Identifies current initiatives within the Department that impact secondary students. By identifying the secondary initiatives, the Department can begin to explore opportunities for cross-sectoral collaboration.

Recent advances in technology and our ability to use student data to inform instruction and practice have created both unprecedented opportunities and unique challenges for educators. This guidance is intended to assist districts involved in building and using education data systems to develop policies related to data privacy, confidentiality, and security practices. It also includes specific information to guide districts in developing contractual...

The Colorado Department of Education developed this resource guide to support schools and districts that engage external service providers as part of their school improvement process. A number of schools and districts are incorporating external expertise into their turnaround or transformation strategies with support from School Improvement Grants or Tiered Intervention Grant. Regardless of whether services are purchased with grant funds or per pupil...

This document provides strategic direction for CDE's work over the next three to five years. It is a living document intended to help guide decision making and inform detailed work planning. It is updated annually through a process of organization-wide review and refinement.

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE or Department) is required by law to collect and store student and educator records, and takes seriously its obligations to secure information systems and protect the privacy of data collected, used, shared and stored by the Department. Educational data is an asset that is essential to CDEs business and must be diligently protected.