2011 Annual Report

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2011 Annual Report

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Igniting the power of public education

“We believe that sustainable improvement from within is possible, and we are empowering individuals and

Our mission is to catalyze bold, comprehensive improvement in Colorado public education to

organizations with the knowledge, tools, support and resources to leverage existing strengths, structures, and capacities in new ways.”

ensure that all students graduate college and career-ready.

— Helayne Jones, President and CEO

Our Work

A message from our President and our Board Chair

believes that increased student achievement for all Colorado students requires effective leaders in every school, effective educators in every classroom, and healthy and engaging environments that ignite a passion for learning in every student.

Over the past year and a half, we have been humbled by the generous investments of local and national funders who believe in our work, and honored to be part of the great efforts to increase student achievement happening all over Colorado. We believe that sustainable improvement from within is possible, and we are empowering individuals and organizations with the knowledge, tools, support and resources to leverage existing strengths, structures, and capacities in new ways. We’re fostering collaboration by encouraging individuals and organizations to innovate together and share knowledge to create an accessible, high-quality public education system that

ensures the success of every school and district leader, educator, and student.

that creates highly personalized teaching and learning experiences for every educator and student.

The Colorado Legacy Foundation

Healthy Learning Environments

resources to better support educators and students.

works to identify, incubate, and

This year has some exciting things in store for the Colorado Legacy Foundation. Our Colorado Legacy Schools program, which piloted during the 2010-2011 school year, will begin the process of expanding from seven high schools to thirty high schools thanks to a multi-year investment from the National Math and Science Initiative. Efforts to support educators as they incorporate new standards and methods of assessment, as well as adapt to a new evaluation system that uses student progress as a measure of their success, will continue in large part because of the targeted support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Rose Community Foundation and JP Morgan Chase & Co. Our work in bullying prevention will expand to a statewide Safe and Welcoming Schools Initiative, which the Gill Foundation continues to support. And thanks to a considerable investment from the Ford Foundation, our Expanded Learning Opportunities Initiative will begin to implement a plan for building the support needed to create a statewide learning platform

In the coming pages you’ll see an overview of where our funding comes from - and, more importantly where it’s going. You’ll also get a glimpse of the amazing work of our grantee districts: impressive gains in Advanced Placement enrollment and exam scores, the adoption of innovative tools that allow educators to track student progress and improve instruction, and schools that are showing children that building a healthy lifestyle is just as crucial to their success as the rest of their studies.

implement promising improvement in

Our School Health and Wellness Initiative shows us that there are amazing things already underway throughout Colorado to prepare students to lead healthy and active lives. The Initiative provides resources, technical assistance, and professional development opportunities that help schools find creative ways to promote and implement health and wellness efforts that focus on improved nutrition and increased physical activity.

The Colorado Legacy Schools Initiative seeks to improve achievement in math, science, and English through innovative learning approaches. The Initiative, which is modeled after the National Math and Science Initiative’s Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Program, launched during the 2010-2011 school year with limited funding. Seven Colorado high schools participated in the pilot program, and their impressive results show what is made possible by working together to find innovative ways to leverage limited resources. The Initiative will expand over the next five years to include 30 high schools thanks to a multi-million dollar investment from the National Math and Science Initiative.

This is an exciting time to be working in education in Colorado, and our work is only just beginning. We hope to have an opportunity to work with you.

high impact areas of public education that will enhance academic achievement and support students, educators, and administrators. We work in partnership with the Colorado Department of Education and public education stakeholders across the state to advance and accelerate strategically identified improvements to public education.

Our unique role allows us to help

Sincerely,

translate promising practices,

Helayne Jones, Ed. D. President and CEO

Dr. Stephen Shogan Board Chair

innovation capacity building collaboration

Our Safe and Welcoming Schools Initiative works to build positive, respectful school climates where adults and youth are empowered to appropriately respond to bullying. By providing knowledge, tools, support, and resources, we are helping schools and districts create a culture that is respectful of individual differences, backgrounds, and circumstances.

models, and policies into practice

Engaged Students

while informing large-scale policy

The Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Initiative is an innovative teaching and learning platform designed to ignite the unique potential of every student through the creation and delivery of dramatically personalized learning experiences. By collaborating with local and national partners in the education, business, and nonprofit sectors, the Initiative looks for innovative ways to work within the system to reorganize the school day and restructure the use of time and technology using existing

and system improvements at the state level.

and share knowledge and lessons learned, the Colorado Legacy Foundation will create resources with practical tips for implementation that can be used by all Colorado schools and districts.

Effective Educators

CLF’s Educator Effectiveness Initiative seeks to ensure that each school has educators equipped with the resources needed to provide a quality, meaningful learning experience for every child. Last year, 6 Colorado school districts were engaged to identify and adopt promising practices, share lessons learned, and help inform the state’s development of a model evaluation system. CLF also partnered with the New Millennium Initiative, Colorado’s Teacher of the Year, and the STAR Teacher Council to encourage teachers to play a vital role in improving education through meaningful involvement in state-level policy discussions.

In 2011, the Colorado Legacy Foundation launched the Colorado Integration Project in partnership with CDE and thirteen Colorado school districts. The three year project aims to improve student outcomes by supporting educators as the driving force in enhancing achievement.

The work of Colorado’s Integration Districts focuses on supporting educators and school district leaders as they work to integrate the new Colorado Academic Standards with aligned instructional supports and the performancebased educator evaluation systems as mandated by Senate Bill 10-191. As the Integration districts collaborate

In 2011, CLF launched Teach 360, an innovative research project that asks: how reliably can we assess the effectiveness of new teachers based on a short teaching experience at the beginning of their careers?

By partnering with school districts in Colorado, Teach 360 will analyze data on student growth and professional practice of teachers at the beginning of their careers to make predictions on their likely future performance.

If successful, Teach 360 promises to improve the pipeline of teachers that enter the profession so that resources can be focused on supporting them.

Our Work

The Colorado Legacy Foundation

Now more than ever, public education needs a collaborative innovator and trusted partner to inspire creativity and new possibilities among educators, administrators, policy makers, parents and students.

Last year presented the Colorado Legacy Foundation with multiple opportunities to play this role, and we are proud of what we’ve been able to achieve by working with groups throughout the state in service of Colorado’s students.

Buffalo School District – Merino, CO —School Health and Wellness Initiative

Colorado Legacy Schools • Abraham Lincoln High School - Denver • Northglenn High School - Northglenn • Aurora Central High School - Aurora • Arvada High School - Arvada • Centennial High School - Pueblo • Central High School – Grand Junction • Fruita Monument High School - Fruita • Grand Junction High School – Grand Junction • James Irwin Charter High School – Colorado Springs • Vista Ridge High School – Colorado Springs

Colorado Integration Project Centennial School District – San Luis Denver Public Schools - Denver Eagle County School District – Eagle Thompson School District - Loveland San Juan BOCES: o

Centennial High School, Pueblo City Schools — Colorado Legacy Schools Initiative Centennial High School in Pueblo, CO, is an example of a school leveraging limited resources in innovative ways to dramatically increase student achievement. During the 2010-2011 school year, Centennial High School piloted the Colorado Legacy Schools Initiative. Despite limited funding, Centennial’s principal and staff committed to the program and achieved impressive gains in their Advanced Placement program. Enrollment in math, science, and English courses increased by 211% over the previous year, and the school achieved a 281% increase in the number of students receiving qualifying scores on their exams.

Health and Wellness • Adams County School District 14 – Commerce City • Aurora Public Schools - Aurora • Bethune School District - Bethune • Boulder Valley School District - Boulder • Buffalo School District – Merino • Campo School District – Campo • Colorado Springs School District 11 – Colorado Springs • Durango School District - Durango • East Grand School District - Granby • Elizabeth School District – Elizabeth • Idalia School District - Idalia • Manitou Springs School District- Manitou Springs • Monte Vista School District – Monte Vista San Juan BOCES — Colorado Integration Project • Sangre de Cristo School District - Mosca The San Juan BOCES is a group of 9 rural school districts in the southwest corner of Colorado • Thompson School District – Loveland • Weld School District RE-6 - Greeley participating in the Colorado Integration Project. During its first year, the BOCES teams made Safe and Welcoming Schools • Denver Public Schools - Denver • Cherry Creek School District - Denver • Poudre Valley School District – Fort Collins • Center School District - Center

Aurora Public Schools — Expanded Learning Opportunities Initiative Aurora Public Schools is reevaluating how current resources such as time, space, and technology are used in an effort to create learning experiences that ignite students’ passion for learning and support educators in customizing instruction. Vista Peak Preparatory Campus piloted the Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Initiative in 2011-2012 with a priority on increasing time for teacher collaboration, expanding the school day and school year, and integrating community partners into student learning. Vista Peak is focused on implementing various ELO approaches including equity, culture, and climate; postsecondary and workforce readiness sessions customized to students’ interests; building partnerships with business and community organizations; and targeted intervention support for students at varied proficiency levels.

significant progress toward providing better support and professional development for educators with a focus on improving student achievement. The BOCES began piloting the principal evaluation tool created by the Colorado Department of Education, and engaged principals and teachers to get feedback on the rubrics, processes, and tools being used to evaluate them.

Center 26J School District — Safe and Welcoming Schools Initiative

The BOCES also began connecting math and literacy instructional tools to educator effectiveness and the newly adopted Colorado Academic Standards. Classroom teachers across the BOCES were trained on the use of two innovative new tools designed to improve literacy and math proficiency: the Literacy Design Collaborative and the Math Design Collaborative.

In Center, CO, the entire community is involved in helping the district create a culture that is safe and welcoming for every student. The district has a Bullying Prevention Workgroup that meets every month to address bullying prevention including school climate, curriculum, and teacher training. The group is comprised of administrators, teachers, a counselor, parents, students and community members.

“I see more kids being able to go to adults with problems, and students standing up when bullying is present and using our slogan ‘Be a Buddy NOT a Bully.”

31 districts serving over 355,000 students Gabriela Bucio Student, Center High School, Safe and Welcoming Schools Initiative

Center 26J is also supporting innovative strategies around positive youth engagement. They started a youth coalition, called Healthy Futures, to address school bullying. Earlier this year, the students coordinated a “Walk Against Bullying,” through the town of Center. They also organized and hosted “Mix It Up Day,” which encouraged students to build inclusivity and community by sitting with people they don’t usually sit with at lunch.

"My AP experience has been one of my favorite high school memories with all the teachers, friends, and knowledge I have gained. I feel I am ready for my college career and the rest of my life thanks to the AP classes."

Travis Arguello Senior, Centennial High School, Colorado Legacy Schools Initiative

Initiatives

Archuleta School District Bayfield School District o Durango School District o Dolores School District RE – 2 o Dolores School District RE – 4 o Ignacio School District o Mancos School District o Montezuma-Cortez School District o Silverton School District Expanded Learning Opportunities • Adams 12 Five Star Schools - Thornton • Aurora Public Schools - Aurora • Boulder Valley School District - Boulder • Denver Public Schools - Denver o

In the rural community of Merino, CO, the students in Buffalo School District made incredible gains promoting a health and wellness program in their schools. In its first year, the Buffalo School District Wellness Team successfully advocated to their board of education to make healthy changes to school district policy and practice. They also added a salad bar to their school’s cafeteria, decreased the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by offering fruit-infused water to all staff and students, and decreased the amount of fat, processed food, starch, and carbs in the school’s food offerings. The team is also working to add a garden and a greenhouse and will incorporate their own fresh produce into the school meal program.

Our Impact

Grantee District Successes

Colorado Integration Grant Conference: Advancing Colorado’s Plan for Improving Instruction and Student Outcomes We’re fostering collaboration by encouraging individuals and organizations to innovate together and share knowledge to create an accessible, high-quality public education system that ensures the success of every school and district leader,

Great Teachers and Leaders Bill. In March 2012, the Colorado Legacy Foundation sponsored the Colorado Educator Effectiveness Summit: 191 Into Action. In partnership with CASB, CASE and CEA, the day-long event offered a unique opportunity for educators, administrators, school board members, and superintendents to come together and learn about the requirements of Senate Bill 191 and its implications for their districts.

Attendees were treated to a presentation by Durango High School’s award-winning Aerospace Team. They also had the opportunity to participate in a discussion of CDE’s plan and hear the various perspectives of a panel featuring the Commissioner of Education, a student from Durango High School, and representatives from the Independence Institute, the University of Colorado, and the State Council for Educator Effectiveness.

Every district was encouraged to bring at least one leadership team (including a school board member, superintendent, principal, and teacher). Teams were engaged in facilitated conversations and work sessions focused on helping them better understand the state’s approach to educator effectiveness and what it means for their districts.

The day included presentations from experts in the field, as well as from select partner and pilot districts currently transitioning to a new evaluation system.

Colorado Education Reform Summit

Colorado Educator Effectiveness Summit: 191 Into Action

At the Colorado Legacy Foundation, we take a non-partisan, highly collaborative approach to identifying ways to improve public education in Colorado. We work closely with the Colorado Department of Education to align

The Colorado Legacy Foundation recognizes the need to include the unique voices and experiences of educators, school district leaders, and school board members in planning the statewide implementation of Colorado’s

Convening educators, districts, and reform advocates Pictured above: Commissioner Robert Hammond and Helayne Jones at the Colorado Education Reform Summit.

From left to right: Healthy School Champions Awards, Educators at the Colorado Integration Grant Conference, Thornton High School Focus Dance Crew, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia at the 2012 Legacy Luncheon.

District teams also participated in a facilitated work session designed to support them as they worked to write drafts or revisions of their districts’ implementation plans for transitioning to a new evaluation model that meets SB 191 requirements.

2012 Healthy Schools Summit On April 4, 2012 the Colorado Legacy Foundation hosted the 2012 Healthy Schools Summit. Thirty-two schools from across Colorado were recognized as 2012 Healthy School Champions and were awarded a total of $42,000 for their demonstrated commitment to promoting and implementing health and wellness in their schools and communities. More than 400 people representing the education, business, and nonprofit communities were in attendance.

The 2012 Healthy School Champions received awards based on their completion of the Healthy School Champions’ Score Card, a voluntary, online self-assessment tool designed to measure best practices in the eight Coordinated School Health components. Sponsored by the Colorado Health Foundation, the day-long Summit featured two national health and wellness experts: Dr. Charles Basch, the Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia University; and Dr. James Marks, Senior Vice President and Director of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During the event, Lt. Governor Joseph Garcia read a proclamation officially declaring April as Healthy Schools Month in Colorado.

Educators, health experts, business leaders, and community organizations from around the state attended the Summit to hear from local and national experts about how to form strategies around elevating the importance of health and wellness in a school setting, creating safe and welcoming schools, and increasing meaningful community, parent and youth engagement, all for the purpose of creating sustainable and effective health and wellness practices in schools.

2012 Legacy Luncheon Our third annual Legacy Luncheon also took place on April 4, 2012, as part of the day-long Healthy Schools Summit. Nearly 900 attendees from the education, business, and nonprofit sectors gathered for this exciting event, which featured a keynote address by author, columnist, radio host, and television commentator, Matt Miller.

We were honored to have Governor John Hickenlooper and Lt. Governor Joe Garcia in attendance to recognize the recipients of our first annual Legacy Awards. The awards were presented to individuals and organizations which embody the values that guide the work of the Colorado Legacy Foundation. The event included the debut of CLF’s Expanded Learning Opportunities video and a rousing dance performance from the Thornton High School Focus Dance Crew.

to learn, collaborate, and implement

Initiatives

educator, and student.

On June 20, 2011 the Colorado Legacy Foundation and Colorado Department of Education (CDE) convened more than 180 educators representing 40 school districts to learn about innovative tools to help in the integrated implementation of the new Colorado Academic Standards, aligned assessments, and educator performance evaluation systems. Participants also learned about an exciting opportunity to act as living laboratories for these tools and become one of Colorado’s Integration Districts. The Integration Districts were selected in August 2011 to benefit from a $9.7 million investment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the instructional tools and resources needed to pilot the new systems of standards, assessments, and evaluations, with a goal of scaling them statewide.

efforts and leverage resources for schools and districts statewide. On October 12, 2011, we convened over 100 education reform advocates to learn about CDE’s efforts to implement “Colorado Education Vision 2020: Seeing Beyond.” The plan acts as a framework that, if implemented well, will transform education in a meaningful way.

Our Events

Events & Convenings

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 31, 2011 ASSETS Current assets Cash and cash equivalents Grants receivable Other receivables Short-term investments Prepaid expenses Total current assets

Other assets Deposits Total other assets Total assets LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Current liabilities Accounts payable Deferred revenues Accrued liabilities Total current liabilities

44,961 106,087 8,348 (19,159) 140,237 7,658 7,658 $ 6,771,859

$ 103,250 2,500 100,066 205,816

Commitments Net assets Unrestricted Temporarily restricted Total net assets Total liabilities and net assets

260,394 6,305,649 6,566,043 $ 6,771,859

Total

Unrestricted

Temporarily Restricted

$ 55,000 124,123 37,595 – 11,887 2,490 4,215,567

$ 7,711,292 – – – – – (4,215,567)

$ 7,766,292 124,123 37,595 – 11,887 2,490

4,446,662

3,495,725

7,942,387

3,855,112 87,936 401,851

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3,855,112 87,936 401,851

4,344,899

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4,344,899

Change in net assets

101,763

3,495,725

3,597,488

Net assets at beginning of year

158,631

2,809,924

2,968,555

$ 260,394

$ 6,305,649

$ 6,566,043

Support and revenue Foundation grants Special events, net of direct expenses of $87,772 Contributions In-kind donations Interest and dividends Other revenue Net assets released from restrictions Total support and revenue Expenses Program services Fundraising Administration and general Total expenses

Net assets at end of year

2011 expenses

December 31, 2011

Personnel expenses Salaries Payroll taxes Employee benefits Total personnel expenses Other operating expenses Bank and credit card fees Conference and convention expense Contract services Grants to schools Information technology Insurance Legal and accounting Office expense Other expense Parking Postage Printing Professional development Rent Special events expense Telephone Travel Total other operating expenses Non-cash expenses In-kind service Depreciation Total non-cash expenses Total expenses Less expenses netted with revenues on statements of activities Total expenses included in statements of activities expenses

Program Services

Fundraising

Administration And General

Total

$ 991,246 71,095 39,224

$ 64,668 4,811 854

$ 232,303 31,360 46,561

$ 1,288,217 107,266 86,639

1,101,565

70,333

310,224

1,482,122

137,702 1,171,126 1,188,001 24,958 – 2,387 21,798 2,363 7,132 807 14,682 3,845 58,521 – 12,496 96,509

300 8,130 – 1,628 – – 229 224 1,360 – 74 – 3,818 87,772 815 293

5,496 18,181 – 5,849 3,041 9,138 6,302 3,847 3,757 839 – 1,424 13,714 – 2,930 14,480

143,498 1,197,437 1,188,001 32,435 3,041 11,525 28,329 6,434 12,249 1,646 14,756 5,269 76,053 87,772 16,241 111,282

2,742,327

104,643

88,998

2,935,968

11,220

732

2,629

14,581

11,220

732

2,629

14,581

3,855,112

175,708

401,851

4,432,671

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(87,772)

–

(87,772)

$ 3,855,112

$ 87,936

$ 401,851

$ 4,344,899

Other $587,734 Total Program Services $3,855,112

Initiatives

Property and equipment Furniture Equipment and software Leasehold improvements Less accumulated depreciation Total property and equipment

December 31, 2011 $ 6,358,294 111,500 15,000 106,116 33,054 6,623,964

4.3 Million

STATEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

Financials

Financials

89%

of expenses went to supporting programs — a total of

3.9 Million

Educator Effectiveness The Colorado Legacy Foundation is committed to providing relevant

Implementing Evaluation Systems

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Advice from Practitioners: A Guide to Implementing S.B. 10-191 Staffing Provisions

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School District Guidance on Implementing Effective School Staffing Practices

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Effective Staffing Practices Interview Handbook

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Case Study: Harrison School District

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Case Study Highlights: Brighton, Eagle, and Harrison

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and timely tools and resources

Cultivating High Quality Candidates: A Handbook on Effective Communication Practices

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that help education leaders across

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Guide to Effectively Implementing a Priority Hiring Pool

Colorado lay the groundwork for

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Building Strong Instructional Teams Through Mutual Consent Staffing

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Creating and Communicating a Shared Vision of Effective Teaching

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positive change and measurable increases in student achievement.

Click the titles to the right to access our most recent publications.

Health and Wellness ●

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Colorado’s 2011 Bullying Prevention Law: What Every School and District Needs to Know

Case Study: Brighton 27J Case Study: Eagle School District

District Leader’s Guide: Preparing Your District to Implement a New Educator Evaluation System District Leader’s Guide: Communicating Effectively with Stakeholders District Leader’s Guide: Selecting and Using Multiple Measures to Evaluate Educators

Jean De la Mata Director – Project Management Office

Britt Wilkenfeld, Ph.D. Strategic Data Fellow

Jeri Crispe Director – Integration Initiative

Juliann Hudson Senior Accountant

Yee-Ann Cho Vice President – Initiatives

Gregory Hessee Director – Colorado Legacy Schools

Monica Andres Grants Administrator

Amy Dyett Manager – School Health and Wellness

Maggie Hough Executive Assistant

Heather Fox Vice President – Communications & Strategic Engagement

Samantha Long Director – Expanded Learning Opportunities

Sarah Paterson Manager - Tools & Resources

Katy Fleming Manager – Healthy School Champions Score Card

Tara Jahn Coordinator – Project Management Office

Colorado’s New Educator Effectiveness System: Advice from National Experts

Nina Lopez Vice President – Strategy and Partnerships

Amy Spicer Director – Teach 360

Brooke Lyons Administrative Assistant

Making Teacher Evaluation Matter: District Strategies for Selecting and Training Evaluators

Mike McBride Chief Financial Officer

Kelly Greengard Coordinator – Development and Special Events Jenna Hansen Coordinator – Project Management Office

Amy Engelman Comprehensive Health and P.E. Content Specialist

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District Leader’s Guide: Selecting and Training Evaluators

Statewide Blueprint for Bullying Prevention Engaging Youth as Partners in Creating Healthy, Safe, and Welcoming Schools

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District Leader’s Guide: Ensuring Data Integrity and Transparency

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Rural Case Studies

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District Leader’s Guide: Using Evaluation Results

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Promoting Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards

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District Leader’s Guide: Evaluating and Improving a System of Evaluation

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Physical Activity Best Practices

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School Health Services Best Practices

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Workplace Wellness Best Practices

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Health Education Best Practices

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Nutrition Best Practices

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Expanded Learning Opportunities ●

Show Me The Money: Writing a Successful Grant Application

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Evaluation Strategies

Angela Baber Director – Educator Effectiveness

Stephanie Wasserman Director – Health and Wellness Amy Farley Strategic Data Fellow

Rina Avalos Project Coordinator Heather Chikoore Manager - Tools & Resources Laura Collins Project Coordinator – Colorado Legacy Schools Initiative

Joe Miller Coordinator - Communications

The Expanded Learning Opportunities Commission: Beyond Walls, Clocks, and Calendars

Helpful Webinars ●

Colorado Legacy Foundation Staff Helayne Jones, Ed.D. President and Chief Executive Officer

District Leader’s Guide: Determining Levels of Performance for Teachers and Principals

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Best Practices

Colorado Legacy Foundation Staff and Board of Trustees

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Colorado Legacy Foundation Board of Trustees Dr. Stephen Shogan, Board Chair Colorado Neurosurgeon Rose Community Foundation Education Committee Member

Donna Lynne, DrPH President, Kaiser Permanente

Marla Williams CEO, Community First Foundation

Barbara O’Brien Piton Fellow, Former Lt. Governor

Karen LeFever, PhD, Board Treasurer Executive Vice President, Educational Services of America Elaine Gantz Berman State Board of Education Former DPS School Board President

Joseph Garcia Lt. Governor of Colorado

Gary Yourtz Past President, Du-Wald Steel Corp (retired) Jay Helman President, Western State College of Colorado

George Sparks President and CEO, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Gregory Anderson, PhD Dean, Morgridge College of Education University of Denver

Robert Hammond, Commissioner (Ex. Officio) Colorado Dept. of Education

Monica Skok

Adele Phelan President Emeritus, Clayton Foundation Sandra Smyser, PhD, Board Secretary Superintendent, Eagle County School District

Matthew Smith Vice President, Engineering, United Launch Alliance

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