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Margret Guntren

Maggie Guntren is a District ESL/Dual Language Resource Teacher for Jeffco Public Schools who works with educators and leaders across the district to build structures and instructional practices focusing on equity, access, and culturally relevant and responsible pedagogy.

With 24 years of experience in the field education, spanning from the rural Mississippi Delta, to Santiago, Chile, Maggie believes that public education is the crux of a democracy. She knows the value of creative, authentic and relevant professional learning for teachers and the impact of great relationships and instructional coaching on the lives of students and school communities.

Maggie has landed in many incredible professional opportunities including winning a Fulbright Memorial Fund grant to Japan, securing a position as a Senior English Language Fellow with the United States Department of State, peer reviewing federal grants, leading academic teams for highly gifted summer programs at Johns Hopkins University and Duke University, consulting for the English Language Success Forum, and presenting a myriad of international and national conferences including TESOL, NABE, and La Cosecha. Maggie is affiliate faculty at Regis University.

Maggie is certified in Secondary Social Studies, K-12 Culturally and Linguistically Students, holds an initial principal license. She is trained in Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools and was a national participant in School Retool, collaboration between the d.school at Stanford and IDEO.

Maggie holds a BA in History and teaching license from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MA in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice from the University of Colorado at Boulder , and recently completed an advanced Certificate in Administrator Excellence for English Learners, also from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Become a COpilot class facilitator!

Are you wondering what that little paper airplane on some facilitator photos means? Are you interested in teaching other teachers content and strategies that actually work? Do you want to be a leader in your Association? Would you like to make some extra money?

If you answered "Yes!" to any of these questions, then you should definitely consider becoming a COpilot class facilitator. The best part about facilitating classes to other educators on COpilot is learning with people from all over Colorado who are just like you. Every COpilot class gives you and other educators a chance to learn instructional and leadership strategies that truly make a difference in students' lives!

Facilitating classes on COpilot can definitely be intimidating, but the good news is that CEA supports you every step of the way. The process to become a facilitator, set up a class, and get to teaching is actually pretty easy. Just take a look at this short list:

Contact Casey Kilpatrick, the Director of Learning Services at the Colorado Education Association, and express your interest in facilitating a class.
Casey will arrange a time to meet with you via Zoom to discuss what you'd like to teach. We are always looking for new classes, so no topic is really out of bounds!
After the meeting, you'll need to fill out a syllabus so CEA can get the class approved for credit (we'll give you a template).
Once Casey receives the completed syllabus, he'll arrange another meeting to set up your class shell and walk you through the COpilot Learning Management System (LMS).
You'll then have the chance to build your class and get feedback from CEA about the process.
Once your class finishes, CEA will pay you for the number of students who completed your class (for more information about payment rates, please contact Casey Kilpatrick at CEA)

That's really all there is to it. CEA will take care of all the technical support, marketing, credit approval, evaluations, and other questions that come up. All you really need to do is work with amazing educators on a topic that fits your passions.

Now...what about that paper airplane?

Facilitators who earn that airplane means they are WINGS certified. All of those awesome Colorado educators have taken a rigorous, 30-hour, two graduate credit class all about online learning and facilitation. WINGS certified facilitators make more money per student who completes a class and have special recognition across the Association. To become a WINGS certified facilitator, you first must facilitate a class at the base level. You then need to complete the WINGS COpilot Proficiency Program that is offered every spring. Please contact Casey Kilpatrick at CEA for more information.