Biography
                                                        
Jane Goff was elected to fill a CD 7 vacancy on the State Board in February 2008, then elected for a full six-year term in November of that year. Jane 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, curriculum coordinator and teacher association leader. 

Jane taught middle and high school French and Spanish for 26 years, followed by 8 years in Jeffco's Human Resources and Learning and Achievement divisions. She served as Jeffco's Coordinator of World Languages and International Student Exchange from 2003 until her retirement in 2006.  

During her years in Jeffco, Jane coordinated the district’s first Administrator and 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 served four years as Vice President for Education on the Jefferson Symphony Board of Directors.   

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

In 2010, Jane received the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers Friend of Foreign Languages Award and was selected to join 23 fellow educators nationwide in the 3rd annual U.S. Educators Tour of Japan, sponsored by the Japan Foundation of the United States.

Jane currently serves as the State Board's liaison to several national, state and local boards, committees and councils:

National

• National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Board of Directors, Western Region director 
• NASBE Public Education Policy Committee

State

• Governor's Education Leadership Council
• State Advisory Committee for Gifted and Talented Education
• Colorado School Counselor Association
• Colorado Teacher of the Year Selection Committee
• Colorado Milken Family Foundation Teaching Awards Nominations Committee
• Colorado State Accountability Network
• Colorado Teacher Cadet Advisory Council
• State World Language Advisory Council
• Early Childhood Education Initiatives

Jane earned her degree in Modern Language Education at CSU-Ft. Collins
and graduate hours in school administration and counseling at CU-Boulder. 
She and her husband Harry, also a native Coloradan and graduate of 
Denver Public Schools, have lived in Arvada for 26 years.