Communications
Getting you what you need, when you need it
You should never have to wonder what's happening in your child's school, or dig to find out.
The PSD Communications team makes sure timely, accurate information reaches families, staff, and the community across every channel we have — email, text, our website, social media, video, and local news. When something urgent happens, we tell you quickly and plainly. When something important is being decided, we bring you into the conversation before the decision is made, not after.
We serve every PSD school and department, and we answer to the same standard the district does: educate every child, every day.
How PSD Reaches You
Email and Text Messages
Most district and school news comes to you by email and text. This includes school closures, early releases, safety notifications, and building-level updates.
To make sure you receive them, confirm your contact information is current in Synergy. You can review and update it anytime in ParentVUE, or contact your school's front office.
Automated Phone Calls
Some information is too important to risk landing in a spam folder or arriving while your phone is on silent — a lockdown at your child's school, a snow day called at 5 a.m., a deadline that affects your student's enrollment. When it's that kind of message, we send it by email, text, and phone call, because we'd rather reach you three ways than miss you once.
The calls will always come from one number: 970-490-3609.
This Website: psdschools.org
We do our best to keep the PSD website up to date and easy to navigate. If you ever have trouble finding what you're looking for or have a suggestion to enhance the site, please contact us.
PSD Insider
The Insider is our community newsletter, emailed once a month, in English, Spanish and Arabic.
PSD TV
Comcast Channel 10 and YouTube. Our team produces features on PSD students and staff, covers district events, and broadcasts select athletic and music performances.
Social Media
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
The District Podcast
PSD’s podcast, The District, tackles the biggest, most relevant, and most heated conversations about public education today.
Not sure who to ask?
Email info@psdschools.org. A real person reads it, and we'll route your question to the best person to actually answer it.
Community Engagement
Some decisions are too big for the district to make alone. Enrollment changes, budget priorities, long-range facility planning — these shape schools for a generation, and the people they affect deserve to have a voice.
That's why PSD builds committees that include families, staff, students, and community members alongside district experts, and why we run engagement sessions before recommendations are finalized rather than after.
Accessible to everyone
PSD is committed to the inclusion of all individuals, and that starts with information people can actually use. We translate district communications into Spanish and Arabic, caption our video, and build our digital content to be readable by assistive technology.
If something on this site isn't accessible to you, tell us. We want to fix it.
Contact the Communications team
Media inquiries: Contact John Cope or Austin Fleskes.
Department leadership
John Cope — Executive Director of Communications
970-490-3427 | jcope@psdschools.org
Notifications and communications support
Cassie Phelps — Communications Technician II
970-837-6013 | cassendrap@psdschools.org
News, media and district storytelling
Austin Fleskes — Public Relations and Media Coordinator
970-218-8141 | afleskes@psdschools.org
Staff and internal communications
Katya Weiss-Andersson — Internal Communications Specialist
kandersson@psdschools.org
Marketing, brand and digital
Matt Gohl — Multimedia Manager
mgohl@psdschools.org
Thomas Ketchersid — Digital Marketing Manager
tketchersid@psdschools.org
Litzy Duque Malpica — Digital Content and Social Media Manager
lduquemalpic@psdschools.org
Mariah Wenzel — Branding and Graphic Design Coordinator
mawenzel@psdschools.org