Category: Colleagues
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Geeta Verma Presents LivedX at Techstar’s Demo Days
LivedX empowers students to turn their lived & learned experiences into transferable skill credentials that can be used for college credit.
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Franci Crepeau-Hobson Featured in Education Week
Feb. 13, 2023 – Franci Crepeau-Hobson, the chairwoman of the National Association of School Psychologists’s School Safety and Crisis Response Committee and professor of school psychology at the University of Colorado Denver, said school violence can have a serious emotional impact on students. “Particularly for kids who are more vulnerable to begin with, in the short term,…
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Welcoming Mary Lovit to the Office of Assessment and Program Improvement
Please welcome Mary Lovit our new Sr. Data Analyst in the Office of Assessment and Program Improvement. She will be taking on a variety of responsibilities within the office including the following: managing Live Text, administering surveys, updating SEHD dashboards, and supporting accreditation and strategic and academic planning. Mary comes to us from the CU…
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Research Spotlight: Research in Bilingual Communities and Schools
Dr. Adriana Alvarez Adriana Alvarez is Assistant Professor in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education program. Her research interests center on biliteracy and family engagement with a focus on equity-oriented and strength-based approaches in Spanish-speaking communities. She was a bilingual teacher for eleven years in the border community of El Paso, Texas prior to receiving…
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Ed Review (01/20/23)
Topics covered in this edition of Ed Review: FEDERAL STUDENT AID MLK DAY OF SERVICE PROJECT SERV GRANTS TRAVEL LOG CHILDHOOD VACCINATIONS ODDS AND ENDS QUOTES TO NOTE UPCOMING EVENTS Click here to access the article on the Ed Review website
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Franci Crepeau-Hobson Full Professor Celebration
Please join us Wednesday, January 25th from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in person or via Zoom to celebrate Franci’s promotion to Professor and hear more about her journey and scholarship. Click here to RSVP Franci Crepeau-Hobson, Ph.D. is a professor and Program Director of the school psychology program in the School of Education and…
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Lisa Forbes’ new playful pedagogy book launched through Carnegie Mellon ETC Press called the Professors at Play PlayBook
The lack of attention to play in higher education partly reflects the societal narrative that says, “play is for kids, not adults.” When play is associated with childhood or seen as trivial or a waste of time, utilizing play in “serious” adult learning can seem radical, scary, or reckless at most. The Professors at Play…
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SEHDMIX – Guess Who!? – Winner
We have a winner for the SEHDMIX Guess Who contest. In case you missed the first edition of the SEHDMIX, check your Junk folder and add mix.app@cu.studio to your Outlook Contacts (see previous post, below). Guess Who – We will periodically post baby/toddler photos of an SEHD colleague. Guess who it is and win something. …
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ThinqStudio as Tabula Rasa
“Some of the greatest things in life are ineffable and impervious to formal definitions. For example, love, beauty, and play cannot be easily defined but are important and powerful forces which we seek. The harder you try to define play, for example, the more elusive it becomes. The more you try to explain one aspect,…
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Geeta Verma’s LivedX Accepted into the 2023 GSV Cup Elite 200 – the World’s Most Disruptive Startups in Digital Learning and Workforce Skills
“Coursera, Duolingo, Replit, and BYJU’S all started with one thing, a disruptive idea. These Digital Learning and Workforce Skills companies demonstrate how disruptive ideas can truly change lives.” Click here to read more