- CSEC Board of Directors
Board Meetings -- CSEC Parents are welcome to attend
January 25, 2010, Monday, 6pm
February 22, 2010, Monday, 6 pm
March 29, 2010, Monday, 6 pm
April 26, 2010, Monday, 6 pm
May 24, 2010, Monday, 4 pm
June 21, 2010, Monday, 4 pm
The Colorado Springs Early Colleges
Governance Board
Deborah Hendrix - Deborah currently is the President of Colorado Springs Early Colleges and the Harrison School District Board. She is known for her commitment to having all students in the district achieve proficiently at grade level. She also has a major emphasis on every student learning to read. She has supported educational choice; one of her two daughters attends Colorado Springs Early Colleges, and the other James Irwin Charter Schools. She has been an executive with Junior Achievement and currently does training for Dale Carnegie. Deborah has experience working in the area of leadership and career development, diversity management and board development. She has trained thousands of employees in the areas of people management, customer service, customer-focused selling, new employee orientation, meeting and project management and a host of other topics. Deborah is an event planner and has executed week-long staff conferences and regional trainings for over 500 + attendees on a yearly basis. She has managed both people and financial resources.
Deborah Hendrix 720 Bosque Vista Point, Colorado Springs, CO 80916 dhendrix635@msn.com Home: 719-271-2411 Cell: 719-382-8214
Ed Jones – Ed is currently the Treasurer of Colorado Springs Early Colleges. He brings to the Board of Colorado Springs Early Colleges an outstanding career of governmental service. He was elected as an El Paso County Commissioner and served for eight years and was first elected in 1994. It was while he was a Commissioner that he began championing his work for students and those who have been left behind so often in our society. He was elected to the Colorado Senate from District 11 in 2002. He served on the Education, Local Government Labor and Legal Services Committees. Senator Jones also was Vice Chair of the Education Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council. He was instrumental in passing several bills that had a positive and specific impact on K-12 education. He graduated from the University of Phoenix in 2002 with a degree in Business Management.
Ed Jones 14 Lawrence Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80909
edjones62@msn.com Home: 719-389-0798 Work: 719-332-0897
Pat Pace – Pat is currently the Secretary of Colorado Springs Early Colleges. She brings a rich background of educational expertise to the Board of Colorado Springs Early Colleges. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Rockmont College located in Lakewood, Colorado and a second Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Western State College in Gunnison Colorado. She obtained her Colorado teaching certificate while attending Western State College and has been active in the home school movement here in Colorado. She has used a variety of educational approaches to home schooling her four children including on-line education. Her experience will be very valuable to Colorado Springs Early Colleges with our Early College Connection program to reach out to those students who would like to attend Colorado Springs Early Colleges part time.
Pat Pace 4465 Delighted Circle South, Colorado Springs, CO 80917
pat.pace@comcast.net Home: 719-550-0246 Cell: 719-659-7345
Bob Van Cleave – Bob is currently the Vice President of Colorado Springs Early Colleges. His background includes a wide range of senior management/operational experiences. He has over 25 years of experience building/managing systems and programs in urban and rural settings, working with diverse ethnic and socio-economic groups. Bob was Director of Human Services-Children/Families for ten years in El Paso County. He established Project Redirect, an intervention program for troubled teens and is the founder of the Center on Fathering, a center for healthy male parenting. He was awarded Citizen of the Year by the Pike’s Peak Mental Health and Outstanding Public Administrator by the American Society for Public Administration.
Bob VanCleave 19495 Marfak Drive, Monument, CO 80132
bvancleave@woodmoor.com Work: 719-488-4207 Cell: 719-359-1233
Darrel Madsen – Darrel is a native of Colorado being born in Baca County. He met Barbara Pence at Swink High School and married her two years after graduating. Darrel graduated from Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas. He pastored churches in Colorado and also in Lawrence, Kansas where he served as Campus Pastor at Kansas University. For the past fifteen years Darrel has been involved with the Children’s Ark which has three residential treatment centers for abused and neglected children. They provide treatment for ninety five boys and girls, ages nine to eighteen. Darrel currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Darrel Madsen 2120 Norwich Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920
dmbmmadsen@yahoo.com Home: 719-531-9419
Laura Calhoun – Laura is the Senior Pastor of Restored Life Church. She is also the Founder and President of the Nehemiah Women’s Resource Center which is a community outreach ministry to treat the whole person, spirit, soul and body. She brings an extensive background of involvement in reaching out to the minority community of Colorado Springs. She was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up on Long Island where she graduated from Central Islip Senior High School. She also attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. for 2 years. She is currently attending Colorado State University – Pueblo, where she is majoring in Social Work. During our first year of the school, upon hearing our mission statement, she actively recruited students to our school. Currently, our school bus stops at her church to pick up students. She provides activities before and after school for those students.
Laura Calhoun 4337 Levi Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80925
pastor@riccos.org Work: 719-392-2863 Cell: 719-229-1881
Michael Mastrodonato – Michael is Vice President and General Council for Humanitarian International Services Group which serves orphans and widows of the World. He joined the law firm of Kaman, Berlove, Marfiioti, Jacobstein & Goldman, LLP in September of 1988. On January 3, 1995, he was named as a partner with the Law Firm of Kaman, Berlove, Marafioti, Jacobstein & Goldman, LLP. Michael’s primary areas of practice include general corporate law, real estate, estate planning and trusts and estates. A 1981 graduate of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, he received his Juris Doctor Degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, California in 1988. His Bar Membership includes New York State, Fourth Judicial Department and United States District Court, Western District of New York. He is active in civic and community affairs serving on numerous boards. His son, Michael, is a graduate of Colorado Springs Early Colleges.
Michael Mastrodonato 1335 Boldmere Court, Monument, Colorado 80132
mmastrodonato@hisg.org Work: 719-481-0332 Cell: 719-352-5217
CSEC Administrative Leadership Team
Keith King – Keith has served on the School Board of Cheyenne Mountain School District, Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy, served four terms in the Colorado House of Representatives, and was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board by Secretary Paige. He also has served on the Colorado League of Charter Schools board for over nine years. He has written the application for two successful charter schools in the Colorado Springs area, Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy and James Irwin Charter High School. During his service in the Colorado Legislature he carried over a dozen house bills effecting charter schools in the state.