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The Succeeds Prize Awards Top Colorado’s Schools and Educators with $150,000

Jamie Trafficanda September 19, 2018

2018 Colorado Student Test Scores – 6 Things You Need to Know

Kelly Caufield August 24, 2018

Colorado’s Teacher Shortage: Get the Facts

In any business, recruiting top tier talent in sufficient numbers is critical to achieving success.

It’s no different in education: thriving schools and districts need a reliable pipeline of great teachers, a pipeline where supply meets demand.

Jamie Trafficanda March 26, 2018

Schools Partner to Bridge the Rural-Urban STEM Divide

We’ve long heard that technology will revolutionize education, dissolving barriers created by distance, inequity of opportunity, and lack of resources, and bringing the world to every student.

Jamie Trafficanda January 2, 2018

2017 Colorado Test Results: Pockets of Improvement, Stark Achievement Gaps, and What Can be Done

Results from Colorado’s 2017 annual statewide education assessment, the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS), are in. The assessment, which Colorado has administered for three years, measures students’ academic proficiency and growth in grades three through eight. Students in grades

Kelly Caufield August 30, 2017

Dinner with Google’s Chief Education Evangelist

Sean Wybrant, Colorado’s 2017 Teacher of the Year, along with other Colorado education leaders attended a dinner with Google’s Jaime Casap organized by Colorado Succeeds. During that dinner Casap, the company’s Chief Education Evangelist, explained how he approaches education, looks at

Sean Wybrant June 20, 2017

Members Honor Educators for National Teacher Appreciation Week

Educators have the power to transform a student’s academic and economic trajectory. In fact, they are the most important in-school factor for student success. We’ve all had at least one teacher who inspired us to push ourselves and reach our

Colorado Succeeds May 1, 2017

In Defense of Teacher-Evaluation Reform

Originally published in: When Gov. Bill Ritter signed Colorado’s teacher-evaluation framework into law in 2010, he set in motion a powerful transformation of the state’s education system.

Scott Laband April 4, 2017

Testing in Colorado: What You Need to Know

In business, as well as in education, measurement and data are critical to driving improvement.

Jamie Trafficanda April 4, 2017

Colorado Succeeds’ Exclusive Q&A With Education Commissioner Katy Anthes

Katy Anthes became Colorado’s Commissioner of Education in December 2016, after serving as interim commissioner for several months. Her appointment was a welcomed sign of stability after a series of leadership transitions and staff turnover within the department.

Shannon Nicholas February 22, 2017

Mike Miles Is Challenging the ‘Immutable Laws’ of Public Education, and it’s Working

Originally published in: For more than one thousand years, science operated under the immutable law that Earth sat at the center of the universe. When observers questioned this law, the entrenched institutions of the time were steadfast in maintaining the

Scott Laband January 24, 2017

International Test Show Low Marks for U.S. Students; Highlight Growth in ‘Resilient’ Students

The United States ranks first globally for defense spending, third for global competitiveness, and first again in women’s Olympic figure skating gold medals. Our rankings for education; however, are much more lackluster. As shown by the recently-released 2015 Program for