Educator Career Navigation

Welcome to Educator Career Navigation!

We support and guide individuals across Colorado in pursuing meaningful careers in education, from early childhood through secondary education. By promoting the profession, offering career guidance, and providing accessible resources and personalized support, we help students, educators, and career changers explore opportunities, enhance their skills, and build lasting careers. Through fostering strong partnerships with educators, institutions, and community organizations, we strive to create an environment where every educator has the resources and support needed to succeed and thrive in a fulfilling career.

Promotion and Outreach

Career Navigation

System Support

Our Team

The Educator Career Navigation Team is building a skilled, supported, recognized and diverse education workforce through these efforts:

Promotion and Outreach – We elevate the image of the profession and identify future educators

Events

Career Navigation – We provide side-by-side support for current and future educators

Resources - for individuals who are working with or want to work with:
- Birth through age 8
- Kindergarten through 12th grade

Substitute teaching

System Support – We build and extend capacity with and for our systems partners

Our partner, TEACH Colorado, offers free advising calls with licensure coaches to help answer your questions about choosing a program and to share insight into life in the classroom.

Schedule a 1-on-1 session with a TEACH Colorado coach today!
Monthly group advising webinars to help you take the next step
Multilingual how-to guides
Fee reimbursements, scholarships, and more!
TEACH has also developed several marketing toolkits to support recruitment efforts. Read more about their marketing toolkits.

Colorado Educator Job Board

Explore the Career Center on the Colorado Association of School Executives website, tailored for licensed educators seeking job opportunities in school districts throughout Colorado. Applicants can easily search for current openings using specific keywords, locations, organizations and positions categories, streamlining the path to their next career move in education.

Explore the CASE Career Center for Job Opportunities across Colorado

To learn more about CASE and their member offerings for educational leaders,

visit the CASE membership webpage.

For more information on CASE Professional Learning events to help grow your career,

visit the CASE Professional Learning webpage.

Financial Assistance Opportunities for Aspiring and Current Educators

Are you a paraprofessional interested in becoming a licensed educator? Are you seeking to become a licensed educator using the alternative license pathway? You may be eligible for a one-time financial award of up to $10,000 to pay for your educator preparation costs in exchange for a 3-year commitment to teaching in a Colorado public school through our Educator Recruitment and Retention Program.

Learn more about the ERR Program

If the ERRP does not work for you, then check out the other programs available to assist aspiring educators obtain their credential. There are programs for high school students looking to become licensed educators and obtain their bachelors degree, student educators completing their teacher residency, current rural educators working on additional endorsements, and many more. Find a program that works for you!

Funding Opportunities for K-12 Educators

Funding Opportunities for Early Childhood Educators