Assessment Unit
Colorado Department of Education
Assessment Unit
State Office Building, Room 502
201 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80203-1799
Phone: 303-866-6929
FAX: 303-866-6680
General Questions
Margo Allen
Business Process Manager
303-866-6929
Administration
Joyce Zurkowski
Executive Director of Assessment
303-866-6929
Will Morton
Director of Assessment Administration
303-866-6997
Christina Wirth-Hawkins
Director of Assessment Development
303-866-6979
Assessments
ACCESS for ELLs®, CSLA Development, Linguistic Accommodations
Heather Villalobos Pavia
English Learner Assessment Specialist
303-866-6118
PSAT 10 and SAT
Jared Anthony
303-866-6932
NAEP and International Assessments
Pam Sandoval
NAEP and International Assessments Coordinator
303-866-6643
Colorado Measures of Academic Success
CMAS: PARCC ELA/Math and CSLA Administration
Stephanie Boyd
CMAS: PARCC Coordinator
303-866-6849
CMAS: Science/Social Studies
Sara Loerzel
Online Assessment Administration Specialist
303-866-3266
CoAlt: DLM ELA/Math and Science/Social Studies and Special Education Accommodations
Mindy Roden
Special Education Assessment Consultant
303-866-6709
Technology Readiness
Collin Bonner
Technology Specialist
303-866-6752
Data
Jasmine Carey
Psychometrician
303-866-6634
Student Data and Results, Data Research and Evaluation
Melissa Mincic
Assessment Data Operations
303-866-6281
Data Pipeline Technical Support, Student Data and Results
Shangte Shen
Assessment Data Operations
303-866-6877
Data Pipeline Technical Support
