About me
Daniel Cohan is chief of schools for the Jefferson County Public School District in Colorado, where he supervises elementary, middle, and high schools, K–12. Jeffco Public Schools is striving to become a Model PLC at WorkⓇ district, with over 100 schools of all sizes, levels, and demographics implementing PLC and RTI practices. As chief of schools, and with 32 years of experience in teaching and administration, Daniel supervises and supports schools to achieve this goal.
Daniel is the former principal of Pomona High School in Arvada, Colorado, where he and his staff implemented highly effective PLC and RTI processes, becoming a Model PLC at Work school featured on the AllThingsPLC website. Daniel led Pomona from academic probation and one step away from losing its accreditation to achieving Accredited, High-Performing status for four consecutive years. Pomona has been named as a Colorado School of Distinction and a Creative School of Excellence. The Colorado Department of Education recognized Pomona as a high-performing school based on high student-growth scores for three consecutive years.
Even with changing student demographics, Pomona students scored in the top 1 percent of growth scores in Colorado for large high schools in all three measured areas (reading, writing, and math) for three consecutive years. During this time, the graduation rate at Pomona increased almost ten percentage points to 93.5 percent.
Daniel was honored as the 2008–09 Colorado High School Principal of the Year by the Colorado Association of School Executives and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He was also a top-three finalist for 2009–10 National High School Principal of the Year.
Daniel earned a bachelor’s in mathematics and teacher certification from the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned a master’s in administration, supervision, and curriculum development from the University of Colorado Denver.
