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The Rural Innovation Toolkit

Empower Schools Annual Report 2024-25

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.

Reports
About RPEP

About RPEP

Concise overview of the Rural Pathways for Excellence Partnerships initiative.

One Pagers
Unlocking Student and Educator Empowerment

Unlocking Student and Educator Empowerment

Policy and design recommendations to expand school-level autonomy and improve outcomes.

White Papers
Colorado Rural Collaborative Guide

Colorado Rural Collaborative Guide

Practical tools and insights for leaders building and strengthening rural collaboratives.

Toolkits
Apprenticeship and Rural Colorado

Apprenticeship and Rural Colorado

How apprenticeship models are expanding opportunity and workforce development across rural Colorado.

Reports
Ten Years of Empowerment

Ten Years of Empowerment

Retrospective magazine: timeline, stories, and how we partner with communities to advance innovation and policy change.

Reports
Elevating Rural Colorado

Elevating Rural Colorado

Five years of investment and lessons learned that are elevating rural outcomes in Colorado.

Reports White Papers
Rural Innovation Toolkit

Rural Innovation Toolkit

A step-by-step resource for planning, designing, implementing, and sustaining rural collaboratives.

Toolkits
Support for Rural Colorado Schools

Support for Rural Colorado Schools

Promising practices from early pandemic responses and today’s most urgent needs for rural districts.

Reports White Papers
The Third Way: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Schools

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.

White Papers
Autonomous Schools

Autonomous Schools: A New Path to Growing High-Quality, Innovative Public Schools

How districts create autonomous schools to provide flexibility, quality, and scale.

Reports Case Study
Denver’s Luminary Learning Network

Denver’s Luminary Learning Network

A real-time chronicle of governance and investment models behind Denver’s Luminary Learning Network.

Case Study
From Innovation Schools to an Innovation Zone

From Innovation Schools to an Innovation Zone

Design features of “Innovation Zones” and what they mean for system-level change.

Reports White Papers
SEZP, “City of Firsts” Profiled in New Installment of CRPE

SEZP, “City of Firsts” Profiled in New Installment of CRPE

CRPE’s case study on Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership design and early implementation.

Reports Case Study

Stories

Ideas, perspectives, and news from Empower Schools.