By Rebecca Holmes and Elliott Asp | January 31, 2018 Prime Opportunity at Hand CEI has spent more than a decade helping schools and districts across the state implement a number of pieces of Colorado’s reform agenda. At the same time, we’ve been a leading voice on innovations intended to …
Advanced Placement Summer Institute returns to Denver in July
Registration is now open for the 2018 AP for All Summer Institute (APSI), July 9-12, 2018. AP educators from across the nation and around the world to will convene at Metropolitan State University of Denver to discover strategies, and resources to ensure all students succeed — including students typically underrepresented …
Colorado schools are rapidly moving toward more math, science and technology focus
By Monte Whaley, The Denver Post | January 29, 2018 Colorado schools are rewiring classrooms with courses heavy in science and technology, in a bid to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. And the surest tool at their disposal is STEM, a nationwide course of study that in its purest form is endorsed …
2018 CEI Showcase
January 25, 2018 We are pleased to share CEI’s annual summer Showcase event will be held June 20-22, 2018 at the new Doubletree Hotel & Conference Center in Greeley, CO. The event begins at noon on June 20 and will adjourn at noon on June 22. The agenda for Showcase …
New Year, New Learning Networks
January 17, 2018 CEI is excited to share the launch of two Learning Networks for two of our Big Bets — High School Redesign and Competency-Based/Personalized Learning. Our strategy release last September reinforced CEI’s vision that all Colorado students develop not only the academic, but also the professional, personal, entrepreneurial, and civic …
Here’s An Innovative Idea: Give Students A Say In Teaching
By Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio | January 17, 2018 The first thing you need to know about Daniel Sharpe is that he grew up in a really small town of a few hundred people; Lake City on Colorado’s Western Slope. There he’d go to school, and the teacher would …
School Hasn’t Changed In A Generation. These Colorado Educators Want To Upend That
By Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio | January 10, 2018 So what’s really the problem with school? Our school systems are still set up much like they were 100 years ago. Traditional schooling still relies on grades, tests, homework, lectures, competition, punishments and rewards. Read more