Lights, Camera, Pathway: Colorado’s Rural Students Get a Front-Row Seat to Sundance

We are proud to support a new $250,000 Colorado Innovations in Career and Technical Education (CTE) Grant awarded to Durango School District to expand creative career opportunities for students across rural Colorado.  This yearlong initiative, Creative Pathways Forward: Leveraging the Sundance Film Festival to Expand Rural Colorado CTE, brings together Durango School District, Summit School …

Welcome, 2026 Rural Superintendent Academy Fellows! 

Twenty Colorado School and School District Leaders Selected to Join RSA  The sixth cohort of the Rural Superintendent Academy (RSA) launched the week of July 20, welcoming 20 new and experienced superintendents and school and school district leaders focused on building system leadership capacity and collaborative relationships across the state. …

New Report Explores Pathways into Colorado’s Early Childhood Workforce

Colorado’s early childhood education (ECE) workforce is at an important moment of change — and the opportunity to redesign the systems and structures that support it is well within reach. The Buell Foundation partnered with Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) as Colorado’s PK-12 intermediary to take a comprehensive look at how ECE …

Deadline Extended! Join a Community of School District Leaders and Shape the Future of Colorado Public Education

Are you a new or emerging systems leader?  Do you aspire to be a superintendent in a rural setting?  Are you seeking to strengthen your systems leadership skills?  Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) is now accepting applications for the sixth cohort of the Rural Superintendent Academy (RSA).  Supported by the Boettcher Foundation, RSA prepares its fellows to build …