Category: Colleagues
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Sofia Chaparro Featured in CU Denver News Video: Sobremesa in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
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…
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Dra. Adriana Alvarez Invited to Share Work
Dra. Adriana Alvarez was invited to share her work, Connecting Funds of Knowledge to Funds of Identity through a Bilingual Multimodal Project, with an international audience at the presentación del Monográfico “Fondos de Conocimiento para la Justicia Social. Alianzas Familia-Escuela para la Transformación Educativa” on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Dra. Alvarez’s work is part of a…
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ASPIRE Alumnus and Current Master’s Student Makes News
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…
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CU Denver News feature: Associate Professor Margarita Bianco on Puerto Rican Identity and Latinx Students
Profile: Associate Professor Margarita Bianco on Puerto Rican Identity and Latinx Students Associate Professor Margarita Bianco, PhD, teaches in the School of Education and Human Development and founded Pathways2Teaching, a nationally recognized program designed to encourage high school students of color to enter the teacher workforce. Bianco, whose family is from Puerto Rico, explained the importance of her heritage.…
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Eric Trujillo, Learning Design and Technology MA Student, Featured in CU Denver News
Eric Trujillo on Returning to CU Denver for a Second Degree After Almost 30 Years Currently pursuing an online master’s in the Learning Design and Technology (LDT) program, Eric Trujillo (’92) has spent the past two decades inspiring math students at Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice, an Englewood school centered on family-like supportive education. The alternative…
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Welcome David Leech, Evaluation Specialist
We are excited to welcome David Leech to the School of Education & Human Development! As an Evaluation Specialist, David will support The Evaluation Center on their ongoing projects, including the National Science Foundation’s Hispanic Serving Institution STEM Resource Hub and the National Institutes of Health’s Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. David transitioned from…
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Welcome Amelia Iglesias, Evaluation Specialist
We are excited to welcome Amelia Iglesias to the School of Education & Human Development! As an Evaluation Specialist, Amelia will perform functions related to providing evaluation support activities including literature searches, data collection and analysis, and creating written deliverables. Amelia joins us from CPC Research where she worked as an Evaluation Assistant. Some…
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Sean Michael Morris and the Digital Pedagogy Lab Mentioned in Learning News re: Upcoming Participation in OEB Global Conference in Berlin
Education Innovation: “No Turning Back” Say Experts September 23 – “At this year’s OEB Global in Berlin, speakers from all over the world will share their experience. They are going to be showing how global education and training have been changed forever. They’ll be sharing new ways of learning and training, including setting out a…
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Join us Wednesday, September 29th 12:00-1:00 (during Faculty Retreat time)
Amy Ferrell, Remi Kalir, and Julia Mahfouz will share their research next Wednesday after the faculty retreat from 12:00-1:00! We will use the same zoom link as the retreat or you can email Courtney Donovan for the link.
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CU Denver’s Place-Based ECE BA Degree Program Led by Rebecca Vlasin and Michael Barla Featured in New America Blogpost
The Place-Based BA Program: Meeting Early Educators Where They Are CU Denver’s place-based bachelor’s degree pilot is working to break down many of the key barriers that make it difficult for early educators to earn a degree. CU Denver is partnering with three local early care and education (ECE) programs—Clayton Early Learning, Sewall Child Development Center, and…