Author: Matt Mitchell

Weighty regulations, high operating costs and rapidly changing neighborhoods are compounding child care shortages in many of Colorado’s low-income communities. Chalkbeat’s “Lessons From a Child Care Desert” event panel featured Liliana Flores Amaro, an Elyria-Swansea resident and community activist; Richard Garcia, former executive director of the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition; Rebecca Kantor, dean of the…

Geeta Verma, PhD, has something to celebrate. The associate professor of science education, was named co-editor of the Journal of Science Teacher Education, the flagship journal of the Association for Science Teacher Education and the only English-language journal focused exclusively on science teacher education. [Read the full story on CU Denver Today]

Three years ago, Lucia Cordovano landed a teaching job. Two years ago, she earned her alternative teaching license. This year, the CU Denver ASPIRE alumna received the Outstanding New Educator Award from the National Association for Alternative Certification (NAAC). [Read the full story on CU Denver Today]

Congrats to Liz Mahon on her latest publication in SAGE Journals. Check out the abstract below! Using a cross-case analysis of online, on-campus and online university teacher preparation courses, this study critically examines the constraints and affordances of online teacher education in preparing teachers for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) urban schools. The results of…

As Scott McLeod​, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado Denver and the founder of CASTLE, previously told Education Dive, the most important question administrators should consider when buying tech is how it will empower students to do amazing things that make a difference, noting, “​I get a lot of puffery…