Resources
Featured Resource
The Rural Innovation Toolkit
Raising the Bar
Cold Spring School built a culture of excellence by aligning hiring, instruction, and accountability with a clear vision.
Revolutionary Collaboration
Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium is making a difference for regional students through county-wide collaboration.
Flexibility and Sustainability
Duggan elevated teacher leadership and redefined school-level decision-making through a Teacher Leadership Team and a flexible MOU that empowers educators to shape strategy, budget, and accountability.
Empower Schools Annual Report 2024-25
Dive into our 2024-2025 annual report to discover how we Act in Partnership to drive student success in school and in life.
About RPEP
Concise overview of the Rural Pathways for Excellence Partnerships initiative.
Unlocking Student and Educator Empowerment
Policy and design recommendations to expand school-level autonomy and improve outcomes.
Colorado Rural Collaborative Guide
Practical tools and insights for leaders building and strengthening rural collaboratives.
Apprenticeship and Rural Colorado
How apprenticeship models are expanding opportunity and workforce development across rural Colorado.
Ten Years of Empowerment
Retrospective magazine: timeline, stories, and how we partner with communities to advance innovation and policy change.
Elevating Rural Colorado
Five years of investment and lessons learned that are elevating rural outcomes in Colorado.
Rural Innovation Toolkit
A step-by-step resource for planning, designing, implementing, and sustaining rural collaboratives.
Support for Rural Colorado Schools
Promising practices from early pandemic responses and today’s most urgent needs for rural districts.
The Third Way: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Schools
A practical how-to guide for legislators, district leaders, and advocates to create more 21st-century schools.
Autonomous Schools: A New Path to Growing High-Quality, Innovative Public Schools
How districts create autonomous schools to provide flexibility, quality, and scale.
Denver’s Luminary Learning Network
A real-time chronicle of governance and investment models behind Denver’s Luminary Learning Network.
From Innovation Schools to an Innovation Zone
Design features of “Innovation Zones” and what they mean for system-level change.
SEZP, “City of Firsts” Profiled in New Installment of CRPE
CRPE’s case study on Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership design and early implementation.
Stories
Ideas, perspectives, and news from Empower Schools.
