Dr. Mike DeGuire

Mike spent most of his education career as a teacher, district level reading coordinator, elementary and middle school principal, and leadership consultant. He works also as a residential realtor in the Denver metro area. He served a total of 28 years as a public school principal in the Jefferson County, Boulder, Littleton, and Denver school districts. Mike was the president of the Denver Association of School Administrators, and he helped Denver principals organize the first principals’ union in Colorado. He worked as a school improvement coach with several nonprofit organizations and as an educator effectiveness specialist with the Colorado Department of Education. Mike served on the Colorado state review panel and spent seven years as a time-change coach and implementation specialist with the National SAM Innovation project. Mike writes periodically for various local news agencies, and he published several reports on corporate efforts to privatize the education system.