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Denver AP English Mock Reading: Feb. 20-21, 2020
January 16, 2020The Mock Reading is a preparatory professional development event for AP teachers that mirrors the College Board’s process for scoring AP exams at the annual College Board Reading. Participating teachers receive practice exams for their AP courses, which students will take prior to the Mock Reading. Teachers bring these completed …
Supporting Whole Communities Through a Redesign and Reimagining Process
December 19, 2019By Rebecca Holmes, CEI President and CEO Happy Holidays! This has been a big year for us here at the Colorado Education Initiative with many projects, partners, and possibilities. From launching our transformative school redesign accelerator this past summer, to kicking off several social emotional learning projects across the state, …
CEI and Colorado Succeeds Combine Efforts to Launch Homegrown Talent Initiative
December 17, 2019Imagine families, schools, businesses, and higher education coming together to support high school students in finding their passions, engaging with their community in deep ways, and developing new skills and competencies while attaining the certifications necessary to achieve a full range of post-secondary pathways. From the Eastern Plains to the …
Educating Beyond Academics: Schools Seek Right Approach in Social and Emotional Learning
November 12, 2019By Jessica Gibbs, Colorado Community Media Eighth-grader Kendall Meibos stepped shyly onto the stage at the Pepsi Center in Denver and peered over a lectern at the crowd around him. Filling stands typically reserved for Denver Nuggets or Colorado Avalanche fans were about 6,000 employees from the Douglas County School …
Rebecca Holmes: What Is School Quality, and Who Decides? We’re Bringing Together Educators, Families and Students for This Vital Discussion
November 6, 2019By Rebecca Holmes The past few weeks have been a busy and conflicted time in Colorado around questions of school quality. As our state board voted to raise the “cut score” for elementary and middle school performance ratings by 8 percentage points, establishing a higher bar for schools across Colorado to achieve …
Lori Haukeness: The Design Team Ignites
October 29, 2019By Lori Haukeness What aspirations and skills would the community like to see in the students who graduate from Montezuma-Cortez High School? This will be the focus of a design team made up of community businesses, school staff, students and higher education. This team will work together to create a …
Q & A: Danny Medved
October 25, 2019Danny Medved is the Director of Professional Learning at Mesa County Valley School District 51 in Grand Junction. His desire to bring an all-encompassing district level of support for learner-centered school environments led him to the district three years ago. Q. How did you get involved in education? I entered …
Here’s Why We Must Open Schools to Authentic Parent Partnership
October 10, 2019By Landon Mascareñaz | When I taught first grade on the Navajo Nation, I’ll never forget when one of my fellow teachers—now my wife—wanted to host an event that welcomed our families to the school. The veteran educators there told her it would never happen. I was shocked by their …