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 …
District, School Leaders Connect to Explore Student-Centered Pathways
“All systems have to define their own context. Culture and ownership is key. At the same time, similar districts experience similar things—there’s a lot to learn from each other.” –Summit participant November 1, 2017 On October 30, more than 300 district leaders from across Colorado gathered at the Graduation Guidelines …
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 …