Melanie Haas
CSU MESA Center Director

Melanie A. Haas, MESA/CSU Center Director completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Northern Colorado in the early 70's and a Colorado Administrative License from Colorado State University. She has thirty four years of experiences with the Denver Public Schools as a teacher, principal ( Abraham Lincoln High School and S. Arthur Henry Middle School), Secondary Executive Director and Area ( Southwest Denver) Superintendent. Upon retirement from a 'very rewarding and exciting career with urban teachers and children' she served as the Director of the Teacher Quality Enhancement Partnership Grant  for two years (TQE) between Metropolitan State College and the Denver Public Schools.

Melanie Haas has experiences with the education system ECE-16. Leadership and teacher development, communication, curriculum development, implementation and  assessments are parts of her repertoire. Projects with the urban school setting include 'teacher pay for performance " PRO-COMP, Bi-lingual education, high school reform efforts and middle and junior high school conversion implementation. Ms. Haas trained DPS administrators on HB 1338 ( teacher evaluations) and supervised various building projects brought about by municipal bond and mill levy dollars.

These experiences lead themselves nicely to the current involvement with the WIRED grant and the CSU MESA project housed in the Research and Development Center on the CSU campus. Melanie lives in Denver with her husband, Dennis of 33 years and her two sons.