NW BOCES is committed to offering professional learning that is meaningful, flexible, personalized, and effective to meet the needs of the educators in our member districts. The NW BOCES believes high-quality professional learning directly impacts student learning and growth.
NW BOCES supports professional learning by:
- Designing and offering courses and conferences
- Facilitating professional learning communities
- Curating an online professional learning resource library
- Providing license recertification hours and continuing education graduate credit
- Staffing a Professional Learning Coordinator & Coach
- Organizing an online registration and credit tracking system
- Coordinating additional professional learning opportunities based on member district needs.
Upcoming Course: Summer 2023 CDE Approved ELL Pathway
(45 contact hours or 3 continuing education graduate credits - Click HERE for more details and to register)
Held via Zoom beginning Wednesday 5/31/23 with additional meetings on 6/7/23, 6/14/23, 6/21/23, 6/28/23, and 7/12/23 all from 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
The NW BOCES will once again offer its CDE-approved ELL Pathway in a condensed format beginning on May 31st and spanning 6 weeks. Effective Instruction for ELLs will be fully online, featuring all five previously separate "modules" in one 45-hour course. If you would like more information about this licensing requirement, please navigate to CDE's website for more details: English Learner PD Requirements.
COLLAB 2022 Feedback
190 our of 455 participants responded to the post-event survey, which is roughly 42% of participants and is a very strong response rate based on industry metrics. Review the survey results via this link to the survey results in raw form and a link to the survey results in spreadsheet form, which includes data sorted by district.
Transcripts - Record of Completed NW BOCES Professional Learning
Over the last few years, the NW BOCES has moved away from sending individual certificates stating recertification contact hours to a transcript model. CDE accepts these transcripts and they allow for one single document in the license renewal process as opposed to collecting certificates. Follow these instructions to access your transcript. If you need a record of Colorado Mesa continuing education graduate credit, please reach out to CMU directly by following these instructions.
i3 SEED Final Evaluation Report
In January 2015, the NW BOCES received a five-year Investing in Innovation (i3) grant to develop and implement the System for Educator Effectiveness Development (SEED) program—an innovative professional development (PD) system designed to provide geographically isolated educators an impactful tool to improve teacher effectiveness. McREL International (McREL) was contracted by NW BOCES to conduct an independent evaluation of SEED. The purpose of this executive summary is to highlight key findings from the evaluation.
Click HERE to read the report.