolas_Dawkins@dpsk12.

    org>
    Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:51 AM -0700
    Subject: To My Dear Camerados,

    To My Dear Camerados,

    I am writing to inform you of my resignation from Denver Public Schools. My time spent in DPS as a
    student, paraprofessional, teacher, assistant principal and school leader have been most of my life and
    some of the best times of my life. You could say I learned how to grow up in DPS. The most amazing
    leaders I have ever encountered and spoken with have been in this incredible city and school system.
    I’ve traveled to new heights I never believed I could go to! My life was saved by students that served as
    DPS pupils and by an Assistant Principal who refused to let me dwindle away after my sweet mother and
    caring grandparents passed on to another place. Leaders like Allen Smith, Antwan Wilson, Randy
    Johnson, Tom Boasberg, Greta Martinez, Bill Kohut, Tony Smith, Susana C., Alyssa, and Debbie H., gave
    me an opportunity and some even showed me what a father could have looked like in my life; or what a
    mother’s care could still feel like. I have so looked up to our leadership. Working with Yolanda Greer,
    Barb Nash, Araceli, Prudence, Derek Hawkins, Juli Yacovetta, Chris Deremer, John Goe, Rodney Jackson
    Jen Jackson, Dave Daves, Legina Layman, Will Anderson, Kendrick Friendly, Tonyetta Fields, Kelli Lesh,
    Kristen Moreland, Sonja Debose, Sharon Dacotah, Shirene Patterson, Lesley Meyer, Becca Burkhart. The
    list just goes on. I am so proud and fulfilled by everything we accomplished for kids far and wide. The
    parents, the community, our beautiful times together are a blinding light of smiles, joy, amazing
    accomplishments and love. Dancing at DPS Values Day, winning the heart of so many South East parents
    and students, the student protest during my last day of teaching at South- one kid stood up on a chair
    and saluted with tears in his eyes, Walt Whitman’s “Oh captain, My captain!” When I walked in my AVID
    class they were all standing on tables, 50 students saluting, “Oh Captain, My Captain!” I thought I was in
    a movie! No day has been the same since and many of them have felt like movies. In the far northeast
    we turned a Red school Green and started a mentoring for the most-at-risk program that is now all over
    the state of Colorado. There are so many great kids out there and at MLK! I still cheer for the students,
    teachers and parents at Hamilton Middle School! The kind of Teachers I led there are harder and harder
    to find these days. One who really didn’t care for me in the beginning actually sent her student with me
    back home to Manual!

    I knew going to lead at Manual could break me because everyone warned me. It broke the heart of so
    many when I grew up down the street in my childhood. One of my best friends was murdered after I
    dropped him off right across the street from Manual, as I started my high school career. He had a
    beautiful smile, Shandell Banks, I met him at Morey Middle School with the golden mustang in the
    cafeteria. What I am most proud of in my time leading in DPS is where I chose to lead. DPS giving me the
    chance to go home and make some things right by the students there is a gift I will always be thankful
    for. The decision to go there represents the kind of man I want to be and the kind of people that we so
    desperately need to help our common humanity. Manual is where the light is, and that light has been
    me. It’s the light that I looked for when I was lost, it’s the light that came from reading so many books
    and learning from so many people and experiences. In many ways, my mother’s early death became the
    event that brought so much joy, pride, healing and hope to Manual kids and families years later. She is
    still giving back to our community through me, which has made almost every day for me so special, so
    healing, so hopeful! Before I came to Manual I was told by a leader you are going to ruin your career,
    you are jumping from the frying pan into the fire, the school and kids down there are dying on the vine,
    there is a reason no one wants to lead there, it is highly likely you will fail. After sleeping on it, I returned
    the next day with the statement, “I don’t think going back to my community and telling 300 kids we love
    them and haven’t forgot about them is a failure. And if that is failure and I ruin my career, I guess I will
    have to get another career. They deserve it.”

    Thank you, my dear leaders and camerados! I love you all and still believe love conquers! Every child can
    succeed!

    Nickolas Haney Benjamin Dawkins

    Thank you,

    Nickolas Dawkins |Principal


    Manual High School
    1700 28th Ave|Denver, CO 80205

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