A contingent of education professionals from throughout the country recently visited Colorado to participate in a Next Generation Learning tour. Their mission: See firsthand what a classroom looks like where students take charge of their learning, then travel home with ideas for moving learning forward in a new way. On …
Before Rethinking Assessment, Rethink Professional Learning
By Tony Siddall, Education Week | March 28, 2017 What is assessment, really? Having worked in and with schools for more than fifteen years, I thought I basically understood: assessment is how we measure what students know and can do. But a year of learning with the innovative educators of …
Foundations Commit $140,000 to Colorado STEM Education
Pagosa Daily Post | March 29, 2017 STEM Champions Gill Foundation and Ball Corporation today announced they will commit $140,000 to support Colorado STEM. Colorado STEM is a strategy of The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI). Read more
Gill Foundation and Ball Corporation Commit $140,000 to Colorado STEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2017 Contact Information: Alex Carter (720) 502-4705 work (970) 708-7405 cell acarter@coloradoedinitiative.org STEM Champions Advance Partnership Effort to Increase Equity and Opportunity Denver, Colorado — STEM Champions Gill Foundation and Ball Corporation today announced they will commit $140,000 to support Colorado STEM. Colorado STEM is …
Cotopaxi Receives Healthy School Award
The Mountain Mail | March 17, 2017 Cotopaxi School received statewide recognition March 3 in Denver as one of 46 2017 Healthy School Champions and also won the $500 Excellence Award for the school’s health efforts. Read more
Akron and Otis Schools named Healthy School Champions
Akron News Reporter | March 1, 2017 Both the Akron and Otis school districts were recently announced as 2017 Healthy School Champions, each winning a Promising and Excellence School Award for their school health efforts. Read more
Saguache’s MVS Among Healthiest Schools in Colorado
Saguache Today | March 1, 2017 Mountain Valley School (MVS)announced it was one of 46 schools named as a 2017 Healthy School Champion last week. This Friday, March 3, MVS will receive $500 Excellence Award for school health efforts. Read more
Rural Routt County Districts Among Top in State for Promoting Student Health
By Teresa Ristow, Steamboat Pilot & Today | February 28, 2017 Staff at Routt County’s rural Hayden and South Routt school districts have ramped up efforts to improve student health — leading to recognition and prize money from a nonprofit that works with the Colorado Department of Education. Read more
Manitou School District Wins Top State Health and Wellness Award
By Debbie Kelley, Colorado Springs Gazette | February 27, 2017 The school district in a town founded in 1872 as an envisioned “scenic health resort” has won top honors in a statewide push to build healthy public schools. Read more
Rural High Schools Get Teens Into Advanced Placement Courses
By Alexandra Pannoni, U.S. News & World Report | February 27, 2017 The number of students taking at least one Advanced Placement exam has nearly doubled in 10 years, to 1.1 million members of the class of 2016, according to a new report from The College Board. Read more