Biography
                                                       
   Jane Goff is a Colorado native and lifelong resident of the metro Denver
   area. She is both a graduate and retired employee of Jefferson County
   Public Schools, where she enjoyed a 34-year career as a classroom
   teacher and curriculum coordinator.

   Jane taught middle and high school French and Spanish from 1972 until
   2003, when she was appointed Coordinator of World Languages and 
   International Student Exchange. Among her responsibilities were
   supervising the Jeffco World Language Content Standards, curriculum
   and assessments; directing the first-year language teachers’ induction
   program; and approving the admission of foreign exchange agencies
   and students to Jeffco’s eighteen high schools.

   During her years in Jeffco, Jane coordinated the district’s first Teacher
   Performance Pay Pilots, served on the Jeffco PTA Board of Directors and helped to design the Links for Learning program, a teacher-employer partnership between the Jeffco Schools and the West Chamber of Commerce. In 1998, she was the first teacher graduate of Leadership Jefferson County and she served four years as VP for Education on the Jefferson Symphony Board of Directors.   

Jane served as president of the Jefferson County Education Association from 1998-2000 and as vice-president of the Colorado Education Association from 2000-2006. Following retirement from Jeffco in 2006, she worked as a legislative aide for the Colorado House of Representatives. 

In her role as a State Board member, Jane serves as a liaison to several statewide boards, committees and councils: Read to Achieve Advisory Board, the P-20 Preparations & Transitions Subcommittee, the State Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented, the Colorado State Accountability Network, the selection committees for Colorado's Teacher of the Year and the Milken Family Foundation Teaching Awards, the Colorado School Counselors Association and the State World Language Advisory Council.

She is also a member of the Aurora Public Schools P-20 Campus Advisory Council, the Adams County Education Consortium and the Jeffco Schools Strategic Planning Advisory Council.

In October 2009, Jane was elected to represent the Western Region states on the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Board of Directors. She is also the recipient of the 2010 Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers Friend of Foreign Languages Award.

Jane earned her degree in Modern Language Education at CSU-Fort Collins and additional graduate hours in school administration and counseling at CU-Boulder. Jane and her husband Harry, a graduate of Denver Public Schools, have lived in Arvada for 24 years. They enjoy traveling, home improvement projects and spending time with their large extended families who live throughout the U.S.