RISE Grant Brings COVID Impact Recovery Ideas to Life in Clear Creek

By Susan Paulsen, CEI Strategic Communications Manager Clear Creek School District (CCSD) is a rural district serving just under 700 students, located 35 miles west of Denver. CCSD serves students in Clear Creek County, which was recently identified as #13 in the nation for where COVID will have the most …

CEI and Colorado Succeeds Combine Efforts to Launch Homegrown Talent Initiative

Imagine 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 …

Lori Haukeness: The Design Team Ignites

By 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 …

Educators Meet to Craft Options for Student Success

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 30, 2017 Contact Information: Susan Paulsen 720-502-4734 spaulsen@coloradoedinitiative.org Graduation Guidelines Summit Focuses on Prepping Students for Future Endeavors THORNTON, Colo. – Improving outcomes for all students is important to Colorado educators, and the state’s graduation guidelines were created to pinpoint those outcomes. Now, district leaders are …