Local media outlet 9News recently featured Wendy Gutierrez , an alum of the ASPIRE to Teach program and current SEHD master’s student. Gutierrez, a middle school social studies teacher at STRIVE Prep-Sunnyside, has revamped her curriculum to center LGBTQ themes in history.
She started the project while she was in ASPIRE to Teach and focused on it for her capstone unit plan assignment. Gutierrez has continued to explore the topic during her master’s studies, and she even presented about her work at the Colorado Council for the Social Studies conference this summer.