Professional Development Services

The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI), an expert in K-12 systems change from the ground-up, is excited to offer contracted support for educators and administrators for district and school teams.  We are educators and system leaders with first-hand experience guiding schools, teachers, and leaders towards cultivating change. Read about our team. …

Vice President of Community PartnershipsL andon Mascareñaz

Mascareñaz to Join the Colorado Education Initiative Team

The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) announced today that Landon Mascareñaz will join as its Vice President of Community Partnership. Mascareñaz will lead CEI’s community engagement, family partnership, equity, and policy initiatives. “CEI is building a movement across the state to reinvest in public education while also demanding something radically new …

Advanced Placement for All Summer Institute

Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Placement for All Summer Institute (APSI), happening July 15-19, 2019 in Denver! Registration is now open for the 2019 AP for All Summer Institute (APSI), July 15-18, 2019. AP educators from across the nation and around the world to will convene at Metropolitan State …

It’s Time to Change Colorado’s School Accountability System

The Denver Post  |  December 18, 2018 Nearly a decade ago, our state laid a new foundation for evaluating the success of K-12 schools – a model that has since been replicated across the country. Rather than just judge a school based on its overall proficiency rates on test scores, …

What Happens When States Un-Standardize Tests?

Education Week  |  October 11, 2018 (Featuring CEI’s Elliott Asp) Few educators are fans of fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests that don’t yield results until after students leave the classroom. But when states had a chance to try out richer forms of assessment under a new pilot program established by the Every …