Commissioner's Teacher Cabinet

Role of Teacher Cabinet Members:

• Serve as a sounding board for the implementation of state education policy.
• Brainstorm solutions for some of the challenges facing today's educators, such as raising achievement among all students, supporting low-performing schools and increasing the number of individuals joining the teaching profession.

• Alfredo Beltran-Aguirre – Mathematics and Career and Technical Education at Colorado Early Colleges Aurora, Charter School Institute
• Kaileigh Bonner – Second-grade English language arts and English second language at Burlington Elementary School, Burlington School District RE-6J
• Marla Caviness-French – Gifted and talented at Jeffco Public Schools Education Center, Jefferson County Public Schools
• Emma Copeland –  Special education teacher, Strasburg Elementary School, Strasburg School District
• Janet Damon -- (2025 Colorado Teacher of the Year) – History teacher at DELTA High School,  Denver Public Schools
• Jimmy Day (2023 Colorado Teacher of the Year) – Band director at East Middle School,  Aurora Public Schools.
• Donald Dilliplane – English and social studies, Grades 10-12, Montbello High School,  Denver Public Schools
• Caleb Flores (2024 Milken Educator Awardee) - ELA and CLD Teacher, Greeley West High School, Greeley-Evans School District 6
• Pamela Ford – English language arts at Overland High School, Cherry Creek School District.
• Crystalyn Garcia – English language arts at Villa Bella Expeditionary Elementary School, Pueblo District 70.
• Nicole Gregersen - Kindergarten teacher, Mancos School District RE-6
• Martha Gutierrez - Secondary Science & History teacher, Vilas School District RE-5

• Beth Hamlin – Innovative practices at Academy of Las Animas Online, Las Animas School District
• Jessica Kokoszka - ELD  teacher at the Newcomer Center at Thornton High School, Adams 12 School District
• Kerry Lauth -  Third grade teacher, Ignacio School District 11-JT
• Jessica May -- (2024 Colorado Teacher of the Year), Consumer Science teacher at Turner Middle School,  Thompson School District 
• Kari Michal – Fourth grade at Merino Elementary School, Buffalo RE-4J School District
• Lois Poulson-Fowler – Third grade reading, mathematics and special education at Wildflower Elementary School, Harrison School District 2
• Aicha Ross – Foreign language at Severance High School, Weld RE-4 School District
• Kurt Scriffiny - Social Studies teacher at Montrose High School, Montrose County School District
• Brian Seppala – Science, grades 10-12, at Middle Park High School, East Grand School District
• Ashley Smith -  Summit Middle School, Summit School District
• Sabra Sowell-Lovejoy -  History teacher at Campo Undivided High School, Campo School RE-6
• Melissa Thorne – PreK special education at Tozer Primary School, Weld RE-4