• CEA State of Education Report – The report highlights three challenges: the state of investment, the state of respect and the state of educator safety. The report also includes CEA’s 2025 legislative priorities. The report is based on publicly available data, news articles, cited research and surveys of CEA members.
• CEA Educator Rights – We stand up for educators having a voice in decisions that affect them and will fight to protect and expand labor and workers rights in Colorado. We call on elected officials to commit to building an accountability system that is designed by educators, free from bias, and utilizes existing, nationally-validated assessments that have more immediate, actionable data to inform student learning.
• Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact – The Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC) is an interstate occupational licensure compact. Interstate compacts are constitutionally authorized, legislatively enacted, legally binding agreements among states.
• Funding
• CEA – We will continue to advocate for education funding in Colorado, providing stable and sufficient revenue for districts to meet state standards and educate all students including English learners, students living in poverty, and special needs students.
• Lobbying 
• Lobby Days – CEA Lobby Days are your chance to stand up for students, educators, and the future of public education. Each week, members from across Colorado meet with lawmakers to advocate for the funding, respect, and resources our schools need. Whether you’re a first-time advocate or a seasoned leader, Lobby Days empower you to use your voice to make real change.
• NEA Lobbying 101 Tip – NEA provides a suggested “to-do” list for preparing to lobby our legislators.
• NEA Guide to Vouchers – Vouchers take scarce funding from students in public schools and give those resources to unaccountable private schools.
• NEA EdJustice Freedom to Learn – Protecting the right to an honest and culturally inclusive education.
• NEA Freedom to Read – Classroom resources to celebrate the freedom to read.

NEA Guide to Understanding Your Contract – Tips to learn how to understand your contract. 

NEA Bargain for the Common Good – A list of resources to help prepare members for bargaining. 

NEA Organizing Toolbox – Build an organizing to do list, and NEA will gather the resources you need.

• NEA Trainings – NEA’s Center for Social Justice has created a professional development program designed to help educators identify and correct explicit and implicit discrimination in their classrooms.
• NEA EdJustice
• NEA Racial Justice in Education Resource Guide – This guide includes tools & resources for creating the space in your classroom to talk about race, racial equity assessments, strategic planning, and more.
• NEA Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, and Stereotypes Resources – Resources to sharpen our racial analysis and to deepen our understanding of implicit bias, microaggressions, and stereotypes.
• NEA White Supremacy Culture Resources – Resources to sharpen our racial analysis and deepen our understanding of White Supremacy Culture.
• NEA Gender Empowerment Messaging – All students deserve equal access to educational opportunities no matter their color, gender, or whom they love. However, girls, women and LGBTQ+ youth often face barriers that threaten their success in school and beyond. 
• NEA Know Your Rights Harassment and Discrimination – This guide provides members tools when considering whether they have been a target of harassment or discrimination.
• Learning for Justice – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice is a resource hub for educators. Resources include: ready-to-use classroom lessons, multi-media library materials, learning plans, and film kits.
• LGBTQ+ Rights History Hub – A hub that contains articles, webinars, and teaching materials for teaching LGBTQ+ rights and history.
• Teaching Black History – This site provides materials to support teaching Black History throughout the school year. 
• The Zinn Education Project – The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.
• Teaching Materials Database – The Zinn Project’s online database that contains teaching materials covering a variety of social justice topics including the history of voting rights in the United States, environmental racism, women’s history, and many more. 
• Teaching for Change – An organization that provides educators with tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world.  
• TFC Educator Resources Page – Teaching for Change offers professional development, develops lessons, and curates resources to help classroom teachers supplement pre-K–12 curriculum. Resources cover the following focus areas: Anti-Bias Education, Black Lives Matter at School, Challenge Islamophobia, Civil Rights Teaching, Social Justice Books, Teaching Central America, and Teach the Beat: Go-Go.
• Black Lives Matter at School – Works to address racial injustice in education, embodying Black joy, confronting anti-Blackness, and building authentic partnerships with all who support creating equitable school communities across the nation. 
• BLM at School Curriculum Resource Guide – A database full of lessons and tools to teach students how to take action. 
• The 1619 Project – The project illuminates the legacy of slavery in the contemporary United States, and highlights the contributions of Black Americans to every aspect of American society.
• Teaching The 1916 Project – List of tools on how to use various materials from The 1619 Project in the classroom. 
• Classroom Resources – Available resources including lesson plans, unit and resource guides, and activities.

• CEA Supports LGBTQ+ Inclusion – We have focused our next steps on school district level changes, but have included changes that could be enacted within the union or at the state level, as well.
• NEA LGBTQ+ List of Resources – A compiled list of resources needed to help create safe and welcoming schools for all students.and educators.
• NEA EdJustice – NEA shares six key points in the fight to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ students and educators.
• NEA LGBTQ+ Rights & Partner Resources – A list of partner organizations who provide support for LGBTQ+ students and educators.
• NEA Model School Board Resolution – NEA developed a model school board resolution as a result of the Bostock Supreme Court decision. This model policy will help local districts to make meaningful changes at the local level to protect the civil rights of our students. 
• NEA Pronoun Guide – This is a guide to better understand and use pronouns in a respectful way. 
• NEA Gender Empowerment Messaging – All students deserve equal access to educational opportunities no matter their color, gender, or whom they love. However, girls, women and LGBTQ+ youth often face barriers that threaten their success in school and beyond.
• NEA Know Your Rights Harassment and Discrimination – This guide provides members tools when considering whether they have been a target of harassment or discrimination. 
• NEA Trainings – NEA’s Center for Social Justice has created a professional development program designed to help educators identify and correct explicit and implicit discrimination in their classrooms.
• Learning for Justice – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice is a resource hub for educators. Resources include: ready-to-use classroom lessons, multi-media library materials, learning plans, and film kits.
• LGBTQ+ Rights History Hub – A hub that contains articles, webinars, and teaching materials for teaching LGBTQ+ rights and history.
• US Department of Justice Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools Guide – When schools fail to respond appropriately, the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division (CRT) at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education can help by enforcing federal laws that protect students from discrimination. 
• GLSEN Guide to Building an Inclusive Classroom – The activities in this guide contact and introduce LGBTQ+ acceptance, empathy, awareness, and teamwork through the 5 super skills to prevent bullying and discrimination, while encouraging inclusion. 
• GLSEN Policy Recommendations to Support LGBTQ Students – This resource provides educators with concrete recommendations related to creating safe and affirming learning environments that uphold the dignity of all students.  
• The Trevor Project Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Students – A guide on how to be an ally to transgender and non-binary students. 
• The Trevor Project Resources for Talking About Suicide – Resources for adults to learn how to talk to LGBTQ+ children and teens about suicide, 
• The Trevor Project Resources for Suicide Warning Signs – how to catch the warning signs of suicidal ideation. 
• Equality Florida Safe & Healthy Schools Program – This project aims to create a culture of inclusion while countering the bullying, harassment, social isolation, and bigotry that dramatically increase risk factors for LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) students.

• National Women’s Law Center Resource Center – A library of resources covering abortion rights, child care access and affordability, the wage gap, and more. 
• The Women’s Foundation of Colorado – A community foundation creating more pathways to gender, racial, and economic equity for Colorado women.
• The Women’s Foundation of Colorado Community Resources – A list of resources for women and families in Denver and statewide.
• Women’s Lobby for Colorado – This organization seeks to provide better opportunities for women in Colorado by ensuring that public policies reflect gender equity and justice. By maintaining a daily lobbying presence at Colorado’s state capitol, their all-volunteer organization has kept the needs of women front and center in our state’s public policy debates for more than a decade.
• ACLU Colorado – The state’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.