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
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®
Heather Villalobos Pavia,
English Learner Assessment Specialist, 303-866-6118
CO ACT
Contact Margo Allen, 303-866-6929
CoAlt: Reading, Writing and Mathematics
Mira Monroe,
Principal Consultant, 303-866-6709
NAEP
Pam Sandoval,
NAEP State Coordinator, 303-866-6643
TCAP
Contact Margo Allen, 303-866-6929
Formative and Interim Assessment
Content Collaboratives
Angela Landrum,
Principal Consultant, 303-866-6931
General Questions
Margo Allen,
Business Process Manager,
303-866-6929
Colorado Measures of Academic Success
Technology Readiness
Collin Bonner,
Technology Specialist, 303-866-6752
CoAlt: Science and Social Studies
Mira Monroe,
Principal Consultant, 303-866-6709
PARCC
Stephanie Boyd,
PARCC Coordinator, 303-866-6849
Summative Assessment of Science and Social Studies
Sara Loerzel,
Online Assessment Administration, 303-866-3266
Katie Schmidt,
Content Development Specialist, 303-866-6808
Measurement
Jessica Allen,
Principal Consultant, 303-866-6281
ADE technical support, Measurement, Student Data and Results
Jasmine Carey,
Psychometrician, 303-866-6634
Student Data and Results, Data Research and Evaluation
Sarah Underwood,
Assessment Data Specialist, 303-866-6877
Student Data, Results, and Evaluation
