High School Students Weigh In…

High school students who are members of the Social Redesign Network team in Swink School District share what’s on their mind. These students have attended their senior year of high school during the COVID-19 pandemic. …on COVID and Remote Learning: “My motivation has either been very up or very low. …

Recovery Summer Coalition

Advancing Summer Opportunities to Stem Pre-K – 5 Learning Loss and Accelerate High School Engagement FEBRUARY 2021 To: Governor Polis, Commissioner Anthes, Executive Director Barnes, Local and State Leaders: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life around the globe for the last year for families and children, especially for those furthest …

Looking Forward While Returning to School

By Rebecca Holmes, CEI President and CEO These past six months have been some of the toughest we’ve ever undertaken in education. When I started my career in education, if you had asked me to imagine all that we are going through, I would have never visualized this. When I …

Strategic Reopening Collaborative Toolkit

Susan Paulsen

During the spring and summer of 2020, CEI partnered with 10 Colorado school districts to develop an actionable and timely set of goals and strategies for re-entering school in the fall. With a focus on building a foundation of social-emotional wellness to enable high quality academic learning, theory and ideas were linked with practice during real-time planning processes.

Assess & Prepare

COVID-19 has caused students to miss out on valuable instructional time and social emotional connection and growth. Students, educators, and families are also facing new challenges in distance learning and possible mid-year shifts in how learning happens. To understand and respond to the needs of a district’s community, they must …

Strategic Reopening Collaborative Toolkit

At this time, many organizations and individuals that CEI respects and works closely with have produced toolkits and guidance that include fantastic approaches and resources, many of which are linked to throughout our work.  However, what we believe makes this guidance different is that it links theory and ideas with …