PEBC

Public school superintendents across Colorado say the time spent testing is cutting into teaching time in the classroom.

A group of district leaders criticized excessive testing and had some frank comments about legislators Wednesday during the annual PEBC Superintendent Forum.

Grant to Help Train STEM Teachers in Rural Colorado

Both Teach for America and the Colorado Boettcher Teacher Residency received nearly one and a half million dollars each from the Colorado Department of Education to expand their work on recruiting and training teaching candidates

NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — 100Kin10, a multi-sector network addressing the national imperative to train 100,000 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers by 2021, today announced 31 new partner organizations. More and better-trained STEM teachers are essential to prepare America’s students to fully participate in our democracy and […]

Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 schools will get a little help next year from the Colorado Boettcher Teacher Residency program. Similar to a medical residency, the program places teachers in the state’s “most challenged” school districts. For the fourth straight year, Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 schools failed to meet state performance expectations. In the Colorado […]

DENVER – Dec. 11, 2013– PEBC ( Public Education & Business Coalition), a nonprofit that works with teachers, schools and districts to cultivate highly effective K-12 educators to elevate student achievement, has been awarded grants from the Boettcher Foundation and Colorado Department of Education (CDE)totaling $6.47 million to support its […]

Adams State University’s (ASU) education department is working to ensure teachers have the unique skills needed to succeed in the Valley.