Category: Colleagues
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SEHD Faculty Research Symposium – January 26
SEHD Faculty Research Symposium January 26, 2022 12:00pm – 1:00pm If not attending the faculty meeting prior, please RSVP here. Joshua Martin Special Education Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Quality Improvement Case Study Of Alternative Licensure Programs As Sources Of Self-Efficacy Information There is a persistent shortage of special education teachers in Colorado and alterative licensure programs…
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Margarita Bianco Featured on NBC News
Schools need teachers of color. This is how to retain them, educators say. Dec. 20, 2021 – A high school district in Phoenix boasts a diverse teaching staff. A key to their success? Listening to what teachers of color say they and their students need. “The frustration is this has been a problem for 20…
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From Teacher to Student: Francisco Gallegos Earns Master’s in Education
Francisco Gallegos graduates this December with his master’s degree in culturally and linguistically diverse education. While a graduate student in the School of Education and Human Development (SEHD), Gallegos challenged the status quo and promoted bilingual education—while earning a 4.0 GPA. Two of his professors—Liz Mahon, PhD, and Sheila Shannon, PhD—summarized Gallegos’ academic achievements. “He has made strong contributions…
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Margarita Bianco Appointed to Serve on CU Denver’s HSI Operational Team by Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Antonio Farias
Margaria Bianco has been appointed to serve on CU Denver’s HSI Operational Team for three years. Specific areas to be addressed by this team are: 1) Supporting our Latinx Students Identify proven practices that will advance equity and create a culture of belonging among our students. Identify proven culturally responsive practices and academic support to improve…
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Remi Kalir writes Op-Ed about #SharpieActivism for WNDB
Remi Kalir and co-author Antero Garcia have written an Op-Ed about #SharpieActivism and the book “Melissa” for the organization We Need Diverse Books. Featuring commentary and media from educators who have annotated their copies of “Melissa,” the piece also includes interview excerpts from author Alex Gino who discusses how: “One of the most active things…
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Sean Michael Morris featured in European Lifelong Learning Magazine
Students are often the ones talked about but not the ones talking. I hope we can flip the system so that students would be at the centre of the conversation.” Sean Michael Morris, senior instructor in Learning Design and Technology, was interviewed by Finnish reporter Heini Huhtinen for ELM on subjects ranging from critical digital…
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Aurora Public Schools Newsletter The Glimpse Features Several SEHD Teacher Education Students
Undergraduate, NxtGEN and MAT students featured Read the Newsletter Here
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Spotlight Presentation: Building Cultural Wealth Through Natural Mentorships – Dr Robin Brandehoff
Dr Robin Brandehoff of the University of Colorado Denver, United States, has been announced as the first Spotlight Speaker at The 7th IAFOR International Conference on Education in Hawaii (IICE2022), with her presentation titled “Building Cultural Wealth Through Natural Mentorships: Five Latinx Gang-Affiliated Youth Share Their Stories of Resilience”. Read more and register here
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Margarita Bianco to Give Keynote Speech at Colorado Department of Higher Education’s Colorado Educator Preparation Faculty Convening Conference
Colorado Educator Preparation Providers Please join us for this opportunity to learn with and from each other about diversifying the educator workforce as an equity imperative in educator preparation. Together we will share and learn about highimpact strategies that educator preparation programs use to foster a stable teaching profession that more accurately reflects the racial,…
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Robin Brandehoff featured in CU Denver News for First-Gen Week
First-Gen Faculty Have Advice for First-Gen Students Not only does CU Denver have a lot of first-gen students, we also have quite a few first-gen faculty, including Clinical Assistant Professor Robin Brandehoff, PhD, who teaches in the School of Education & Human Development, and Professor Hani Mansour, PhD, who teaches in the Economics Department. Even some of CU Denver’s…