The Colorado Center for Rural Education (CCRE), housed at the University of Northern Colorado, partners with higher education institutions and alternative educator preparation programs throughout Colorado to recruit, prepare, place, and support outstanding rural teachers. The overarching goal is to strengthen teacher pathways, identify and support rural teaching scholars, facilitate a rural teacher leaders program, develop a professional network for rural educators, cultivate rural education advocacy, scholarship, and grant writing, and ensure that all of Colorado’s rural classrooms are staffed with highly qualified teacher-leaders.