Mountain BOCES is a cooperative educational service agency covering ten central Rocky Mountain school districts and Colorado Mountain College.  We are now in our 42nd year of providing programs, services, and expertise that are more efficient, more economical, and of higher quality than could be achieved by one district alone.  Our strategic goal is to inspire Trust at all levels of our organization and with all of our partners, to promote Transparency in our fiscal practices and professional activities and interactions, and to focus on getting Traction to accomplish the most important goals--Trust, Traction, and Transparency.

Mountain BOCES has the enthusiastic endorsement of its Board of Directors and member district superintendents to move forward with new programs and services. The Board will create new Vision and Mission Statements and Strategic Priorities for 2013-2014, and Troy Lange will become Executive Director full time instead of half time.  Trina Nichol and Kim Bundgaard will direct special education.

The Board also allocated resources to hire a full-time Director of Professional Learning to plan and implement a system of Professional Learning (Development) for our member school districts.  You can see the job description here, and we will post the online application by May 24.  The position begins July 1, 2013.

Mountain BOCES is experiencing problems with its phone messaging system.  We apologize for the inconvenience and will resolve the issue as soon as we are able.

For details on new e-licensing processes, click here and scroll to the Announcements pod.

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) website is a good source for ongoing updates regarding State initiatives, and we encourage you to check it regularly.  To see CDE's Fact Sheets on a variety of topics, such as Educator Effectiveness and Senate Bill 10-191, Colorado Academic Standards, Assessment, Colorado's Accountability System, and Educator Licensure, click here.

Mountain BOCES and its member districts plan to go live with the new Excent Enrich online Individualized Education Plan (IEP) documentation system starting August 5, 2013.  Mountain BOCES is working with Excent to provide the smoothest transition possible so as not to overburden staff with the change in systems.  Questions?  Contact Trina Nichol at tnichol@mtnboces.k12.co.us.