Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
This provider does not publish pricing.
Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.
Supervisory visit · May 21, 2026
2.213.D · Correction due May 21, 2026
Reviewed staff files observed Staff 2 to have no documentation of shaken baby head trauma training. Staff 2 DOH 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current shaken baby head trauma training and add to file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 05/21/2026
2.213.H
Reviewed staff files observed Staff 2 to have no documentation of Early intervention training. Staff 2 DOH 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current Intro to Early Intervention training and add to file and send written verification to specialist with
2.213.I · Correction due June 21, 2026
Reviewed staff files observed Staff 2 to have no documentation of Recognizing the impact of bias. Staff 2 DOH 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current Intro to Recognizing the impact and add to file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 06/21/2026
Original visit · July 25, 2025
2.206.A
Reviewed Innovation policies and procedures and identified through Kendall no policies and procedures handbook is available for review at time of visit for ECE program.
2.120.C.1.a.1 · Correction due July 25, 2025
Reviewed 1 staff file and observed Brandi to be missing portability background check clearance letter. Brandi had background checks FBI, CBI and TRAILS from previous licensed RMK program in file.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff members have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of CBI, FBI, TRAILS, Or Out of State background check, Out of State Clearance Letters for staff members with written response to the Specialist. Correct by 07/25/2025
2.121.A.1
Reviewed 1 staff file and observed Brandi to be missing portability background check clearance letter. Brandi had background checks FBI, CBI and TRAILS from previous licensed RMK program in file.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's
The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.
The file this page is built from arrived on September 13, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.
The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Innovation Learning at Elk Creek ECE’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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