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The Major Shifts in Education with Scott McLeod This week, we spoke with Scott McLeod, who is a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver. Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on P-12 school leadership, deeper learning, technology, and innovation. He is the Founding…

In anticipation of his opening keynote at the OEB Conference in Berlin this December, Sean Michael Morris—senior instructor in Learning Design and Technology—has published a short article reflecting on resilience and hope. “Resilience is not something one has,” Morris writes. “Resilience is something one does. And doing it once changes behavior ongoingly. That person who…

Denver’s Chicano Movement & the Espinoza Gang—Then and Now Associate Professor Manuel Espinoza, PhD, teaches in CU Denver’s School of Education & Human Development, focusing on educational dignity. He founded the Right to Learn Undergraduate Research Collective in 2007, which researches the historical and legal origins of educational rights. Born and raised in Denver, Espinoza discussed how the city was central to the Chicano Movement—and how his own family history…

A Sobremesa in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month In Spanish, sobremesa is the time spent engaging with friends and family after a meal. Recently, CU Denver invited three students and a faculty member to join one another on the patio of Los Molinos at the Ninth Street Historic Park to eat and share their stories with one another. Watch…

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…