The Denver New Millennium Initiative brings together 32 award-winning teachers from districts throughout the Denver metro area. Many of these teachers have already demonstrated their “teacherpreneurial” skills by helping to found a teacher-led public school in a high-needs community, developing new programs to serve English language learners and special needs students, or serving on district and statewide committees focused on various aspects of teaching policy reform. As a team, their work focuses on how evaluation and compensation policies can help  all teachers become more effective.

Denver NMI teachers were instrumental in suggesting changes to Colorado’s teacher evaluation legislation to encourage the use of multiple, and more accurate and transparent, measures of teaching effectiveness. In mid-May 2011, the team released their report "Making Teacher Evaluation Work for Students: Voices From the Classroom," which points out how Colorado's Ensuring Quality Instruction Through Educator Effectiveness Act (or EQuITEE, formerly titled SB 191) can be effectively implemented. The team will continue to work with the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Legacy Foundation as well as other stakeholders on the law’s implementation details. For more information or to get involved, contact Ali Kliegman.

REPORTS & RESOURCES

• New Millennium Initiative: Denver Report
  
• New Millennium Initiative: Denver Toolkit