Dear Superintendents and BOCES directors,
Welcome back to the 2024-2025 school year! Summer is still going strong, with the warm weather, longer days and beautiful outdoors that makes Colorado such a great place to call home. I hope that you have had the chance to rest, recharge and reinvest in what initially drew you to our profession.
It was wonderful to see and connect with so many of you at CASE last week and to learn about the work you and your teams are doing to transform student learning and educator working experiences. As I shared in my lunch session, CDE’s role is to serve, guide, and elevate Colorado’s schools and districts so that we can all improve student outcomes and ensure that Colorado students and families have access to high quality schools.
One of the ways that we elevate our school districts is by sharing best practices and key learnings from districts who are “beating the odds” on academic performance and student engagement. Over the past few months, we have been highlighting district best practices through a video series that we call “Commissioner’s Chats.” In addition to posting these chats as short videos on our social media channels (Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram), we are making the full 15-20 minute conversations available on our website. You can visit our digital news bureau to learn about:
I am looking forward to continuing these conversations in the 2024-2025 school year; please feel free to contact me if you are interested in participating.
Thank you for all that you do,
Susana
NEW Integrated timelines for the 2024-2025 school year are available! These timelines are designed to help guide superintendents and principals through key implementation work during the 2024-25 school year. They include the main tasks associated with implementing the standards, assessments, educator evaluations and accountability requirements.
Spread the word about upcoming FAFSA in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Denver, and Fort Collins. The US Department of Education is hosting a week of student loan repayment and FAFSA events here in Colorado. Please use these flyers to help get this information out to your communities.
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