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Programs
Colorado Legacy Foundation
Colorado Integration Project
San Juan BOCES was recently selected to participate in Colorado Legacy Foundation's Colorado Integration Project. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation, the Integration Project will explore ways to
implement:
- New Colorado Academic Standards and research-based
instructional materials.
- Professional development in formative instruction to
inform instruction.
- Regular performance evaluations that hold educators
accountable for student growth and provide them
feedback
to improve instruction.
- New research-based practices that complement systems
already in place to avoid unnecessary duplication.
- New state legislation in a high-quality manner.
Grant Outcomes:
- Grant Outcome 1: Educator Effectiveness
Implement educator performance evaluation systems
aligned with S.B. 191 providing supports directly
aligned to educator performance evaluations and
using performance evaluations to directly inform
human resource decisions.
- Grant Outcome 2: Teacher Supports and
Formative Instructional Tools
Build capacity of educators to utilize the Math Design
Collaborative tools and Literacy Design
Collaborative tasks to implement strong formative
instructional practices aligned with the Colorado
Academic Standards.
- Grant Outcome 3: Integration
Demonstrate the impact and benefit of implementing
new educator performance evaluation systems in an
integrated manner with the Colorado Academic
Standards and aligned instructional practices.
- Grant Outcome 4: Scaling Integration
Leverage exemplars created and lessons learned from
the Integration Districts to support statewide scaling
of integration work.
Please Click Here to view the Colorado Legacy Foundation's selection announcement.
Please Click Here for more information about the Colorado Integration Project.
Colorado Health Foundation
Southwest Colorado Regional BOCES PE Project
San Juan BOCES, through funding from the Colorado Health Foundation, will embark on a 3-year process to plan, implement, and evaluate a program to train all PE teachers in the nine SJBOCES districts in evidence-based, best practice PE curriculum that will bring all districts into full compliance with new state Physical Education and wellness standards and improve the physical fitness of southwest Colorado students. The SJBOCES member districts will implement curriculum that aligns with the new Colorado Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards and hold a Farm-to-School Summit for all nine Food Service Directors.
For more information on the Colorado Health Foundation, please Click Here.
Expelled and At-Risk Student Services, Colorado Department of Education
Check and Connect Project
The San Juan BOCES has received a 4 year grant from the Expelled and At-Risk Student Services (EARSS), a department of the Dropout Prevention and Student Services Unit, Colorado Department of Education. This grant is funding a mentor position for Check and Connect in each of the 9 districts. The capacity to serve students is extended through collaboration with the Regional Substance Abuse Prevention Partners (RSAPP). This non- profit is providing AmeriCorps members to be Check and Connect mentors in 4 schools in the BOCES region.
Check and Connect is a model of sustained intervention for promoting students' engagement with school and learning. According to the Institute on Community Integration, demonstrated outcomes of Check and Connect implementation include:
- decrease in truancy,
- decrease in dropout rates,
- increase in accrual of credits,
- in school completion and impact on literacy
For more information on Check and Connect, please Click Here.
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