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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The Colorado Department of Education has engaged in the standards development process on multiple occasions. The department uses a process that is shared across states and nations that is outlined below. This process would be followed to develop new standards should the state choose to change its math and reading, writing, and communicating standards. To follow the process with fidelity generally takes one year. Schools and districts then need...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
This document pulls all of the personal financial literacy expectations from the Colorado social studies and mathematics standards into one document. It is intended to support planning and implementation of personal financial literacy expectations. It is not intended to represent a separate set of standards.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Senate Bill 10-191 was passed in 2010 changing the way educators are evaluate and supported in Colorado.The new evaluation system provides principals, teachers and specialized service professionals with annual evaluations based on both professional practices and multiple measures of student learning or student outcomes.
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Colorado has created evaluation rubrics for principals, teachers and nine categories of specialized service professionals designed to capture evidence of professional practices relating to effectiveness. The performance management system includes electronic interfaces and data collection tools for the evaluation rubrics, measures of student learning/outcomes, final effectiveness ratings, and reports with useful and actionable feedback for educators....
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Pub. Date
2008.
Description
This guidebook is the result of two months worth of interviews with education stakeholders about the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids (CAP4K). The purpose of this investigation was to document the policy process that produced CAP4K, analyze and clarify the stakeholder network, and catalog stakeholder concerns and opinions about the policy.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
This document pulls all of the personal financial literacy expectations from the Colorado social studies and mathematics standards into one document. It is intended to support planning and implementation of personal financial literacy expectations. It is not intended to represent a separate set of standards.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
During the legislative cycle of 2015, HB 15-1323 concerning assessments in public schools was passed. This law has impact on the administration and use of state assessments, accreditation ratings and school plan types, school readiness and educator effectiveness, among other requirements.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Colorado's $17.9 million Race to the Top grant, disbursed over four years. Fifty percent of the award is designated for local education agency (LEA) use based on Title I-A share distributions. Awards to the LEAs were non-competitive. However, any LEA agreeing to participate was required to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the state, submit a detailed scope of work and budget, and sign a terms and conditions letter indicating their responsibilities...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Overall, Colorado districts succeeded in administering the state's first online state wide assessments. Challenges were encountered along the way; however, districts and schools were committed to working through them in a manner that allowed students to complete testing. Lessons learned during the science and social studies administration and the PARCC administration will be invaluable to improving next year's assessment administration. Many of the...