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CDE Advisory List of Providers

CDE's 2024-2025 School & District Support Advisory List of Providers

Overview

CDE has concluded its 2024-2025 RFI review, and the providers who were successful in that process are now included on our Advisory List. Schools and districts with low-performing schools are encouraged to consider the providers on the list across the five categories below:
 

Diagnose & Plan Partners

  • District Strategic Planning (holistic or targeted at one or more key district systems)
  • School Holistic Reviews and Improvement Planning

Implementation Partners

  • Improvement Implementation Support (school and district levels)
    • ​School Turnaround Leadership Development (STLD)
  • Accountability Pathways Partners (formerly Management Partners)

Note: School Turnaround Leadership Development (STLD) program providers must also apply under Improvement Implementation Support in order to become a qualified STLD provider. Additional information about this program and currently identified providers can be found here.

Review and Approval Process

CDE reviewed all application materials using our published rubrics and a “body of evidence” approach that included review of application forms and narrative, authentic work samples, evidence of prior impact, and references. Based on this review, all approved providers met CDE’s quality criteria and provided concrete evidence of their ability to improve outcomes for students in low-performing schools. In addition, some providers met the quality standards at the highest level. These providers are noted as “approved with distinction”.

Approved providers also had the opportunity to participate in an optional and supplemental process to identify up to three field-validated expertise areas. Expertise areas were field-validated using feedback from educators and partners who work directly with each participating provider.  The field-validated expertise areas include: ELA instruction (rigor, engagement), ELL/MLL models (especially in rural/small districts), Family School Community Partnerships, High school design and evidence based improvement strategies for high schools, Math instruction (conceptual understanding, rigor, engagement), Rural school improvement, SEL/school culture/behavioral supports, Special education models and effective service design, Strategies for closing opportunity gaps (students of color, students qualifying for FRL, students with special needs), Strategies for Improving Quality and Rigor of Instruction, Student Engagement, Whole school redesign (people, time, money, curriculum, school model). Providers noted with “exceptional expertise” are those that the field indicated exceptional knowledge and impact in the respective expertise area.

Click here to access the full Advisory List, including links to each provider's RFI submission.

Resources for District RFP Processes

CDE recommends that districts at least consider using a Request for Proposal (RFP) process when hiring an external partner. The following RFP Template is provided as an example only. Districts should consult their legal counsel and procurement policies before releasing an RFP. In addition, CDE is providing a provider contact list that districts are encouraged to use to publicize district RFPs for school improvement services.

Contacts

If you have questions about the Advisory List or RFI process, please contact Lindsay Cox, School Transformation Grant Manager.

If you need this information in an alternate format, please contact Nate Goss, Accountability Project Manager.

Advisory List of Providers

CDE found that the following respondents sufficiently addressed all questions listed in the RFI and provided concrete evidence of their ability to improve outcomes for students in low-performing schools.

 

Provider

Provider Overview

Supporting Work Documents

District Strategic Planning

School Holistic Review and Improvement Planning

Improvement Implementation Support

School Turnaround Leadership Development (STLD)

Accountability Pathways Partners

2Partner Mathematics Consulting

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - District

Approved - School

   

Accelerate Institute

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

 

Achievement Network

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved

Approved - District

Approved - School

 

Approved

Attuned Education Partners

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

Approved

Approved - District

Approved with Distinction - School

   

AVID Center

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved with Distinction - School

   

Baiza and Associates Consulting LLC

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved

   

BES (build. excel. sustain.)

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved - School

Approved

 

Center for High School Success

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved with Distinction - School

   

Center for Resilience + Well-Being at University of Colorado Boulder

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved

   

Coaction Collective

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - District

   

Cognia, Inc.

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved with Distinction

     

Colorado Education Initiative

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction - School

   

Colorado League of Charter Schools

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved with Distinction

     

Ed Direction

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved

Approved - School

   

Education Resource Strategies, Inc.

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

 

Approved with Distinction - District

   

Empower Schools

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

     

Approved

Generation Schools Network

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved

Approved - District

Approved - School

Approved

Approved - District

Approved - School

Huron Studer Education

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved

   

iLearn Collaborative

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

     

Instruction Partners

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

 

Approved

   

Instructional Empowerment, Inc.

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved

   

JS Education Partners

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved

   

KL Consulting

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved

   

Kristy Khoury Consulting

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

     

LiberatED Way

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction - District

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

 

Lit

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

 

Approved with Distinction - District

   

Marzano Academies

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved

   

Mass Insight Education & Research, Inc.

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction - District

Approved with Distinction - School

   

McREL International

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

 

Momentum Strategy & Research

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved with Distinction

     

New Teacher Center

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved with Distinction - District

   

ONWARD Education Consulting

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved with Distinction

Approved - School

   

PEBC

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - School

   

Precision P3 School Improvement

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved - School

   

Relay Graduate School of Education

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved with Distinction - District

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

Approved - School

SchoolWorks

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved

Approved with Distinction - School

   

Special Education Leader Fellowship

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

     

STRIVE Inc

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved with Distinction

Approved

   

Talent Development Secondary at Tides Center

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - School

   

Teaching Lab

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - School

   

The Center for Model Schools, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved

Approved with Distinction - District

Approved - School

Approved

 

The Impact Team

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved

   

TNTP, Inc.

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction

Approved with Distinction - District

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

Approved - District

Approved with Distinction - School

Transcend Inc.

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - School

   

Transformation Leaders Network

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

     

University of Chicago Network for College Success

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved

   

University of Virginia Partnership for Leaders in Education

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved with Distinction - District

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

 

Visionary Educational Consultancy

Provider Overview

Folder

Approved

Approved

Approved - School

   

Waterfall Learning LLC

Provider Overview

Folder

   

Approved - School

   

WestEd

Provider Overview

Folder

 

Approved

Approved with Distinction - School

Approved

 

Participation in the field-validated expertise area process was optional for providers. This information serves only as supplemental information to the RFI process and should not be treated as a comprehensive list of the expertises of approved providers.

Field Validated Expertise Areas

Expertise Area

Expert Providers

ELA instruction (rigor, engagement)

Achievement Network (Exceptional)

Attuned Education Partners

JS Education Partners

Lit (Exceptional)

STRIVE Inc

Teaching Lab (Exceptional)

ELL/MLL models (especially in rural/small districts)

Ed Direction

Family School Community Partnerships

Coaction Collective (Exceptional)

High school design and evidence based improvement strategies for high schools

Colorado Education Initiative

Momentum Strategy & Research

Talent Development Secondary at Tides Center (Exceptional)

STRIVE Inc

Math instruction (conceptual understanding, rigor, engagement)

2Partner Mathematics Consulting (Exceptional)

Achievement Network (Exceptional)

Instruction Partners (Exceptional)

KL Consulting

New Teacher Center

Teaching Lab

Rural school improvement 

Colorado Education Initiative

Empower Schools

ONWARD Education Consulting

Transcend Inc. (Exceptional)

Waterfall Learning LLC

SEL/school culture/behavioral supports

ONWARD Education Consulting

Transcend Inc.

Colorado Education Initiative

Special education models and effective service design

Relay Graduate School of Education

ONWARD Education Consulting

Strategies for closing opportunity gaps (students of color, students qualifying for FRL, students with special needs)

Accelerate Institute

Center for High School Success

Empower Schools

Instructional Empowerment, Inc.

Talent Development Secondary at Tides Center

The Impact Team

Strategies for Improving Quality and Rigor of Instruction

AVID Center

Cognia, Inc.

McREL International

Transformation Leaders Network (Exceptional)

2Partner Mathematics Consulting

Marzano Academies

New Teacher Center

Relay Graduate School of Education

The Impact Team

Teaching Lab

Student Engagement

Instructional Empowerment, Inc. (Exceptional)

Marzano Academies

Whole school redesign (people, time, money, curriculum, school model)

Transcend Inc.