In Colorado, where higher education institutions are not graduating enough candidates to fill open teaching jobs, particularly in specializations such as math, several initiatives are working to improve rural teacher recruitment and retention. Through scholarships, state university partnerships, a multidistrict professional learning community, and strategies for cultivating mentorship, some rural Colorado districts are increasing teachers' enthusiasm for the profession, which keeps them from leaving. While the challenges of teacher recruitment, well-being, instructional quality, and retention are likely to be ongoing, outcomes from the work in Colorado suggest grounds for optimism: removing barriers to additional education and empowering teachers with content knowledge and pedagogy training in a peer community can encourage them to remain in teaching.