The Homegrown Talent Coalition (HTC) brings together organizations across Colorado committed to expanding and strengthening college- and career-connected learning.
We believe every student deserves access to meaningful opportunities that prepare them for what comes next, and that those opportunities should not depend on where a student lives.
The Homegrown Talent Coalition introduction and initial report, laying out a roadmap and state collaboration model to ensure every Colorado student has access to college credit, industry credentials, and work-based learning.
The Attainment Network partnered with Emily Griffith Technical College to develop a toolkit to guide employers in creating apprenticeship programs for all. The toolkit is structured around six essential design elements and provides a practical approach to continuous improvement and organizational change.
With input from internal and external stakeholders and community partners, The Attainment Network identified key policy areas where statutory changes and additional investments would strengthen Colorado’s education-to-career systems. These policy briefs provide analysis of the issues, national and local best practices, and recommendations to accelerate learner success in Colorado.
Explains how Colorado’s new Statewide Longitudinal Data System (created under HB24-1364) will connect siloed education and workforce data across state agencies, and introduces the Better Data for Better Decisions Coalition, launched to support a relevant, accurate, and user-centered system that gives learners, families, and decision-makers better insight into which pathways lead to success.
The Colorado Education Initiative developed this Big Three one-pager to build off of the vision launched in the initial Homegrown Talent Coalition Pathways Report. CEI helps districts across the state develop and strengthen systems and programs that lead to student attainment of the Big Three
CEI developed these spotlights in partnership with staff members in the following school districts, Cañon City, Durango, and Englewood, to highlight promising practices around a quality ICAP process.
CEI developed the following implementation guides through interviews with teachers supporting students in earning these industry certifications. The goal of these implementation guides is to highlight practices that have helped students earn these industry certifications and resources that teachers have used.
Colorado Education Initiative, Colorado Succeeds, Empower Schools, and Lyra Colorado developed this report to build knowledge about the work, impacts, and insights that have occurred and are emerging in rural Colorado education and economic development and to place these efforts in context amid growing state momentum.
A summary of Colorado’s apprenticeship landscape (including an overview of all the vocabulary!) and how rural regions could realistically expand apprenticeship opportunities.
An indepth “how-to” guide for starting regional multi-district collaboration to create more Big Three opportunities for students.
A white paper from Colorado Succeeds and SyncUp Colorado that maps out which employer engagement work should be coordinated at the state level versus led regionally, offering a practical framework for a more efficient workforce development system
Juntos Community published a report exploring the barriers, opportunities, resources, and lived experiences of undocumented students in Colorado as they navigate high school and college and career pathways.
Resources shared here are intended to support learning and field awareness. Inclusion does not necessarily indicate endorsement of every finding, recommendation or policy position.
