Colorado ESSER Report: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund

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Posted 03/01/2023 - 9:05am

Students in the East Grand and West Grand school districts have a safe environment to continue learning outside of their regular four-day school week thanks to funding from Colorado’s... Read More

Tags: ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, High-Quality Instructional Programming, Local Priorities

Boulder Valley seeks to put teacher mentor in every school building

Posted 02/14/2023 - 5:58pm

Boulder Valley School District, one of the grantees that received ESSER funding to help create an effective teacher mentor program, will have a two-day summer institute for beginning teachers and plans to put teacher mentors in every... Read More

Tags: American Rescue Plan (ARP), ESSER III, Local Priorities, Mentor Grant Program, Use of Funds

Welcome to the ESSER Report

Posted 01/26/2023 - 11:14am

Welcome to the Colorado Department of Education’s blog about the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, where we will bring you stories about the funding created to address the immediate health and operational challenges of... Read More

Tags: ESSER I, Use of Funds

Mesa County Valley 51 designs robust teacher mentor program using ESSER III funds

Posted 01/26/2023 - 11:11am

Mesa County Valley 51 School District, which comprises the Grand Junction area, is using ESSER funding to develop a robust teacher mentoring program that includes a curriculum-based professional learning framework to help out its new... Read More

Tags: Allocations, ESSER III, Use of Funds

Poudre School District uses Mentor Grant to help novice teachers

Posted 01/10/2023 - 3:07pm

On a dark and chilly November evening at Poudre School District’s IT Center in Fort Collins, more than two dozen first-year teachers have joined their mentors and a group of mentoring coaches to learn more about topics such as how to... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, Use of Funds

Interactive graphic on common uses of ESSER funds

Posted 12/15/2022 - 1:40pm

CDE has created an interactive graphic that allows the user to see the common uses of ESSER funds, including ESSER I-3. CDE will be adding different features on its webpage to help provide an easier understanding of how ESSER money has been used... Read More

Tags: Allocations, ESSER I, ESSER II, ESSER III, Use of Funds

Manzanola uses ESSER funds for shelter

Posted 12/15/2022 - 9:44am

Spacing students far enough apart safely was a big concern in Manzanola School District 3J, a rural district on Colorado’s southeastern plains where temperatures can stay in the upper 90s and even... Read More

Tags: Air quality, ESSER I, Health and Safety, Keeping School Buildings Open, Local Priorities, Use of Funds

Ellicott School District buys school buses to maintain distancing

Posted 12/13/2022 - 11:44am by Jeremy Meyer, Director of Communications

Chris Smith, superintendent for Ellicott School District 22, which sits east of Colorado Springs in the middle of a vast swath of farms dotting windswept prairie, said that he and his staff felt “an enormous sense of fear” as everything ground to... Read More

Tags: ESSER I, Health and Safety, Keeping School Buildings Open, Use of Funds