Career and Technical Education
Colorado River BOCES CTE Department
• TRUST • TRANSPARENCY • RELATIONSHIP • CONSISTENCY •
DeBeque
Parachute
Rifle, Silt
Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, Basalt
Aspen
Collbran
Yampah Mountain High School
The fundamental mission of the CTE Department at the Colorado River BOCES or EPIC (Educational Pathways to Innovative Careers) is to support our workforce needs by providing job ready skills to high school students and adults via CTE (Career and Technology Education) programming, PD, WBL, and distance learning. We are here to help generations break away from the cycle of low-paying hourly jobs. We collaborate with our member school districts to assist them in achieving their CTE pathways goals and priorities.
Why We’re Here
Providing Career and Technology Education courses are essential to help develop skills and competencies that allow an individual to be work or college ready.
Together, we can build a system that is responsive to industry needs and has a core mission of educating anyone who wants to find a path forward in our new economy.
What We Do
Help generations break away from the cycle of low-paying hourly jobs.
EPIC supports the development of CTE programs and pathways and presents opportunities to provide future workers with valuable skills and upward mobility.
We want the youth to experience what it is like to thrive.
Students
Who We Serve
Providing Career and Technology Education courses are essential to supplying skills and competencies that allow an individual to be work or college ready and should be driven by the specific needs of the industry.
Approximately half of the students that graduate from our high schools go on to attend college. Of those who attend college, a little more than 33% of them graduate on time and up to 55% graduate in five or six years.
Industry/ Business needs
Industries across the region have expressed that many jobs are going unfilled or are filled by workers with little or no experience in the given trade.
Leon Hanhardt
CTE Director,
Lhanhardt@crboces.org
Our Team
Mark Gregory, Ma.Ed.
CTE Coordinator,
mgregory@crboces.org
Camron Wyatt M.ED.
CTE Coordinator
cwyatt@crboces.org
Nicolette DiPietro Ed.D.
Director of Programs,
ndipietro@crboces.org
Rebecca Wyatt
Work Based Learning/ CTE Coach,
rwyatt@crboces.org
Leroy Gutierrez
EPIC Construction Teacher, Learning Lab facilitator
lgutierrez@crboces.org